William Love
@callthebanners.bsky.social
Can administer Voight-Kampff test upon request.
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(spending 9 billion dollars to make a robot say "i have always loved you") hard times create strong men
November 16, 2025 at 9:35 PM
(spending 9 billion dollars to make a robot say "i have always loved you") hard times create strong men
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Thank God, when the crisis finally is upon us, we will have serious and competent allies like this one
November 16, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Thank God, when the crisis finally is upon us, we will have serious and competent allies like this one
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Because understanding it requires adulting and letting go of drama and actually confronting the far scarier problem of authoritarian backsliding that is already in motion
Jesus Christ. For the 175th time:
Tom's position is that Trump IS a fascist. As are others in his admin.
Tom's position is that we do not live in a fascist state, because we don't, and it is incumbent upon all of us to do everything we can to keep it that way.
How can people not understand this?
Tom's position is that Trump IS a fascist. As are others in his admin.
Tom's position is that we do not live in a fascist state, because we don't, and it is incumbent upon all of us to do everything we can to keep it that way.
How can people not understand this?
November 16, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Because understanding it requires adulting and letting go of drama and actually confronting the far scarier problem of authoritarian backsliding that is already in motion
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Make the son of a bitch deny it.
November 14, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Make the son of a bitch deny it.
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Somewhere out there someone who’s the best at what they do is terrified that they have imposter syndrome while a bunch of barely literate pedophiles are very calmly running the world
November 13, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Somewhere out there someone who’s the best at what they do is terrified that they have imposter syndrome while a bunch of barely literate pedophiles are very calmly running the world
I believe Orwell had a few things to say about this sort of thing.
For The Redoubt (@theredoubt.bsky.social), I wrote about Trump's killings in the Caribbean — his "kinetic strikes" — and the euphemisms we use to describe murder. www.theredoubt.net/how-we-talk-...
How we talk about murder
Interrogating the euphemisms used to legitimize state killings.
www.theredoubt.net
November 12, 2025 at 9:23 PM
I believe Orwell had a few things to say about this sort of thing.
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if you can’t see the aurora borealis tonight, here is a sewer tunnel which is a wonder in itself.
November 12, 2025 at 3:58 AM
if you can’t see the aurora borealis tonight, here is a sewer tunnel which is a wonder in itself.
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good news, we now officially measure the economy with the burrito taxi index
Trump admin Press Secretary citing DoorDash on local commerce price levels.
Quite possibly the most cursed ‘economic indicator’ I have ever seen.
Quite possibly the most cursed ‘economic indicator’ I have ever seen.
November 12, 2025 at 12:56 AM
good news, we now officially measure the economy with the burrito taxi index
So I had a first occur today. I am wearing my Commonwealth Minutemen hat and someone thanked me for my service as I was going to my car. I didn’t say anything, but part of me wanted to say “yeah, I was there when we defended Diamond City from Super Mutants back in 2180.” Super awkward.
November 11, 2025 at 11:01 PM
So I had a first occur today. I am wearing my Commonwealth Minutemen hat and someone thanked me for my service as I was going to my car. I didn’t say anything, but part of me wanted to say “yeah, I was there when we defended Diamond City from Super Mutants back in 2180.” Super awkward.
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Sanders: That is a totally meaningless gesture. You can get 100 votes here and it won't mean anything because the House is not going to take it up.
November 10, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Sanders: That is a totally meaningless gesture. You can get 100 votes here and it won't mean anything because the House is not going to take it up.
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Calling things by their right name is never a bad idea. There are many ways to fight an authoritarian movement, but trying to convince people that the movement has already won and instituted fascism is just stupid.
November 9, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Calling things by their right name is never a bad idea. There are many ways to fight an authoritarian movement, but trying to convince people that the movement has already won and instituted fascism is just stupid.
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This is obscene.
Two panels commemorating the contribution of Black American soldiers towards the liberation of the Netherlands in World War Two have been quietly removed from a cemetery in Limburg. It follows a complaint by right-wing think tank The Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission.
November 9, 2025 at 5:52 AM
This is obscene.
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Exactly. Once you decide that lying and propagandizing is necessary, you're on the road to oblivion, because the other guys are not only better at it, but they will out you as being no better than they are
The risk of straying from the truth is that the opposition can seize on the falsehood, hyperbole, whatever, to attack you and convince others that you can't be trusted.
November 9, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Exactly. Once you decide that lying and propagandizing is necessary, you're on the road to oblivion, because the other guys are not only better at it, but they will out you as being no better than they are
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A democracy fighting against an authoritarian movement.
So to be far, Tom, what would you call this current form of government we are living under?
November 9, 2025 at 12:47 AM
A democracy fighting against an authoritarian movement.
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Two prosecutors are now going to have to deal with the question, “wait aren’t you the guys who lost the sandwich case?” for the rest of their lives.
November 6, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Two prosecutors are now going to have to deal with the question, “wait aren’t you the guys who lost the sandwich case?” for the rest of their lives.
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Phrenology doesn’t stop being bullshit when you do it to someone’s face
A new paper suggests a photo can tell a recruiter much about an applicant’s personality
Should facial analysis help determine whom companies hire?
A new paper suggests a photo can tell a recruiter much about an applicant’s personality
econ.st
November 6, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Phrenology doesn’t stop being bullshit when you do it to someone’s face
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They’re calling it the wolfiest wolf who ever wolved, folks. And the boy, he cries wolf, but nobody comes. Big strong men come to me with tears in their eyes and say “Mister Trump, your last three wolves were chihuahuas.”
I like that republicans keep calling mamdani a “literal communist” because they’ve been calling everyone to the left of william mckinley a communist for a hundred years and they need to distinguish
November 5, 2025 at 5:20 PM
They’re calling it the wolfiest wolf who ever wolved, folks. And the boy, he cries wolf, but nobody comes. Big strong men come to me with tears in their eyes and say “Mister Trump, your last three wolves were chihuahuas.”
I consider myself center-left liberal, I hate fascism with every fiber of my being, I have no real issue with Mamdani, but these people keep telling me I’m some kind of crypto-fascist asshole. *shrug*
November 5, 2025 at 3:37 PM
I consider myself center-left liberal, I hate fascism with every fiber of my being, I have no real issue with Mamdani, but these people keep telling me I’m some kind of crypto-fascist asshole. *shrug*
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This is big fucking shit
BREAKING: Democrat Johnny DuPree has flipped a Republican-held Mississippi Senate district in a special election.
DuPree was previously the mayor of Hattiesburg.
His win imperils the Mississippi Senate GOP's narrow supermajority.
www.mississippifreepress.org/democrat-joh...
DuPree was previously the mayor of Hattiesburg.
His win imperils the Mississippi Senate GOP's narrow supermajority.
www.mississippifreepress.org/democrat-joh...
Democrat Johnny DuPree Flips Republican-Held Mississippi Senate District in Forrest County
Johnny DuPree, a Democrat who served as the mayor of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, for 16 years, has flipped a Republican-held Mississippi Senate seat.
www.mississippifreepress.org
November 5, 2025 at 3:26 AM
This is big fucking shit
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The level of commitment here is really impressive
November 5, 2025 at 2:48 AM
The level of commitment here is really impressive
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This isn't a closing election argument, it's Vidkun Quisling explaining why surrender is better than resistance.
November 4, 2025 at 3:00 AM
This isn't a closing election argument, it's Vidkun Quisling explaining why surrender is better than resistance.
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This! When you say "Listen, Reagan and the Bushes and Trump are the same," you're actually reassuring low-info voters that Trump isn't a crazy choice, because unlike Bluesky folks, millions of Americans would vote for those guys again.
They didn't understand that "this isn't your parent's GOP" is exactly why Biden won. Because comparing Trump to Reagan is to almost all conservatives, an in kind donation to Trump.
But pointing out the voters principles weren't what changed, it was the party that broke their pledge to them, works.
But pointing out the voters principles weren't what changed, it was the party that broke their pledge to them, works.
People can't seem to grasp that difference, which is in part how the left started to lose the public (who to this day don't see Reagan the same way they do). "Reagan is the same as Trump" is like a free ad for Trump.
November 1, 2025 at 5:23 PM
This! When you say "Listen, Reagan and the Bushes and Trump are the same," you're actually reassuring low-info voters that Trump isn't a crazy choice, because unlike Bluesky folks, millions of Americans would vote for those guys again.