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realjohnbrown.bsky.social @realjohnbrown.bsky.social · 12h

@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social went on All In with Chris Hayes to shade his party's own candidate for mayor of the largest city in the US. Jeffries has literally done nothing to stop trump's war on the working class while @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social is fighting for an affordable future for all of us.

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realjohnbrown.bsky.social @realjohnbrown.bsky.social · 14h

Damn those DC bureaucrats who are opposed to Nazism! For far too long they have suppressed Nazi-curious candidates like @grahamformaine.bsky.social

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realjohnbrown.bsky.social @realjohnbrown.bsky.social · 2d

What is stopping every Democratic commentator, congressman, news outlet from screaming about it in unison? Why isn’t the Democratic Party try to shape the public discussion instead of endlessly whining about hypocrisy?

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realjohnbrown.bsky.social @realjohnbrown.bsky.social · 2d

The million dollar man has been on this tip for years, you all are just catching up.

realjohnbrown.bsky.social @realjohnbrown.bsky.social · 6d

He was addressing a different point: whether people who vote for republicans deserve healthcare or other public benefits. My point is that anyone who is engaging in that argument is wrong to reflexively assume all rural residents are republican voters. He never clearly agreed with that point.

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realjohnbrown.bsky.social @realjohnbrown.bsky.social · 6d

There are basically only two positions in the debate about AI.
1. I’ve barely invested any time in learning how to use it effectively. AI sucks.
2. I’ve invested in learning how to use this tool. Holy cow, it sucks.

realjohnbrown.bsky.social @realjohnbrown.bsky.social · 6d

That was the problem with Hiroo Onoda: he only read preprints that said WWII was still ongoing and didn’t understand that the peer-reviewed evidence showed it ended in 1945!

On a completely unrelated note, COVID is still an active global pandemic.

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realjohnbrown.bsky.social @realjohnbrown.bsky.social · 6d

You are just making up things to get mad at. All I said was that it is wrong to presume that people who live in rural areas are trump voters. No one in this thread thinks the level of dignity a person deserves is dependent on their demographics or ideological preferences.

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realjohnbrown.bsky.social @realjohnbrown.bsky.social · 6d

I am not talking about people who “WERE exclusively Trump voters.” What I said is that it’s wrong to just assume anyone who lives in a rural area is a trump voter, because I know from personal experience that is not true.

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realjohnbrown.bsky.social @realjohnbrown.bsky.social · 6d

It drives me nuts when people assume everyone who lives in a rural area is a trump voter. I grew up in a rural area and the vast majority of adults I knew simply didn’t vote because they thought both parties were irredeemably corrupt and only served the interests of rich people and corporations.

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realjohnbrown.bsky.social @realjohnbrown.bsky.social · 7d

I'd argue that a "rational assessment of the threat environment" should take into account that COVID has killed and disabled millions of people and is still wreaking havoc all across the country. To me, wearing a mask in public spaces to prevent that from spreading further is the LEAST you can do.

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realjohnbrown.bsky.social @realjohnbrown.bsky.social · 7d

You think it is irrational to take basic precautions in order to avoid catching and/or spreading an infectious virus that has already killed and disabled several million people worldwide?

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realjohnbrown.bsky.social @realjohnbrown.bsky.social · 7d

I work in the federal disability system and I see new applications with COVID listed as a disabling impairments all the time. Just yesterday I reviewed a case in which a woman contracted COVID in 2022 and has been dealing with severe respiratory and neurological symptoms ever since.

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realjohnbrown.bsky.social @realjohnbrown.bsky.social · 7d

The republicans ran the Willie Horton ad in 1988.

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realjohnbrown.bsky.social @realjohnbrown.bsky.social · 8d

an elderly woman wearing glasses and a blue jacket says nope

ALT: an elderly woman wearing glasses and a blue jacket says nope

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realjohnbrown.bsky.social @realjohnbrown.bsky.social · 12d

This was published in August. The firings started the moment trump took office.

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realjohnbrown.bsky.social @realjohnbrown.bsky.social · 13d

Some are mathematicians, some are truck drivers' wives, don’t
know how it all got started, I don't know what they're doing with their lives….

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realjohnbrown.bsky.social @realjohnbrown.bsky.social · 13d

In response to the Musk mandate that federal workers had to send a weekly email summarizing our accomplishments, I just fashioned my job description into bullet points and sent that to OPM every week.

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realjohnbrown.bsky.social @realjohnbrown.bsky.social · 13d

Most of MTG’s massive fundraising numbers comes from small dollar donors in the republican base, which is a major reason why she has taken a different position on issues like this. Most other republicans who are funded by rich people and corporations who want to destroy every federal social program.

realjohnbrown.bsky.social @realjohnbrown.bsky.social · 15d

That weird, because Israel has been kidnapping and murdering Palestinian civilians (including children) since 1948 with impunity. It‘s long forgotten now, but Hamas call for an international investigation into what took place on Oct. 7th and the Israeli occupation that incited it but Israel said no.

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realjohnbrown.bsky.social @realjohnbrown.bsky.social · 15d

That is literally a lie the Israeli government made up to justify their ongoing campaign of mass murder. However, Israel has kidnapped and killed THOUSANDS of Palestinian children, both before and after Oct. 7.

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realjohnbrown.bsky.social @realjohnbrown.bsky.social · 15d

That is an odd question given everything I laid out in my previous posts. It’s like asking ‘was the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising effective?’

I will say that Oct 7 and its aftermath was far more effective at delegitimizing the illegal Israeli occupation of Palestine than the Great March of Return.

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realjohnbrown.bsky.social @realjohnbrown.bsky.social · 15d

For example, from 2011

“Israel on Sunday began preparations for the release of some 477 Palestinian prisoners who will be freed in exchange for captive soldier Gilad Shalit…. The swap deal is a public relations victory for Hamas vis-a-vis the Palestinian National Authority....”

Hamas to gain politically from prisoner swap deal

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realjohnbrown.bsky.social @realjohnbrown.bsky.social · 15d

Unfortunately kidnapping Israeli soldiers and citizens has historically achieved better results than nonviolent protests and appeals to international legal institutions. How was the Great March of Return met? Heinous and extreme violence from Israel and silence from its western allies.

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realjohnbrown.bsky.social @realjohnbrown.bsky.social · 15d

"Let's do the fucking news“

a man in a suit and tie is dancing in front of a wall that says acn

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is dancing in front of a wall that says acn

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