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VG @electrocutionist.bsky.social · 12h

Not where I'm from, but where a lot of my family and my girlfriend are from (Maryland and Texas, respectively): Bowie (pronounced "Boo-ee")

VG @electrocutionist.bsky.social · 1d

The US doesn't use the nuclear sword of Damocles as an implicit threat to its supposed "allies", though.

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VG @electrocutionist.bsky.social · 1d

Makes me glad I uninstalled Spotify when they decided to give Joe Rogan a hundred million dollars.

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VG @electrocutionist.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, only a complete fuckwit thinks "some of my ancestors lived here 2,000 years ago, therefore I have a god-given right to this land for eternity" is a reasonable argument.

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VG @electrocutionist.bsky.social · 1d

No excuse for the establishment to still be supporting Israel, either! These two things are almost certainly connected, though.

VG @electrocutionist.bsky.social · 3d

Blue No Matter Who Democrats are just as bad, bring up the drone strikes & extrajudicial executions of US citizens & they just brush it aside as irrelevant because they view politics as a team sport; anything Our Guy does is good, axiomatically, why are you criticising Obama, you must love Trump! /s

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VG @electrocutionist.bsky.social · 3d

Scratch a liberal, etc.

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VG @electrocutionist.bsky.social · 13d

He was from New England, more likely he had a Moxie than a Coca-Cola.

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VG @electrocutionist.bsky.social · 14d

"why are people protesting a member of the current administration that's 100% backing Israel's genocide of Palestinians and not the guy who's not in power" is an AMAZINGLY stupid question, speaking of "idiots".

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VG @electrocutionist.bsky.social · 15d

You need to get your head out of yours; it was serious ENOUGH for Harris to lose Michigan, Wisconsin, and probably Pennsylvania over it.

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VG @electrocutionist.bsky.social · 16d

Nah, that was never going to happen, Biden has always been a deeply ideologically-committed Zionist. And it was clear well before he dropped out that his support of Israel was a problem for his chances at winning a second term, even before the extent of his decline became obvious.

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VG @electrocutionist.bsky.social · 16d

Adjusting to texture is probably the biggest thing for me as someone who recently went on a gluten free diet for probable celiac/gluten sensitivity :-/ Gluten free flour seems like it's more finely ground, or something? it's decidedly different, anyway.

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VG @electrocutionist.bsky.social · 17d

Republicans are fascist scum who should be treated as the enemy they are. Forty plus years of Democrats "working across the aisle" and chasing after GOP voters and "compromise" has steadily pushed the Overton window to the right, and here we are. Should be obvious it was the wrong strategy.

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VG @electrocutionist.bsky.social · 18d

Right-wing libertarians are wannabe feudalists/neo-Confederates.

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VG @electrocutionist.bsky.social · 19d

The Democratic Party (or at least, its calcified gerontocratic leadership) are fundamentally and institutionally white supremacist and would prefer to have different voters than the ones they have now. They've been chasing after "white suburban voters" for 40 years.

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VG @electrocutionist.bsky.social · 19d

No, it wasn't. This is the tolerance paradox. You can't tolerate corrosive opinions like Kirk's, because they're inherently destructive to civil society.

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VG @electrocutionist.bsky.social · 19d

It's on Harris for supporting genocide, actually.

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VG @electrocutionist.bsky.social · 20d

That's because Zionism = fascism and always has; no coincidence that Republicans use the same tactics.

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VG @electrocutionist.bsky.social · 21d

Genocide Joe should've announced he wasn't running in 2023, it's his manifest unfitness as seen in the debate, support of genocidal Israel, and insistence on "no daylight" with Kamala that are responsible for Trump winning. But sure, blame the left for the Democrats' failures.

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VG @electrocutionist.bsky.social · 26d

Also for those of us who grew up with rotten dot com back in the 90s, honestly, and that stuff was just still images.

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VG @electrocutionist.bsky.social · 26d

That's a profoundly stupid take. "One owes respect to the living, to the dead, one owes only the truth." The truth about Charlie Kirk? He was a far-right extremist and the world is better without him in it.

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VG @electrocutionist.bsky.social · 26d

Political violence isn't the answer to anything and no-one deserves to be shot. That said? Charlie Kirk was a fascist piece of shit, I'm glad he's dead, and the world is a better place without him in it.

Rest in piss, bozo.

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VG @electrocutionist.bsky.social · 27d

I don't think he should have been shot and killed and I don't think that senseless violence is a solution to anything, but I'm also glad he's dead and think the world is a better place without him in it.

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VG @electrocutionist.bsky.social · 28d

No lost skin in this one that I recall, no, an industrial accident in a poultry processing plant is described but not seen.

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VG @electrocutionist.bsky.social · 28d

There's also Ennis' "303", where a Spetznaz colonel sees Americans commit atrocities and then walks across Asia from Afghanistan and stows away on a cargo ship with the intent of killing George W. Bush with an antique rifle he looted from a dead Afghan guide.

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