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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv)

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Métis (he/him) weareserfs.com Lefty news politics and comedy. LGBTQ+ activism and civil rights are my jam. If you enjoy my sillies check out YouTube.com/@theserftimes

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 12h

While a new study is being used by the Trump administration and right wing pundits to justify a complete authoritarian crackdown (NSPM-7) - the data paints a completely different picture.

This debunking serves to explain how it's not a "both sides" issue - it's a fascist one

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Left vs Right Wing Violence

YouTube video by The Serfs

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 9m

Entering the Anne Frank stage of the administration I see

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 10h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 7h

MAGA is crashing out harder over Trump putting a Qatari military base in the US than they ever did over him being all over the Epstein files

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 7h

You can actually hear Azis Ansari going "ooooooooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhh nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo"

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 8h

lol he tried to wash some of the blood off his hands and still got denied

Scott agrees: FREE LINK @scottdagostino.ca · 1d

A principled stance from HRW 🔥

Human Rights Watch ‘Cannot Accept’ Donations From Aziz Ansari and Other Comedians Who Performed at Riyadh Comedy Festival

Human Rights Watch says it 'cannot accept' donations from Aziz Ansari and other comedians who performed at the Riyadh Comedy Festival in Saudi Arabia.

variety.com

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 9h

If you're wondering why this cost $150 million with zero ROI it's basically a perfect encapsulation of the entire AI tech bubble

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 10h

Update: Bari Weiss’s first pitch at CBS — a roundtable with Antony Blinken, Mike Pompeo, and Hillary Clinton that ended up being a virtual interview with Clinton & Condoleezza Rice — has about 150 viewers on YouTube.

Added with the 24/7 CBS stream, it’s just over 1200 viewers.

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 10h

It's not defamation to call Drake a pedophile 💀

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 1d

Drake’s federal defamation suit against Universal Music Group has been thrown out of court, TMZ reports

Drake's Federal Defamation Lawsuit Against UMG Over 'Not Like Us' Dismissed

Drake just took a big legal loss against his own record label ... because his federal defamation suit against Universal Music Group has been thrown out of court.

www.tmz.com

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 10h

Why NSPM-7 should terrify you and how it's being used a testing ground by Donald Trump to eventually spread fascism globally if it's successful

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 11h

Giving the Nobel Peace Prize to María Corina Machado is a very effective trojan horse because everyone can pretend that it's a middle finger to Donald Trump when she openly supports the US doing regime change in Venezuela (which is what he also wants)

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 12h

If you made it past the first minute you'll realize that I tried to go as Shaun for Halloween this year but jokes aside you should really go subscribe and watch all his videos because they're excellent

www.youtube.com/@Shaun_vids

Shaun

this is my internet channel

www.youtube.com

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 12h

Left vs Right Wing Violence

YouTube video by The Serfs

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 12h

The article was written by a conservative

Michelle Rempel Garner: "The conservatives are right: Canada should end birthright citizenship" to a Globe and Mail article of the same name

The author Robyn Urback was a editorial board member at the National Post (Canada's right wing newspaper)

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 12h

Jack Posobiec says the quiet part out loud

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Canada Post union says it will move from nationwide strike action to rotating strikes on Saturday | CBC News

The Canadian Union of Postal Workers, which represents 55,000 Canada Post workers, announced late Thursday that it will end its nationwide strike action and move to rotating strikes starting Saturday....

www.cbc.ca

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe instead of spending every minute that he has a platform trying to make people scared of LGBTQ+ children Matt Walsh could have commented once on how the people he helped put in power are giving billions in taxpayer funding to AI tech

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 1d

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A collage of four tweets from Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) discussing concerns about artificial intelligence.

Top left tweet: Walsh warns that within a year or two, people will be able to create indistinguishable fake videos for defamation, and that nothing is being done to prevent this.
Bottom left tweet: He says AI will destroy jobs, art, reality, and civilization, yet no action is being taken to stop it.
Top right tweet: He criticizes AI-generated films as soulless and meaningless, saying art requires human expression and that AI will be the “death of art.”
Bottom right tweet: Walsh argues that if a robot paints a picture, the robot is the artist, not the person prompting it, because the robot lacks consciousness and meaning.

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 1d

I mean it's the same projection they do to Indigenous and Black people. Portraying them as inherently violent when the colonizers are the ones doing genocide

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 1d

Organization says Salt River First Nation woman being held by Israeli authorities

www.aptnnews.ca/national-new...

Israeli forces holding First Nations woman who was on flotilla: FFC

The Freedom Flotilla Coalition say that Mskwaasin Agnew from Salt River First Nation is in custody of Israeli authorities.

www.aptnnews.ca

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 1d

Not only this is amazing because part of fascism is the destruction of joy but it also makes it look ridiculous that the military is being deployed to put a stop to this

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 2d

War is hell, Portland style

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 1d

Know your fascism

The 14 characteristics are:

Powerful and Continuing Nationalism
Fascist regimes tend to make constant use of patriotic mottos, slogans, symbols, songs, and other paraphernalia. Flags are seen everywhere, as are flag symbols on clothing and in public displays.

Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights
Because of fear of enemies and the need for security, the people in fascist regimes are persuaded that human rights can be ignored in certain cases because of "need." The people tend to look the other way or even approve of torture, summary executions, assassinations, long incarcerations of prisoners, etc.

Identification of Enemies/Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause
The people are rallied into a unifying patriotic frenzy over the need to eliminate a perceived common threat or foe: racial , ethnic or religious minorities; liberals; communists; socialists, terrorists, etc.

Supremacy of the Military
Even when there are widespread domestic problems, the military is given a disproportionate amount of government funding, and the domestic agenda is neglected. Soldiers and military service are glamorized.

Rampant Sexism
The governments of fascist nations tend to be almost exclusively male-dominated. Under fascist regimes, traditional gender roles are made more rigid. Opposition to abortion is high, as is homophobia and anti-gay legislation and national policy.

Controlled Mass Media
Sometimes to media is directly controlled by the government, but in other cases, the media is indirectly controlled by government regulation, or sympathetic media spokespeople and executives. Censorship, especially in war time, is very common.

Obsession with National Security
Fear is used as a motivational tool by the government over the masses.

Religion and Government are Intertwined
Governments in fascist nations tend to use the most common religion in the nation as a tool to manipulate public opinion. Religious rhetoric and terminology is common from government leaders, even when the major t…

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 1d

It's escalated to the point of comparing the orchestrator of the Holocaust to a streamer who was falsely accused of using a shock collar

Maia Poet "Hasan Piker actually makes Hitler look like a good guy. You have to be a special kind of evil to make that happen"

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 1d

Schools don't gender transition anybody. It's between a child and their doctor and their parents to discuss.

Not some weird pervert who wants to be involved in a conversation about strangers genitals.

@Dallas_Brodie
A BC school is gender transitioning an 8-year-old boy without his father's consent. I raised this in the House, and NDP Attorney-General Niki Sharma called it a "conspiracy theory." But this man's case is currently in Court! I even spoke with him this morning.

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 1d

So cool to see white supremacists who spend half their careers trying to eliminate trans people from the planet be normalized like this.

Great work CNN

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 1d

Following MTG's lengthy CNN sitdown interview, Wolf Blitzer tells her:

"You‘re a courageous politician, but more important, a loving mother. Thanks very much for coming in. We hope you‘ll come back here in the Situation Room."

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 1d

When the liberals enact conservative policies the conservatives in turn move further right. Shouldn't be surprised the whole thing ends up looking like MAGA

www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...

Conservatives want to end birthright citizenship for children of temporary residents

The Conservatives want to restrict birthright citizenship in Canada, a measure they say would mirror the rules in peer countries.

www.ctvnews.ca

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 1d

Homophobia is declining globally

Chart showing how homophobic views have declined around the world using data from Our World In Data with Iceland and the Netherlands and Denmark having the lowest levels of homophobia

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 2d

It's pretty wild a large portion of the internet tried to fabricate a scandal surrounding Hasan using a shock collar in the same day that Asmongold was saying that ICE agents should shoot protesters with live ammunition

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 2d

Saying the quiet part out very loud

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2d

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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