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Sir Gobbersworth @sirgobbersworth.bsky.social · 5h

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 6h

Hey news people: I know you like to pretend this doesn't exist, but you need to pay attention to the Nazi drama on Twitter. Basically, it seems as if Elon just restored two major neo-Nazi accounts that were banned by his product head, and might be about to fire the product head for banning them

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Sir Gobbersworth @sirgobbersworth.bsky.social · 6h

Okay, so you're going with "the weird responses will continue until morale improves" then. I'm gonna mute you, shout into the void.

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Sir Gobbersworth @sirgobbersworth.bsky.social · 6h

Again, weird response to my point.

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Sir Gobbersworth @sirgobbersworth.bsky.social · 6h

Again, this is a bizarre response to what I said.

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Sir Gobbersworth @sirgobbersworth.bsky.social · 6h

I do find "she could be the best candidate to win right now and *right now* is what matters, not if she's brain dead halfway through her term" potentially convincing!

But so far I find it less convincing than my general objection to folks running at that age.

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Sir Gobbersworth @sirgobbersworth.bsky.social · 6h

"Oh wow so you don't like fair elections" is a weird response to "I have problems with someone running at that age."

I'm ambivalent on Planter personally. She is allowed to run, as are others. I just don't think somebody *should* at 77 years old, end of.

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Sir Gobbersworth @sirgobbersworth.bsky.social · 6h

And their definition of valuable would also differ from ours in ways that might not always make a ton of sense to us.

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Sir Gobbersworth @sirgobbersworth.bsky.social · 6h

Yeah, my understanding is that the Mongols policy boiled down to "whatever the Mongols think is best for them." So they might leave your local traditions alone and often did. But whenever it was valuable they'd repress groups or pit them against each other.

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Sir Gobbersworth @sirgobbersworth.bsky.social · 1d

* My own
* My parents
* My brother
* My ex-spouse
* At least two pizza places
* A now closed hookah bar
* My old home landline
* Two former friends I kinda hate now
* A local comic store that is long closed
* My current pharmacy for some reason

It's such a weird list.

Sir Gobbersworth @sirgobbersworth.bsky.social · 1d

...huh

Sir Gobbersworth @sirgobbersworth.bsky.social · 1d

(I'm ranting about the dead enders, not you, to be clear)

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Sir Gobbersworth @sirgobbersworth.bsky.social · 1d

Of all the subjects to defend Biden on, his conduct with Israel is the most fucking baffling.

He's either an idiot, evil, or an evil idiot. Sorry dawg, no other choices and most of your "actually he did his best" arguments are secretly arguing for options 1 or 3.

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Sir Gobbersworth @sirgobbersworth.bsky.social · 1d

Look, I could respond with "okay make Congress publicly do that then" or any number of other responses but we all are deeply aware that Congress being able to block him is not why Biden didn't do anything.

He didn't do anything because he didn't want to.

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Sir Gobbersworth @sirgobbersworth.bsky.social · 1d

"Biden was just a smol bean uwu" is such a fascinating defense.

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Sir Gobbersworth @sirgobbersworth.bsky.social · 1d

He's shitting on Biden for being even less capable on this than Trump. The implication is that Trump sucks, is incompetent and evil, and Biden still did worse on it.

If I said "imagine getting outplayed by Nathan Peterman" you should not take that as a compliment of Nathan Peterman.

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Sir Gobbersworth @sirgobbersworth.bsky.social · 1d

I'm gonna be real, not sure how you read that as in any way a compliment of Trump instead of a condemnation of Biden.

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Sir Gobbersworth @sirgobbersworth.bsky.social · 1d

The man is an ideologue on this and his loyalty to that blinded whatever political instincts he still had left.

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Sir Gobbersworth @sirgobbersworth.bsky.social · 1d

Entirely separate to his own interests too!

I'm so baffled by this rush to defend him. "He did all that he could" is clearly, demonstrably not true and it has *never* been true about Biden and restraining Israel.

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Sir Gobbersworth @sirgobbersworth.bsky.social · 1d

I don't think JD is nearly insane or weird enough to be Ro Khanna, honestly.

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Sir Gobbersworth @sirgobbersworth.bsky.social · 1d

It'd almost make more sense to argue he just hates Palestinians as a defense than this because at least then he's doing it on principle, not because he's more gullible than Charlie fuckin Brown.

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Sir Gobbersworth @sirgobbersworth.bsky.social · 1d

Right! Like he got a front row seat to Bibi's shit in the Obama administration! Getting sold a fucking bridge by that asshole while everyone on earth tries to take his checkbook to stop him is goddamned pathetic!

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 1d

fact it didn’t fucking work. It didn’t work electorally, it didnt work geopolitically, it didn’t work for tens of thousands of dead palestinians

how did joe biden spend the lame duck? great question, calling on world leaders to continue supporting israel after the likud coalition helped elect trump

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Sir Gobbersworth @sirgobbersworth.bsky.social · 1d

Folks were calling exactly what Israel was doing in like February or some shit, it wasn't subtle at all.

"Our president wore the dunce cap" is technically better than "was rabid for apartheid" but not in a way that fucking matters.

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Sir Gobbersworth @sirgobbersworth.bsky.social · 1d

The amount of people arguing that Bibi screwing him over is an *exoneration* of Biden rather than a gross failure on his part is just wild. We all figured out what Bibi was doing like a year out and we barely saw half the shit they were pulling behind closed doors.

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