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(((be kind))) @zonkerbrainless.bsky.social · 21h

when I accepted my early retirement at MCC I told my coworkers at my going away thing to just wait quietly. things are noisy right now and it is a very bad time to stick your head up and ask for favors

it may never be but now is a particularly bad time

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(((be kind))) @zonkerbrainless.bsky.social · 21h

it's a work in progress

he hasn't technically failed yet!

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(((be kind))) @zonkerbrainless.bsky.social · 22h

rip city!!!

(((be kind))) @zonkerbrainless.bsky.social · 22h

I don't understand why the Democrats are not fighting harder. Why not use the power of the pursestrings? For example! "We will fund the government only if ICE is fully defunded." Or "We will fund the government only when you restore USAID and rehire all illegally fired Fed employees."

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(((be kind))) @zonkerbrainless.bsky.social · 22h

well, actually, only poor people will starve, which is ackshually good for the economy, acccckkkkshuuaalllllyyyyy

(((be kind))) @zonkerbrainless.bsky.social · 22h

It's easy to do. Order your national guard and local police to intercept the Texas national guard and order them to leave. Fire everyone who refuses to carry out the order. Give a $100k bonus to everyone who does. This is how warlords operate in failed states, which we are currently.

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(((be kind))) @zonkerbrainless.bsky.social · 22h

Rubio has been working quietly behind the scenes to make sure at least DFC and MCC survive. FWIW.

USAID was a true basket case and it needed to be nuked. But their emergency work did save lives and it was stupid and homicidal to just yank the rug out like Trump and Musk did.

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(((be kind))) @zonkerbrainless.bsky.social · 22h

If you're going to film the cops, lead a corp of volunteers from your office to film the cops. Don't just rely on citizen reporting. Have a war room, have a strategy for how to engage, who to put where, and what to do with the footage. Intentionally flood the zone with truth.

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(((be kind))) @zonkerbrainless.bsky.social · 22h

well, the part of the AI industry that is trying to replace artists with AI. There's other uses for AI besides transferring value from labor to capital! Like augmenting the productivity of labor!

(((be kind))) @zonkerbrainless.bsky.social · 22h

I think we need to have a frank conversation nationwide about police and military loyalty. If Illinois is forced to defend themselves from a Texas invasion, will the Illinois National Guard obey orders from their governor to repel the invasion?

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(((be kind))) @zonkerbrainless.bsky.social · 1d

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I don't understand why the Dems are being so weak. They've already lost everything. What else do they have to lose?

(((be kind))) @zonkerbrainless.bsky.social · 1d

We are in the "always choose punish" equilibrium of the infinitely repeated prisoner's dilemma. The optimum strategy in this situaiton is to punish, punish, punish, until the opposition comes crawling back begging for forgiveness. There is no other strategy that will work.

(((be kind))) @zonkerbrainless.bsky.social · 1d

We are in the "always choose punish" equilibrium of the infinitely repeated prisoner's dilemma. The optimum strategy in this situaiton is to punish, punish, punish, until the opposition comes crawling back begging for forgiveness. There is no other strategy that will work.

(((be kind))) @zonkerbrainless.bsky.social · 1d

The Dems should specifically target Bondi's office and department for extreme budget cuts, until she answers the questions she was asked.

I don't understand why the Dems are being so weak. EOP officials used to be deferential to Congress for precisely this reason.

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(((be kind))) @zonkerbrainless.bsky.social · 1d

He's that horribly demented uncle that you can't feel bad for because he's also despicably racist

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(((be kind))) @zonkerbrainless.bsky.social · 1d

I didn't finish it. Not a fan of elden ring boss fights.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 1d

Please, God, may there be a ceasefire agreement soon, and may it be the beginning of a new, more whole future for everyone in the region.

May new leadership rise that eschews slaughter and helps to chart a new course.

May there be repentance and repair, insofar as it may ever be possible.

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(((be kind))) @zonkerbrainless.bsky.social · 2d

ah, eugenics

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(((be kind))) @zonkerbrainless.bsky.social · 2d

Metzger follower

(((be kind))) @zonkerbrainless.bsky.social · 2d

I got in a fight with a nazi skinhead in Portland in the early 90s

Fwiw

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(((be kind))) @zonkerbrainless.bsky.social · 2d

for reals

(((be kind))) @zonkerbrainless.bsky.social · 3d

Omg that was a great movie

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(((be kind))) @zonkerbrainless.bsky.social · 4d

This is unhinged megalomaniacal Nazi sh#$. Miller hates America and must resign immediately.

STATES RIGHTS!!!

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(((be kind))) @zonkerbrainless.bsky.social · 6d

Can we get rid of Ohio's state run liquor stores while we're at it?

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(((be kind))) @zonkerbrainless.bsky.social · 7d

"Canceling" is when the poor use peer pressure to impose consequences on the rich. It's very bad.

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(((be kind))) @zonkerbrainless.bsky.social · 8d

"There will be consequences. But WE have to be the consequence."

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 8d

Most of the power authoritarians have is freely given. We should not comply with them in advance.

Trump is far weaker than he looks. So is the GOP. We should draw them out, drain them at every opportunity, and fight for people’s wellbeing at every turn.

We have been sent here to fight for people.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 8d

AOC: I think there's two things that are happening at once: One, there absolutely is an unprecedented abuse of power, destruction of norms, erosion of our government and our democracy in order to prop up an authoritarian style of governance

However, they are weaker than they look…