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synthwave syndicalist @trs6809.bsky.social · 1h

the only certainty in this case is, of course, that this one music video clears 100% of his boring fucking comedy

synthwave syndicalist @trs6809.bsky.social · 1h

given Morrissey and Numan, it's hard to tell just how strong Being British is on the ability to be decent once a check clears

then again, comedian groupthink is worse, so there's a chance synthpop Gervais would've moved past the Rowling Discontinuity towards being something other than a transphobe

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synthwave syndicalist @trs6809.bsky.social · 2h

"it's never fun" yeah no shit, I spent over a year looking at the corpses of Palestinian children and the reason I don't see many now is because my tax money also went towards killing journalists

at least the Germans in episode 9 of Band of Brothers had the excuse of pre-internet rigid state media

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synthwave syndicalist @trs6809.bsky.social · 2h

I'm a long way from finishing the thick Haymarket compilations, but the writings of Eugene V. Debs showcase an America that hated its bosses and government well before the modern molding of the faux party binary. there will always be racists & bootlickers but they really aren't the majority

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synthwave syndicalist @trs6809.bsky.social · 2h

DSA once again sprouting up a generation of legislators who miss the point that, while our government has been on a logical landslide to pure authoritarian rule for the last 75 years, most of the populace isn't interested in having more cops than teachers, or having genocide weigh upon their souls

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synthwave syndicalist @trs6809.bsky.social · 3h

yuhhh. haven't read 'em in a while, but "the Imperial Navy was incompetent and needed Palpy's Adderall Sorcery" is a fucking weak plot point, especially given the Nazis being famously big amphetamine fans

the Noghri plot already covers fascist downfall, have C'Baoth doing bananas KOTOR Sith shit

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synthwave syndicalist @trs6809.bsky.social · 3h

hey, it wouldn't be star wars if it didn't have a bare minimum of one dumb thing that doesn't add anything of note to the story. no exceptions

though "insane cloned jedi" is a neat enough concept if taken to a different place. joruuuus should've been eldritch horror instead of Wizard Fleet Adderall

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synthwave syndicalist @trs6809.bsky.social · 3h

oh I get that, just that Ahsoka wasn't exactly what I would call a well-written show

it's more of an issue with the paradox of Didneycorp stuck between Lucas' original vision being Fuck America (Andor being a rare adherence) and corpo lockstep with America becoming what it always logically would

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synthwave syndicalist @trs6809.bsky.social · 4h

Timothy Zahn: hey there kiddo, time to have a nuanced understanding of fascism!

I can't wait to see how they're going to turn Thrawn into Grand Admiral Plot Convenience instead of someone who spends his final moments realizing that using climate change to enslave people might've been a bad choice

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synthwave syndicalist @trs6809.bsky.social · 4h

11/12 year old T.R. walking into a book store, picking out Heir to the Empire seemingly at random, finishing the Thrawn trilogy & never returning to the EU feels like I won an invisible lottery

obviously there's other good entries but the bad ones make starting with the cream of the crop funnier

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synthwave syndicalist @trs6809.bsky.social · 13h

went to the telluride mushroom festival a few months ago and first keynote was from a photographer who ended the presentation with an AI video with a shitty repetitive song whose lyrics were 95% "we are love"

in case you were wondering if this was only affecting Abrahamics & not also Granola Types

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synthwave syndicalist @trs6809.bsky.social · 1d

the sniveling Spartan: purity of body is paramount. to not have an ideal musculature and physical capability is to be useless

the chad Achaemenid: lol, you ain't gotta be swole to be in a staff position, wanna be a logistics officer?

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synthwave syndicalist @trs6809.bsky.social · 1d

races in Sauron's government:

- goblins
- orcs
- spiders
- trolls
- undead
- lesser angels
- the only nonwhite humans seen in the entire three movies

- multiracial/multicultural state is portrayed as evil, northern European ethnostates portrayed as flawed but heroic

what did they mean by this?

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synthwave syndicalist @trs6809.bsky.social · 3d

Full Israeli: An Israeli breakfast recipe beloved in Tel Aviv

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synthwave syndicalist @trs6809.bsky.social · 4d

the idea that any Mexican woman, who practices the sensible art of sorcery, would be in favor of white imperialism is the kind of thing only a klansman with a fetish would be capable of briefly contemplating through a neural network thoroughly soaked in the pure carbohydrates of ten keystone lights

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ULTRA💀BLAST @ultrakillblast.bsky.social · 4d

Friday.

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synthwave syndicalist @trs6809.bsky.social · 4d

the primary takeaway is that Sam Altman could never create an army of women that would sweep 100% of all special forces groups past, present, and future; and, as usual, dweebs with money who have no experience outside of the specific skillset of making money will continue to never conquer the world

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synthwave syndicalist @trs6809.bsky.social · 4d

one of the little forlorn hopes I have is for Alfred Nobel, torn apart by being human history's scientist no. 38504 to have created something only to get it coopted by imperial-minded wealthy failsons, is something of a Great Attractor for the souls of warmongers to deny them a good reincarnation

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synthwave syndicalist @trs6809.bsky.social · 4d

IRA STEVEN BEHR, SMOKING A BLUNT THE SIZE OF A BASEBALL BAT: Ferengi pussy so good I'm gonna end the show with the Grand Nagus handing the Ferengi Alliance over to a literal Marxist because Quark's mom is a suffragette who gives Zek 10/10 dome

RICK BERMAN:

RICK BERMAN: what

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synthwave syndicalist @trs6809.bsky.social · 4d

odd design given that a Welrod seems more like something that would have better served a the role with the added benefit of not needing to be at point blank; still, the Boop The Nazi Snoot gun still gets a rating of "fucks" for being pure spycraft shenanigans

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synthwave syndicalist @trs6809.bsky.social · 4d

LAST TIME ON STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE

SISKO: Hey you know how Starfleet just uses whoever instead of our intelligence service?

O'BRIEN: This ends with me killing someone I grow to respect, right?

SISKO: lol. lmao.

GARAK, BALLS DEEP IN BASHIR: You know, doctor, I always enjoy our little chats.

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synthwave syndicalist @trs6809.bsky.social · 5d

I open up not-logged-in reddit at work occasionally and today there's a pile of "ohoho, time for Nazi agitprop about Known Dirty Communist Hussein Pecker" posts propping up right alongside r/politics openly wondering how the country went fascist so fast

the absolute nexus of liberal slopmind

full slack @fullslack.bsky.social · 5d

some of the most mushminded dipshits alive love spreading lies about Hasan so damn much that they’re openly praising Hitler. oh okay!

Maia Poet
@thepeacepoet99
X.com
Hasan Piker actually makes Hitler look like a good guy. You have to be a special kind of evil to make that happen.
permabulla
• @permabulla • 17h
Hitler with dogs vs Hasan with dogs
How Hitler treats dogs
How Hasan treats dogs

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dead domain 🐐🏳️‍⚧️ @domaindead.bsky.social · 5d

I’ve received a report from anonymous active duty personnel in Texas that the Texas National Guard will be moving out nationwide to ICE Protest sites, possibly in civilian gear, and changing their unit patches to hide origins.

Full report here:

youtu.be/jtpXI-6PxaU?...

BREAKING: Trump's Plan To Use Texas National Guard Nationwide, UNDERCOVER At Protests, And More

YouTube video by Dead Domain

youtu.be

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synthwave syndicalist @trs6809.bsky.social · 5d

you have unfortunately misspelled "Andy Richter for Chairman of the Congress of Trade Unions of the United Syndicates of America" but it is notoriously hard to spell and so I absolutely forgive you

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synthwave syndicalist @trs6809.bsky.social · 5d

you have literally put goatse on my timeline and this is somehow exponentially worse

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