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🏳️‍🌈I am a Gay Man, He/Him.

I oppose war. I oppose genocide. I oppose ethnic cleansing. I fight for ⚖️ #EqualJustice and 🏳️‍🌈 #EqualRights.

As the Regime commits Crimes against Humanity around the world, I stand with our allies! 🇲🇽🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱🇪🇺🇵🇸💙🇺🇸💔
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Mental health break. Self-care matters. Making and keeping the world a place worth fighting for matters. 💙🌎💕
Post by @mark_mackillop: "The next time you see someone enjoying something, that isn't hurting anyone, that's not your cup of tea instead of saying something negative train yourself to think to yourself "I'm glad they're happy" and carry on with your life. post by @daviowhite: "I need to embrace this more" followed a picture of a sticky note saying "Just make it exist first you can make it good later." post by pc-98s reading: I highly recommend developing an intense interest in some natural phenomenon or creature such as bugs or stars or mushrooms. you will be delighted every time you go outside. Quote by Ernest Hemingway: "You are so brave and quiet I forget you are suffering."
November 10, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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November 10, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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To be clear, I definitely call out the RepubliKlans more, and will express gratitude to the *handful* of Dems who actually fight, but right now absolute failures like @schumer.senate.gov, and *ANY* Dem who is not *LIVID* right now, are the reason this sentiment is only going to grow and is *EARNED*.
[Image Description Tweet from Gallifreyan Jedi (@/ JediOfGallifrey) reading: To spell it out, the reason i hate democrats so much and criticize them more than i do republicans is because they take up all the space for opposition to republicans and use that space to give republicans whatever the fuck they want End Description]
November 10, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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I saw somewhere something like "Late stage capitalism gets a bad rap, when early stages had child coal miners and radium factories."

They were just forced to get more creative and insidious.
Smoggy picture of L.A. in 1968, before the Clean Air Act, next to a much clearer picture of L.A. in 2005.
November 9, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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If Dems cave on the shutdown, they may as well just publicly sign a statement that they have chosen to hand deliver Congress to the RepubliKlans.

@schumer.senate.gov @democrats.senate.gov
November 9, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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November 6, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Reminds me of this quote from Sarah Schulman:
November 6, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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"such a little thing"

All Human existence, beyond animal urges, is a *choice* to be more than base animal urges.

Learn from others. Always seek more. There *IS*, always, so unimaginably much more.

#CriticalThinking #WordsMeanThings #FactsMatter #ScientificProcess #TrialAndError #Learn #TeacherSky
November 4, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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"But what if *I* was the 'One True Fascist' who used horror to show them all how *RIGHT* I am?!"
Pic of LOTR movies where Boromir is tempted to claim the One Ring.
November 4, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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"I think everyone deserves food, clothing, and shelter, even if it ends up 3 in 100 of them weren't literally dying. I would be willing to have <5% of my taxes go to knowing no one is cold, homeless, or hungry in the richest nation on Earth."

"STFU 'RADICAL LEFT'! STOP WITH THE PURITY TESTS!"
Text reading: "What radicalized you? Nothing. Not wanting people to starve and suffer is not radical, it's normal. It is not 'radical' to be empathetic. Let us instead question what makes people into sadists. Let us call out 'sick' behavior, because kindness should be the default." Signed: "Hell and Earth"
November 3, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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November 3, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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Picture of Elie Wiesel and quote: "Always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor never the tormented." Elie Wiesel; Romanian-born American Jewish writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate and Holocaust survivor.
November 1, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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“Historians have a word for Germans who joined the Nazi party, not because they hated Jews, but out of a hope for restored patriotism, or a sense of economic anxiety, or a hope to preserve their religious values, or dislike of their opponents, or raw political opportunism, or convenience, or ignorance, or greed. That word is "Nazi." Nobody cares about their motives anymore. They joined what they joined. They lent their support and their moral approval. And, in so doing, they bound themselves to everything that came after. Who cares any more what particular knot they used in the binding? A.R. Moxon
November 1, 2025 at 4:23 AM
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Title: From the depths / Wm. Balfour-Ker. Print shows a lavish social event in a large ballroom attended by the well-to-do; the party is disrupted when a fist erupts through the floor, beneath which are the struggling masses of the less fortunate who provide the foundation support on which the wealthy rest.
November 1, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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Image of text: "What radicalized you? Nothing. Not wanting people to starve and suffer is not radical, it's normal. It is not 'radical' to be empathetic. Let us instead question what makes people want to sadists. Let us call out "sick" behavior, because kindness should be the default." Signed: "Hell and Earth"
November 1, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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Image of text: "What radicalized you? Nothing. Not wanting people to starve and suffer is not radical, it's normal. It is not 'radical' to be empathetic. Let us instead question what makes people want to sadists. Let us call out "sick" behavior, because kindness should be the default." Signed: "Hell and Earth"
October 31, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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Destroying the concepts of "objective reality", "critical thinking", and "verifiable facts" is the intent. Liars, thieves, and fascists want the general population as stupid, confused, and controllable as possible.
October 29, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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I can't find the post, but some one was like: Idiocracy is a movie where the President is facing a crisis, so he finds the smartest man in the world, listens to his science-based advice, and the crisis is solved. If only we were so lucky.
October 29, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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Destroying the concepts of "objective reality", "critical thinking", and "verifiable facts" is the intent. Liars, thieves, and fascists want the general population as stupid, confused, and controllable as possible.
October 29, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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Post by Cian Westmoreland, @CianMW If you are National Guard or Active Duty military and you are being ordered to violate the Constitutional rights of US citizens then this is the number to the Gl Rights Hotline. There is support, you don't have to go through with it. 1-877-447-4487
October 28, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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In Fortune magazine today: Musk wants $1,000,000,000,000 compensation package for being "just the special-est little Nazi nepo baby it would be your privilege to be associated with."
Image of text from a Fortune magazine article: Tesla chair Robyn Denholm urged shareholders to back a proposed $1 trillion compensation package for CEO Elon Musk, warning in a letter Monday that the company risks losing “significant value” if the deal fails and Musk opts to step down as chief executive. “Without Elon, Tesla could lose significant value, as our company may no longer be valued for what we aim to become,” Denholm wrote, adding that Musk’s “time, talent and vision … have been essential to delivering extraordinary shareholder returns.” If shareholders do not support the pay package and “fail to foster an environment that motivates Elon to achieve great things through an equitable pay-for-performance plan, we run the risk that he gives up his executive position,” she added.​
October 28, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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Post by Bree Newsome Bass, @BreeNewsome: "I don't know who needs to hear this but you are not a capitalist. You are a salaried employee working in industry owned by an actual capitalist. People keep confusing simple commerce-- which has always existed--with capitalism, a specific type of economy. Folks swear up and down they are capitalists and don't actually own anything. The people who the power to repossess your belongings if miss a payment are the true capitalist. You are worker and a consumer trying to be in false class solidarity w/ billionaires."
October 27, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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An embrace of failure and moral abdication.
Convince voters that we share their priorities by focusing more on issues voters do not think our party prioritizes highly enough (the economy, the cost of living, health care, border security, public safety), and focusing less on issues voters think we place too much emphasis on (climate change, democracy, abortion, identity and cultural issues). Moderate our positions where our agenda is unpopular, including on issues like immigration, public safety, energy production, and some identity and cultural issues. Embrace a substantive and rhetorical critique of the outsized political and economic influence of lobbyists, corporations, and the ultra-wealthy, while keeping two considerations in mind: First, voters' frustrations with the status quo are not the same as a desire for socialism. And second, criticizing the status quo is a complement to advocating for popular policies on the issues that matter most to the American people, not a substitute.
October 27, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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Post by Cian Westmoreland, @CianMW If you are National Guard or Active Duty military and you are being ordered to violate the Constitutional rights of US citizens then this is the number to the Gl Rights Hotline. There is support, you don't have to go through with it. 1-877-447-4487
October 27, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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Text reading: "Listen no one is "vilifying" rich people. They ARE villains. If you run a billion dollar company, give yourself millions in dollars and benefits, buy your individual workers less than a living wage and give them shitty insurance, what are you if not a villain?"
October 23, 2025 at 8:30 PM