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i dreamt a dream, @adistantdream.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

When you're charismatic they let you do it.

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Okay, so I have a plan to get everyone on our side. First, we be absolutely as viscerally unpleasant as possible. Next, we downplay any time we get what we want, say it's the bare minimum and so forth. Finally, if anyone gives up and says we win or apologizes, we belittle them.

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i dreamt a dream, @adistantdream.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This is, I think, an incorrect conclusion. There are a lot of things out there I would be happy to hear about that I would nevertheless not support, because it would be socially corrosive.

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i dreamt a dream, @adistantdream.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

What drives normies into the hands of Republicans most easily is the idea that Democrats are up to awfully stupid shit.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The US already got a do over. A mulligan. A second chance. Much of the world, especially US allies, were ready to write off Trump’s first term as a fluke. The American people’s choice to put him back in power—as a convicted felon, after an openly bigoted, anti-democracy campaign—showed it was not.

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i dreamt a dream, @adistantdream.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"Talarico blew his lead by taking the 80 side of an 80-20 issue" is one of those things that has become folk wisdom on Bluesky despite being incredibly stupid on its face.

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i dreamt a dream, @adistantdream.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I think trans people are capable of doing anything cis people can do, include being worthless wreckers who stump for Republicans along with the rest of the post-left. That's the magic of agency.

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i dreamt a dream, @adistantdream.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

A whole parade of people who have never seriously reasoned through even the most basic problems doing windmill dunks on people who have.

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Military Unintelligence Expert 🇨🇦 @voltageanddoltage.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

There is a huge mass of apathetic voters *loud correct ding* Who can be rallied around an egalitarian/progressive/socialist cause *ear shatteringly loud incorrect buzzer*

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

my position is that Hasan is an obvious piece of shit, defending him is idiotic, and also he is wildly irrelevant to either the Democratic Party or the election.

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i dreamt a dream, @adistantdream.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The thing about influencers is that their only interest is themselves and their own self-aggrandizement. They are all worth less than shit.

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Djinn & Tonic @djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This is a hanging crime

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i dreamt a dream, @adistantdream.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

it's come a long way, but video game romance has always struggled since the dating sim days to capture the complexity of dating as being more than than putting nice coins into the heroine until sex falls out

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i dreamt a dream, @adistantdream.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

They come from a specific human register — argumentative forum poster, rationalist-adjacent, "there's a lot of work being done by" as a phrase — that models absorbed from people writing like you. The causation runs the wrong way for you to have caught it from them. — I took 20d6 psychic damage.

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i dreamt a dream, @adistantdream.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I asked an AI if my Reddit posts sound like AI and I was roasted to death. — Short answer: no, these read as unmistakably human. But I can see why you'd worry, and there are a couple of specific constructions worth naming . . .

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

It seems like a design flaw that we have no realistically plausible means of imposing consequences on the people in our society with the most power to destroy the foundational principles and rules of our society

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

There's an asymmetry here, where Trump et al barely even pretend to be following the law or respecting the Constitution, and openly revel in how much they can destroy and steal, but when it comes time to impose any consequences on them, an innumerable list of objections must be overcome one by one

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Yet another issue where every single person who touched it needs to end up in jail for us to have any semblance of the rule of law. You cannot have a functional democracy where the government creates a plan to literally throw away votes from places that don't support the incumbent party.

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i dreamt a dream, @adistantdream.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

i lost a friendly bet with an acquaintance on the scope of russia's special military operation. i really believed they wouldn't do it on the grounds that it's extremely dumb. an expensive lesson for me. tragically a significantly more expensive lesson for the rest of the world.

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i dreamt a dream, @adistantdream.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

1. This guy is a fascist, and belongs under a jail. 2. You gotta take the Ws where you can find them. As much as it would be great to, we cannot literally eradicate all Republicans from public life. You need to peel some off and promise them amnesty if they'll help you shiv the rest.

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Your Ad Here [10 chars] @cooluser354.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

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Wannabe Apparatchik @apparatchikwannabe.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

in particular it also seems to be a case of “surely the same list of reasons why they weren’t supposed to have invaded ukraine will stop them this time” because even in the age of trump cannot help but assume thT *other countries*, at least, are guided by reason and strategy over ideology and ego

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i dreamt a dream, @adistantdream.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

this was unfortunately immediately relevant a lot sooner than i thought it would be

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i dreamt a dream, @adistantdream.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

they're starting to get into the "we should kill the applebees managers and single-property landlords" territory, which also goes a long way in explaining why everybody throughout history with any stake in the status quo suspects deep down the socialists really just do plan to kill them all.

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i dreamt a dream, @adistantdream.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Idly musing on how Lin-Manuel Miranda has a better theory of politics than basically all of his leftist critics. At the end of the day it's who lives, who dies, who tells the story.

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i dreamt a dream, @adistantdream.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

An unpleasant fact about modern history is that when a government has taken over by right-wing nutjobs, the regime usually only collapses either due to foreign intervention or the strongman dying. It's a stroke of fate that our own orange fascist already has one foot in the grave.

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John Michael McGrath @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

This might be the funnier YouGov poll: Canada's retaliatory tariffs are above water with US adults:

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The correct Democratic position on every issue is “I will undo everything Donald Trump has done, I will destroy everything he has built, and I will impose consequences on him and everyone who helped him do it.” No negotiation. Rip it all down.

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i dreamt a dream, @adistantdream.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Any Democrat willing to fellate the President like this should be treated like Petain was after the war.

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

When Julius Caesar invaded Germania without authorization from the Senate, Cato the Younger proposed having him turned over to the German chieftains in chains as recompense for the violation of law and custom. Apropos of nothing in particular.

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Nied [5'7"] @nied.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

We shouldn't look away from how despicable this is, but honestly the thing that strikes me is how pathetic it is. Hegseth is a man in his 40s overseeing the most powerful military that's ever existed & he's trying to cyberbully some teenagers at 9:00pm on a Monday night. Rank loser shit.

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 01/09/2026

this pisses me off so much. imagine being a literal child in another country and having the US secretary of defense make fun of you for some fucking reason

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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The secretary of defense is bullying two random Canadian teenage girls who are working to better themselves. This is absolutely disgusting.

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i dreamt a dream, @adistantdream.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I'm going to beat a dead horse some more, but - Of all the reasons I hate Platner, probably the pettiest is that because of him I can no longer recommend VBNMW. Instead, I have to tell people "VBNMW unless it means voting for a Nazi or a rapist."

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I don't think it should be controversial to say, "we will not provide financial or military assistance to a country where the Minister of National Security brags about popping people's dreams of 'food' and 'education' then sending them to a prison where they are starved."

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

"it is possible to build supply generation within those communities" my buddy, my friend, my dude, that's what 'industrialization' is and it is not necessarily a quick or easy process.

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River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Btw if you want to know when Democrats lost big tech it's when Joe Biden put Lina "ideologically opposed to big companies" Khan in charge of the FTC.

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Djinn & Tonic @djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

"we didn't object to USAID as such, we had prudential concerns about it" that's not true. you just made that up.

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Calliope @calliope5431.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

This is correct, Khan had the issue of being an extreme nuisance to them while not being able to destroy their businesses, which was disastrous. You can have Iron Triangle Japan-style incestuous management, you can have Park Chung Hee-style arbitrary detentions, Khan was neither of those things.

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mx. emotion @mx-emotion.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

This is the face they show to the world on purpose. Concentration camp imagery, gleeful boasts of suffering inflicted on people who dream of education. A close-up of a crying face because, as always, the cruelty is the point. Israel is an irredeemable fascist state. There is no complexity here.

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

we can learn a lot how Magyar launched “Operation Cleansing Fire” to reform the courts and completely de-orbanize Hungary the funniest things to me though is that 1. this has been an extinction-level event for Fidesz 2. human rights Watch is mad about it for some reason, truly beyond parody

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i dreamt a dream, @adistantdream.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I hope they remember this when the next administration executes them.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 29/08/2026

So sure, USAID was a tool of US soft power and political influence, and also, I sometimes get the sense that people saying this don’t quite comprehend the torrent of death, horror, and pain that is currently unfolding from the genuinely evil decision to suddenly destroy it.

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more mr. nice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

gonna need whoever is doing chuck grassley's social media to familiarize themselves with the house style

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i dreamt a dream, @adistantdream.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Piker >>> Destiny (bar is in hell) but you're delusional if you think American normies hear this and conclude Piker is cool: "Piker is a Maoist who said the US deserved 9/11 and told Ukrainians to Crimea river. AES distanced after he said US Jews they would be attacked if they supported Israel."

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