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Giorgio Murderer 🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈 @lonestartallboi.bsky.social · 3h

Imagine watching the news and seeing some shambolic fortune 500 drug addict demon pop up on screen and, in the midst of every other righteous thought you're having about them, thinking "this motherfucker owes me $700"

Like a sprig of parsley to garnish your steak. It really elevates the experience

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Giorgio Murderer 🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈 @lonestartallboi.bsky.social · 3h

If you can get a job in the Billionaire Treat Industry, I highly recommend you do it. It's an incredible resource for learning new ways to hate. I hate the wealthy in ways most people can't imagine.

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Metamora @metamora.bsky.social · 3h

To be fair, that is something an extremely stupid person would do

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Metamora @metamora.bsky.social · 5h

it's not, she's corncobbing because there's a lot of money in her brain where the shame should be

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Metamora @metamora.bsky.social · 5h

two men are sitting at a table with bloomberg politicals written on the bottom of the screen

ALT: two men are sitting at a table with bloomberg politicals written on the bottom of the screen

media.tenor.com

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ceej @ceej.online · 9h

I think the leak of the incredibly racist young republican group chat only furthers the argument that millennials were the only generation able to use the computer without going insane, mostly because the computer was once a place separate from the real world. but now the real world is also computer

ceej @ceej.online · Apr 28

that a bunch of billionaires have been irreversibly brainwormed by getting addicted to a glorified chat room adds credence to my theory that spending too much time on IRC as a child acts as a powerful inoculant to the worst impulses of an escalatory group dynamic

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Metamora @metamora.bsky.social · 9h

Are you afraid to do that? Perhaps the bad people pay you your salary? Whoops! Looks like you just discovered the problem with capitalism! Welcome to the vanguard, comrade!

Metamora @metamora.bsky.social · 9h

We didn't collectively decide not to call bad things bad anymore; the bad people collectively gathered enough media power to convince credulous people that they are incapable of discerning good from bad!

This isn't difficult to solve: call these people pieces of shit, often, like they deserve

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 9h

"A key aspect of the way we lived with each other before these self-styled epochal developments [post-2020] involved exactly the “social shame and cultural pressure” that Klein and other influential voices now come to condemn"

tapping the 'bring back shame' sign
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

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Metamora @metamora.bsky.social · 9h

We didn't collectively decide not to call bad things bad anymore; the bad people collectively gathered enough media power to convince credulous people that they are incapable of discerning good from bad!

This isn't difficult to solve: call these people pieces of shit, often, like they deserve

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 9h

"A key aspect of the way we lived with each other before these self-styled epochal developments [post-2020] involved exactly the “social shame and cultural pressure” that Klein and other influential voices now come to condemn"

tapping the 'bring back shame' sign
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

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Metamora @metamora.bsky.social · 9h

it's okay guys, I'm sure sticking another far right fascist freak in front of a bunch of college kids that hate their parents will work out great

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Metamora @metamora.bsky.social · 9h

one hundo

this one was low and slow

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illbleed for sego dreancas @impemboganecue.bsky.social · 9h

Getting a full court press on this from liberal media and relatively obscure but bought figures like that wet weasel man David Pakman seems like a group chat decision to me

GQ @gqmagazine.bsky.social · 1d

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...

www.gq.com

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Metamora @metamora.bsky.social · 9h

basically, she hates herself, and has decided to monetize that by making it our problem instead of just going to therapy

real gross person, easy to block and move on, etc

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Metamora @metamora.bsky.social · 9h

The thing you have to understand about Ari Drennen, like other white neolib trans media women like Clymer and Wynn, is that she is *extremely* stupid

not just regular stupid! she thrives in an environment where she gets rewarded for being tokenized, and the only way to do that is to normalize abuse

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Metamora @metamora.bsky.social · 10h

Ari Drennen is a vicious dumb bitch theory keeps winning

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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 11h

wow i cant believe isreal concocted a flimsy excuse to continue the genocide after getting their hostages back, ah shit sorry posted this 8 weeks too early

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Metamora @metamora.bsky.social · 11h

Remember kids: if you speak out against Israel, you're antisemitic

if you didn't vote for Kamala Harris, you're a racist

if you think ICE should be abolished, you're a terrorist

if you're anti-capitalist, you're a stupid idiot child

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👻 ZH0000GE LIANG 臥龍 / 伏龍 👻 @shuchancellor.online · 12h

i think people want to hope, but don't know what to hope in, or how to organize.

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 12h

I need ppl to understand that no matter how well meaning someone running as a democrat is, when they are absorbed and become somewhat dependent on the party, they will make concessions and use language they provide etc

It’s like how capitalists, no matter how well meaning, need to increase profit

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Metamora @metamora.bsky.social · 12h

Something something "transitive trust problem" where the issue isn't the transitive nature of trust but the velocity (speed, direction) at which trust is transacted upon

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Metamora @metamora.bsky.social · 12h

Rich people find it amusing to pay somebody to do things like extract a cola from a vending machine, because they can. Surround yourself with a couple hundred such people. Now all of a sudden your relationship with reality is a cycle within which the baseline activity is paying for information

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Metamora @metamora.bsky.social · 12h

At some point, Zohran and/or DSA leadership got a visit from Mossad, and that's that. You will find Graham Platner suddenly bringing up Israel's long and rich culinary history sometime next week