TheSixFinger
@thesixfinger.bsky.social
Midwestern reprobate, Huey Lewis enthusiast. I don't trust people who aren't depressed.
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"what are we going to do with 20,000 ICE agents if we abolish ice" well to start with I think we should all literally spit on them in public for the rest of their lives
January 7, 2026 at 10:24 PM
"what are we going to do with 20,000 ICE agents if we abolish ice" well to start with I think we should all literally spit on them in public for the rest of their lives
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The target audience for AI is people from 1990s infomercials who literally can’t do anything, people who open a cabinet and 50 Tupperware containers come tumbling out at them before they slip on a banana peel and can’t get up again.
this is demonic. sorry to say but if you do this you should be shipped to a desert island away from the rest of us who still have human souls
![All Things Motherhood Jasmen Powell • 6d • S
Hot take, but an honest one.
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December 26, 2025 at 3:47 PM
The target audience for AI is people from 1990s infomercials who literally can’t do anything, people who open a cabinet and 50 Tupperware containers come tumbling out at them before they slip on a banana peel and can’t get up again.
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It's difficult at times to hold both "this admin is doing lasting and serious damage to our institutions and the globe" and "this admin is full of the most bafflingly incompetent idiots you've ever seen who fall over themselves like a Vaudeville act constantly."
The duality of man is incredible.
The duality of man is incredible.
October 9, 2025 at 12:34 AM
It's difficult at times to hold both "this admin is doing lasting and serious damage to our institutions and the globe" and "this admin is full of the most bafflingly incompetent idiots you've ever seen who fall over themselves like a Vaudeville act constantly."
The duality of man is incredible.
The duality of man is incredible.
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I know everything is getting worse and Trump is trying to dismantle America, but all of this is a sign of a very weak, desperate Presidency that realizes it's unpopular and has lost the majority.
The economy sucks, the Epstein Files aren't released, and people didn't vote for a MAGA dictatorship.
The economy sucks, the Epstein Files aren't released, and people didn't vote for a MAGA dictatorship.
October 9, 2025 at 9:07 PM
I know everything is getting worse and Trump is trying to dismantle America, but all of this is a sign of a very weak, desperate Presidency that realizes it's unpopular and has lost the majority.
The economy sucks, the Epstein Files aren't released, and people didn't vote for a MAGA dictatorship.
The economy sucks, the Epstein Files aren't released, and people didn't vote for a MAGA dictatorship.
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There's been too much doomerism lately, so I wrote about a study on "U-Turns" since 1900 showing how democracy actually gets strengthened after a lot of these fascist episodes. www.splinter.com/study-dont-g...
Study: Don’t Give Up Hope
Splinter is your home for news and opinions that challenge power in our political and economic system that's becoming more unhinged each and every day.
www.splinter.com
September 30, 2025 at 3:14 PM
There's been too much doomerism lately, so I wrote about a study on "U-Turns" since 1900 showing how democracy actually gets strengthened after a lot of these fascist episodes. www.splinter.com/study-dont-g...
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They truly are the Softest Boys and Girls. Everybody is 10 feet tall and bulletproof until the escalator stops working and then there needs to be an investigation and arrests
September 24, 2025 at 10:02 PM
They truly are the Softest Boys and Girls. Everybody is 10 feet tall and bulletproof until the escalator stops working and then there needs to be an investigation and arrests
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On this date: September 21, 1975, 50 years ago today, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band played the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis. As noted in the ad below, it was his first Twin Cities appearance. The $6 tickets were sold out when this ad ran in the Tribune a week before the show.
September 21, 2025 at 3:05 PM
On this date: September 21, 1975, 50 years ago today, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band played the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis. As noted in the ad below, it was his first Twin Cities appearance. The $6 tickets were sold out when this ad ran in the Tribune a week before the show.
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Cancelling Disney+ is fine and well, but here's another strategy that will really get the local affiliates' attention, and thus ABC's attention.
CALL. THE. LOCAL. ADVERTISERS.
CALL. THE. LOCAL. ADVERTISERS.
Luckily, Sinclair has a helpful database of all their stations, so you can see if they're operating in your area and respond accordingly.
sbgi.net/tv-stations/
sbgi.net/tv-stations/
September 19, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Cancelling Disney+ is fine and well, but here's another strategy that will really get the local affiliates' attention, and thus ABC's attention.
CALL. THE. LOCAL. ADVERTISERS.
CALL. THE. LOCAL. ADVERTISERS.
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Reminder: before you go full-on defeatist about the rule of law, keep in mind it remains often effective on a micro-level. It’s on the macro- that the FedSoc types have killed it. Hard work and good lawyering can make a difference for regular people — though not always, and not all of them.
Protester found not guilty of assault against federal officer at L.A. immigration protest despite top Border Patrol official's testimony. Latest w/ @brittnymejia.bsky.social www.latimes.com/california/s...
Protester found not guilty of assault despite top Border Patrol official's testimony
A misdemeanor assault case against Brayan Ramos-Brito was the first to go to trial after dozens of people were accused of impeding or attacking federal agents during protests against immigration enfor...
www.latimes.com
September 18, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Reminder: before you go full-on defeatist about the rule of law, keep in mind it remains often effective on a micro-level. It’s on the macro- that the FedSoc types have killed it. Hard work and good lawyering can make a difference for regular people — though not always, and not all of them.
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Re Kimmel, it's important that Disney has left itself an out--it is a "suspension," not a cancellation or firing. What happens in the next two days--reaction within the company but also in the press, in the industry, in Washington, among consumers, and on social media--may affect how this plays out.
September 18, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Re Kimmel, it's important that Disney has left itself an out--it is a "suspension," not a cancellation or firing. What happens in the next two days--reaction within the company but also in the press, in the industry, in Washington, among consumers, and on social media--may affect how this plays out.
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Every major talent that works for ABC and Disney should refuse to show up for work until Jimmy Kimmel is reinstated.
Marvel movies need to shutdown. Ditto the sitcoms.
Collective boycott.
Corporations love money more than anything,& this will harm them and force them to do the right thing.
Marvel movies need to shutdown. Ditto the sitcoms.
Collective boycott.
Corporations love money more than anything,& this will harm them and force them to do the right thing.
September 17, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Every major talent that works for ABC and Disney should refuse to show up for work until Jimmy Kimmel is reinstated.
Marvel movies need to shutdown. Ditto the sitcoms.
Collective boycott.
Corporations love money more than anything,& this will harm them and force them to do the right thing.
Marvel movies need to shutdown. Ditto the sitcoms.
Collective boycott.
Corporations love money more than anything,& this will harm them and force them to do the right thing.
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tell me which side is anti-comedy and anti-free speech again
September 17, 2025 at 11:25 PM
tell me which side is anti-comedy and anti-free speech again
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I think the best place to be right now is deeply worried but stopping short of going full Doomer to remember that Donald Trump has like a 34% approval rating and if you’ve already granted him God-King powers in your mind you’re falling for what he wants everyone falling for.
Crucial to distinguish between
a) the Right claiming the Kirk murder is akin to the 1933 Reichstag fire (and demanding drastic state repression in response)
and
b) an actual comparison between the situation in the United States today and Germany in early 1933.
A few thoughts on both:
a) the Right claiming the Kirk murder is akin to the 1933 Reichstag fire (and demanding drastic state repression in response)
and
b) an actual comparison between the situation in the United States today and Germany in early 1933.
A few thoughts on both:
I had a great conversation with @lincolnsquare.media about where we are today: About political violence and the Right’s desire for escalation.
But also about how we got here: About the recent history of the GOP and the rise of Trumpism. And, finally, about where America might go from here:
But also about how we got here: About the recent history of the GOP and the rise of Trumpism. And, finally, about where America might go from here:
September 17, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I think the best place to be right now is deeply worried but stopping short of going full Doomer to remember that Donald Trump has like a 34% approval rating and if you’ve already granted him God-King powers in your mind you’re falling for what he wants everyone falling for.
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i respect how every tribute to robert redford is at least a little bit horny
September 16, 2025 at 4:36 PM
i respect how every tribute to robert redford is at least a little bit horny
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The reason affluent media people are such suckers for “civility” is that the actual content of most politics has no real stakes for them personally. If you want to find these people’s true political feelings, mess with their money.
September 13, 2025 at 4:22 PM
The reason affluent media people are such suckers for “civility” is that the actual content of most politics has no real stakes for them personally. If you want to find these people’s true political feelings, mess with their money.
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Wait, you're telling me that the guy they arrested is NOT a trans woman or a leftist activist? Who could've predicted this except everybody?
September 12, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Wait, you're telling me that the guy they arrested is NOT a trans woman or a leftist activist? Who could've predicted this except everybody?
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The reason it was so important to talk about how invading cities with the US military over nothing was a sign of weakness, not strength, was because they have basically no more steps on the escalation ladder. Everything they are calling for and threatening to do they've already basically done
September 11, 2025 at 6:57 PM
The reason it was so important to talk about how invading cities with the US military over nothing was a sign of weakness, not strength, was because they have basically no more steps on the escalation ladder. Everything they are calling for and threatening to do they've already basically done
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As someone who spent many hours listening to Kirk’s show on AM radio, I would say that he made Rush Limbaugh seem like Walter Cronkite by comparison, in terms of rhetorical tone and empirical rigor. The subtext of every show was “You don’t hate the left enough.”
September 11, 2025 at 1:15 PM
As someone who spent many hours listening to Kirk’s show on AM radio, I would say that he made Rush Limbaugh seem like Walter Cronkite by comparison, in terms of rhetorical tone and empirical rigor. The subtext of every show was “You don’t hate the left enough.”
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Utah was the first state to allow open carry on campus. A would-be assailant could walk right onto campus armed as they please and nobody could’ve done a thing about it.
In 2014, Anita Sarkeesian canceled an event at Utah State after a credible assassination threat because the school’s response was that Utah allows guns on college campuses.
People have warned about this kind of violence for years. But they weren’t the people the powers at be wanted to protect.
People have warned about this kind of violence for years. But they weren’t the people the powers at be wanted to protect.
September 10, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Utah was the first state to allow open carry on campus. A would-be assailant could walk right onto campus armed as they please and nobody could’ve done a thing about it.
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This is the line that Dems need to push. It can't be simply. "Political violence is bad" it MUST be "Political violence is bad and Trump and his ilk are responsible for creating conditions ripe for political violence"
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) on the shooting of Charlie Kirk:
"Political violence, unfortunately, has ramped up in this country ... I think there are people who are fomenting it in this country. I think the president's rhetoric often foments it."
"Political violence, unfortunately, has ramped up in this country ... I think there are people who are fomenting it in this country. I think the president's rhetoric often foments it."
September 10, 2025 at 7:56 PM
This is the line that Dems need to push. It can't be simply. "Political violence is bad" it MUST be "Political violence is bad and Trump and his ilk are responsible for creating conditions ripe for political violence"
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All the MAGA Warriors who all of a sudden care about political violence?
You celebrate insurrectionists, killers, criminals, you said nothing about Vance Boelter, and support ICE agents terrorizing innocent Americans.
Hypocrites.
Don't let these people bully you or shame you. Call them out.
You celebrate insurrectionists, killers, criminals, you said nothing about Vance Boelter, and support ICE agents terrorizing innocent Americans.
Hypocrites.
Don't let these people bully you or shame you. Call them out.
September 10, 2025 at 7:17 PM
All the MAGA Warriors who all of a sudden care about political violence?
You celebrate insurrectionists, killers, criminals, you said nothing about Vance Boelter, and support ICE agents terrorizing innocent Americans.
Hypocrites.
Don't let these people bully you or shame you. Call them out.
You celebrate insurrectionists, killers, criminals, you said nothing about Vance Boelter, and support ICE agents terrorizing innocent Americans.
Hypocrites.
Don't let these people bully you or shame you. Call them out.
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please do not post things you don’t want to see on The Free Press and Fox News later this evening
September 10, 2025 at 6:58 PM
please do not post things you don’t want to see on The Free Press and Fox News later this evening
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Count no chickens. But because Chicago stood up, they were left with two options: escalate violence or fuck off. If we do this everywhere, their options narrow and narrow.
September 10, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Count no chickens. But because Chicago stood up, they were left with two options: escalate violence or fuck off. If we do this everywhere, their options narrow and narrow.
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GO OFF LORD GRANTHAM
September 4, 2025 at 12:50 PM
GO OFF LORD GRANTHAM