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Martin #509 @martin509.bsky.social · 25m

the US has officially surpassed 'Russian Federation in the 1990s' levels of state collapse

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 1h

The move, which would allow access to radioactive material from cold war-era warheads, is the Trump administration’s latest attempt to boost the nuclear industry on.ft.com/4odP94g

Martin #509 @martin509.bsky.social · 44m

$20 says he builds a massive cube twice as tall as the rest of the building

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Martin #509 @martin509.bsky.social · 50m

ripping the copper out of the walls but it's weapons-grade plutonium

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Michael Senters the Sigillite, ABD. (Yang Wen-li stan) @mikesenters.bsky.social · 1h

Yandere Simulator happened and then all of a sudden Yandere stopped being a popular trope. Coincidence?

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Martin #509 @martin509.bsky.social · 3h

Yeah they basically had it baked in that "it is actually impossible for Republicans to win the popular vote" so if they got 50.1% then that must mean Oh My God We Were Wrong About Everything, They Have Won Forever

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Martin #509 @martin509.bsky.social · 4h

I think him winning the popular vote specifically broke their brains into thinking he is the true voice of the herrenvolk or whatever.

Like they were expecting another plurality but got blindsided so therefore he owns the country now.

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Martin #509 @martin509.bsky.social · 6h

Do they actually check or just.. ask people what tattoos they have?

Bc if he hid it on purpose..

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Martin #509 @martin509.bsky.social · 7h

Surely moving thousands of reservists out of a force *checks notes* half a million strong, is a sign something is up.

Martin #509 @martin509.bsky.social · 7h

we've perfected the weeks-long slow-burn insanity into a single 24-hour feeding frenzy

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Martin #509 @martin509.bsky.social · 9h

This seems very premature.

As far as I can tell the Chinese purge did not happen just now, but rather over the course of the last year, with the recent publications being officially striking the officers from payrolls.

Do you have a link for the reservist call-up?

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Martin #509 @martin509.bsky.social · 11h

Yeah over here there is not nearly the depth of education about Nazi symbology and so on, lots of peoples' knowledge of the SS boils down to movie stereotypes about "really evil guys in black uniforms".

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Martin #509 @martin509.bsky.social · 11h

I can absolutely imagine a guy incurious enough to not know or care to learn, but like, I don't think such a guy should hold public office

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Martin #509 @martin509.bsky.social · 12h

Like there is definitely a pretty plausible case that the guy picked a cool design off the wall of a Bosnian tattoo parlour, but like, at least cover that shit up once you find out!

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Martin #509 @martin509.bsky.social · 12h

totenkopf tattoos are not garden variety blue collar white guy racism

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Boo-is @louisevans.bsky.social · 1d

Ultimately it's the yawning moral void at the heart of this type of writing that baffles me. "Oh, the best data suggests that most voters feel that—" YOU ARE THE NYT EDITORIAL BOARD. I AM READING YOU FOR YOUR OPINION. TELL ME WHAT IT IS.

rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 1d

i would absolutely be willing to screw over the, like, nine trans high school athletes in america in order to get workplace protections for other trans people, except i know that doing so would only show weakness and i wouldn't get the other thing anyway. also no one votes on that basis.