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Cmdr. Overbite @cmdroverbite.bsky.social · 50m

Cmdr. Overbite @cmdroverbite.bsky.social · 1h

“Sir, I regret to inform you that our nationwide series of coordinated protests lacks the critical support of a crab-bucket of outer borough malcontents with self-medicated personality disorders!”

“Damn, I guess we’d better pack it in, then, what can we accomplish without them?”

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Cmdr. Overbite @cmdroverbite.bsky.social · 1h

Cmdr. Overbite @cmdroverbite.bsky.social · 2h

They don’t want to endlessly critique, they want to endlessly critique endlessly critiquing.

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Cmdr. Overbite @cmdroverbite.bsky.social · 1h

“Sir, I regret to inform you that our nationwide series of coordinated protests lacks the critical support of a crab-bucket of outer borough malcontents with self-medicated personality disorders!”

“Damn, I guess we’d better pack it in, then, what can we accomplish without them?”

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Cmdr. Overbite @cmdroverbite.bsky.social · 2h

They don’t want to endlessly critique, they want to endlessly critique endlessly critiquing.

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Cmdr. Overbite @cmdroverbite.bsky.social · 2h

After the 50th or 60th time the same basic group of people have dramatically announced (more in sorrow than in anger ofc) that they cannot in good conscience support whatever is the current left-of-center political Thang, the dramatic announcements start to lose some potency

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Cmdr. Overbite @cmdroverbite.bsky.social · 12h

“We have to surge hundreds of armed agents to your city to shoot tear gas at the people who will be angry and begin protesting once they find out we’ve surged hundreds of armed agents to their city to shoot tear gas at them” is an excellent reminder that I’m overdue to re-read Catch-22.

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Cmdr. Overbite @cmdroverbite.bsky.social · 13h

And you end up negatively polarizing yourself into believing some pretty weird shit pretty quick

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Cmdr. Overbite @cmdroverbite.bsky.social · 13h

The thing about arguing on the Internet is that everyone is basically conditioned to find their tribe and then immediately start throwing the wildest rhetorical haymakers possible against anyone from another tribe who comes into range. This can be a fun hobby but it’s a lousy way to find Truth

the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 17h

again, the problem with rhetorical maximalism (all Republicans since Barry fucking Goldwater were Nazis) is that you end up believing it and saying absolutely unhinged shit thinking it's normal

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Cmdr. Overbite @cmdroverbite.bsky.social · 14h

I’ve spent most of my adult life scoring pretty high by most reasonable metrics for Awkwardness, Loneliness, and Abject Unfuckability and yet the Silicon Valley answers to my plight (Rampant Misogyny/Big Tiddy Anime AI Companion/Sexting Clippy 2.0) still seem borderline insane. Maybe I’m too old.

404 Media @404media.co · 18h

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced in a post on X Tuesday that ChatGPT is officially getting into the fuckable chatbots game, with “erotica for verified adults” rolling out in December.

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Cmdr. Overbite @cmdroverbite.bsky.social · 14h

“Carmina Burana” is in the semi-related pile of “music you thought was straight out of the Middle Ages but is actually less than 100 years old”

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Cmdr. Overbite @cmdroverbite.bsky.social · 19h

This is insanity, full stop

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 19h

Based on the video shared by Univision (they've paired it with overhead from ABC), today's attack might be the most chemical gas we've seen feds launch into a neighborhood so far. The clouds are enormous/that's a lot of canisters. Completely engulfing cars and homes.

instagram.com/reel/DPzWnGCklvl

unichicago on Instagram: "Operativo federal termina con gases lacrimógenos en Chicago. Esto es parte de lo que se vivió en la escena. Tienes más información …"

Operativo federal termina con gases lacrimógenos en Chicago. Esto es parte de lo que se vivió en la escena. Tienes más información en nuestra biografía.

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Cmdr. Overbite @cmdroverbite.bsky.social · 20h

I haven’t spent a lot of time in Hoffman Estates so maybe this is lazy stereotyping by me but it doesn’t seem like a Woke Drum Circle kinda town just generally, let alone its cops

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Cmdr. Overbite @cmdroverbite.bsky.social · 20h

DHS having their stories routinely punctured by suburban Chicagoland police departments is darkly funny if you’re noddingly familiar with suburban Chicagoland police departments.

Dan Mihalopoulos @dmihalopoulos.bsky.social · 1d

This version is confirmed, by Hoffman Estates police, puncturing the official DHS statement.

At this point, there is a statement from DHS re 🧊 activities in the Chicago area that’s refuted in similar fashion on nearly a daily basis at a minimum over the past week

Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi @congressmanraja.bsky.social · 1d

Despite what some, including at DHS, are claiming, this video isn’t from a year ago in Chicago. It was Friday in Hoffman Estates, in my district, a street I’ve walked myself. It appears to show a child being violently detained by ICE. It’s real, and I’m demanding accountability.

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Cmdr. Overbite @cmdroverbite.bsky.social · 21h

Fun fact: this man has a degree in economics from an Ivy League university famous for its Econ department

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

Q: Would you support dollarization?

TRUMP: I would say that I'll leave that up to my economic people, but I like the dollar

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Cmdr. Overbite @cmdroverbite.bsky.social · 1d

daaaaaaaang

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Cmdr. Overbite @cmdroverbite.bsky.social · 1d

Troubling. Looking into this.

Cmdr. Overbite @cmdroverbite.bsky.social · 1d

UPDATE: The Sponsored Links spammy ads that used to promise that used to promise to introduce me to Hot Mature Singles in Park Ridge are now promising to introduce me to Hot Mature Singles in Schaumburg.

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Cmdr. Overbite @cmdroverbite.bsky.social · 1d

I am Team It’s OK To Be Prescriptivist About Some Things 4 Lyfe

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Cmdr. Overbite @cmdroverbite.bsky.social · 1d

He’s right to say it and more people need to be saying it

Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 1d

not what “begs the question” means

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Sean Duffy: "The No Kings protest, Maria, really frustrating. This is part of antifa, paid protesters. It begs the question who's funding it."

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Dan McPainInTheKnees @danmckee.bsky.social · 2d

“What’s the charge? Eating a seal?”

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Cmdr. Overbite @cmdroverbite.bsky.social · 2d

ICE was apparently out doing its thing this morning outside a Catholic church in West Rogers Park in case you were hoping that the federal government was prepared to live up to the standards of propriety set by the Barksdale Organization.

The Wire | On A Sunday Morning?

YouTube video by WireFans

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Cmdr. Overbite @cmdroverbite.bsky.social · 2d

…dangerous and illegal things before they do them.

If they’re not willing to do the things ask yourself:

1) wait, is this The Cops?
2) is this person just asking me to do crimes so they don’t have to?
3) or am I just LARPing someone else’s Revolution fanfic?
4) am I SURE they’re not The Cops?

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Cmdr. Overbite @cmdroverbite.bsky.social · 2d

QUICK REMINDER: if someone on social media is encouraging you to do dangerous and illegal things is either willing to do those things and deal with their consequences or they’re not. If they are, ask yourself why you should emulate someone who is the sort of person that Posts about doing…

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 2d

your tactic of protesting in an inflatable frog suit which gets normal people on your side is far inferior to my tactic of posting about laser blinding helicopter pilots which is both wildly illegal and, were it to succeed, would put basically *everyone* against me

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 2d

The inflatables have made it to Broadview.

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