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Michael Heinz

@mgheinz.bsky.social

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Leftist, sports fan, gamer, curmudgeon. Listen to me whine Lifelong Mets, Islanders, and Jets fan, devoted Cosmos and Everton supporter. Also rooting for RBNY, Brooklyn FC, Gotham FC, the Sirens, Knicks, and Liberty. And humanity Love, love, love! - Pele

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Michael Heinz @mgheinz.bsky.social · 3h

What a tremendous series this has been

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Michael Heinz @mgheinz.bsky.social · 22h

Man, I really like this and wish it was done for the domestic broadcasts

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 1d

anybody complaining about payrolls period cannot really claim to be a leftist unless you're complaining that the players are not paid ENOUGH

Rich Hill’s Blister @blisterrich.bsky.social · 1d

Leftist baseball fans complaining about the Dodgers payroll need to be reminded that every dollar Guggenheim spends on player salaries is a dollar they don’t spend on ICE prisons

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Michael Heinz @mgheinz.bsky.social · 2d

The Democrats refusing to run a primary and Kamala Harris being awful got us Trump's second term. Blame them, not voters.

Michael Heinz @mgheinz.bsky.social · 2d

When genocide isn't a dealbreaker for you, you lose any right to pretend you have the moral highground, hope that helps

Michael Heinz @mgheinz.bsky.social · 2d

Okay? That's the whole point. You're supposed to appeal to the voters whose votes you don't yet have. Your precious blue team isn't entitled to a goddamn thing

Michael Heinz @mgheinz.bsky.social · 2d

If that makes you feel better about Biden picking a terrible VP when he should have picked Barbara Lee, whatever you need to tell yourself

Michael Heinz @mgheinz.bsky.social · 2d

Refusing to enable evil is exactly why I chose none of the above at the presidential level, hope that helps

Michael Heinz @mgheinz.bsky.social · 2d

The red fascists or the blue fascists?

Michael Heinz @mgheinz.bsky.social · 2d

It's always a fucking hypocrite that pretends they give a shit about others while voting for a genocide

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IGN @ign.com · 2d

Key members of the original Halo dev team have slammed the Department of Homeland Security’s use of Xbox's FPS to promote ICE, with one saying, “Using Halo imagery in a call to ‘destroy’ people because of their immigration status goes way too far, and ought to offend every Halo fan." bit.ly/433mC9l

Original Halo Devs Respond To ICE Recruitment Ad Using Halo Image: "It Makes Me Sick"

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scorby mcmichaelson, G.E.D. 🚩 @scorbymcmichaelson.bsky.social · 2d

listen up idiots, you better vote Democrat regardless of the fact that they won't back down on their material and political support for genocide. there's no way this line of thinking could set a dangerous precedent!

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

If you’re upset with me pointing out the obvious fact that voters’ withholding votes has never influenced a change in policy from political candidates, you should absolutely stop following me.

I’m sure there’s someone that will tell you boycotting is Smart, Actually but it’s not going to be me.

Michael Heinz @mgheinz.bsky.social · 2d

Really can't believe there's smart people I follow who still don't realize how expecting unconditional voting and shaming those exercising the only power they have got us to this point in time. This is privileged horseshit and I'm tired of having to pretend otherwise to placate liberal sensibilities

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Michael Heinz @mgheinz.bsky.social · 2d

If posting at your projection of me instead of responding to me is going to make you feel better about your prejudice and your support for some really horrible things in 2024, have at it. I've muted everything so I hope you have fun 🌞

Michael Heinz @mgheinz.bsky.social · 2d

Still waiting for an answer btw

Michael Heinz @mgheinz.bsky.social · 2d

I've been more partial to the Bluesky'ers who have either agreed with me or been willing to have an adult discussion, personally

As for you shitlibs filling your diapers because I dare suggest 'be better than the GOP' is how you win elections instead of ALWAYS FUCKING LOSING THEM, good luck to you

Michael Heinz @mgheinz.bsky.social · 2d

Well, yeah, I used the word prejudiced instead of racist for a reason. Racism is systemic, as a white person and especially a white man I will never be victim of it, and in fact must try to not uphold said system myself.

But prejudice? That's interpersonal, and it's where you utterly fail. Goodbye.

Michael Heinz @mgheinz.bsky.social · 2d

No, I certainly am not, but the fact that you have to put such ridiculous words in my mouth in order to pretend you have a point is very telling.

Michael Heinz @mgheinz.bsky.social · 2d

It happens when shitty people who have large accounts quote tweet people with smaller accounts. Kruse had nothing to say in response to what I pointed out he got wrong, so instead he sic'd a mob of idiots on m.

Is what it is. Mostly I've just been killing time until Pardon the Interruption came on

Michael Heinz @mgheinz.bsky.social · 2d

You're right buddy, it's me, the evil white cis queer man in Brooklyn, I got Donald Trump elected. Not Kamala Harris, not her doubling down on everything Joe Biden did wrong, not her supporting genocide leading to my decision to vote none of the above, not her utter lack of policy offers, it's me!

Michael Heinz @mgheinz.bsky.social · 2d

Just wanted to congratulate you on writing 1,200 characters that completely misread what I said, was steeped in prejudice, and displayed an astonishing hypocrisy with regards to "the greater good of society" and the children of Gaza, to say nothing of how Harris was a right-wing monster domestically

Michael Heinz @mgheinz.bsky.social · 2d

We had a fascist state long before Donald Trump showed up, and the sooner you stop blaming voters and start blaming the so-called leaders who are actually responsible for the state of the world as it now is, the sooner we might be able to begin to recover.

Michael Heinz @mgheinz.bsky.social · 2d

Except a blind boycott is not what I said at all. So I ask you again, are we doing anything other than throwing a 'politics as a team sport' temper tantrum here? Withholding your vote to, for example, get a candidate to stop supporting a genocide? It's a valid strategy whether you like it or not!

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Michael Heinz @mgheinz.bsky.social · 2d

Your characterization of the careful decision a voter makes to deduce that none of the candidates on the ballot represent their beliefs as mere petulance is where you lose me and the millions of registered voters who choose 'none of the above' from time to time. Maybe try to appeal to them instead.

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Michael Heinz @mgheinz.bsky.social · 2d

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Michael Heinz @mgheinz.bsky.social · 2d

Well then I genuinely appreciate your willingness to read what I had to say, but until you learn that continuing to vote for evil just because it's all that's on the ballot will only to continue to deliver you evil, we will have to agree to disagree on how voting works altogether.