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Tom Bombadil @sparksandsteel.bsky.social · 9d

I don’t want to do it any injustice by trying to explain it. It’s a 15 minute video and worth every minute.

Tom Bombadil @sparksandsteel.bsky.social · 9d

@aoc.bsky.social I assume you have heard of Ben Palmer’s uhhh antics? Glorious, glorious antics?

Anyway, even if you have, others might not have.

He got one over hard on Ted Yoho and this entire story gets more beautiful as it goes:

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Tom Bombadil @sparksandsteel.bsky.social · 16d

Whenever I see a chart telling me to be angry the first thing I look at is whether there’s a 0 mark on the Y axis.

I grow suspicious of the presenter when there isn’t, no matter how much their story aligns with my biases.

Tom Bombadil @sparksandsteel.bsky.social · 20d

There might be some neurotypical electrical engineers.

I have yet to run into one and I am one so I run into a lot of us.

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Tom Bombadil @sparksandsteel.bsky.social · 22d

Conspiracy gibberish is for folks too dim to hold complexity in their brains.

The US gave birth to fascism. It’s not new or aberrant.

Trump is a piece of shit but he is a thoroughly American one and is deeply popular among your neighbors. Denying that won’t change it.

Tom Bombadil @sparksandsteel.bsky.social · 22d

Dumbest possible take stop listening to batshittery.

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Tom Bombadil @sparksandsteel.bsky.social · 22d

lmao I voted for Harris but you are a piece of shit for this line of thinking.

Stop funding and defending a genocide if you want decent people to vote for you.

Don’t ask for my vote again asshole

Tom Bombadil @sparksandsteel.bsky.social · 22d

Doesn’t shutting the government down require a majority and a lot of party discipline?

Tom Bombadil @sparksandsteel.bsky.social · 28d

This isn’t advocating euthanasia, it’s advocating industrialized murder/genocide.

They are Nazis who want to industrially murder any political opponent, and they’ll just find a way to render them homeless to do it.

Tom Bombadil @sparksandsteel.bsky.social · 28d

So he’s a “drug addict criminal who actually died of an overdose”?

Tom Bombadil @sparksandsteel.bsky.social · Sep 11

For all they know he was trying to impress Jodi Foster.

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Tom Bombadil @sparksandsteel.bsky.social · Sep 11

gOoD fAiTh DeBaTe

Tom Bombadil @sparksandsteel.bsky.social · Sep 11

This is a completely predictable outcome of redirecting all national law enforcement resources toward bullying immigrants, D.C. residents, and protecting a neofascist grifter from accountability for decades of systematically raping children.

Tom Bombadil @sparksandsteel.bsky.social · Sep 5

A hundred years
A hundred more
We throw our weight
Against the door
And even if
We don’t survive
We keep the little flame alive

- Carsie Blanton

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Tom Bombadil @sparksandsteel.bsky.social · Sep 5

Ford the river
Cross the sea
A slave, a rat, a refugee
Strap the child to your side
Keep the little flame alive

Ho, Guevera, Connelly
We hid them in the scullery
A secret whispered by the wives
Kept the little flame alive

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Tom Bombadil @sparksandsteel.bsky.social · Sep 5

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Tom Bombadil @sparksandsteel.bsky.social · Sep 4

CBS already lost all their credibility as a news outlet. This won’t restore any of it.

Tom Bombadil @sparksandsteel.bsky.social · Sep 2

The left thinks crying about purity tests is a way to bully and harass people into an endless racheting toward a shifted Overton window.

The difference between our opinions is that^ is based on decades of data. Yours is based on speculative opinions of people you just admitted you don’t listen to.

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Tom Bombadil @sparksandsteel.bsky.social · Sep 2

I don’t expect anyone to change their behavior. If reams of peer-reviewed science couldn’t, why would my opinions?

I’m just letting the world know that trans rights still matter to someone, even if Dems like Newsom have abandoned any credible commitment to them. Do whatever you want with that info.

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Tom Bombadil @sparksandsteel.bsky.social · Sep 2

“Should individuals have to subsidize corporate greed?”

Fuck no.

Tom Bombadil @sparksandsteel.bsky.social · Aug 31

Came here to post this.

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Tom Bombadil @sparksandsteel.bsky.social · Aug 31

NYT is a fascism laundry, stop being surprised when they launder fascism.

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Tom Bombadil @sparksandsteel.bsky.social · Aug 28

[Sorry, that last paragraph meant to be “not all non-capitalists would…”]

Tom Bombadil @sparksandsteel.bsky.social · Aug 28

It’s not meant to be an argument for them at all, and it’s wildly inaccurate in that is suggests they are strictly different. They aren’t. Lots of overlap and infinite possibility.

Not capitalist would identify as “left”. Iroquoisan longhouses worked, weren’t capital, and fit nowhere in that list.

Tom Bombadil @sparksandsteel.bsky.social · Aug 28

Socialists like market economies with communally owned entities.

Communists typically believe in planned economies.

Anarchists often believe in inexact exchanges through mutual aid networks.

All of those explanations are so glibly oversimplified that they’re awful without more context.

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