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Theseus, His Sails Unfurled

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It's Mike. I wish I only talked about tabletop games, writing, and comic books (and tea), but politics keep happening. I like He/Him, and I like She/Her, and I don't like Twitter anymore.

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Theseus, His Sails Unfurled @whatthelightcando.bsky.social · Feb 17

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked,

dragging themselves through the Bluesky Poasts at dawn looking for an angry fix

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 3h

The direct address straight to the camera at the end of this is 100% right out of professional wrestling. Finally.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 4h

If you come for my people, you come through me.

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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 2h

Past time for news media to treat Trumps dangerous--and worsening--disconnection from reality like the serious story it is. The longer they gone on without doing that, the harder it is to assume that the reason theyre not is bc they approve of all of this deranged lawlessness

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 4h

"Antifa-led hellfire"

www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...

PORTLAND: Fake News Ignores Antifa Violence, Residents’ Pleas for Help

For years, an Antifa-led hellfire has turned Portland into a wasteland of firebombs, beatings, and brazen attacks on federal officers and property —

www.whitehouse.gov

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Josh @joshmallow.bsky.social · 3h

Trump on camera in a speech saying he deprived Americans of their first amendment rights. Every single news outlet should be demanding impeachment or resignation immediately and every one that doesn’t do so is complicit.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Theseus, His Sails Unfurled @whatthelightcando.bsky.social · 2h

They would, except they passed that bill that took their own power away, a few weeks ago.

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Theseus, His Sails Unfurled @whatthelightcando.bsky.social · 2h

There are several potential pronunciations of "Iron" that all mean something different. Some of them don't even mean "Iron."

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 3h

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

Theseus, His Sails Unfurled @whatthelightcando.bsky.social · 2h

Makes you wonder if Trump Co meetings are like that

"Trump U was a dogshit failure, you're all fired, except my kids and some crooks, also I rule"

Theseus, His Sails Unfurled @whatthelightcando.bsky.social · 3h

Being unfirable -- not even for just cause -- for lack of a better word, is Bad. Unfirable is wrong. Unfirable doesn't work.

Theseus, His Sails Unfurled @whatthelightcando.bsky.social · 3h

Just endless harassment, firing people on a whim, no plans, criminally selfish vibes on main for the world to see ... and they know they have several years to do it.

Treating the country like a business with a CEO is just unconscionable. We knew on paper, but now we know in practice.

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Theseus, His Sails Unfurled @whatthelightcando.bsky.social · 3h

A key to understanding this admin is:

(Given that we all know we don't have impeachment or 25th numbers)

- If the worst boss you've ever had were guaranteed to keep their job for at least two years and likely four, no matter what, what kind of horrendous shit would they try?

That is this admin

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 22d

When you're in a dire situation you need to acknowledge the shape you're in but also envision the way out and execute on it. You;ve got to tune out the people who don't know shit who say you can't. They're playing into the fascists' hands. If you live in another country, shut up with defeatism.

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Theseus, His Sails Unfurled @whatthelightcando.bsky.social · 3h

Yeah, his idea of domestic production was indistinguishable from what we now know to be Trumpism, despite the fact that he loathed Republicans. It's kind-of a window into What The Fuck is Happening Here for me -- people who made protectionism/American System manufacturing their brainworm.

Theseus, His Sails Unfurled @whatthelightcando.bsky.social · 4h

Jedi minds stop being clouded, status quo returns, Anakin becomes a dark force user but not a Sith

Unless some other jerk comes out of the woodwork, like one of the people who becomes an Inquisitor later. Or Darth Maul reappears early; I forget the timeline on that.

Theseus, His Sails Unfurled @whatthelightcando.bsky.social · 4h

Granted, this is also the guy who brought me to my senses about free trade never really being fair because of business interests, but protectionism is not proving a viable alternative

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Theseus, His Sails Unfurled @whatthelightcando.bsky.social · 4h

Will never forget my left-of-center (on most things anyway) American Society professor demanding that America bring back the capacity to make spoons. Felt so fucking unserious.

Guy Trivago @convolutedname.bsky.social · 6h

These jobs are not coming back and Clinton got pilloried in 2016 from the left and right for admitting that, but this wider inability to admit it is a lot what drives to populist turn in the West.

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Theseus, His Sails Unfurled @whatthelightcando.bsky.social · 6h

I've said before, they don't even follow an evil success playbook; they just messily shit where they eat, every day, forever.

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 7h

This is all downstream of the lack of cultural power too; it’s not socially acceptable to be a giant pig and they hate it.

I swear that all Trump supporters want is to be able to call President Obama the N-word and not lose their jobs

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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 6h

I think society needs to completely change and be restructured but while I am waiting for that I am broadly going to try to have a job and friends and a life and not make trouble that doesn't help anybody

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Theseus, His Sails Unfurled @whatthelightcando.bsky.social · 6h

I had a tweet about this I'll probably never see again that was like:

I'm white, ostensibly male, and religious; I'm not *not* those demographics just because they're full of pieces of shit.

(In this info environment, maybe I'd have to add socialist. I don't remember all the bad actors back then.)

Theseus, His Sails Unfurled @whatthelightcando.bsky.social · 6h

Republicans in Fairbanks, Alaska gave up and stayed home, and now they'll have a Democrat for Mayor

Make Republicans sick of voting again

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Theseus, His Sails Unfurled @whatthelightcando.bsky.social · 7h

They want lower population in blue states and higher (imprisoned) in red states

Theseus, His Sails Unfurled @whatthelightcando.bsky.social · 7h

still a piece of garbage

YouTube video by bill wurtz

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Theseus, His Sails Unfurled @whatthelightcando.bsky.social · 7h

It's extremely important to put your own dumb ass on blast sometimes so we all have perspective.

"I'm an absolute garbage fire" was possibly Gen Z's greatest gift to the world.

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Theseus, His Sails Unfurled @whatthelightcando.bsky.social · 7h

Big breakthrough over the weekend when I learned that I can search for posts "from:me" instead of typing "from:whatthelightcando.bsky.social" every time.

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J. C. Cantwell 🌻 @segfaultvicta.aludel.xyz · 7h

the problem with "things were always this bad" is that it is rhetoric that exists, specifically and exclusively, to deny the lived reality that Republicans Fucking Make Shit Worse, and it usually comes from a place of "both parties serve the same masters!!" performative, weaponised cynicism

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Theseus, His Sails Unfurled @whatthelightcando.bsky.social · Feb 4

Right? Like I don't blame anyone. Shit's bad. But it's so unhinged because, in the words of the most important movie line of the last 50 years

Kurt Russel in the movie The Thing, dictating into a microphone: "Nobody trusts anybody now. And we're all very tired."