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Joe Hargrave @joeahargrave.bsky.social · 55m

It's a this moment you have two choices: 1) engage in a little bit of self-reflection and realize yeah, maybe I went too far with that whole "starving kids in Gaza may not actually be starving" thing or 2) start indulging thoughts such as "gosh, all these fascists have been SO nice to me"

Kurtbert Barlowko @albertburneko.bsky.social · 1h

"disliking me is persecution" describes so incredibly many people's entire outlook these days defector.com/free-press-r...

Free Press Reporter Discovers That Being An Amoral Dickhead Can Cost You Friends | Defector

It can be hard to maintain friendships as an adult. People move to new cities, start families, and experience all sorts of other life events that make it difficult to keep in touch. Sometimes, you end...

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Joe Hargrave @joeahargrave.bsky.social · 3h

Mass psychosis promoted by fascist provocateurs. Really great place we're in, society.

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Hasan Piker and the Future No One Is Ready For

YouTube video by Taylor Lorenz

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Joe Hargrave @joeahargrave.bsky.social · 19h

Imagine being in MAGA and having to pretend to like this.

Joe Hargrave @joeahargrave.bsky.social · 19h

In my nightmares, I'm screaming almost this exact sentence at people while shaking them.

A plant-based diet is objectively the best diet at the intersection of all ecological concerns. At the very least, an extreme "reducitarian" diet!

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Joe Hargrave @joeahargrave.bsky.social · 19h

"MAGA Mike Johnson and MAGA-fied Representative Steve Scalise are angrily sliming expected attendees as America-haters, antifa, Marxists, and terrorists. "

Hey, only 2.5 out of 4 of those things apply to me.

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MAGA Rage at “No Kings” Boils Over—and It Quickly Backfires on Trump

As Trump allies smear the coming protests, a good writer on MAGA skewers the absurdity of these attacks on large swaths of Americans—and explains why our best recourse will be to turn out in force.

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Joe Hargrave @joeahargrave.bsky.social · 20h

"Trotskyists"

Someone remembered we exist. 🫶

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Joe Hargrave @joeahargrave.bsky.social · 21h

I like Zohran. But we're already seeing him tone down the "socialist" part of "democratic socialism."

I think we'll need to go through a series of failed social democratic promises before people realize it just isn't enough.

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Joe Hargrave @joeahargrave.bsky.social · 1d

So this is where David Packman was getting these ideas about leftists warming up to Fuentes.

I don't doubt that out there, somewhere, scattered individuals referring to themselves as "left-wing" are warming to NF. People devoid of theory or even a strong sense of self.

This is not a "trend."

GQ @gqmagazine.bsky.social · 2d

Is hard-right streamer Nick Fuentes winning over women on the left? Writer Katherine Dee investigates www.gq.com/story/nick-f...

Is Nick Fuentes Winning Over Women on the Left?

There are the Tumblr “Nickstorians” and sincere fanfics. But are young, liberal, possibly irony-poisoned women fetishizing or even falling for the hard-right streamer with the “groyper” following? Wri...

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Joe Hargrave @joeahargrave.bsky.social · 1d

I was told that we are bringing in $17 trillion by our glorious and dear leader. Sounds like we could afford to give everybody healthcare and while we’re at it, a place to live, college tuition, and infrastructure that isn’t crumbling all around us.

Bad Medical Takes @badmedicaltakes.bsky.social · 1d

Bluesky user philip.health‬: You think we should provide free healthcare to people in the States illegally?
‪Bluesky user dochocson.bsky.social‬: Yes, because they're people.
‪Bluesky user philip.health‬: Should we give free healthcare to all people in the world, regardless of where they live? They are people as well.
‪Bluesky user biden2028.bsky.social‬: Sounds good.
Bluesky user philip.health‬: I guess we're in absurdville in the nutball part of bsky.

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Joe Hargrave @joeahargrave.bsky.social · 1d

They have these crazy radical ideas. Like Palestinians, immigrants and trans people are full human beings. Really out there commie stuff.

Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 1d

That’s right! Thanks, Fox News!
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Squad 2.0: Meet America's next wave of radical Democrats shaping the party's future

Progressive Democrats, including Zohran Mamdani and Omar Fateh, have emerged as the new generation of candidates responding to President Donald Trump's second term.

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Joe Hargrave @joeahargrave.bsky.social · 1d

Name a single leftist doing this who isn’t some weirdo with under 100 followers on social media

Joe Hargrave @joeahargrave.bsky.social · 2d

I’m sure that’s technically true. But we all thought that tariffs couldn’t be unilaterally imposed by one man either. All he has to do is claim some emergency and he’ll get away with anything.

Joe Hargrave @joeahargrave.bsky.social · 2d

The sad thing is that we’re in a situation where the Democrats might as well do all of those things if they’re going to be accused of wanting to do them anyway. But they never will. They like capitalism and they want more of it. They think they can make it fair.

Joe Hargrave @joeahargrave.bsky.social · 2d

““What if the socialists take over the Senate, and Democrat socialists are in charge, and they want to grow government and take over the means of production?”

The essence of fascism is anti-communism. Even when there are no communists around.

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The Speaker of the House Is Abetting Authoritarianism

Every Trump needs his Johnson: a flunky who will rationalize his crimes.

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Joe Hargrave @joeahargrave.bsky.social · 2d

Its things like this that have to pile up in the normie consciousness, right? Finally cause them to snap?

I realize brown and trans people being terrorized won't move these sloths, but surely having their consumerism interrupted will?

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UPS is 'disposing of' U.S.-bound packages over customs paperwork problems

Shifting Trump tariffs have created a nightmare for UPS, as thousands of packages from overseas pile up at its hubs while they await customs clearance.

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Joe Hargrave @joeahargrave.bsky.social · 2d

She got a whiff of what Zohran is cooking and she wants in. She knows popular rage against an unlivable system is going to boil over. She wants in on the ground floor.

Okay. Just denounce the racism, homophobia, xenophobia, transphobia that you've spewed for years and sure why not.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2d

Crazy week.

Joe Hargrave @joeahargrave.bsky.social · 2d

If they can convince Trump that Portland and Chicago are war zones, and on fire, could they convince him to launch nukes? The person with enough fire power to destroy the entire planet is either hallucinating or has people lying to him nonstop.

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Joe Hargrave @joeahargrave.bsky.social · 3d

Take our country back?

They have the White House, Congress, the Supreme Court, Fox News, their billionaire allies own much of the social media now, it’s never enough for these people. They are eternal victims, even as they press their boot down on our necks.

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Secular Talk @kylekulinskishow.bsky.social · 3d

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Joe Hargrave @joeahargrave.bsky.social · 3d

Really? The same school where Trump's genius uncle taught the Unabomber?

Joe Hargrave @joeahargrave.bsky.social · 4d

“Stabilizing Argentina is America First”

A whole lot of ignorant right-wingers who were duped into thinking Trump was an anti-war populist about to find out that fascism is also imperialism and is the exact opposite of “America First.” It’s the same old neoconservatism in a different hemisphere

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 4d

What he not saying is that his friends and cronies invested a fortune in Argentina since their guy Milei won, they stand to lose a big chunk of those fortunes the way things are going, and Argentina’s elections are in two weeks and we are tampering in them to bail Milei out.

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Joe Hargrave @joeahargrave.bsky.social · 4d

I have not received my George Soros check yet so I don’t think you’ll be seeing me there.

Now, if the check gets here in time, well, then sure, of course .

Micah @rincewind.run · 5d

they are clearly trying to terrify everyone out of showing up to the No Kings protest and I simply do not think it is going to work

see you all there

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Sen. Roger Marshall: "October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros paid-for protest for his professional protesters. The agitators show up. We'll have to get the National Guard out. Hopefully it will be peaceful. I doubt it."

Joe Hargrave @joeahargrave.bsky.social · 5d

Yes, we know you want to end the 1st amendment.

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Joe Hargrave @joeahargrave.bsky.social · 5d

There's still time to delete this, seeing as how she's very much pro-"sink the boats"

Joe Hargrave @joeahargrave.bsky.social · 5d

Yeah. No one fighting to hand over state assets to a gang of imperialist vultures really gives a shit about "democracy." It's a transition to oligarchy and imperial vassalage she is fighting for.

الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 5d

She's a U.S. sponsored opposition candidate and the daughter of a steel oligarch. Machado champions the privatization of Venezuela's oil, power, and steel industries.

Connie Schultz @connieschultz.bsky.social · 5d

New York Times:

“Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado awarded Nobel Peace Prize for “her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela & for her struggle to achieve a just & peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.”

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

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