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Ankle Megami Tensei @stochasticooze.bsky.social · 32m

Okay, I'll bite: what meaningful distinctions are there? Because from where I'm sitting, the party of Gitmo and rendition is just slightly more circumspect in their vileness than the party of CECOT and deportation.

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Ankle Megami Tensei @stochasticooze.bsky.social · 39m

I mean they're not "open" Nazis here either. This is a leak from a closed group chat.

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Ankle Megami Tensei @stochasticooze.bsky.social · 2h

Isn't that shit mostly fiction anyhow

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Ankle Megami Tensei @stochasticooze.bsky.social · 2h

It's been a while since I had an excuse to use this

Meme from Yu-Gi-Oh. A brown-haired boy plays a card that reads, "If Netanyahu is a war criminal so is Obama!". A blond-haired boy then plays a card that simply says, "OK." The brown-haired boy recoils in shock as he is apparently assaulted by yellow laser beams or something. I should probably point out that I've never seen, read or played Yu-Gi-Oh.

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Ankle Megami Tensei @stochasticooze.bsky.social · 2h

Oh, okay. Honestly that doesn't surprise me that much. It's just like how Konami doesn't see fit to rerelease the original Silent Hill games (though I've heard that also has to do with them losing the gold masters for those games).

Ankle Megami Tensei @stochasticooze.bsky.social · 3h

But if some 19-year-old Columbia student with blue hair screams "FUCK ISRAEL" he's right there for that

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Ankle Megami Tensei @stochasticooze.bsky.social · 3h

Sorry, what "Resident Evil GOG stuff"? Are they going to delist RE1 thru 3 from there?

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Ankle Megami Tensei @stochasticooze.bsky.social · 4h

I was never in any group chats :(

In fact there was never an option for it for me. Maybe because I always used the website instead of the app?

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Ankle Megami Tensei @stochasticooze.bsky.social · 4h

i mean those libs are technically "antifa", at least they think of themselves as anti-fascist

they keep harping on the "No Kings" thing in such a way that makes it sound like they think we should have a king

and I'm sure a lot of them do but you'd think they wouldn't say it out loud

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Ankle Megami Tensei @stochasticooze.bsky.social · 5h

whoda thunkit

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Ankle Megami Tensei @stochasticooze.bsky.social · 5h

The only thing that's changed is that Trump and his cadre has given these folks the confidence to say the quiet part loud

Ankle Megami Tensei @stochasticooze.bsky.social · 5h

I guess the solution is to split the difference and have a cave behind the waterfall that has like a nickel in it

Especially if your game does not use American currency

Ankle Megami Tensei @stochasticooze.bsky.social · 5h

Gift him a copy of Bad Rats

Ankle Megami Tensei @stochasticooze.bsky.social · 5h

They did the same thing to India Walton when she won the Democratic primary for mayor of Buffalo

Right now they're trying to do the same thing to Graham Platner by running Gov. Mills against him in the Senate race in Maine

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 7h

"The president is illegitimate and should be removed from office" is the minimum pitch for anyone nominally opposing him

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 7h

Trump is upfront in saying he will use the shutdown to punish Democrats, and here are the receipts. About $27.2 billion cut from Dem districts compared to about $0.7 billion in GOP districts.
We all complain about the media, but need this type of in-depth journalism.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Trump Halts Billions in Grants for Democratic Districts During Shutdown (Gift Article)

The Trump administration has frozen or canceled nearly $28 billion primarily located in Democratic-led districts, according to an analysis by The New York Times.

www.nytimes.com

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Ankle Megami Tensei @stochasticooze.bsky.social · 6h

wasn't this almost exactly what the first impeachment was about? him leveraging aid to Ukraine on personal political goals?

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Ankle Megami Tensei @stochasticooze.bsky.social · 6h

If the fuckin Democrats had any balls they would be blasting this sound bite all over the media landscape

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Bessent: "No kings equals no paychecks"

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Ankle Megami Tensei @stochasticooze.bsky.social · 8h

my favorite part of this isn't even the bizarre assertion that water is unhealthy

It's the implication that the human body is a perpetual motion machine

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Ankle Megami Tensei @stochasticooze.bsky.social · 8h

it's going to be difficult to find other nations willing to take in all 336 million people in this country who aren't of Native origin

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Ankle Megami Tensei @stochasticooze.bsky.social · 8h

This might be ignorance on my part but isn't the swearing in just a tradition and not actually required by law

Couldn't she just show up and demand to be seated

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Ankle Megami Tensei @stochasticooze.bsky.social · 8h

Ok but can he spell any of those

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Ankle Megami Tensei @stochasticooze.bsky.social · Jan 11

I'm playing the Master System / Game Gear version of Aladdin

which was completely different from the Genesis and SNES games

anyway here's 8-bit Jafar's pimp walk

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Ankle Megami Tensei @stochasticooze.bsky.social · 1d

Me when another nation responds in kind to my Economically Hostile Act:

This is an Economically Hostile Act. The worst kind, too: The kind against me

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 22h

Hey look, Israel broke the cease-fire, twice, in two different ways, within 24 hours - again.

Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 1d

NEW: Israel informed the UN it will permit only 300 aid trucks into Gaza daily, not the 600 mandated by the ceasefire it just signed.

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Ankle Megami Tensei @stochasticooze.bsky.social · 18h

He's far from the only one who does it but it drives me crazy when a politician waves away a question as a "purity test" or "-litmus test". Yes! We're testing you! We want to know that you actually represent us! If you don't, we'll get someone else!

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