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Damien Harrison @slaymo.bsky.social · 2d

The vast majority of those convicted at Nuremburg WERE sentenced to hanging (only Goring avoided this by committing suicide) - so, technically, Nuremburg does fit your prescribed justice perfectly well.

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Damien Harrison @slaymo.bsky.social · 2d

But whoo boy are they gonna experience the power of bottom up movements as people coalesce in opposition to fascism. Which is just now beginning to snowball. An avalanche is coming.

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Damien Harrison @slaymo.bsky.social · 2d

The Christo-fascists running America don't understand 'bottom up' cultural dynamics and like anyone who doesn't understand how the world works they subscribe to conspiracy theories which fit their limited worldview.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 2d

What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.

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André Brett @drdrehistorian.bsky.social · 2d

Good example of how question phrasing influences your outcome. If, say, you replaced the raw numbers of net migrants and permanent intake with their proportion of Australia's total population, which are 1.14% and 0.67%, I promise you the support for reducing migration would not be this high

Kevin Bonham @kevinbonham.bsky.social · 2d

#ResolvePM This question if correctly quoted is unsatisfactory; its results should be ignored. Presents one side of the debate only, and also refers to L-NP reducing immigration when it is not the government and there is no way yet of knowing when or if it again will be.

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 24d

this exists it is called thinking

Matthew McConaughey says he wants a private LLM, fed only with his books, notes, journals, and aspirations, so he can ask it questions and get answers based solely on that information, without any outside influence.

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Lisa Needham @snipy.bsky.social · 25d

Ah yes, the well-known “too high a percentage of stories” exception to First Amendment protection.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25d

Trump: "When 97% of the stories are bad about a person, that's no longer free speech."

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Sean Howe @seanhowe.bsky.social · 27d

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Geneva 🇨🇦 @geneva1111.bsky.social · 27d

"one of the most absurd"

The entire regime is a theatre of the absurd 🎭

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Damien Harrison @slaymo.bsky.social · 28d

Now Robert Redford will see me when I'm 'in flagrante delicto' - this is worse than when a grandma dies.

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Damien Harrison @slaymo.bsky.social · Sep 7

I take it you're unaware of the issue of Hitler worship in India? It's a big problem, swastikas adorn shopfronts there everywhere. It's likely she believes the same thing JD does.

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Damien Harrison @slaymo.bsky.social · Sep 2

Yep.....100%

uquiz.com/quiz/64v0cF/...

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · Aug 31

Okay. I just came back to this and you aren’t calling these efforts resegregation yet, you absolutely should be

A screenshot from the New York Time reads: nytimes #
Black women lost 319,000 jobs between February and July of this year, the only major female demographic to experience significant job losses during this five-month period.
White men saw the largest job increase - 365,000 - among groups.
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Will L @willl.bsky.social · Aug 31

Eating at a Chinese restaurant in Sydney (I assume pre-protest)🤦🏻‍♂️

Screenshot of /r/sydney post about anti-immgration protestors eating at a Chinese restaurant with Aussie flags.

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Damien Harrison @slaymo.bsky.social · Aug 31

Yes, this is literally eugenics - the very core of Nazi ideology.

alice says Palestinians in Gaza aren’t scammers! @bluwhalien.bsky.social · Aug 31

As a disabled person: this is a terrible take. Eugenics and fascism have always gone hand in hand. Along with Jews, disabled people were one of the first groups the Nazis focused on in the Holocaust. We have always been at the forefront of fascist minds. Hence why they use ableist slurs so easily.

Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · Aug 30

That Trump and Trumpism are fascist doesn’t explain the sheer vandalism of unleashing mass murdering mayhem via RFK to replace medical/scientific institutions of immense value and prestige with medieval peasant superstitions. That is a criminal madness facilitated by but above and beyond fascism.

Damien Harrison @slaymo.bsky.social · Aug 28

Fine whisky and Star Trek SNW makes a superb pairing

A bottle of Laphroaig whisky in front of a screen showing Star Trek

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Damien Harrison @slaymo.bsky.social · Aug 23

The elites in Germany in the 1930s fell in line rather quickly too, those that did not were persecuted (or outright eliminated). That is the lesson the Dems and corporate leaders have decided to heed. They are all terrified.

Zach D Roberts @zdroberts.bsky.social · Aug 23

Oddly no response from the supposed opposition party.

Tim O’Brien @timobrien.bsky.social · Aug 22

Hegseth authorizes National Guard to carry weapons on D. C. streets: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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Damien Harrison @slaymo.bsky.social · Aug 23

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? - Decimus Junius Juvenalis

[Who will watch the watchmen??]

Kate Ross @kateross.bsky.social · Aug 23

A young person on TikTok had an experience with the older guardsman and catcalling.

I imagine this is happening often.

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Damien Harrison @slaymo.bsky.social · Aug 23

What the thing that all these states (bar Virginia) have in common? They voted for Trump in 2024. They are Red states. Where will they be occupying? Blue states and cities. This is a civil war, broken down along party lines. Make no mistake about it.

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · Aug 23

Documents obtained by FOX News show planning for activations in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Ohio, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Wyoming – with status effective from August through mid-November.

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Damien Harrison @slaymo.bsky.social · Aug 23

The Romans knew that the *absolute* priority was ensuring the legions were paid well, and on time - it was precisely when they weren't that things began to fall apart (quickly) and the Empire hurtled towards collapse.

HerbalCrone @herbalcrone.bsky.social · Aug 23

A lack of timely compensation might affect some National Guard members' loyalty to the cult leader.

Leave it to a Dem to try to prevent it.

Timely payments for Guard deployed to DC a concern, lawmaker says
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Timely payments for Guard deployed to DC a concern, lawmaker says

A top Senate Democrat is still awaiting clarity on when Guard troops patrolling the nation's capital will be compensated for that military duty.

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Damien Harrison @slaymo.bsky.social · Aug 23

It never ended, it was always just simmering away, to one day explode back into relevance and open conflict. That day has come.

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Damien Harrison @slaymo.bsky.social · Aug 23

It isn't a big stretch to consider that the first civil war was never prosecuted to a suitable conclusion, reconstruction was abandoned and the rebels found their way back into positions of power and standing without consequences for their treachery.

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Damien Harrison @slaymo.bsky.social · Aug 23

This is a occupation - and it is not hyperbolic to describe it as a civil war at all. I have always said this was where the US was headed, to the point of stating that it wouldn't be north and south this time - but red vs. blue.

Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · Aug 23

The federal government is about to wage a campaign of terror against any blue city or state using a domestic army of red state National Guard members.

This should be seen as a declaration of war against the country and people cannot continue going on like normal.

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · Aug 23

NEW: Pentagon officials tell Fox News that Trump will mobilize up to 1,700 National Guardsmen in 19 states (18 with GOP governors, plus NM? maybe an error?) from August through mid-November under Title 32, Section 502(f).

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Damien Harrison @slaymo.bsky.social · Aug 23

"16 It also forced all people, great and small, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hands or on their foreheads, 17 so that they could not buy or sell unless they had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of its name."

Ms . Penny Oaken, SkyWitch 🧙‍♀️ @skywitches.net · Aug 23

Revelation 13:16-17

… just saying

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Aug 23

both of these photos of Trump's hand were taken today (Getty)

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Ms . Penny Oaken, SkyWitch 🧙‍♀️ @skywitches.net · Aug 23

Revelation 13:16-17

… just saying

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Aug 23

both of these photos of Trump's hand were taken today (Getty)

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