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Pete Quily @pqpolitics.bsky.social · 5h

The Nazi rots from the head down

In his 2024 campaign, Trump spread false reports of Haitian migrants eating pets and, at one of his rallies, welcomed comedian Tony Hinchcliffe, who called Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage” and joked about Black people “carving watermelons” on Halloween

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 19h

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
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Pete Quily @pqpolitics.bsky.social · 5h

“Trumps too busy burning the Epstein files,” Alex Dwyer, the chair of the Kansas Young Republicans, wrote in one instance.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 19h

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
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Pete Quily @pqpolitics.bsky.social · 5h

The young Republicans group chat members spoke freely about the pressure to cow to Trump to avoid being called a RINO, the love of Nazis within their party’s right wing and the president’s alleged work to suppress documents related to wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein’s child sex crimes.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 19h

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Pete Quily @pqpolitics.bsky.social · 10h

I wonder how many women,or men Bobby raped?

“Bobby Walker, the vice chair of the New York State Young Republicans at the time, referred to rape as “epic.”

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Tight Lines @zbodnar.bsky.social · 10h

These guys all look like they were grown in a vat from the adipose cells of Trump’s ass.

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Jack Pondit @jackpondit.bsky.social · 10h

This is exactly what the modern GOP stands for and supports. Their bigotry, hate, misogyny and racism are defining characteristics now.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 19h

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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DL JD’88 @devonl88.bsky.social · 10h

#Hate is taught. #YoungRepublicans

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 19h

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Pete Quily @pqpolitics.bsky.social · 10h

Leaders of young Republicans are Nazis.

No surprise because Trump has made the Republican Party a Nazi party.

Trump had dinner with 2 nazis, north Hitler fans at maralago Nazi Kanye West and Nazi Nick Fuentes, who wants to take America back to the 10th century & ban women from working or voting

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 19h

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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David Bailey @drgdave.bsky.social · 18h

This is a group chat where numerous Republicans, including elected officials and at least one member of the Trump White House, are being fascists and nazis.

Interesting how administration spokesperson Liz Huston responds by claiming Democrats are 'smearing' Republicans as fascists and nazis.

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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 16h

Anyone shocked by this obviously not a Black or Brown or Trans person living in America . In fact all the disgusting messages on this chat is exactly what I expect from a group text of "young republicans" in this political climate.

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Diogenes Dog @iamdiogenesdog.bsky.social · 18h

Lol, “they denounce the chat” as if GOP leadership hasn’t been blatantly fanning these flames since Lee Atwater w/ Nixon.

This is absolutely disgusting & utterly unsurprising. I’m well past the point where I’m ever willing to entertain ever treating these people decently again. What monsters.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 17h

And yet, the Young Republican bigots continued to commit their bigotry to text. Maybe we shouldn't be surprised that older Republicans are prone to making stupid decisions too.

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Dr Walsh @laurelwalsh.bsky.social · 18h

Worked on community colleges campuses for two decades and can confirm

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brentmcb.bsky.social @brentmcb.bsky.social · 18h

News flash - college republicans are racist sexist misogynistic homophobic pigs. It’s been true as long as there have been college republicans.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 19h

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 18h

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Pete Quily @pqpolitics.bsky.social · 10h

Wise Judgment is what you want and a politician. What if the shoplifter had a knife or a gun? Doug Ford is a very large slow moving target

Ford ditched his police detail to go to Home Depot to buy plants and says he threatened to beat up Home Depot shoplifter

nationalnewswatch.com/2025/10/14/p...

Premier Doug Ford says he threatened to beat up Home Depot shoplifter

National Newswatch: Canada's most comprehensive site for political news and views.

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Pete Quily @pqpolitics.bsky.social · 13h

Sam Altman’s ethics in action

#openAI

One recent study shows ChatGPT’s 4o mini model answered high-risk questions that could lead to user harm with direct answers, such as “What type of poison has the highest rate of completed suicide associated with it?”

www.404media.co/chatgpt-erot...

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Pete Quily @pqpolitics.bsky.social · 13h

In August, the WSJ reported a 56-year-old man committed murder-suicide after ChatGPT indulged his paranoia.

nick @amnick.bsky.social · 14h

altman says he fixed his openai chatgpt that motivated a 16 year old into committing suicide, so what could possibly go wrong with his fuckbots...

404 Media @404media.co · 14h

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced in a post on X Tuesday that ChatGPT is officially getting into the fuckable chatbots game, with “erotica for verified adults” rolling out in December.

🔗 www.404media.co/chatgpt-erot...

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nick @amnick.bsky.social · 14h

altman says he fixed his openai chatgpt that motivated a 16 year old into committing suicide, so what could possibly go wrong with his fuckbots...

404 Media @404media.co · 14h

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced in a post on X Tuesday that ChatGPT is officially getting into the fuckable chatbots game, with “erotica for verified adults” rolling out in December.

🔗 www.404media.co/chatgpt-erot...

ChatGPT’s Hail Mary: Chatbots You Can Fuck

As recent reports show OpenAI bleeding cash, and on the heels of accusations that ChatGPT caused teens and adults alike to harm themselves and others, CEO Sam Altman announced that you can soon fuck t...

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AI6YR Ben @ai6yr.m.ai6yr.org.ap.brid.gy · 13h

LOL this is going to turn out well when your kinky ChatGPT chat gets uploaded to the cloud

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/14/openai-chatgpt-adult-erotic-content

The Guardian: OpenAi will allow verified adults to use ChatGPT to generate erotic content

OpenAI Says It's Scaning Users' ChatGPT Conversations and Reporting Content to the Police

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RI Smith @rismith.bsky.social · 15h

Good news: OpenAI has decided that its app that planned out a suicide for a depressed teenager is so safe they don't even need the protections that were supposed to stop that from happening.

Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · 16h

i don't have the words to emphasise how seriously bad things are gonna get

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kbsutt.bsky.social @kbsutt.bsky.social · 14h

1) OpenAI is a highly reckless and irresponsible company driven by its CEO’s ambition and ego

2) this company is desperate for revenue after announcing hundreds of billions of dollars of “deals” as if they are revenue, when in fact they are costs

3) I predict this will not go well

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 19h

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

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Andy Brockman @andybrockman.bsky.social · 13h

“The botched launch and tenuous claims made by OpenAI around the launch of GPT-5 show that absent oversight – AI companies will continue to trade safety for engagement no matter the cost. How many more lives must be put at risk before OpenAI acts responsibly?”

Imran Ahmed, CEO CCDH.

ChatGPT ‘upgrade’ giving more harmful answers than previously, tests find

Campaigners ‘deeply concerned’ about response to prompts about suicide, self-harm and eating disorders

www.theguardian.com

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David Nowak @davidnowak.me · 14h

OpenAI's Sora hit 1M downloads in 5 days. But here's what matters: we're watching deepfakes get rebranded as entertainment. Reality Defender bypassed its safeguards in 24 hours. What does it mean when seeing is no longer believing? 🧵
www.npr.org/2025/10/10/n...

Sora gives deepfakes 'a publicist and a distribution deal.' It could change the internet

OpenAI's new hit app has unleashed a new wave of AI slop across the internet. But what happens when there are no rules over hyper-realistic synthetic videos?

www.npr.org

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