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Rebecca Fachner @rebeccafachner.bsky.social · 1d

Toddlers are great but have we considered that maybe they shouldn’t be running our government

Talky McTalkerson @blarghyblargh.bsky.social · 20h

I am sure they found it. And probably swapped photos with the guy. Doge flunkies strike me as people who appreciate good robot porn.

Talky McTalkerson @blarghyblargh.bsky.social · 22h

Especially since one of the charges was terrorism.

This is ridiculous.

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Talky McTalkerson @blarghyblargh.bsky.social · 22h

Why "man accused". He pled guilty and was sentenced. And why man but not terrorist? One of the counts he pled guilty to was a terrorism charge. He is LITERALLY a convicted terrorist. Come on CNN, do better. Unless you only use the big T word when it's someone on the left?

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CNN @cnn.com · 22h

The man accused of setting fire to Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro's home in April pleads guilty and will spend at least 25 years in prison https://cnn.it/3J9NcXu

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Talky McTalkerson @blarghyblargh.bsky.social · 22h

Holy crap, a screenshot! Clearly proof! Pack it in boys, this just in, white men are the victim AGAIN!

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Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 20d

just found a bullet casing with the entire bee movie script on it

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Talky McTalkerson @blarghyblargh.bsky.social · 20d

I've played a few hundred hours of Rust & it's a red herring. Including the Steam screenshots in the article is a red herring, his is no different than millions of other Steam users and they aren't out there shooting people.

Scapegoating video games for shootings went out of style with CD players.

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Talky McTalkerson @blarghyblargh.bsky.social · 20d

It wasn't playing Rust that made him do this. It's a decently popular survival game that came out 12 years ago. You run around collecting shit and building fortresses then defending them from other players. Hell, a chunk of that time probably was spent idling on the server screens.

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Talky McTalkerson @blarghyblargh.bsky.social · 20d

It's not that kind of game that you "beat". Rust is a survival game where the official servers wipe every month, so every month you start from scratch on whatever servers you play on, plus there were constant changes and updates to the game. It's not like playing Mario Bros over & over.

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Talky McTalkerson @blarghyblargh.bsky.social · 20d

much time a teenager has, and he started his account at 15 years old or so. He probably binge played a shit ton when he was younger and then still played 5-8 hours a week when he got older.

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Talky McTalkerson @blarghyblargh.bsky.social · 20d

Yep. His Steam account is 14 years old and those games are pretty old. Spread those hours out over 14 years and it's under 2 hours a day. Compare that to how much most people watch tv per day, or doom scroll on social media, and it's pretty normal.

Think of how...

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Talky McTalkerson @blarghyblargh.bsky.social · 20d

Meh, it looks like his account is 14 years old from the screenshot. Spread that 10k or over 14 years & it's really pretty mild.

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Talky McTalkerson @blarghyblargh.bsky.social · 29d

It's the same reason, in my opinion, that he had Air Force 2 fly Kirk's casket back. He's capitalizing on this like it was a fucking gift.

He's gonna milk the Kirk teat dry because he's uncouth and cringe. Hopefully it puts off any support for his socially inept ass.

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Talky McTalkerson @blarghyblargh.bsky.social · 29d

It's a calculated grab for Kirk's audience. Vance knows Trump's time is short. If he has any hope of a political future he has to find some kind of base.

So he's trying to spin the tragedy by connecting himself to Kirk right after & gain Kirk's audience's favor.

And it was done clumsily.

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Talky McTalkerson @blarghyblargh.bsky.social · 29d

Anyone else get the feeling that the uproar on the right over speaking ill of that fucking podcaster is just laying the groundwork for a crackdown on social media when Trump finally has his last Big Mac?

Establish the database now to track people who posted so it's ready to go after 47s funeral?

Talky McTalkerson @blarghyblargh.bsky.social · 29d

Fuck them.

I still had a digital subscription, just cancelled it. They probably won't miss my few dollars but fuck it, you didn't do anything wrong.

Talky McTalkerson @blarghyblargh.bsky.social · 29d

It's ok to delete Twitter.

There's nothing useful there to keep an eye on except the same hate circle jerk that's only been expanding for years.

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Talky McTalkerson @blarghyblargh.bsky.social · 29d

No, you useless bag of limp cells, part of being the fucking president is you shouldn't have to be asked to do that shit.

www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-l...

Trump says he would have lowered flag for assassinated Minnesota Democrat if he had been asked

Mr. Trump said after the Minnesota assassination that he didn't want to "waste time" calling the state's governor after two lawmakers were gunned down.

www.cbsnews.com

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Talky McTalkerson @blarghyblargh.bsky.social · 29d

What the actual fuck. They act like people have been partying in the streets for days after the shooting.

www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

JD Vance says national unity is impossible with those celebrating Charlie Kirk's killing

Vice President JD Vance said Monday while hosting Charlie Kirk’s radio show that he is “desperate” for national unity after the conservative political activist’s killing but that finding common ground...

www.pbs.org

Talky McTalkerson @blarghyblargh.bsky.social · Sep 13

And Christians, listen up, don't play the game of "this kid isn't really a Christian because he did something violent".

Robinson IS one of yours. You can be bad at being a Christian. Fucker went to his priest & confessed afterwards.

Non-christians don't do that.

Don't dodge the accountability.

Talky McTalkerson @blarghyblargh.bsky.social · Sep 13

You what I wanna hear? A MAGA influencer or politician to actually apologize for this shit.

Full fucking chested "we were wrong, I shouldn't have said that, I'm sorry."

Just fucking once.

Talky McTalkerson @blarghyblargh.bsky.social · Sep 13

All this in the face of statistics showing how often shooters are conservatives over liberals, male over anything else, and cisgender.

But it's ok for some to whip people into a frenzy and when facts come out it's "hype" to fucking state them to protect the wrongfully accused demographics.

Talky McTalkerson @blarghyblargh.bsky.social · Sep 13

And saying "I didn't like the guy and I get why someone took a shot at him" is somehow endorsing and celebrating murder.

Hell, sharing his own damn quotes is celebrating his death and endorsing violent murder for speech.

Talky McTalkerson @blarghyblargh.bsky.social · Sep 13

This is why we are fucking cooked, any recitation of actual facts is met with accusations of partisanship. With no consequences for the frenzy of wild speculation and fantasies of violent retribution.

You don't fix this you don't fix any part of everything else that's broken.