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2026-02-05 09:46:37 UTC

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interesting hijacking angle
and while i have no problem with your agenda, the way you hijack this discussion isn't going to win you any converts

2026-02-05 08:01:44 UTC

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i won't troll you but i will castigate you
never mention #Chomsky again
nevermind him licking #Putin's boots over the invasion of #Ukraine
Noam is in the #EpsteinFiles defending #Epstein
he did this *after* Epstein was revealed as a pedophile human trafficker
Fuck #NoamChomsky
And I am not attacking the left, ironically, in contradiction to what I have said above:
A pedophile/ #imperialism apologist is not of the left
Chomsky is not of the left
Not anymore at least

2026-02-05 06:06:41 UTC

Part of the reason for the USA's failure is MAGA but the other big aspect is a left that does not engage the real enemy
Toxic idealism
Spineless capitulation
Mindless cynicism
"Polite society" "high road" cluelessness
And lazy entitlement
Not financial entitlement but this obtuse entitled foolishness that we have the time and space to criticize some aspect of the left according to deranged standards of perfection when we're facing literal fascism
Make MAGA the target of your venom
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/016/503/140/933/725/original/ecc1b6e19afc9545.jpg

2025-09-12 15:23:17 UTC

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the problem with this take is that it doesn't propose an alternative
if you are championing anarchism, the problem with removing state power is that in reality there is no such thing as a power vacuum. it is filled by something, always
you could imagine some eternal anarchist effort explicitly fighting the emergence of state power
but then this anti-power is, of course, a new power
to transcend state power you need a viable alternative framework, not merely opposing what is

2025-08-18 18:09:59 UTC

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i think that sweden and mongolia can arrive at an amicable understanding of their "historical grievances" concerning their old borders now in russia's borders and successfully divide russia between them
🤭
because apparently, in this world, we can go back in time and pick a random snapshot
and fit that to a current imperialist agenda
and the rest of the world has to just accept that
just because
and some morons will even buy this lying malicious bullshit
because "historical"

2025-08-18 17:48:35 UTC

#Putin wants to end the #UkraineWar by redrawing #Ukraine's borders
Currently #Europe's leaders are meeting a certain orange turd, #Trump, to... I dunno, clap and sing and soothe the demented thing in the White House
I propose that Putin is correct
Let's redraw Ukraine's borders with #Russia
To respect
1. historical grievances
howabout we pick 1919 borders? sanity is not a prerequisite here
2. the suffering of Russians
give a chunk of them to Ukraine so they will have a better life
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2025-07-28 11:48:54 UTC

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you're correct he has failed upwards in the domestic context of usa politics
but here on the world stage, this is pure failure
we are watching the usa die

2025-05-02 14:38:27 UTC

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while that would be hilarious, all future harry potter media just needs to die now because of jk rowling

2025-05-01 19:46:28 UTC

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"Oh I remember. I played in it"
😂

2025-03-24 03:16:30 UTC

“They want 1939 Germany; they're going to get 1789 France if they keep fucking around.”
✅
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/215/230/003/084/665/original/faa79d6daac1c8b3.mp4

2025-03-22 16:58:54 UTC

The future of the #USA:
#AOC with the #BernieSanders assist
15,000 just showed up at a rally in Tempe Arizona, where this picture was taken
#MAGA: eat shit and die
#nonvoters: show the fuck up you entitled privileged fuckwits
#centrist spineless #Democrats: shut the fuck up and fall in line
centrist #GOP archeological artifacts: what even the fuck are you, fuck off
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2025-03-21 16:18:41 UTC

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Daryl Davis' story is extraordinary and exciting
and exceedingly rare
you're dreaming idealistically and cluelessly and you are incredibly naive about the weight of the bigotry hate and ignorance out there
it's very important to you that something be true, that is not remotely true
you're not a serious person
you are what we call a toxic idealist:
from your idealistic words comes attitudes and behaviors which only helps that which you oppose. enabling codependently

2024-10-30 15:29:48 UTC

"So why are you voting for #Trump?"
"Because the #economy sucks"
reality:
"U.S. economy grew 2.8% last quarter, powered by #consumer #spending"
the biggest problem behind Trump's rise are these legacy #media and #socialmedia silos that have captured, for lack of a better word, dum dums, and kept them trapped, feeding their #fear and #hate
this is the absolute biggest threat to #democracy
i'm not saying i know how to fix it
but something has to fix it
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-gdp-2024-third-quarter-consumer-spending/

2024-09-13 03:43:45 UTC

Sure, #womensrights are under attack in the #USA but if you go back 350 years you'll find levels of deranged sadistic #misogyny and #women #hatred that we will just no way, no way return to....
"#MAGA Pastor Claims Kamala #Harris Deployed '#witchcraft' in #Trump #Debate"
https://www.newsweek.com/maga-pastor-claims-kamala-harris-deployed-witchcraft-trump-debate-1952902
...uh, nevermind

2024-09-02 16:21:48 UTC

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i didn't think it was that bad but i stand corrected and that's really galling
it also sounds like light pollution on steroids interfering with our ability to study the heavens

2024-09-02 12:16:07 UTC

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when i was young i thought the villains in james bond movies were ridiculous
but no, jokes on us
#elonmusk is an actual bond villain
not only ignoring or whining about a nation's laws, but, in mad cackling moustache twirling #plutocrat style, openly warring with a nation with high tech against their control and ability to do anything about it: #starlink will still deliver #twitter in #brazil
what a world

2024-07-28 20:47:23 UTC

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when it happened with the whigs 170 years ago (the last time it happened) it *replaced* one of the other two parties
then it's same shit, different name
so i don't think it will happen again. but even if it did, it would be a replacement, not 3 stable parties

2024-07-28 18:58:42 UTC

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why sad?
we're never perfect, there's always room for improvement
as long as the larger arc of history is towards progress, we're doing ok. something to be happy about, not sad

2024-07-28 15:32:26 UTC

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the essential lie those who do not #vote tell themselves is that by not participating they are not part of the shit show
assuming they aren't AI bots working a learned helplessness toxic idealism political angle to immobilize the far left, they live and breathe in reality, they do not inhabit a magic ivory tower, and they are a part of this, like it or not, there is no escape
and thus they *must* choose, if they are moral
or they are immobilized in a way that helps malice

2024-07-28 13:46:29 UTC

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Are you listening to A.R. Moxon / Julius Goat #America?
You vote
Not because you get perfect
That's not on the menu, and never will be
You vote simply because you move in a better direction
That's all you ever can do in this world
Voting does not make you complicit
Standing aside and crossing yours arms while things get worse makes you complicit
#vote

2024-07-26 12:16:26 UTC

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There once was a man from Nantucket
Who tripped and fell on a bucket
But due to his speed
Which was relativistic indeed
A series of fusion events and thermonuclear explosions preceded a massive shower of particles and gamma rays that created an expanding bubble of plasma that... ah, fuck it

2024-07-25 06:07:23 UTC

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because there's no value to it, now
at worst it helps trump
remember france? left leaning parties, some loathing each other, banded together, to defeat the far right. now until november, that's what we do to
so put your mouth where your vote is. then, after, i will be right there with you, knives out, working for 50 AOCs in 2026
this is just being smart. but you demand to shoot your mouth off. entitlement over smarts
go for it lety. we're all so impressed. zzz

2024-07-25 05:50:14 UTC

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i used to work AIDS education in NYC in the early '90s. schools, drug users, sex workers. this is before retrovirals
i follow based on interactions, i suppose we had a nice one at some point, alas
if you have a need to one up me because you think i'm a horndog, have at it. whatever you need to feel better about yourself. i think you are entitled and arrogant, it explains your need to whine about harris when we have trump coming for us. sex workers + GOP policies = hell

2024-07-25 05:30:43 UTC

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i don't know why i'm following you, but i'll fix that now

2024-07-25 04:27:44 UTC

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so what i wrote is an actual real choice, trump or harris
is reality for you nothing but a non sequitur?
that's an interesting bit of entitlement you have there

2024-07-22 03:52:39 UTC

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for a certain sort of person, "lesser of two evils" means "i don't want to engage with reality. i want to make believe the world is all the same hellfire and magic rainbows will come i just have to cross my arms and wait. and i can retreat and do nothing but whine and congratulate myself on my false superiority"
fuck 'em. I'm so sick of their simpleton sophistry and smug toxic idealism

2024-07-15 18:02:10 UTC

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right but the point is job 1: defeat trump
not argue about the holiness of joe biden
so why the fuck can't we just agree on the most important thing, leave it at that, and have these ridiculous fucking fights *after* job 1
jesus fucking christ

2024-07-15 17:35:00 UTC

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you're not helping
1. we all oppose trump
that's what matters
2. in 2026 we get rid of the centrist dems
but you're using 2 as a cudgel against 1
and thus your own words are doing the bidding of divide and conquer here in the service of MAGA and geopolitical enemies

2024-07-15 17:24:12 UTC

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primary the fuck out of them in 2026. get 50 AOCs
the problem is thinking the centrist dems are some omnipotent force who lord over us. they don't. so any argument that takes that as a premise is false. just ignore them and build better
when the centrist dems condescend and patronize, stick a middle finger up at them, keep to your primary concerns, vote against trump, route around them, and out organize them
don't center the world on centrist dem crap. wasted mental cycles

2024-07-14 19:21:08 UTC

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If the vote still counts then obviously it's still a democracy
Even though of course plutocracy is doing its best and having mass success in shredding it
But thanks for your show of support to vote. Because yes the vote still matters, and as long as it does we all need to show up and #vote

2024-07-14 16:46:54 UTC

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do you know the TV show called "The Boys"?
it's always been a satire of the alt-right
only now, in season 4, are some loyal alt-right fans revolting against the show, because in season 4 they made the parallels blatant
you also have alt-right who were angry when the band Rage Against The Machine got "too political"
you have to be a fucking vegetable to not understand RATM's political angle, but, there you are:
they are complete morons, lacking all self-awareness

2024-07-14 16:42:52 UTC

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agreed, your words are correct
but a clarification: those who think the potential for violence from either side is the same, the good ol' "both sides the same" lie, are idiots

2024-07-14 11:56:17 UTC

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#trump is merely a broken twisted old man
but this shooting and his survival, to a mind that only operates in signs and portents, superstitious fools, the kind to be indoctrinated into #MAGA which is more quasireligious cult than political movement, this elevates him to god status
the devotion is going to rocket through the roof
any hope that the years have quelled the passion for trump, that they will peel off and not #vote, is utterly gone

2024-07-14 11:36:21 UTC

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the MAGA mind is conspiracy theory addled
right now that fever swamp is at 1,000 degrees working overtime
a little detail like the fact the shooter was a republican might make you think they'll blink, or introspect
right?
nope
facts and reality don't mean anything to the cult
anything and everything will be twisted to serve a narrative
and they will find a way to use the shooting as surely as the reichstag fire was used to usher in nazi germany

2024-07-05 20:22:57 UTC

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Is it emotional for you? You expect politics to be like a romance? You want your heart to fill with passion when you vote?
It's a steering wheel. You steer in the direction you want. Or you don't. So someone else steers it to worse
That's it. That's the entire magic. You will never ever get better than that
Well... you could get a good direction and build on it iteratively to better
But you won't vote. So we get worse
What is it about the obvious that escapes you here?

2024-07-05 16:22:27 UTC

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of course it doesn't serve you. you don't participate
just amazing how that works, isn't it professor?
so let me just get this clear, what you believe: without any input from you, the world is just going to magically provide you with the perfect candidate, out of nowhere. and *THEN* you vote
without any feedback (a simple vote), what you want is just going to appear out of thin air on a silver platter?
a simple vote for *a direction* is beneath you. you want perfect up front
🤣 🤣 🤣

2024-07-05 04:06:48 UTC

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It's not my responsibility to convince you to do your responsibility. You are merely defining the terms on how you are failing everything you care about, and you don't even understand how.

2024-07-05 02:48:51 UTC

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100% bullshit
a vote is a move in a right direction
not voting means you're fine with things getting worse
you never wait until you get perfect, then you vote. it never ever works like that
the only way you get better candidates is to vote consistently, then people build off why people are voting and you get better next iteration
not voting is for the completely clueless or toxic perfectionists, who have no idea of their vote's worth or how things work, and they only make things worse

2024-07-05 00:34:21 UTC

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voting is a social responsibility. the op ed is repugnant no matter who the candidates are

2024-06-24 19:59:07 UTC

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Zero argument.
I hate the #ElectoralCollege and most Americans do too. We need to get enough focus on the issue, over a sustained enough period of time, to get it abolished. That's hard to do. Compound that with the perception of a party that thinks it needs the EC to win, and we're screwed.
Some would take this as an argument to detach and vote less.
I take it as an argument to engage harder and #vote more, primaries and general.

2024-06-24 19:21:37 UTC

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#GreenParty voters vote with their hearts
But zero brains
Our FPTP voting system is a pile of shit. But that doesn't change the fact it is real. And in this crap system a 3rd party vote steals from the Dems and gives the GOP
I don't like that. But it doesn't matter if I don't like it. It's real
So for someone to be so clueless about that, or to simply go "well I don't like reality so I'm going to ignore it..." and then help Trump win?
Da fuq?

2024-06-24 18:21:18 UTC

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then you agree with me its a rock solid truth
green voters are not random points in space, they are naturally more close ideologically with the dems
and yes of course it's not a 100% transfer of votes from green to dem, but obviously some percentage of them would
forget florida in 2000 for a moment, because that's an obvious point for nader voters losing the presidency to bush
simply apply your mathematical mind to new hampshire:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_United_States_presidential_election_in_New_Hampshire

2024-06-24 17:38:56 UTC

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dude the issue is how the vote on the left is divided, not the vote on the right
we got bush and the invasion of iraq because of nader voters, 100% rock solid truth
we got trump and all the subsequent hell because of stein voters... possibly
i don't like that our system works this way, but this is indeed how our bs FPTP voting system works
we need ranked choice voting, then everyone can vote their conscience
but until then, you *have* to vote tactically

2024-06-24 17:20:58 UTC

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that's not the way it works
because of our bs #FPTP system, a 3rd party vote is a vote for #trump
i don't like that, but that's the way it is
we need #rankedchoicevoting, creeping in under democrat acquiescence in maine, nyc, etc (while the GOP suppresses the vote)
with #rcv you can vote 3rd party safely, and i will too
but don't hand the country to trump because you don't understand/ accept the reality of the bs system we currently operate under

2024-06-05 11:59:09 UTC

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we still live in democracies, however flawed, and blaming the system the fascists want to destroy, on the victims of fascism, is absurd and odious
please put blame only where blame is due: the fascists. the plutocrats. the bigots. the corporations
or you are helping the fascists by misdirecting blame
if you say democracy is already dead and destroyed, what then? we fight in the streets? do you understand what your defeatism here is doing? we need to #vote

2024-05-31 13:01:22 UTC

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he can't read it? 🤣 🤣 🤣
apologies
i didn't know threads control over content was so one-way
what a world

2024-05-31 12:59:26 UTC

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i have zero doubt you guys are doing amazing #UI work
our problem of course is the centralized control #meta represents on content, with opaque algorithms. no doubt used to squash CSAM and right wing hate... but also anything outside facebook's plutocratic agenda
#centralized is dead. #decentralized is the future. it's why #threads exists at all reaching out to #mastodon
but meta will not eat us
we will eat you
Adam: leave the dark empire and join the free #fediverse my friend

2024-04-13 22:07:24 UTC

With #Iran attacking #Israel, I'd like to point out the concept of a side channel attack in intelligence gathering
This is Google Maps info on the Papa John's Pizzeria near the #Pentagon right now
notice something interesting about the little "busier than usual" indicator
and, why would that be, gentle reader?
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/266/181/146/719/888/original/cddbd66fc96d47ec.png