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captainheartless.bsky.social @captainheartless.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I just realized there's a lane here for a toxic, conservative, gay TERF politician to run on "I choose the Bear" as a slogan 😭

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captainheartless.bsky.social @captainheartless.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Natalie is the Yoko Ono of the Bad Boyars, Good Czars of posting

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captainheartless.bsky.social @captainheartless.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Feels almost like Hegseth is using some weird misunderstood reading of Nietzsche's presentation of the Romans in the master vs slave morality discussions. Although that makes "the faith of Jerusalem" a weird fit there (or it would, if I thought he actually read Nietzsche).

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captainheartless.bsky.social @captainheartless.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

1995 is closer to MLK saying "the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice" and the original enactment of the voting rights act than it is to today.

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captainheartless.bsky.social @captainheartless.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

But I do like Olufemi Taiwo's paper on vice signalling for understanding the structure of it: www.olufemiotaiwo.com/uploads/1/0/...

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captainheartless.bsky.social @captainheartless.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Maybe! Honestly I don't know how far back it goes. I feel like this strain at least existed since Reagan but it wasn't always dominant like this.

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captainheartless.bsky.social @captainheartless.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I feel like it's a result of negative polarization making vice signalling (towards an out group's idea of vice) the way to build in group cred and solidarity. They literally define themselves by how their enemies see them now.

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captainheartless.bsky.social @captainheartless.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Right, historically this belief - basically that diversity and integration is strength, although it's never phrased that way - is often the stepping stone to get racists to agree to pluralism (and also that pluralism and diversity is a necessary consequence of empire).

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captainheartless.bsky.social @captainheartless.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I saw someone speculate that they might be bi but refuse to date men generally! Which would probably explain it.

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captainheartless.bsky.social @captainheartless.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

wait "i_love_femboys6969" was just shaggy this whole time????

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captainheartless.bsky.social @captainheartless.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Yeah, men being assaulted by women generally is impossible to discuss. Men will say things like "wish that was me", women will assume it's a lie being made up to attack feminism. I remember when a woman told me I sounded like an incel for complaining about being groped by women at gay clubs.

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captainheartless.bsky.social @captainheartless.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

even better when you find out gruntknocker420 is also a city planning commissioner

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captainheartless.bsky.social @captainheartless.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Did you ever read Olufemi Taiwo's paper on vice signalling? I feel like it analyzes this exact phenomenon. www.olufemiotaiwo.com/uploads/1/0/...

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captainheartless.bsky.social @captainheartless.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Was just thinking about this in Star Wars Zero Company, where a character who beat and abandoned his children says he doesn't want to see them immediately after brutally killing a dozen gangsters outside their home (to protect them). The "right" choice is to pressure him to visit them anyways.

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captainheartless.bsky.social @captainheartless.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

"That is not dead which can eternal lie, Like Tiny Tim, who did NOT die" he's clearly cursed

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captainheartless.bsky.social @captainheartless.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Hey now that nice young man from New York said some good things about this Roosevelt fellow.

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captainheartless.bsky.social @captainheartless.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Sigh. Let's say Marilyn Manson. His more bluesy goth fusion stuff is an interesting niche that deserves a better artist than him.

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captainheartless.bsky.social @captainheartless.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Also the quickest path to constitutional reform through amendments that I can see involves red states overreacting, escalating quickly in unsympathetic ways, and seceding from the union then immediately being crushed. #2 sounds like the starting point for that.

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captainheartless.bsky.social @captainheartless.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

it doesn't address the crisis of people hating pancakes

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captainheartless.bsky.social @captainheartless.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

The year is 2035. Young survivors of the apocalypse set out on a daring journey to find a place only known as "the house" tonight, in the hopes the alchemical stone of legend known as the "Party Rock" is there, to transmute this dark era into a good time.

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captainheartless.bsky.social @captainheartless.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

1987? That's one year before everyone on Bluesky, also known as old people, was born.

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captainheartless.bsky.social @captainheartless.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Gonna start telling people Pyrrhus and Cineas is an essay about the need for that hustle grindset girlboss life. Yas girl, tell Cineas you gotta go chase your infinite set of projects because you're condemned to be free.

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captainheartless.bsky.social @captainheartless.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

so you're telling me the male-oriented books have been turned into mail-oriented books

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captainheartless.bsky.social @captainheartless.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Look, men's themes are existentialism (Crime and Punishment) and queer theory (Dune). This is why the truest men's literature is a combination of both of these themes: The Second Sex, by Simone de Beauvoir.

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captainheartless.bsky.social @captainheartless.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Honestly feels like the right got lost defining themselves as "what the left hates" instead of having their own moral compass. Some kind of resentment > negative polarization > becoming the literal devil pipeline.

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captainheartless.bsky.social @captainheartless.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

It's fascinating that it's a drug which seems to prey on the overly ambitious (doing "more and more and more").

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captainheartless.bsky.social @captainheartless.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

That makes sense, he's got to remove the competition.

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captainheartless.bsky.social @captainheartless.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

More Americans agree Kamala is left of center than they do any other politician except Barack Obama. HMMMM.

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captainheartless.bsky.social @captainheartless.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

But there's also something very funny about critiquing a movie about a man grappling with guilt over violating hospitality norms by also violating norms about how we relate. I admire the consistency.

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captainheartless.bsky.social @captainheartless.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Right, most of the times I experience homophobia today it's based on the idea that a man who doesn't have a woman with him must be dangerous. This turns women into tokens to collect for the sake of proving my worth as a man, which... isn't the feminist win that people think it is.

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captainheartless.bsky.social @captainheartless.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Yeah one of my favorite things is when I manage to give straight guys compliments at clubs without it being read as flirty/gay, which breaks the ice and also helps them get comfortable complimenting each other - and then they often gain the confidence to actually dance, too!

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captainheartless.bsky.social @captainheartless.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Also, the "organized" retail theft thing was because in California the Retail Association couldn't amend theft laws due to prop. 47, but could make a new conspiracy law. Lobbyists shifted their view of the facts to match what they could offer politically. It was a wag the dog moment.

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captainheartless.bsky.social @captainheartless.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

repeatedly not flip the coin an infinite number of times in a finite set of time until the entire world drowns in chicken nuggets and I never have to answer another thought experiment again

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captainheartless.bsky.social @captainheartless.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

looks like the houthis just drew...an inside straight 😎

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captainheartless.bsky.social @captainheartless.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

No no you have to understand, money isn't meant to be exchanged for goods and services. It's meant to be a Social Merit Score that entitles me to goods and services because I am a superior person! I'm not supposed to lose it when I have privileges!!! 🙃🙃🙃

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captainheartless.bsky.social @captainheartless.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Crimes Georg is a victim of dozens of crimes a day and is a statistical outlier that should not have been counted.

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captainheartless.bsky.social @captainheartless.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Look this being Nolan I can only assume it would involve Odysseus interrupting sex to comment on how Nobody sails the wine-dark seas like him.

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captainheartless.bsky.social @captainheartless.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Right, everyone in this article comes off terrible, and incapable of dating outside their class. And it is only noteworthy because the gender roles are reversed from usual - I've basically seen the gender flipped versions of these constantly. Like, what did people think equality meant? Vibes?

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captainheartless.bsky.social @captainheartless.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Every right wing position these days is "can you imagine?? the rule of law???? that's socialism!!!"

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captainheartless.bsky.social @captainheartless.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

I don't know, his version of sex seems like an edge case.

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captainheartless.bsky.social @captainheartless.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Come to think of it, I wonder how much the right wing is also driven by a kind of self hatred and insecurity - the way they desperately want to be seen as cool in the culture wars. Feels like each side envies the other's approval, but pursue it in the exact ways least likely to work.

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captainheartless.bsky.social @captainheartless.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Gonna resurrect Wilhelm Reich thought by proposing all politics is reducible into the choice of whether to Yoon or to goon

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captainheartless.bsky.social @captainheartless.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

did you just call alf's hog a joke? what are you, some kind of alf hog size queen?

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captainheartless.bsky.social @captainheartless.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Actually, that's $15 more dollars than any Persian emperor had. So she's infinitely more decadent than a Persian emperor.

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captainheartless.bsky.social @captainheartless.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Yeah it really does come down to how harmless it is. Every other demonstration of Trump's incompetence has an implicit body count that makes it harder to laugh about.

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captainheartless.bsky.social @captainheartless.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

I'm convinced she's projecting her own shame about her sexuality onto queer people as a way to avoid grappling with it, tbh. So it sort of makes sense there'd be more of this the more conservative the world becomes; gotta have a villain to blame for patriarchy's discontents.

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