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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 19h

The problem with a lot of prominent Democrats is that they legitimately seem like lizard people, and doing things like “randomly dropping f-bombs in speeches because their consultants told them to” makes that problem worse, not better

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 3h

Unironically, you can see how these guys’ Twitter brainrot has progressed to this stage where they have trouble remembering that you’re supposed to talk about the Nazis as the bad guys. It’s not a winking nod to neo-Nazis so much as them genuinely forgetting which way is supposed to be up

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 4h

"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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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 19h

But I keep getting told that the experts (read: consultants) have solved the 2500-year old problem of effective political rhetoric and will give you the exact right words that will inspire everyone and earn their votes and respect, and Obama just, like, got lucky or something

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mallow @bajablastenjoyer.bsky.social · 1h

Attention: If you or a loved one has been fired by Chaya Raichik you may to be entitled to financial compensation. Chaya Raichik is a rare cancer linked to Twitter exposure. Exposure to Twitter in schools, the arts, business or the medical field may put you at risk. Please don't wait, call 1-800-

Iris Meredith @iris-meredith.bsky.social · 16d

When all this is done, I think it'll be very important to pay reparations to everyone who was harmed by the fascist outburst. Otherwise you're going to wind up with a bunch of people who feel bitter about the inevitable lack of justice for complicit people doing nasty things.

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Iris Meredith @iris-meredith.bsky.social · 16d

When all this is done, I think it'll be very important to pay reparations to everyone who was harmed by the fascist outburst. Otherwise you're going to wind up with a bunch of people who feel bitter about the inevitable lack of justice for complicit people doing nasty things.

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Iris Meredith @iris-meredith.bsky.social · 15d

I think this is heartening for those of us who are young, ambitious and currently a bit washed-up. If we can just survive the next few years and are clever about what we do with the intervening time, we've a real shot at some solid opportunities.

"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 16d

The Disney about-face, I think, underscores something important: however cowardly the leaders of America's institutions may be, at least right now the USA's liberal tradition is rooted far too deeply to be pulled out without a lot of violence.

More violence, I suspect, than the administration has.

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Iris Meredith @iris-meredith.bsky.social · 9d

Wenn die Leute fragen, "Lebt der Hecker noch?"...

Lucy @leftliblucy.bsky.social · 11d

Thought I would cook something up

In the centre, it says "remember who you are, liberal". On the top left is a painting depicting the 1848 German Revolution. On the top right is the famous painting of Chamberlain's charge. On the bottom left is a cinematic looking photo of an anti-ICE protester walking through tear gas while a sign reads "Every ICE agent will be held to account". On the bottom right is protesters against the dictatorship in Myanmar

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Iris Meredith @iris-meredith.bsky.social · 9d

I get it, I very much do, but I do also think it's important to note small victories to keep morale up and demonstrate that effective resistance is possible. Think the Bayraktar song in the first days of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

And like, he did get away. That's one detainee fewer.

BumboJumbo @bumbojumbo666.bsky.social · 9d

The reaction to this feels very

"Heatwarming: 9 year old with cancer opens lemonade stand to pay for medical bills"

Like this is fucking awful. That guy was running for his life.

WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 9d

ICE Nazis in Chicago tried to kidnap a food delivery worker but my man was too fast for those slow bastards

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Iris Meredith @iris-meredith.bsky.social · 3d

I think, for those of us on the political left, we need to address morale as a real and pressing issue that will fuck up our ability to fight if left unaddressed. We *need* to figure out a way to keep people feeling at least minimally good about things even in shitty situations.

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mallow @bajablastenjoyer.bsky.social · 1h

i miss Redline energy even though i'm pretty sure it was going to literally kill me. shit was great

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mallow @bajablastenjoyer.bsky.social · 1h

i miss Redline energy even though i'm pretty sure it was going to literally kill me. shit was great

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FreeLinkophant sHELLey B Woke - Living Saint of Purity🏳️‍⚧️🖤💜🤍 💛 @shelleybwoke.bsky.social · 10h

Mark Zuckerberg is a creepy sex pest who's spent his entire career creating sex pest products to harass women and minorities. He is rape culture personified.

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mallow @bajablastenjoyer.bsky.social · 2h

in all seriousness tho i disagree that it's not ideological, the wellness industry was always gonna go fash when the whole thing is built around an arbitrary distinction between "natural and good" and "chemicals (bad)"

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mallow @bajablastenjoyer.bsky.social · 2h

in all seriousness tho i disagree that it's not ideological, the wellness industry was always gonna go fash when the whole thing is built around an arbitrary distinction between "natural and good" and "chemicals (bad)"

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SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 2h

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mallow @bajablastenjoyer.bsky.social · 2h

recreational preworkout my beloved 😋

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Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 7h

Keep on seeing people I know are good people jumping on other good people over something they basically agree upon but word slightly differently.

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Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 7h

I know I keep on saying this but I think we’re all just mean lately.

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Iris Meredith @iris-meredith.bsky.social · 3h

fizzle out, their chances of doing lasting damage to societal attitudes in the medium-term is significantly lower than one might think.

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Iris Meredith @iris-meredith.bsky.social · 3h

While it does really suck to see this, I have to stress: this is almost entirely an elite phenomenon. Your average person on the street, even if they're pretty transphobic, mostly sees this as a weird elite obsession.

What this is to say is that, while they can do a lot of damage before they

May “Bunny” Peterson 🦄 (Mostly Updates ) @goddessblade.bsky.social · 10h

Resurgence in enthusiasm for conversion therapy really scares me, especially seeing basically the same thing specifically for transness become more popular with organizations like Genspect

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mallow @bajablastenjoyer.bsky.social · 3h

it'd be pretty neat if all this money and scientific effort was going into like, idk, doing climate un-changing or curing diseases or some shit. which like there *are* people doing those things but its not getting the same focus the Objective Reality Destroyer 3000 is

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mallow @bajablastenjoyer.bsky.social · 3h

we're not making technology that even has use cases for being a net positive for humanity, we're just making the dystopian evil stuff on purpose out of sheer cyberpunk LARP

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mallow @bajablastenjoyer.bsky.social · 3h

mix it with their previous hard-on for VR and the (mostly failed) ""metaverse"" and you get an image of the future that's so viscerally horrifying i can't even blame people much for going full anprim wackjob in reaction to it

not really sure tbh @delphicreject.bsky.social · 3h

yeah, the debates about the ethics of gen-ai itself seem kinda secondary to the societal consequences of building a machine that makes infinite fake news. I think "do we want to live in the world this creates" is a way more straightforward question, with a much clearer answer.

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not really sure tbh @delphicreject.bsky.social · 3h

yeah, the debates about the ethics of gen-ai itself seem kinda secondary to the societal consequences of building a machine that makes infinite fake news. I think "do we want to live in the world this creates" is a way more straightforward question, with a much clearer answer.

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mallow @bajablastenjoyer.bsky.social · 4h

and hey, you can't un-teach the plebs to read, but you can accomplish the nrx dream of "we need less literacy" in other ways!

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