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KP Upadhyayula @kp11studios.bsky.social · 23h

“But they will greet him with one great big, universal, democratic, sheeplike bleat of O.K., Chief! Fix it like you wanna, Chief! Oh Kaaaay!"

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KP Upadhyayula @kp11studios.bsky.social · 23h

“and he will stand for everything traditionally American... through whose leadership alone democracy can be realized. And nobody will ever say Heil to him or Ave Caesar, nor will they call him Führer or Duce.”

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KP Upadhyayula @kp11studios.bsky.social · 23h

“When Americans think of dictators they always think of some foreign model. If anyone turned up here in a fur hat, boots and a grim look he would be recognized and shunned... But when our dictator turns up you can depend on it that he will be one of the boys,”

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KP Upadhyayula @kp11studios.bsky.social · 23h

Quote from the renowned journalist, Dorothy Thompson, 1937

“No people ever recognize their dictator in advance," she wrote. "He never stands for election on the platform of dictatorship. He always represents himself as the instrument for expressing the Incorporated National Will….”

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KP Upadhyayula @kp11studios.bsky.social · 1d

Quote from George Orwell, 1984:

“Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this.

The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently…”

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KP Upadhyayula @kp11studios.bsky.social · 1d

*naked bike ride protests

Damn butterfingers

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KP Upadhyayula @kp11studios.bsky.social · 1d

I mean, people are watching us fight fascism with:

- silly animal costumes,
- make bike ride protests,
- Unicycler in a Darth Vader mask and kilt playing the Imperial March on a bag pipe while he cycles around the ICE building on a unicycle.
- the start of a weird but funny frog cult

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KP Upadhyayula @kp11studios.bsky.social · 1d

I will say, the best thing to come out of the “War Zone” Portland narrative is folks realizing how silly & weird it is here & building interest in folks wanting to visit!

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KP Upadhyayula @kp11studios.bsky.social · 1d

“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.”

- George Orwell, 1984

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KP Upadhyayula @kp11studios.bsky.social · 1d

“The object of persecution is persecution.

The object of torture is torture.

The object of power is power.

Now you begin to understand me.”

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KP Upadhyayula @kp11studios.bsky.social · 1d

“We are not like that.

We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship…”

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KP Upadhyayula @kp11studios.bsky.social · 1d

“they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just around the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal…”

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KP Upadhyayula @kp11studios.bsky.social · 1d

“We are different from the oligarchies of the past in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but..”

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KP Upadhyayula @kp11studios.bsky.social · 1d

Quote from George Orwell, 1984:

“Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this.

The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently…”

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KP Upadhyayula @kp11studios.bsky.social · 1d

I’m still in the deep hole, but I now at least have people up top at the other end of it (along with my amazing family & friends) looking down and knowing I’m in it, trying to help build the ladder to bring me up out of it.

The hole is deep, but I’m noticed.

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KP Upadhyayula @kp11studios.bsky.social · 1d

I’m getting the much needed medication for pain management as well as mental health management.

I’ve built up a team of caregivers and social workers team that check in with me and are actively working to help me.

I’ve been working with my VA vocational team to help with career opportunities

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KP Upadhyayula @kp11studios.bsky.social · 1d

I’m also getting tested for sleep apnea, vertigo, and much more.

It’s been a lot.

Both on my body and mentally, but it’s been so validating to finally have confirmation that my conditions ARE real, that they’re not in my head or underplayed, & they are cause of my time served in the navy.

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KP Upadhyayula @kp11studios.bsky.social · 1d

On a positive note, I’ve been working hard with my VA clinic to get appropriate medical documentation & treatment

I’ve now had confirmed diagnosis for:

- PTSD, clinical major depressive disorder
- Lower lumbar/spinal injury needing a cane
- Audio degeneration needing hearing aid
- Severe Migraines

KP Upadhyayula @kp11studios.bsky.social · 1d

My fine folks, I’m sorry for not being as available or engaging.

I’m currently going through a lot, financially, mentally, physically, etc and I’m honestly struggling to maintain things.

I’m now approaching 2.5 yrs of unemployment, 20k in medical & credit card debt, & just…depressed as hell…

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KP Upadhyayula @kp11studios.bsky.social · 1d

I genuinely don’t know what to do and if things don’t change…I don’t know…

I’ve been doing my best to seek any established care to help in all my struggling aspects but it feels like a drop in the bucket…

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KP Upadhyayula @kp11studios.bsky.social · 1d

The holiday season is especially hard.

The state of this country and the world in general doesn’t help either.

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KP Upadhyayula @kp11studios.bsky.social · 1d

My fine folks, I’m sorry for not being as available or engaging.

I’m currently going through a lot, financially, mentally, physically, etc and I’m honestly struggling to maintain things.

I’m now approaching 2.5 yrs of unemployment, 20k in medical & credit card debt, & just…depressed as hell…

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KP Upadhyayula @kp11studios.bsky.social · 6d

“Alright” is a strong word.

I’m more “some-right”

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Momma Sammu @mommasammu.bsky.social · 10d

✨️IT'S NEW CAMPAIGN DAY AHHHHHH!!!!✨️

Thought I'd share some of my favorite @criticalrole.bsky.social cosplays from over the years.

Who else will be watching tonight? I seriously can't wait to see what Brennan has in store with this new world!

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KP Upadhyayula @kp11studios.bsky.social · 11d

*2nd Inquisition

Yeah yeah I know I know…

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KP Upadhyayula @kp11studios.bsky.social · 11d

I feel a VtM show about the Camarilla allowing The Inquisition into a city to take care of its Anarch population in the name of fighting the Sabatt…

And the Anarchs fighting them off and kicking them out of the city…

is very much needed right now.

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