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Eli Friedmann @eligit.bsky.social · 13h

It is demoralizing for people who see themselves as “tough guys” to be mocked by cartoon characters.
This is good.
Recruits will quit because the job is humiliating.

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Eli Friedmann @eligit.bsky.social · 13h

The trump “thing” is centered on reality tv.
The actual deportation numbers are not particularly high.
The deportation theatrics are off the charts.
The inflatable brigade makes a mockery of their fascist theater.
V effective in the court of public opinion.
Crucial.
Push those maga numbers down.

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Eli Friedmann @eligit.bsky.social · 16h

The knee jerk impulse on here (by supposedly anti maga people) to instinctively attack democrats is frankly not helpful.
Might even be counterproductive.

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Eli Friedmann @eligit.bsky.social · 17h

It’s like the prize in a box of crackerjack.😂

Eli Friedmann @eligit.bsky.social · 21h

How much did insider traders made this week?
A pattern is emerging.
Certain anonymous folks sell stocks.
Trump yells about tariffs.
Stocks crash.
Certain anonymous folks buy back in.
Trump says "just kidding" about the new tariffs.
Stocks rebound
BILLIONS are made by a certain small number of people

Eli Friedmann @eligit.bsky.social · 21h

Does even one person believe that Jones will ever pay this money?
He doesn't have it and even if he did he would not pay up.

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Eli Friedmann @eligit.bsky.social · 22h

If you think Epstein Island was bad, have you ever heard of the Catholic Church?
Makes Epstein look like an amateur.
It's a whole thing.
Dozens of other similar cults over the millennia.
Human sacrifice, all kinds of crazy shit.

Eli Friedmann @eligit.bsky.social · 22h

Biggest child molestation ring ever.
Wrapped up in religious noise.
Bigger than the most obsessive fantasies of pizzagate and the reality of Epstein Island could ever be.

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Eli Friedmann @eligit.bsky.social · 22h

Humans play mental games because we evolved brains capable of such things.
An animal capable of language, abstract thought, worrying about the future, etc.
Evolved enough to attempt to assuage the anxieties those big brains produce.
And the powerful exploit all of this anxiety for their own gain.

Eli Friedmann @eligit.bsky.social · 22h

Biggest child molestation ring ever.
Wrapped up in religious noise.
Bigger than the most obsessive fantasies of pizzagate and the reality of Epstein Island could ever be.

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Eli Friedmann @eligit.bsky.social · 22h

I don't even think about this stuff 90% of the time.
It's mostly when these evil f**kers start going off about god and heaven that I get annoyed to enough to bother.
Donald Trump is not going to heaven because heaven does not exist.
Enough nonsense.
We should try to focus on things that are real imo

Eli Friedmann @eligit.bsky.social · 23h

Like....food, shelter, medical care.
What are we even doing here?
These are THE BASICS.

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Eli Friedmann @eligit.bsky.social · 23h

It's darkly hilarious that in 2025 in the richest nation on earth the party in power is OBSESSED with depriving the population of housing, transit, healthcare, and....food?
Like, what is even the point of civilization to these lunatics?

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Eli Friedmann @eligit.bsky.social · 23h

I get that people are afraid of death.
Totally understandable.
Humans create things to help them deal with problems and anxieties.
But this coping mechanism has gotten WAY out of hand tbh.
Now we have fascists and their spawn babbling about who gets into heaven?
Time to reassess.

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Eli Friedmann @eligit.bsky.social · 23h

These toxic lunatics can't even figure out if death is good or bad.
It's all a bunch of noise.
It is used to distract people from reality.
A way to avoid improving day to day life.
Because if eternal heaven awaits, why bother?

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Eli Friedmann @eligit.bsky.social · 23h

I TRY not to be "annoying online atheist guy".
I try very hard, because I know it's unhelpful.
But come ON.
This stuff makes it difficult for me to restrain myself.
This religious nonsense is brain melting.
There's no heaven.
No god.
Trump is not going to heaven or anywhere but dirt when he dies.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h

Eric Trump: "Make no mistake -- he is heaven-bound. I've seen the hand of God on him for a very long time ... I think there is a lot less people going to heaven-- meaning, they are going to heaven slower because he stopped the death and destruction around the world."

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Eli Friedmann @eligit.bsky.social · 23h

All of human history provides copious evidence that horrible things happen to millions of people that do not deserve it and god does not give a flying f**k about any of it.
Because god is nonexistent.

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Eli Friedmann @eligit.bsky.social · 23h

*these, not this

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Eli Friedmann @eligit.bsky.social · 23h

I feel like fully half of our current government could have benefited from therapy years ago and the world would be a quantifiably better place as a result.
This woman is unwell.

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Eli Friedmann @eligit.bsky.social · 23h

I swear I am so sick of hearing this miscreants babble about religious nonsense.
Eric and his pop are dirt bound, just like everyone else.

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Eli Friedmann @eligit.bsky.social · 23h

The trend has NEVER been less subtle.
Truly, on multiple fronts.
All the fronts, pretty much.

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Eli Friedmann @eligit.bsky.social · 23h

I miss when republicans at least pretended to care about objective economic productivity.
Housing near transit (and vice versa) is the most logical idea imaginable.
So I guess to some folks it still is possible to get the idea through to them.

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Eli Friedmann @eligit.bsky.social · 23h

Here in manhattan it's basically like a war to maintain what we have with the magas actively trying to destroy it.
18 billion just got withheld because of....some "DEI language" in a contract?
This is the mentality.
Hopefully the IBX project (future queens to brooklyn light metro) survives the purge

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Eli Friedmann @eligit.bsky.social · 23h

Trump just loves to be on camera holding up pieces of paper that he signed.
Truly, he lives for this.
He has zero interest about what happens to actual people.
To him, he is the only real person.
It's like De Niro in King of Comedy in his basement.

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Eli Friedmann @eligit.bsky.social · 23h

Busses are basically the worst thing a maga can imagine.
There are...people on busses.
Can't have that.

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Eli Friedmann @eligit.bsky.social · 23h

Almost devoid of content you say?
Why am I not surprised.
Almost like....this problem has existed for my entire life and decades before that?
Because it is inherently difficult to solve?

The TrumpRussiaGuide 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @trumprussiaties.bsky.social · 1d

'It's Not A Peace Deal': BBC Expert Delivers Brutal Reality Check To Donald Trump Over Gaza

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/amp/entry/it...

'It's Not A Peace Deal': BBC Expert Delivers Brutal Reality Check To Donald Trump Over Gaza

Jeremy Bowen said the accord signed by the president was "almost devoid of content".

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

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