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Dan @danfromdc.bsky.social · 3h

counter-counterpoint, vaccines are actually a good analogy because they're not 100% but make it a hell of a lot easier to identify, isolate, and functionally eliminate the disease.

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Dan @danfromdc.bsky.social · 1d

a man wearing a hat and a jacket is dancing with the words muuuussstttaaarddd !! written on the bottom

ALT: a man wearing a hat and a jacket is dancing with the words muuuussstttaaarddd !! written on the bottom

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Dan @danfromdc.bsky.social · 1d

Dan @danfromdc.bsky.social · 1d

Clarification for the FBI, this is called a "metaphor."

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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Dan @danfromdc.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, could be problematic that the nearest food is, in fact, a Subway.

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Dan @danfromdc.bsky.social · 1d

Kicking in the doors of daycares is a great way to turn wine moms into molotov cocktail moms.

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Dan @danfromdc.bsky.social · 1d

They do not want people to have the ability to quit their day jobs, no.

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Dan @danfromdc.bsky.social · 1d

The legal realism angle is that these guys could all be in private practice making insane money but can only get close to the lifestyle they feel they deserve relying on insider stock tips. Gotta stay worthy of the Investors' Circle by not nuking everyone's portfolios.

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Dan @danfromdc.bsky.social · 2d

Terrorism

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Velodus 🦃🍂 @velodus.bsky.social · 2d

A 34-year-old as a politician: My god he's like a baby. It's like they just elected an infant to be their mayor.

A 34-year-old as an athlete: You have to admire the bravery of him attempting that dunk, knowing full well the grim reaper is right behind him.

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Dan @danfromdc.bsky.social · 2d

He said "Dick Cheney was a horrible person who nonetheless contained interesting and personally relevant contradictions," not "Dick Cheney was doing war crimes the right way."

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Dan @danfromdc.bsky.social · 3d

Why is the DNC doing *non-germane testimony by an advocacy org at an DC Council oversight hearing*?

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Dave Jamieson @jamieson.bsky.social · 3d

Border Patrol agent Lairmore testifies that he was not injured by the sandwich, but he felt the impact through his ballistic vest.

The sandwich came apart and "kind of exploded" on his chest upon impact, he says.

"I could smell the onions and mustard."

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Dan @danfromdc.bsky.social · 9d

More or less literally the reason we aren't a direct democracy

Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 9d

Oh my.

Dan @danfromdc.bsky.social · 10d

C'mon now, they were trained in the crucible of Sid Meyer to BE the feudal warlords

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Dan @danfromdc.bsky.social · 10d

Also, US third parties are so totally non-viable that they pretty much only exist as protest votes where you don't expect the candidate to ever govern. Not even one Green member of Congress, a couple idiosyncratic independent Senators, no governors, maybe a state legislator or two, of thousands?

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Dan @danfromdc.bsky.social · 14d

Also, hardly the point, but that's like a dollar a warfighter

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Dan @danfromdc.bsky.social · 16d

"ANTIFA" is now short for "Anti Fucking Animals"

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Dan @danfromdc.bsky.social · 16d

Yeah also now seeing where he apparently knew in like 2012 exactly what it was, fuck this guy.

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Dan @danfromdc.bsky.social · 16d

Probably? I hope? I've never been in a fascist tattoo shop of any kind, I don't know how overt they are about it or if they try to keep a respectable front, and it probably runs the gamut.

Either way, the immediate response is "I fucked up, I'm disgusted with myself, & getting it lasered tomorrow"

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Dan @danfromdc.bsky.social · 17d

Slightly different kind of sociopath, I think. Lawyer/politician is "everyone should do what I say, uh, for their own good," doctor is "humans are meat that I should cut open, uh, for their own good."

Dan @danfromdc.bsky.social · 17d

Significant overlap with the law school sociopathy filter

Dan @danfromdc.bsky.social · 17d

If you're the kind of guy who gets through life by lying and you *don't* build a "man of faith" cover story, you're just bad at fraud.

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Dan @danfromdc.bsky.social · 17d

Exactly this. Like, I'm just learning today that *that particular skull and bones* is what it is.

I can absolutely see someone walking into a shop, deciding to get the funny looking jolly roger-ass tattoo on the wall, and going about their life oblivious for a long time. But once you find out...

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Dan @danfromdc.bsky.social · 20d

This is ableist against people with poor impulse control

Riana @riana.bsky.social · 20d

Fight the urge to go dunk on trollish USG accounts; it's like mud wrestling with a pig, you both get dirty and the pig likes it. Instead, focus on picking Bluesky fights like Alf intended: by willfully misunderstanding skeets from people who actually agree with you entirely