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🕯️ @candlelocks.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
i changed my mind, trump is the accelerationist candidate
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🕯️ @candlelocks.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
i wish i was a little bit taller, i wish i had a crawler, i wish i was a girl who looked good and was baller. wish i had a rabbit in a hat with a bat and a six four impala.
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🕯️ @candlelocks.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
i'm really starting to relate to the "nothing ever happens" people
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🕯️ @candlelocks.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
genuinely think this can't be understated and it's also why i think the luigi mangione story isn't going to culminate in anything because most of the hype is people getting worked up over the drama.
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Jocelyn Leitzinger @jocelynl.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
It takes a while to read through the whole thread, but I found it incredibly helpful and informative TLDR: If you're getting follows from accounts from Gaza with a GoFundMe, there's a high likelihood they're real accounts with real people in desperate situations, and not scams
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🕯️ @candlelocks.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
they don't want you to know that the failure of governmental institutions comes from capitalism.
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🕯️ @candlelocks.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
we're all trying to find the guy who did this!
cnn headline: "unitedhealth group CEO: america's health system is poorly designed"
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🕯️ @candlelocks.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
bluesky really said "we have 25 million users now so we don't have to give a shit about minority groups"
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🕯️ @candlelocks.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
people saying the support for mangione is an online phenomenon. sure, i'll buy that. but they say you only need 3% of the population revolutionary change to succeed. how much of america do you think is online?
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Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Palestinians don’t need your sympathy or your pity or your symbolic gestures. We need you to cut ties with our killers and colonizers. We need you to boycott, divest from, and sanction Israel. Yes that includes academic institutions, whose commitment to genocide and apartheid is well documented.
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🕯️ @candlelocks.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
NYT: oh but actually it's problematic that you think he's hot 😟
critic's notebook

objectifying the accused

what happens when violent crimes are overshadowed by appearances?
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🕯️ @candlelocks.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
thinking peaceful resistance useless is a fatal mistake. you will need a diverse range of tactics in order to succeed; not every problem can be fixed with a gun.
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🕯️ @candlelocks.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
guys, i understand the impulse, i really do, but editing the time magazine cover to feature biden and harris is so cringe. you just gotta realize like i did in 2014 that time magazine is your enemy and work towards dismantling it forever and imprisoning its executive staff. you know, normal stuff.
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🕯️ @candlelocks.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
congratulations to all the girlies who fall in love with criminals. finally there is someone to love who won't make you a social pariah.
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🕯️ @candlelocks.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
honestly brian thompson is just as much a victim of an unjust society as anyone. if society were just, he'd still be alive, either in prison or, better yet, never even in a position to cause the harm he did in the first place.
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🕯️ @candlelocks.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
saw this tweet on reddit and they're struggling with it, which just goes to show how immature their understanding is. every comment fixates on how much that 5% actually is monetarily, but that doesn't matter because the problem is simply that they turn healthcare into a business.
tweet that says "brian thompson's net worth at death was $43 million. shut the fuck up" in response to a quoted tweet saying "the typical healthcare insurance company is making 3-5% profit margin, barely for-profit companies. they suck because they're pseudo governmental corporations with regulatory capture"
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🕯️ @candlelocks.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
people are like "these bots that argue with people are intended to make people check out of internet communities" but the people the bots are mimicking are the kind of people that are actually pointless to talk to anyway
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Zane Schacht - Voice Goblin @voicesbyzane.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Nothing really makes the mask of capital slip like when politicians talk about the nebulous entity known as "jobs." Like it's so blatantly not about actual wealth but just keeping all of us busy. It's like when dwarf fortress added private property and dwarfs just had to flip useless levers all day
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🕯️ @candlelocks.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
this entire news cycle has incredible "the last capitalist we hang with be the one to sell us the rope" energy
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🕯️ @candlelocks.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
feels like you could write an entire cover of we didn't start the fire just on this past month
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🕯️ @candlelocks.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
i feel like you're gonna see "mark rosario" used as screen names eventually
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🕯️ @candlelocks.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
the reason the left seems "obsessed with purity politics" or being the "right kind of progressive" is because having a weak grasp on political theory leads to poor outcomes. like, we all saw how fourth wave feminism was completely fucking defanged and coopted by corporate interests in the 2010s.
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edeath @edithcharles.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Andrzej Sapkowski:
I know what evil fears. Not your ethics, not sermons, not moral treatises about a worthy life. Evil face pain, impairment, suffering, death, the end! When we did, evil house with pain like a dog! It rolls around on the floor and squirrels, watching the blood spot him it’s veins and arteries, see its bones stick out of stumps, singers guts crew from its belly, sensing that with the cold, death is approaching. Then and only then does evils hair stand on end and evil finally yell: “mercy! I repent of my sins! I’ll be good and decent now, I swear! Just save me, staunch the blood, don’t let me perish ignominiously!”
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🕯️ @candlelocks.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
i guess the lesson of this year is that the wealthy are categorically incapable of course correcting. a lot of people see this as a bad thing, which it arguably is since it leads to strife, but the reality is that it also means a better world is becoming possible. not inevitable!!! but possible.
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🕯️ @candlelocks.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
saw a clip of jen psaki wearing a green suit and wanted to reply something like "jen are your lucky charms safe" but didn't because it felt too maga coded
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🕯️ @candlelocks.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
i'm reminded of criticism that anti-war movies fail because through the nature of the visual medium they still makes it look cool in the end. like the billionaire-owned media is trying to demonize him while still getting clicks and it can't do both. and pop base is of the people but you get it
tweet saying "i have seen more pictures of this man in this jail in the past 24 hours than i have seen of some of my friends in the last couple months" and it's quote tweeting a pop base tweet "new mugshots of luigi mangione" and it's just front facing and profile photos of mangione
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🕯️ @candlelocks.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
they are trying so fucking hard lmao
WSJ opinion article titled "the madness of luigi mangione" with subtext "too many young men marinate in angry corners of the internet" by "the editorial board"
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🕯️ @candlelocks.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
every photo of this guy looks like a fucking renaissance painting
picture of luigi mangione and three police as he is brought to court. mangione is wearing an orange jumpsuit, half face is half towards the camera and his has a snarling expression. two cops are pulling him into a door, one with his hand grabbing the mangione by the scruff of the neck, and the third cop is in the foreground super blurry
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