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2026-05-03 23:39:33 UTC

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"but somebody's mom who says dumb shit about trans people but would never bother a trans person"
...what? But that's...
Fucking *what?*
Though I guess that's the kind of oxymoronic nonsense I'd expect from someone who thinks that systemic harassment is a matter of personal responsibility.
Instead of bloviating about how you think things *should* work, maybe take some time to listen to people who actually get harassed. They're the ones who know what works and what doesn't because they don't have the luxury of playing with hypotheticals.

2026-05-03 22:15:33 UTC

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What you're talking about has been disproven by history time and time again. Social consequences are a huge part of how we suck less.
Making certain beliefs socially unacceptable is how we curtail their influence, not acting is if they're simply a difference of opinion.
And yeah, I have intolerant family members. For instance, my dad is a Holocaust denier. We don't talk.

2026-05-03 14:19:46 UTC

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It's wild that you can live in the world as it is today and still think tolerating intolerance is a winning strategy.

2026-05-02 16:05:54 UTC

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By this point, Israel has dropped more than double the tonnage of bombs on Gaza than the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atrocities *combined.*
The bomb dropped on Hiroshima was 15 kt and the one dropped on Nagasaki was 21 kt.
Even as of October 2025, it was estimated that over 72 kt worth of bombs had been dropped on Gaza - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_bombing_of_the_Gaza_Strip

2026-05-01 21:42:41 UTC

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Is the unicorn vomiting a rainbow onto its dick or is it sucking its own rainbow dick?
I suspect the answer is yes.

2026-04-24 15:25:55 UTC

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This is just a metaphor, right?
...right?

2026-04-19 15:48:29 UTC

Finally, tools for MEN™!
Alternate title: When you're behind enemy lines and need to assemble an IKEA bookshelf.
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2026-04-14 01:48:41 UTC

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It's wild - we have all these internal memos and shit from Meta where they're like, "Designing our algorithms on Facebook and Instagram to make people angry and hate themselves keeps them on the site half a second longer, which makes us an extra millionth of a cent. So obviously that's what we gotta do." It's not even a secret.
Yet despite all of the mountains of evidence that this is being intentionally done to people, particularly young people, the idea that we should regulate a handful of companies doesn't even come up for a vote. Apparently, trying to regulate the daily lives of tens of millions of people is a lot more rational?

2026-04-05 22:07:54 UTC

Trump: "I'm gonna commit war crimes until Iran opens the fuckin' strait!"
Liberals: "How dare he use such crude, unpresidential language."
Just... I mean... not the thing to focus on here, guys.

2026-03-17 03:17:21 UTC

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Their "double-tap" strikes are specifically designed to kill anyone who tries to tend to the wounded. The "tactic" is literally just meant to murder everyone with medical training.

2026-02-25 15:20:16 UTC

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You can always rely on the news to tell us that nobody wants to work anymore, kids are more disrespectful than they used to be, and trans people are new and scary.

2026-02-08 15:50:44 UTC

Everyone's posting pictures of owls today, but I think it's important that everyone knows the real reason for the season.
#SuperBowl
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2026-01-31 01:37:09 UTC

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More like how I *don't* sleep at night, am I right?

2026-01-17 02:27:48 UTC

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The only appropriate response to an instance that welcomes Nazis is to defederate. If that means effectively cutting all ties to an entire platform, then it sounds like a shitty platform to be on.

2026-01-17 02:09:56 UTC

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Not mentioned, but extremely worthy of note: tear gas is linked to adverse reproductive health and outcomes.
These "pro-life" dickheads are indiscriminately gassing people with a chemical that is known to cause miscarriages.

2025-12-29 20:06:16 UTC

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My point is that if John Deere's profit center gets cut out from under them, it's going to significantly hurt their ability to produce and sell products. That's going to provide a ton of opportunity for other manufacturers to steal that business.
Think of it this way, John Deere is planning to make *10%* of their revenue just from software fees alone by 2030: https://www.theregister.com/2022/09/12/deere_software_revenues/
I mean, even if it was just that by itself, can you imagine how completely and utterly fucked *any* company would be if they lost that much of their business? Their ability to stay competitive would get tanked just from the restructuring alone.
Now consider the fact that software fees aren't just a standalone part of the business. John Deere's entire pricing model is dependent on the fact that they can force customers into those high margin software fees. Then, of course, there's all those overpriced service and maintenance fees they can charge because the software means nobody else can work on the equipment.
John Deere doesn't know how to make a profit off a tractor anymore. You know who does? Every other goddamn tractor company. And even with tariffs, you're only paying those once instead of having to constantly shell out cash for the entire lifetime of the product.
So, sure, John Deere equipment will be very attractive to farmers if they can jailbreak it, but why in the hell would John Deere keep selling it if it's not making them any money?

2025-12-29 17:04:01 UTC

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John Deere isn't going to be much of a competitive threat if the company collapses. They've become extremely dependent on locking customers in. If they lose that, they'd need to completely restructure the business and lose a significant amount of market share in the process.

2025-12-29 16:42:35 UTC

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The biggest stranglehold John Deere has on farmers is the fact that it's a black box that they're not even allowed to service or modify themselves. That's where they make their money.
If an overseas company shipped third-party software that farmers could load on their John Deere equipment, that would be a *devastating* blow to the company. Hell, if they gave it away for free, they could make John Deere implode basically overnight.

2025-12-21 15:39:38 UTC

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For anyone else experiencing this, look up "revenge bedtime procrastination."
It's definitely something I experience now and then. Talking to my wife about it has helped, for sure. We've been able to figure out how to make sure I'm not ignoring my own need for time for myself, but sometimes there really isn't any time for it for some extended period of time and the compulsion builds up again.
Something for other people to consider, though - the kind of people who are denying their own needs in order to take care of the needs and wants of the people around them will also likely have a lot of shame around the idea that they need to carve time out for themselves. That makes it hard to admit to themselves, much less talk to someone else about.
Personally, a lot of my self-worth has been wrapped up in my ability and capacity to do things for people and there was a *lot* to unpack before I could feel comfortable talking to my partner about it. That isn't a trivial thing to overcome.

2025-12-19 06:18:23 UTC

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Yeah, there is a very simple explanation for the rightward shift of young men:
They're being heavily propagandized by Nazis and way too many platforms are just allowing it to happen.
Case closed.

2025-12-18 18:18:32 UTC

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I like to think that, back in the day, when someone said that trading the same banana back and forth meant it was three bananas, we just collectively got together and hurled them into a volcano or something.

2025-12-18 05:07:48 UTC

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I've always found it telling that executives are far and away the biggest fans of a technology that provides mediocre results, at best, but grovels so obsequiously that it makes regular people uncomfortable.

2025-11-26 17:52:06 UTC

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Lucky for her, the spell follows Bruce Banner rules for clothing damage.

2025-11-11 00:34:58 UTC

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"I have a hot scoop about how Mayor Mamdani REALLY feels about Israel and Palestine."
Boy are they going to be surprised about all of the public statements he's made about that. Clearly they aren't aware any of that exists based on all the hearsay and gossip they report about his feelings on the matter.

2025-09-29 00:41:39 UTC

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By "24 karat gold," he means cheap plastic and spray paint - https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-oval-office-home-depot-gold-b2823190.html

2025-09-26 16:19:00 UTC

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Their big donors are masters at using progressive-ish language as long as there's no danger of it actually impacting their bottom line. Corporate social media accounts are a treasure trove of empty pandering.
Less so of late on account of all the fascism, but you know.

2025-09-26 15:58:49 UTC

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Democrats won so decisively in 2008 that they could basically pass any legislation they wanted. Their supermajority in the Senate made them completely immune to the Republican filibusters that would later grind things to a halt.
So isn't it weird that Democrats have never even *tried* to run the same kind of campaign they did with Obama? I mean, if I was even half that successful at something, I'd at least give it another shot, you know?
It's also not like they don't have tons of data to know exactly what would get people out to vote in those kinds of numbers. Yet they always handle those kinds of topics like they're wearing oven mitts.
Do you really need someone as charismatic as Obama to just confidently state that you're going to make universal healthcare happen? Is it beyond the grasp of all but a once-in-a-generation political operator to realize that compromising with yourself on your own policies will stop your momentum dead in its tracks? They can't have possibly thought that voters were dying to hear all about how they were going to means test the hell out of student debt relief, right?
None of it makes any sense in the context of a political party that is doing its honest best to execute a legislative agenda. It does, however, make perfect sense for a party that wants to maintain an extremely unpopular status quo but knows they would never get elected if they just said that. A party like that would need to trip themselves up just enough to keep elections close so that they could always blame their inability to pass substantial legislation on not having enough political power.
Otherwise, they have to make bizarre excuses for why their legislative centerpiece amounted to nothing more than a repackaged Republican healthcare bill. I'm supposed to believe that the reason we don't have a modern, functional healthcare system is because the entire Democratic Party was brought to its knees by *Joe motherfucking Lieberman*? His opposition to a public option was so principled, so full of moral courage that there was no bone that the entire Democratic establishment could throw him tempting enough to get him on board with the single most important item on the Democrats' agenda? They had absolutely no choice but to go, "Oh well, we tried, I guess we just have to copy Mitt Romney's healthcare bill?"
No, it's much simpler to just say, "We really want to do all these cool things for you, but those mean ol' Republicans won't let us."

2025-09-15 17:11:15 UTC

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There is so much to unpack here that it's incredible.
Sorry, it's not literally "incredible." I don't find it difficult to believe that someone would carry water for fascists like this.
Sorry, you're not literally carrying water for them. I only meant that in the sense that any reasonable person would read it based on the obvious context.
This administration has claimed that immigrants, even people who were here legally, needed to be sent to concentration camps because they're a national security threat. They have made good on that threat. Repeatedly. Their actions have proven, well beyond any ability to give them the benefit of the doubt, that they will claim *anyone* they want to target is a threat to the US. They have taken a phrase that has a specific, legal meaning and rendered it meaningless any time they use it. If they don't ever use words like that literally, why on earth would you say that we have to treat them as though they do? Why should anyone?
We have to say what they mean because they won't. Otherwise, the press is nothing more than a mouthpiece that legitimizes fascist speech. You don't even have to take my word for it - history has proven you wrong on this. Taking fascists at their word and uncritically reporting on their statements as such is how you lose. After all, isn't that how we've *been* treating them? How the fuck has that been working out? Does it feel like that's been winning us anything?
Sure, you're not *technically* wrong to pedantically call it an inaccurate way to literally repeat the claims that were made by the lying administration that lies all the time. You are ethically wrong (this kind of hand wringing been proven time and time again to only help fascism along), but not *semantically* wrong. Congratulations.
However, you are straight up, completely, whole-ass, factually wrong to claim that what the OP said is BS. OP correctly identified what the fascists meant by what they said based on the ample body of actions they have taken.
Sorry, I'm sure you didn't literally use your whole ass to write your comments. Please don't sue me for libel.

2025-09-15 16:09:21 UTC

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What's the difference between them and everyone else who criticized Kirk? If that's the only reason they're being targeted, then isn't *everyone* who criticized him, then effectively everyone is a target.
By calling certain people out by name, they are sending the message that they can find out who you are and silence you. Just a general warning is actually *less* effective way to do that. This is a textbook example of the chilling effect.

2025-09-04 22:09:28 UTC

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That witch knows more about the prince's fetishes than she's letting on.

2025-09-01 16:45:15 UTC

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It should also trouble them to know that Netanyahu helped facilitate the transfer of funds to Hamas. It's not even a secret or rumor, he's said so himself.
If everyone who excused the murder of children because of Hamas was actually consistent about that, Netanyahu would have already been tried and executed a long time ago.
The only conclusion you can draw from that is they think it should be a death sentence to exist in the same city block of anyone who is even suspected of being in Hamas, but it's perfectly okay to help funnel millions and millions of dollars to them.

2025-08-27 17:03:27 UTC

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"I see you bought <Shield of Destiny>. Would you like to buy this again?
Yes / Yes, but not right now"

2025-08-26 03:33:33 UTC

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"I had twenty thousand followers.*"
*99% of which were bots

2025-08-19 18:04:57 UTC

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I gotta be honest, it feels like a "start over from scratch" situation to me.

2025-08-19 01:12:18 UTC

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Like cop shows that make people look guilty for "lawyering up," AKA exercising a basic Constitutional right.

2025-08-04 15:37:06 UTC

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It's a compelling idea considering entrepreneurs these days seem to be like, "We're disrupting X by charging subscription fees for stuff you used to be able to own and turning employees who have labor rights into contractors who don't."

2025-07-28 23:52:25 UTC

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With all due respect, that respected professor sounds like a real asshole.

2025-07-28 23:13:52 UTC

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It *is* political.
Why is that such a bad word? Why is everyone so afraid of something being "political?"
The very concept of having a weekend is political. Having kids spend their childhoods learning and playing instead of toiling in a mine is political. Not having a goddamn feudal lord who owns you and the land you live and work on is political.
Rich, malicious assholes have spent an unfathomable amount of money and resources to poison the word "politics." That is also political.

2025-07-26 20:17:21 UTC

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It's not just speculative. School boards have *already* been banning books that so much as mention the existence of LGBTQ+ people under the grounds that they're pornographic.

2025-07-21 19:55:29 UTC

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My little pet conspiracy theory is that Trump is going to get assassinated once he's become more of a liability than an asset - either they order it directly or they just let it happen, whichever.
Vance is the obvious proxy for tech fascists like Thiel and they didn't spend that much fucking money for a *Vice* President. Plus, an assassination provides a ton of political capital to really crank the fascism to to 11.
It sure does look like things are getting primed to make the Republican base glad to be rid of Trump.

2025-07-19 03:24:04 UTC

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You're right, it's simply not possible to deport millions of people. When the logistics of trying to move that many people starts to break down, things get really dark.
That's how concentration camps become death camps.

2025-07-16 19:52:29 UTC

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When communities got together in force to show the Gestapo just how unwelcome they were, their Jewish populations were much safer.
The people who take that kind of job are fundamentally cowards. Part of it is that when they see how outnumbered they are, they get scared of immediate consequences. We see that today with how much ICE cries about whatever percent increase in assaults of ICE agents there have been (I'm positive they include hurt feelings in those stats).
However, probably a larger factor was that seeing such a large amount of resistance made them wonder, "Oh shit, what are these people going to do to me if this whole NAZI thing doesn't work out..." Social pressure is extremely powerful - even more so with cowards.
We have to know who these people are and we need them to know we know. The Sixth Amendment gives us the *right* to know their identities. As we have become all too aware, these rights only exist if we assert that they do.
I say this more for the benefit of liberals than fascists - there is no such thing as doxxing an ICE agent. Obviously, fascists have a vested interest in claiming that they have the right to brutalize people anonymously. Liberals have a habit of wringing their hands whenever fascists confidently say they're allowed to do whatever they want.

2025-07-10 17:04:28 UTC

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This is one of the more haunting parts I read in They Thought They Were Free because it sums up just how much collective inertia that has to be pressured to move:
"But the one great shocking occasion, when tens or hundreds or thousands will join with you, never comes. That’s the difficulty. If the last and worst act of the whole regime had come immediately after the first and smallest, thousands, yes, millions would have been sufficiently shocked—if, let us say, the gassing of the Jews in ’43 had come immediately after the ‘German Firm’ stickers on the windows of non-Jewish shops in ’33. But of course this isn’t the way it happens. In between come all the hundreds of little steps, some of them imperceptible, each of them preparing you not to be shocked by the next. Step C is not so much worse than Step B, and, if you did not make a stand at Step B, why should you at Step C? And so on to Step D."
Or brunch. Sometimes we're waiting for brunch.

2025-07-09 15:20:59 UTC

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Personally, I'd consider defending someone throwing up Nazi salutes to be antisemitic, but that's just me.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5097676-elon-musk-defended-salute-criticism/

2025-07-08 03:30:23 UTC

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The fact that they have Elon a pass on throwing up two Nazi salutes makes it clear they don't give a fuck about actual antisemitism.

2025-07-04 16:23:36 UTC

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This quote seems apt here:
"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread."
- Anatole France

2025-06-30 04:00:49 UTC

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I always thought it was bizarre that "justice sensitivity" is an autistic trait instead of saying that "justice insensitivity" is an allistic trait.
But no, it isn't "obviously caring about justice, one of the critical elements of human society, should be considered the default," it's "what do the autistics think? okay, that's the weird one."

2025-06-27 16:06:26 UTC

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Double check the dates on your chart real quick.

2025-06-27 15:52:27 UTC

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That spike represents the last time Democrats actually fought for the working class. They won so much they literally had to make a rule against it.

2025-06-27 03:57:26 UTC

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When establishment Dems lose: "Voters are stupid, it's all their fault. We don't have to change a thing - let's just keep moving right."
When progressives lose: "Clearly, nobody wants to vote for progressive policies. We have to move further to the right."

2025-06-22 14:56:17 UTC

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All of the lies they try to sell us about why we need the Drug War because drugs fund terrorism *are actually true about oil.

2025-06-18 17:55:44 UTC

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"To a person, libertarians have been quite simplistic and incurious..."
I don't think you needed to go any further than that, to be honest.

2025-06-10 02:00:53 UTC

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Are you saying that those votes were a critical factor in the election results and yet the Democratic Party did absolutely nothing to try to win their vote? Speaking as someone who voted for Democrats down ticket as the least bad option, that sure sounds like a dogshit campaign strategy to me.
So where's the anger at the people who ran such an utter failure of a campaign? Feels like that's probably a more productive target for your ire. Or is it your strategy to browbeat millions of individuals until they vote for people who can't even be bothered to pretend to give a fuck about them?

2025-06-05 05:08:26 UTC

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"In addition to much of what they stole, Fields left behind a hat that had his last name on it."
Hahaha, I'm so glad Nazis are idiots.

2025-05-26 17:41:06 UTC

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I believe it has more to do with what Israel represents in terms of Western influence in the region.
Back in 1986, then-Senator Biden said, "Were there not an Israel, the US would have to invent an Israel to protect our interests in the region."
It is very plausible that many Western powers feel similarly.

2025-05-26 17:02:02 UTC

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And it has been proven that the claims that UNRWA had ties to Hamas were categorically false. Yet so many countries that pulled funding for that fake scandal haven't resumed their funding. Almost feels like they were just glad to have a flimsy pretense to do something they wanted to do anyway.

2025-05-25 03:22:31 UTC

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Reminds me of how a lot of dudes will be like "I'll die for my family!"
And it's like, "Okay, but will you do the dishes for your family? Because they don't need you to die, they need you to do the fucking dishes."

2025-05-23 23:41:20 UTC

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https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/114/559/790/583/702/222/original/53f18544447f0b1d.jpg

2025-05-23 17:51:25 UTC

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We should probably expect them to do more of this. After all, that's how the Nazis did it.
Destroy businesses owned by people who aren't white nationalists so racists can swoop in and profit.

2025-05-10 19:51:36 UTC

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It's not the "opposing politicians" part that's the issue, it's the fact that he wants to arrest them simply because they were looking into his administration's illegal activities.
We wouldn't be in this mess if Democrats had actually been willing to hold Republicans legally accountable for their criminal behavior instead of worrying about whether or not it would look partisan. At the absolute very least, the Republicans who were deeply involved in the 1/7 insurrection should have been arrested, "opposition politicians" or not.

2025-05-10 00:18:23 UTC

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The enemy is both strong and weak.

2025-04-22 15:23:10 UTC

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"If people knew how many babies we murdered, they'd want to violently overthrow us!"
Yeah, no shit.

2025-03-30 05:00:57 UTC

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That's my thinking, too. Why does it matter whether he's officially part of DOGE or not if those flunkies are going to do what he says regardless?

2025-03-23 17:34:37 UTC

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We're nearing an inflection point where Elon is doing more harm than "good" to the stock price. That's when they'll act like they grew a conscience.

2025-03-22 01:01:15 UTC

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"If you are going to carry a backpack or bag, don’t take the one you carry around in everyday life."
This goes for shoes and clothing as well. Protestors have been identified and arrested because the cops were able to identify a specific article of clothing and get credit card purchase info for it.
Dress generically in an outfit you paid for in cash.

2025-03-07 03:23:29 UTC

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As far as the powers that be were concerned, one of the scariest things the Black Panthers ever did was the free breakfast program.

2025-03-02 20:46:05 UTC

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For an organization whose entire electoral strategy was "at least we're not Republicans," they sure are embracing the Republican playbook.
And for an organization that blames their losses on leftists refusing to show up to vote, vowing to double down on suppressing leftists sounds like they're either lying, trying to lose elections on purpose, or both.
To clarify for the people who blame everyone except for the Democratic Party for losing elections:
If you want to say that leftists aren't welcome in your party, then you didn't get to blame them for not showing up to vote for you.
If you want to claim that leftists are so important to your electoral strategy that you can't win without them, then you have to admit that a *winning* strategy involves offering leftists a seat at the table.
You don't get to have it both ways.

2025-03-02 06:55:20 UTC

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If you have power to moderate a space and you don't use it to kick out bigots, you are handing them the power to kick out whoever they want.
You can't be "apolitical" about it.
You can't just not take a stance.
You can't be neutral.
If you make a space safe for bigots, you make it unsafe for everyone they're prejudiced against.

2025-02-07 20:48:17 UTC

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I discovered and subsequently binged this series like less than a month ago. It's such a pleasant surprise to hear that you're going to put out more!

2025-02-05 00:51:29 UTC

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Shouldn't be too hard to "level it out" after it's already been flattened by billions of dollars of bombs courtesy of Biden, et al.
Democratic politicians don't get to say shit about this when they made it all possible.

2025-01-27 18:49:43 UTC

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Unlimited VC funding has been a predictable disaster.
Even when something actually useful pops out, they enshittify the hell out of it to squeeze out every last dime.

2025-01-27 01:16:21 UTC

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People who think they're too smart to be conned are the best marks. Once they've been suckered, they will refuse to believe they were tricked because their ego is at stake.
Acknowledging that you are just as vulnerable to propaganda as anyone else helps you stay on your guard, but even more importantly, it makes it much easier to realize if you are being manipulated. The sunk cost is much lower and easier to walk away from if you don't see it as a moral failure.

2025-01-23 17:54:19 UTC

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They meant "intimate" in the "40% of cops..." kind of way.

2025-01-20 22:08:25 UTC

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Right?
"Let's get back to the people who helped bring us to this point and did absolutely nothing to stop it."
Completely ridiculous.

2025-01-18 03:15:47 UTC

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Do you want Godzillas? Because that's how you get Godzillas.

2025-01-15 20:52:12 UTC

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Middle class libs fucking *hate* anything that makes them think about how precarious their financial stability is - that they're always just one or two bad breaks away from living in a tent, too.

2025-01-06 00:46:36 UTC

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My toddler took my phone from me and gave this picture kisses.

2025-01-04 06:06:11 UTC

@npub18x7…p6e7
As far as the white establishment was concerned, one of the scariest things the Black Panthers did was their free breakfast for kids program.

2024-12-24 17:40:26 UTC

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If retail and restaurant workers are forced to smile and act deferential, I don't have to think about how miserable their jobs are.
If warehouse workers' strikes are broken, I don't have to think about the awful working conditions people endure for my two-day shipping.
If economists' numbers say that the economy is good, I don't have to think about how people are barely getting by, if they're getting by at all.
If cops tear down tents and throw the unhoused in jail, I don't have to think about how people can't afford rent.
If masks are banned, I don't have to think about how people are still dying of COVID.
If property damage is treated more seriously than police brutality, I don't have to think about how systemic racism is still oppressing people.
If protestors are brutally suppressed by riot police and branded as antisemites, I don't have to think about how we're funding and arming the genocide of the Palestinian people.
If I'm not confronted with human suffering, I don't have to think how my lifestyle affects other people. The people who try to make me think about those problems are the problem.

2024-12-13 02:28:32 UTC

Noreaster.
#UnknownHolidays
#HashtagGames

2024-12-11 06:17:06 UTC

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Every time this comes up, I feel the need to stress the fact that the Supreme Court decision to flush the 14th Amendment down the toilet and allow Trump on the ballot was *unanimous.*

2024-12-11 04:39:28 UTC

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"Fuck yeah, let's tear ass to our local public library and fucken respectfully go hog wild on some motherfucking books and participate the shit out of programs that enrich our community."

2024-12-10 00:45:43 UTC

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Very cool, Elon. Thank you for taking an overwhelmingly celebrated event and turning people's focus toward the fact that the entire system is rotten from the inside out and needs to be dismantled if we want to stop fuckers like that CEO (and you) for good.

2024-12-07 18:26:03 UTC

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The prophecy has been realized - they truly have united us in our hatred of the healthcare system.

2024-12-01 15:42:18 UTC

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There was a leak by a whistleblower that confirmed Meta knew all about the harm it caused, knew what would help to lessen that harm, and intentionally didn't pursue those changes because they would be less profitable: https://facebookpapers.com/

2024-11-26 15:03:31 UTC

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One of the things we have going for us compared to the original Nazis is that those dudes were legitimately tough sons of bitches - they fought in the trenches of WWI. Those were guys who were ordered to charge machine gun nests.
Today's Nazis are soft cowards.

2024-11-24 01:16:42 UTC

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To be fair that's only like, what, 1% of the number of books he's written?

2024-11-24 00:40:41 UTC

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"The billionaires considered using special combination locks on the food supply that only they knew."
Yeah, their security forces are going to beat that combination out of them on day 1.

2024-11-18 00:54:05 UTC

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This is all dead on and people need to be acutely aware of this shit. Fascists actively seek to destroy language as a means to build understanding. Instead, they twist words and phrases until they're either meaningless, weapons, or cover.
For a more recent example, remember when "fake news" actually had a very clear, specific definition - media that presents completely fabricated stories as news? That phrase has been rendered not only meaningless to communicate anything useful, but it has also been turned into a weapon the right uses to attack any news they don't like.
They also love coopting language the left uses because it's popular. Just like you said, they're fucking liars and have no intention on delivering on anything that doesn't give them more power. You see a lot of this particularly when there are very valid criticisms of the status quo from the left. The right will adopt this, not because they give a shit about the movements, but because they hope to leverage that discontent with the current system into, surprise, more power for them (which is why neoliberalism creates such an ideal breeding ground for fascism).
Right-wingers have made political *bank* over the Palestinian genocide. They don't give a fuck about the Palestinian people and, if anything, they plan on taking an even more active role in helping Israel slaughter innocents. But that hasn't stopped them from shouting about how Democrats are complicit.
The difference between a leftist and a fascist in this regard is that leftists actually want the genocide to stop and work towards making that happen. This is why it's fucking stupid to try and make temporary alliances with fascists over issues you think you're in agreement on. They will use you to create legitimacy for themselves, piggyback off of that to take more power, and then they will put you and the people you were trying to protect up against the wall.

2024-11-13 01:28:18 UTC

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I feel like there's a reasonable chance that his administration offs him to give themselves a ton of political capital. His incompetence and narcissism have been major impediments to ushering in fascism. He's been tolerated because of the popular support he has been able to drum up, but that's all.
However, his popularity has been waning and it's only getting worse. His cognitive decline is becoming harder to hide from the base. Realistically, how much more use can they squeeze out of him? How long before they decide that he'd be worth more to the movement as a martyr than as a fading demagogue?
They could stage it as an assassination by the left and use it as a pretense to push an authoritarian takeover. Worse, they know Democrats would give them a huge amount of leeway to do it out of a misguided sense of "unity and healing." We've already seen how they react to assassination attempts - Democrats bent over backwards to appease Republicans so as not to appear divisive.
I'm positive that, at the very least, these conversations have been happening within far right circles.

2024-10-28 20:40:54 UTC

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And it is a certainty that the 5 people who will still be run over if you pull the lever will absolutely be run over if you do nothing.
It is an *odious* decision to have to make and nobody who pulls that lever should celebrate and say "we did it, we won!"

2024-10-25 04:55:54 UTC

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We see this shit all throughout US history: the law is always unequally applied to leftists and conservatives.

2024-10-19 03:59:00 UTC

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So he's saying that the 1/6 insurrection was staged, but that the people who were arrested are unjustly being held as political prisoners?
How the fuck does that work?

2024-10-14 16:19:42 UTC

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I need to set this up as an auto-responder when certain members of my family hit me up.

2024-10-14 04:05:30 UTC

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The big difference in my mind about Republicans and Democrats is that Democrats can at least be pushed to do the right thing sometimes, but they have to be **pushed.**

2024-10-14 04:00:57 UTC

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And, for that matter, why do Democrats always blame literally everyone else when they lose? How is it always the fault of leftists, progressives, spoiler candidates, and whatever the fuck else, but *never* because the DNC ran a shitty campaign?
How is that *always* the after action report? Why does the DNC get to act like they're your shiftless, constantly unemployed, deadbeat cousin who always needs money for some sure thing business venture and always has some excuse when it doesn't pan out? How do you let that go on for decades without putting your foot down and saying "look, I want you to succeed, but something has to change and that's going to have to start with you taking some responsibility and getting your act together."

2024-10-14 03:14:04 UTC

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If leftists are an important bloc, isn't it on the fucking campaign to throw them a bone? So why are Democrats ignoring leftist concerns and, instead, courting Republican voters by doing shit like considering Liz Cheney for a cabinet position?
I'm a leftist, I'm going to vote blue down ticket, but I'm absolutely not going to pretend like it's some mystery why leftists, especially the younger cohort, are not motivated to vote.
It's totally fair for a campaign to ask people why they don't vote, but when they tell them, isn't it then on the fucking campaign to *do* something with that information?
Democrats: "Why aren't young people voting?"
Young people explain why.
Democrats: "Okay, but that's dumb. You know you're dumb for not voting because of that, right? Stop being dumb and vote."
Democrats after they lose: "Maybe we should have called more young people dumb..."

2024-10-12 17:44:43 UTC

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Yeah, Iran isn't interfering with elections in the US and our allies to get fascists elected like Russia is. Talk about an existential threat.

2024-10-09 00:16:22 UTC

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Pretty telling that the only thing that loses Trump support from his base is when he's not shitty enough for them.

2024-10-05 19:24:52 UTC

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It's telling that the ACA is such a shitty healthcare bill that Republicans still haven't been able to figure out how to come up with anything worse without eliminating it completely.
Like you said, sure it's an improvement on what we had before, but not by a whole lot.