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Vaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 6h

This is so stupid

Yes, they are going to try to rig the elections, everyone knows this

They will only be successful if you let them

Rigging elections was what got the dictators of Ukraine and Serbia (to start) overthrown

Have some self-respect and stop preemptively ceding your God-given rights

JonBowzerBauman.bsky.social @jonbowzerbauman.bsky.social · 1d

I am reluctantly coming to the conclusion that The Dictator and his pals will stop at nothing to rig the 2026 elections, including declaring martial law & seizing voting machines for phony “recounts.”

We had best start looking at tactics that deal successfully with autocracies.

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Fynn Bytez @fynnbytez.bsky.social · 5h

Mamdani is one of the most successful coalition builders right now and has actively engaged basically every part of the big tent and people are STILL acting like he's a weird outcast who can't win.

He's literally the best of us, he can win!

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sasha @silverknyaz.bsky.social · 1h

i am, it seems like maybe you aren't

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sasha @silverknyaz.bsky.social · 1h

he did with the LA ICE/NG stuff and it made him worse. also the gerrymandering.

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sasha @silverknyaz.bsky.social · 1h

some of it, but Whitmer made a lot of really stupid and unforced errors super early in the Trump presidency and - more importantly - hasn't quite tried to correct them

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 2h

I might draw the slightest of distinctions between these guys and every Republican *voter* but if republican party politics is your life and/or career this is invariably true. what I call 'professional' Republicans.

Eagle Beaver Man @eaglebeaverman.bsky.social · 14h

Every Republican under 30 is a Nazi. Every single one. No exceptions. No, not even that guy who you think is your friend. He’s being nice to you in person but talks about how you shouldn’t have rights in his discord chat.

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sasha @silverknyaz.bsky.social · 2h

you do not understand the position you are trying to argue against

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Indivisible Charleston Chapter @chsindivisible.bsky.social · 1d

See you Saturday in Columbia! #nokings #indivisible

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Vaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 2h

The Global War on Terror where Bush and Co. were in command on 9/11 was a nightmare of cruelty and racist despotism

The Global War on Terror where Trump and Co. are in command on 9/11 features Treblinka-on-the-Tigris, if not just the nuclear holocaust of everything between Morocco and Pakistan

the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 10h

George W Bush and his party were ravenous war criminals and ardent reactionaries. They were not Nazis. *these guys* are Nazis

the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 10h

again, the problem with rhetorical maximalism (all Republicans since Barry fucking Goldwater were Nazis) is that you end up believing it and saying absolutely unhinged shit thinking it's normal

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 11h

recurring gripe of mine: stop talking about these people like they’re fucking supervillains, Palmer Luckey is grifter bullshit artist who is going to steal a lot of public money in exchange for buggy vaporware, he’s not Lex Luthor. they get off when breathlessl hyperventilating about them like this.

Kate Ross @kateross.bsky.social · Sep 6

The Merchant of Death, billionaire Palmer Luckey, rebranded the DOD the Department of War.

Peter Thiel/Palantir gave his company, Andruil, a billion dollars in January.

This is Palmer “I love killer robots” Luckey.

Origin story on rename below, as well as him hanging out with the worst people.

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sasha @silverknyaz.bsky.social · 2h

how far we have come since the 2017 Virginia election (that was the first election I paid attention to in earnest)

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sasha @silverknyaz.bsky.social · 2h

ever so slightly reductive but i broadly agree

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sasha @silverknyaz.bsky.social · 2h

i genuinely didn't even know about that one, everything about him makes sense now

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sasha @silverknyaz.bsky.social · 2h

i hate to be pedantic but from 2022 until 2025 Whitmer was a genuinely outstanding governor, 2021 Kathy Hochul sucked moose balls

feels a little reductive to equate those two even if I broadly agree with the take

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sasha @silverknyaz.bsky.social · 2h

it's "Bad takes on Ukraine (plus Hungary and Georgia as a bonus)" so i guess it was one of those?

none of which changes the fact that the take in the quote was so astonishingly wrong that it hurt my brain to read

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sasha @silverknyaz.bsky.social · 2h

Mayes, Kinzinger, Sarah Longwell

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 3h

can people please stop arguing with a me that doesn't exist

the point is not that those elements did or dud not exist, it is that they were kept in their place and they didn't run the joint and then entirely subsume it bsky.app/profile/elja...

Confessions of a Masc4masc @eljajlorbs.bsky.social · 3h

wouldnt the fact that buchanan served in previous Republican administration and got 25% in primaries indicate that historical origins go much deeper?

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sasha @silverknyaz.bsky.social · 2h

(this person is also on the Bad Ukraine Takes list)

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sasha @silverknyaz.bsky.social · 2h

...... sometimes this website kills my brain and i can actively feel it happening.

how are people this stupid?

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sasha @silverknyaz.bsky.social · 3h

Nancy D'Alessandro Pelosi? a Republican sympathizer? I think she'd rather die than be referred to as such

(people do NOT understand this woman at all)

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sasha @silverknyaz.bsky.social · 3h

@ctxplz.bsky.social

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sasha @silverknyaz.bsky.social · 3h

didn't treat Obama like shit, at least once he took office

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sasha @silverknyaz.bsky.social · 3h

are you capable of understanding words

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sasha @silverknyaz.bsky.social · 3h

like 80-90% of the time someone has one of these dogshit takes, they're on this list.

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sasha @silverknyaz.bsky.social · 3h

he didn't brag about doing it in public to roaring crowds

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