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Atticus Finch (of Georgia) @atticus59914029.bsky.social · 3h

It is a very short step from the military killing alleged drug traffickers off the coast of Venezuela to the military, ICE, or others killing people inside the US for crimes, real or imagined, as directed by the president.

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Melody von Rock @melodyvonrock.bsky.social · 1h

The energy consumption of AI & cryptocurrency is destroying the planet.

For this?

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Debbie Northway 🇦🇺🦘🐨 @debbienorthway.bsky.social · 2h

There’s never been a public discussion on whether we want or actually need all the AI, just billionaires forcing it upon us, as they do

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Former Pingu Child Actor @heresy.bsky.social · 8h

we're minecrafting thiel before musk right now

ALL BILLIONAIRES ARE ANTICHRISTS

Former Pingu Child Actor @heresy.bsky.social · 13h

Thiel is my favourite insane billionaire right now he's just dumber and moister than a bag of rocks on a winter morning and it's very very funny.

Regulating AI hastens the Antichrist, says Palantir's Peter
Thiel

Pic of Satan / a demon (from the film Legend, either weirdly tom cruise or tom curry, forgot who) "You must allow me to build my digital surveillance state unmolested by "regulations" or the Antichrist will come!"

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Melody von Rock @melodyvonrock.bsky.social · 5h

‘They’ would rather spend it on military
…. because the oligarchs are getting scared.

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Wintersong @wintersong.bsky.social · 6h

It sure sounds like Trump is saying that Elon Musk or Peter Thiel is trying to buy access to, and influence over, the U.S. military.

It's a bad situation when the best possibility is that the President of the United States is just lying through his fucking teeth, because the alternative is worse.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Trump: "I had a very wealthy person who called -- a donor, a great gentleman -- and he said, 'if there's any money necessary, shortfall, for the paying of the troops, then I will pay it.' Meaning he will pay it. How about that?"

Melody von Rock @melodyvonrock.bsky.social · 5h

Thiel hates competition.

theplotagainstamerica.com

www.thenerdreich.com

The Plot Against America

The richest men in the country are in the final stages of a 40-year plan to kill America and crown themselves kings.

theplotagainstamerica.com

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Melody von Rock @melodyvonrock.bsky.social · 5h

theplotagainstamerica.com

www.thenerdreich.com

The Plot Against America

The richest men in the country are in the final stages of a 40-year plan to kill America and crown themselves kings.

theplotagainstamerica.com

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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 7h

OpenAI partnered with Anduril who is partnered with Facebook and cofounded by Peter Thiel just like Palantir is and they all have DoD contracts and we haven't even gotten into the stock manipulation NVIDIA shit

Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 11h

Tired activation code: It's hot ice cream

Wired activation code: It turns soldiers into technomancers

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Melody von Rock @melodyvonrock.bsky.social · 5h

“monomaniacal thinking” = perfect!

Melody von Rock @melodyvonrock.bsky.social · 5h

theplotagainstamerica.com

www.thenerdreich.com

The Plot Against America

The richest men in the country are in the final stages of a 40-year plan to kill America and crown themselves kings.

theplotagainstamerica.com

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Melody von Rock @melodyvonrock.bsky.social · 5h

I also immediately thought of the Dark Enlightenment when I saw that

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Agitated Spiders for Justice @jane-brooks.bsky.social · 7h

True. But it's more than that.

Peter Thiel and Curtis Yarvin and the dark corners of the donor class are softening the ground for slavery and slavery-like things.

It's deeply engraved on ruling class culture that owning people, especially vulnerable people, is the ultimate expression of privilege.

PritzkerPosting @pritzkerposting.bsky.social · 7h

This is a crazy read, yet it’s completely unsurprising. Young Republicans are pretty much guaranteed to be horrible people.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Melody von Rock @melodyvonrock.bsky.social · 5h

Energy use of AI data centers is killing the planet. Pull the plug on the data centers

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Melody von Rock @melodyvonrock.bsky.social · 1d

Because he knows AI data centers are KILLING US & the PLANET. Hence why he’s buying up energy providers.

www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

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www.theguardian.com/environment/...

'How come I can’t breathe?': Musk's data company draws a backlash in Memphis

The company’s turbines — enough to power 280,000 homes — run without emission controls in an area that leads Tennessee in asthma hospitalizations.

www.politico.com

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Ginger624 @gingers624.bsky.social · 7h

Exactly why trump was hot for Greenland. Thiel wants it for exactly this.

Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 8h

Balaji (a close associate of Thiel & Andreessen) leads the “network state” movement, which encourages tech elites to build their own “countries” by acquiring physical territory w/in host countries & building “parallel institutions” to replace existing ones in media, education, finance, & science 1/

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Melody von Rock @melodyvonrock.bsky.social · 5h

An oligarch who’s scared for his safety?

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Wintersong @wintersong.bsky.social · 6h

It sure sounds like Trump is saying that Elon Musk or Peter Thiel is trying to buy access to, and influence over, the U.S. military.

It's a bad situation when the best possibility is that the President of the United States is just lying through his fucking teeth, because the alternative is worse.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Trump: "I had a very wealthy person who called -- a donor, a great gentleman -- and he said, 'if there's any money necessary, shortfall, for the paying of the troops, then I will pay it.' Meaning he will pay it. How about that?"

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 16h

THIS: 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇

reasonsvoice.bsky.social @reasonsvoice.bsky.social · 21h

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 9h

I'm not afraid. Come and get me, Donald.

I will stand up for the law and the Constitution. That’s what we do in the State of Illinois.

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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 8h

That’s why we spend so much on propaganda. Not to make you believe something but to make you believe nothing. So you do nothing.

It works.

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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 8h

Why You Should Be Scared about Putin’s Next War
The signs are mounting that Russia is preparing for another invasion.

thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...

Why You Should Be Scared about Putin’s Next War | The Tyee

The signs are mounting that Russia is preparing for another invasion.

thetyee.ca

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Melody von Rock @melodyvonrock.bsky.social · 5h

This might help as a start. Just remove the businesses unrelated to the trump regime? It also gives alternatives. I’ll trawl my Bluesky to try and find the person who started the list here - it was great.

www.ethicalconsumer.org/ethicalcampa...

Boycotts List | Ethical Consumer

Boycotts exert economic pressure on some of the biggest companies to change their practices. Here is a comprehensive list of current boycott calls from campaigning groups around the world.

www.ethicalconsumer.org

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Melody von Rock @melodyvonrock.bsky.social · 6h

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Melody von Rock @melodyvonrock.bsky.social · 2d

Serious point:

Everyone protesting should wear costumes, or at least cover their faces so as to prevent evil Palantir recording & profiling them.

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 9h

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The Steady State @steadystatevets.bsky.social · 8h

Eric isn't talking politics. Instead, he’s declaring a new moral order. Framing Trump as God-guided and destined for heaven, he claims America has been “saved” from DEI, protest, and pluralism. This is prophetic, authoritarian language. Dissent becomes evil, and their victory becomes divine destiny.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Eric Trump: "We're saving Christianity. We've saving God. We've saving the family unit. We're saving this nation. I mean, DEI is out of the window, Benny. You no longer have Colin Kaepernick kneeling for the national anthem. You no longer have Budweiser going woke as hell. All of this is dead."

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Melody von Rock @melodyvonrock.bsky.social · 6h

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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 13h