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Toroid @toroidal.bsky.social · 9h

possibly because they didn’t know yet. possibly because they’re worried the entire intent of shit like this is to get protesters in portland to react and give the feds a better pretext for military occupation.

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 14h

Portland protestor frog costume: What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge pepper balls?

Morpheus from Matrix movie: No, Frog. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to.

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Toroid @toroidal.bsky.social · 9h

and now they show footage of those protests as lies to justify military occupation while calling the same cops “antifa” 🫠

Toroid @toroidal.bsky.social · 9h

I wouldn’t be surprised to see more of these aggressive, clearly illegal tactics. They want to get a rise out of the community. It’s all about manufacturing pretext for the insurrection act.

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Toroid @toroidal.bsky.social · 9h

Well they have a pretty strong incentive to do that if it effectively creates one party rule.

(Which they’re idiots to want since a one party system with an all powerful executive is a dictator and GOP electeds are as subject to control as anyone else, but no one accused them of being clever.)

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Toroid @toroidal.bsky.social · 9h

A few dumb maga chumps might believe that, but the Republican Party in Oregon knows full well that disenfranchising voters is more likely to benefit them. And they’re absolutely shameless liars.

Toroid @toroidal.bsky.social · 10h

all of her posturing, working so hard to sell feigned indignation rather than just answering “no,” was clearly intended to evade perjuring herself

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mat olson @mathewolson.com · 11h

damning thread on how the IDF's propaganda arm is scraping 3D assets intended for things like games, films, or architectural purposes and kitbashing together supposed hamas bunkers and iranian nuclear sites. a genocide campaign propped up in part by someone's nephew who got too into blender.

Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 21h

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war

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Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 21h

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war

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Toroid @toroidal.bsky.social · 10h

it’s like if the actual nazis convened a panel to talk about how nasty and violent those allied forces were

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Toroid @toroidal.bsky.social · 11h

brought to you by the industry that’s still trying to make derpy spyware glasses happen

Toroid @toroidal.bsky.social · 11h

these slop nazis spin out a lot of lyin’ eyes brand bullshit, but claiming portland cops are antifa is one hell of a whopper

Toroid @toroidal.bsky.social · 14h

the data’s in on unsupervised screen time: it makes your kids dumb as shit

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Toroid @toroidal.bsky.social · 14h

i need a petition to rename Blaze to Antifa the Cat immediately

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Toroid @toroidal.bsky.social · 14h

my most lasting side effect is the ability to recognize evil

Toroid @toroidal.bsky.social · 14h

Ask every member of the GOP about this white supremacist.

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Toroid @toroidal.bsky.social · 18h

I’m sure they are, but their public leadership matters, too, and it’s been abysmal. There’s better folks for these roles.

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Toroid @toroidal.bsky.social · 18h

They’re all loyalists, they’re not going to 25th amendment dear leader.

Congressional democrats are going to immediately pursue impeachment if they win back majorities next year. Which seems too far away, but it ain’t happening before then and it’s just one of *many* strategies to support.

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Toroid @toroidal.bsky.social · 18h

At least Fox is putting the date on the screen, but it’s hilarious that they’re showing a protest from 2019 because if they showed footage from this week it would be masked ICE goons tear gassing elderly vets and tackling completely non-threatening people dancing around in animal costumes.

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Toroid @toroidal.bsky.social · 18h

The involvement of the FBI is hugely concerning. We expect this violent, extrajudicial stuff from ICE (and this is why they need to be abolished), but it feels like sign that they really have cleared out ranks at the FBI and installed enough loyalists to go along without this kind of shit.