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Athlete's Foot Demon

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Online store selling items for everyday household needs. Soon I will be executed.

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Athlete's Foot Demon @rwoodsmall.bsky.social · May 19

i need you to assume i'm acting in bad faith.

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Athlete's Foot Demon @rwoodsmall.bsky.social · 26m

everything posted on this account before right now was because someone hacked me. i'm not responsible for any of it. can't figure out how to delete it okay bye

Athlete's Foot Demon @rwoodsmall.bsky.social · 38m

oh no.

Athlete's Foot Demon @rwoodsmall.bsky.social · 1h

do not make me orc out, bro. i am pleading with you. no orc.

Athlete's Foot Demon @rwoodsmall.bsky.social · 1h

oh shoot!

Athlete's Foot Demon @rwoodsmall.bsky.social · 1h

i actually met the guy who invented fire. so,

Athlete's Foot Demon @rwoodsmall.bsky.social · 1h

they banned all non-bots and grok is tagged on all posts

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Athlete's Foot Demon @rwoodsmall.bsky.social · 2h

probably a cross of lamb and veal, yet more ethical than either

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Athlete's Foot Demon @rwoodsmall.bsky.social · 2h

the migrations this year are simply magnifique!!!

Athlete's Foot Demon @rwoodsmall.bsky.social · 2h

let's get this on the discover page

Athlete's Foot Demon @rwoodsmall.bsky.social · 2h

hey! 👋 welcome to bluesky! we're pretty laid back here. things can get a LITTLE heated with politics, but we always make peace. if you purchase and drive a luxury convertible it should be expected that you will be run off the road and hunted for sport any time you take the car out. nice to meet you!

Athlete's Foot Demon @rwoodsmall.bsky.social · 4h

they're free at hotels. i have like 400 bibles

Athlete's Foot Demon @rwoodsmall.bsky.social · 4h

good idea, honestly

Athlete's Foot Demon @rwoodsmall.bsky.social · 4h

They Were Indeed Always Like This And They Have Been Like This My Entire Life, Probably Yours Too, And Yes It Is Worse Now, Nobody Said It Wasn't, But To Deny The Decades-Long Conservative Agenda And Its Implementers Is Not Only Ahistorical & Overly Credulous But Dangerous In Our Current Age, Okay?

Athlete's Foot Demon @rwoodsmall.bsky.social · 4h

i need to Log Off. do me a favor: get a time machine and go back to the 1990s. talk to a bircher, the "out there" conspiracy conservatives, and tell me they were better at anything except hiding their bigotry. birchers are still around! they're freaks! and they represent the current GOP perfectly.

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Athlete's Foot Demon @rwoodsmall.bsky.social · 4h

the marcotte thing is: I think she was indeed trying to exculpate herself. she immediately switched from "they weren't" to "when i was a young republican, i wasnt" like this. it's worm shit to sidestep shame or guilt but she did it in public. it's worse now, yes, but they have always been like this.

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Athlete's Foot Demon @rwoodsmall.bsky.social · 5h

i think the "they weren't always like this" sentiment comes from the same place as lesser of two evils rationalization. we ALL do it! it's a very different, worse world now. pining for "better republicans" of the past denies the through line that has led us to trump, the logical endpoint of the GOP.

Athlete's Foot Demon @rwoodsmall.bsky.social · 5h

its both. i didn't say it wasn't and I'm shit sick of seeing people with better judgment using their rose-colored glasses

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Athlete's Foot Demon @rwoodsmall.bsky.social · 5h

i can tell that a lot of people didn't get called homophobic slurs by bush staffers in 2004, or wrangled by armed men into "free speech zones, or or or... good luck integrating that "they used to be a better kind of evil" into your mindset. guess what: it means you're conservative now. congrats!

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Athlete's Foot Demon @rwoodsmall.bsky.social · 5h

the truth, is, somewhere, in, the middle,,, Just kidding fuck off

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Athlete's Foot Demon @rwoodsmall.bsky.social · 5h

Alberto Balsak

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Athlete's Foot Demon @rwoodsmall.bsky.social · 9h

but! with hindsight, do you really believe what you're saying? or are you rationalizing your past actions & experience separate from the knowledge you've gained/life you've lived since high school? seems like it. "not MY republicans!" anyway. i guess i was never a young republican so what do i know.

Athlete's Foot Demon @rwoodsmall.bsky.social · 9h

everyone, particularly journalists, has to pay attention to their own biases & presenting anecdotal evidence - which i have also done here! - then doubling down, blowing up at critics, and disabling replies isn't great. my experience is not your experience. and there are people replying in bad faith

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Athlete's Foot Demon @rwoodsmall.bsky.social · 9h

it's easy to get defensive and retreat into the story about the past you constructed and take as objective fact. but it's not very useful to do that, and the unwillingness to reflect and see that maybe, just maybe, things weren't so cut and dry is telling. there's a clear disconnect with reality.

Athlete's Foot Demon @rwoodsmall.bsky.social · 9h

to say "they weren't like this when i was a young republican!" is, again, in my experience, ahistorical and willfully naive. if i'm being generous. maybe you didn't see it, but it was there. beating this drum then going all woe is me when challenged is a natural reaction. it sucks to be called out!

Athlete's Foot Demon @rwoodsmall.bsky.social · 9h

it doesn't matter. if i was a few years older, i'd put money on the young repubs being unbearable during the gingrich & norquist years, and before that iran contra, the southern strategy, watergate, etc. etc. etc. the entire party has always been a grievance machine based in othering & "i got mine."

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