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finny @finnyfinny.bsky.social · 18h

i don't know whether to explain that platner is the sanders-backed anti-establishment pick, or to play along and and suggest mills as the outsider, unabashedly pro-trans choice to stick it to the shitlibs

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 1d

Liberals when candidates defend trans people: "We can't do this, it's too unpopular."

Liberals when candidates have a nazi ss tattoo: "it's ok, not all candidates are perfect."

Do y'all hear yourselves?!

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finny @finnyfinny.bsky.social · 18h

it'd be really funny if not for the diverse coalition of white dudes coming out to bat for a racist misogynistic shithead with a nazi tattoo.

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finny @finnyfinny.bsky.social · 18h

i think there is a collection of not-quite-online-enough leftists who missed the memo on backing platner, see the psa guy/bulwark/whoever else besides bernie throwing support toward mr. nazi tattoo, and reflexively blame liberals.

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finny @finnyfinny.bsky.social · 1d

i feel like this could be mapped alongside the rise of ntr/cuckold memes and the intense rise of online male insecurity

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finny @finnyfinny.bsky.social · 1d

it's not just progressives though. it's podcast bros, it's the bulwark, it's common defense, it's a whole goddamn coalition of mediocre white men trying to live vicariously through this ~working class~ edgelord white dude, demanding he be given a chance while never extending that grace to others.

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finny @finnyfinny.bsky.social · 1d

coalition of the mediocre white men

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finny @finnyfinny.bsky.social · 1d

nah, at this point it should be perfectly clear that that reasoning is cover for the fact that the lefties & nazis share highly reactionary sentiment, so the leftists are, in fact, more comfortable around nazis than your standard democrat.

finny @finnyfinny.bsky.social · 1d

It's all cut from the same anti-intellectual cloth.

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I Nied to drink your blood! 🧛 @nied.bsky.social · 1d

It's genuinely wild that people looked at a movement that hollowed out an entire party's ability to make policy, & made it ripe for a takeover by a grifter who's now destroying the country for his own enrichment, & enthusiastically said "yeah we should do THAT!"

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finny @finnyfinny.bsky.social · 1d

it's incredible that folks can't look at the slew of other oppo that dropped even before the nazi tattoo thing, and consider that, as bad as the nazi tattoo is, there could be even worse skeletons hiding in this dude's closet. like imagine if some spicy discord chat logs drop.

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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 1d

"Demand better candidates!"

"...can we have one without a Nazi tattoo?

"Oh fuck off with your purity tests"

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finny @finnyfinny.bsky.social · 1d

How DARE you suggest that the edgelord white dude with zero political background and experience isn't owed a golden ticket to candidacy as the dem nominee for the Maine senate race? How DARE you suggest that being a straight white guy and a former internet shitposter isn't qualifying enough?!

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finny @finnyfinny.bsky.social · 1d

The whole thing stinks of a leftist version of cancel culture backlash, where a bunch of mediocre white dudes identify with him and through that become enraged that people have the gall to criticize one of their own.

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finny @finnyfinny.bsky.social · 1d

People keep bringing up parasocial relationships but, like you say, this guy was a total nobody until recently. This whole thing is striking a deeper nerve, there is zero reason for people to be so vested in some asshole with a nazi tattoo.

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finny @finnyfinny.bsky.social · 2d

this kind of dipshit bothsidesism is actually making me pine for decades past when "getting a nazi tattoo (accidentally?)" was an unambiguously career-ending fuckup that merited no further discussion. There really is no bottom for the horseshoe left.

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finny @finnyfinny.bsky.social · 28d

+1

finny @finnyfinny.bsky.social · 29d

the fundamentally erotic relationship between parents and their kids

...hmm, feels like this thought nugget could use some time in the workshop

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finny @finnyfinny.bsky.social · Sep 21

clearly this is quoting one of cooler's victory lines from budokai 3

clearly

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finny @finnyfinny.bsky.social · Sep 19

plus they'd be more interested in infighting and purity testing eachother than accomplishing anything of consequence anyway. 10,000 andor-referencing generic liberals and wine moms are infinitely more productive.

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finny @finnyfinny.bsky.social · Sep 15

the pro-palestine/anti-ukraine types are rarely _genuinely_ pro-palestine; usually it's just a vector to criticize perceived opponents.

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finny @finnyfinny.bsky.social · Sep 8

when i die, bury me in an ahegao coffin

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finny @finnyfinny.bsky.social · Sep 5

Republicans being the party of straight white men is *why* they're privileged as the default party that others are expected to bend to.

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finny @finnyfinny.bsky.social · Sep 1

specifically, they don't want *other people* to know, so they drown out any actual dem messaging with "lol dems aren't doing anything"

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finny @finnyfinny.bsky.social · Aug 29

tbh, with the surge of violent misogyny & intense divorced energy on the right nowadays, i'm afraid to consider how that kind of messaging could backfire

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finny @finnyfinny.bsky.social · Jul 30

Yup, she did an incredible job of self sabatoge for someone who was looking like a serious contender for 2028.

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