Omg I’m dying 😂😂😂…so…So Emily Austin, a right wing 'influencer' who works for Bibi and the GOP, launched 'Hot Girls for Cuomo'.

Guess who didn't bother to register the URL when she did that? What do you think Hot Girls for Cuomo dot com leads to now?... 😄 Enjoy.

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Schumer folding pissed off donors

From back in March:

www.notus.org/democrats/ch...

Aaaaand I just heard Brooks dismissed No Kings.

Can we just write off The Atlantic at this point?

I think when Trump dies, MAGA will splinter. They are a cult and no one will take that mantle. And his successor will have to come to terms with the damage he did because the spell will be broken.

What a weird moment in time.

Brooks gives a method and gives examples for how it has worked. In fact, said method is arguably happening given the effect constituent and donor pressure has had in getting Schumer and Jeffries to do what they need to do, and given the recent change in the tide over the past couple weeks.

At best Applebaum falls into the trap of thinking that telling people about the bad future ahead is sufficient to get people to avoid it, without telling people how to avoid it.

At worst she's saying the bad future inevitable, which is even more irresponsible at this current time.

Brooks' essay is better than Applebaum's in the same issue, and I can't believe I'm saying that

Then ignore them and call them out as hollow.

Fair enough. I will say that I greatly prefer talking on Discord over talking on BlueSky, X, Reddit, etc. The whole "let's have one giant place with millions of people shouting at each other" format is inherently shit IMHO.

As a person who is extremely familiar with online culture, Discord, and video gaming, those engravings were inexpressibly batshit insane in just how inconsistent and incongruous it was for them to be on bullet casings.

I doubt this was about MAGA, conservatism, liberalism, or leftism. I doubt the reasons here were internally consistent anymore than they were with the Minnesota shooter. Any reasons will be bizarre, veiled by irony and endless memes, and possibly the result of unaddressed mental illness.

That being said...that's not my issue here. As far as I can tell, there is no evidence that Tyler was in an antifa Discord server. Furthermore, as a user's server membership is private and this wasn't in the press conference, I don't see how Tim Pool/etc. could have obtained that information.

Ah.
There is something in the statement Discord made to TMZ about that as well. Discord claims the messages between Tyler and his roommate were not on Discord, but that the roommate discussed those messages with a third party after the shooting.

I never said anything about the roommate. I was saying that the Discord statement implies that he wasn't promoting violence on Discord, which implies he wasn't in an Antifa group. The only source I have found for the Antifa group claim is Tim Pool, and he is as unreliable as Taylor Lorenz.

This doesn't scream "committed antifascist". This screams "insane memelord freak", much like the Minnesota Catholic school shooter.

@prettyinpink05.bsky.social Find something else to do with your time. How about hiking? Gets you away from the news.

While "bella ciao" thing is a reference to a song sung by anti-Mussolini WW2 partisans, the other two casings are "notices bulges OwO what's this?" (an online meme used to tease others in chat with a derisive reference to furries) and "If you read this you are gay LMAO".

Per the FBI press conference, there were five arrows --- ⬆️➡️⬇️⬇️⬇️ --- on that bullet. This is the key sequence for calling in the 500-kilogram bomb in Helldivers 2. That game is an over-the-top satire where you *play* as a fascist regime soldier killing enemies in an endless war.