Michael Paulauski♨️
@mike10010100.com
I lose brain cells so you don't have to. Devops Galore. DemSoc liking anarchism. Antifascist. BLM/Abolish the Police. Views are mine, not employer’s. He/him
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Michael Paulauski♨️
@mike10010100.com
· Sep 20
go to moderation settings, Bluesky official moderation service, scroll down to “rude,” turn it off
Brigaders mass reported my account and Bluesky labeled it.
Spread the word and let people know how to turn it off.
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Spread the word and let people know how to turn it off.
bsky.app/profile/elea...
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I usually ask these guys for an example of how a "largely middle-class society" can move to socialism/communism outside of elections and they pretend they don't know what "middle-class" means. Too much damned theory.
February 16, 2026 at 6:34 PM
I usually ask these guys for an example of how a "largely middle-class society" can move to socialism/communism outside of elections and they pretend they don't know what "middle-class" means. Too much damned theory.
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Like I agree with you on the trans sports rules! But if my only options are bad trans sports rules that we'll have to work to overturn or *fucking concentration camps*, that's the easiest choice of my life. If it isn't the easiest choice of your life, there's something wrong with you.
February 16, 2026 at 6:23 PM
Like I agree with you on the trans sports rules! But if my only options are bad trans sports rules that we'll have to work to overturn or *fucking concentration camps*, that's the easiest choice of my life. If it isn't the easiest choice of your life, there's something wrong with you.
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I'm really sick of getting scolded by people who think they hold the moral high ground that, actually, trans sports rules (or whatever) is more important than a literal secret police whisking tens of thousands of people away to concentration camps and then deporting them to torture and death
February 16, 2026 at 6:21 PM
I'm really sick of getting scolded by people who think they hold the moral high ground that, actually, trans sports rules (or whatever) is more important than a literal secret police whisking tens of thousands of people away to concentration camps and then deporting them to torture and death
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I don't know how to explain to people that elections have consequences beyond their specific pet issue, and that not caring about those consequences is actually pretty shitty.
February 16, 2026 at 6:19 PM
I don't know how to explain to people that elections have consequences beyond their specific pet issue, and that not caring about those consequences is actually pretty shitty.
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Relatedly, stop navel-gazing at a novelty candidate in a race where you can't vote. No single Representative is going to change the world, but more Representatives everywhere will.
This here. If you like a candidate, do something for them. Not posting. Actual campaign work. If you don't do that, then don't complain if the candidate you don't like gets nominated. That's how this thing works. The people who participate win.
There were approximately 7,000 candidates for the Democratic nomination in 2020.
There is absolutely no reason to think it won’t be the same in 2028.
No one is being shoved down anyone’s throat.
Find a candidate you like, and do something useful to support them. Or shut the fuck up.
There is absolutely no reason to think it won’t be the same in 2028.
No one is being shoved down anyone’s throat.
Find a candidate you like, and do something useful to support them. Or shut the fuck up.
February 16, 2026 at 1:50 PM
Relatedly, stop navel-gazing at a novelty candidate in a race where you can't vote. No single Representative is going to change the world, but more Representatives everywhere will.
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> lose fight
> study enemy, learn to feel what they feel &what they think
> use what you’ve learned to win not just the next fight but every one that comes after, making sure the enemy can never hurt you again
> in your moment of victory, realize your enemy is the person you love most
> write a blog
> study enemy, learn to feel what they feel &what they think
> use what you’ve learned to win not just the next fight but every one that comes after, making sure the enemy can never hurt you again
> in your moment of victory, realize your enemy is the person you love most
> write a blog
February 16, 2026 at 6:21 PM
> lose fight
> study enemy, learn to feel what they feel &what they think
> use what you’ve learned to win not just the next fight but every one that comes after, making sure the enemy can never hurt you again
> in your moment of victory, realize your enemy is the person you love most
> write a blog
> study enemy, learn to feel what they feel &what they think
> use what you’ve learned to win not just the next fight but every one that comes after, making sure the enemy can never hurt you again
> in your moment of victory, realize your enemy is the person you love most
> write a blog
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Legit "you cannot put in the newspaper that I am mad" posting
A completely unhinged tantrum from someone who didn’t get their way.
I don’t know one person in NJ, Republican or Democrat, who doesn’t see the power and value of the Gateway Tunnel Project.
I don’t know one person in NJ, Republican or Democrat, who doesn’t see the power and value of the Gateway Tunnel Project.
February 16, 2026 at 6:26 PM
Legit "you cannot put in the newspaper that I am mad" posting
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good thread from adam that i think gets at a core question: do we have a theory of victory?
national politics, especially when there doesn't seem to be a theory of victory. you can see the negative effects of constantly being an state of arousal here on this platform, in many respects. this is not warhammer 40k, where people can indefinitely exist in a "long war" against chaos.
February 16, 2026 at 5:36 PM
good thread from adam that i think gets at a core question: do we have a theory of victory?
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I can tell you what *my* theory of victory is. The fascists--and the low-info resentful voters who enable them--are getting tired of this shit, too.
Small-d democrats are not the only ones who succumb to moral and emotional exhaustion. MAGAs are getting sick of the sacrifices *they're* making.
Small-d democrats are not the only ones who succumb to moral and emotional exhaustion. MAGAs are getting sick of the sacrifices *they're* making.
good thread from adam that i think gets at a core question: do we have a theory of victory?
national politics, especially when there doesn't seem to be a theory of victory. you can see the negative effects of constantly being an state of arousal here on this platform, in many respects. this is not warhammer 40k, where people can indefinitely exist in a "long war" against chaos.
February 16, 2026 at 5:58 PM
I can tell you what *my* theory of victory is. The fascists--and the low-info resentful voters who enable them--are getting tired of this shit, too.
Small-d democrats are not the only ones who succumb to moral and emotional exhaustion. MAGAs are getting sick of the sacrifices *they're* making.
Small-d democrats are not the only ones who succumb to moral and emotional exhaustion. MAGAs are getting sick of the sacrifices *they're* making.
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If you are wondering what words the all-male Congress found so "blasphemous" that they felt compelled to literally scrape them off the monument, they were: ''Woman, first denied a soul, then called mindless, now arisen, declared herself an entity to be reckoned.''
On this day in 1921, Congress reluctantly accepted a sculpture memorializing women’s 19th A victory. Congress relegated the memorial to the Capitol’s crypt & painted over the feminist inscription. The statue stayed entombed in the crypt for 76 years. The inscription is still not restored. #WeTheMen
February 16, 2026 at 4:35 PM
If you are wondering what words the all-male Congress found so "blasphemous" that they felt compelled to literally scrape them off the monument, they were: ''Woman, first denied a soul, then called mindless, now arisen, declared herself an entity to be reckoned.''
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The book makes the argument that the purges were more or less created whole cloth by the US government (something Indonesia itself does not claim) and all but ignores the multiple centuries of colonial oppression that created the conditions for the coup & massacre in the first place.
February 16, 2026 at 5:52 PM
The book makes the argument that the purges were more or less created whole cloth by the US government (something Indonesia itself does not claim) and all but ignores the multiple centuries of colonial oppression that created the conditions for the coup & massacre in the first place.
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one of the last two people to be presidents was previously VP
Two of the last six people to be president were previously VP
Five of the last eleven people to be president were previously VP
pretty good chance the next president will previously have been VP
Two of the last six people to be president were previously VP
Five of the last eleven people to be president were previously VP
pretty good chance the next president will previously have been VP
VP is a bit of a shit job and its track record of producing presidents is - barring their boss's untimely demise - kind of abysmal
I don’t think AOC is all that likely to win a D primary, especially if Harris runs, but 1) it’s not impossible and 2) she’ll be on the VP shortlist for almost every candidate regardless
February 16, 2026 at 5:42 PM
one of the last two people to be presidents was previously VP
Two of the last six people to be president were previously VP
Five of the last eleven people to be president were previously VP
pretty good chance the next president will previously have been VP
Two of the last six people to be president were previously VP
Five of the last eleven people to be president were previously VP
pretty good chance the next president will previously have been VP
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it’s exactly what Republicans did to the IRS money in the Inflation Reduction Act
ICE/CBP have gone unfunded for 3 days; how about 3 years? The best way to claw back the $170 billion immigration enforcement surge in the Big Beautiful Bill is to just claw it back. The 2nd-best way is to slowly drain it by never funding the underlying appropriation. @ryanlcooper.com makes the case:
The Case for Keeping ICE and CBP Defunded - The American Prospect
Democrats should not provide one thin dime to MAGA storm troopers.
prospect.org
February 16, 2026 at 5:05 PM
it’s exactly what Republicans did to the IRS money in the Inflation Reduction Act
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"why does everyone hate us, the defenders of North Korea" why don't you go to Seoul and ask some folks? find some libs, some radical libs - they have extremely angry radfems there - and defend North Korea to their face. seriously. I wanna see video
"Every leftist I have ever met defends north Korea and speaks to the horrors of American imperialism on the Korean Peninsula."
Which leftists has Madeline been talking to? Because as far as I know, people within the broader left aren't too crazy about North Korea.
Which leftists has Madeline been talking to? Because as far as I know, people within the broader left aren't too crazy about North Korea.
February 16, 2026 at 5:43 PM
"why does everyone hate us, the defenders of North Korea" why don't you go to Seoul and ask some folks? find some libs, some radical libs - they have extremely angry radfems there - and defend North Korea to their face. seriously. I wanna see video
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the comments here make me think we're ngmi. surveillance concerns are totally legit, but most posters legitimately seem to prefer a doordash slave caste to lil' robots carrying burritos.
Everyone seems to hate these things but aren’t they better for the climate and urban traffic than getting stuff delivered by car?
We all gathered around to bully a delivery robot on the sidewalk
February 16, 2026 at 5:18 PM
the comments here make me think we're ngmi. surveillance concerns are totally legit, but most posters legitimately seem to prefer a doordash slave caste to lil' robots carrying burritos.
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americans cannot fathom a meaningful social safety net and are therefore convinced that efficiency improvements are evil, and so they hate them whenever they are visible
the comments here make me think we're ngmi. surveillance concerns are totally legit, but most posters legitimately seem to prefer a doordash slave caste to lil' robots carrying burritos.
Everyone seems to hate these things but aren’t they better for the climate and urban traffic than getting stuff delivered by car?
February 16, 2026 at 5:45 PM
americans cannot fathom a meaningful social safety net and are therefore convinced that efficiency improvements are evil, and so they hate them whenever they are visible
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"Every leftist I have ever met defends north Korea and speaks to the horrors of American imperialism on the Korean Peninsula."
Which leftists has Madeline been talking to? Because as far as I know, people within the broader left aren't too crazy about North Korea.
Which leftists has Madeline been talking to? Because as far as I know, people within the broader left aren't too crazy about North Korea.
February 16, 2026 at 5:12 PM
"Every leftist I have ever met defends north Korea and speaks to the horrors of American imperialism on the Korean Peninsula."
Which leftists has Madeline been talking to? Because as far as I know, people within the broader left aren't too crazy about North Korea.
Which leftists has Madeline been talking to? Because as far as I know, people within the broader left aren't too crazy about North Korea.
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It's xenophobic and American Exceptionalist bullshit that presumes a) that the "anti-communist" (it wasn't!) purges in 1960s Indonesia wouldn't have happened without US support (wrong!) b) that the Indonesians had no agency and could be manipulated to that end by external entities.
February 16, 2026 at 5:47 PM
It's xenophobic and American Exceptionalist bullshit that presumes a) that the "anti-communist" (it wasn't!) purges in 1960s Indonesia wouldn't have happened without US support (wrong!) b) that the Indonesians had no agency and could be manipulated to that end by external entities.
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Why on Earth would I read a history book by a non-historian who claims to understand history based on his targeted searches of some archives?
February 16, 2026 at 5:40 PM
Why on Earth would I read a history book by a non-historian who claims to understand history based on his targeted searches of some archives?
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A book endorsed by Glenn Greenwald, of all people.
February 16, 2026 at 5:43 PM
A book endorsed by Glenn Greenwald, of all people.
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The biden FTC was extremely interventionist and anti-monopoly! the abtitrust commission was hitting the big players with haymakers and uppercuts! Build back better / the inflation reduction act was a generational leap in infrastructure transformation! pete and warren were running some all-time plays
February 16, 2026 at 5:35 PM
The biden FTC was extremely interventionist and anti-monopoly! the abtitrust commission was hitting the big players with haymakers and uppercuts! Build back better / the inflation reduction act was a generational leap in infrastructure transformation! pete and warren were running some all-time plays
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you cannot put the onus on me to participate in self-governance as a citizen of a republic. You see, I am a natural born-serf, desiring only to fulfill my hedonistic demand for delights, and must be governed by a class of philosopher-kings capable of abstract thought.
February 16, 2026 at 5:15 PM
you cannot put the onus on me to participate in self-governance as a citizen of a republic. You see, I am a natural born-serf, desiring only to fulfill my hedonistic demand for delights, and must be governed by a class of philosopher-kings capable of abstract thought.
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‘It’s not my fault I lie and won’t stop lying also what could you possibly mean by referencing ‘Look what you made me do’.’
The pieces are there. I believe in you.
The pieces are there. I believe in you.
February 16, 2026 at 5:26 PM
‘It’s not my fault I lie and won’t stop lying also what could you possibly mean by referencing ‘Look what you made me do’.’
The pieces are there. I believe in you.
The pieces are there. I believe in you.
Nothing I've said was stupid, Biden improved material conditions explicitly, was the most anti-neoliberalist President in modern history, and everyone hated him for it.
Materialism as a form of analysis is dead.
Materialism as a form of analysis is dead.
Lmao but I’m stupid
Materialism is dead, bud, Biden provably improved material conditions and everyone threw him out because Burrito Taxi Exponsive.
February 16, 2026 at 5:26 PM
Nothing I've said was stupid, Biden improved material conditions explicitly, was the most anti-neoliberalist President in modern history, and everyone hated him for it.
Materialism as a form of analysis is dead.
Materialism as a form of analysis is dead.