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root rot @rootrot1519.bsky.social · 9h

the peeps that keep on this idea refuse to acknowledge the existence of like rush limbaugh. the klan had public access shows! im supposed to think those guys were the outliers tho to soothe guys that were friendly with like karl rove or whatever and don't wanna reflect on what that means

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 9h

i refuse to accept both as a factual matter and a political point that republican staffers were historically any less openly racist in private conversations. strom thurmond was some of their boss! pat buchanan was on msnbc! thinking their underlings were LESS comfortable talking like that is naive!

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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 11h

I read the piece. You shouldn't. He dismisses the "No Kings" protests as liberals in blue cities. He invokes Rosa Parks, as if rural white people in the 60s loved everything that the movement then was doing. "We need a movement but not this one" is a core centrist tact these days.

Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 12h

Is this a joke. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

America Needs a Mass Movement—Now

Without one, America may sink into autocracy for decades.

www.theatlantic.com

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root rot @rootrot1519.bsky.social · 11h

was limbaugh fringe?

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grimm ☀️ @mugrimm.bsky.social · 16h

"I miss when the republicans weren't racist" is just one of the most wild takes unless you're a 90 year old person lol.

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Bethany, Rowan, et al. @schala42.bsky.social · 13h

Conservatives have always been like this, in thread form

grimm ☀️ @mugrimm.bsky.social · 14h

Gonna stop responding to people trying to make vibe explanations to me about the 00s and just posting 80s-00s era controversies today.

Starting with: Fox news used to love photoshopping jewish journalists into der sturmer like creations:

Journalist Jacques Steinberg edited to look like an antisemitic cartoon.

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grimm ☀️ @mugrimm.bsky.social · 15h

Holy shit they're going to blame Trump's insane tariff war and instability causing the market to crash with "AI is so good it's already taking millions of jobs" lol

Amazing, seemless transition.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 15h

Some straight talk out of Waller. Less and less sugar-coating as we go on.

#NFP 👀

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grimm ☀️ @mugrimm.bsky.social · 12h

Love that we've just fully made a religion of this nonsense lol.

Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 12h

It really is the greatest business plan in the history of capitalism: “We will create God and then ask it for money.” www.bloomberg.com/opinion/news...

OpenAI Has a Business Plan

Also 18/5 stock trading on 24 Exchange and Nobel Prize betting on Polymarket.

www.bloomberg.com

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root rot @rootrot1519.bsky.social · 12h

nah the audience for what he's describing are investors

root rot @rootrot1519.bsky.social · 14h

im not communicating what i mean by weird one well; cannery row and east of eden are bangers but also were mainstream successes. OMAM was the biggest of all and kind of sucks. just a lot of his stuff suffers from too much righteous fury and really that is what i meant by weird

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The Pumpkin Dipshit @pumpkinpal.bsky.social · 15h

It's a flattening thing. There used to be overt racism for racism's sake for the overt racism enjoyers, "reluctant, pragmatic" racism for prosperity's sake for the "pragmatic" racism enjoyers, and racism denial for the racism non-enjoyers to have semi-plausible deniability.

Now there's just the one

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 16h

I think what we’re all struggling with today is that yes they were always racist but in a slightly different form. It’s like how Garfield used to look different but was still Garfield

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root rot @rootrot1519.bsky.social · 14h

as much as Babb was done dirty it has always stuck out to me that grapes of wrath had a certain je ne sais quoi re: righteous fury and socialist call to arms that Whose Names Are Unknown was never gonna have. for every sweet thursday weirdness he wrote a banger

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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 16h

yeah 15-20 years ago they didn't have group chats so they didn't write stuff like that down, they'd just say it out loud to eachother at parties, usually without a paper trail

Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 1d

For those tempted to say Young Republicans have always been this way, they really have not. When I worked on campus and did bipartisan college events after, they were very much not like this.

That’s why groups like YCT and eventually TPUSA formed — because Young Republicans weren’t radical enough.

Politico @politico.com · 1d

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

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root rot @rootrot1519.bsky.social · 15h

see they dont run an app its a protocol! if you dont like it make your own app!

root rot @rootrot1519.bsky.social · 15h

like, go listen to a Limbaugh broadcast and the "AIDS update" was that some sort of closeted bigotry that was more respectable than what we have today?

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root rot @rootrot1519.bsky.social · 15h

amanda is doing more than that though. she is saying that hers is a story of redemption, of growth and change for us to learn from. and that doesnt seem true at all! instead what she actually says is she was duped by people who hid their true views! there are very different lessons to learn there!

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Bort @senatorgiggity.bsky.social · 17h

Again, if I were trying to dismantle a superpower, it'd look a lot like this

White House Watchdog @whitehousewatchdog.bsky.social · 17h

The Trump administration reduces over 1,000 CDC jobs amid shutdown, but officials retract more than half the layoffs, according to union reports.

CDC employees sort through chaotic ‘outbreak of firings’ followed by some reversals

The Trump administration reduces over 1,000 CDC jobs amid shutdown, but officials retract more than half the layoffs, according to union reports.

www.govexec.com

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