Mr.Candles
@mr-candles.bsky.social
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Correct, because I'm making the argument that modern liberalism is fundamentally fixated ON aesthetics. Therefore, I am arguing about aesthetics, style, emotion, association, and rhetoric. Glad you understand basic English.
This whole thread is kind of fascinating to me, because it's predicated on an insurmountable ideological distinction between "liberalism" and "leftism", and then all of the examples he gives are purely arguments about aesthetics, style, emotion, association, rhetoric, etc.
January 26, 2026 at 4:54 AM
Correct, because I'm making the argument that modern liberalism is fundamentally fixated ON aesthetics. Therefore, I am arguing about aesthetics, style, emotion, association, and rhetoric. Glad you understand basic English.
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“Hey you guys didn’t vote for a genocider so actually the fascism happening now and our institutions inability to protect from it are actually your fault”
Do you hear yourselves
Do you hear yourselves
January 25, 2026 at 7:10 PM
“Hey you guys didn’t vote for a genocider so actually the fascism happening now and our institutions inability to protect from it are actually your fault”
Do you hear yourselves
Do you hear yourselves
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Every single person who posts like this actually loves that ICE murdered Renee Good because they now get to use that as some sort of smug "I told you so," which is the only thing they actually care about
The pro-Palestine people are why we're in this shit. And now the ones in MN are in the FA of their FO of their staying home or voting for him. And now they can't even take responsibility for their mistake and always argue in bad faith.
January 23, 2026 at 5:37 AM
Every single person who posts like this actually loves that ICE murdered Renee Good because they now get to use that as some sort of smug "I told you so," which is the only thing they actually care about
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“business could falter without customers”
AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns
AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns
Big tech boss tells delegates at Davos that broader global use is essential if technology is to deliver lasting growth
www.irishtimes.com
January 20, 2026 at 2:18 PM
“business could falter without customers”
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Guy uniquely responsible for why Democrats are hated so much by their own voters and why we're in the situation we find ourselves in surprised Democrat constituents and people who hate the current state of affairs do not like him doing the thing that made things suck in response to them sucking.
![According to the 2002 book How to Hack a Party Line: The Democrats and Silicon Valley, Rosenberg and NDN were instrumental in shifting control of the Democratic Party away from labor unions and toward Silicon Valley businesses.[3] Rosenberg said in 1999, "Our problem as a party is that the biggest source of our venture capital now comes from labor, which is a group that's becoming less and less important, and representing less and less of a percentage of American voters. ... We have to replace labor's investment in the party with investment from another source, and hopefully from a source that's growing."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7jwknjxsycoyjimanmzi554e/bafkreie4qfjtddo5nd6jsc7v2gpvzqsdltfzaabwdtr2foinwrzy6anwam@jpeg)
January 18, 2026 at 5:29 AM
Guy uniquely responsible for why Democrats are hated so much by their own voters and why we're in the situation we find ourselves in surprised Democrat constituents and people who hate the current state of affairs do not like him doing the thing that made things suck in response to them sucking.
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I will put it to the liberals - it seems that no amount of scolding genocide protestors was enough to stop Trump. Perhaps this was the failure all along.
Scum.
Scum.
January 3, 2026 at 11:06 PM
I will put it to the liberals - it seems that no amount of scolding genocide protestors was enough to stop Trump. Perhaps this was the failure all along.
Scum.
Scum.
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In this in-depth interview Billie Jean Sweeney — a former editor at The New York Times — details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, why this was directed from the very top, how some staff pushed back and the immense damage done by the NYT legitimizing bigotry.
'A directive from above': Former NYT editor lays out how the paper pushes anti-trans bigotry
In this in-depth interview, former New York Times editor Billie Jean Sweeney details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, how some staff tried to stop it, how it's directe...
transnews.network
January 1, 2026 at 6:32 PM
In this in-depth interview Billie Jean Sweeney — a former editor at The New York Times — details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, why this was directed from the very top, how some staff pushed back and the immense damage done by the NYT legitimizing bigotry.
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We live in a timeline where we're learning the president of the USA is likely a co-conspirator in a child trafficking ring because DOGE cancelled the DOJ's premium subscription to Adobe:
December 26, 2025 at 2:14 AM
We live in a timeline where we're learning the president of the USA is likely a co-conspirator in a child trafficking ring because DOGE cancelled the DOJ's premium subscription to Adobe:
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lol yeah that’s fuckin airtight wrap it up everybody no one’s ever been stupid and evil at the same time
December 23, 2025 at 9:55 PM
lol yeah that’s fuckin airtight wrap it up everybody no one’s ever been stupid and evil at the same time
They'll burn the world to ash and char and demand you do not speak of it. All in the name of optics.
December 19, 2025 at 5:18 PM
They'll burn the world to ash and char and demand you do not speak of it. All in the name of optics.
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Shit like this is why I don't trust even the "progressive" democrats. They should've been intimating this knowledge to the voters, that Democrat leadership was failing them, when it was happening in order to ouster them later. They virtue signal about Trump and fail to address the rot that allowed
If people actually want to know about the Congress specific bits, this is a great piece on how Pelosi sabotaged both impeachments.
Also look up Chris Coons and Valentine’s Day if you want your blood to boil on why witnesses were never called for the second impeachment trial.
Also look up Chris Coons and Valentine’s Day if you want your blood to boil on why witnesses were never called for the second impeachment trial.
The Legacy Nancy Pelosi Never Wanted
The groundbreaking speaker’s aversion to impeachment led her to short-circuit the oversight process. The price was two acquittals for Trump and a weakened Congress.
www.politico.com
December 8, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Shit like this is why I don't trust even the "progressive" democrats. They should've been intimating this knowledge to the voters, that Democrat leadership was failing them, when it was happening in order to ouster them later. They virtue signal about Trump and fail to address the rot that allowed
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i’m genuinely so convinced all of this has been a planned operation by the student and her mother (who is commenting on this publicly, and associated closely with the republican party), and big far right propaganda account going all in on it. this is designed to oust trans people from public life
December 1, 2025 at 6:09 PM
i’m genuinely so convinced all of this has been a planned operation by the student and her mother (who is commenting on this publicly, and associated closely with the republican party), and big far right propaganda account going all in on it. this is designed to oust trans people from public life
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I think it's important to get across that there are two kinds of authoritarians; what we see here is a peak example of authoritarian followers, people who are characterized primarily by a combination of trust in and submission to authority figures they see as being aligned with themselves.
On “The Necessary Conversation” podcast, Chad’s Trump supporter parents tell him the military should follow Trump’s illegal orders and kill everyone in LA if Trump commanded it — even with him and his sister in the city😳
November 30, 2025 at 5:45 AM
I think it's important to get across that there are two kinds of authoritarians; what we see here is a peak example of authoritarian followers, people who are characterized primarily by a combination of trust in and submission to authority figures they see as being aligned with themselves.
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Something deeply funny about the fact that conservatives depend on foreign labor to stoke the fires of their own rage
They turned it off because every grifting ragebait account was discovered to be LARPing.
X has changed their policy and now you can see where the accounts are based.
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
November 23, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Something deeply funny about the fact that conservatives depend on foreign labor to stoke the fires of their own rage
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Your periodic reminder that @radiofreetom.bsky.social who many of you like to follow, and who writes for the Atlantic, was pushing the great replacement theory before Trump and has never apologized for it. He's part of what got us here.
October 26, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Your periodic reminder that @radiofreetom.bsky.social who many of you like to follow, and who writes for the Atlantic, was pushing the great replacement theory before Trump and has never apologized for it. He's part of what got us here.
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November 21, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
November 12, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
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This outcome makes a lot more sense when you remember that Schumer was backing Cuomo, the candidate preferred by the billionaires who help finance Trump's campaigns. You might think Tuesday would be a big win for the Democrat Minority Leader, but it was actually a loss as it represents the erosion
November 10, 2025 at 6:43 AM
This outcome makes a lot more sense when you remember that Schumer was backing Cuomo, the candidate preferred by the billionaires who help finance Trump's campaigns. You might think Tuesday would be a big win for the Democrat Minority Leader, but it was actually a loss as it represents the erosion
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What is the argument for voting for Democrats for harm reduction if the harm is not fucking reduced
November 10, 2025 at 1:12 AM
What is the argument for voting for Democrats for harm reduction if the harm is not fucking reduced
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I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
lithub.com
November 8, 2025 at 5:37 PM
I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!
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This is an incredible article because at no point does it even try to properly explain what it's talking about. The closest it gets to that is the line, and I quote, "quantum is about particles behaving in weird ways"
Will quantum be bigger than AI?
The highly complex technology is increasingly being tipped to transform computing.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 8:22 AM
This is an incredible article because at no point does it even try to properly explain what it's talking about. The closest it gets to that is the line, and I quote, "quantum is about particles behaving in weird ways"
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Three times in the past two weeks, editorials at the 'Washington Post' failed to disclose that they focused on matters in which owner Jeff Bezos had a material interest.
'Washington Post' editorials omit a key disclosure: Bezos' financial ties
Three times in the past two weeks, editorials at the 'Washington Post' failed to disclose that they focused on matters in which owner Jeff Bezos had a material interest.
n.pr
October 28, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Three times in the past two weeks, editorials at the 'Washington Post' failed to disclose that they focused on matters in which owner Jeff Bezos had a material interest.
The most straightforward answer to this is of course: It makes people like this froth and rage and talk about it at length, giving them free advertisement. All publicity is good publicity etc.
What does any of this shit have to do with D&D, which is a game about going somewhere dangerous (eg dungeons) to fight scary monsters (eg dragons)?
What relevance does all the twee art like this Hasbro keeps churning out have for a game that is fundamentally about peril, violence and adventure?
What relevance does all the twee art like this Hasbro keeps churning out have for a game that is fundamentally about peril, violence and adventure?
October 21, 2025 at 8:21 AM
The most straightforward answer to this is of course: It makes people like this froth and rage and talk about it at length, giving them free advertisement. All publicity is good publicity etc.
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some of the more annoying libs can't accept a move to the left without first imagining that they're somehow upsetting an imaginary communist by doing so. which, y'know, whatever. rationalise it however you like, just keep it moving
October 20, 2025 at 11:33 PM
some of the more annoying libs can't accept a move to the left without first imagining that they're somehow upsetting an imaginary communist by doing so. which, y'know, whatever. rationalise it however you like, just keep it moving
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This is what it looks like when the Pegasus fires its Smartgun #LancerRPG
October 9, 2025 at 3:35 PM
This is what it looks like when the Pegasus fires its Smartgun #LancerRPG