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benfranklin2018.bsky.social @benfranklin2018.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

I can’t think of a more embarrassing thing for a grown man to say than demanding his mortal enemies just kind of give up

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benfranklin2018.bsky.social @benfranklin2018.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

I don’t know what to do when people can’t figure out what is an increasingly obvious and consistent pattern of collaboration with trump in ending democracy. I just don’t.

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benfranklin2018.bsky.social @benfranklin2018.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

I have not enjoyed being able to see this coming but not figuring out how to stop it 😢

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benfranklin2018.bsky.social @benfranklin2018.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

it’s not a strategy, they’re just rolling over for trump and they say stuff like this to trick people into thinking it’s some sort of plan. I’m genuinely embarrassed for America that there are still people taking them at face value

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Miss Riss @missriss.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

No one person will ever meet this moment.

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benfranklin2018.bsky.social @benfranklin2018.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

there are a lot of guns floating around as is

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benfranklin2018.bsky.social @benfranklin2018.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

I appreciate the offer but be careful over there too!

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benfranklin2018.bsky.social @benfranklin2018.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

If they are going to cut social security checks from old white Republican voters than I’d say they are in total not giving a fuck about anything territory and anything is possible I guess

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benfranklin2018.bsky.social @benfranklin2018.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

One of the only good things that came out of the entire political crisis was the chance to meet even indirectly other people that gave a damn.

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benfranklin2018.bsky.social @benfranklin2018.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

In a few weeks when checks stop going out, pretty much everyone is going to be paying attention and I think pretty angry. I don’t know what happens after that.

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benfranklin2018.bsky.social @benfranklin2018.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

More people are paying attention but not enough. I believe we are getting some sort of intentional economic crash combining destruction of long held govt benefits, spending, with forced contraction in business activity due to uncertainty. They’re cutting social security and also food banks.

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benfranklin2018.bsky.social @benfranklin2018.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

I don’t know if you can go underground these days with all the technology. It’s an interesting hypothetical.

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benfranklin2018.bsky.social @benfranklin2018.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Excerpt from pages 166-73 of They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45 by Milton Mayer (interview with German citizen) who lived through Nazi regime

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benfranklin2018.bsky.social @benfranklin2018.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

This is worse than deer in the headlights. We’re the deer looking into the headlights. They don’t even know there’s a car. They don’t even know they’re a deer.

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benfranklin2018.bsky.social @benfranklin2018.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

You can tell a real life person that we’re at the point where there are multiple CPAC nazi salutes but it doesn’t register as, like, a problem.

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benfranklin2018.bsky.social @benfranklin2018.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

People keep asking why no one is raising the alarm or why no emergency measures are happening or why people in power are letting this happen, but I’ve realized over time that they do not actually want the answer.

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benfranklin2018.bsky.social @benfranklin2018.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

There is still an opening for a good list person, maybe more than one. It’s journalism and people would pay for it.

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benfranklin2018.bsky.social @benfranklin2018.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Received family members social security card replacement- took a week to get. Got dogs microchip info updated. Tomorrow we tackle “what to do if they ban ssri’s” and “rat proof storage containers”

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benfranklin2018.bsky.social @benfranklin2018.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

When you combine this with the Biden DOJ letting trump escape with no consequences, you have to ask whether they actually want to win

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benfranklin2018.bsky.social @benfranklin2018.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

If anyone has any good plans on how to stop the relentless march of dystopia in America and globally that they can immediately operationalize don’t hold back for dramatic effect

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The Onion @theonion.com · 12/02/2025

‘You Can’t Let This Happen,’ Says Fundraising Email From Sitting U.S. Congressperson

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benfranklin2018.bsky.social @benfranklin2018.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

It would take bringing the entire country to a screeching halt to stop this. I think Twitter might be deboosting content of people protesting, it feels kind of hidden.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 09/02/2025

Microsoft's own research confirms something that was already pretty obvious: relying on a text generating machine to come up with answers erodes critical thinking, and is a method favoured by those who never liked doing critical thinking in the first place advait.org/files/lee_20...

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benfranklin2018.bsky.social @benfranklin2018.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Part of his power is his cult following which is disproportionately made up of Tesla investors who might feel differently if it goes under 100

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benfranklin2018.bsky.social @benfranklin2018.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Very few things could weaken musk but Tesla failing as a brand would be one.

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benfranklin2018.bsky.social @benfranklin2018.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Tesla is on the downtrend right now, their last earnings showed that the core business is declining and they were only saved by a bullshit accounting trick. You just gotta make it totally toxic to own a Tesla or Tesla stock. Like undateable toxic.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Not to get too intense about everything going on but it is really an ideology of death run by evil skeleton people who drink from a dread altar of blood

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Logan Grendel @focusedoninfinity.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

This is going to sound like shade at first but please hear me out: Liberals understanding the machinations of US government often make them think they are more qualified to discuss politics than we are. But even if that was true at some point, it no longer applies. The old rules have been torched.

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🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 05/02/2025

"it's time we purged the woke CIA" is one of those things that your brain just sort of sputters and stalls out when thinking about it. it's so incomprehensibly fucking stupid in literally every direction you can think about it.

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benfranklin2018.bsky.social @benfranklin2018.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Yes people are talking about getting that too, I’m gonna try and pull it tomorrow, but the card is critical in case the whole thing breaks.

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benfranklin2018.bsky.social @benfranklin2018.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

This time they came not to conquer but to destroy.

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benfranklin2018.bsky.social @benfranklin2018.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

The fact that the Elon commandos went straight for the federal payment systems tells me that they intend to short circuit the whole thing to modify, destroy or control it outside of extralegal channels. Maybe dramatically. Maybe they’re just integrating bitcoin.

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benfranklin2018.bsky.social @benfranklin2018.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Get your social security card if you don’t have it.

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benfranklin2018.bsky.social @benfranklin2018.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

January was personally the roughest month I’ve had in awhile there was a major catastrophe like a flood or an emergency repair or a car crisis every 2-4 days for about three weeks straight but the bad luck tapered off right as we entered full collapse

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benfranklin2018.bsky.social @benfranklin2018.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

It’s more likely that an organized resistance to Trump will come from the right as opposed to dems or leftists, believe it or not.

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benfranklin2018.bsky.social @benfranklin2018.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

A significant number of the MAGA people have realized that not only is Trump not their friend, he is the antithesis of what they wanted. This is good.

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Miss Riss @missriss.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

I'd say that for at least the last decade, if not longer, that this is all it has been. The marketing is innovation for the consumer the actual output has been anti-regulation, anti-labor, anti-environment, anti-progress, designed as addictive, damaging profit sucking money laundering schemes

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benfranklin2018.bsky.social @benfranklin2018.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Name me one time in the last 8 years that a single report has done anything material. That changed the trajectory we were on.

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benfranklin2018.bsky.social @benfranklin2018.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Trump does not give a shit about the report because it’s totally meaningless. The only people who care about the report are democratic partisans who have assigned it an outsize importance for no apparent reason.

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benfranklin2018.bsky.social @benfranklin2018.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

I know it may feel like Trump walked back into the Oval Office without a fight, but it’s important to understand that Biden outsmarted Trump

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benfranklin2018.bsky.social @benfranklin2018.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

You’re told you need to vote for the democrats because they’re the only ones who can stop the republicans. turns out they can’t stop the republicans.

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benfranklin2018.bsky.social @benfranklin2018.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

What never happens? A fair and free election? Phrasing

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benfranklin2018.bsky.social @benfranklin2018.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Trump is 100% going to swallow Canada and Greenland - that’s prime real estate for climate collapse. Arable land, shipping lane access. Very valuable.

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