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Any and all pronouns are good Eclectic Communist: The revolution that feeds the children has my support. Neurodivergent and Chronically Ill in the imperial core

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altrocks 🫥 @altrocks.bsky.social · Jun 25

Probably should've put this up sooner, but I am not one of those "alt" gov accounts. Like I'm not the alt geological department or anything.

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altrocks 🫥 @altrocks.bsky.social · 1m

And the vast majority of those taxes go to police and military budgets, which only feeds the billionaires that own the military industrial complex.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 8h

Yes your taxes should support disabled people.

They should support homeless people.

They should support those living in poverty, children and the elderly.

This is literally the purpose of taxes, and I would far rather support those who need it than continue to enrich the elite.

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blakemk @blakemmmk.bsky.social · 7h

Just going to quote myself

One thing about all of this is that everyone gets to see how awful CBP has always been. It's been clear to those of us near the southern border especially for years.

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Feral Millennial Communists of Late Stage Capitalism @feralcommie.bsky.social · 6h

A country that forces human-beings to beg for food in order to avoid taxing the wealthy is morally bankrupt and has no future.

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altrocks 🫥 @altrocks.bsky.social · 7m

You look in your pantry and refrigerator, both overflowing with high quality foods you have no problem purchasing on a regular basis. Your boss calls you and apologizes for disturbing you outside of work hours and adds a day of paid time off to your benefits to make up for it.

altrocks 🫥 @altrocks.bsky.social · 11m

I just think they shouldn't be allowed any profits at all because all of it should go to the workers who made it happen.

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Marwood @andmarwood.bsky.social · 6h

Corporations should not be able to post any profits until they have given all their employees an annual pay rise that exceeds the inflation rate.

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altrocks 🫥 @altrocks.bsky.social · 12m

People like that are the ones who burned "witches" and Jews because they had basic hygiene practices and avoided getting sick, so the dumbass evil people blamed them for illness outbreaks by convincing themselves that they used magic to curse them. Same logic, just applied to political failures.

altrocks 🫥 @altrocks.bsky.social · 20m

Hiding behind black women like they're human shields is a Democratic tradition you seem fine with upholding when it suits your right wing ideology.

altrocks 🫥 @altrocks.bsky.social · 24m

They tried the same lie in Colorado months ago when they did the same thing there. They're uncreative, unoriginal, evil assholes. They'll keep destroying until and unless someone makes them stop.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 3h

I believe the south side Chicago building was “full of Tren de Aragua gang members” about as much as I believe the Venezuelan boats are filled with “narcoterrotists”.

The regime will say anything to justify unreasonable, and even lethal, force.

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💢Marx was right.🕊 @paulwalker44.bsky.social · 3h

“Peace deal.”

I guess chuds want everyone in the world to “thank” Bibi, Trump and Biden for destroying 85% of Gaza and ethnically cleansing, genociding and killing hundreds of thousands for Zionism.

Meanwhile they’re all online hating on Muslims.

Seems like a “real” peace deal doesn’t it?

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 1h

All I can add to the “we reject universal masking” discourse is that it’s not about masks. You aren’t rejecting universal masking, which never happened; you’re rejecting having to think about wearing a mask, and maybe feeling badly about thinking about masks. Can’t help you there.

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Maureen Jice @jane.meangirls.online · 1h

You are out of your mind if you think young republicans in the early aughts weren’t bigots. They were saying the n-word all the time, too, they just didn’t have group chats to get leaked.

Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 3h

My parents' generation was super racist, but they took pains to hide it from us. So a lot of young conservatives in the 90s and early aughts were earnest small government and/or evangelical types.

As I said, the overt racists and radicals had to form their own orgs.

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altrocks 🫥 @altrocks.bsky.social · 45m

She does a really good job summing up the problems with modern Trek, especially SNW, and hits most of the reasons it's become impossible for me to enjoy it at all. I know it's long, but it's well made and worth the watch if you've been a fan.

Star Trek Strange New Worlds Is a Centrist Space Fantasy

YouTube video by Jessie Gender

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 17h

Unfortunately I don’t find your anti communism funny when anti capitalism has been designated as a terrorist activity. Sorry!

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 16h

Anyone saying the word tankie online in 2025 will be forced to relocate to a place currently collapsing due to climate change. Thank you for your attention to this matter

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 16h

One of the most messed up parts of the "nazis are sexy and funny now" GQ article about Nick Fuentes is that it doesn't cite a single source or data point. It's all just vibes. I have no idea how something like this made it past an editorial team unless it was clearly a story they wanted to tell

traced this rumor across TikTok and Tumblr. I watched fancam edits, mapped accounts, and interviewed a dozen people in their twenties and early thirties, both people who’d made posts about Fuentes and those whose fandom was more private.

TikTok is where most outsiders misread the signal. Fuentes is extremely shareable — he basically speaks in soundbites. Every other line is a joke, and many of those jokes land. When they don’t, that in itself can be funny. His thick Chicago accent, his cartoonish tone of voice—the man was made for broadcasting, for better or worse.

It’s true that he has inspired a viral “sound” several times, but on TikTok that doesn’t equate to fandom. A sound is just a short audio clip that users layer under their own videos. It might come from a movie, a podcast, or a livestream; it doesn’t matter who said it. What matters is how easily it can be reused to set a mood or deliver a punchline. Popularity here measures remixability, not admiration. Serial killers, pedophiles caught red-handed, and random bystanders could theoretically all go viral this way. Fuentes happens to clip well.

There is a dedicated and TikTok-native Fuentes fandom, but searching through the misspellings and alternate tags that users reference him with (to avoid the filter TikTok uses to suppress content about him), only a few prolific editors dominate the results. The rest is noise—ephemeral accounts spun up around attention spikes.

The interviews I conducted reflect what the feeds suggested. Several sources said their very online friends, regardless of politics, share Fuentes clips because he’s funny. The same people said no one they know actually watches his multi-hour streams. One woman described him as “weirdly unhateable,” and suggested he’s a bit of a meme—another way of saying the trend is more of a joke than a nascent political shift.

There is, however, a small female fandom orbiting Fuentes, many of whom identify as being on the left. On Tumblr, a community cal…

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 15h

If your first thought as a reporter when racing to the scene where an invading fed paramilitary of murderous freaks are blanketing yet another neighborhood in chemical weapons after kidnapping people is to count how many objects are thrown at them, just quit. Just quit

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talia jane ❤️‍🔥 @taliajane.bsky.social · 14h

as charming and whimsical as some will view this, it bears noting that absurdity—not militancy or might—are what people have chosen to repeat from the portland standoffs against ICE.

why is that?

what purpose does this serve?

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 1d

The Portland Frog army has now infiltrated Tulsa, OK and they’ve made an unlikely alliance with the T-Rex infantry and Sharks on Hoverboards mercenary forces.

This is truly terrifying.

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altrocks 🫥 @altrocks.bsky.social · 11h

He already said he wouldn't put his state police up against CBP or ICE, let alone NG, and the cops have said it's not their job to arrest federal agents. Unless he's going back in what he said less than 2 weeks ago, I'm not holding my breathe

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they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 15h

“Israel” killed most of the people who died on October 7th and it killed most of the hostages who died in Gaza. But all we hear in the West is Hamas, Hamas, Hamas, who, under international law, have the right to resist occupation by force. Any real peace will not include “Israel” at all.

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Timothy @landbeforetim.bsky.social · 14h

The homes Israeli hostages return to VS the homes Gazans return to

The is no going back to “normal” for them. They are now living in a rubble ridden hellscape while the western world moves on, pretending it didn’t fund and approve this.

On the left is a street in Tel Aviv, Israel. Pictured is beautiful green lush Mediterranean style cityscape.

On the right is an image of a young Palestinian girl walking the “streets” of Gaza City, now turned to rubble and ash. The buildings are demolished by bombs and war crimes while the streets are littered with debris, rubble, and broken concrete.

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 14h

I think what's bothering me about all these statements I'm seeing from politicians that are variations of "Israeli hostages and Palestinians are returning to their homes, yay" is that Israelis are returning to their homes and Palestinians are returning to uninhabitable post apocalyptic rubble.

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 14h

Hey look, Israel broke the cease-fire, twice, in two different ways, within 24 hours - again.

Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 19h

NEW: Israel informed the UN it will permit only 300 aid trucks into Gaza daily, not the 600 mandated by the ceasefire it just signed.

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