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Michael Marquis Albright

@chicagomstie.bsky.social

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Producer of Chicago's movie-riffing show, www.downinfrontlive.com He/him Much like my show, I more comment on other people's posts than post myself. It's not unheard of, but my Replies are significantly more robust than my Posts.

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Michael Marquis Albright @chicagomstie.bsky.social · 6h

It's ok.

a man in a suit and tie is holding a book in his hand .

Alt: Bob: Bany steps? Dr. Marvin: Baby steps.

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Michael Marquis Albright @chicagomstie.bsky.social · 6h

It also sits like it just sat down and realized it has to go to the bathroom.

Michael Marquis Albright @chicagomstie.bsky.social · 6h

Be gentle. This was probably hard for them to admit.

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Michael Marquis Albright @chicagomstie.bsky.social · 15h

That would be awesome, but no.

Michael Marquis Albright @chicagomstie.bsky.social · 15h

Nope, not allowed. If there's not an action movie about it, it's banned from schools.

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Michael Marquis Albright @chicagomstie.bsky.social · 15h

It's a valuable tool for understanding why everything sucks so fucking much.

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Michael Marquis Albright @chicagomstie.bsky.social · 16h

Now you're denying what it is?

Ok. There is no further point to acknowledging you. If he wins, for your sake, I hope you're a white, Christian man with an authoritarian streak, or it won't go well for you.

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Michael Marquis Albright @chicagomstie.bsky.social · 16h

No, actually; it shows savvy, because I'm not dumb enough to think someone who permantly covered a quarter of his chest with an infamous racist symbol did it by accident.

He can earn his place on the left, but that colossal failure of judgement shows he should not lead.

Michael Marquis Albright @chicagomstie.bsky.social · 16h

You don't think there are real people who reflexively distrust people with Nazi tattoos?

Ok. If he wins I hope you're right, but nothing you, he, or Bernie has said gives me a good reason to.

Michael Marquis Albright @chicagomstie.bsky.social · 16h

Let's ask Kamala Harris.

Michael Marquis Albright @chicagomstie.bsky.social · 16h

On the contrary; it's an image of considerable notoriety. Giving him the benefit of the doubt that he not only didn't know it when he got it but remained ignorant for over a decade is foolhardy.

Who the man is is a man with a Nazi tattoo that you're telling me to ignore. Not happening.

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Michael Marquis Albright @chicagomstie.bsky.social · 16h

As for his other behavior, it would be a good idea to remember that the Nazis came to power in large part by pretending to have leftist politics. In fact, fascists are always really nice to people until they have power, so maybe don't trust a proclaimed leftist who Inglorious Basterded himself.

Michael Marquis Albright @chicagomstie.bsky.social · 17h

He's *very* Nazi-esque; he has an SS tattoo on his chest.

We know he has known what it was, if not when he got it then for most of the decade that followed, and didn't think it should be removed or covered before running for public office.

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Michael Marquis Albright @chicagomstie.bsky.social · 17h

Yeah, that's pretty bad, actually. Bernie is a Jewish man born in 1941. He cites relatives who died in the Holocaust as part of what motivated him into politics.

Nothing Platner has gone through warrants forgiveness for an SS tattoo that was still on his chest when Bernie made those remarks.

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Michael Marquis Albright @chicagomstie.bsky.social · 17h

Aside from the needless hostility, I agree with you.

That said, I would still like you to explain how I should read what he said, as quoted in the OP.

Michael Marquis Albright @chicagomstie.bsky.social · 17h

I voted for Hillary because she was the only viable candidate other than Donald Trump. Bernie wasn't an option by the time of the general election in which he, by the way, endorsed her.

Michael Marquis Albright @chicagomstie.bsky.social · 17h

A tad, sure, probably.

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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 18h

Ok sorry besides Platner and Mills who else is running in Maine? This should be the easiest pick up we have, kicking ourselves in the nuts is not an option, time to move the fuck on from these two failures and find someone who works

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Michael Marquis Albright @chicagomstie.bsky.social · 17h

That's the norm. I can't even be mad about that. There are a lot of problems specific to him that bother me more than the ways in which he does what everyone else does.

I believe he is less rich than the average senator, for example.

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Michael Marquis Albright @chicagomstie.bsky.social · 17h

I'm lib-nozzle.

Michael Marquis Albright @chicagomstie.bsky.social · 17h

I want all those things. Bernie, unfortunately, wasn't the guy to make them happen, and I suspect going to bat for a possible primary candidate with a Nazi tattoo is a symptom of why.

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Michael Marquis Albright @chicagomstie.bsky.social · 17h

I hate it. I'm not surprised to see it, but I hate it. Emma Vigelund in particular stings quite a bit.

I understand the appeal, and even the value, to a degree, of Blue No Matter Who, but the primary hasn't even started yet, guys, and this is what primaries are *for*.

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Michael Marquis Albright @chicagomstie.bsky.social · 17h

He is if you skew for the American Overton Window. He's a kooky hippy by comparison to the center when you consider the center is slightly to the left of Richard Nixon.

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Michael Marquis Albright @chicagomstie.bsky.social · 19h

You have to go to a dangerous place from somewhere less dangerous.

It is kinda twee, though, yeah.