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EmergentWake @emergentwake.bsky.social · 19h

Also, for the sake of clarity, there was going to be a point b about how the history of antifascism is very much not about nation states, and pretending otherwise is harmful, but there wasn't enough room and I ended up deleting it and forgot to relabel c. I promise I do actually know the alphabet.

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EmergentWake @emergentwake.bsky.social · 1d

a) That is not what acronyms are. It's just a shortened word.
c) Most (maybe all?) American presidents since FDR have supported fascism pretty enthusiastically, in Spain, Chile, Argentina, etc. It'd be cool if they stopped, but that's unlikely to happen if we can't accept that it's not new.

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EmergentWake @emergentwake.bsky.social · 1d

So you'll be releasing everyone your state cops have arrested? Paying the hospital bills for anyone they've beaten with their clubs? Pardoning anyone who gets charged? Or are you just going to go online and talk shit?

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EmergentWake @emergentwake.bsky.social · 3d

Not entirely accurate, but also not entirely not, and it is fun (for me):
TMG (John Darnielle)
TMG (JD w/ Rachel Ware)
TMG (JD w/ Peter Hughes)
TMG (JD w/ Hughes and Jon Wurster)
TMG (JD w/ Hughes, Wurster, and Matt Douglas)
TMG (JD w/ Wurster and Douglas)
The Extra Lens
The Extra Glenns

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EmergentWake @emergentwake.bsky.social · 3d

In that case, I support this take wholeheartedly. Part 1 I can take or leave, but 2 and 3 are seriously underrated. If it were the king, I'd have to stick to my longstanding position on monarchs, which is more of an AKAB situation.

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EmergentWake @emergentwake.bsky.social · 3d

The guy, or the play(s)?

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EmergentWake @emergentwake.bsky.social · 3d

I very much don't know enough about baseball to judge, but I'm willing to accept the possibility.

EmergentWake @emergentwake.bsky.social · 3d

Has there ever in all of human history been a time when a gang of uniformed men with clubs was on the right side of a conflict?

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EmergentWake @emergentwake.bsky.social · 6d

That's just not accurate. This is bog standard cop shit.

EmergentWake @emergentwake.bsky.social · 13d

True, I sometimes forget that. It does make me a little nervous to think of them floating around out there, a bunch of evil little V'gers waiting to happen, but the energy savings is probably worth it.

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EmergentWake @emergentwake.bsky.social · 13d

I'd be fine with skipping prosecutions if they can be fired directly into the sun.

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EmergentWake @emergentwake.bsky.social · 15d

The legend says that once a single hero joins all the Signal group chats, from the antifa supersoldiers brunch planning chat to the sec def’s drone bombing party line, only then will the prophecy be fulfilled and the revolution truly begin.

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EmergentWake @emergentwake.bsky.social · 15d

If you send a gang of goons with clubs to deescalate a situation, I think you’ve made a pretty grievous error.

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EmergentWake @emergentwake.bsky.social · 19d

There's also a pretty good argument for abolishing the Department of Homeland Security and replacing it with a dry wind across a barren plain.

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EmergentWake @emergentwake.bsky.social · 20d

We've had a million movies, shows, and books (and maybe even a few historical events) where the main thing that had to happen was for someone to publicly reveal wrongdoing, provoking an outcry that leads directly to actual change.

Very few people are prepared for the fact that it doesn't work.

EmergentWake @emergentwake.bsky.social · 20d

I just spoke to someone who visited this past weekend who did a river tour, went to a Cubs game, and did some other touristy stuff. They didn't notice any ICE or other federal presence.

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EmergentWake @emergentwake.bsky.social · 24d

Just because i love this song, though I can’t say I’m an asphalt guy. youtu.be/bMdWRjaSVsU

Hot Asphalt

YouTube video by The Wolfe Tones - Topic

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EmergentWake @emergentwake.bsky.social · 27d

Automated Lie Generator
Nonsense Machine
Incompetent Butler Bot
The Dumpster Fire that Lies

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EmergentWake @emergentwake.bsky.social · Sep 17

Does that have anything to do with your original claim that the covid vaccine is less effective than originally claimed? Or is this an entirely separate objection?

I ask because it seems that neither has anything to do with the vaccine deniers on a CDC commission.

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EmergentWake @emergentwake.bsky.social · Sep 17

Were they said to prevent infection permanently? Were they said to do that by the scientists who developed them or the manufacturers who sold them? If the answer to those questions is no, then no, it very much isn't proof of that.

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EmergentWake @emergentwake.bsky.social · Sep 9

Impossible to overstate. Imagine losing years of your life, spending the whole time not knowing whether you might be sentenced to decades in prison. Spending years subjected things like house arrest, ankle monitors, court appearances, etc., all before ever getting a trial.

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EmergentWake @emergentwake.bsky.social · Sep 7

“When some look into the eyes of these Ducks, they see friendship or kindness. Youthful joy. I discover no kinship, no understanding, no mercy. I can see only the the overwhelming indifference of nature, and a great, devouring hunger … for victory.”

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EmergentWake @emergentwake.bsky.social · Sep 4

Please note that I'm not saying guns are good. Guns are bad, and I'd be perfectly happy to see every firearm on earth tossed into a volcano. I'm just saying that trusting cops and criminal law to solve the problem of gun violence is a bad idea.

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EmergentWake @emergentwake.bsky.social · Sep 4

True. According to this article, 250k people a year die globally from guns (assume that it's gone up since 2016, let's say it's now 350k).
www.pbs.org/newshour/hea...

Whereas this study suggests more than 14 million deaths over the next 5 years from cutting USAID:
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Evaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: a retrospective impact evaluation and forecasting analysis

USAID funding has significantly contributed to the reduction in adult and child mortality across low-income and middle-income countries over the past two decades. Our estimates show that, unless the a...

www.thelancet.com

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EmergentWake @emergentwake.bsky.social · Sep 4

I know your point is that "who is too dangerous to own a firearm" is the wrong question to ask, and you're correct, but I'm just saying, if we did ask that question, it seems like the answer is closer to "cops and fascists" than "everyone with a felony conviction."

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