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Sigma Nerd 🌹₊˚🪻 @sigmanerd.bsky.social · Sep 13

Gun violence is a threat to freedom and liberty, and gun-owners who believe they have a right to an unregulated gun-industry are not just wrong, but are per-se irresponsible and reveal how unworthy of a weapon they are.

The Post DC v. Heller interpretation of the 2nd amendment is tyrannical.

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Sigma Nerd 🌹₊˚🪻 @sigmanerd.bsky.social · 7h

I think what bothers me, is that a lot of what people decry as 'cancel culture' is just freedom of association and completely normal.

Sigma Nerd 🌹₊˚🪻 @sigmanerd.bsky.social · 1d

Warren told a family story that many white families have about having native ancestry because she thought it was cool, then, when she found out she wasn't acted with decorum and admitted with grace. Yet they won't ever let it go because they're obsessed with race.

Sigma Nerd 🌹₊˚🪻 @sigmanerd.bsky.social · 1d

News to me that the police can raid my apartment because allegedly one of my neighbors has a shady past. This is literally just the Gestapo.

Sigma Nerd 🌹₊˚🪻 @sigmanerd.bsky.social · 1d

I wish the people who worry about 'woke' worried half as much about the insane cruelty of MAGA and their barbarism.

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Sigma Nerd 🌹₊˚🪻 @sigmanerd.bsky.social · 1d

It should be a litmus test for Democrat candidates to promise, nevermind the stupid fucking American Service-Members' Protection Act, to drag Trump to the ICC.

George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

That's twenty-seven flat-out murders. That's twenty-seven lives taken without even a semblance of a legal justification under domestic or international law.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

Sigma Nerd 🌹₊˚🪻 @sigmanerd.bsky.social · 1d

I was told this was the thing we started this country and revolted against England over.

Sigma Nerd 🌹₊˚🪻 @sigmanerd.bsky.social · 1d

Honestly I drink a lot of dairy and meet, plus fish. I don't need a protein shake. My interest in one is that I sort of just want a tasty drink after I workout. I don't think I need the protein from it.

Sigma Nerd 🌹₊˚🪻 @sigmanerd.bsky.social · 1d

I guess my unmotivated ass saved me because I only had this one plant-based protein powder like twice and then forgot about it. Procrastination for the win!

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Sigma Nerd 🌹₊˚🪻 @sigmanerd.bsky.social · 1d

Oh come on. I was just about to get a new protein powder. Which one can I get that doesn't have lead lol?

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Sigma Nerd 🌹₊˚🪻 @sigmanerd.bsky.social · 1d

The feeling I have in my heart goes far beyond schadenfreude.
Parasocial friendship? Girl this is a parasocial nemesis. I've wanted Alex Jones to see justice for a decade now.

Sigma Nerd 🌹₊˚🪻 @sigmanerd.bsky.social · 1d

Get Nutmegg'd you bastard. Could not happen to a better person.

Sigma Nerd 🌹₊˚🪻 @sigmanerd.bsky.social · 1d

apnews.com/article/supr...
Supreme Court rejects Alex Jones' appeal of $1.4 billion defamation judgment in Sandy Hook shooting

*Cackles madly in Nutmegger*

Supreme Court rejects Alex Jones' appeal of $1.4 billion defamation judgment in Sandy Hook shooting

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones says he knew the Supreme Court wouldn't take up his request for an appeal of a $1.4 billion defamation judgment, even though his lawyers believed the case was “cut and d...

apnews.com

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Sigma Nerd 🌹₊˚🪻 @sigmanerd.bsky.social · 1d

Probably because it's a completely baseless ban that reveals that 'voter id' for Republicans is just a Trojan horse for voter suppression. They could introduce legislation to establish a national, automatic and free voter id, but will never do it because they hate the young working class.

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Sigma Nerd 🌹₊˚🪻 @sigmanerd.bsky.social · 2d

Worth stating that traditionally, Judges opinions on SCOTUS have been non-partisan on topics like this. A Judges alignment doesn't necessarily correlate to their politics. Most Judges finding an issue with SCOTUS's use of the emergency docket is just overall, says a lot.

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Sigma Nerd 🌹₊˚🪻 @sigmanerd.bsky.social · 3d

Actually, I'd argue they're unconstitutional. SCOTUS is supposed to hear a case on the merits, and answer them based on precedent and legal principles. The idea they cannot cite their reasoning suggests arbitrary decisions.

Sigma Nerd 🌹₊˚🪻 @sigmanerd.bsky.social · 3d

I believe the shadow docket should be banned, and SCOTUS should be required, constitutionally, to explain every ruling. I find it asinine the constitution doesn't allow advisory opinions (Which personally I think would be a good thing) but does allow a shadow docket.

Sigma Nerd 🌹₊˚🪻 @sigmanerd.bsky.social · 3d

So a sitting Justice is admitting there was not some guiding philosophy, grounded in legal principles in these cases? If they didn't solve it, then WHAT was the basis for your ruling? Because it CANNOT be a principle of law, the constitution, or reason, because that would necessitate an answer.

Sigma Nerd 🌹₊˚🪻 @sigmanerd.bsky.social · 3d

This completely blurs the line between military police and is tin-pot dictatorship stuff.

Sigma Nerd 🌹₊˚🪻 @sigmanerd.bsky.social · 3d

Great clap-back, but also, wear a helmet.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 4d

It’s pronounced cyclist.

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Sigma Nerd 🌹₊˚🪻 @sigmanerd.bsky.social · 3d

Oh, but the people cannot have one day off for election day.

Sigma Nerd 🌹₊˚🪻 @sigmanerd.bsky.social · 3d

Hey Jake Tapper, why is the media ignoring Trump's cognitive decline?

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Joe Patrice @joepatrice.bsky.social · 3d

Amazing

Tweet: @vexwerewolf
Right-wingers literally straight-up admitting "it's harder to discredit the left because the left is almost always telling the truth"
Scott Jennings @Lum 21h um, yes, that's really a problem
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The problem with left-leaning media is they're intrinsically more strict with their propaganda to only using verifiable sources so it's really hard to poke holes in their ideology and arguments in comparison to a lot of low quality rightwing content.
That makes attacking their points with fact checkers not very effective unless the fact checkers use misinformation tactics as well.
In essence people on the right have to work harder and more creatively to push their agendas as statistics and studies frustratingly arent usually on our side.

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Sigma Nerd 🌹₊˚🪻 @sigmanerd.bsky.social · 4d

ICE you're running the Walmart brand of a concentration camp not some high security prison.

Sigma Nerd 🌹₊˚🪻 @sigmanerd.bsky.social · 4d

Also worth pointing out that ICE is detaining random people and among other things, isn't willing to accommodate their spiritual needs. I'm a secular person but I hate how much America dehumanizes those it detains.

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