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Fascism Heckler @fascismheckler.bsky.social · 7h

So I’m seeing people freak out about Brazil and I get it because there was this belief that “if you lock up the person on top, you end the movement” and the Brazil election killed that belief. I think it’s clear that there is no “that was easy” button. We’re in this fight for the rest of our lives

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 6h

yeah, my own no-bullshit answer is, in no small part, “practice being grateful”, but that’s a v hard thing to just broadly paint with (even if it is generally accepted by every religious/meditative tradition on earth, it’s uhhh kinda napalm online, in public)

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 6h

This feels dead on. To raise a bit of a prompt: what do people think is the alternative to present to people who say “my life feels empty”? A. “Don’t look to politics for it” B. “You have no reason to/shouldn’t feel that way” C. “We have a better way to find meaning” D. Don’t care about these votes

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waxmonkey @waxmonkey.bsky.social · 3h

put it in my veins

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Jeremy Diamond ☕️ @dmnd.me · 2h

A lot of people are going to be so fucking ashamed by the end of this that they will not remember supporting Trump. That’s better than the alternatives we have available now.

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suzyq6.bsky.social @suzyq6.bsky.social · 8h

The networks are now owned by trumpers, and the nfl owners are trumpers as well

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Ed @ed3d.net · 5h

one of the only people who I have ever had to ban from my Discord had an extremely normal one about people calling LLMs "my robot"

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Fascism Heckler @fascismheckler.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

It really is a case of "oh these long standing systems that kept the majority in power are being challenged ... welp time to burn it down!" There is a reason why BLM and George Floyd haunt the global far right. It was a case of the world saying "a white man murdered a black man, fuck that"

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Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 7h

Like yes the broad form of this is he sold impunity & cruelty & the promise of wealth, but crucially this involved telling lies of all sorts that voters wanted to hear, including things that obscured those promises, like vowing to protect Medicare or insisting he loved "the gays"

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Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 7h

Turns out it was "lies"

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Bancho ZX @banchozx.bsky.social · 9h

🕯️Channeling the Great @crtpixels.bsky.social 🕯️ Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (1997, Konami) - PS1 Sharp Pixels vs. PS1 Composite via Sony KV-13TR20 Crt magically resculpts pixels into tinier bits enhancing details and depth. Juicy composite color bleed for extra succulence. #ScanlineSunday

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

1. She's president's human binky & controls his social media 2. Foreign govts use her a conduit for Trump 3. She's lied about much of her background 4. She wouldn't or couldn't get security clearance (see 3) 5. She has an obsession w/ Trump giving their relationship a vaguely inappropriate dynamic

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Fascism Heckler @fascismheckler.bsky.social · 4h

This is just the opposite side of the coin of doomerism. They don’t want to admit how chaotic and random it all is

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Pleasebury Doughboy ✨ @plsburydoughboy.bsky.social · 2h

I hate to say it but there's something to the theory that evangelical churches have a role in the rise of fascism around the world The churches themselves are reactionary vs. Catholics, voters who convert also shift in their voting patterns towards self interest

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wordsornumbers.bsky.social @wordsornumbers.bsky.social · 4h

Wait, you mean we have to keep working to make sure fascism doesn’t win instead of just pressing the instant win button that Democrats are mysteriously choosing not to press?

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Star Trek Captain Kirk Gasp

ALT: Star Trek Captain Kirk Gasp

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Isaiah Bishop @isaiahbishop.bsky.social · 7h

FWIW, i dont think things are as bad as people are making out. Lat am, for instance, has had worse issues than this. Europe is looking shaky, but right wing govts there are about to inherit real fucking problems

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Isaiah Bishop @isaiahbishop.bsky.social · 7h

Its a really bad feature that trump caused a global crisis for which americans are the most isolated. This will in fact tank a bunch of lib-friendly govts.

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Fox Chaotica ΘΔ\☉∇ @foxchaotica.bsky.social · 6h

A lot of game devs nowadays be like "oh yea, this AI art is only a placeholder graphic" My arse. If it was a placeholder graphic, you'd have drawn it up in MS-fucking-paint and made it look as shitty as possible so you KNOW to replace it in the final game.

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destroy dionysos @sthelen.bsky.social · 2h

This is what all fandoms are trying to do, including political fandoms like MAGA, KHive, and the Bernie-Mamdani complex.

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 7h

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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herostratus356.bsky.social @herostratus356.bsky.social · 2h

The emergence of "It's not my job to educate you" leftism in the 2010's has been incredibly self-destructive. Avoiding debate might be good for your mental health in the short term. But while you hid in your safe space, your enemies were talking to people, convincing them.

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STEMthebleeding @stemthebleeding.bsky.social · 5h

Right. Seems like we're saying the same thing but from different perspectives. As a nation, the best thing that can happen is Trump just plays golf every day for the next two years. As a party, the worst thing that can happen is Trump gets to play golf every day for two years.

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STEMthebleeding @stemthebleeding.bsky.social · 6h

Yep. Controlling appointments, the calendar, the committee chairs (no more anti transgender poison pills being shoved into funding bills forcing do or die votes) will not reverse the damage that Trump has done, but it will prevent more from being done (easily). But I don't see any veto overrides.

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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 6h

Bingo. Even if they flip the Senate AND scrap the filibuster, Trump can veto anything he wants until noon on 1/20/29. Edit: Yes, they should pass positive policy stuff anyway, I just meant that people need to understand that it's possible NONE of it will actually be implemented due to his veto.

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Mourn the Weenie @m0urn-the-weenie.bsky.social · 4h

What a weird lot you people are. Having built a world where most material needs could be met, and what couldn't could be conceivably met given enough time and money, you lot then proceed to tear it all down... because you were bored? The fuck?

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🎃🦇👻 Sam Miller 👻🦇🎃 @kaisermiller.family · 7h

I feel like it reflects extremely poorly on Brazil, France, the UK, etc. that they can all clearly see what a disaster Trump is and be like "Oh, we should totally do that too!"

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Sam Brunson @smbrnsn.bsky.social · 4h

It’s not. But there are doomers and self-defeaters on here who have convinced themselves that the U.S. can do no good and that nobody other than the U.S. can do bad, so if something bad happens in the world it must be our fault.

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Minilla Jovovich 🍉 read Merynthia's Master ⚔️🪱🐦 @minillajovovich.bsky.social · 2h

2016: some nerds are mad there's women Ghostbusters 2026: 80% of world governments are fascist

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 2h

A limited defense I’ll make of Los Angeles is that many people who think it looks like garbage are only thinking about the external. Inside that forgettable sunbaked stripmall is a restaurant that would be the nicest and most memorable dining experience in 50 miles anywhere else in the world.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 2h

An interesting aesthetic microcosm of this I’ve noticed is that the public exteriors of European cities are beautiful & walkable, while the interiors often feel weirdly cheap & chintzy to me as an American. In the US there’s lots of sprawl that looks like shit externally but is nice inside.

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Mom for Ghoulberty👻 @fakegreekgrill.bsky.social · 4h

The fact that Texas is growing so quickly where states like CA, despite being literal paradise, is not is a huge part of conservative lore. How bad can conservative ugliness really be when people are voting with their feet?

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Art Vandelay @artsvandelay.bsky.social · 4h

Optimistic take: realistically when things like MAGA fail and fade away, a lot of supporters will pretend they were against it, or at least ambivalent, the whole time. This guy minimizing his support for Trump is a harbinger for when a lot of people will claim they never supported him.

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The Alternate Histoween 🎃 @althistorian.bsky.social · 4h

The Atlantic needs to believe this guy is redeemable b/c otherwise they might start feeling guilty about their own role in all of this.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 4h

sure, i guess it’s possible that jack buhring voted for biden on november 3, 2020 and by january 11, 2021 he was posting support for trump’s insurrection contesting the results of the election. but even if that were true, it belies some pretty complicated politics not articulated in the story.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 4h

It’s confusing that @theatlantic.com described this man as a “a lifelong Democrat who had voted for Trump for the first time in 2024” who when these are some of his very easily findable FB posts:

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 4h

A 10K contribution and a $900 million return. The scale of the graft in Homeland Security is a) off the charts and b) possible because no-one believes they will face any accountability

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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 4h

The Abbott ads blaming the democratic nominee for the (very high) Texas property taxes Abbott is responsible for are pretty impressive in a shamelessness way.

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Anna Lind-Guzik @alindguzik.bsky.social · 4h

Hard to think of anything less abstract and more materially consequential than being pregnant

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Jared Cram @jscram3254.bsky.social · 4h

The youths don't understand that some activities are little screen activities and some activities are big screen activities.

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Regime Accountant, CPA ☠️🎢 @regimecpa.bsky.social · 2h

Finding enjoyment or distraction in something other than debating the meaning we are allowed to derive from politics? Well, sounds like it’s time to cancel someone.

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Anonymous Bureaucrat @bureaucratanon.bsky.social · 2h

Far-right parties now often being completely culturally trashy, and having traction with what is stereotyped as lower class habits like gambling has some connection, frankly! And now you comport yourself is actually really important to some kind of civil cohesion, and post COVID that has nosedived

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Anonymous Bureaucrat @bureaucratanon.bsky.social · 2h

One of my hotter takes is that the dominance of bourgeois values and all the attendant tastes, aesthetics, etc., how one navigates the world, was load-bearing for liberal democracies, and social media eliminating that as something aspirational or desirable has been broadly a disaster

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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 4h

Like, you’re simply not going to convince me crustpunk/hippie communist culture is better than corporate culture until you cope with the fact that counterculture 100% expects people to be young, hot, and sexually available and corporate culture expressly disavows this and enforces it

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Art Demon @incubusintraining.bsky.social · 6h

I really think the fact is we've created a world too complicated for the average person to know what's going on and the primary appeal of the fascist is that of simplifying everything to the level of you once more being a toddler who had to worry about nothing.

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Mitch Wolfe @whrwlfthrwlf85v.bsky.social · 2h

And older in some cases. And they all make it so egocentric and reliant on themselves, that unless it's literally a son that they've been grooming for leadership for a while, there is do defined alternative or Plan B if the autocrat dies or gets deposed, especially in still-democratic countries.

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Azhrie Drake @azhrie139.bsky.social · 6h

Who could have predicted handing the media over to oligarch monopolies would have had bad outcomes.

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