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@pieist.xenoplasm.com

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Leftist on principle: socialist, BLM, defund the police etc. Not very tribal about it. Might even disagree with you about something once in a while. Unreconstructed Web 1.0 guy: still have a visitor count and a guest book on my home page

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pieist.xenoplasm.com @pieist.xenoplasm.com · 8h

Nobody tell them about white people and corn on the cob, okay?

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pieist.xenoplasm.com @pieist.xenoplasm.com · 11h

A London friend of mine used to answer his phone "Knightsbridge 4607" just to weird people out. This was only maybe 15 years ago. (And he didn't live within two miles of Knightsbridge.)

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pieist.xenoplasm.com @pieist.xenoplasm.com · 12h

I wonder if Bari Weiss will

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pieist.xenoplasm.com @pieist.xenoplasm.com · 12h

Given that imdb is a commercial site owned by Amazon, I wonder if Amazon is a significant donor.

pieist.xenoplasm.com @pieist.xenoplasm.com · 13h

Next: they discover for themselves just how crappy they are.

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pieist.xenoplasm.com @pieist.xenoplasm.com · 15h

I'll bet he passes to the port from left to right. And has probably never even seen a fish fork

pieist.xenoplasm.com @pieist.xenoplasm.com · 15h

Imagine how horrific you have to be be dragged back to Spain in irons at the very height of the Inquisition by the very people responsible for it because of your treatment of "heathens".

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Whey Standard @wheystandard.bsky.social · 19h

Just look at how cops acted during the last DSA-affiliated mayor: David Dinkins. He wasn’t anti-cop, he significantly expanded NYPD, increased their budget, all that, but because he pushed to hold bad cops accountable, they literally rioted.

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pieist.xenoplasm.com @pieist.xenoplasm.com · 1d

Man that's a lot of B-roll they left on the edit room floor. Where did you find it, an estate sale?

pieist.xenoplasm.com @pieist.xenoplasm.com · 1d

Just incredible, isn't it. In no time at all it's turning our entire information space into a literal feedback loop.

pieist.xenoplasm.com @pieist.xenoplasm.com · 1d

Sentence: "Here's where you're wrong: ..."

If I say it: setting you straight.
If you say it: thought police!!!!

Am I doing it right?

pieist.xenoplasm.com @pieist.xenoplasm.com · 1d

Sentence: "Here's where you're wrong: ..."

If I say it: setting you straight.
If you say it: thought police.

pieist.xenoplasm.com @pieist.xenoplasm.com · 1d

For their followers it's basically another form of identity construction. Theirs is the "why can't everyone see things as clearly as I do?" form. One of its tics is to point out someone else's "fallacy" using a sentence that contains two or three of their own, all entirely invisible to them.

pieist.xenoplasm.com @pieist.xenoplasm.com · 1d

Anyone quoting them with a straight face has pretty much never voluntarily read a book.

pieist.xenoplasm.com @pieist.xenoplasm.com · 1d

No matter how farrago, there ah am.

pieist.xenoplasm.com @pieist.xenoplasm.com · 1d

Think about it. What are they going to do instead, become guards at Rikers? Nowhere to go but down for this kind of cop.

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pieist.xenoplasm.com @pieist.xenoplasm.com · 1d

Those all seem to be tripcheck cameras, so you can cut out the middleman and go straight there, where there's a clickable map and everything.

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pieist.xenoplasm.com @pieist.xenoplasm.com · 1d

Do you revel in all this power? In your shoes I'd find it hard not to just stand in front of the mirror and FLEX.

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pieist.xenoplasm.com @pieist.xenoplasm.com · 1d

Thanks. (I was joking.)

pieist.xenoplasm.com @pieist.xenoplasm.com · 1d

This must be why drugs are cheaper in Canada; you're not paying for a stratospheric ad budget.

pieist.xenoplasm.com @pieist.xenoplasm.com · 2d

And when they're told that the Democrats did this, they'll believe it.

pieist.xenoplasm.com @pieist.xenoplasm.com · 2d

You're talking about people who are unable to absorb and comprehend a simple reminder of who was President of the United States 2017-2020 inclusive.

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Dave G @rocketmann55.bsky.social · 5d

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pieist.xenoplasm.com @pieist.xenoplasm.com · 2d

Because "the audience doesn't want to hear about it" of course. Probably because they've no idea what it's about. And the Reform-pumping media mean to keep it that way.

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pieist.xenoplasm.com @pieist.xenoplasm.com · 2d

Sounded to me like she was trying to shut down any mention of it. How many other cases can you find of the QT moderator actively preventing discussion of a topic the moment it starts in that way?

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