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Eoin Ó Broin @greenkerfuffle.bsky.social · 10h

I have a dear friend who despises Amélie for reasons I still don’t fully understand and I love to needle him with the fact it’s the same director because for some reason it has never even been so much as pushed by a venue as “from the director of beloved cult hit Amélie”

Eoin Ó Broin @greenkerfuffle.bsky.social · 10h

That’s probably the best exposure City of Lost Children ever got

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Eoin Ó Broin @greenkerfuffle.bsky.social · 23h

This is an odd distinction to make. Both the concepts “how to organize” and “what you are organizing to do” are theory, regardless of whether you get them from a book or a teacher

Eoin Ó Broin @greenkerfuffle.bsky.social · 1d

Vile as they are LC has never much tried to conceal that they will defend every dimension of liberalism, even the noxious and evil parts that everyone else despises. Their readers ignore this for their own reasons/inadequacies

Eoin Ó Broin @greenkerfuffle.bsky.social · 1d

A lot of people are trying to point out that both could be true, but that misses the point Liberal Currents is (always) making: that it is only okay to manage wealth and capital, and never to attack either

Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 1d

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money

Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Eoin Ó Broin @greenkerfuffle.bsky.social · 1d

Probably one of the most consequential things the GOP did after Bush and the Dems couldn’t even be bothered to hold a grudge against the people that did it

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Eoin Ó Broin @greenkerfuffle.bsky.social · 4d

That’s really what you have to resort to to feel worthwhile in your sad little world

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Eoin Ó Broin @greenkerfuffle.bsky.social · 4d

In ten years someone like Niemoller is going to write a poem like “first they came for the communists, and I filmed them and tried to record their badge numbers but they covered them up.”

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Eoin Ó Broin @greenkerfuffle.bsky.social · 4d

For a little while there it really did seem like everyone wanted people to understand and relate to each other, and that to do so was to become a better world

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Eoin Ó Broin @greenkerfuffle.bsky.social · 4d

It sucks that you don’t have someone in your life who can gently tell you to stop talking when you embarrass yourself like this

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Emoji Caresser @lizrummy.bsky.social · 5d

Mohammad Alsaafin
@malsaafin

The desert prison where Israel is holding the flotilla activists is called
Ketziot. Known for torture and abuse, it's also where Jeffrey Goldberg -
current editor of The Atlantic magazine - volunteered as a prison guard in the 80s when he left the US to serve in the Israeli army.

11:08 am . 5 Oct 2025 . 197.8K Views

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Eoin Ó Broin @greenkerfuffle.bsky.social · 6d

Actually Tom’s point is that he is a devoted Republican and a racist who is trying to smuggle his racist ideas into left-liberal spaces

willem defriend @reallygoodclick.bsky.social · 6d

I believe Tom's point is that MAGA and Trump are fascists, their world view is fascist, but the US govt is not a consolidated, consummate, fascism regime. It's current status is probably a competitive authoritarian government, or at least backsliding rapidly into that category 6 mo's in

Eoin Ó Broin @greenkerfuffle.bsky.social · 7d

I just think it’s important to point out that protecting left wing people should not come second to finding common cause with right wing people. That’s the calculation moderates make and it causes problems

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Eoin Ó Broin @greenkerfuffle.bsky.social · 8d

Left wing organizers for instance are still routinely raided by moderate unions, who then often conspicuously fail to act when those left wing organizers are fired for union activity

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Eoin Ó Broin @greenkerfuffle.bsky.social · 8d

And that sucks, all wage labor being exploitation and all that, but it is not the same thing that left wing radicals experience in organizing or America in general

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Eoin Ó Broin @greenkerfuffle.bsky.social · 8d

Right but like that’s because they are able to talk like that without facing repression from the state, the business, and even the union like left-wing radicals always do

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Eoin Ó Broin @greenkerfuffle.bsky.social · 8d

You should keep it up with this stuff, I hear there are two or three people around who don’t know how conceited and stupid you are yet

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Eoin Ó Broin @greenkerfuffle.bsky.social · 8d

Does that imply that shippers are woke? Because if so I might have to switch sides

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Eoin Ó Broin @greenkerfuffle.bsky.social · 8d

This is a shockingly naive thing to say. Anyone looking more than one month ahead can plainly see the deskilling and cognitive decline of AI users makes them a liability to any company in any field. They are going to be culled en masse as soon as the hype dies

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Eoin Ó Broin @greenkerfuffle.bsky.social · 8d

That question is not relevant to the speech act being discussed, but your sea-lioning about it is also homophobic, of course

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Eoin Ó Broin @greenkerfuffle.bsky.social · 8d

Being homophobic is not a good thing to be dismissive about

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Eoin Ó Broin @greenkerfuffle.bsky.social · 8d

This is always a funny attempt at a gotcha. Not only are you being straightforwardly homophobic, but also many men do in fact say dude when talking to the women they have sex with

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Eoin Ó Broin @greenkerfuffle.bsky.social · 9d

“Have you banned this person who spreads hate speech” is not an off topic response when the topic is content moderation and if you think it is you are too stupid to be involved in content moderation

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Eoin Ó Broin @greenkerfuffle.bsky.social · 10d

Installing new gas appliances is mutually exclusive with addressing climate change

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Eoin Ó Broin @greenkerfuffle.bsky.social · 11d

Sure he just made it kindergarten plain that every one of us is maybe-criminally full of shit but my god have you seen those subscriber numbers