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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 18h

They'll cast these rallies as "angry" but everyone there is plainly having a great time because it's fun to get together with like-minded people to engage in the oldest American tradition: telling a tyrant to eat shit

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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 15h

Proud papa moment: my son J published a letter in the @nytimes.com today (in print tomorrow) on the need to think our definitions of autism.

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 10h

Incredibly exhausting that "oh, I was just saying that too in order to purposefully upset you, even though I didn't believe it" is considered a defense in this society.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 16h

notice the general mood of the timeline? how everyone is in a good mood and there’s a lot less misery and dooming? how there’s a lot of “we’re going to beat these assholes”?

anyway that’s why these events are important

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 18h

MSNBC Grandmas in Skechers seamlessly reclaiming the frog from 4chan Nazis in about six weeks has gotta be the political upset of the century.

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🎃 The Pantastic Mr. Pox 🦠 @mrfox.bsky.social · 18h

oh i love this, please do this

himham @himham.bsky.social · 18h

If you want a timeline cleanse, search "first protest" on Bluesky

and thumb through all the posts of people incredibly proud of their rural town and apolitical grandpas.

You love to see it. See you at your *second* protest.

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Mariana Colín @themorbidzoo.bsky.social · 18h

🫶🏼☺️

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Mariana Colín @themorbidzoo.bsky.social · 18h

🤝

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Mariana Colín @themorbidzoo.bsky.social · 18h

Fair, that’s not what you said explicitly, but I’ll still maintain that your position is fairly hyperbolic (I’m so sorry I hope my tone comes across I really do appreciate you engaging and do not wish to fight)

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Mariana Colín @themorbidzoo.bsky.social · 18h

the civil rights movement, no matter how lib they are. A not-insignificant amount of people at the protests now lived through it. Idk, I just don’t think the effort to whitewash protest culture has significant origins anywhere in even the most tepid left wing, this is a right wing line.

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Mariana Colín @themorbidzoo.bsky.social · 18h

I mean this is a failure to distinguish one meaning from another, right? The civil rights era wasn’t peaceful by any means, but it’s more than fair to describe the protests themselves as non-violent. I don’t think most people are unaware that people were seriously harmed and murdered during

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Mariana Colín @themorbidzoo.bsky.social · 18h

All good, me too! (If you’re ever in Austin hmu)

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Mariana Colín @themorbidzoo.bsky.social · 18h

Let alone granting any kind of credence to the idea that property damage should be understood as violent. Who cares what standard opinion is? The entire point of protesting is to alter the status quo, you know? (Again, all respect we’re on the same side etc 🙏🏼)

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Mariana Colín @themorbidzoo.bsky.social · 18h

You’re just describing a generally violent/volatile political time though. Nobody died during the tea party, it was not violent full stop. Again, the response to such events are often, maybe necessarily violent, but why are we accepting the oppositional assumption that that’s the protesters’ fault?

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Mariana Colín @themorbidzoo.bsky.social · 18h

No I got u, no shade taken and none given, all my responses are with love and respect 🙏🏼

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Mariana Colín @themorbidzoo.bsky.social · 18h

It’s both untrue and chills motivation, and none of this, whether peaceful or violent, happens without motivation.

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Mariana Colín @themorbidzoo.bsky.social · 18h

and struggle even harder to get how it sets anything up for failure. Protests fail because ppl don’t show up because they think it’ll be dangerous/not worth it. Telling ppl “real protests are always violent so you better be ready or you’re not serious!!” seems like tremendously bad messaging to me.

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Mariana Colín @themorbidzoo.bsky.social · 18h

That the point of a protest is partially to provoke violence from an inherently violent state doesn’t make protesting violent in the same way that standing up to an abuser and getting punched for your trouble isn’t an act of violence. I struggle to see the use of thinking of it in this way

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Mariana Colín @themorbidzoo.bsky.social · 18h

2nd the violence in the CR movement came pretty much unilaterally from one side, which was the entire point. Even the Black Panthers had to be COINTELPROed to make them “violent.” Not sure where you’re getting the idea that CR was a violent movement, or how it’s useful to suggest it was.

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Mariana Colín @themorbidzoo.bsky.social · 18h

Oh gotcha I see what you’re saying. I don’t think I agree. I don’t consider property destruction violence, firstly, and certainly don’t consider the BTP “very violent.” How can a protest where no one dies or is seriously injured be very violent?

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Mariana Colín @themorbidzoo.bsky.social · 19h

💯💯💯

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Mariana Colín @themorbidzoo.bsky.social · 19h

Man i gotta be honest, i really don’t see the absolute nonsense or damaging narrative on this poster. Is there some kind of context I’m missing? Is it bad for librarians at a conference to announce they’re leaving the conference for a while to protest? I don’t get it please explain

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Mariana Colín @themorbidzoo.bsky.social · 19h

I’m so sorry but being a little contrarian edgekid (not OP) about No Kings doesn’t make you look cooler or like a more serious political actor. The frog suits are good. The grannies and “wine moms” are good. Looking cuddly and goofy is a legitimate protest tactic in the face of tyranny. Grow up.

Breana Navickas @breanimator.bsky.social · 21h

I'm seeing a lot of criticism of the No Kings stuff. A lot of it is very valid I agree. But I also feel like there needs to be a nuanced understanding that these events are still a net positive I feel like. because it gets the liberal folks, the wine moms the grandmas the van dads out there.

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Jarrett Walker @humantransit.bsky.social · 1d

For Tolkien fans, a timely passage for No Kings Eve, from WH Auden’s review of Lord of the Rings.

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"spooky simchas" daniel s. @self.agency · 2d

only the right is allowed to hate the government and wish for its downfall because when they do it it’s patriotism but when we do it, it’s terrorism. anarcho-capitalists can consult the white house, but libertarian socialists must be indicted for thoughtcrimes. it’s only fair.

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