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Atra Virago @lipsynclullaby.bsky.social · 9m

I stopped around the last election. They're just Jon Stewart in ensemble sketch form now.

Atra Virago @lipsynclullaby.bsky.social · 12m

Did they make any good Biden is old jokes? Or maybe this kid who likes Trump because of the "assassination attempt" got to use some slurs. People love that stuff!

Atra Virago @lipsynclullaby.bsky.social · 18h

Can’t believe people still watch SNL

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 10h

How Trump plays you:
He posts a claim undermining the facts about January 6.

YOU ALL DISSEMINATE IT!!!

You don't mock that he's complaining that the FBI responded to a terrorist attack. You instead "fact check" re his claim that Joe Biden was in charge of the FBI--which is abt tribalism, not truth

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Atra Virago @lipsynclullaby.bsky.social · 6h

No no! You see this is based on “the model” so it’s scientific! 😂

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Atra Virago @lipsynclullaby.bsky.social · 17h

Don’t forget basic math. POTUS elections are always a binary choice

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Michael Paulauski♨️ @mike10010100.com · 18h

The quick summary of what's happening here:

Online Leftists decided that some Big Strong Words were Fighting Back while others were just Strongly Worded Letters.

And now that the realities of how government work have come crashing down on their heads, they're throwing the opposition under the bus.

Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 22h

Please shut the hell up

Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 23h

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

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Atra Virago @lipsynclullaby.bsky.social · 18h

Can’t believe people still watch SNL

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Sick Hunt, Dracones @scalehelix.net · 18h

you don’t hate the media enough

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Atra Virago @lipsynclullaby.bsky.social · 18h

Yeah but if he wasn’t there writing think of all the measurable changes to our quality of life we’d miss out on

Atra Virago @lipsynclullaby.bsky.social · 21h

Been saying this too. And emphasize the Anti part to further distinguish from the pro- Fascists

Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 22h

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

Atra Virago @lipsynclullaby.bsky.social · 1d

Hunting is awful. I prefer birds to die en masse from climate change, or individually from building and airplane strikes, other birds, cars, feral cats, pollution, power lines, and habitat loss. So much easier because I can just look away and never notice! 😃

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Atra Virago @lipsynclullaby.bsky.social · 1d

We need some yard signs for your campaign! Same vibe as those "Presidents are temporary, Wu-Tang is forever" signs 😂

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Atra Virago @lipsynclullaby.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, we're a car-brained society. It's a huge piece of the economy and our culture. Thankful to live in a place with lots of protected bike lanes. But as a result, I also hear these kinds of ridiculous comments from certain neighbors. Everyone's got their conspiracy theories these days 😔

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Lisa Mikolajczyk ✡️ 🟦🏴‍☠️ @lisamikolajczyk.bsky.social · 1d

Ratfucking leftists are doing the same old shit with the oyster farmer in Maine, working to give Susan Collins another term.

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Atra Virago @lipsynclullaby.bsky.social · 1d

Immune to reality 🎯 A major problem that continues to grow. And it’s not just MAGA who live in their own world these days. So many bubbles. Hard to unify and organize in our increasingly fractured society.

digby @digby56.bsky.social · 1d

It's true. And they dismiss all evidence to the contrary. If you look at comments over on the hellsight (I don't recommend it) you will see that they think every video is fake and all testimony is lies. They are now fully immune to reality.

Roy Edroso @edroso.bsky.social · 1d

This is a flex.

He know his rubes will believe any shit he tells them and he wants to see how far he can take it.

Next week he'll tell them everyone in Portland lives in caves now and eats brontosaurus ribs like the Flintstones.

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Jason S @jasonswritings.bsky.social · 1d

I'm not going to kiss your ass because you're going to protest while everything you post on social media is taking down the only people trying to help us escape fascism. And they're doing a lot more than you are so fuck off.

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Maudi63 @maudi63.bsky.social · 1d

I saw some people scoffing at the notion that this woman was actually a Trumper when her tweet kissing his ass yesterday meant what many of us thought it did, which led to me posting about deleting my congratulatory post about her. Well, here 👇 you go. You can stop defending her now.

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 1d

Ugh.

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 1d

They like what Trump is doing, this really isn't hard. It's not both-sideism, it's running cover for the regime by choice in order to reach a desired outcome. Can we please stop cutting this institution slack it does not deserve?

David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 1d

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.

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Atra Virago @lipsynclullaby.bsky.social · 1d

It’s obviously how they got so wealthy and powerful in the first place

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 1d

not only that, but when Dems do get organized and pay creators who are pushing aligned content, all of a sudden it becomes an attack line against them. meanwhile Russia literally pays conservative commentators and they are cool with it

Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 2d

Charlie Kirk was a terrible person, but his prowess at organizing was astonishing.

Democrats, progressive and moderate, are using tactics from the 1970s.

Republicans spend hundreds of millions on networking, jobs, and outreach every year. Democrats waste their money on obsolete stuff.

flux.community @flux.community · 2d

Charlie Kirk was a religious extremist and an advocate for mass censorship of academics he hated.

But as a political organizer and creator of opportunities for his comrades, there's much that can be learned from what he did. @matthewboedy.bsky.social discusses on the latest Theory of Change

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Sick Hunt, Dracones @scalehelix.net · 1d

it’s not about who watches CBS, it’s about the push notifications and news app headlines twenty million of the dumbest people in the country consume on their phones by accident

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Atra Virago @lipsynclullaby.bsky.social · 1d

It's also built on the lie that Dems are "doing nothing" and asking not to be criticized. These people just want a quick fix. It's a panic reaction to what we're all dealing with now.

a girl in a red sweater says " i want it now "

ALT: a girl in a red sweater says " i want it now "

media.tenor.com

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 2d

75K+ people follow this person on here for insights like “maybe the solution to our problems politically is for Charles Schumer to imprison Donald Trump physically in a dungeon.”

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Atra Virago @lipsynclullaby.bsky.social · 1d

This is triggering for us dishwasher loading control freaks 😱

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Atra Virago @lipsynclullaby.bsky.social · 2d

The best measurable output of any post is the replies and their general sentiment. This is just today's bait for the endless "yeah the Dems I don't like are inept and/or corrupt" messaging.

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