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The Scorpio King 🏳️‍🌈 🎃 @arcoar.bsky.social · 5h

Uh, hold on, that’s never been required in the past…

The Scorpio King 🏳️‍🌈 🎃 @arcoar.bsky.social · 5h

Yeah, but it matters who controls the AI-powered bot(s). Every striver in the party has subsumed their own power-lust and sense of entitlement to him. Once he’s gone they’ll all be clamoring to step in, each peddling their own version of him. Not saying collapse is certain, but seems more likely.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 6h

The “guardrails” didn’t really hold in Trump’s first term. He broke through many, and accelerated abuses in 2020.

Beat impeachment, removed inspectors general, and after losing reelection attempted a coup. Failing to recognize that as guardrails crumbling, not holding, was one cause of complacency.

George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 11h

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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 20h

The general expectation among US elite culture is that the broad catch all of "liberals"--urban dwellers, minorities, women, LGBTQ ppl, etc--are expected to eat unending amounts of shit from "real" Americans while a) not complaining and b) still financially supporting them but without holding power

King Blackwhale @kingblackwhale.bsky.social · 21h

I’m from the San Francisco Bay Area, and never once in my 40 years of life have I heard a mainstream media figure say that the right — or government generally — has any obligation to treat me as an equal citizen or human being, or in any way be protected or served by the federal government.

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King Blackwhale @kingblackwhale.bsky.social · 21h

I’m from the San Francisco Bay Area, and never once in my 40 years of life have I heard a mainstream media figure say that the right — or government generally — has any obligation to treat me as an equal citizen or human being, or in any way be protected or served by the federal government.

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The Scorpio King 🏳️‍🌈 🎃 @arcoar.bsky.social · 15h

I am going to do skull face paint because I assume it will be slimming on my face. I have not thought further than this about the rest of the costume around it because clearly vanity is my sole concern.

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 15h

Unlike Trump, I don't care if someone likes me or not. That will never change the fact that I'm going to fight for them to have health care.

I want MAGA to have health care. I want MAGA to be paid a living wage.

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The Scorpio King 🏳️‍🌈 🎃 @arcoar.bsky.social · 19h

Hey, many things of value have arrived… via Grindr notification. Ok, maybe not that many. But surely a few.

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The Scorpio King 🏳️‍🌈 🎃 @arcoar.bsky.social · 19h

I saw Glinner was pretty upset the other day about a black man playing Mozart. (The actor was not, in fact, black, but no matter.) I wonder if we’ll hear anything from the same corners about this white nordic dude from Finland playing middle-easterner Jesus Christ. I bet we won’t!

Variety: “Mel Gibson’s ‘Resurrection of the Christ’ Finds New Jesus and Mary Magdalene in Jaakko Ohtonen and Mariela Garriga, Reveals Main Case (EXCLUSIVE)” The two actors are pictured.

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The Scorpio King 🏳️‍🌈 🎃 @arcoar.bsky.social · 20h

Right. As I pointed out, it’s a substitute that *removes the vulgar word,* which is the only part about it that’s vulgar—NOT the underlying message. There’s no actual sexual component to it. Which is in total contrast with Bethel, where the message was almost purely sexual.

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The Scorpio King 🏳️‍🌈 🎃 @arcoar.bsky.social · 20h

And even if there is such a thing as non-sexual vulgarity, what’s the non-sexual vulgarity at issue here?

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The Scorpio King 🏳️‍🌈 🎃 @arcoar.bsky.social · 20h

I can see an argument that that’s still vulgar b/c it uses the actual word, but just conceals part of it. I don’t think “Screw Joe Biden” is vulgar, even though it clearly leads back to a statement that has a sexual origin. Nor would I consider “Joe Biden sucks” to be vulgar.

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The Scorpio King 🏳️‍🌈 🎃 @arcoar.bsky.social · 20h

They’re trying to convey a purely political message that *derived* from something that could be considered vulgar so they *removed the vulgarity* is vastly different than a student who tried and succeeded at conveying a bunch of intentionally (vulgar) sexual meanings.

The Scorpio King 🏳️‍🌈 🎃 @arcoar.bsky.social · 20h

Fair pts from you & ‪@wheystandard.bsky.social‬. But reading it I’m still unconvinced. In Bethel, the content had obvious (if implied) sexual meaning. Here “fuck” can be sexual, but once removed, it’s hard to find *any* sexual content to the expression vs. one of these purely political meanings.

From the beginning, the expression had a wide range of meanings. Some saw it as merely a euphemism for what the crowd really said. Others used it as a shibboleth to express antipathy towards the then-President and his policies. And still others used it to question what they perceived as liberal bias in the media based on the theory that NBC had been trying to hide the anti-Biden sentiment on display at Talladega. In any event, the phrase "Let's Go Brandon" quickly entered common usage, appearing in broadcast television, the Congressional record, and even President Biden's NORAD Santa tracker call-in on C-SPAN. And the phrase continued to evolve. Some of Biden's supporters adapted the phrase to make the "Dark Brandon" meme, which depicted the then-President as a preternaturally powerful leader with eyes of glowing flame. Indeed, President Biden himself shared one of these memes on social media to poke fun at online conspiracy theories that he'd orchestrated the Kansas City Chiefs' Super Bowl win to have prominent Chiefs fan Taylor Swift endorse him in the 2024 election.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 1d

Parrot Lying

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The Scorpio King 🏳️‍🌈 🎃 @arcoar.bsky.social · 1d

It’s not actually vulgar, but we *understood it to be vulgar* is quite an argument. You could wear a shirt that straight-up says “redacted” and it would seem to qualify as vulgar on this reasoning.

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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 1d

Every time a Democrat gets caught on tape saying like “Some Trump voters are racist” we have a national scandal and JD Vance demands an entirely new kind of apology and meanwhile every Republican group chat is like “Good morning fellow SS members. Who’s ready to respect Hitler today?”

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The Scorpio King 🏳️‍🌈 🎃 @arcoar.bsky.social · 1d

I’d much rather a culture of over-blocking like there is on bsky than the bs “you have to listen to everyone” twitter line, but man some people on this site cannot take even the friendliest pushback from sympathetic thinkers without acting like they’ve been attacked.

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The Scorpio King 🏳️‍🌈 🎃 @arcoar.bsky.social · 1d

It just seemed like the people you were arguing about changing were the nazis (the ones the regime are rushing to defend) while she was saying there’s this distinct & changeable non-nazi group. It’s not about her feelings, I just think those are separate claims with different responses. Maybe not.

The Scorpio King 🏳️‍🌈 🎃 @arcoar.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, but that seems very different than saying the young nazis involved in this scandal are gettable. Might be equally wrong (or even pointless), but it just seems like a very distinct argument to me. 🤷‍♂️

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The Scorpio King 🏳️‍🌈 🎃 @arcoar.bsky.social · 1d

The people she’s saying can and have changed are people who didn’t realize conservativism was so inherently racist. That might be wrong, but it’s very different than saying the turbo-racists involved in this scandal can change. In fact she’s distinguishing between the two groups to make that point.

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The Scorpio King 🏳️‍🌈 🎃 @arcoar.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t read her as saying we can win over *these* guys—but the opposite. She’s saying that the non-overt-racist GOPers might be winnable, which is why it’s important to note they exist (according to her). I don’t know that that’s true or worth fighting for, but it’s a different point.

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The Scorpio King 🏳️‍🌈 🎃 @arcoar.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t think she’s claiming that any of the people in this scandal have changed or will. Nor is she saying not to condemn racism. I think she’s saying that *she* and other conservatives like her from the 90s who weren’t overtly racist are the ones who changed & that it’s worth recognizing that.

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Bobby Silverman @robertsilverman.bsky.social · 1d

speaking of which, tonight Tim Pool said he agrees w/ Hitler's argument that Jewish Germans weren't *actually Germans*, or not "ethnically German," as he put it. You know, just not darn aryan enough

The GOP is explicitly racist and fascist, from the lowest podcast bro all the way to the White House

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The Scorpio King 🏳️‍🌈 🎃 @arcoar.bsky.social · 1d

J.D. Vance has apparently decided to prove his value by consistently serving as the guy who: (1) happily tells shameless, bald-faced lies; and (2) defends the most horrendous, morally depraved behavior imaginable. He’s a little pig-man indeed.

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