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Nick Walker Hirsch

@dreamseadrifter.bsky.social

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They/them; PhD Student in History of Technology, Science, the Environment, Medicine and Empire; singer, writer, too many hobbies to count; anarcho-communist, but mellow about it; living in Washington, DC

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Nick Walker Hirsch @dreamseadrifter.bsky.social · 1d

I guess when you're terrified of everything, everything looks like terrorism.

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Nick Walker Hirsch @dreamseadrifter.bsky.social · 4h

Well you have to understand that Democrats aren't allowed to ever imply that republicans are exactly who they tell you they are.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 11h

“Deplorables” was a scandal for years and she wasn’t even in the government yet. This is the White House Press Secretary, whose salary is paid by the American public.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Leavitt: "The Democrat Party's main constituency is made up of Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, and violent criminals."

Nick Walker Hirsch @dreamseadrifter.bsky.social · 12h

I'm not mad about No Kings Day, and I do think it will work.

That said, I am 100% ready to fight the liberal centrist geronocracy to the death after we topple the regime, because more of the same will simply get us more of the same.

We can't afford more of the old Dem soporific politics.

ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 13h

fundamentally what the people on this site who are mad about No Kings are afraid of is that it will work and things will get better without them being in charge of how it gets better

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 14h

Here's my full breakdown of yesterday's voting rights case, where the Supreme Court will likely say that overrepresntation of whites in Congress is constitutionally mandated.

My latest in @thenation.com

www.thenation.com/article/poli...

The Supreme Court Left No Doubt: It Will Gut the Voting Rights Act

The ruling, when it comes, will be disastrous for Black voters and for Democrats.

www.thenation.com

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Nick Walker Hirsch @dreamseadrifter.bsky.social · 12h

No, but they had the illusion of these things, and a lot of public complicity that doesn't seem to be manifesting so much this time.

Nick Walker Hirsch @dreamseadrifter.bsky.social · 12h

So things will be really bad for awhile, but I am truly convinced that it will fall apart, and the real long term fight will be against liberal inertia and the cultural alzheimers that allowed this rot to spread in the first place.

We can't allow it to be forgiven or forgotten.

Nick Walker Hirsch @dreamseadrifter.bsky.social · 12h

And Trump is dying.

And nobody in the GOP has the cultural cache (earned or not) that he has. Even his supporters hate all of his advisors.

They're worms. Distasteful worms who sound pathetic and tiny every time they speak in public. A bunch of sad-ass cringelords, uniformly embarrassing.

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Nick Walker Hirsch @dreamseadrifter.bsky.social · 12h

They aren't the gestapo. They want to be, but they lack the discipline, cultural acquiescence and fearsome reputation. They are known broadly to be incompetent cowards.

That's not a recipe for social control or maintaining power. It's a recipe for mass resistance.

Nick Walker Hirsch @dreamseadrifter.bsky.social · 12h

Yes, people are afraid of them, but not so much that the same people aren't mobilizing in groups large and small to hound them in the streets and in courts and in every place they show up.

They do not have popular support. They have not managed to manufacture consent to the degree they needed to.

Nick Walker Hirsch @dreamseadrifter.bsky.social · 12h

They're desperate and scared, these mediocrities personified, and very much in the minority. They are already facing massive, organized resistance, but also, vitally, disorganized resistance.

Everyone openly hates them, and that's really important! It's how we know they haven't got complete control

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Nick Walker Hirsch @dreamseadrifter.bsky.social · 12h

I know it's strange to be an optimist right now, but despite all the horrors of this historical moment, I'm actually convinced that the fascist regime we are living under has a very short shelf life, and that the future will be better than the past.

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 14h

Quite a quote—and addendum— from a cybertruck owner

daily dose of estragon @craigburley.com · 16h

From the article

How do you feel about becoming a political lightning rod?

People occasionally just flip Imel off or whatever, but nobody's come up to me and tried to make a statement about anything. Personally, it's kind of dumb.
It's just a vehicle. So it's ironic that it would even become a political statement, but nonetheless it is.

[Editor's note: Taylor was arrested and convicted of conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding in the January 6 attack on the Capitol. He was later pardoned by President Trump.]

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Nick Walker Hirsch @dreamseadrifter.bsky.social · 14h

Just super thrilled to have every part of the US government run by the dumbest fail-sons on earth.

Barbara Sobel @barbarasobel.bsky.social · 1d

RFK Jr: We need to stop trusting the experts... Trusting the experts is not a feature of science or democracy, it's a feature of religion and totalitarianism.

Nick Walker Hirsch @dreamseadrifter.bsky.social · 17h

Ferguson continuing to be a walking embarrassment

Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 19h

And here is the odious Niall Ferguson in the #MurdochJournal saluting the dictator: "Say what you like about Donald Trump, commanding comes naturally to him."
The Disrupter in Chief Gets Transformational Results at Home and Abroad
www.wsj.com/politics/tru...

Essay | The Disrupter in Chief Gets Transformational Results at Home and Abroad

No president has ever delivered so much so quickly. But Trump’s biggest challenge lies ahead in Xi Jinping’s China.

www.wsj.com

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The Needling @theneedling.com · 1d

ICE Detains Leaves as They Turn Brown: tinyurl.com/37euaejk

Masked ICE agents throwing bags of brown leaves in unmarked van

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Nick Walker Hirsch @dreamseadrifter.bsky.social · 1d

The linux distro list of genders: steeper learning curve, extremely customizable, and most people are barely aware they exist because the illusion of a binary choice is extremely profitable for the two most popular operating systems.

Nick Walker Hirsch @dreamseadrifter.bsky.social · 1d

The + in lgbtq+ is actually a button you can click to reveal a drop menu with comprehensive settings for advanced users

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Nick Walker Hirsch @dreamseadrifter.bsky.social · 1d

Nobody would have cared, in reality, but it was still a real rule with real consequences the higher you went up the clearance food chain.

Of course, now we have idiots using Signal for highly classified information, but I would argue there's a line connecting these two problems.

Nick Walker Hirsch @dreamseadrifter.bsky.social · 1d

Like, I worked at the public library in DC for several years and if I had done what she did, I would have been under investigation because all of my work-related emails were subject to FOIA and security concerns.

And that was during the Obama administration.

Nick Walker Hirsch @dreamseadrifter.bsky.social · 1d

She did violate protocol when she didn't surrender all of her work-related emails. It's a minor matter. It really is, but it's enough of one that in a different context outside of political theater it still would have warranted an investigation.

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Nick Walker Hirsch @dreamseadrifter.bsky.social · 1d

He's the world's worst curve breaker.

Nick Walker Hirsch @dreamseadrifter.bsky.social · 1d

Oh they for sure made hay of a small matter, but it did matter. If Trump weren't in the equation I don't think people would be quite so quick to dismiss it, either.

That's the problem with him - because he's so fucking awful, every bad thing everyone else does is minimized by comparison.

Nick Walker Hirsch @dreamseadrifter.bsky.social · 1d

There are really good reasons to not put government files on private servers, and if anyone in public service had done that they would have been justifiably reprimanded.

These are vital digital security measures that can have a real impact on state security and accountability.

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Nick Walker Hirsch @dreamseadrifter.bsky.social · 1d

I did say it wasn't a popular opinion among liberals, and I recognize that I'm in the minority here.

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Nick Walker Hirsch @dreamseadrifter.bsky.social · 1d

I'm not saying they need permission. I'm saying they use the rule-breaking of the other side as cover for their own malfeasance.

And pointing out that other SoS's did the same thing is part of the issue!

It is a problem for anyone in governance to be skirting accountability measures.

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Nick Walker Hirsch @dreamseadrifter.bsky.social · 1d

- Scream
- Hereditary
- In the Mouth of Madness
- Hellraiser

John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 1d

Quote this with the first four Horror movies that come to your mind that are 10/10s for you. No cheating. Just the first four that pop into your head.

I'll go first:
-Silence of the Lambs
-I Saw the Devil
-Coherence
-Jaws