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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 2h

Buddy

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 2h

Lmao Vance is not and has never been ready for the big leagues

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 2h

As a heuristic this has an incredible hit rate

CJ Lemire @cjlemire.com · 3h

Which brings us right back to "every MAGA accusation is a confession".

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 2h

The aspiring fascists in the Trump administration are clearly terrified by the idea of mass protests, showing up to a No Kings near you is going to do more for the struggle against fascism than your entire corpus of microblog posts

www.nokings.org

No Kings

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

www.nokings.org

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 2h

Also like, free advice: if a woman is asking about something like “attachment style” that you don’t know about, you can just say “I’m not sure what that is but it sounds interesting, can you tell me more about that?”

One thing people like doing is talking about their interests!

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 2h

My model shows that Monica Belluci, Salma Hayek, and Elizabeth Hurley are the 3 greatest actresses in history*

*Methodology: who did Pubescent Erb have a huge crush on?

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 2h

Essentially every criticism of Schumer’s procedural aggression ends up being “why isn’t he doing as minority leader things McConnell did as majority leader”

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 3h

Like what

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 3h

Giving Schumer a 0 for procedural aggressiveness *while has the government shut down* is a choice

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 3h

Right like “what if the only people you ever spoke to were also speedfreaks with personality disorders, but they’d also gone to Ivy-plus schools many years ago where they half paid attention to humanities classes

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 3h

The imp of the perverse within me wants someone to ask him about V FOR VENDETTA

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Charles Ghoul-ba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 3h

Wrong analogy.

This would be like if the plumber spent a solid year warning you not to hire a *different* plumber because he's a sociopath who would deliberately break open the water main & flood your house, but you chose to do so anyway *and* gave the other plumber an exclusive 4-year contract.

cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 1d

this is your fucking job that you're being paid to do. Imagine asking your plumber to stop your dishwasher from flooding your apartment and he's like "well what exactly do you want me to do?" The specifics are your part dog idk!

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 3h

As a threshold matter: skill issue, I can be superficially charming without mechanical aid

But like what is the plan when you have to actually talk to target in person for any length of time?

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

‘I realised I’d been ChatGPT-ed into bed’: how ‘Chatfishing’ made finding love on dating apps even weirder

Where once people were duped by soft-focus photos and borrowed chat-up lines, now they have to watch out for computer-generated charm. But it’s one thing to use a witty phrase – another thing entirely...

www.theguardian.com

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 3h

Freeman on the land

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 2d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 4h

If I wanted to see artificially large breasts I would simply look at pornography like an adult

Ana Valens | 🔞 | Comms Open @acvalens.net · 2d

Gamers’ brains are so cooked dude. The woman on the right is gorgeous and beautiful. Straight gamer men literally can’t find normal women attractive anymore.

Designed With
Gamers In Mind Designed With
Activists In Mind

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 4h

To be fair that is how cultural production works in their epistemic bubble

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 4h

Why are these people so bad at reading

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Jason Kuznicki @jkuznicki.bsky.social · 5h

Protest this Saturday. Everywhere.

NO KINGS HILO · No Kings

**In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** Our peaceful movement is only getting bigger and stronger. “NO KINGS” is more than just a slogan—it’s the foundation our nation was built upon. Bo...

www.mobilize.us

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 5h

The deportation order is based on Vedam’s conviction for murder—a crime he did not actually commit and for which he’s now been wholly exonerated. He entered the US at 9 months old and was a legal permanent resident before his conviction. We are so, so, so far from the light of justice.

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 16h

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 4h

It’s real good!

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 23h

Pope to Chicago Labor Leaders: “Please know of my appreciation for your welcome of immigrants and refugees, especially your support of food pantries and shelters….I encourage you to continue to advocate for society to respect the human dignity of the most vulnerable.” www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 4h

Because Netanyahu wanted Trump to get elected is one thing

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 6h

“Who was president in 2020?” remains one of the most pertinent questions in American politics—absurd, yes, but here we are—and that extends to “who was president January 1 - 19, 2021?”

Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 7h

That’s a nice trick, since Biden wasn’t the president on Jan 6.

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 4h

It seems bad that most of our oligarchs are both dumb and insane

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 6h

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 16h

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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