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Celebrimbor @celebrimbor.bsky.social · Sep 6

I will not be ragebaited. Ragebait is the mind-killer. Ragebait is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my rage. I will permit it to pass over me and through me.

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 23h

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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Celebrimbor @celebrimbor.bsky.social · 1d

I stayed up most of last night playing through the prologue and I gasped when the opening credits rolled and I realized the story had literally just started, after hours of being deeply immersed in this story, gasping at every development.

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Celebrimbor @celebrimbor.bsky.social · 1d

Kingdom Come: Deliverance II was made specifically for me. Immersive depictions of Medieval European warfare, historical politics, beautiful environments, big tiddy tavern wenches, and insane levels of simmering homoerotic tension.

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Celebrimbor @celebrimbor.bsky.social · 1d

Hey King, I just wanted to say that I really appreciated the way you moaned at the urinal.

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Celebrimbor @celebrimbor.bsky.social · 1d

won’t someone think of the Chinese billionaires

Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 2d

Now that Chinese companies are actually competitive, the West no longer believes in free markets and free trade.

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 3d

Dutch government takes control of Chinese-owned chipmaker Nexperia on.ft.com/4hdts1U

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 3d

It’s impossible to overstate how much “abolish ice” is the normie position now here in chicago — just countless random moms at toddler soccer on a park district field asking me where I bought my anti-ice t-shirt. average people don’t like our neighborhoods being terrorized.

laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 3d

A friend ran the Chicago marathon today and said he couldn’t count the number of FUCK ICE signs along the way.

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Rocctober Blood 🩸 T. Thompson 🤘💀 @roccotthompson.bsky.social · 3d

The revolution will not be televised but it will be monetized through micro-transactions

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Celebrimbor @celebrimbor.bsky.social · 3d

Someone needs or make a “Does the Dog Die” website but it just tells you if Stavros will be in the movie. I need some warning so I don’t accidentally pay for a movie only to get jumpscared.

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 6d

Know your fascism

The 14 characteristics are:

Powerful and Continuing Nationalism
Fascist regimes tend to make constant use of patriotic mottos, slogans, symbols, songs, and other paraphernalia. Flags are seen everywhere, as are flag symbols on clothing and in public displays.

Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights
Because of fear of enemies and the need for security, the people in fascist regimes are persuaded that human rights can be ignored in certain cases because of "need." The people tend to look the other way or even approve of torture, summary executions, assassinations, long incarcerations of prisoners, etc.

Identification of Enemies/Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause
The people are rallied into a unifying patriotic frenzy over the need to eliminate a perceived common threat or foe: racial , ethnic or religious minorities; liberals; communists; socialists, terrorists, etc.

Supremacy of the Military
Even when there are widespread domestic problems, the military is given a disproportionate amount of government funding, and the domestic agenda is neglected. Soldiers and military service are glamorized.

Rampant Sexism
The governments of fascist nations tend to be almost exclusively male-dominated. Under fascist regimes, traditional gender roles are made more rigid. Opposition to abortion is high, as is homophobia and anti-gay legislation and national policy.

Controlled Mass Media
Sometimes to media is directly controlled by the government, but in other cases, the media is indirectly controlled by government regulation, or sympathetic media spokespeople and executives. Censorship, especially in war time, is very common.

Obsession with National Security
Fear is used as a motivational tool by the government over the masses.

Religion and Government are Intertwined
Governments in fascist nations tend to use the most common religion in the nation as a tool to manipulate public opinion. Religious rhetoric and terminology is common from government leaders, even when the major t…

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 8d

every time you read a story about how no-strings-attached direct payments to vulnerable, marginalized or otherwise needy people are a big net profit to the society disbursing them, and you ask "why doesn't america do that?", please know that this is the answer why

mac from always sunny saying "but who versus? who are we doing it versus?" because he cannot understand a plan that does not have a victim

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Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 7d

I'm sorry this is crazy

CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 7d

Jack Posobiec explicitly says that "Antifa" dates back to the Weimar Republic, explicitly acknowledging that this administration is opposed to those who resisted the arrival of Adolf Hitler in Power.

A screenshot of C-Span showing Jack Posobiec speaking during a panel on "Antifa."

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 7d

The literal reading of this statement is Pam Bondi is planning extrajudicial executions of random protesters.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 7d

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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Talia "AFAB" Bhatt ♀︎♀︎ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 7d

"queer person has homophobic family"

Give it up Deelishis you look like a man..🧍🏾‍♂️ @blackranga.blacksky.app · 9d

Darin Chappell, who's a Missouri legislator actively pushing anti-trans laws, is her uncle. 🤎

Chappell Roan Declares She's “Voting for Fucking Kamala Harris” Following Backlash

Recent quotes about the 2024 election and “problems on both sides” of government had fans saying H-O-T-T-oh no and led to dual clarification videos from Roan.

www.vanityfair.com

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 8d

ICE is a hostile occupying force that is a danger to everyone.

Alt text: A man in camouflage clothing and a face covering sits inside a gray Jeep, pointing a weapon out of the open driver-side window. The gun is aimed directly at the camera. The man wears gloves and a dark cap, and his eyes are visible above the mask. The vehicle’s door and side mirror are wet with raindrops.

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Celebrimbor @celebrimbor.bsky.social · 10d

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Celebrimbor @celebrimbor.bsky.social · 11d

Everyone on the Brewers should be sent to Guantanamo.

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Meatball Rob @wrenispinkle.bsky.social · 10d

“I’m Mexican, I’ve tasted spicier”

protect him at all costs, Portland 🥹

competentposter @competentposter.bsky.social · 10d

Portland Frog updates about getting pepper sprayed in his fan intake 🐸🫡

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 11d

These people were enslaved as laborers for a call center soliciting church donations in case you’re wondering the exact level of where we went wrong as a human species

Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 11d

amp.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...

Raid of church leader’s Florida mansion reveals 57 forced laborers, feds say

The victims, called “armor bearers” by the church, are threatened with damnation if they fail to meet their quotas, federal officials say.

amp.miamiherald.com

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Marxist-Glonzoist @primaryschool.bsky.social · 11d

among the weirder Democratic tics is that it's unfair for their voters to have object permanence

Emoji Caresser @lizrummy.bsky.social · 11d

Wow, recalling my political history, and in a time of strife. Not a good look

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 11d

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 11d

The regime is acting this way because there are no consequences so it is clear that consequences—the development of them, the advocacy for them, the imposition on bad behavior—are the answer to our crisis.

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Peter Sterne @petersterne.com · 11d

Absolutely fascinating exchange on X between MAGA who support cops illegally brutalizing protesters and a self-described Christian conservative who objects.

Tweet: “In Donald Trump’s America, you can just bear mace shrill annoying women”

Attached is a video of an officer macing a woman unprovoked who was talking to him.

Tweet thread in which “TexasZachisBack” argues that the cop was in the wrong for macing someone who posed no threat to him, while others say that the protester got what they deserved because they were disrupting the officers’ efforts to restore order.

Tweet thread where otakugenarian argues that people like TexasZachisBack should only oppose the cops when “the other side” controls them but should support them when “our side controls them.”

TexasZachisBack insists he is a Christian conservative but doesn’t think police should abuse their power.

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 11d

How exactly is this different from Kristallnacht?

Kristina Cooke @kristinacooke.bsky.social · 12d

I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and all her possessions were gone.

Ted Hesson @tedhesson.bsky.social · 12d

US Border Patrol raid sweeps in citizens, families as Chicago crackdown intensifies, w/ @reneehickman.bsky.social @kristinacooke.bsky.social www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

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Celebrimbor @celebrimbor.bsky.social · 11d

It’s wild how decades of smug “AntiZionism is Antisemitism because 90% of Jews are Zionists, I know my own people’s beliefs better than you, Gentile” rhetoric has been utterly destroyed by one single WaPo poll.

Celebrimbor @celebrimbor.bsky.social · 11d

Respect where it’s due, Peralta pitched a great game.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 12d

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