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Chris Fredda 🩷💜💙 @seeyouinnj.bsky.social · 1m

It ain’t the vehicle, it’s the person buying it.

Chris Fredda 🩷💜💙 @seeyouinnj.bsky.social · 1m

This will work great for all the people doing work in coffee shops, airports, on the train, during business meetings, etc.

Chris Fredda 🩷💜💙 @seeyouinnj.bsky.social · 4m

There already was an “I Hate America” rally. It was on January 6th, 2021. The President spoke at it.

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Chris Fredda 🩷💜💙 @seeyouinnj.bsky.social · 5m

If it’s a no kings protest and he says they’re coming to protest the President, that means he thinks the President is a king and thus, not acting like the President. Why does he hate the President?

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Chris Fredda 🩷💜💙 @seeyouinnj.bsky.social · 1h

So a slave owner and sex predator?

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Chris Fredda 🩷💜💙 @seeyouinnj.bsky.social · 1h

Literally everything is.

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Chris Fredda 🩷💜💙 @seeyouinnj.bsky.social · 1h

Literally nobody liked Charlie Kirk, they just saw him as a convenient rallying point for propaganda and creating conflict. Conservatives don’t watch Turning Point videos, they just try to get them into classrooms to bother liberals.

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Chris Fredda 🩷💜💙 @seeyouinnj.bsky.social · 1h

But how will I truly understand the Mennonites without a 360 drone shot of them in 4K?

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Chris Fredda 🩷💜💙 @seeyouinnj.bsky.social · 1h

ChatGPT can’t make people care about information. It can’t make people realize they’ve misunderstood information they’ve been given. It can’t point them to information they aren’t aware is related.

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Chris Fredda 🩷💜💙 @seeyouinnj.bsky.social · 1h

ICE is a government-funded terrorist organization. So according to the Trump administration, other countries are allowed to capture and send them to black sites or blow up their vehicles with drones.

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Chris Fredda 🩷💜💙 @seeyouinnj.bsky.social · 1h

How much of a budget does it cost to take a jpeg and do a Ken Burns zoom in iMovie? Nobody is coming to PBS for state-of-the-art visual effects for Mennonites.

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Chris Fredda 🩷💜💙 @seeyouinnj.bsky.social · 3h

MAGA-types in 1776: “You all have King George Derangement Syndrome. I bathe in your Rev tears. Just a bunch of George Washington-funded antimo terrorists!”

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Chris Fredda 🩷💜💙 @seeyouinnj.bsky.social · 16h

Disney should make an open-world game where you can ride light bikes on the grid. Set it after Legacy and you play the revived Tron who Sam has tasked with clearing out the remaining bad code (programs) after Clu’s defeat.

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Chris Fredda 🩷💜💙 @seeyouinnj.bsky.social · 16h

It’s like when they call “No Fascist” graffiti “anti-Trump,” meaning they think any attack against fascism must be against Trump because he is the fascist they know of.

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Chris Fredda 🩷💜💙 @seeyouinnj.bsky.social · 16h

Classifying the No Kings rallies as “Hate America” rallies means that Republicans agree that America is currently being run like it has a King because they are the ones conflating the two.

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Chris Fredda 🩷💜💙 @seeyouinnj.bsky.social · 16h

Even the racist Republicans at least knew it was gauche to have symbols of it, or hated Nazis for being bad in other ways.

Chris Fredda 🩷💜💙 @seeyouinnj.bsky.social · 16h

Also, like all Trump constructions - including his own visage - ugly. He’s going to ruin an iconic silhouette in an iconic city all so that years from now people will say “what’s that ugly, empty box next to the White House?” And people will say “the Trump Ballroom, barely used.”

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 16h

So this is just facially illegal right?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antidef...

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Chris Fredda 🩷💜💙 @seeyouinnj.bsky.social · 16h

They’re describing press releases. They are reinventing the concept of only telling people what you want them to know about you, which of course has no value when trying to make smart business decisions and no entertainment value which is why regular people don’t read them.

Chris Fredda 🩷💜💙 @seeyouinnj.bsky.social · 16h

Happy Birthday!

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Chris Fredda 🩷💜💙 @seeyouinnj.bsky.social · 16h

You could probably just get Olivia Wilde to direct the next one for half the budget and have it be old Flynn rescued from the grid finally returning to the real world, being horrified, and then getting high and saying zen shit while he builds with light.

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Chris Fredda 🩷💜💙 @seeyouinnj.bsky.social · 16h

This is just what Tron is like. They don’t really need to make more, but if they do, the key is to be visually impressive but budget conscious, and not put an uncharismatic sex creep in the lead. But Disney will probably make a pretty penny on soundtracks and rentals and Tron rides.

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Chris Fredda 🩷💜💙 @seeyouinnj.bsky.social · 16h

Far be it from me to defend big studio IP, but Ares only made slightly less in its opening than Legacy while costing slightly more, though inflation makes that a bigger deal. Both precious movies were considered disappointments but eventually went on to make money and grow in popularity.

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Chris Fredda 🩷💜💙 @seeyouinnj.bsky.social · 17h

Might I suggest the next Congress and President pass the Restitution Act which will restore and funding Trump cut including retroactive payment.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

Trump is upfront in saying he will use the shutdown to punish Democrats, and here are the receipts. About $27.2 billion cut from Dem districts compared to about $0.7 billion in GOP districts.
We all complain about the media, but need this type of in-depth journalism.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Trump Halts Billions in Grants for Democratic Districts During Shutdown (Gift Article)

The Trump administration has frozen or canceled nearly $28 billion primarily located in Democratic-led districts, according to an analysis by The New York Times.

www.nytimes.com

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Chris Fredda 🩷💜💙 @seeyouinnj.bsky.social · 19h

This guy accepted a bribe from a foreign nation to install a military base in the United States.

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