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The Scorpio King 🏳️‍🌈 🎃 @arcoar.bsky.social · 1m

I’d much rather a culture of over-blocking like there is on bsky than the bs “you have to listen to everyone” twitter line, but man some people on this site cannot take even the friendliest pushback from sympathetic thinkers without acting like they’ve been attacked.

The Scorpio King 🏳️‍🌈 🎃 @arcoar.bsky.social · 2m

It just seemed like the people you were arguing about changing were the nazis (the ones the regime are rushing to defend) while she was saying there’s this distinct & changeable non-nazi group. It’s not about her feelings, I just think those are separate claims with different responses. Maybe not.

The Scorpio King 🏳️‍🌈 🎃 @arcoar.bsky.social · 7m

Yeah, but that seems very different than saying the young nazis involved in this scandal are gettable. Might be equally wrong (or even pointless), but it just seems like a very distinct argument to me. 🤷‍♂️

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The Scorpio King 🏳️‍🌈 🎃 @arcoar.bsky.social · 11m

The people she’s saying can and have changed are people who didn’t realize conservativism was so inherently racist. That might be wrong, but it’s very different than saying the turbo-racists involved in this scandal can change. In fact she’s distinguishing between the two groups to make that point.

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The Scorpio King 🏳️‍🌈 🎃 @arcoar.bsky.social · 13m

I don’t read her as saying we can win over *these* guys—but the opposite. She’s saying that the non-overt-racist GOPers might be winnable, which is why it’s important to note they exist (according to her). I don’t know that that’s true or worth fighting for, but it’s a different point.

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The Scorpio King 🏳️‍🌈 🎃 @arcoar.bsky.social · 17m

I don’t think she’s claiming that any of the people in this scandal have changed or will. Nor is she saying not to condemn racism. I think she’s saying that *she* and other conservatives like her from the 90s who weren’t overtly racist are the ones who changed & that it’s worth recognizing that.

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Bobby Silverman @robertsilverman.bsky.social · 11h

speaking of which, tonight Tim Pool said he agrees w/ Hitler's argument that Jewish Germans weren't *actually Germans*, or not "ethnically German," as he put it. You know, just not darn aryan enough

The GOP is explicitly racist and fascist, from the lowest podcast bro all the way to the White House

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The Scorpio King 🏳️‍🌈 🎃 @arcoar.bsky.social · 3h

J.D. Vance has apparently decided to prove his value by consistently serving as the guy who: (1) happily tells shameless, bald-faced lies; and (2) defends the most horrendous, morally depraved behavior imaginable. He’s a little pig-man indeed.

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Maxwell Frost @maxwellfrost.bsky.social · 10h

Here is the Vice President defending adults who said they love Hitler, want to rape their enemies, put their political opponents in gas chambers, and that Black people are monkeys. Just to name a few.

Are these those Christian values JD Vance talks about?

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The Scorpio King 🏳️‍🌈 🎃 @arcoar.bsky.social · 10h

Thanks for sharing the link to purchase. I bookmarked it because I'm considering it as a gift for a friend who lives nearby.

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The Scorpio King 🏳️‍🌈 🎃 @arcoar.bsky.social · 10h

Gorgeous photo. As a big fan of neon signs, I've always loved that storefront.

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The Scorpio King 🏳️‍🌈 🎃 @arcoar.bsky.social · 12h

a man in a suit and tie is clapping his hands in a room .

Alt: A man in a suit and tie (Leonardo DiCaprio from Wolf of Wall Street) is clapping his hands in a room. Text overlay says, "NICE"

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The Scorpio King 🏳️‍🌈 🎃 @arcoar.bsky.social · 12h

Haha, fair enough. I think I understand what this means...

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The Scorpio King 🏳️‍🌈 🎃 @arcoar.bsky.social · 12h

I know I'm a big nerd, but when I read stuff like this I think it's about the chief justice, especially given his association with the balls and strikes metaphor. It always seems inscrutable and then I'm like, "Oh. That's really baseball!"

Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 12h

Roberts should let Yamamoto pitch the 9th

Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 1d

Roberts should let Snell pitch the 9th

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The Scorpio King 🏳️‍🌈 🎃 @arcoar.bsky.social · 15h

I’m suspicious that the answer is just “because they haven’t figured out how to yet.”

Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 15h

Why Democrats are refusing to fold in the government shutdown

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 17h

BREAKING: Marco Rubio's State Department announces publicly that it is exercising unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination in revoking people's visas based on comments about the killing of Charlie Kirk.

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The United States has no obligation to host foreigners who wish death on Americans.
The State Department continues to identify visa holders who celebrated the heinous assassination of Charlie Kirk. Here are just a few examples of aliens who are no longer welcome in the U.S.:
5:55 PM • Oct 14, 2025 • 34.1K Views

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The Scorpio King 🏳️‍🌈 🎃 @arcoar.bsky.social · 15h

It’s true. The biggest problem with vampires is that they aren’t gay (or just generally sexual) enough. 😉

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Jonathan Maus @jonathanmaus.bsky.social · 18h

It's so hard to watch n'hood residents treat city/agency staff like garbage at meetings just because they disagree w a street design proposal. We need mediators or some staff who enforce basic, respectful meeting laws. I'm tired of staff being talked over and disrespected. It's not OK!

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 20h

Federal officials telling social media companies to take down posts was supposedly a free speech crisis. It’s not even really hypocrisy, since the right was lying about much of it.
And this isn’t misinformation, foreign influence ops, or public health, just 1A-protected speech the govt doesn’t like.

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 21h

At the request of the U.S. Department of Justice, a Facebook group used by nearly 80,000 people to report sightings of federal immigration agents in the Chicago area has been taken down by the social media giant Meta, Facebook’s parent company.

Facebook suspends popular Chicago ICE-sightings group at Trump administration’s request

The group, "ICE Sighting-Chicagoland," has been increasingly used in the last five weeks of President Donald Trump’s intense deportation campaign to warn neighbors that federal agents are nearby.

trib.al

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The Scorpio King 🏳️‍🌈 🎃 @arcoar.bsky.social · 1d

a man with a mustache and a sweater that says i mean that 's nuts

Alt: Ted Lasso (a man with a mustache and a sweater) saying, “i mean that 's nuts”

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The Scorpio King 🏳️‍🌈 🎃 @arcoar.bsky.social · 1d

💯
Lying ≠ gaslighting.

Arc @arcbreak.bsky.social · 1d

Your ex wasn’t gaslighting you . He lied to you! There is a very distinct difference! We don’t need to put clinical terms on everything. We need to become more personal in our anger. This is my strongest hill I’ll die on at 2AM , nobody knows how to be upset anymore.

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all hallows eve-run enjoyer @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social · 4d

tweet by alex nichols (@lowenaffchen):

"Bari Weiss has two kinds of stories:
1. I drove 6 hours to a women's liberal arts college to spend a week eating pussy and there were too many posters about Kwanzaa in the dorms
2. Here is an email someone sent me"

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The Scorpio King 🏳️‍🌈 🎃 @arcoar.bsky.social · 1d

Sure, you didn’t give any credit to Biden at all. But what if I “(supposed)” that you did?

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The Scorpio King 🏳️‍🌈 🎃 @arcoar.bsky.social · 1d

To my great shame I recently created an IG account after having deleted it a year ago because… well… a lot of hot actors post things there and I need to see them as I’m basically Tina Belcher.

Tina Belcher from Bob’s Burgers with hearts in her eyes surrounded by four guys she had had crushes on, who are also framed in hearts.

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 1d

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