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Travis @coloradotravis.bsky.social · 2h

This is turning out a lot better than I thought.

Slicing it off progressively, then reheat for service. 🧑‍🍳

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Travis @coloradotravis.bsky.social · 4h

Al pastor at the company offsite

Al pastor cooking on a rotisserie over charcoal

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Travis @coloradotravis.bsky.social · 7h

“I am a just smol bean unjustly persecuted by the nasty left who I will now inflict unrestrained violence against.”

Not a particularly coherent worldview but I guess that doesn’t matter anymore.

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Travis @coloradotravis.bsky.social · 12h

I hear in DC people refer to this bus route as ‘taking the Stephen Miller.’

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Travis @coloradotravis.bsky.social · 1d

Aspiring Entrepreneur: “How can I prepare myself for the future of business?”

Me: “Start uploading pictures of yourself with random names in the alt text so it takes longer for the seeker drones to locate you.”

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Travis @coloradotravis.bsky.social · 1d

It’s a very solid pic to be clear, I just don’t like change

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Travis @coloradotravis.bsky.social · 1d

You startled me with that new profile pic I was like who is this stranger

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Travis @coloradotravis.bsky.social · 1d

This dude should be demanding entry to the ICE facilities alongside the youths.

It’s time to suit up Obi-wan, your fellow politicians have outplayed you in the halls of power and are now in the streets terrorizing the citizenry with violence.

Meet them on the field or make way for those that will.

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Travis @coloradotravis.bsky.social · 1d

I’m like 80% sure that Chuck Schumer thinks he’s a junior variety reporter gathering b-roll on congressional personalities.

We know he’s lying Chuck. We know. Go to a protest or something; make yourself useful.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 2d

Schumer: That issue that MAGA Mike keeps talking about—illegal immigrants getting health care. It’s an effing lie. The law says that federal dollars cannot go to illegal immigrants under Medicare, Medicaid, or the ACA.

And I said that to him in the room. I said, You’re lying. He smirked.

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Travis @coloradotravis.bsky.social · 2d

Comic: Just need to subsidize demand bro

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Travis @coloradotravis.bsky.social · 2d

Freud would find this statement psychologically revealing:
Defense Mechanisms
He’d identify reaction formation - insisting we’re “totally over” toxic masculinity suggests the anxiety remains unresolved, as emphatic denial often signals ongoing conflict.
Father Figure Idealization
The “bold muscular leadership” represents classic identification with an idealized authority. Freud observed how followers project their ego ideal onto leaders to resolve internal conflicts about masculinity and power.
The Return of the Repressed
The irony: claiming to transcend toxic masculinity while valorizing aggressive masculine traits. What’s repressed (masculine identity anxiety) returns in new form, not truly resolved.
Splitting
The stark “destructive era” vs. idealized present reflects primitive psychological splitting - all good vs. all bad, without nuance.
Narcissistic Identification
Focus on physical attributes (“muscular”) reveals narcissistic identification - seeing in the leader what one wishes to be.

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Travis @coloradotravis.bsky.social · 2d

Good.

SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 3d

curtis yarvin seems somewhat unhappy

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Travis @coloradotravis.bsky.social · 3d

My 80yo father’s take on the current state of politics: “Seems to me like it’s just a bunch of white supremacists run amok.”

The man has a way of getting right to the point.

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Travis @coloradotravis.bsky.social · 3d

Gallows humor is all I got at the moment 🫠

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Travis @coloradotravis.bsky.social · 4d

It’s so funny if you just read this credulously and walk it out.

He’s implying that one day we’ll realize that prediction markets… what? Actually predict the future like precogs? JFC

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Travis @coloradotravis.bsky.social · 4d

Things continue to get more unhinged.

Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 4d

This is a declaration they will use federal resources to deploy violence against judges, prosecutors, and attorneys general. There's no other coherent interpretation of the phrasing, including "only remedy," "legitimate state power," and connecting those people with "terror networks."

Stephen Miller
@StephenM
The issue before is now is very simple and clear. There is a large and growing movement of leftwing terrorism in this country. It is well organized and funded. And it is shielded by far-left Democrat judges, prosecutors and attorneys general. The only remedy is to use legitimate state power to dismantle terrorism and terror networks.
1:59 PM · Oct 4, 2025
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Travis @coloradotravis.bsky.social · 4d

We must immediately and without further delay eliminate and abolish redundancy

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Travis @coloradotravis.bsky.social · 4d

Honestly I’d say it’s more anarcho-capitalist / Austrian school than neoliberal

Travis @coloradotravis.bsky.social · 4d

Well yes but of course a proper shitpost must rely on common vernacular not the more erudite (and often correct) academic variants.

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Travis @coloradotravis.bsky.social · 4d

Okay so a couple things:

1. International free trade (and the apac Americana generally) is definitely an aspect of neoliberalism that’s being actively reversed

2. MAGA types rant about neoliberalism as part of their populist / nationalist America-first schtick

So that’s where I’m coming from.

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Travis @coloradotravis.bsky.social · 4d

🤝

I totally respect your objection to the framing of my original post up there. Sometimes gallows humor can be a way to draw attention to hypocrisy, but I’m with you that this is at its core a very grave situation.

We have gotten very bad at civic sensibility lately and it’s pretty sad.

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Travis @coloradotravis.bsky.social · 4d

Oof

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Travis @coloradotravis.bsky.social · 4d

Already at around 30k I think. 🫠

Don’t believe I’m in that cohort, but I would rather see my own insurance go up again than have it happen to people who were receiving the subsidies. This administration is a horror show.

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Travis @coloradotravis.bsky.social · 4d

Well not the ‘haha’ kind of funny more like “this fish smells funny”

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Travis @coloradotravis.bsky.social · 4d

One would think that’s how it works, but it’s strange times over here in the land of the mad king

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