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Dead Monkey @zfiendy.bsky.social · 1h

“Yankee “noun as verb“ shite!”

Really, you’ve gotta learn about this dude named Shakespeare. Well known for verbing nouns. Not known for being a Yank. 🤷🏻‍♂️

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Dead Monkey @zfiendy.bsky.social · 1h

Well, I mean once that was true of elbow, blanket, champion, gossip, etc.

Shakespeare told us all it was fun to use nouns as verbs and I don’t see us stopping anytime soon. Not when we fax and google and text and email and friend and hammer and host and….

Dead Monkey @zfiendy.bsky.social · 1h

Totally tried to make this point when Christian Slater said ‘f**k me’ in Robin Hood.

Of course that’s when Kevin Costner uses a trebuchet to fly him over a castle wall so may they weren’t going for historical accuracy 🤔

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Arif "Felonious Munk" Shahid @feloniousmunk.blacksky.app · 13h

Too many people are VERY comfortable putting people in positions of power who hold bigoted views. Idk if it's because you also hold bigoted views or if you're just comfortable that those views won't affect YOU, but it's wild to see "no bigots" reduced to "purity test." Either way, no.

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Dead Monkey @zfiendy.bsky.social · 1h

You should’ve picked a different sentence to promote that article.

It reads like someone forgot to write their term paper until midnight the night before it was due.

Dead Monkey @zfiendy.bsky.social · 2h

And by convincing a huge swath of the electorate that everything he promised could be magically made real if the “corporate dems” would just use their Dem magic to make it so. 🙄

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Dead Monkey @zfiendy.bsky.social · 2h

Oh man, I think that brainwashed kid blocked me. :(

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Dead Monkey @zfiendy.bsky.social · 2h

I’m sneering at Bernie Sanders. He got people who already agreed with him to agree with him some more.

He didn’t register voters.
He didn’t set up any networking.
He didn’t do anything but promote the same things he always says to the same people who blindly worship him.

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 19h

man this is so boring. what is there to say. the dude has a straight up ss tattoo on his chest. what the fuck

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Matthew Blanchette @mattpb.bsky.social · 11h

I think Senator Bernard Sanders needs to call off his next election run.

He's clearly too old to serve; his judgment is impaired. He's 83. Let's get a hard age limit started, people. No ifs, ands, or buts allowed.

Senator Sanders has run the race; he has fought the good fight. But his time's up.

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Dead Monkey @zfiendy.bsky.social · 2h

and they did zero GOTV work on that speaking tour. It was pure self-promotion.

It was 100% so people like you would think he was doing something.

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Michael Paulauski♨️ @mike10010100.com · 7h

The person you're describing as having a "lot of integrity himself", Bernie Sanders, spent the whole day deflecting from anyone who brought up the Nazi Tattoo with any number of class reductionist and dismissive responses.

I think it's time to admit that he isn't *just* a bad judge of character.

Emma Spookdel @mayorseidel.bsky.social · 8h

It really sucks to realize that Bernie Sanders would have made a terrible president, because despite having a lot of integrity himself, he is an abysmal judge of character. Just fuckup after fuckup with the candidates who only get traction from his endorsement. His appointees would have been awful.

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Dead Monkey @zfiendy.bsky.social · 5h

I mean he’s run two successful ops to bring us trump whether it was his intention or not.

He also has filled the far left with visions of sugarplum fairies and they all now think nothing requires work or compromise… “if it can be imagined it can be done with the snap of a finger.”

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Dead Monkey @zfiendy.bsky.social · 6h

Anyone who cares about the future of America should unsubscribe from your propaganda machine.

Best thing America could do is send a message by putting you out of business.

And WaPo as well.

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Dead Monkey @zfiendy.bsky.social · 9h

Wait for what? Because the best player in baseball worked for the best deal possible? He deserves it.

Looking forward to him being a 2x world champion. And I don’t even like the Dodgers. ✌️

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Just Kevin @kevinleecaster.bsky.social · 14h

As far as I can tell, the online leftists seem constitutionally incapable of acknowledging that they got fooled by a grifter or whatever Platner is.

Heck, I bet most of them still secretly support Tulsi and RFK.

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Dead Monkey @zfiendy.bsky.social · 13h

Might be different if one of them could ever admit they were wrong about any of it.

You’d think being wrong about everything would give them an opportunity to say ‘yeah, my bad’ at least once.

I have people argue they were right about Tulsi until the Dems ruined her. Like WTAF?

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Michael Paulauski♨️ @mike10010100.com · 19h

I'm really fuckin' done being lectured by a movement that consistently goes to bat for terrible people but pretends they have this whole "politics" thing figured out.

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Michael Paulauski♨️ @mike10010100.com · 15h

Planter joins a long line of Bernie-promoted far-right ratfuckers, like Sanders Institute Fellow Tulsi Gabbard!

Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social · 15h

The second order implications of Platner for Bernie, Faiz, and Carlson are uh not great

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Dead Monkey @zfiendy.bsky.social · 13h

Of all the takes on why we are on the verge of collapsing into an authoritarian nightmare, yours is among the worst.

Completely amputated from reality.

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Michael Paulauski♨️ @mike10010100.com · 13h

There is no clown nose big enough for this person.

My *god* are some people on here *dead set* on defending Platner!

“He said, 'Oh, this is my Totenkopf," the former acquaintance told Jewish Insider recently, speaking on the condition of anonymity to address a sensitive issue. “He said it in a cutesy little way."
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Neddy Boy (Uncle-tifa) @intrusivesone.bsky.social. 1h
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This sounds like an AIPAC hit piece
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The Tabby Report @tabbyreport.bsky.social. 1h
she/her
So, you decided to defend a man who has had a nazi tattoo for 18 years from allegations he may have known he had a nazi tattoo simply because the source is Jewish news?
Did this post sound better in the original German, or?
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Neddy Boy (Uncle-tifa)
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Ja ich kann verstehen
Idk maybe listen to the man explain it in his own words and decide for yourself

Neddy Boy (Uncle-tifa) @intrusivesone.bsky.social. 1h
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Look I can't defend the current situation for him still having it now nor will I. I believe he should get it covered up but I've listened to enough people like Hesgeth and others with "deus vault" like tattoos and they just don't speak this way about class struggle and the dangers of oligarchs
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tmoney2007.bsky.social @tmoney2007.bsky.social
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But you ARE defending the current situation and he DOES still have it now. You are exactly and specifically doing that.
If you can't,... then don't. I like his message as well. I like how he dealt with MAGA people. It is unfortunate that this has proven him to be unsuited for public office.
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Neddy Boy (Uncle-tifa) @intrusivesone.bsky.social. 53m
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Okay I'll bite. Mills is another establishment Dinosaur who will lose to Collins (she got reelected in a Biden +11 state)
We lose our best chance of picking up a senate seat and become the 4th Reich anyways so we're pretty much screwed regardless.
Idk what to say, I wish he didn't have it
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tmoney2007.bsky.social @tmoney2007.bsky.social
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So,... You ARE defending it then? You've decided to stop pretending like you're not, so that's nice.
There are other candidates in this very primary. Starting your argument with the false dichotomy that opposing Platner favors mills is a problem.
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This sounds like an AIPAC hit piece
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tmoney2007.bsky.social @tmoney2007.bsky.social 1h
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Or maybe this guy who's had a Nazi tattoo for a significant portion of his life is not qualified to represent a state in the Senate.
Did AIPAC put the tattoo on his chest and forbid him from covering it up for all this time?
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Neddy Boy (Uncle-tifa) @intrusivesone.bsky.social.
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Idk I just believe him when he said he never heard it was a Nazi symbol until now.
I only started listening to Behind the Bastards and It could happen here in the past few years so I had no idea how pervasive this stuff was so I'm not gonna castigate him over one thing when he's positioned to win
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Neddy Boy (Uncle-tifa)
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I refuse to let perfect be the enemy of progress. How does the calculus fundamentally change if he's a secret Nazi or if Collins gets reelected?
I've yet to hear anyone explain that one to me.
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Neddy Boy (Uncle-tifa) @intrusivesone.bsky.social. 1h
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He got it while drunk on leave in Croatia while in the marines. The Croats are famously very pro Nazi so I can understand how it happened.
He should get rid of it but I don't think he's a secret Nazi
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Neddy Boy (Uncle-tifa) @intrusivesone.bsky.social. 1h
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And even if he was a Nazi, why run for congress against Collins?
She's literally a rubber stamp for the worst excesses of Stephen Miller
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Zofia Deluna @channelrevolution.bsky.social. 1h
Yeah why would a Nazi want a position of power rubber stamping Nazi policies?! It sure is a mystery!
Fucking LISTEN to yourself. Jesus Christ.
He's lying to you. Whether you believe he's a Nazi or not. He's unfit. But c'mon. He's a Nazi.
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Neddy Boy (Uncle-tifa)
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The 36 hour whiplash of this man going from being a communist to a Nazi is incredible.
If this is true he's the most impressive Manchurian Candidate that may ever have existed and were deserve to be duped by him but I can not live in this conspiracy theory

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Dead Monkey @zfiendy.bsky.social · 13h

Life goal: find someone who defends you the way Neddy Boy defends Platner.

Pretty sure he’d run into a burning building to save the guy.

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Dead Monkey @zfiendy.bsky.social · 13h

Apparently some reporting is saying a former acquaintance says he bragged about the tattoo with its nazi name.

The guy is everything we worried he was.

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Dead Monkey @zfiendy.bsky.social · 16h

Keep seeing takes like Lauren’s, but maybe, just maybe it is not an elitist position to know what a symbol means BEFORE you have it permanently inscribed on your body.

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