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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 2h

being a lawyer has to be a top 5 humiliation these days

🎃scarecrowcialism👻 @swolecialism.bsky.social · 3h

of course, through the majesty of the law, alex jones has effectively stalled long enough to win anyway. the families who he tortured will end up with a small pile of ashes labeled "Infowars Inc" while Alex keeps doing his thing as Alex Jones Broadcasting, having had plenty of time to shift themoney

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Defence Scheme Enjoyer 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱🇲🇽🇵🇸 @maxp94.bsky.social · 2h

Surprisingly was never active anywhere outside of Quests but still

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Defence Scheme Enjoyer 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱🇲🇽🇵🇸 @maxp94.bsky.social · 2h

It is genuinely disorienting to me that society is giving this much reach to a guy who had a Forums.SpaceBattles account

David Marx @digthatdata.bsky.social · 3h

jfc... now klein is platforming yud.

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Mr. Buick @mrbuick.bsky.social · 2h

Modern American journalism is a cocktail party for the well-heeled so they can rub elbows with the levers of power and slander the poors. They're court stereographers because they want to be, they like their policies, and they want them to win.

Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 3h

if anybody from the middle or lower classes with real journalistic chops sexted a source they'd be shitcanned and marginalized so quickly they'd get concussed

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 3h

when nuzzi defenders log on

I do not support all women. Some of you bitches are very dumb!

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Joad The Wet Sprocket @joadsprocket.bsky.social · 1d

I am not interested in living in a society of Universal Public Masking and neither are most people. This ask is not reasonable, and the invocation of solidarity in service of it is ridiculous.

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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 16h

Imagine devoting your entire life to prostrating yourself before this man and when you die trying to further his movement he eulogizes you by saying "lmao skill issue git gud"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Trump at the Charlie Kirk memorial event: "They fired sniper rifles at ICE agents, and me. But I made a turn at a good time. I made a turn at a good time. Charlie couldn't believe it, actually."

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 9h

I might draw the slightest of distinctions between these guys and every Republican *voter* but if republican party politics is your life and/or career this is invariably true. what I call 'professional' Republicans.

Eagle Beaver Man @eaglebeaverman.bsky.social · 21h

Every Republican under 30 is a Nazi. Every single one. No exceptions. No, not even that guy who you think is your friend. He’s being nice to you in person but talks about how you shouldn’t have rights in his discord chat.

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Vaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 21h

Something that I don’t think most non-terminally online liberals are aware of is the degree to which young Republicans are basically unrecoverably feral men, a generation of Oskar Dirlewangers who all speak like Instagram influencers and Twitch streamers

Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 22h

this reminds me of the almost exact same racist content that was in the TPUSA at Virginia Tech chats

www.collegiatetimes.com/news/student...

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Corn Cob (Tariffed) @corncobanalysis.bsky.social · 18h

why are you against upzoning and dense transit-oriented development in Guantanamo Bay

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Defence Scheme Enjoyer 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱🇲🇽🇵🇸 @maxp94.bsky.social · Mar 13

One issue I have with a lot of tech critics lately is that they inadvertently accept a lot of the NRx world’s claims about itself.

These guys aren’t going to turn the world into feudal blade runner or whatever, because that would require knowing or caring about how anything works.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 18h

recurring gripe of mine: stop talking about these people like they’re fucking supervillains, Palmer Luckey is grifter bullshit artist who is going to steal a lot of public money in exchange for buggy vaporware, he’s not Lex Luthor. they get off when breathlessl hyperventilating about them like this.

Kate Ross @kateross.bsky.social · Sep 6

The Merchant of Death, billionaire Palmer Luckey, rebranded the DOD the Department of War.

Peter Thiel/Palantir gave his company, Andruil, a billion dollars in January.

This is Palmer “I love killer robots” Luckey.

Origin story on rename below, as well as him hanging out with the worst people.

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Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 19h

as a society we would be better off if the architects who were hired to submit the application were doing architecture and if the planners who are reviewing the application were doing planning and even if the club members wanting to work out were doing workouts

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 19h

this is why I'm extremely bleak on social media, you will always be shown emotionally compelling stories of crime or people in poverty, there will literally never not be more of that content than you could possibly consume regardless of the macro-reality. what the fuck are the charts supposed to do?

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 1d

Literally no one said this. Somehow your entire band of overly online weirdos have hallucinated this idea that if anyone pointed out the economy as a whole was thriving from 2021-2024, they were personally attacking anyone who did not do better during that span. It’s infuriating

Ciggy Smoke Bringer @ciggysmokebringer.bsky.social · 1d

There entire thrust was 'you must be a liar or a loser if you are worse off or treading water harder' and it's like, nooooo, I was already that close to poverty line supporting 2 people on 57k, and there's probably enough people like me that blowing smoke and sunshine about how good it was wrong.

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 1d

Showing up to No Kings with a sign reading “monarchy is an affront to human dignity but, when incorporated into a liberal democratic system, may nevertheless be a useful safety valve for nationalist and/or authoritarian impulses” and then getting clobbered by a Buttigieg-supporting grandmother

Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 1d

Incidentally, I’ve been chafing a bit at the “No Kings” thing, because there are loads of monarchies that have more limits on executive power than the US does, but it has the great advantage that it makes Americans who want to oppose it sound, well, unamerican….

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 1d

one of the reasons they're so mad at "no kings" is that they thought they were going to get a different kind of protest. they *want* the black bloc to be out there fighting with the cops. those are the images they've been trying to generate from "go." instead--

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Military Unintelligence Expert 🇨🇦 @voltageanddoltage.bsky.social · 1d

Most of them are not dangerous people, just fundamentally incapable of functioning without serious medical and social assistance they're not getting, and we end up dumping them on the streets where they either quietly die or regularly occupy large portions of our first response resources.

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Military Unintelligence Expert 🇨🇦 @voltageanddoltage.bsky.social · 1d

This is how you get LEOs onside. Lots of cops are also reservists so I got to chat with them. The thing they hate the most about their jobs is the endless cycle of arresting mentally ill people, taking them to the hospital, and them going back to causing trouble after a their psych hold is up.

Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 1d

This is not even a well-kept secret. A current NYPD chief praised Mamdani’s stance on mental health without endorsement; a forner chief, now working on Long Island, did endorse him for wanting what police have always wanted - to catch crooks and let others be social workers, babysitters, etc.

talia jane ❤️‍🔥 @taliajane.bsky.social · 2d

Nobody wants it as a story but I have multiple NYPD sources who voted for Mamdani, are eager for his win in November, and who say their colleagues quietly feel the same.

They like that he wants NYPD to focus on crime, not quality of life enforcement.

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Defence Scheme Enjoyer 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱🇲🇽🇵🇸 @maxp94.bsky.social · 1d

Only one way to find out

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 1d

One of the funnier bits of gameplay-story segregation is when they make do a fantasy racism plot line for the race that are character creation like: +5 TO SNEAK, LOCKPICK, AND PICKPOCKET

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 1d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 1d

I don't like Khamenei and hope the ulema of Iran make a better choice next time but I think the overwhelming focus on the only Shi'a state is indicative of underlying anti-Muslim sentimen.

Remain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 1d

Iran has a right to exist as a state with equal rights

a smiley face with a big smile and a big mouth

ALT: a smiley face with a big smile and a big mouth

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Defence Scheme Enjoyer 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱🇲🇽🇵🇸 @maxp94.bsky.social · 1d

Yes (‘we’ referring to ‘Canada’ and ‘foreign governments’ including ‘the United States’)

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 2d

we have to be willing to just fuck with foreign governments in order to promote pro-democracy forces and harm pro-authoritarian forces in those countries

*that's* our actual interest, not whatever faff natsec heads preach about "the rules based order"

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 2d

one thing that has been obvious for a while is this aspect of the authoritarian internationale: they recognize that their allies abroad are not *countries* but *political movements* within foreign countries.

time we liberals woke up and recognized this--because it's the truth.

Rigorous, Fred-based Reporting @thefred.bsky.social · 2d

Or maybe, just maybe, what was obvious in 2024 was correct: Netanyahu fully backed Trump and would not deal with Biden because Trump would give him a free hand to escalate the starvation, bombing, and do full ethnic cleansing. Which he then did, until Netanyahu embarrassed him by bombing Qatar.

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 1d

Average operator attempting to conduct a raid with the Anduril google glasses NODs flashing 38 different icons in front of their face:

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Martin Concagh @mconcagh.bsky.social · 1d

If you’re an ambitious and savvy progressive politico / streamer / public figure by snubbing Piker and not doing a photo op or collab you’re saving yourself the hassle of having to publicly distance yourself from him when the inevitable downfall comes and a lot of bad shit comes out

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