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Samuel ✡️ 🎗️🗽

@bluelion70.bsky.social

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History teacher, Yankee Fan, Board-gamer. Unapologetic Liberal, Environmentalist, Democratist, Zionist.

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Samuel ✡️ 🎗️🗽 @bluelion70.bsky.social · Jul 10

The conclusions in this thread (which you should read all of) about the role that Cultural Christianity has to play in the perspectives of so many Westerners toward Jews and why theories like this are so popular on the left nowadays, are completely accurate and something I’ve struggled to describe.

Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · Jul 10

I’ve got a theory as to why the online left seems increasingly into the Khazar myth, which used to be the fringiest of far-right antisemitism (at least among white people—it was also popular among NOI/BHI, but I’m not touching that one).

For reference: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khazar_...

Khazar hypothesis of Ashkenazi ancestry - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

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Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 9h

You can legitimately give the Founding Fathers shit for a ton of stuff about how the US government works, but they were also obsessed with preventing the exact scenario we're living through and put like five layers of defense into their design

John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 11h

Same time that Pritzker is telling city and state officials to start arresting and prosecuting federal officials for assaulting Illinois citizens.

OT1H, this is clearly really bad.

OTOH, our federalized design might end up being an absolute godsend.

JB Pritzker looking at prosecuting ICE agents in Chicago

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker has suggested that state prosecutors might examine the conduct of ICE agents.

www.newsweek.com

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Samuel ✡️ 🎗️🗽 @bluelion70.bsky.social · 1m

How is their thumb on the scale, exactly? By the fact that she entered the race?

Samuel ✡️ 🎗️🗽 @bluelion70.bsky.social · 3m

Cooking oil comes from olives, not from China. What the fuck is he talking about?

Samuel ✡️ 🎗️🗽 @bluelion70.bsky.social · 5m

It’s hilarious that you think he was talking about his own money.

Samuel ✡️ 🎗️🗽 @bluelion70.bsky.social · 5m

Your entire objection here boils down to “it’s not fair that Plattner has an opponent with more name-recognition and more support within the party than he has.”

Samuel ✡️ 🎗️🗽 @bluelion70.bsky.social · 5m

It’s not fair that other Democrats support Mills, beczuse that might reduce the support that other candidates get…

Yeah, I’m pretty sure that’s the point. That’s how it works, when you prefer one candidate over others: you contribute and support them to give them a better chance of winning.

Samuel ✡️ 🎗️🗽 @bluelion70.bsky.social · 13m

“Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., publicly discouraged Mills from running, saying “it would be a really sad state of affairs to have to spend millions of dollars on a divisive primary. We should be focusing on beating Susan Collins, and Platner can do that.””

Those damn dastardly Dems!

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Samuel ✡️ 🎗️🗽 @bluelion70.bsky.social · 15m

So you’re saying that they’re coming out in support of a candidate you don’t like, and their support boosts that candidate at the expense of the candidate you do like. And that’s somehow unfair?

How shocking, that Democrats are more supportive of the candidate whose platform isn’t “Democrats suck.”

Samuel ✡️ 🎗️🗽 @bluelion70.bsky.social · 17m

How dare you besmirch the name of Dynasty Warriors like this…

There’s nothing dumb about playing Lu Bu and killing like 15,000 people all on your own.!

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Sarah Kelly @sarahkelly.bsky.social · 11h

Something I think about a lot: One of the reasons people used to think boys “outgrew” ADHD is because in adulthood men tend to offload their executive function (managing calendars, remembering birthdays, cleaning, grocery shopping) to wives and secretaries so it masked their symptoms.

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Samuel ✡️ 🎗️🗽 @bluelion70.bsky.social · 24m

Who’s trying to avoid a primary?

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Kathy Griffin @kathygriffin.bsky.social · 15h

Elections aren’t every 4 years or every 2 years, they’re every year. In California we have a special election for prop 50 and it’s a YES. If Texas can gerrymander then we should be able to. I know my comments will be filled with bots, but I won’t be intimidated. Our democracy is vanishing❤️

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Samuel ✡️ 🎗️🗽 @bluelion70.bsky.social · 33m

Interesting, thanks for sharing. I’m in NY, and don’t know much about local politics up in Maine.

I guess we’ll see how this all turns out.

Samuel ✡️ 🎗️🗽 @bluelion70.bsky.social · 34m

Be bad how? You mean like murdering Iraqis for the USMC and then joining Blackwater to be a mercenary in Afghanistan? That kind of bad?

Samuel ✡️ 🎗️🗽 @bluelion70.bsky.social · 38m

You guys said the same shit about Fetterman 😂

If Plattner actually has majority support, he’ll win. It’s pretty telling that you guys don’t even believe your own candidate can win a majority of voters, if he has any serious opposition whatsoever.

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Samuel ✡️ 🎗️🗽 @bluelion70.bsky.social · 46m

Who’s trying to avoid the primary? She announced that she’s running… in the primary.

The only people losing it are those who support a Blackwater Mercenary and don’t want him to face serious opposition.

If Graham Plattner is all that, he’ll win. What are you all afraid of, with Mills in the race?

Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 57m

Democrats want to play it safe in Maine’s white-hot Senate race. That’s a mistake.

An absurd amount of energy is spent trying to avoid primaries, when, in fact, Democrats should want more of them.

Opinion | Dems want to play it safe in Maine’s white-hot Senate race. That’s a mistake.

An absurd amount of energy is spent trying to avoid primaries, when, in fact, Democrats should want more of them.

www.msnbc.com

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Samuel ✡️ 🎗️🗽 @bluelion70.bsky.social · 48m

I wonder how that impacts each of their electability in a 1v1 race against Collins.

Frankly, I don’t much care who wins the primary as long as whoever it is can beat her in the General.

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Samuel ✡️ 🎗️🗽 @bluelion70.bsky.social · 49m

Who’s trying to avoid the primary? She announced that she’s running… in the primary.

And the only people freaking out are the leftists who support a Blackwater Mercenary, because his platform is “the Democrats suck shit”.

If Graham Plattner is all that, he’ll win. What are you all afraid of?

Samuel ✡️ 🎗️🗽 @bluelion70.bsky.social · 52m

Apparently there are rumors that Katy Perry is dating Justin Trudeau.

Poor Melania…

nthmurphy @nthmurphy.bsky.social · 19h

Melania will be devastated.

Samuel ✡️ 🎗️🗽 @bluelion70.bsky.social · 54m

I had my stepmother over for coffee the other day, and I had to think for about 45 seconds to remember if I was turning 39 or 40 next year 😂

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 14h

NEW: Adrian Fontes has CERTIFIED the results of the AZ-07 election of Adelita Grijalva. Mike Johnson is OUT of EXCUSES and should swear her in.

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Samuel ✡️ 🎗️🗽 @bluelion70.bsky.social · 1h

Yeah, that sounds very believable Karen. I’m sure you have suffered greatly.

Samuel ✡️ 🎗️🗽 @bluelion70.bsky.social · 1h

What follow-up is there to be reported on in the story at this point? What new developments have happened in the last week?

Also, the attack on Shapiro wasn’t also “right-wing violence”? That sure is what all the leftists were saying when it happened. What has changed?

Samuel ✡️ 🎗️🗽 @bluelion70.bsky.social · 1h

I have plenty of sympathy for Palestinians, and none for the racist performative white saviors who spread Nazi propaganda and cry about how meaningless and empty their own lives are.

It’s not the fault of the Jews that none of your grandchildren care enough to come visit you.

Samuel ✡️ 🎗️🗽 @bluelion70.bsky.social · 1h

I was thinking more about how they sheltered Bin Laden for 10 years, and then got all bitchy when Obama sent in special forces to kill him.

But yeah, this is a good point too.