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Art Demon @incubusintraining.bsky.social · 3h

Fucking agreed. So many times. So many times in the last few fucking years I've had people tell me citizens have no responsibility for unfavorable outcomes in our system.

It's bullshit.

There is no way for citizens in a republic to abdicate their responsibilities.

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 3h

CBS reporter Edward R. Murrow embodied what a journalist should be: someone who holds power to account instead of capitulating to it.

Over 70 years later, his segment denouncing Joe McCarthy’s congressional witch hunts rings truer than ever.

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Democrats In Array Thanks Joe Biden @demsinarray.bsky.social · 5h

Everyone who told you to support John Fetterman in that primary, is now telling you to support an ex-Blackwater mercenary with no voting record in the Maine primary.

When are you going to catch on?

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Art Demon @incubusintraining.bsky.social · 4h

I agree. But if the metaphor fits Imma use it.

Art Demon @incubusintraining.bsky.social · 5h

Anime has this niche pretty handled but you've gotta wade through a LOT of schlock isekai to get the gems.

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Art Demon @incubusintraining.bsky.social · 16h

Neither Metsi or Mina can handle knots well at all.

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LoS Draws 🔞 @monsterfucker.bsky.social · 16h

Good morning my monsterfuckers! (I am late!)

Is your character good at tying knots?

Luka can do basic knots, especially small ones when she makes sutures

Jas knows working knots, from his time as a soldier

Garret, former pirate, KNOWS knots

He demonstrates his knowledge to Seth (consentually) 😈

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Daemon Primarch MetaBlueSky ♨️ @metabluesky.bsky.social · 16h

It also conveniently overlooks the British Empire and the Bengal Famine and the USSR and its slave labor camps, with Vorkuta and Kolyma death camps in all but the narrowest technicalities. Stalin having his own death camps never seems to weigh on judgments of Russians for some reason.

escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 20h

None of this excuses the very real societal issues the US of 1939-1945 had, at all, of course, but the idea we were a nation with a Secret Nazi majority based on the above points when we *saddled up and made an entire industry of turning Nazis into Incredibly Dead Nazis* is just TBI-territory wrong.

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Sasho Todorov @sashotodorov.bsky.social · 18h

Like, "congressman decides to give up everything special about his individual office" is the kind of thing that no system can either predict or prevent.

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Sasho Todorov @sashotodorov.bsky.social · 18h

And the whole failure point is that the system had a ton of backstops built in against demagoguery, but none of them work if the people in said backstops all decide to surrender all of their personal power to the king.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 18h

Fundamentally, there is no on-the-page institutional structure that can protect you from an absence of virtue among the citizenry.

That's just where we are - voters have learned a lot of bad habits. A lot of people thought they could vote MAGA again and it wouldn't matter; bad habits.

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Alissa McLean @alissakmclean.bsky.social · 21d

All the same rubes who refused to listen to us when we warned them about Fetterman are now salivating about Blackwater mercenary Graham Platner in ME.

Stop it!

two cats are sitting next to each other on a bed looking at each other .

ALT: two cats are sitting next to each other on a bed looking at each other .

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Art Demon @incubusintraining.bsky.social · 19h

If you tell someone "you're doing it wrong" long enough it doesn't take long for them to go into a defensive crouch and never want to try anything.

I kind of hate describing Dems as a battered spouse but there are lots of times it feels apt

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Art Demon @incubusintraining.bsky.social · 19h

Though I'm feeling this is astroturfed on some fucking level.

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Art Demon @incubusintraining.bsky.social · 19h

Same. It was always coming. And people wonder why Dems are so cautious. It's because of shit like this and feeling like if there's EVER any misstep fuckers abandon them.

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Daemon Primarch MetaBlueSky ♨️ @metabluesky.bsky.social · 19h

They're not, actually, under his command because of how that works. If you need a primer on that you should be easily able to find it. Or you can just look for excuses to enable the next Trump victory and pretend you're not doing it like you Leftists have done twice.

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Kelly Jelly 🪼 @kellybdevoe.bsky.social · 19h

People are just making shit up now, like he hasn’t been a wonderfully effective governor of Illinois for half a decade now

I know you don’t care about Chicago, but you should really stop

Charlotte Moore-Lambert @charlottereads.com · 19h

people watching this are like “I’m so disappointed in Pritzker” whoa whoa whoa what do you mean another liberal white male Savior of the Month shouted good-sounding words into cameras long enough to make this all about him before quietly going back to doing cop shit

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 22h

Note: it's not even curfew yet.

State police just started pushing people off the business park corner. Here in the road, a brave group of demonstrators are attempting to hold their line.

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Art Demon @incubusintraining.bsky.social · 19h

Agreed. And something else here that has me seething is that Netanyahu could've done this at any point but people forget how much he and Trump colluded to make the problem worse to cause massive harm to Palestinians and to help Trump win.

And SO many people just pretend otherwise.

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Jonathan Bernstein @jonathanbernstein.bsky.social · 1d

I know people are dedicated to believing that Dems are ignoring everything important, but nevertheless there are two Senate Democrats doing their jobs. Just as the state's governor has, and many other Dem politicians around the nation.

No, they're not perfect, but they just aren't the problem.

Senator Dick Durbin @durbin.senate.gov · 1d

We’re outside of the Broadview ICE facility.

It’s clearer than ever before.

What’s happening in Illinois is an unprecedented, unlawful abuse of power.

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Kelly Jelly 🪼 @kellybdevoe.bsky.social · 21h

It’s bad that pundits from Philadelphia and not Illinois do this

You want online leftist clout. You have no idea who the man is

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 22h

I saw myself as maybe all in for J.B. Pritzker

But I am losing faith, rapidly.

Police state fascism in America is bigger than Trump. It's backed by Democrats just like Republicans. And it's not going anywhere

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 22h

Note: it's not even curfew yet.

State police just started pushing people off the business park corner. Here in the road, a brave group of demonstrators are attempting to hold their line.

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Kelly Jelly 🪼 @kellybdevoe.bsky.social · 21h

I’ve been worried about this for awhile, they are gonna turn him into a Newsom and that’s not true. You just have a baby brain

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Kelly Jelly 🪼 @kellybdevoe.bsky.social · 21h

I knew this would happen on this site though. A bunch of socialists make Pritzker their savior for dumb reasons, then immediately dispose of him when he can’t make the fascism go away immediately

This is what leftists and socialists do

Alexandra 🍸🍸 @nycbubbles.bsky.social · 21h

The same thing will happen to anyone growing in popularity who might threaten their own candidates/agendas. It is a terrible game certain pundits & factions play, regardless of the dangers to oppressed communities. Performative nonsense that can currently put real lives at risk. Selfish & Stupid.🍸

a woman says so you 're doing this for you on netflix

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Vyria Durav, Dragon Princess of the Night @vyriadurav.bsky.social · 1d

I'd play this game to appreciate a badass woman with a grounded and sensible design. They want to warp her into the same look as a message. It's not even that they're hyper attracted to this look even. It's signalling to the boys that you got your sex object, not signalling attraction

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Vyria Durav, Dragon Princess of the Night @vyriadurav.bsky.social · 1d

People will try to excuse/defend the chuds by saying they've just watched too much porn but I'm a dyke who watches porn all the time and don't have this problem. Chuds do this because forcing every woman into their ideal sex doll aesthetic is the power fantasy.

Ana Valens | 🔞 | Comms Open @acvalens.net · 2d

Gamers’ brains are so cooked dude. The woman on the right is gorgeous and beautiful. Straight gamer men literally can’t find normal women attractive anymore.

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Art Demon @incubusintraining.bsky.social · 21h

nonsense arguments from grand regent thragg.

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Art Demon @incubusintraining.bsky.social · 21h

You see what I'm fucking dealing with?

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