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Nunsense & Shenunigans @annaleehq.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Good doggy! She skipped Arm Day that morning Sherman is just doing her a solid

Crabman7 @crabman7.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

People only rarely want their minds changed, but research shows they hardly have a say in that. I've seen a lot of people do a 180 on things they "strongly" believed. I am reminded of Eric Hoffer (who I'm paraphrasing) when he said that someone is certain right before right they change their minds.

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Crabman7 @crabman7.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Morale is crucial, which a lot of people always seem to forget. When you're in a siege, the most addressable threat isn't the army in the field, but what that pressure encourages you to do to one another. The purity tests, the backbiting and anger...MAGA doesn't do this to us: we do it to ourselves.

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Crabman7 @crabman7.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

I never start talking about Trump, though. I find that they always start talking about him, or something going wrong in this Administration. I admit that being a straight white male, I have an easier time helping MAGA open up. But even as an open Liberal, they don't tend to see me as a proselytizer.

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Crabman7 @crabman7.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

I lost faith years ago in persuading people with the facts. I think it's more effective to help them realize their own inconsistencies by letting them talk, and forcing them to recognize they hadn't thought things through that well, which usually turns their anger inward instead of against me.

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Crabman7 @crabman7.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Not at all :) Have you ever looked into "Deep Canvassing"? I've been using some of its concepts and principles in discussions and it's amazing how many people open up to you regarding their doubts about Trump.

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Crabman7 @crabman7.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

I don't expect that many will ever come to reason, but it's enough to show them a path away from error. This won't end with MAGA. These mentalities are with us for the long haul, but how we address them may prevent the rot from setting in. Vigilance is the price we pay to live in a healthy society.

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Crabman7 @crabman7.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

I wish more people did this. Thank you. MAGA is a movement, and movements can lose momentum, fizzle out or even do a 180. Trump's panicked reactions the Epstein files, his failure to bring down prices, and the wars he seems to try to daily start are genuinely beginning to dissolution MAGA.

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Crabman7 @crabman7.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

I grew up with, work with, and am surrounded by the very type of men who join things like ICE. From over 40 years of experience, mockery WORKS on them, as it does any man with a fragile masculinity. They respect "strength" and competence, with the denial of either rapidly demoralizing them.

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Crabman7 @crabman7.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

If we DON'T laugh at them, we very quickly get depressed, which doesn't help anyone. Morale is always crucial, and it just so happens that mocking them ALSO puts them on the defense. You have to get out of a "we're doomed" mindset or you will be. Dictators want you hopeless and depressed. I don't.

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Crabman7 @crabman7.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

You're under the impression that ALL we're doing is making jokes. It's PART of what we're. We protest, vote, refuse to aid ICE and related goons, expose them where we can and never stop going after Trump and putting him on the defense. Trump overreacts to mockery because it works against him.

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Crabman7 @crabman7.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Another danger of highlighting a particular person is that we shift more spotlight onto them, which destroys their privacy and causes the perpetrators to double their attacks on them. The man thankfully escaped. He deserves privacy. So let's focus instead on attacking those who tried to catch him.

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Crabman7 @crabman7.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

We have to be willing to do what many think impossible. We have to actually talk to MAGA. Right now, they're confused, scared, embarrassed and yes, at times racist and sexist. But isolating ourselves from them allows others the monopoly on defining us, which is no way to save our Democracy.

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Crabman7 @crabman7.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

The feeling of jubilation upon Trump's re-election I saw all around me (I live in Trump Country) is virtually absent. Nobody talks about him anymore. When he comes up in conversation, it's awkward, and I've had many people confide such to me in private, knowing that I'm a blue dot on a sea of red.

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Crabman7 @crabman7.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

There's a reason Trump went after Kimmel and Colbert. Comedy and mockery bypass feelings of despair and powerlessness that would otherwise easily wash a people seeing Democratic backsliding. Trump lost to Kimmel not because our institutions held, but because WE held and never stopped mocking them.

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Crabman7 @crabman7.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

When we fall into despair, we become desperate, and desperation is fertile grounds for doing something very stupid which will be seen as "justification" for a crackdown. Because, while necessity may be the mother of invention, desperation gives us tunnel vision and makes impossible any solidarity.

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Crabman7 @crabman7.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Letting Trump control the narrative by simply highlighting injustice doesn't work on MAGA because they don't consider this injustice. What DOES work on MAGA is making Trump look pathetic, weak and incompetent. I'm surrounded by MAGA and most of them have expressed regret and embarrassment about him.

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Crabman7 @crabman7.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Making ICE membership both embarrassing and socially toxic is a better path than falling into the despairing narrative of "ALWAYS BE AFRAID". Trump is a uniquely thin-skinned President who depends on the illusion of strength his followers crave. We won't defeat MAGA by always being on the defense.

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Crabman7 @crabman7.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

...Where they just standing around waiting for someone who wasn't white so they could arrest them?

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Crabman7 @crabman7.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

It's the spider's shed now.

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Nick @therealnick.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Tyler Robinson

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

This is the guy who is supposed to be in charge.

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Cait Brennan @caitbrennan.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Literally the second meme I've made in my life.

The tired old "Anakin and Padme" meme:

Anakin: I did it! I went back in time and saved us from RFK!"
Padme: RFK *junior*, right?...

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Crabman7 @crabman7.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

My favorite part of Spartan history is when the Romans arrived to see a couple middle-aged and out of shape Spartans doing drills in front of a presumably groaning audience, like Al Bundy talking yet again about his high school football days.

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Crabman7 @crabman7.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Chuck Schumer will swoop in last minute and make sure it's funded, then promptly send out emails begging for donations.

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Crabman7 @crabman7.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

They ALSO screwed over women, LGBTQ, immigrants, religious minorities and the entire working class. Even if we assume both candidates were equally bad for Palestine (they aren't, Trump is clearly FAR worse), they couldn't even be bothered to reduce harm for anybody else.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature

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Crabman7 @crabman7.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

This is also an extension of Trump hating the troops. First they kneel before Putin to roll out the red carpet, now they pick up trash.

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Crabman7 @crabman7.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Breaking News: Stephen Miller spotted attempting to drag a deer into Mar-a-Lago

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Crabman7 @crabman7.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

"In a bold and controversial move, Trump has ordered the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool be filed with wine."

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Crabman7 @crabman7.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Maybe they should give him a "Participation Trophy" VERY publicly. I'm sure that'll make him less mad, right?

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Crabman7 @crabman7.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

It would be tough, no doubt, but California is ideally placed for importing foreign goods. Despite high crop production, rural counties in California are by far the poorest in the state, and would become even more so in the event of the secession of "Blue" California.

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Crabman7 @crabman7.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Nearly all significant farming is industrial, relying on industrial products and chemicals that aren't readily manufactured in rural areas. "Red" California would rapidly face massive shortages that would cripple their production, while "Blue" California could still import goods and products.

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Crabman7 @crabman7.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Norway should make a huge show of giving him a participation medal. They should really lay it on thick, too. Just utterly patronize him in front of the whole world.

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𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥🎃𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ💀𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥 @thoc.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Well humanity, it's been ̶a̶ ̶g̶o̶o̶d̶ ̶r̶u̶n̶ ̶a̶ ̶f̶u̶n̶ ̶t̶i̶m̶e̶ ̶a̶ ̶l̶e̶a̶r̶n̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶e̶x̶p̶e̶r̶i̶e̶n̶c̶e̶ ̶w̶o̶r̶t̶h̶w̶h̶i̶l̶e̶ ̶a̶l̶r̶i̶g̶h̶t̶ long deserved.

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Crabman7 @crabman7.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Will a strongly worded letter and filling your inbox with pleas for donating to the DNC suffice?

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Crabman7 @crabman7.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

And which of those two parties is building concentration camps in the swamps and persecuting trans people? Sorry, but for domestic policy, one of those parties sucks SIGNIFICANTLY LESS. You don't have any right to bitch about your loss of rights when you didn't even do the bare minimum to stop it.

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Avery @averyofbirds.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

It happened again

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Crabman7 @crabman7.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

You didn't answer my question. How did staying home on election day do anything for anyone other than your sense of self-righteousness? Our country is now significantly worse because Trump won. Tell me how a broken, corrupt, increasingly Xenophobic and isolationist country is any use to Palestine.

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Crabman7 @crabman7.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Exactly. The danger isn't that someone acquainted with AI will be misled so much as that someone who doesn't know its dangers could be. If you depend on people knowing better, you'll usually be disappointed.

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Crabman7 @crabman7.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Oh, I see. I looked at your profile and your entire thing is being as asshole for no reason. I can ignore you now. I hope you get the help you need for that.

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Crabman7 @crabman7.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

It's still returning 3 for me

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Crabman7 @crabman7.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

So they'll just ignore it, right?

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Crabman7 @crabman7.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

How many episodes can one podcast have on the theme "obey your husband and father"?

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Crabman7 @crabman7.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Good rebuttal. You truly showed me. Now that you got that out of your system, a question: if you're even allowed to vote in 2028, will you sit that one out too because there isn't a perfect choice?

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Crabman7 @crabman7.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Who do you think Netanyahu preferred? Trump or Harris?

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Crabman7 @crabman7.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

No, but you clearly don't care about trans rights, healthcare, unions, immigrants or human rights in general (unless they're Palestinian, it seems), because the only possible chance Gaza had is that we got a Democrat and pressed then HARD to stop supporting Israel. How did you make things better?

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Crabman7 @crabman7.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

So you stayed home and we a got Trump, right? Good job. You really showed her. Pat yourself of the back, you moral, ethical bastion of wisdom, you.

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