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Matthew Best @matthewbest.bsky.social · 1h

I mean Jacobin is what you get when you let 12 year olds dress up like Lavrentiy Beria for Halloween so, can't say I'm surprised.

Matthew Best @matthewbest.bsky.social · 1d

Even without his statements, he looks exactly like the kind of guy that would try to convince me to get a timeshare in Thailand

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Matthew Best @matthewbest.bsky.social · 1d

"Oh no, we only had a problem with Jade Helm 15 because that was done under Obama who, as we all know, is Black."

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Matthew Best @matthewbest.bsky.social · 1d

Oh the purpose of statements like that is to explicitly say it's edited to imply that it misrepresents something, then offer the full version knowing full well nobody swayed by the "who you gonna believe, me or your lying ears?" will watch it.

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Matthew Best @matthewbest.bsky.social · 1d

The Government of Ontario did not receive permission to use remarks made by a public official on public airwaves 40 years ago.

Ok. I see we're dealing with sane people all the way down.

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Matthew Best @matthewbest.bsky.social · 1d

Control is predicated on the ability to threaten harm.

If one doesn't fear harm, there is no leverage.

And if harm is actually committed, leverage is further lost -- then they'll do it to anyone, and there is nothing left to lose anyway.

Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 1d

The dialogue is a whole other thing but the bit about "fuck you shoot me I'll die for this shit" and the reaction is the crux here, from Gandhi's time on down, no authoritarian in history ever knows how to respond to this and it's why it beats them whenever deployed

Blasphemous Jones @blasphemousjones.bsky.social · 3d

"Man goes scorched earth on ICE agents kidnapping people in his hometown."

Source:
old.reddit.com/r/PublicFrea...

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Matthew Best @matthewbest.bsky.social · 1d

Can't be sick if you're dead. True facts

Matt the Starting Over Guy @theinfinitedadness.bsky.social · 2d

New wellness grift just dropped

Twitter post from a grifter: CO2 healed or improved all of these, even homosexuality. ® 4
Anxiety? CO2
Alcoholism? C02
Allergy? CO2
Anorexia? CO2
Asthma or shortness of breath? C02
Compulsion? CO2
Constipation? CO2
Concentration difficulties? C02
Cephalagia? co2
Cardiac disturbance? CO2
Depression? CO2

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Matthew Best @matthewbest.bsky.social · 1d

Super happy for the abstract testicle Ouroboros.

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Matthew Best @matthewbest.bsky.social · 2d

Christ the TYT to authoritarian pipeline is undefeated. I'd say soon Cenk will be denying the Armenian genocide but oops, that's how he started his career.

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Matthew Best @matthewbest.bsky.social · 2d

Worth noting the cat would actually be sleeping in broom closet, which was never searched because he just assumed that's where the "good Mexicans who clean the halls" lived.

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Matthew Best @matthewbest.bsky.social · 2d

No?

Matthew Best @matthewbest.bsky.social · 2d

God damn all those perfect people

Ed Gein is done arguing with all the perfect people on here

Person with a dumbbell up their ass is done arguing with all the perfect people on here

Car in a house's second floor is done arguing with all the perfect people on here

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Matthew Best @matthewbest.bsky.social · 3d

Why are we stopping them now?

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Matthew Best @matthewbest.bsky.social · 3d

Exactly my experience with depression. Decades of no energy or motivation because it wasn't also crying and suicidal ideation.

Jen @ladyjenpool.bsky.social · 4d

Doctor: how long have you been having symptoms?

Me: about 23 years

Doctor: ????!!!!???

Me: I was told multiple times it was nothing so I just lived with it

Doctor: we're going to change that right now

Me: 🥹

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Matthew Best @matthewbest.bsky.social · 3d

Yep. Unfortunately.

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Matthew Best @matthewbest.bsky.social · 3d

Es ist ein Lustiger Rüdiger!

Matthew Best @matthewbest.bsky.social · 3d

Fuck there are actual like German military totenkopf skulls that *aren't* part of the SS.

You can literally ask for a dumb tryhard skull tattoo *by the name Totenkopf*, and manage *not* to get a Nazi one.

But yeah the specific Schutzstaffel one was a mistake nobody bothered to fix.

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Matthew Best @matthewbest.bsky.social · 3d

Oh yeah I'm sure the military will take unauthorized launch codes and guarantee their kids and grandkids living in the decadent West die in their strike or their babushka goes up with their St Pete dacha in the counter strike.

That'll happen, all right. Not the Hunger Games power grab.

Matthew Best @matthewbest.bsky.social · 3d

I mean as long as what you wrote isn't a sequel to Mein Kampf I think your ink is just fine for public service

(But hey if it were Mein Kampf you'd still be getting defended, just over on Twitter instead)

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Matthew Best @matthewbest.bsky.social · 3d

Because the far right has authoritarian tendencies, and authoritarians do not admire an internally consistent, coherent ideology, but the ability to exercise and wield force for force's sake.

onion person @junlper.beer · 3d

killdozer is one of those guys that always baffles me that the far right idolizes. some weird old guy that built a dumb vehicle that was used to destroy a school and put kids in danger. a deeply embarassing guy to worship

Matthew Best @matthewbest.bsky.social · 3d

Trying to pass off the very very specific Totenkopf-SS skull as a generic skull in the style of marine raiders or hussars or even fucking pirates is cheeky. Not good cheeky, asshole cheeky.

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Matthew Best @matthewbest.bsky.social · 4d

Is that how he refers to his Shawshank-like hole he's digging?

Matthew Best @matthewbest.bsky.social · 4d

The tragic thing about this kind of reporting is that, while good -- excellent, really -- mainstream outlets will largeley ignore it as competition falling under old news and propagandists will ignore it as a matter of course.

Anyway, don't ignore it.

Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 4d

From opposing Putin to raising funds for a neo-Nazi paramilitary group, this is the digital footprint of one Russian man with a shifting political ideology. www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/10...

How a Former Political Hopeful Helps Russian Neo-Nazi Group Rusich Sell its Online Merch - bellingcat

An investigation by Bellingcat has found that a former St. Petersburg local election prospect is helping Neo-Nazi paramilitary group, Rusich, operate its online store.

www.bellingcat.com

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Matthew Best @matthewbest.bsky.social · 4d

You can get away with it on the condition that:

1. Your tattooist was an odious dick taking advantage and;
2. Within a reasonable timeframe you booked laser, a blackout/coverup, or a followup with a whimsical bullet going through the skull with an 'ANTIFA WORLD TOUR '44-'45' legend
below.

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Matthew Best @matthewbest.bsky.social · 4d

Tries to "ackshually" a literal joke and forgets that *ackshually* it might be by 2030.