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DubbaEwwTeeEff @dubbaewwteeeff.bsky.social · 1h

@iwriteok.bsky.social come on. she's gotta be on the list for BTB

DubbaEwwTeeEff @dubbaewwteeeff.bsky.social · 15h

"We all have the same destination in mind, we're just in different buses to get there."

"Yeah, well yours is going over the speed limit, so mine needs to shoot out your tires."

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DubbaEwwTeeEff @dubbaewwteeeff.bsky.social · 1d

For all we know, mass communication and media is the Great Filter that explains why the universe isn't full of sentient species and radio waves. They all killed themselves once factional propaganda could be generated and spread 1000 times over before the truth can even be reported.

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DubbaEwwTeeEff @dubbaewwteeeff.bsky.social · 1d

Our society wasn't ready for this, and it's a debatable proposition whether any society possibly could be. I don't *think* it will lead to the end of our species. But if any ideology could lead to that, it's fascism, and fascism has used it to spread like metastatic cancer.

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DubbaEwwTeeEff @dubbaewwteeeff.bsky.social · 1d

I was being glib, but let's be clear. I didn't say it's bad. I said it was a mistake.

If a tool can be used for good or evil, but evil has more success and ultimately uses it to turn the planet into a fascist hellscape of drought, famine, and hurricanes... Then yeah, unleashing it was a mistake.

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DubbaEwwTeeEff @dubbaewwteeeff.bsky.social · 1d

Robert Redford as Alexander Pierce, shaking Captain America's hand

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DubbaEwwTeeEff @dubbaewwteeeff.bsky.social · 1d

Arguably you could've gone with the first one twice from different episodes.

Ten got *dark* sometimes.

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👁🌻🦊⚙️⚓ Bob, Engineer, Pusher of Paper @navmecheng.bsky.social · 2d

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

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DubbaEwwTeeEff @dubbaewwteeeff.bsky.social · 2d

Look it's expensive enough to commit eugenics by pandemic as it is. They can't afford to do that while paying people to prevent it at the same time.

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DubbaEwwTeeEff @dubbaewwteeeff.bsky.social · 2d

Excuse me but his name is Fox McCloud and your ignorance of basic details speaks to your credibility as an expert witness.

Also they literally have their own spaceships that they travel in everywhere, it doesn't make sense that they would be in the flight logs of a private plane

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DubbaEwwTeeEff @dubbaewwteeeff.bsky.social · 2d

In some other universe there's a version of you with a goatee that does this with expired food out of their pantry

DubbaEwwTeeEff @dubbaewwteeeff.bsky.social · 2d

The worst part IMO is conceptually these might not be bad. Add a little bit of a binder, make a more consistent shape that doesn't look like literal dog shit, maybe cook them in the deep fryer or bacon-wrap them and tie off with twine for the grill...

This is just the ugliest possible version.

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DubbaEwwTeeEff @dubbaewwteeeff.bsky.social · 2d

The Internet was a mistake.

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DubbaEwwTeeEff @dubbaewwteeeff.bsky.social · 2d

I think there's some conflation of two things here. Nazi eugenics policies weren't specifically derived from the US's, but they did take note of US policies around race - Jim Crow, segregation, and policy toward Native Americans in particular.

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DubbaEwwTeeEff @dubbaewwteeeff.bsky.social · 2d

The opposite of acid ball

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DubbaEwwTeeEff @dubbaewwteeeff.bsky.social · 2d

We Demand Not To Be Taken Seriously

(Not an insult, the approach is brilliant)

Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 3d

I love this image.

DubbaEwwTeeEff @dubbaewwteeeff.bsky.social · 3d

What's really funny about this one is if MAGA starts believing it, suddenly both the far left and the far right will agree that Luigi Mangione was engaging in counter-terrorism

DubbaEwwTeeEff @dubbaewwteeeff.bsky.social · 3d

The other 20% own car dealerships.

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 3d

he also said that 80% of antifa's members are landlords and if you lower the cost of housing, you basically starve the network of its financing

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DubbaEwwTeeEff @dubbaewwteeeff.bsky.social · 3d

Love it.

It's fun to watch just on the bully-getting-bullied level but it also hits the nature of the out-group in fascism perfectly.

When they need numbers, the in-group expands to recruit them.

When they've cemented power, the in-group shrinks so they still have an enemy to persecute.

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DubbaEwwTeeEff @dubbaewwteeeff.bsky.social · 3d

It is! Partly because of fucking autocorrect!

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DubbaEwwTeeEff @dubbaewwteeeff.bsky.social · 3d

Further evidence for the theory that since Disney's purchase of Fox, the xenomorph is now technically a Disney Princess

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DubbaEwwTeeEff @dubbaewwteeeff.bsky.social · 3d

There should be more stuff with klansmen self-immolating by accident. Only ones I know of offhand are this and Reno 911

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DubbaEwwTeeEff @dubbaewwteeeff.bsky.social · 3d

Basterds**

Fucking autocorrect thinks it knows better than me

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DubbaEwwTeeEff @dubbaewwteeeff.bsky.social · 3d

Or Inglourious Bastards
Or Django Unchained
Or Saving Private Ryan
Or The Blues Brothers
Or Indiana Jones
Or...

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DubbaEwwTeeEff @dubbaewwteeeff.bsky.social · 3d

I'm now considering rigging my fridge to play the Zelda item fanfare when it's opened

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