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Patrick Crotty

@patrickrcrotty.bsky.social

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Physics prof. Basic philosophy: Data > Theory, Facts > Narrative. MAGAs, bigots, doomers, people with a hammer-and-sickle in their nym, and other obnoxious rabble get instablocked. Posts are my personal views and I don’t speak for any institution etc.

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Patrick Crotty @patrickrcrotty.bsky.social · 1m

At some point, we may need to consider organizing a tax boycott.

Nobody in power will care if you or I suspend automatic federal withholding from our paychecks.

But a lot of people in power will care very much if you *and* I *and* forty or fifty million other Americans all do so at the same time.

Patrick Crotty @patrickrcrotty.bsky.social · 13m

I’m going to go out on a limb here and suggest that most American men — young, middle-aged, and elderly — have *not*, in fact, ever gotten Nazi tattoos, and would not have cared to associate with a man who had.

Patrick Crotty @patrickrcrotty.bsky.social · 30m

Platner’s entitlement and self-pity are grating. In a democracy, absolutely nobody has any kind of “right“ to be ”in politics.“ Neither voters nor journalists are under the slightest obligation to forgive, be “fair” to, or give another chance to a candidate with a problematic past.

Patrick Crotty @patrickrcrotty.bsky.social · 1h

States run elections.

There is basically no way Trump could interfere with that short of an all-out, illegal, un-Constitutional attack on state sovereignty — something like trying to put the blue states under military rule.

And that’s how the Second Civil War would begin.

Patrick Crotty @patrickrcrotty.bsky.social · 1h

If Congress refuses to do its job, do we still have a legitimate Congress?

If the Executive Branch violates the law with impunity, do we still have a legitimate Executive Branch?

If we don’t have a legitimate Congress or Executive Branch, are we still obligated to obey the federal government?

Patrick Crotty @patrickrcrotty.bsky.social · 1h

in two weeks!

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Patrick Crotty @patrickrcrotty.bsky.social · 1h

Any business that demands I set up an account with them when it’s clearly unnecessary stops having me as a customer. No exceptions.

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Patrick Crotty @patrickrcrotty.bsky.social · 1h

No.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...

Trump Said to Demand Justice Dept. Pay Him $230 Million for Past Cases

www.nytimes.com

Patrick Crotty @patrickrcrotty.bsky.social · 1h

If Congress doesn’t stop this, they are no longer legitimate.

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Patrick Crotty @patrickrcrotty.bsky.social · 1h

I thought Ms. Fifth Place was shilling Ivermectin. That gig not paying the bills?

Patrick Crotty @patrickrcrotty.bsky.social · 1h

These people have no fucking idea what they’re doing. A room full of third-graders could run the American economy better than them.

Patrick Crotty @patrickrcrotty.bsky.social · 2h

Why doesn’t this dipshit just switch parties already?

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Patrick Crotty @patrickrcrotty.bsky.social · 2h

Here’s what could put a stop to this shit: Americans en masse refusing to pay their federal taxes, suspending withholding from their paychecks, until Congress has impeached and convicted Trump.

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Patrick Crotty @patrickrcrotty.bsky.social · 2h

A large number of right-wing Evangelicals are no longer Christians in any meaningful doctrinal sense, and should not be referred to as such.

Patrick Crotty @patrickrcrotty.bsky.social · 2h

This is illegitimate.

If it happens, we need to stop paying our federal taxes.

Patrick Crotty @patrickrcrotty.bsky.social · 3h

If there were ever a reason for a coordinated blue-state federal tax boycott, this would be it.

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Patrick Crotty @patrickrcrotty.bsky.social · 3h

I’m not a fan of the Democratic gerontocracy, but Schumer may have saved the day here.

Patrick Crotty @patrickrcrotty.bsky.social · 1d

I've been a NYT digital subscriber since 2010, and their memory-holing of the No Kings protests is ensuring I won't be one in 2026.

Patrick Crotty @patrickrcrotty.bsky.social · 1d

I can't fathom how even Republican, Trump-supporting voters in South Carolina are able to feel anything but extreme revulsion towards this honorless coward.

Patrick Crotty @patrickrcrotty.bsky.social · 1d

With apologies for going off-topic: if by Tuesday morning there hasn't been a clear statement from NYT's leaders about why you've had bascially no coverage or discussion of the No Kings protests, I'll be setting my digital subscription -- which I've had since 2010 -- to non-renew.

Patrick Crotty @patrickrcrotty.bsky.social · 1d

Why am I paying federal taxes, again?

Patrick Crotty @patrickrcrotty.bsky.social · 1d

Tomi Lahren’s still putting out new material? Her act is as stale at this point as Kid Rock’s.

Patrick Crotty @patrickrcrotty.bsky.social · 1d

Was it the OG Napoleon or the lame knock-off Napoleon whose jewels they stole?

Patrick Crotty @patrickrcrotty.bsky.social · 2d

At first I thought the guy was complaining because he’d actually *drawn* the illustration/animation himself, and it seemed pretty legit for him to be pissed, I wasn’t sure why folks were mocking him.

But he thinks this was his original “work” because he typed a fucking *prompt*? GTFO loser

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Patrick Crotty @patrickrcrotty.bsky.social · 2d

Colombia would be entirely justified in recalling its ambassador and expelling ours.