Joel Bernstein
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Yeah, I think that's lost on a LOT of people under the age of, like, 30-ish. Doc Brown's time machine was a DeLorean because DeLoreans were stupid garbage. It was a lemon he probably got for $500. Using it was just another thing made him look insane. 80s audiences would have understood that.
satire that people misunderstood: they picked the delorean for back to the future as a joke because it was a failed vision of the future
That’s when we bring in the Christmas ghosts
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folks can complain about the effectiveness of scheduled orderly mass protest but to think about it another way its the closest thing we have to the opening scene of A Muppet Christmas Carol where all the muppets sing "there goes Mr. Dipshit, there goes Mr. Ass" to Scrooge and it clearly bothered him
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The fact that there are two people in american politics called Lovett and Leavitt… and that they’re on opposite sides of the same job… fake ass country…
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somewhere in portland, there's one person, or a small handful of people, who came up with the inflatable costume idea, and I feel like they deserve our immense respect for defining the obvious developing aesthetic of the contemporary battle against fascism
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People are dressed up and dancing outside Portland’s ICE facility. It’s raining lightly and there’s lingering tear gas in the air from a recent major gassing and occasional pepper ball deployment.
I need to find some good deep dish here
Caesar died of old age surrounded by his loyal friends right
If mass murder was disqualifying they wouldn’t have given one to Kissinger
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Really think the biggest win today aside from just numbers is negatively polarizing the regime of 12-year-olds into fully adopting #YESKINGS as their official stance.
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Leavitt: he’s not mad. please don’t put it in the newspaper that he went mad.
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this is not a russian tie. it's a sign the person inside can cut your hair
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I don't think folks have any conception of how radicalized a lot of moms are becoming as they go through shit like "will my babysitter get kidnapped" and "will my child be able to get the measles vaccine"
every smug internet communist tweet about showing up to a No Kings protest with an abolish ICE shirt to scare the libs is getting completely mogged by the real-life winemoms showing up with slogans like "ICE will melt in hell"
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In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.
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Official count estimates are up - before it was "nearly 7m" then it was "roughly 7m" now it is officially "more than 7m." Trend is up!
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as we reclaim frogs for good, I do recommend the documentary Feels Good Man, which is (a) a good explainer on the whole pepe the frog thing, and (b) a really good look at how chan culture crept into and overtook the mainstream.

maybe matt furie can finally reclaim his creation.
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Scholars who study how to defeat fascism pretty much all say that you need the less radical, mushy middle folks to be on your side. You need mass support.

The “normies” you look down on who are going to No Kings are those people. If you think it’s not enough, go talk to them. Go organize them.
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Suppose you could modify your dog’s brain so that he could do improv comedy. Would he still be your dog? Would you be obligated to attend his shows?
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I, too, smoked a lot of weed in my dorm room sophomore year