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Unlucky Century

@unluckycentury.bsky.social

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He/him. Husband, father of two. History professor. Xennial. Progressive and pragmatic. Sociable but private. Not a real pirate.

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Unlucky Century @unluckycentury.bsky.social · Nov 26

I keep telling myself, imagine you're an abolitionist in 1840, or a women's suffragist in 1890, or even just remember being a supporter of same-sex marriage in 2004. It's hard to be optimistic right now, but I'll be damned if I'm going to stop fighting.

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Unlucky Century @unluckycentury.bsky.social · 18d

The Dems need to be prepared to do this on January 20, 2029, whether or not the court rules in Trump's favor on the 14th Amendment.

Unlucky Century @unluckycentury.bsky.social · 18d

Agreed. The only thing stronger among the 6 SCOTUS hacks than their vacuous support of Trump is their instinct for self-preservation.

Unlucky Century @unluckycentury.bsky.social · 21d

I was so fucking angry after the election. In 2016 I was shocked and devastated because I didn't think it could happen. Last year I knew it could happen, and when it did, I was furious at the sheer self-absorbed malignant stupidity of the voters who had inflicted this on all of us.

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Unlucky Century @unluckycentury.bsky.social · Aug 13

The Certified Pre-Owned Cars

Unlucky Century @unluckycentury.bsky.social · Jul 26

What are the chances Trump has a heart attack and President Vance releases the Epstein files hoping to discredit him and win over MAGA, only to be reminded that he has the charisma of soggy bread and they will just never love him that way?

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Unlucky Century @unluckycentury.bsky.social · Jul 17

Came across this video on YouTube and it led me here. I feel much the same. I have very little sympathy for MAGA voters, but as a blue dot in a very red state (Utah), I don't like being lumped in with them, or talk of nonsense solutions like secession.

Unlucky Century @unluckycentury.bsky.social · Jun 6

If their testicles are the size of the moon, they should probably get that looked at.

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Unlucky Century @unluckycentury.bsky.social · Jun 6

I disappear into an archive reading 200-year-old pamphlets for 4 hours and come out to find that Elon and Donald are finally having the catfight I've been praying for. I think I just found religion again.

Unlucky Century @unluckycentury.bsky.social · May 29

There's also the fact that the Watergate coverup was an actual coverup ordered by the president. Like, a coverup of an actual crime done by criminals.

Unlucky Century @unluckycentury.bsky.social · May 29

Next to bigotry, the one trait these MAGA types all have in common is being irredeemably whiny.

Unlucky Century @unluckycentury.bsky.social · May 29

Trump feeds us shit, they gulp it down and call it chocolate.

Unlucky Century @unluckycentury.bsky.social · May 29

I think we can all agree that Biden was old, he was slowing down, he shouldn't have tried to run again, and Jake Tapper can go fuck himself sideways.

Unlucky Century @unluckycentury.bsky.social · May 29

Why am I not surprised that these guys are mostly middle-aged white guys?

Unlucky Century @unluckycentury.bsky.social · May 29

Mr. Brightside

Unlucky Century @unluckycentury.bsky.social · May 29

These morons just will not stop relitigating 2020.

Unlucky Century @unluckycentury.bsky.social · May 29

Deep down, I think he knows perfectly well he's not smart. Just like he knows he lost in 2020. He just publicly pretends otherwise.

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Unlucky Century @unluckycentury.bsky.social · May 27

Trump is "exciting" (i.e., he generates ratings and clicks). Whereas Biden was "boring" -- I remember reading in 2021 that media ratings, clicks, etc. had dropped dramatically since Biden took office. So the media wanted Trump back. It's all business to them.

Unlucky Century @unluckycentury.bsky.social · May 15

I don't suppose any of these morons have bothered to ask themselves, if J6 was a staged riot, why Trump pardoned the rioters.

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Unlucky Century @unluckycentury.bsky.social · May 13

So they gave the solar system a colonoscopy. Did they figure out the cancer is on Earth?

Unlucky Century @unluckycentury.bsky.social · May 9

I don't think this guy has ever read the New Testament. Last I checked, that Jesus guy had some pretty woke stuff to say.

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Unlucky Century @unluckycentury.bsky.social · May 6

Refusing to deal with the social consequences of their assholery is how we got so many of these RW nuts to begin with.

Unlucky Century @unluckycentury.bsky.social · Apr 30

These idiots somehow think the 21st-century economy ought to look like a weird mash-up of 1890 and 1950.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Apr 29

Lutnick: "It's time to train people not to do the jobs of the past, but to do the great jobs of the future. This is the new model where you work in these kinds of plants for the rest of your life and your kids work here and your grandkids work here. We let the auto plants go overseas."

Unlucky Century @unluckycentury.bsky.social · Apr 23

"I never heard of that as a kid and it scares me that the world has changed" is basically the entire motivation of the American right.

Unlucky Century @unluckycentury.bsky.social · Apr 7

Look, I'd love to believe that Harris was cheated out of victory, but if rigging elections was so easy, why do they keep losing special elections like the one in Wisconsin that Musk personally interfered with? Why are they so nervous that they pulled Elise Stefanik's nomination?