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Toilet Hinckley Jr

@garbledskulls.bsky.social

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Toilet Hinckley Jr @garbledskulls.bsky.social · 3h

One of the many things a billion dollars will buy is lots of people swearing up & down that you’re a muscular genius with extremely good taste

Toilet Hinckley Jr @garbledskulls.bsky.social · 3h

Imagine Thiel coming to you circa 2024 with the “I’ve been getting really into this amazing graphic novel Watchmen. You really need to check it out. It resonated very strongly with me” & having to pretend that’s something a grown adult Genius Man would say to keep yr job

Toilet Hinckley Jr @garbledskulls.bsky.social · 7h

Well at least they just legalized sex work

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 8h

Vance is having an incredible morning on the Sunday shows doing "oh so now it's illegal to [mundane thing]?"

A real quote when Vance is asked about whether Tom Homan kept the $50,000 he got in a fast food bag: "Is it illegal to take a payment for doing services?"

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Toilet Hinckley Jr @garbledskulls.bsky.social · 7h

The full movie is, suspiciously, free on YouTube if you’re not feeling sufficiently indoctrinated

Toilet Hinckley Jr @garbledskulls.bsky.social · 7h

And he is, in some ways. For instance, they both literally threw a guy off a condo balcony to their death

Toilet Hinckley Jr @garbledskulls.bsky.social · 8h

Let’s be honest. It has always been that world. Unfortunately it’s also always been incumbent on artists (& journalists) to not be cowards about it

Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 15h

I am so sick of living in a world where certain groups insist art & culture be re-oriented to serve their tastes and whims when their own pitiful inability or unwillingness to critically engage with and contemplate creativity clearly demonstrate that art & culture are too good for them.

Conservatives Take Aim at ‘One Battle After Another’: “Year’s Most Irresponsible Movie”

While Paul Thomas Anderson's film is being heralded as a masterpiece by many, some conservatives accuse it of potentially inspiring left-wing violence.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

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Toilet Hinckley Jr @garbledskulls.bsky.social · 8h

But like… of *course* Thiel believes he’s the irl Ozymandias from Watchmen

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Toilet Hinckley Jr @garbledskulls.bsky.social · 8h

That was literally Zero Dark Thirty lol

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Toilet Hinckley Jr @garbledskulls.bsky.social · 8h

This is seriously the most Freshman Comp position-paper shit I’ve ever seen from a billionaire and that’s saying something in a world where Elon Musk exists

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Toilet Hinckley Jr @garbledskulls.bsky.social · 9h

There’s a difference between coming up with a plan and listening to people who’ve read Goebbels

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 9h

New, from me:
Trump's 3 step plan to create a military omniforce
1. Purge - those deemed disloyal
2. Merge - different parts of law enforcement/military
3. Surge - impose the omniforce on Dem cities; instigate unrest; assert dominance; silence dissent
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...

Purge, Merge, and Surge

Trump is creating a omniforce of armed loyalists to establish his police state

donmoynihan.substack.com

Toilet Hinckley Jr @garbledskulls.bsky.social · 9h

Dude sounds like he’s operating on his last nub of brainstem

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 11h

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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Toilet Hinckley Jr @garbledskulls.bsky.social · 19h

Weird things happen when that CIA check hits

Toilet Hinckley Jr @garbledskulls.bsky.social · 20h

I mean it could also be they’re just making sure thousands of federal workers know what’ll happen if they get any funny ideas about having integrity

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d

Should the New York Times be sold to Pennysaver and its editors sent to work in Amazon warehouses? It depends on who you ask.

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Toilet Hinckley Jr @garbledskulls.bsky.social · 20h

That there is what you call a “classic Bluesky comment”

Toilet Hinckley Jr @garbledskulls.bsky.social · 20h

So do they just keep Kathryn Bigelow in a box in the basement of the Pentagon where they stuff in slips of paper like “we need to trick ppl into loving the Pentagon”

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Flork @florkofcows.bsky.social · 11d

flork youtube is now up!!

www.youtube.com/shorts/0BPvz...

welcome to amazon

YouTube video by Flork

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Alex Degen (Magic Serple 2025) @adactivity.bsky.social · 1d

It’s all happening on x dot com where I do my banking

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Toilet Hinckley Jr @garbledskulls.bsky.social · 1d

“It’s the right thing to do” Yeah that’s not really something that matters anymore sorry

Toilet Hinckley Jr @garbledskulls.bsky.social · 1d

Hey I know another much larger group that could benefit from this invention. Like, right next door

Unofficial BBCNews (World) Bot @bbcnews-world-rss.bsky.social · 1d

Hospital prepares to receive freed Israeli hostages: 'We are inventing captivity medicine'

Several of the hostages will be brought from Gaza to the Rabin Medical Center in Petah Tikva.

www.bbc.com

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David Neiwert @davidneiwert.bsky.social · 1d

You might recall that in fact the secret militia with whom this Air Force staff sergeant trained plotted the killings in hopes that “leftists” would get the blame. Of course, since this was barely even reported on, no one could blame you for not knowing.

www.dailykos.com/stories/2021...

‘Boogaloo Boi’ killer was an active member of a secretive terrorist militia group planning violence

Despite the widespread media narrative blaming Black Lives Matter and antifascist activists for last summer’s protest violence, there were plenty of suspicions that far-right extremists seeking to int...

www.dailykos.com

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Toilet Hinckley Jr @garbledskulls.bsky.social · 1d

Gurl they first did this in 500BCE

Toilet Hinckley Jr @garbledskulls.bsky.social · 1d

I know we got a lot going on rn but I’d like to remind everyone that also the world is literally ending relatively soon in any way that matters

Toilet Hinckley Jr @garbledskulls.bsky.social · 1d

I mean that tactic worked pretty splendidly for the last few fascist regimes 🤷

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

This MAGA propaganda is deeply sinister. Stephen Miller has been lying about Portland/Chicago relentlessly. It's core to his project: He's trying to establish quasi-absolute power for Trump to simply invent pretexts by fiat to justify whatever abuses he launches. 5/

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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