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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 4h

Again, I'm annoying myself by thinking about this and ending up with such obvious posts but it seems to be the dominant social dynamic of our time

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 4h

No acknowledgement that the thing I did was bad, no "sorry I got caught" style explanation for anything, but instead it's you who are bad for noticing the thing and thinking it's bad. Complete depravity

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 4h

JD Vance, probably as much as anyone on earth, represents how being a verifiable piece of shit is the most heroic thing you can do right now

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 4h

Perfect example www.mediaite.com/media/news/c...

‘College Group Chat’: JD Vance Dismisses ‘Pearl Clutching’ Over Young Republicans Leak to Attack Jay Jones

Liberals hit back at Vance's blunt dismissal of racist, antisemitic and misogynistic messages leaked from a Young Republicans group chat.

www.mediaite.com

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 4h

It's why shame isn't a functional social force for public people any more, because "the consequences of your own actions" is broadly understood to be the Woke Mind Virus and fighting against it is considered valiant

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 5h

Whatever, this has been pointed out thousands of times already. It's just striking to see how firmly it's held on, continuing to shape the framing of stories about public fuckups

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 5h

The bad actor becomes a passive victim of a malign cloud of evil

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 5h

I think the idea of "cancel culture" persists mainly because it conveniently is some outside force acting on someone rather than them torching their reputation all on their own

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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 9h

4) What’s happening now is an attempt to render those sentiments acceptable in polite company & to make people feel guilty for having negative judgments about people who express their racism and anti-semitism.

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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 9h

3) Many students don’t want to associate with students who easily express hostility towards Black people & Jewish people. That’s completely understandable.

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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 10h

2) As I recall, there was no discussion of the substance of some of the conservative students’ beliefs. Not all conservative students are racists & anti-Semites. Not all liberal students are non-racists & non anti-semites. BUT, consider this story when we think of those previous articles.

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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 10h

1)You may remember the articles criticizing liberal students for their hesitancy to make friends with conservative students—alleging that they were less open-minded than their conservative counterparts.

Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 17h

Here are the little darlings they’ve created. Horrifying.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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ToughSF @toughsf.bsky.social · 13h

Project Sunshine, a 1953 evaluation of the radioactive fallout and contamination from the widespread use of nuclear weapons, a following up to the first such effort Project Gabriel in 1949:
www.rand.org/content/dam/...
From it is derived a worldwide "megaton limit" of 800 MT.

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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 23h

The “Oops, protein powder is full of lead” thing would explain so much.

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Mr. Chau @srirachachau.bsky.social · 1h

Long story short, an actual Nazi doxxing ring. Enough people reported them that they went away for like 12 hours and then Elon personally brought them back. The site is dead. If you’re still on there, go lock your account right now

chris @knightscrest.bsky.social · 1h

what even happened on the other site this time

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 37m

Jus kidz having fun being a lil edgy bsky.app/profile/suga...

MB @sugarcubedog.bsky.social · 45m

Here are the grown “kids”. That one guy looks late 40’s. These are the Hitler lovers.

Vermont state senator Sam Douglass. Bland white guy with glasses and beard. Brown hair.

Man in poorly fitting dark suit with glasses and dark hair. Yes he’s white. William Hendrix who is the communications assistant to vile Kris Kobach, Kansas AG.

Bobby Walker, dark hair and dressed exactly like trump. Not a kid at all. He’s vice chair of New York State young republicans. I guess young means under 50.

Peter Giunta looks like he’s in his 40’s. I don’t know his age. Also dressed like trump in an ill-fitting suit. He has one of the worst combovers I’ve ever seen. Beard and mustache. He’s the chair of the NY state young republicans. He looks like the type of guy that looks through your windows at night.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 46m

Old enough to remember when kids being anti-semitic was the basis for a federal government assault on higher education

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onion person @junlper.beer · 19m

we love edgy jokes about gas chambers and rape unless it’s jokes about charlie kirk dying, which if you do that, you’ll be punished and deported and free speech revoked

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Ingrid Samsa @antifashionaktion.bsky.social · 19m

Not really. That was a panic reaction to try to discredit violence against talking heads

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 57m

over a year old lol

headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · Sep 9

like i am not exaggerating. it’s not an optional or one day feature, if this is a serious social media platform that wants to function similarly to Old Twitter, they gotta drop everything and implement private accounts like. tomorrow. they’re core to the social fabric of being online!

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Alchemist @alchemist64.bsky.social · 20m

You think the media will try to whitewash his legacy like CK when he kicks it?

Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 2h

Jordan Peterson critically ill with pneumonia, neuropathy, and sepsis

Jordan Peterson is sick, and suffering from "spiritual attacks" (and surely it's not the drugs, or long COVID, or a meat-only diet, or...)

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Simon McNeil @simonm223.bsky.social · 21m

There are some people whose obituaries I am eager to read.

Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 2h

Jordan Peterson critically ill with pneumonia, neuropathy, and sepsis

Jordan Peterson is sick, and suffering from "spiritual attacks" (and surely it's not the drugs, or long COVID, or a meat-only diet, or...)

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Alchemist @alchemist64.bsky.social · 21m

(This is tangential but related to your "what were you expecting when you started a weekly shounen jump manga for young boys?" point)

Alchemist @alchemist64.bsky.social · 30m

*"write female characters not shit" is a bar

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Alchemist @alchemist64.bsky.social · 31m

That one's funny because that's a bar that a lot more shounen manga clear than people realize when you're not basing how women are written in shounen on The Most Popular Manga from the Most Popular Shounen Magazine Whose Formulas Are Known.

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