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Orbital Fracture @orbitalfracture.bsky.social · 1d

They all got so used to pleading the fifth that they just kind of do it all the time now.

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Orbital Fracture @orbitalfracture.bsky.social · 3d

Well you can take solace in the fact that when things go tits up the worst people to ever live will get away with it having paid absolutely no consequences

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Orbital Fracture @orbitalfracture.bsky.social · 7d

"This man fucked me over repeatedly and ruined my entire life, but yeah I'd vote for him again in a heartbeat"

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Orbital Fracture @orbitalfracture.bsky.social · 9d

I've been hearing talk of them getting rid of daylight savings for what feels like forever now, just like them talking about imposing term limits for senators, they have absolutely no intention of following through on these things.

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Orbital Fracture @orbitalfracture.bsky.social · 10d

"Layaway was AWESOME!"

Jesus CHRIST.

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Orbital Fracture @orbitalfracture.bsky.social · 11d

So THAT'S why it's called rear window

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Orbital Fracture @orbitalfracture.bsky.social · 15d

It's like a Lovecraftian story about a cursed object that drives you mad if you gaze upon it except instead of an ancient totem it's some right wing dipshit telling you we need to exterminate the lesser races

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Orbital Fracture @orbitalfracture.bsky.social · 17d

Hakuna Matata, it's a beautiful phrase, isn't it folks?

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Orbital Fracture @orbitalfracture.bsky.social · 18d

One thing I've seen time and time again is that it actually doesn't matter how many times Trump hurts them, they keep coming back for more.

People get scammed by him and lose money, they deport their family members, they lose their businesses because of his policies, it doesn't change their minds.

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Orbital Fracture @orbitalfracture.bsky.social · 24d

It's like being hit by a train except the train is going 2 MPH

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Orbital Fracture @orbitalfracture.bsky.social · 29d

People that dedicate their lives to making the world a worse place to live deserve absolutely no sympathy.

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Orbital Fracture @orbitalfracture.bsky.social · Sep 9

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Orbital Fracture @orbitalfracture.bsky.social · Sep 8

It's time for everyone to campaign on super Nuremberg trials.

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Orbital Fracture @orbitalfracture.bsky.social · Sep 6

I feel like if Elon Musk came at me to kill me with a chainsaw I would die of secondhand embarrassment before I died to the chainsaw.

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Orbital Fracture @orbitalfracture.bsky.social · Aug 26

The amount of people saying how we need to look past Newsom's cozying up to right wing scum like Steve Bannon and how he wants to get rid of all the trans people is fucking maddening.

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Orbital Fracture @orbitalfracture.bsky.social · Aug 24

They openly laugh about feeding hispanic toddlers to alligators, they're well, well past the point of caring about how evil they look.

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Orbital Fracture @orbitalfracture.bsky.social · Aug 14

Front Mission 3 also had god awful AI art in it

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Orbital Fracture @orbitalfracture.bsky.social · Jul 22

The scariest thing about modern life is realizing just how many people think fiction is completely equal to reality.

Scalia was justifying torture by saying that Jack Bauer used it to save America in the TV show 24.

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Orbital Fracture @orbitalfracture.bsky.social · May 30

Okay but why is he giving the Kubrick Stare

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Orbital Fracture @orbitalfracture.bsky.social · May 25

Ralph breaks the internet at points also weirdly feels like an advertisement for Disney's other properties. The Star Wars stormtoopers walking on screen and having the imperial march play is just frankly fucking weird for the movie it is, what's that gotta do with the internet or videogames?

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