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Zeya @knowapply.bsky.social · 26m

On a brighter note 😅 I was just thinking “How nice, no BS private messages for some time now”… and I get one from someone who’s been reading my bio, and is trying to get sexy with a story about true crime, cats and spilling *creamers* ? You gotta be kidding me 😅🥶🤣

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Zeya @knowapply.bsky.social · 1h

"With 300,000 young men, armed to the teeth, ready for anything and almost mystically prompt to obey any order of mine, I could have punished all those who have slandered and thrown mud at Fascism. 1/2

From Benito Mussolini's First Speech in the Chamber as Prime Minister

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Trump suggests he may get even more involved in prosecuting his political foes: "What we're doing is nothing. I don't have to leave it up to them. But I choose to at this moment at least."

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Zeya @knowapply.bsky.social · 1h

Literally plagiarizing the Duce

Zeya @knowapply.bsky.social · 1h

bibliotecafascista.blogspot.com/2012/03/spee...

Speech in the Chamber, November 16, 1922

A historical library of Italian Fascism: documents, articles, books, letters, speeches. Original Italian texts and English translations.

bibliotecafascista.blogspot.com

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Zeya @knowapply.bsky.social · 1h

I could have made a bivouac of this gloomy grey hall; I could have shut up Parliament and formed a Government exclusively of Fascists; I could have done so, but I did not wish to do so, at least not at this moment." 2/2

November 16, 1922

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Zeya @knowapply.bsky.social · 1h

"With 300,000 young men, armed to the teeth, ready for anything and almost mystically prompt to obey any order of mine, I could have punished all those who have slandered and thrown mud at Fascism. 1/2

From Benito Mussolini's First Speech in the Chamber as Prime Minister

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Trump suggests he may get even more involved in prosecuting his political foes: "What we're doing is nothing. I don't have to leave it up to them. But I choose to at this moment at least."

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Zeya @knowapply.bsky.social · 2h

Causing TRAUMA is the point.

"Any disturbing experience that results in significant fear, helplessness, dissociation, confusion, or other disruptive feelings intense enough to have a long-lasting negative effect on a person's attitudes, behavior, and other aspects of functioning"

A.P.A.

LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 1d

ICE raids Walgreens in Chicago—older white agent tackles Black man to the ground—arrests him for "running."

"He's a U.S. citizen! He's American!" a woman yells. "He's my brother-in-law!"

Store location was forced to close "because of everything with ICE"—manager told the rest of the customers.

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Zeya @knowapply.bsky.social · 2h

Definition of trauma by the American Psychological Association

Zeya @knowapply.bsky.social · 2h

Causing TRAUMA is the point.

"Any disturbing experience that results in significant fear, helplessness, dissociation, confusion, or other disruptive feelings intense enough to have a long-lasting negative effect on a person's attitudes, behavior, and other aspects of functioning"

A.P.A.

LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 1d

ICE raids Walgreens in Chicago—older white agent tackles Black man to the ground—arrests him for "running."

"He's a U.S. citizen! He's American!" a woman yells. "He's my brother-in-law!"

Store location was forced to close "because of everything with ICE"—manager told the rest of the customers.

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Zeya @knowapply.bsky.social · 2h

a man in a red sweater is making a funny face and says that seems racist .

ALT: a man in a red sweater is making a funny face and says that seems racist .

media.tenor.com

Zeya @knowapply.bsky.social · 3h

Turns out the quote is by Selwyn Duke

Zeya @knowapply.bsky.social · 3h

Technically, I quoted it. Cheers

Zeya @knowapply.bsky.social · 3h

P.S. Thanks for pointing it out

Zeya @knowapply.bsky.social · 3h

I just checked, it’s Selwyn Duke. Still agree with it.

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Zeya @knowapply.bsky.social · 3h

I noticed that, I took it as someone quoting this in 2024

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Zeya @knowapply.bsky.social · 9h

At last... Let's hear these voices instead of, you know

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Zeya @knowapply.bsky.social · 9h

Thanks for sharing 💞

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Zeya @knowapply.bsky.social · 9h

thanks for the inclusion, I appreciate you, my friend

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Zeya @knowapply.bsky.social · 9h

Follow our friend @psychopete.bsky.social and all the unique, unherdable resisters in his starter pack 💙

Also, check out the No King Protest Guide and his other amazing writings on substack
psychopete1.substack.com/p/this-one-m...

Thank you and don't let them grind you down 💞

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Zeya @knowapply.bsky.social · 12h

That a holygator? 😇

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Zeya @knowapply.bsky.social · 12h

That’s true for every social group: families, schools, coworkers, sports teams… It happens all the time, way more often then we’d like to admit. Humans can be so nasty.

putawomanincharge.bsky.social @putawomanincharge.bsky.social · 15h

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Zeya @knowapply.bsky.social · 12h

hahaha

a monkey wearing a green crocodile hat looks at the camera

ALT: a monkey wearing a green crocodile hat looks at the camera

media.tenor.com

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Zeya @knowapply.bsky.social · 12h

Wo do we have to get through, in case you yourself go for her during your shannanugans? 😁

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Zeya @knowapply.bsky.social · 12h

With my bones 🥶

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Zeya @knowapply.bsky.social · 12h

💞 Thanks for all the hard work you put in, my friend. We see it