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Contrariwise @mrcontrariwise.bsky.social · 8h

Thank fucking god someone is taking lead on this.

Contrariwise @mrcontrariwise.bsky.social · 18h

If their base gets mad, they'll just blame it on Obama.

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Contrariwise @mrcontrariwise.bsky.social · 23h

Well there was the guy who filmed himself having a series of household accidents and loudly crying about "an-TEA-fah" as he clutched his injuries. I'll let him have it. 🤣

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Contrariwise @mrcontrariwise.bsky.social · 1d

Relevant

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 5d

Whilst we're on the subject of shocking living things, did you know police departments routinely shock human beings with tasers until they die and chalk up their deaths to a fake medical condition they call "excited delirium" that was invented by taser companies to absolve themselves of liability?

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Clay Jones @claytoonz.bsky.social · 5d

You can't say for certain that any participants of the J6 terrorist attack are working for ICE, but you can't say for certain that they're not. #ICE

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Contrariwise @mrcontrariwise.bsky.social · 1d

Relevant:

bsky.app/profile/left...

Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 5d

Whilst we're on the subject of shocking living things, did you know police departments routinely shock human beings with tasers until they die and chalk up their deaths to a fake medical condition they call "excited delirium" that was invented by taser companies to absolve themselves of liability?

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Contrariwise @mrcontrariwise.bsky.social · 1d

The MAGA cultists won't even acknowledge that it was a real pandemic. They think the million deaths were from the *vaccine*. 🤷‍♂️

I fucking gave up even talking to them about it, it was giving me a migraine trying to argue science with people who couldn't pass a grade school biology exam.

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Contrariwise @mrcontrariwise.bsky.social · 1d

About 25 years ago, I decided to stop getting flu shots because I hated that the flu shot always made me feel shitty for 2 or 3 days.

Then I got the REAL flu.

Motherfucker... I was young and strong, and that shit nearly killed me.

Get the flu shot.

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Contrariwise @mrcontrariwise.bsky.social · 1d

Newsmax not signing...?

Contrariwise @mrcontrariwise.bsky.social · 1d

Remember, they don't consider white collar crime to be crime, because it's what they and their peers *do*.

For example - for all their endless bitching about theft from retail stores, you know the largest source of theft in this country? CORPORATE WAGE THEFT.

www.edelson-law.com/blog/2022/10...

Wage theft outpaces all other theft in America

Although many people are aware that wage theft occurs, most do not know just how common it is. In fact, many people mistakenly assume that wage theft is something that rarely happens. And many people ...

www.edelson-law.com

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 1d

I still have not gotten an answer as to why Donald would even consider pardoning Ghislane Maxwell. And Biden is not an answer.

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Democracy Action Network @democracyactionnet.bsky.social · 9d

Seems kinda bad that all of a sudden the government is just Stephen Miller and the guy who wrote Project 2025

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Contrariwise @mrcontrariwise.bsky.social · 1d

I want Fake Kristi Noem as my Google Maps voice 😅

Contrariwise @mrcontrariwise.bsky.social · 1d

Man, that place looks way sexier than Trump's ballroom 😉

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Contrariwise @mrcontrariwise.bsky.social · 1d

"Ragged Individualists"

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Contrariwise @mrcontrariwise.bsky.social · 1d

🤣

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Contrariwise @mrcontrariwise.bsky.social · 1d

We *have* a lot of problems in our society. And the truth is that our politics as usual wasn't fixing it.
But if ever there was a *not* right answer to that admittedly thorny problem, it's Trump. 😬
But history says that disaffected people tend to run into the arms of the fascists... 🤷‍♂️

Contrariwise @mrcontrariwise.bsky.social · 1d

This is what I was taking it from. Boomers were (apparently) razor thin for Harris. Our shitbag useless generation, after spending decades on the sidelines making snarky comments, when they finally decided to jump in the fray, they jump in on THE WRONG FUCKING SIDE. 🙄 Uuugh.

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Contrariwise @mrcontrariwise.bsky.social · 1d

My generation *is* a fucking disgrace. We're actually the only age demographic that voted majority Trump. The ONLY FUCKING ONE. In short, Gen X elected him. 😖

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Contrariwise @mrcontrariwise.bsky.social · 1d

This would all be hilarious, if it wasn't for the fact that Fox's lies and bullshit are helping ramp this up for a full authoritarian clampdown.

They're deliberately manufacturing a crisis so they can invoke Emergency Powers, declare martial law, and suspend elections.

Nicole Chvastek @nicolechvastek.bsky.social · 2d

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Contrariwise @mrcontrariwise.bsky.social · 1d

ICE thug: Says <THING> on video
Journo: "Did you just say <THING>?"
ICE thug: "No, that's not what I said"

Apparently they believe that they also have Trump's power to make people disbelieve what they've seen and heard just by contradicting it in the most braindead way possible

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Contrariwise @mrcontrariwise.bsky.social · 1d

phone number of the person I was actually trying to reach, for a total of 42 digits of dialing to get through to someone. I remember one of my work colleagues seeing me do it and saying, "Wait, have you memorized ALL of that shit?"

Well..... yeah. 🤣

Contrariwise @mrcontrariwise.bsky.social · 1d

I remember on a business trip in the early 2000s I had a corp AT&T credit card that allowed me to redirect long distance phone call charges to my corp account. So I would dial an 800 number to AT&T, put in my 16 digit corp credit card plus some PIN (not the CVV) of maybe 6 digits, THEN the

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Contrariwise @mrcontrariwise.bsky.social · 1d

I can still rattle off the landline numbers of some of the friends that I grew up with in the 1970s.

And a few months ago I called out the phone number of someone whose number I haven't dialed manually since at least 1999.

Contrariwise @mrcontrariwise.bsky.social · 1d

I am flabbergasted at a plan to remember the name of some august authority figure that involves *undoing your belt in front of them*, discreetly or not! 🤣

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