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mrcase77.bsky.social @mrcase77.bsky.social · 16h

Words cannot express how much I hope Greta Thunberg wins it

mrcase77.bsky.social @mrcase77.bsky.social · 16h

George W Bush would like a word

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mrcase77.bsky.social @mrcase77.bsky.social · 16h

Elon Musk gave the country a good look at that with Doge when his kids vibe coded their way to confusing millions of dollars with billions of dollars. Repeatedly. Proudly. Publicly

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mrcase77.bsky.social @mrcase77.bsky.social · 16h

Remember that one time Elon Musk hired inexperienced unqualified teenagers to vibe code and they produced financial numbers that were several orders of magnitude wrong? For financial numbers where fractions of pennies matter? I’m sure that’s unrelated to this idea. It’s work great

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mrcase77.bsky.social @mrcase77.bsky.social · 16h

They lied. Same way they lie about following the teachings of Jesus while following literally none of the teachings of Jesus. Same way they’ve lied for decades about wanting to balance budgets while spiking the budget every time they have power. Watch what conservatives do, not what they say.

mrcase77.bsky.social @mrcase77.bsky.social · 17h

I think a major lesson of this year is we need a Teddy Roosevelt style monopoly busting. For all the same reasons and honestly worse than why they had to do it the first time. Too few people own too much and they’re using it to attack democracy

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mrcase77.bsky.social @mrcase77.bsky.social · 17h

This is what I’m saying. The same Larry Ellison Trump is trying to give control of TikTok. None of which says good things about Larry Ellison given Trump likes him apparently

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mrcase77.bsky.social @mrcase77.bsky.social · 1d

Isn’t cnn being purchased by an oligarch? Thats likely just a coincidence I’m sure

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mrcase77.bsky.social @mrcase77.bsky.social · 1d

That’s like saying “my bookstore can only survive if I’m able to walk into Barnes and Noble and steal all of their books”. That’s not a legitimate business model. It’s theft

mrcase77.bsky.social @mrcase77.bsky.social · 1d

Which is ominous if it really is a bubble. Cause….good chance it is

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mrcase77.bsky.social @mrcase77.bsky.social · 1d

We seriously need to normalize letting Republicans learn to regulate their own feelings and moderate their own media consumption for themselves like adults. It shouldn’t be everyone else’s problem that Republicans don’t like women, brown people, and gay people

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mrcase77.bsky.social @mrcase77.bsky.social · 1d

This is a preview of what will happen if we don’t fire Mike Johnson as speaker next year. Republicans need to be fired. The ones who were decent people already left the party

mrcase77.bsky.social @mrcase77.bsky.social · 2d

They’re making all these threats to crack down on groups that aren’t committing violence at all. All the violence is coming from MAGA over the last year or two at least.

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mrcase77.bsky.social @mrcase77.bsky.social · 2d

Oh, it’s pretty clear you’re saying Islam is not so much the factor as being right wing is. My point is if you look at the Trump era, white Christian nationalism and and MAGA (but I repeat myself) is probably 95% of it. So, the people complaining about the violence are the ones doing it all

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mrcase77.bsky.social @mrcase77.bsky.social · 2d

It’s not both sides. It’s MAGA and that’s also largely because of Donald Trump. He’s been pushing violence his entire political career. Meanwhile, Kash Patel fired the people who’d been monitoring domestic terrorism.

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mrcase77.bsky.social @mrcase77.bsky.social · 2d

Let’s be real. If you changed the scale from 2016 to today, Islamist wouldn’t be a blip if you’re talking American violence. In the last year, every single one of these major shootings (with the exception of Luigi) has been either someone who IS a Trumper or someone who was a Trumper in the past

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mrcase77.bsky.social @mrcase77.bsky.social · 2d

I think the food we actually consume was coming largely from Mexico and Canada. There was food from like California and Florida and Ron DeSantis and Stephen Miller racisted their workforce away there

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mrcase77.bsky.social @mrcase77.bsky.social · 2d

My understanding is these were people farming unholy amounts of soy and corn that was getting shipped overseas. The reason they’re tanking is because Donald Trump destroyed their markets. China’s refusing their stuff and Elon Musk destroyed USAID to avoid fraud investigations. Am I wrong there?

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mrcase77.bsky.social @mrcase77.bsky.social · 6d

They need to be reminded early and often that “I was just following orders” ain’t gonna cut it later

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mrcase77.bsky.social @mrcase77.bsky.social · 9d

How would he? He was a mid level national guard officer long ago. There’s a reason everyone said bubba’s unqualified

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mrcase77.bsky.social @mrcase77.bsky.social · 9d

Is it relevant right now to remember Pete was a lower level officer in the National Guard and he’s speaking to career military? That seems relevant to remember. Something something Dunning-Kruger

mrcase77.bsky.social @mrcase77.bsky.social · 9d

To be fair, the world had known that for a decade. White evangelicals are who still haven’t gotten that memo. Everyone else knows and has known since 2015 or longer

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mrcase77.bsky.social @mrcase77.bsky.social · 10d

Yeah, BioWare is dead now. Which is sad. The sportsball games I do t care about. BioWare being owned by fascists is sad

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mrcase77.bsky.social @mrcase77.bsky.social · 10d

Well, this is awful. Ea was already evil

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mrcase77.bsky.social @mrcase77.bsky.social · 10d

We really should normalize having more people not respect or care about what JK Rowling says. Her opinion is about as valuable as Rosanne Barr’s at this point.

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