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Arbusto @bskyarbusto.bsky.social · 4h

Using David Duke as an example of how Republicans didn't used to be Nazis is the dumbest fucking shit I have heard today.

Arbusto @bskyarbusto.bsky.social · 4h

Begging you to open your eyes and realize any sort of tax cut tweedy horseshit was mere pretext for their Nazi beliefs. When the Dixiecrats were welcomed into the party with open arms it is because Republicans agree with them.

Arbusto @bskyarbusto.bsky.social · 5h

What do you think Steve Scalise meant when he said he was David Duke without the baggage? What do you think the difference was between Strom Thrumond's beliefs and David Duke's?

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Arbusto @bskyarbusto.bsky.social · 6h

David Duke being elected to government proves precisely the opposite point you are trying to make.

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Arbusto @bskyarbusto.bsky.social · 6h

they just feel more free to say what they really feel about Nazis. They openly talked about nuking the middle east and were always in favor always in favor of segregation.

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Arbusto @bskyarbusto.bsky.social · 7h

This is what they have wanted all along

Arbusto @bskyarbusto.bsky.social · 11h

Had the DNC not coordinated the candidates to drop out together and endorse Biden on the same day Bernie would have won

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Arbusto @bskyarbusto.bsky.social · 11h

look they openly said they wanted to nuke the entire middle east off the planet but they didn't explicitly say they loved Hitler so it was completely different

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Arbusto @bskyarbusto.bsky.social · 12h

It's dead as a doorknob

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Arbusto @bskyarbusto.bsky.social · 12h

The beliefs haven't changed though the difference is that it used to not be acceptable to be completely open about these Nazi beliefs.

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Arbusto @bskyarbusto.bsky.social · 14h

Tweedy GOP intellectual respectability was and had always been a pretext to do fascist shit

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Arbusto @bskyarbusto.bsky.social · 14h

Thank capitalists who own the media

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Arbusto @bskyarbusto.bsky.social · 1d

The Outer Worlds was pretty crappy and I kept playing it until it was done for some stupid reason

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 1d

Important to note that this isn’t a problem for the billionaire buying media properties. If they make them into successful rightwing propaganda? Cool more money. If it fails? Cool they’ve destroyed one of the few outlets with the resources to investigate them. Either way they achieved their goal

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 2d

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

www.forbes.com

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Arbusto @bskyarbusto.bsky.social · 1d

Also at the end once you reach enlightenment you feel like killing yourself

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Arbusto @bskyarbusto.bsky.social · 3d

There was a huge marketing blitz for it

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warrior cop @wyattprivilege.bsky.social · 5d

Trump to China: obey my command or I will destroy the United States

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Arbusto @bskyarbusto.bsky.social · 5d

Yeah no chance this is ironic

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Arbusto @bskyarbusto.bsky.social · 5d

Because the media is controlled by the same people

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Arbusto @bskyarbusto.bsky.social · 7d

God damn man you are really lost. Oligarchs are capitalists and yes they control the US you got that part right.

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Arbusto @bskyarbusto.bsky.social · 7d

Capitalists are the parasites. They do not work and provide no value to society. They steal the productivity created by workers. Profit is the fruit of our labor being stolen.

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Arbusto @bskyarbusto.bsky.social · 7d

Capitalism is very obviously not voluntary that might be the dumbest thing I ever heard. If you don't work or cannot work you die and that is by design.

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Arbusto @bskyarbusto.bsky.social · 7d

Capitalism has created massive wealth inequality, slavery, homelessness, and poverty that are enforced at the barrel of a gun controlled. In capitalism we are all only valued by the amount we can sell our labor for.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 7d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Arbusto @bskyarbusto.bsky.social · 7d

capitalism is based on extraction and for the benefit of capitalists and fascism rises to defend capital against whatever entities it deems a threat to capital

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