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Jordan @slclunk.com · 11h

Your standard online liberal who worked at a conservative think tank in college

Peacemaker looking at a mural of hitler and saying “Fuck. How'd I miss that?”

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Alan Grofield @alangrofield.bsky.social · 3h

“Oh I have a pardon” well I have a gun, get in the jail cell

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Micah @rincewind.run · 8h

I think two things are true:

1. young republicans were always terrible and racist

2. young republicans become openly hitler-loving groypers is in fact a new and alarming development that is worth paying attention to

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Alan Grofield @alangrofield.bsky.social · 6h

What point are you trying to make

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Alan Grofield @alangrofield.bsky.social · 6h

Lock isn’t enough, delete

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Alan Grofield @alangrofield.bsky.social · 13h

This is a spoiler but while the audience and another character knew about the importance of saying a particular word the character who said I don’t think was read in on that?

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Alan Grofield @alangrofield.bsky.social · 13h

Not showing her with her kid and her just being super creepy off the jump made that tonally a mess, and then the ending was just a bunch of stuff happening without really any sort of satisfying narrative. The late game protagonist switch also didn’t work imo. It’s fine but just fine

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Alan Grofield @alangrofield.bsky.social · 13h

There’s also been a switch from “The Confederacy was all DEMOCRATS, your liberal teacher probably didn’t tell you that, huh?” to “the Godly Southron landowner is the only True American”

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Alan Grofield @alangrofield.bsky.social · 14h

Like Young Republicans in the 1980s were all explicitly in favor of apartheid South Africa, just like in the 1960s they supported Jim Crow here

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Alan Grofield @alangrofield.bsky.social · 14h

Buddy I think you’re a little too young for her but good luck

Alan Grofield @alangrofield.bsky.social · 15h

Justified is such an incredible word choice. Listen, if I don’t steal the watch I won’t have the watch, I’m preventing a greater harm

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Alan Grofield @alangrofield.bsky.social · 15h

So that message might be bad, but I could see a lot of ways “I wish this person could understand the importance of an issue” could be characterized that way, and it’s like wild that weeks into this scandal I don’t even know what the issue is

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Alan Grofield @alangrofield.bsky.social · 15h

Conservatives have been having a manic trolling episode down about these texts for weeks and I’ve still never seen one explain what’s bad about that screenshot

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Alan Grofield @alangrofield.bsky.social · 17h

Re-upping this 8 year old column because boy we should’ve listened to that boy instead of letting him do a podcast with Matt Taibbi and then apparently retire from writing www.splinter.com/charlottesvi...

Charlottesville Was a Preview of the Future of the Republican Party

Splinter is your home for news and opinions that challenge power in our political and economic system that's becoming more unhinged each and every day.

www.splinter.com

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Alan Grofield @alangrofield.bsky.social · 17h

Also being in group chats where people say they love Hitler is like, an absolute critical part of his rise to power, it’s his base

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Alan Grofield @alangrofield.bsky.social · 1d

I am someone who never finishes even games I do like, but for some reason I damn near 100 prevented the completely dogshit Godfather 2 GTA-clone

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maple cocaine @maplecocaine.bsky.social · 1d

The NY young republican who said that rape is "epic" looks like a fuckin ventriloquist dummy

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Alan Grofield @alangrofield.bsky.social · 1d

Their rotation scheme on defense was also like a decade ahead of how almost everyone does it now.

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Alan Grofield @alangrofield.bsky.social · 1d

Early 2010s Spurs were just a joy, clinical precision

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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 1d

mtg in 1997: this card is selenia, a guardian angel from the heavenly realm of serra. twisted by the phyrexians, she drove crovax of urborg insane with unrequited love

mtg in 2025: this card is spongebob. from spongebob squarepants

mtg in 2035: we ran out of ideas. this card is your coworker jeff

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Alan Grofield @alangrofield.bsky.social · 1d

These ghouls reject Keynesian economics for the rest of us but are willing to lose millions in service of a narrowly targeted McArdle Employment Project

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Ryan Nanni @celebrityhottub.bsky.social · 2d

If you need a go-to Wikipedia page this is a great one

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

List of inventors killed by their own invention - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Alan Grofield @alangrofield.bsky.social · 1d

An “online survey course” that is open to the public is a TEDx talk, not a college class

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Alan Grofield @alangrofield.bsky.social · 1d

Intersectionality is checking their bio expecting to discover explicit racism and finding transphobia

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Alan Grofield @alangrofield.bsky.social · 2d

People had little notebooks and rolodexes and speed dials

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