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✨️JRR TOKIN✨️ @anthrocultur.bsky.social · 2h

Arrrrgh, I had to see this with my own personal eyes, so now you do too. Those are the rules 🤷‍♂️

Mike Stucka @mikestucka.bsky.social · 5h

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 4h

Remember, brown 13-year-olds are hardened menaces to society, but 30-something Republican Hitler afficionados in positions of power are just li’l guys.

Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 5h

These. Were. Men. In. Their. 30s.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

No one in the GOP Hitler chat was a "kid"

We checked. Sorry, JD Vance.

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✨️JRR TOKIN✨️ @anthrocultur.bsky.social · 3h

Yeah, sorry, you don't need advice here. I'm not trying to be a reply guy lol

It's really frustrating when they move the goalposts, wiggle away, refuse to respond to the point, and all their tactics to evade reason, truth and reality. People tend to do this when they know they're in the wrong.

✨️JRR TOKIN✨️ @anthrocultur.bsky.social · 3h

Is this in a group chat or something like that?

It sucks to find out that someone you know is being indoctrinated. Honestly, with the situation you laid out, I'm wondering if this guy is an abuser. Scratch that, MAGA fuckwads are abusers by definition. She's being gaslit and indoctrinated.

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✨️JRR TOKIN✨️ @anthrocultur.bsky.social · 3h

Dang, that's impressive levels of cooked. Deep fried brains with worcestershire sauce 👀

I'd get inquisitive. "Hmmm, that's interesting, please explain to me how requiring voter ID removes barriers to voting, because I don't understand how that would work. What barriers are you talking about?"

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✨️JRR TOKIN✨️ @anthrocultur.bsky.social · 3h

And yeah, I understand how an encounter like that can shake you. I promise, you're not insane. They have chosen delusion and repudiated reality. That's hard to take if you still believe in reality 🤷‍♂️

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✨️JRR TOKIN✨️ @anthrocultur.bsky.social · 3h

Sorry, I didn't see the follow-up. It's the logical argument to make. Those things are not equivalent and it's grotesque to equate them. OK, they're identifiers. FOR WHAT PURPOSES? The yellow star was used to identify Jews for genocide. People who wear MAGA hats are *self-identifying* as fascists.

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✨️JRR TOKIN✨️ @anthrocultur.bsky.social · 3h

Also, claiming that getting 'hate' for wearing a MAGA hat is antisemitism...It's hard to put in words how fucked up this is. It sounds like replacement theology. "My pastor says the Jews screwed up and G-d chose us instead. So if you don't like me it's antisemitism." Absolutely French-fried brains.

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✨️JRR TOKIN✨️ @anthrocultur.bsky.social · 4h

To respond to just one bit of the copious fuckery here, they choose to wear the red hats. No one is forcing them. They can choose not to and keep their rancid beliefs. But oh yes golly gee, that's *exactly the same thing* as being forced to wear a yellow star. Man, they want to be oppressed so bad 🙄

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jordan @jordantyranny.bsky.social · 10h

“More than at any other time — I'm finally realizing that the world is simply divided into people that care about others, and those who don't — but don't want to be shamed for it.”

THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS!!!!

Tulika Bose @TulikaBose_
More than at any other time — I'm finally realizing that the world is simply divided into people that care about others, and those who don't — but don't want to be shamed for it
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jordan @jordantyranny.bsky.social · 15h

nailed it!!! absolutely iconic work by @pizzacakecomic.bsky.social

its a pizzacakecomic illustrating the difference between how young republicans portray themselves privately versus publicly using examples of texts from a leaked chat from yesterdays politico report

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 4h

Contrast this with the administration’s justification of kidnapping a 14-year-old kid by calling them a “hardened criminal”

Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 5h

These. Were. Men. In. Their. 30s.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

No one in the GOP Hitler chat was a "kid"

We checked. Sorry, JD Vance.

www.motherjones.com

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 6h

John Roberts: Eliminating racial discrimination means eliminating all of it.

Brett Kavanaugh: Totes.

*immigrants being profiled by ICE enter the chat*

Roberts Court: Yeah but I didn't mean like that. The cops can definitely still arrest you because you're brown.

Kav: *chugs beer in agreement*

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✨️JRR TOKIN✨️ @anthrocultur.bsky.social · 4h

The name is much newer than the skeet. It came to me recently, when I was a couple gummies in 😆

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 7h

Breaking: Capitol Police have been called after a Republican congressional office was just caught displaying a swastika.

This comes one day after group chat messages were leaked of young GOP officials saying “I love Hitler” and calling to put Democrats in “gas chambers.”

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 8h

white reactionaries disenfranchising black voters to secure political power? that’s a jim crow. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

The Supreme Court Case That Could Hand the House to Republicans

www.nytimes.com

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A.G.Willow | looking for work + comms open @willowsquest.co.uk · 8h

For everyone who's ever said some shit like "well they get what they voted for"/"let them secede, who cares", maybe give a fuck about this? Don't let them continue to fuck over the counties where 70% of the US black population lives?

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 8h

white reactionaries disenfranchising black voters to secure political power? that’s a jim crow. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

The Supreme Court Case That Could Hand the House to Republicans

www.nytimes.com

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Michaela Joffe @joffeorama.bsky.social · 7h

can't wait for the next generation of liberals to start posting "joke if you must, but the young republicans of the neo-20s were nothing like today! no one was racist back when I was a campus republican." what do you think we'll call posts then? twimples? skrats? do you think we'll still have bees?

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✨️JRR TOKIN✨️ @anthrocultur.bsky.social · 5h

I'm sorry, I'd recently woken up in severe pain. I was irritable, and didn't think it through. That's not an excuse, though. It's good and important to credit art. And it's good for the artist to get the likes and exposure. The credit was in alt text but should have been in the body of the message.

✨️JRR TOKIN✨️ @anthrocultur.bsky.social · 8h

Again, absolutely deflecting and diverting from the subject at hand. Which is WHITE PEOPLE'S RACISM. That's what OP was talking about, and asking white people to do some introspection about. You've been doing everything you can to *not* think about this deeply. Why is that? Can you even answer that?

✨️JRR TOKIN✨️ @anthrocultur.bsky.social · 8h

Nora, I credited the artist in my alt-text. I use neither Facebook nor former Twitter, which is where it is officially posted, so I couldn't link. I should have put a byline in the message body, but it didn't occur to me. Facebook is an abomination. That's my only disagreement with what they did.

✨️JRR TOKIN✨️ @anthrocultur.bsky.social · 8h

What are you doing on Facebook or directing people to Facebook??? I don't do that shit. I shared the best copy I could find 🤷‍♂️

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conrad 🙂 @shitpost.expert · 14h

even in her own thread she admits that republicans have always been super racist they just pretended not to be before lol

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 11h

250 years of slavery. 88 years of Jim Crow. But somehow we're all supposed to succeed by pretending we started on equal footing beginning in the mid 1960s. Come the fuck on.

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 11h

When Brazil adopted quotas for higher ed, the percentage of Afro Brazilians in higher ed shot up 400 percent and all of them did as well as non-affirmative action students.

The idea that affirmative action is stigmatizing and elevates unqualified people is a BS argument.

Screw SCOTUS. Higher Education Needs Racial Quotas. (Updated)

If the United States leaned into racial quotas instead of running screaming from them, we might have seen results like Brazil's.

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