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ComradeCalifornia, Socialist Archmage🏳️‍⚧️🏴🚩 @comradecalifornia.bsky.social · 16h

Taft-Hartley is one of the most obviously unconstitutional pieces of legislation ever bought by the owner-class.
The Mayor of Chicago, in calling for a National Strike to fight back against the Trump regime, is absolutely correct.
If liberals truly want nonviolent opposition to Trump this is it.

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ComradeCalifornia, Socialist Archmage🏳️‍⚧️🏴🚩 @comradecalifornia.bsky.social · 2d

Well, No Kings doing well in San Diego. 😁

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ComradeCalifornia, Socialist Archmage🏳️‍⚧️🏴🚩 @comradecalifornia.bsky.social · 4d

So JD “The Couchfucker” Vance’s answer to The Young Republicans pro-Hitler messages is, “That’s what kids do.”

You know, I remember my teens, and 20’s, and my 30’s. You know what I never, ever said?
Literally anything good about Hitler. Like, never.
Which kinda makes you wonder about JD’s youth.🤔

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ComradeCalifornia, Socialist Archmage🏳️‍⚧️🏴🚩 @comradecalifornia.bsky.social · 5d

So The Young Republicans are quite literally just fascist fan boys of Adolf Hitler.
But we’re meant to believe “Antifa” are the bad guys.

And the Democrats still want to pretend the old status quo was great? That mealy mouthed neoliberal capitalism didn’t bring us to this point?

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ComradeCalifornia, Socialist Archmage🏳️‍⚧️🏴🚩 @comradecalifornia.bsky.social · 6d

Could someone show me the text in the First Amendment that made an exception for criticism of lying, racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, jingoistic religious bigots?
Because I’m pretty certain there’s no exception regarding Charlie Kirk, specifically.

US revokes visas for 6 foreigners over Charlie Kirk-related speech

The Trump administration has revoked the visas of six foreigners deemed by U.S. officials to have made derisive comments or made light of the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk last m...

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ComradeCalifornia, Socialist Archmage🏳️‍⚧️🏴🚩 @comradecalifornia.bsky.social · 6d

The core division in the United States right now, is essentially a schism between those who have faith in the future, and those who have faith in the past. Progress, versus regress.
And there is no reconciliation. No compromise between democracy and hierarchy.
The time to separate has come.

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ComradeCalifornia, Socialist Archmage🏳️‍⚧️🏴🚩 @comradecalifornia.bsky.social · 6d

It’s worth mentioning that the coverage about the Israeli hostages being released makes no mention about Israel stopping its campaign of genocide against Palestine.

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ComradeCalifornia, Socialist Archmage🏳️‍⚧️🏴🚩 @comradecalifornia.bsky.social · 8d

Why do conservatives hate and fear the “No Kings” protests?

Because they _want_ a king, obviously. Oh, not in name, no, but in practice?
Absolutely.
They want a rigidly hierarchical society, because even if they aren’t individually at the top, they expect to have power over _someone_.

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ComradeCalifornia, Socialist Archmage🏳️‍⚧️🏴🚩 @comradecalifornia.bsky.social · 8d

Here’s a handy checklist, for everyone worried about Left Wing Extremism.

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ComradeCalifornia, Socialist Archmage🏳️‍⚧️🏴🚩 @comradecalifornia.bsky.social · 14d

It’s pretty damn obvious that Trump is desperate to have some sort of “win” on the foreign policy front, in addition to wanting so damn badly to secure the Nobel.
That’s why he’s trying to “solve” Gaza. That, and he’s hoping it will save the midterms for him.
The backlash is coming.
He’s scared.

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ComradeCalifornia, Socialist Archmage🏳️‍⚧️🏴🚩 @comradecalifornia.bsky.social · 18d

So the Republicans - who currently control all three branches of government - cannot govern, and we are to believe it is, somehow, the fault of the Democrats.

The next Republican who whines about ‘personal responsibility,’ is getting a big mug of stfu juice.
Incompetent fascist clown shoes.

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ComradeCalifornia, Socialist Archmage🏳️‍⚧️🏴🚩 @comradecalifornia.bsky.social · 19d

Michigan’s pending legislation HB4938 is nothing less than a deliberate attempt to erase trans people from the internet.

Why else include language that expressly forbids trans people from presenting ourselves? From discussing our experiences?

This how genocide begins.
With silencing.

ComradeCalifornia, Socialist Archmage🏳️‍⚧️🏴🚩 @comradecalifornia.bsky.social · 19d

When Republicans object to being called Nazis, ask them why they are trying to exterminate trans people.
I repeat, it didn’t begin with gas chambers and mass graves. It began with dehumanization and erasure. Then deportations. Then “labor camps”.
The genocide was where it ended.

US Bill Threatens to Ban Trans People Online

YouTube video by EssenceOfThought

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ComradeCalifornia, Socialist Archmage🏳️‍⚧️🏴🚩 @comradecalifornia.bsky.social · 20d

I’ve decided that when Trump’s Gestapo turn up in my neighborhood, I’m going out in a blaze of glory. Complete 80’s action movie nonsense.

ComradeCalifornia, Socialist Archmage🏳️‍⚧️🏴🚩 @comradecalifornia.bsky.social · 23d

“Bad apples?”
Johanna, you’re being naive.
This what they are. This is what they want. This is what they’re doing. Now. In real time.

Auschwitz stated as a “labor camp.”

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ComradeCalifornia, Socialist Archmage🏳️‍⚧️🏴🚩 @comradecalifornia.bsky.social · 23d

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ComradeCalifornia, Socialist Archmage🏳️‍⚧️🏴🚩 @comradecalifornia.bsky.social · 23d

Please remember that it didn’t start with gas, ovens, and mass graves.
The gates of Auschwitz read, “Arbeit Macht Frei.”

It was a “labor camp.”
“Work makes you free.”

They said they wanted to eliminate us. That’s what they’re doing.

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 23d

ICE is doing forced labor and sexual assault of transgender people in their detention centers, reads a new complaint.

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ComradeCalifornia, Socialist Archmage🏳️‍⚧️🏴🚩 @comradecalifornia.bsky.social · 23d

Please remember that it didn’t start with gas, ovens, and mass graves.
The gates of Auschwitz read, “Arbeit Macht Frei.”

It was a “labor camp.”
“Work makes you free.”

They said they wanted to eliminate us. That’s what they’re doing.

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 23d

ICE is doing forced labor and sexual assault of transgender people in their detention centers, reads a new complaint.

ICE Warden Put Transgender Detainees into Forced Labor Program: Complaint

A federal complaint accuses the warden of creating an ad hoc work program used to demean trans detainees.

www.newsweek.com

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ComradeCalifornia, Socialist Archmage🏳️‍⚧️🏴🚩 @comradecalifornia.bsky.social · 23d

I see Trump is still suffering from the ego burn he got in Portland.
Now he’s decided to deploy troops, since having his secret police black bag citizens off the street didn’t prove sufficiently intimidating.
This is what fascism looks like, folks.
Fight, or get used to being slaves.

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ComradeCalifornia, Socialist Archmage🏳️‍⚧️🏴🚩 @comradecalifornia.bsky.social · 24d

A comment I posted, to a YouTube short I encountered, basically wondering about the way the regime is gutting STEM.
Link: youtu.be/EW0TeVcOd6w?...

ComradeCalifornia, Socialist Archmage🏳️‍⚧️🏴🚩 @comradecalifornia.bsky.social · 24d

I was immediately suspicious when I first heard the phrase “dynamic pricing,” with the pathetically thin excuse that it would save customers money.
Here we have the _actual_ motivation.
Surveillance pricing; companies using our data to _increase_ prices based on guesses about income.

Corporations have found a NEW way to rip you off | ft. @consumerreports

YouTube video by More Perfect Union

youtube.com

ComradeCalifornia, Socialist Archmage🏳️‍⚧️🏴🚩 @comradecalifornia.bsky.social · 26d

Just checking in.
Who else didn’t get raptured?
Do we have a plan for filling the jobs no longer occupied by the chosen faithful of Abraham’s god?
I mean we know Hollywood is fine, but, like, could I replace Mike Johnson?

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ComradeCalifornia, Socialist Archmage🏳️‍⚧️🏴🚩 @comradecalifornia.bsky.social · Sep 18

For the record, declaring that anti fascism is terrorism, makes it very clear that you’re a fascist.
#antifa
#trump

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ComradeCalifornia, Socialist Archmage🏳️‍⚧️🏴🚩 @comradecalifornia.bsky.social · Sep 16

Actually, I would propose a swap-relocation program.
Individuals and families from each new nation-state can swap places. Then, any person(s) stuck in Murica can be resettled into the UDAS w/ housing & jobs, and any remaining fascists can be rounded up and expelled over the rivers to Murica.

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ComradeCalifornia, Socialist Archmage🏳️‍⚧️🏴🚩 @comradecalifornia.bsky.social · Sep 16

So MTG is proposing to break up the Union again.
It makes me nauseous, but I find myself agreeing. You can’t force two completely opposed groups (fascists and humans) to remain in community.
So, allow me to make a proposal.

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ComradeCalifornia, Socialist Archmage🏳️‍⚧️🏴🚩 @comradecalifornia.bsky.social · Sep 15

@fernlove.bond
Little present for ya. ;)

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