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First Wordle Problems @fwordleproblems.bsky.social · Sep 12

I am like Mrs Dalloway but after she said she would get the flowers herself she just was on the computer all day and never got the flowers at all, i will not be elaborating.

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First Wordle Problems @fwordleproblems.bsky.social · 6h

Yo dawg we heard you like cops so we put a copjacket on your cops

First Wordle Problems @fwordleproblems.bsky.social · 6h

I don't remember the specifics here. What? Not sure I follow. Anyway, yeah, I'm totally pro-voting. I was just mocking Timothy Snyder for giving us advice while fleeing the country.

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First Wordle Problems @fwordleproblems.bsky.social · 7h

Yeah. It sucks that people picked YOUR least-favorite country to get SENSITIVE about. Nobody jumps down your throat if you make fun of SWEDEN. Hardly seems fair lol. What are the odds you'd get stuck with the problematic one?

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First Wordle Problems @fwordleproblems.bsky.social · 7h

Like, come on. Nobody is fooled in the least, ever. Whether it's the guy wisecracking about "welfare" in the break room in front of black folks or people doing bits about "Israeli Culture" on the internet.

First Wordle Problems @fwordleproblems.bsky.social · 7h

"Everyone is so SENSITIVE nowadays" but leftistly.

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First Wordle Problems @fwordleproblems.bsky.social · 7h

Like, carefully explaining how this clearly and obviously DOESN'T rise to the level of antisemitism but is CLEARLY just mocker of a country is...a choice. One you can choose NOT to choose!

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First Wordle Problems @fwordleproblems.bsky.social · 7h

Fucked up how quickly we've gotten to "How is that racist? Explain to me how that's racist" but leftistly. It used to be a lot quieter.

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First Wordle Problems @fwordleproblems.bsky.social · 9h

Oh me neither. I'm STILL skeptical. But it does seem to keep coming up in conversation with him these days! Is it ALL just bullshit wisecracking? I have no idea.

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First Wordle Problems @fwordleproblems.bsky.social · 9h

I do like that notion that he might be scared of Literal Hell though. It's pleasant to contemplate Trump contemplating that.

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First Wordle Problems @fwordleproblems.bsky.social · 9h

He really was banking on that Nobel, wasn't he? Thought the Big Fella would be impressed by that. Now he knows he's screwed.

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First Wordle Problems @fwordleproblems.bsky.social · 10h

Oh, this one's nothing special, sorry. I just talk like a big man. Some off-the-shelf internet recipe as I recall. But satisfying!

First Wordle Problems @fwordleproblems.bsky.social · 10h

I'm the Pope of Chilitown

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First Wordle Problems @fwordleproblems.bsky.social · 11h

Whatever else is or isn’t going on, Chili Season has arrived. And I couldn’t be more pleased.

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First Wordle Problems @fwordleproblems.bsky.social · 13h

this is how they tripped up Charles I

First Wordle Problems @fwordleproblems.bsky.social · 13h

(But this is what I mean. You WANT normie libs saying they're hardcore and punk and whatever? That used to be bad, when I knew about those things! Those are the people you'd sneer at! I might just be old, heh. Gen X "authenticity" politics were brutal.)

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First Wordle Problems @fwordleproblems.bsky.social · 13h

I see I guess that you're kind of punk-world adjacent? So it probably IS a term you just know from knowing real people who claim it. And that's great! It's also unusual and those aren't the typical people we need.

First Wordle Problems @fwordleproblems.bsky.social · 13h

And the politics of that cohort, shall we say, don't correspond to mine or the broader coalition's. Like, those people are FINE, but they don't represent the broad idea of "anti-fascism". Which again, should be a no-brainer.

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First Wordle Problems @fwordleproblems.bsky.social · 13h

And it's a term that very few people in the mainstream of US politics even KNEW before 2017! It existed as a subculture and brand among street-protest enthusiasts. (Mostly out west, I think? I'd never heard of it here.)

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First Wordle Problems @fwordleproblems.bsky.social · 13h

As far as the specifics of "antifa," it's not a TERRIBLE brand or anything. It's just gotten kinda corny, like "woke". And like, we want EVERYBODY to be "anti-fascist" not just "punk rock street brawler in black" types.

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First Wordle Problems @fwordleproblems.bsky.social · 13h

I sure don't want to "police" anybody because that implies, like, punishment or something! This is just talking about language. "Branding" if you like. Some of it's probably just personal taste! (But not the "passionate" kind!)

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First Wordle Problems @fwordleproblems.bsky.social · 13h

This seems like a misunderstanding here, sorry. "Feel passionately" is saying a lot and I'm not sure that's what I was going for. This is just a feeling and a line of argument that's in my head, and this website is the place we type those things out for each other!

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First Wordle Problems @fwordleproblems.bsky.social · 14h

I like truth and I don't care who knows it!

First Wordle Problems @fwordleproblems.bsky.social · 16h

Yeah, both things can be true in their own way. Crazy isn't a pit -- crazy is a ladder! Obama just made them climb up a few more rungs.

First Wordle Problems @fwordleproblems.bsky.social · 16h

I’ve had that one on my list! Obviously my jam.

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First Wordle Problems @fwordleproblems.bsky.social · 16h

Ha yeah it feels like the Pope IS the exact kind of lib I for the extremely obvious reason that I was raised among Midwestern liberal Catholics. Though of course I grew up and got normal lib extremely-un-Catholic politics around sex and gender and blah blah so really he's the kind of lib my DAD was.