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Pádraig 🏳️‍🌈☘️ (he/sé)

@patmch51.bsky.social

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Descendent of the Diaspóra na nGael. Queer and mad. Anti-fascist and active anti-racist in progress. 🏆 2025's Most Annoying Man On The Internet. Team Harris. "Let it be known that homosexuals are not cowards." Wilhelm Arondéus

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Pádraig 🏳️‍🌈☘️ (he/sé) @patmch51.bsky.social · 1d

And we will continue getting more Trumps, more Hawleys, more Johnsons and Cruzs until whites collectively decide to Stop. Choosing. Whiteness.

Because the way things are, whites will vote for a pile of offal in an ill-fitting suit if it promises to keep the systemic racialized hierarchy intact.

Pádraig 🏳️‍🌈☘️ (he/sé) @patmch51.bsky.social · 4h

No. Black Civil Rights activists fought and bled and died for the rights they won and the progress they made. You showed up for a march.

Don't forget, we're having this discussion because you couldn't be respectful in a Black woman's comments. You're no MLK.

Pádraig 🏳️‍🌈☘️ (he/sé) @patmch51.bsky.social · 4h

a man wearing a music band shirt is holding a skateboard over his shoulder

Alt: Steve buscemi approaches an off-camera group of kids in a school hallway. Gray lockers in the background. Kids with backpacks walk back and forth. Steve wears a gray T shirt that reads MUSIC / BAND in bold black letters and a red hoodie and red baseball cap. He carries a skateboard slung over his shoulder. Steve is visibly aged and grizzled. He says, "How do you do, fellow kids?"

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Pádraig 🏳️‍🌈☘️ (he/sé) @patmch51.bsky.social · 4h

You seem very confused about how the past several decades have played out.

Suffice it to say, it has not been "going on."

Pádraig 🏳️‍🌈☘️ (he/sé) @patmch51.bsky.social · 4h

No no. Racism isn't something that you throw into a list of etcs. White supremacy is the whole ball game.

You people are so fucking frustrating. I don't want this whole thing to burn to the ground. The only way we survive is by collectively choosing to reject whiteness.

Fucking figure it out.

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Kelly Lynne D’Angelo ✨ @kellylynnedang.bsky.social · 9h

genocide of people will continue to happen if the genocide of animal life, sea life, and plant life continues as well.

we are interconnected. exterminating life is exterminating life.

we cannot fix one without fixing the other.

start by lessening the harm of your current extermination.

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Pádraig 🏳️‍🌈☘️ (he/sé) @patmch51.bsky.social · 6h

There is no future worth building that has a place for white supremacists. Better we perish then continue this cycle of blood and misery another 250 years.

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Pádraig 🏳️‍🌈☘️ (he/sé) @patmch51.bsky.social · 6h

What you suggest is in fact the original sin of America. The Continental Congress intentionally removed a condemnation of the slave trade from the Declaration of Independence in order to secure the votes of southern delegates. And look how well that fucking turned out.

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Pádraig 🏳️‍🌈☘️ (he/sé) @patmch51.bsky.social · 6h

I would like you to take a moment and really think about what you said. Why do you think you know better than Black women on the subject of racial justice?

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Pádraig 🏳️‍🌈☘️ (he/sé) @patmch51.bsky.social · 7h

We know that 74% of whites either voted for the white supremacist regime (55%) or enabled it via inaction (19%).

Their allegiance to white supremacy remains the issue. Deprogram it, and you'll see the turnout stats you want.

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Pádraig 🏳️‍🌈☘️ (he/sé) @patmch51.bsky.social · 7h

Deprogramming white supremacy can often feel difficult, uncomfortable, and unrewarding in the moment. Nonetheless, it's entirely necessary.

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Pádraig 🏳️‍🌈☘️ (he/sé) @patmch51.bsky.social · 7h

"They are all intractable, it's a turnout game" is the losing strategy that has gotten us to our current predicament. Either whites can be convinced to stop upholding whiteness or we'll perish. There is no pathway forward that avoids all of us actively and intentionally confronting white supremacy.

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Pádraig 🏳️‍🌈☘️ (he/sé) @patmch51.bsky.social · 8h

This wasn't an invitation for you to disagree or talk over her.

If whites faced consistent, affirmative social consequences in the moment for their white supremacy (not just folks going no-contact, but actually confronting them about it, you'd be shocked how quickly the needle would move.

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Crystal Voted 4 Harris @crystal4mvpharris.bsky.social · 9h

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Lauren-Ashley Arts @laurenashley087.bsky.social · 9h

White people need to talk to other white people. It is entirely up to the whites to move the needle on their end.

Let me be clear: racism and antisemitism are rampant on *both* sides of the aisle.

Your twentysomething niece has fallen for the okie doke just as easily as your Boomer uncle.

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Pádraig 🏳️‍🌈☘️ (he/sé) @patmch51.bsky.social · 8h

Gideon found shaking, crying, throwing up

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Talib Kweli @talibkweli.bsky.social · 14h

Everyone who has spent the last 10 years telling me to stop calling all republicans nazis owes me an apology. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Pádraig 🏳️‍🌈☘️ (he/sé) @patmch51.bsky.social · 8h

Weren't they just using the lack of a competitive primary as their excuse to not vote for Harris last year?

Weird, I thought white ethnosocialists LOVED a bare-knuckle brawl of a primary. I can't qwhite put my finger on what changed in less than a year.

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Winifred Tylenol Spice Burton @authorwinifred.blacksky.app · 13h

Things will stay stuck unless and until people reckon with why and how we got here *honestly.*

So far the self-distancing from the problem and "We'll Be Back/This is Not Us/Lets Sue Our Way Out of Authoritarianism" Juice is beating y'all's asses.

I promise the exceptionalism won't help.

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Pádraig 🏳️‍🌈☘️ (he/sé) @patmch51.bsky.social · 13h

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And just a reminder that every inch of the regime's efforts to undermine democracy rely on the baked-in assumption that overwhelming majorities of whites will continue to vote for whiteness.

Whites can break this wheel at any time by collectively choosing not to uphold whiteness with our vote.

ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 16h

Locking in for oral arguments on the big voting rights case at the Supreme Court.

The next two hours or so will be... incredibly bad.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 15h

One of my only remaining joys is that every single time Amy Coney Barrett makes a stupid argument, Ketanji Brown Jackson gets a chance to follow up and illustrate her stupidity.
And this will happen again, and again, for the rest of Barrett's life.

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Pádraig 🏳️‍🌈☘️ (he/sé) @patmch51.bsky.social · 14h

You do not need to infantilize white supremacists and remove their agency in the choices they make. They are grown, functional adults who have given their informed consent to a racialized hierarchy of systemic oppression.

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Kelly Lynne D’Angelo ✨ @kellylynnedang.bsky.social · 22h

much like A.I., capitalism and colonization has poisoned everything it’s touched, extracted its soul and humanity, and regurgitated it as slop

we can see the patterns. we can see the truth.

and we can see a way out. together.

it’s so much simpler than you think.

stop buying in.

remain curious.

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Pádraig 🏳️‍🌈☘️ (he/sé) @patmch51.bsky.social · 16h

a close up of a person 's hands with the words `` the power is within you ! ''

ALT: a close up of a person 's hands with the words `` the power is within you ! ''

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Crystal Voted 4 Harris @crystal4mvpharris.bsky.social · 1d

I can't repost this enough.

Rob. @barackomamba.bsky.social · 1d

If you’re reading this, you’ve made it thru today. Congrats. See you tomorrow

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Pádraig 🏳️‍🌈☘️ (he/sé) @patmch51.bsky.social · 21h

They aren't stupid, Rakesh. They're racist. You don't need to infantilize them and give them an excuse for their choices.

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Jennifer @princessjennifer.bsky.social · 1d

Today would have been George Floyd’s 52nd birthday.

His murder while people looked on is forever burned in my mind.

The murder of a Black man by a white cop over allegations of a fake $20 is the sentence given to Black Americans. No jury, no judge, murder.

He cried out for his mom and died.

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