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cassius marcellus clay @cmclay.bsky.social · 7h

Im beginning to think that having all the people vested with power or influence to stop this type of shit also all be people wealthy enough to weather the storm just fine if they dont may have been a bad way to structure all this

Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 10h

everyone with the power to keep this from happening is doing nothing to stop it even though they all know its coming

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 10h

JPMORGAN EXEC SAYS WE HAVE A LOT OF ASSETS OUT THERE ENTERING BUBBLE TERRITORY

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cassius marcellus clay @cmclay.bsky.social · 9h

is it a hot take that what this, and moms and grandmas getting teargassed in the summer of 2020 truly demonstrates is less the importance of the frogs and moreso persistence and *having the broadest coalition possible* - the frogs only come AFTER months of the stuff people pearl clutched over

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cassius marcellus clay @cmclay.bsky.social · 9h

what do you mean the civil rights movement 'won'? that framing doesnt make any sense and ive never met anyone who would say the struggle magically ended with passing- oh, wait, its a liberalcurrents article, i get it now.

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cassius marcellus clay @cmclay.bsky.social · 9h

if you put 5000 normal people in a stadium and explained what red scare was youd get 4500 blank stares and 500 old people who think youre literally talking about the USSR

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cassius marcellus clay @cmclay.bsky.social · 9h

everything is so crazy we dont really appreciate how historically terrible political punditry in media is rn. its like theyre all pod people. klein only discovering some people holding bad beliefs is a constant in his 40s, pakman mad about red scare in 2025. tbf mattY doesnt even pretend to be human

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cassius marcellus clay @cmclay.bsky.social · 9h

and for people who go "why is that guy relevant" beyond being a sex pest while david was doing events and streams and whatever with the guy the last few years, destiny was intentionally whitewashing nick fuentes and trying to repair his image. the calls coming from inside the house dave!

cassius marcellus clay @cmclay.bsky.social · 10h

hey man so tbc you were fine with sexpestiny's predations and only backed out of an event bc people yelled at you online?
and follow up: do any centrists have a moral compass or is it truly just all based on ego and public sentiment polling?

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cassius marcellus clay @cmclay.bsky.social · 10h

i dont think any group of people in modern US politics has ever gotten a dem campaign more tailored to their specific views and opinions on how to win an election than centrists did in 2024, and i think thats why all these guys brains broke

cassius marcellus clay @cmclay.bsky.social · 13h

remember that silly as fuck colts punt formation that failed miserably? and how youve never seen it again?

the centrist liberal response to the centrist liberal harris campaign losing has been the equivalent of the colts then insisting on running that play every single down just going trust me bro

cassius marcellus clay @cmclay.bsky.social · 13h

an adult who understands that politics is, actually, life or death and has stakes and consequences and is not in fact just a debate club for mediocre men might have the self awareness to go damn, i really need to seriously reevaluate my priors. yall claimed this would win for yrs and you got owned!

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cassius marcellus clay @cmclay.bsky.social · 13h

there will never be a campaign that is perfect or even good to every one of us, but i cant possibly overstate how smarmy ghouls like pakman and yglesias got closer to their idea of a perfect campaign in 2024 than any of us could ever dream of, and it was a complete and utter failure.

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cassius marcellus clay @cmclay.bsky.social · 13h

this shit is so grating and exhausting. it has been 3 weeks short of a fucking year you goddamn crybaby losers. how are you all still having a total cognitive and emotional crashout for this long. a total emotional inability to face reality in any way and youre all grown ass men

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cassius marcellus clay @cmclay.bsky.social · 13h

and these same dudes have conveniently totally forgotten their insistence for a year or more that public sentiment on all the issues trump is now polling badly on was immutable and the only option was to surrender and move right, amazing how that works

cassius marcellus clay @cmclay.bsky.social · 14h

(fascist propagandist appears)
leftists: thats a fascist freak right there
libs: dont be absurd you cant just call everyone a fascist
(several years of nazi shit pass)
libs: you know, we always said these guys were nazis, but the left loved them, really makes you think

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cassius marcellus clay @cmclay.bsky.social · 14h

(fascist propagandist appears)
leftists: thats a fascist freak right there
libs: dont be absurd you cant just call everyone a fascist
(several years of nazi shit pass)
libs: you know, we always said these guys were nazis, but the left loved them, really makes you think

cassius marcellus clay @cmclay.bsky.social · 14h

"weird soft treatment" nick fuentes as with charlie kirk and ben shapiro and matt walsh and on and on, leftists from day one said those guys were fascists and libs like pakman said we were being hyperbolic. i am extremely over this year long mental breakdown the entire liberal pundit class is having

David Pakman @davidpakman.bsky.social · 1d

The extreme left’s weird soft treatment of Nick Fuentes is a reminder that if you go far enough in either direction, you loop back around

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cassius marcellus clay @cmclay.bsky.social · 1d

i just saw one of my own posts in the discover tab and its the one i am complaining about shitlibs. i assume this is penance for all my jokes about the mods and if i dont survive the afternoon i just want it to be known its really crazy we still cant send screenshots in DMs its 2025 dawg

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cassius marcellus clay @cmclay.bsky.social · 1d

i was not aware of this and i cannot think of a better response right now than this tbh

a man with a mustache wearing sunglasses and a cowboy hat

ALT: a man with a mustache wearing sunglasses and a cowboy hat

media.tenor.com

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cassius marcellus clay @cmclay.bsky.social · 1d

it was a very gross and cold and grey day outside but on a mere 8 minute walk to the little corner store, i saw not one, not two, not three, but FOUR dogs. so next time you think we are all doomed i mean youre right but also go outside you might see a dog or even multiple dogs

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cassius marcellus clay @cmclay.bsky.social · 1d

like how do these people hold jobs or interact with other human beings generally

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cassius marcellus clay @cmclay.bsky.social · 1d

its so bad! like i am sorry if theyre having a rough day or something but i really struggle to understand the hubris and doodoo brain necessary to see one post in a thread, reply to a strawman, offtopic argument no one made, and then confidently declare that actually the topic is whatever they say

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cassius marcellus clay @cmclay.bsky.social · 1d

i apologize that im less patient than i would normally be with this stuff but like, you guys jump into a thread it appears you didnt read, then jump into an argument you arent even clear the context of, and you cant understand the posts? just not saying anything and scrolling down is an option

cassius marcellus clay @cmclay.bsky.social · 1d

yeah i really cant help you guys with the 6th grade reading level thing. she saw only the FD post, read nothing else, and decided i believed that eliminating FD single handedly caused, i guess, all modern propaganda issues? so she kept arguing for the counter to that. that is how strawmanning works

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cassius marcellus clay @cmclay.bsky.social · 1d

my stance is very clear bc *i directly state what i am explaining in the post before it* and then continue to provide examples in the posts after. mrs FD debater made up a position for me in her head and started arguing against it. this is really not in any way a difficult to understand thread lol

cassius marcellus clay @cmclay.bsky.social · 1d

im from the whitest and oldest median age state in the country and when my hometown welcomed several thousand Somali immigrants who were 99% Muslim.old white ladies who had only ever met 3 black people could handle both Abdihakems and Wisniewskas but an NYCer cant say Mamdani? just say a slur ffs

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cassius marcellus clay @cmclay.bsky.social · 1d

its so cool that stuff that would have been called obviously bigoted in like 2010 is just basically the standard behavior of any "political dynasty family/old money/deeply entrenched" elected dems in 2025. today theyd give al franken the presidential medal of freedom or whatever

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