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Professor Furious

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Unprofitably principled anarchist. Your problems are capitalism all the way down, people.

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Professor Furious @professorfurious.bsky.social · 7h

Or more comical.
Who is the audience for hamfisted idiocy like this?

Professor Furious @professorfurious.bsky.social · 15h

During the first murders in the Caribbean.

Professor Furious @professorfurious.bsky.social · 15h

WE NEED BETTER WRITERS

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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 16h

I'm so sick of discourse from supposed allies about where trans people went wrong.

Where we "went wrong" is that billionaires spent unimaginably large sums to attack us repeatedly and major media outlets have spent a decade piling on.

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Professor Furious @professorfurious.bsky.social · 15h

"Over-investing in the idea that you are the only actor in this drama" is what I think of when people say a billionaire is "losing it". I'm sure the French aristocracy once had a similar attitude.

Professor Furious @professorfurious.bsky.social · 15h

However the idea here is that he is building the substrate, not a layer on top of one. All these cited advantages are also structures subject to change, which could easily undermine anything assuming their continued maintenance.

Professor Furious @professorfurious.bsky.social · 15h

Arguably Genghis Khan thought similarly, or at least his actions seemed to indicate that. His legacy endures, but his power structure didn't survive him.

Professor Furious @professorfurious.bsky.social · 15h

Certainly if you believe that enduring power structures can be founded on delusions of grandeur. The history of organized religions tends to support your thesis, but history is littered with failed cults and mortal gods.

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Angels In Velvet @angelsinvelvet.bsky.social · 2d

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Professor Furious @professorfurious.bsky.social · 1d

BECAUSE WE'RE NOT TARIFFING HARD ENOUGH

Professor Furious @professorfurious.bsky.social · 2d

My admittedly rough estimate of the No Kings protests yesterday indicates that nearly 42 billion people turned out to say "No" to Trump and his criminal cronies.

Professor Furious @professorfurious.bsky.social · 2d

No one's seen crowds like this, Mr. Popehat.

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 3d

@nytimes.com @washingtonpost.com @cnn.com are you going to write about the president of the United States posting a clip of himself literally dumping shit on Americans, or is it nbd?

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Professor Furious @professorfurious.bsky.social · 2d

Don't forget "convicted criminal".

Professor Furious @professorfurious.bsky.social · 2d

"experts"

Professor Furious @professorfurious.bsky.social · 3d

On a glorious New England autumn day, my neighbor chooses to spend it with a screaming gasoline leaf blower strapped to his back.
Other people continue to baffle me.