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USAID saved millions of lives @asholpost.bsky.social · 19h
and to be clear, i don't think being zionist is abhorrent in itself. i get wanting a jewish state after everything jews have been through. the issue is the harm done to palestinians. you can love the u.s. and still reckon with what was done to native americans. same for israelis.
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USAID saved millions of lives @asholpost.bsky.social · 19h
and apparently 44% of american muslims have a favorable view of hamas. that disgusts me. it still doesn't mean anyone has a right to make random muslims answer for that abhorrent view.
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USAID saved millions of lives @asholpost.bsky.social · 19h
of course being jewish does not mean that someone is zionist, but my point is that when i got asked about islamist groups, the fix wasn't "ask the right muslims." the problem is demanding anyone answer for a state or group just because of who they are
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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Why are we not allowed to judge the character of the voters who want this?
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
the thing to remember about the global far-right is that it is fundamentally a movement of unhappy freaks who scapegoat immigrants for their own inadequacies
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Jack Kessler @jackkessler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
You can support net zero, LGBTQ+ rights and a Palestinian state. But if you attend a synagogue or partake in almost any aspect of communal Jewish life, the Green Party now considers you a racist.
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Jewishness itself is now the offence
The Green Party votes to say “Zionism is racism”
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
so incredibly massively fucking tired of this
Three National guard soldiers walking through a metro station
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USAID saved millions of lives @asholpost.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
i've been asked what my opinions were about <<insert islamist terrorist group>> too many times just because i'm muslim. i feel sick that this is happening to jews. it's bullshit; it's wrong; it doesn't help anyone.
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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
You see a lot of this in philosophy and political theory where these guys are constantly putting up some variant of “has anyone thought about this thing [that St. Augustine was fighting with people about]”
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Fascism Heckler @fascismheckler.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
A lot of these people were always just virtue signaling and are quick to turn against marginalized people when the people didn't do what they wanted. They turned against Black Americans for seeing through Bernie's shit.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
An American who has lived 35 years is very likely to have witnessed their material living standard improve considerably over the course of their life. Yes, there are problems - there are always problems. But what you hear is this all-consuming pessimism, how things are bad and always will be.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
What’s remarkable about this to me is that humans have survived periods in which their societies faced the prospect of imminent annihilation, and even periods in which that sort of collapse actually occurred. But we’re living through a period in which most people’s living standards are rising!
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The way people will just blithely state that the world is collapsing and you're supposed to, like, accept it as this conventional wisdom that all right-thinking people agree with
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
it is instructive to look back and see how much people believed this, for instance, in the mid to late 1970s.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/10/2026
not that you should expect anything more than rank idiocy from this pair of racists, but the idea that whiteness means a "high trust" society of "social cohesion" is some of the stupidest shit i have ever heard. these people live in a fantasy land that you could dispel by simply opening a book.
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Chris Rufo — Known For ‘DEI’ and ‘CRT’ Panics — Tries to Make ‘the Indian Question’ a Thing
To the degree that a “respectable” or “moderate” right exists today in...
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
seeing conservative men debate how to dress online is very funny. can't dress up or wear interesting casualwear bc you've made any visible interest in dress to be a sign of homosexuality. but you feel the need to dress better bc you've linked dress to respectability. a prison of your own making.
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Fascism Heckler @fascismheckler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Just like how COVID broke a lot of people because it made clear that shit can just happen and shut down the world. People clung to Brazil to show that we COULD have won 2024 but it’s Biden’s fault. Lula losing shows that excuse is shit and we have little control over our lives
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
really kinda sucks that, across the globe, we don’t have majorities of voters who think far right authoritarianism is bad If I had to sum it up it seems like 40% of voters are anti authoritarian 40% of voters are pro authoritarian 20% of voters just want cheap burgers
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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
White conservatives will literally entertain ethnic cleansing before making their kid do their homework to be academically competitive.
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Matthew Palmer @so3brocktree.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I'm currently in Kyiv 🇺🇦 Quite different from my first visit. Air raid alerts are constant, and you regularly hear close explosions and anti-aircraft fire throughout the day, even in the centre of the city.
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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I think often about how the golden age of WWII media came in the 1990’s and early 2000’s when the vets started to pass away in larger and larger numbers, now that there are a fewer than 30,000 left, it seems like it has become “why should I care”
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Vaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
In 2004 Annie Jacobsen was on the same flight with 13 Syrian musicians and she started such a massively racist shitfit about how they were certainly terrorists that the air marshals suspected her of being a terrorist and that is the main thing I think people should know about her
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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Curious
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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
In yet another example of "everything the Russians do is mirroring" they spent 5+ years spreading conspiracy theories about Hunter Biden's Ukrainian biolabs because they have their own biolabs that do exactly that
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thinkingbayonet.bsky.social @thinkingbayonet.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
those fancy southern lads very much thought of themselves as Cavaliers in the mold of landed European nobility (extremely derogatory) - what some today refer to as "warriors." they still got their shit rocked by their hard-drinking USMA classmates and a few college professors-turned-soldiers
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
there is no leftist literature as embarrassing as the "anticorruption is bourgeois and you have to understand that the politics of the working class are inherently patrimonial" literature which followed Lavo Jato and PT's total failure to do literally anything to reform.
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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 05/10/2026
For as much as people scoff when Dem politicians say the country needs a sane GOP, they’re right because you can’t just win every election. Thermostatic opinion is a bitch and you’re going to lose sometimes because of it. The insulation against that is losing to a party that won’t drive off a cliff.
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Derrick Rowe @derrickrowe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
As a side note: the conservatives in Japan are so racist and xenophobic they refuse to allow women to become a reigning empress, despite the wishes of the imperial family and a majority of the public, they are going to default Japan into a republic because the imperial family is literally
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Jason S @jasonswritings.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The fact of the matter is that Chuck Schumer did such a good job obstructing their judges that they had to change the rules and write an op-ed in the Wall Street journal. Hakeem Jeffries has basically taken away the gavel in Congress the last year and gotten more discharge petitions in history.
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Henry @henrythedog.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
it is ironic that the Greens had an opening to walk through to replace Labour as the UK's party of the left center, and instead decided to rip itself apart in public while being antisemitic, good job.
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Robinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
major democracies electing far-right populist governments
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I do think this should put some of the hand-wringing over the uniquely sinful American electorate, uniquely feckless institutions, etc in perspective. The truth is that there is a large trans-national constituency of people who actively want this. They aren’t deceived. They want this.
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Michael Paulauski♨️ @mike10010100.com · 05/10/2026
Wait wait wait, you're saying Throw Your Enemies In Prison And Prosecute The Coup Strongly And Bigly doesn't solve fascist politics for all time? Woa. Guess a whole bunch of Discourse over the last....6 years, whew...has been a lot of hot air.
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Michael Paulauski♨️ @mike10010100.com · 05/10/2026
Sorry, I am *very* very *very* annoyed at how confidently I was told that If We Had Just Done This One Simple Trick It Would All Be Fine But Alas Dems Were Too Feckless.
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Vibecession Forever @ghazelleberner.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The people who continue to perpetuate this myth are precisely who laid the groundwork for Trump’s big lie. They should be cut out of Democratic politics like a malignant tumor.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Just saw the weird Trump campaign ad on TV for the first time and I really want to talk to whoever said they should put “Paid for by the U.S. Government” at the bottom. It’s timed so perfectly to evoke revulsion - “My money? For *this*?
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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Every single one of these stories is like this and it pisses me off to no end
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
hard to think of a cartoon that better sums up the mind of a Trump voter than this
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Sven-Erik Volberg @volberg.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
AfD Youth is posting about unification of German people. Belive them, when they say who they are. Not far right, not nazi like but actually exactly like nazis. P.S And yes, they are Putins favorite party in Germany
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Again, <only Republicans> ever get to talk like this. If a single municipal level Democrat ever did, it would be a national outrage &spark a wave of “civility” discourse, & op-eds about how Dems must Respect Real Folkz & talk across difference. Democracy is incompatible with this double standard.
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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Given how terrible and under-utilized California's built environment is in its existing urban centers, there's absolutely no reason we should make it easier to create dump sprawl on undeveloped land dozens of miles from any employment centers.
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Vaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
No, fuck that, martyr yourself by charging ICE’s guns to free those you damned or accept Perdition, you good salt of the earth down and out forgotten working men
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Vaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
You voted for him three fucking times, the most recent after you listened to him pick made-up stories about your city as a favorite slander against your neighbors as savage invaders whom he promised ethnic cleansing against, and you want me to feel sad about you losing your job at the factory?
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Vaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I’m sorry in which town In WHICH FUCKING TOWN No, fuck you all, suffer in silence you absolutely wretched demons
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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Karen Bass used her authority as mayor to hamstring a successful program that built 100% Affordable housing because it was **building too much housing.** She prevented these buildings from going up in single family zoned areas, which is over 75% of residential land in LA. Don't fall for this crap.
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Why Is L.A. Still Letting Single-Family Homeowners Block Solutions to the Housing Crisis?
Some constituencies will always oppose development. Los Angeles policymakers who are serious about solving the dual crises of housing affordability and homelessness have to take a hard look at how muc...
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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The path forward is 3-pronged: 1. Use the power of the state to cripple the GOP as a viable party as much as possible. 2. Develop a culture of severe social opprobrium for Republican electeds as well as voters. 3. Turn a blind eye when ordinary voters lie about who they voted for from 2016-2024.
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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The real damage that social media did to the dumbs was connect them to other dumbs who validate their beliefs. Dumb ideas used to get bounced against random people in some community who would ridicule that person. Now they get called genius by thousands of other dummies.
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Left-NIMBY vacancy trutherism is so funny because their argument implicitly accepts the logic that greater supply of housing lowers prices but then completely refuses to take it to its logical endpoint that we should build more housing.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I propose we adopt the phrase “classic dictator palace” instead of calling it a ballroom from here on out
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Keith @mosheroperandi.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
now this feels like a possible Vibecession Explanatory Variable.
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