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Indie developer of visual novels, but mostly here to mock injustice and stupidity. Play our games here: https://shimmersoft.itch.io/. Tips appreciated: http://bit.ly/3nCbnP6. In the words of Ashley Graham, the president's daughter: Dios Bless.

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Shimmersoft @shimmersoft.bsky.social · 1m

MSG stands for Makes So Good

Shimmersoft @shimmersoft.bsky.social · 3h

a comment preceded by 20 minutes of "hey ASS-ad" trolling and several retaliatory headshots

Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 14h

Some thirteen year old from Arkansas: Mooooooooom, former president of Syria bashar al-assad is making fun of me on Fortnite

Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 15h

Some kid is doing the standard “ur mom” voice chat trash talk and they got no idea they’re talking to bashar al assad

Shimmersoft @shimmersoft.bsky.social · 3h

forming a cult around one of the most dubious people in america did come with some complications

Shimmersoft @shimmersoft.bsky.social · 5h

[super mario regretting his choice of profession] i'va had it widees motherfuckin' snakes in dees motherfuckin' drains

Shimmersoft @shimmersoft.bsky.social · 6h

"are humans innately good or evil" is comparable to "is a fetus a person" in terms of questions that make someone feel like a smarty pants but are mostly just navel gazing that sidesteps having to consider context and make value judgments.

Shimmersoft @shimmersoft.bsky.social · 10h

cool analogy! when an invention makes something so intuitive, it's easy to forget that it needed to be invented at all.

Shimmersoft @shimmersoft.bsky.social · 19h

jesus also had thoughts about rich people giving away their possessions to honor god but weirdly that doesn't seem to be high on the christian nationalists' agenda

Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 1d

Ross Douthat treats this guy like they're having some deep conversation about the relationship of Christianity and the government, but the dude is a garden-variety dull, shallow, hateful, worthless bigot with nothing interesting to say, just endless riffs on "God hates everything/everyone I do."

Douthat: So that’s the first purpose of your political project, for America to stop making God angry.

Wilson: Yes. And most people think that when they are confronted with that project, they think that we want to get our tentacles into everything and start controlling everything. I actually think we need limited government. The government should be significantly smaller than it is, and we need to curtail a lot of the busybodyness that we have. That’s why I would call myself a theocratic libertarian. There is a true libertarian element in this, and yet, the transcendent grounding for what we’re talking about means that we acknowledge the authority of God.

We have racked up quite a body count of awful crimes, and I believe the only way out is for us to repent and turn to Christ. This would be things like no more Pride parades, no more drag queen story hours, no more abortion on demand, no more legalized same-sex unions — all of that, done. That’s the repentance part.

Shimmersoft @shimmersoft.bsky.social · 20h

Notice how the Christian nationalists always want to religitate the reputations of slave owners (who were largely respected in their time) and never the abolitionists (who were largely dismissed in their time)

Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 1d

Counterpoint:

You absolutely do not have to hand it to enslavers

Wilson: Now, one of the things I want to do is say: I’m really glad that slavery’s gone, and good riddance. And I want to say that the Southern slave owner, who read the books of Ephesians and Colossians and 1 Timothy and treated his slaves decently, remembering that he had a master in heaven who he studiously tried to obey — what Paul said slave owners were supposed to do — I would say he was not an orc, and he is part of the reason why slavery ended. In other words, I would say he’s a good guy.

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Shimmersoft @shimmersoft.bsky.social · 20h

borrowing progressive language about "triggers" to hide the excesses of fascism. this is the bad place.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

Shimmersoft @shimmersoft.bsky.social · 20h

I really do feel like this phenomenon is 90% the fault of social media, which largely rewards maximal stances and confrontational attitudes.

Philo @opfuchs.gay · 2d

A lot of people heard of the legitimate critique of respectability politics found in e.g. queer theory and interpreted it based almost solely on the name as "it's okay to be maximally unpleasant all the time"

Shimmersoft @shimmersoft.bsky.social · 20h

Honestly really eye opening article. Hadn't really considered how something as seemingly simple as a punch to the face would be a cultural invention that only really works when you develop certain supporting artifice (like proper hand protection).

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Shimmersoft @shimmersoft.bsky.social · 1d

with all the stink trump was making about biden's "autopen" and invalid signatures earlier in the year, it's basically a given that his minions have been forging his signature left and right

Shimmersoft @shimmersoft.bsky.social · 1d

The fact that maga men are exclusively mad about women's hair color and piercings does suggest that they mainly resent having their attention drawn to people they know are sexually unavailable. "how dare you make me notice you!" etc.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

Kid Rock: Do you know what is stupid… these chicks running around on campuses with blue hair, five nose rings.

Shimmersoft @shimmersoft.bsky.social · 1d

I think they're just mad seeing white guys being happily cringe because it reminds them that they're unhappily cringe lol

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Shimmersoft @shimmersoft.bsky.social · 1d

investors putting the mark in remarkable

Shimmersoft @shimmersoft.bsky.social · 1d

MAGA believes in foreign aid just like they believe in loan forgiveness they just believe you should only receive those things as rewards for furthering their malicious agenda instead of y'know just helping people.

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 1d

Oh, does it benefit the US to provide aid to foreign countries? That would have been good to know back in January and February.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

“Stabilizing Argentina is ‘America First’.”

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Shimmersoft @shimmersoft.bsky.social · 1d

pictured: antifa supersoldiers

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Shimmersoft @shimmersoft.bsky.social · 1d

alternatively, grasshoppers are like "why do you persist in associating me with grass? i hop on everything under the sun, you racist"

Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · Jun 23

My favourite grasshopper fact: Grasshoppers first appeared on the planet 250 million years ago.

Grass did not appear on the planet until 40 million years ago

Imagine it: 210 million years, hopping around on any random surface you can find, waiting for the grass that will make you truly yourself.

Shimmersoft @shimmersoft.bsky.social · 1d

you're undergoing initiation into the mob? you mean you're performing your culprite agh why are you strangling me is this part of the culprite

Shimmersoft @shimmersoft.bsky.social · 1d

yeah agreed. her social circle probably includes more republicans these days and elite consensus is pretty different from what's happening on the ground among the people who actually listen to her music. whether she clues into that will be a big sign of whether her stature endures.

Shimmersoft @shimmersoft.bsky.social · 1d

you need a finely honed reflex for detecting and quickly responding to trends to become a global pop star. i expect that, like a lot of rich people, taylor saw trump's election as proof that conservatism is ascendent and has adapted her work accordingly. she'll prob adapt back for the next swing.

Shimmersoft @shimmersoft.bsky.social · 1d

the frog warrior who rises to defeat evil is spoken of in the ancient texts

Shimmersoft @shimmersoft.bsky.social · 2d

the george soros talent agency knows how to pick 'em

Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 2d

Of all the clerics they could have popped, those ICE idiots had to hit Hot Priest.

Presbyterian minister David Black on CNN, who was shot with pepper balls while praying outside an ICE facility.

Shimmersoft @shimmersoft.bsky.social · 2d

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Shimmersoft @shimmersoft.bsky.social · 2d

should be pretty clear by now that conservatives' "complaints" about terrorists and gangs were actually just envy

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?