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Falsifiable Statement Enthusiast @ontariobanderas.bsky.social · 7h

i picked france for the reasons i’ve already listed, it suffers from right wing psychos like many other countries but it’s also proven resilient to those pressures

it’s funny that you don’t mention the fact that it has a broadly supported and long lived group of socialist parties

Falsifiable Statement Enthusiast @ontariobanderas.bsky.social · 8h

i didn’t move anything

Falsifiable Statement Enthusiast @ontariobanderas.bsky.social · 8h

i am talking about france, a real
country with real institutions

not a bunch of thrice-cucked magyars who were only recently tossed their own reigns back by the soviets

when i mentioned parliaments i meant functioning ones

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Falsifiable Statement Enthusiast @ontariobanderas.bsky.social · 9h

they wouldn’t, the french wouldn’t stand for their institutions being destroyed and they strike/riot at the drop of a hat

Falsifiable Statement Enthusiast @ontariobanderas.bsky.social · 9h

i got off track when buddy way upthread showed good polling for RN, my point is that there is that they are unable to do what is happening in the states, and if they tried it wouldn’t be supported

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Falsifiable Statement Enthusiast @ontariobanderas.bsky.social · 10h

i think you should look up how a prime minister is different than a president

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Falsifiable Statement Enthusiast @ontariobanderas.bsky.social · 11h

a far right party getting a portion of the vote is different than one that has the will and support to dismantle the institutions if state and put troops in the street

you can’t just lump the european right in with the trump republicans, they are not the same and the system of gov is different too

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Falsifiable Statement Enthusiast @ontariobanderas.bsky.social · 11h

if the most incompetent and cruel fascist project in history is getting roughly the same approval numbers as obama did in 2014, then yes your country hates freedom and it would be better to nuke the entire thing and start over

austinwiltshire.bsky.social @austinwiltshire.bsky.social · 11h

Did you just argue that if you group "supports" and "doesn't care" opinions on Trump together, they still don't reach 51%, then conclude from that that all Americans hate freedom?

Falsifiable Statement Enthusiast @ontariobanderas.bsky.social · 11h

if you can get roughly 50% approval for national suicide by clown, your country is bereft of civic virtue and doesn't posses the min intelligence required to continue existing

if the most incompetent fascist project in history is getting the same approval as any other presidency, the answer is yes

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Falsifiable Statement Enthusiast @ontariobanderas.bsky.social · 12h

will pencil screenshotted this and is being a nerd about it, btw

Falsifiable Statement Enthusiast @ontariobanderas.bsky.social · 12h

my point is not that euro far right parties wouldn’t love to do this, it’s that they would be unable do to the civic virtue of the people, as well as their self-interested
desire not to destroy their own country

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Falsifiable Statement Enthusiast @ontariobanderas.bsky.social · 12h

yeah ok, but unless you think the french right is going to do a trump style assault on democracy and national suicide this isn’t really anything to do with my point

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Falsifiable Statement Enthusiast @ontariobanderas.bsky.social · 12h

if you tried that shit in france they would shut down the country and burn down your party HQ

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Falsifiable Statement Enthusiast @ontariobanderas.bsky.social · 12h

weak approval fascism is still approval of fascism, the fact that the whole country isn’t universally revolted by what’s happening is a severe indictment

this comment thread was about peter saying america does not have freedom in its DNA, which trump shows to be true

Falsifiable Statement Enthusiast @ontariobanderas.bsky.social · 12h

i like will, but i’m calling him naive

roughly half the country approves of the trump white supremacy and fascism project

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 12h

Call me naive but I think the people of this country broadly do care about freedom and democracy, even though they’re still people, with the short attention spans and general malleability that people always have, and I think appealing to those better angels is the path out

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Falsifiable Statement Enthusiast @ontariobanderas.bsky.social · 12h

44% of americans either approve of what he’s doing or are ambivalent

that is a massive condemnation of americans and completely proves that americans are not a freedom loving people, but are instead a bunch of nazis and morons

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Falsifiable Statement Enthusiast @ontariobanderas.bsky.social · 23h

my favourite kavenaw stop would be if he stopped breathing

Falsifiable Statement Enthusiast @ontariobanderas.bsky.social · 1d

it should be legal to shoot cops if they can’t be identified

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Falsifiable Statement Enthusiast @ontariobanderas.bsky.social · 1d

it should be noted that this worked 100%, because tech journalists are the lowest form of life on the planet

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Falsifiable Statement Enthusiast @ontariobanderas.bsky.social · 1d

the only reason meta exists is because they used the idea as a shiny object to jingle in front of journalists to distract them
from the other major story at the time, which was leaked internal data showing that instagram is a teen suicide factory

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Falsifiable Statement Enthusiast @ontariobanderas.bsky.social · 1d

basic bitch kitsch, but for the generation that watched the office over and over again in university.

A Dunder Mifflen bumper sticker, a framed poster in your kitchen saying “the dishes are looking at me
dirty again”, a DVD set of How I Met Your Mother

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Falsifiable Statement Enthusiast @ontariobanderas.bsky.social · 2d

that’s no excuse

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Falsifiable Statement Enthusiast @ontariobanderas.bsky.social · 2d

fellas, is it gay to have sex with a woman?

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Falsifiable Statement Enthusiast @ontariobanderas.bsky.social · 6d

if you’re on really good, smaller, well moderated ones they absolutely feel like communities. Some of them basically have their own language

RIP r/drama, r/2middleeast4u, r/syriancirclejerkwar, r/cumtown (early version)

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Falsifiable Statement Enthusiast @ontariobanderas.bsky.social · 6d

“surely they will come after me
first, as the court jester‘s court jester!”

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