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TYPE I • NORMAL POSITION @diedfrombeing.labeledrude.online · 3h

2 is just the same demographic of too-online too-early channers from a decade ago that meme magicked trump into office in the first place, with the addition of now having even more power, connections, and conferred respectability in a party that's been abandoned by any moderating influences

Micah @rincewind.run · 3h

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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Micah @rincewind.run · 3h

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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Ramon Villalobos @ramonvillalobos.bsky.social · 4h

damn

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👻Captain SLAY-os🎃 @captainchaos.myatproto.social · 3h

This was a wonderful post to see in the feed

Padraig @gullimont.bsky.social · 8h

Your irrational hatred of emperor Justinian I blinds you to the truth.

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Graham @grahamb.bsky.social · 3h

What being a Nielsen ratings household in 2008 felt like

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 9h

I don’t know how to approach “Republicans weren’t racist in the early aughts” as someone who went to Texas during the early aughts and had to debate whether or not Black students were “stealing” people’s spots in class.

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 3h

My idea is built different tho

jenny_tightpants🪑 @jtp.bsky.social · 8h

everyone on here seems to think that there's just one feature you can add or remove from social media to make people not go insane on here. this belief, i think, is itself a form of madness

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karyl @paintedsky.ca · 8h

i want leitmotifs that play while the character cums

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olive consumer's ambulatory skeleton @machete.gay · 3h

As a literal international expert on CSAM (and terrorism connected to it), generative AI significantly worsening the massive volume of CSAM and related reporters flooding every channel and these chatbots create a permission structure that normalizes real-world pedophilia.

Jeff Thomas @buildbackwetter.bsky.social · 11h

A categorically new version of pornography centered on narrative while avoiding exploitation of sex workers and millions of liberal millennials inexplicably pretending like they're not going to use it

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 7h

this is a terrible idea, no Democrat should be acknowledging any semblance of Republican legitimacy right now

Politico @politico.com · 7h

Speaker Mike Johnson and Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries will debate Wednesday on C-SPAN.

The yet-to-be-scheduled showdown will take place on “Ceasefire,” hosted by our Dasha Burns.

Mike Johnson and Hakeem Jeffries will debate on C-SPAN

The yet-to-be-scheduled showdown will take place on "Ceasefire," hosted by POLITICO's Dasha Burns.

www.politico.com

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Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 3h

Wow—has a president ever explicitly confirmed a presidential finding authorizing an ongoing covert action before? Let alone a brand new one?

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👻Captain SLAY-os🎃 @captainchaos.myatproto.social · 3h

BlueSky just got shaky for me thought I got suspended again lol

👻Captain SLAY-os🎃 @captainchaos.myatproto.social · 3h

Fuck well I had a good run

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IrishMann Carljob 🇵🇸 @bornposting.bsky.social · 3h

the cop in the wicker man is one of the greatest examples of unsympathetic protagonists in horror because not only is he a cop he's also english

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👻Captain SLAY-os🎃 @captainchaos.myatproto.social · 4h

It did when I tried doing it on my phone. It did again on the laptop but what ended up happening is the bar would fill up, go to processing, then go back and fill up again. I thought it was stuck in a loop but I left and came back an hour later and it was done.

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Kakistocracy (Jay) @crankypacifist.bsky.social · 4h

I acknowledge that I was a piece of shit and I HOPE I'm not anymore.

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👻Captain SLAY-os🎃 @captainchaos.myatproto.social · 4h

Yeah I migrated with like 19k posts it took a while.

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👻Captain SLAY-os🎃 @captainchaos.myatproto.social · 4h

Oh no this post I liked disagrees with me what to do jfc my life is a lie

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👻Captain SLAY-os🎃 @captainchaos.myatproto.social · 4h

Anecdotally I exited out a few times until I got on my laptop and just let it ride for like an hour

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👻Captain SLAY-os🎃 @captainchaos.myatproto.social · 4h

actually

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👻Captain SLAY-os🎃 @captainchaos.myatproto.social · 4h

Almost everyone used to be a piece of shit and ate sloppy steaks at one point. It's part of the human experience, but it goes hand in hand with acknowledgement that you were a piece of shit but you're not anymore.

Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 4h

~I~ used to be less accepting of differences. ~I~ used to be less progressive. ~I~ used to not see my own biases and prejudices. I can say those things because of how much I disagree with my past-self. I don't spend any of my remaining air defending the younger version of me who sucked.

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Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 4h

I'm only a few years younger than Amanda, but when I was in high school and college I knew Young Republicans and they were in fact very, very racist and sexist and xenophobic and protowhitenationalist. I'm glad this wasn't her experience, but I don't understand the denial that Republicans are racist

Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 1d

For those tempted to say Young Republicans have always been this way, they really have not. When I worked on campus and did bipartisan college events after, they were very much not like this.

That’s why groups like YCT and eventually TPUSA formed — because Young Republicans weren’t radical enough.

Politico @politico.com · 1d

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

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👻Captain SLAY-os🎃 @captainchaos.myatproto.social · 4h

I don't think I've ever had more people arguing in the replies than today, new experience

👻Captain SLAY-os🎃 @captainchaos.myatproto.social · 4h

Dude kept a picture of Baruch Goldstein on his wall and visited his grave until he decided to get into politics. It's like having Dylan Roof on your wall

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👻Captain SLAY-os🎃 @captainchaos.myatproto.social · 4h

There's actually emotion behind it so it feels more realistic

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