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Leonard Pierce

@leonardpierce.bsky.social

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Marxist, wife guy, ne'er-do-well. Concerned with words, generally. Chicago-based eating enthusiast. Crime, baseball, communism. http://immortal-science.com

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · Jun 20

One of the only political choices that is left to you in this rat hole of a country is to not be as stupid as they all think you are

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 17m

Dutch is just funny English, thrift store division

Eddy Wally album called IK GEEF JOU N ROOS

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 3h

Time to put on my pants, or, as they are better known

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 5h

I think it's some combination of "I am too smart to fall for scams" and "I think everyone is horny for me"

Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 5h

You're telling me

Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 5h

A great example! But today's message is brought to you by the electric toothbrush head.

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 5h

The problem with bathrooms is that they are filled with things that you absolutely do not want under any circumstances to fall in the toilet, and there is a 100% chance that at some point they are going to fall in the toilet

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 5h

Write it in the sky with hundred foot letters of burning flame

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · Nov 13

if i've learned one thing from doing union stuff while also doing other forms of organizing, it's that you're better off with people you disagree with who are nevertheless trying to do the same thing as you than with people you agree with who aren't trying to do anything

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 5h

Nah it was just some BSky "liberal Zionist" rando who decided to be the main character of the day. I think Obama is too much of a media creature to feud with someone that popular

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 5h

These are just the "fucking ballerinas" guys from the 2017 convention [extremely inside DSA baseball alert]

Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 5h

Many years ago I was in a hotel room and turned on HBO and there was an episode of REAL SEX featuring a German guy who fucked trees. I thought it was funny but a friend who lived there said "it's really not that unusual"

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 6h

"I'm going to attack the country's most beloved children's entertainer for a perception of her advocacy against the state murder of innocent kids that I cooked up entirely in my head and then grouse about the inevitable reaction by 'radical leftists'l is a thing people not only think but also do

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Carl Beijer @carlbeijer.bsky.social · 7h

Begging liberals to stop centering the potential danger to themselves as the primary outcome of attacks on the radical left

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h

The campaign against “antifa” is about establishing a beachhead for further attacks on speech and assembly rights. We see that today in the effort to preemptively label No Kings protesters as “terrorists.”

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 15h

I am sad for the Merc who crushed every expectation anyone had for them, for AT who had an MVP-caliber year, for Satou who couldn't even play in the last game.

But Vegas outplayed them at every turn and that's that. A'ja is GOAT and I don't think anyone could have beat them this year, so respect.

Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 17h

Kneecap livestream is bomb

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 20h

It's Funny Friday at IMMORTAL SCIENCE, as we listen in on a pilot program for the Holy Martial Emperor's enterprise content management system.

He Zooms to Conquer - IMMORTAL SCIENCE

“All right, let’s move on to Action Item #7.” “Why must we call them that? This is all talk. No action.” “It’s just a phrase, mighty Genghis. It is meant...

immortalscience.pika.page

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 22h

The liberal determination that the use of force is forbidden to all only ensures that the people with the least respect for liberalism can or will employ force and no one else will allow it, engage in it, or even know how to do it. This misunderstanding of power is how we got to where we are today.

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 22h

You cannot use moral reasoning against fascists, because moral reasoning does not motivate them. You cannot argue against the law against them because they do not care about the law. What they care about is violence, and what they use is power. They will only respond to a superior display of power.

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 22h

The reason is they are bullies and cowards. They don't care about fixing problems; they just want to hurt people, and it is easier and less risky for them to hurt people who can't defend themselves.

This, not coincidentally, is why confronting them directly is more effective than making speeches.

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 22h

The reason is the same as the reason cops shoot unarmed black teenagers instead of going after gangbangers, even though everyone knows who and where the gangbangers are.

It is also the same reason that the IDF snipes children in the head instead of engaging with Hamas fighters.

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 22h

I keep seeing people ask, "Why does ICE go after harmless people like little kids and old tamale vendors instead of the hardened criminals they say they are trying to get?"

Allow me to clear this up for you.

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 22h

Have you all heard of this guy John Cash

He is not so "cool" but some people think he wrote good songs, I believe the young kids should give him a chance in between listening to their Bobby Dylan and "The Boss" LPs

Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 22h

Whatever happened to relatives of people like this having them declared insane so they could seize control of their assets

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 22h

I don't begrudge anyone for whom this is a medical necessity but I am suspicious that number is large enough to justify the roughly five hundred thousand protein enhanced products currently littering every supermarket shelf in America

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 23h

Why is there protein in everything now

Why would you put protein in a soda

Stop doing this, just eat an egg or some peanuts or something, protein is not hard to come by

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 23h

Multiple people killed themselves over that!