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samantha @commiesamantha.bsky.social · 12h

gunpowder and large metal cannons rendered stone walls insufficient to hold a city against a besieging army and the process of state formation and centralization rendered feudal levies unable to keep up with increasingly large, well equipped professional armies in the early modern period

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Eliza @creatureprincess.bsky.social · 13h

And modern day South Africa is an effectively completely different political construct than apartheid South Africa, one that does not set up bantustans and pretend they are separate countries.

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Eliza @creatureprincess.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is just centrism that assists US imperialism. No need for the scare quotes.

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Eliza @creatureprincess.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

And then the second half was also correct, if inconvenient to certain preconceptions.

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Eliza @creatureprincess.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The west was hoping to punish the Eastern Bloc for the crime of being communist, that's why economic shock therapy was deployed and multiple coups were backed. Yeltsin shelled parliament while the west cheered him on.

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dr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

in 2017, a trans reporter was fired at @marketplace.org for writing a blog post abt the need for journalists to resist rising fascism, racism and transphobia. @kairyssdal.bsky.social, the host of the show, said nothing & let his colleague's career be murdered. judge his hr tips accordingingly.

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to wound the autumnal kitty @blurry-line.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I firmly believe that we (queer ppl and especially trans ppl) should never talk to the press about intra-community conflicts. I can’t see any way that it can benefit us, and it’s obvious how it can hurt us.

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

There are about 60 lesbian bars left in America and rather than a piece about why that is , we have lol cow bullshit I need people to start understanding that especially as marginalized groups when someone is jazzing up the dram it’s not “tea” it’s a mechanism of exposing your community to abuse

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max graves @maximumgraves.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

as a transgender person i have to admit i hold journalists in a very low level of esteem bc as a class they kind of did all hop on board with manufacturing consent for the project of exterminating the minority group im a part of

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Hey so uhhhhh that Boston Globe story about the lesbian bar relaxing its covid rules is an *absolute fucking hit piece* targeting the disabled, chronically ill, and covid-conscious and it would be great if folks sharing and joking about it could recognize that framing.

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Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

They're also almost always about women and queer people in left-leaning spaces, which says whom we reflexively think of as toxic or annoying. I guarantee some fantasy football league is falling apart over some petty asshole, but he doesn't become a symbol for the annoying left. He can just be Jeff.

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Eliza @creatureprincess.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The kind of trans person most beloved by cis people, the kind that gives them an excuse to dismiss the rest of us as unreasonable and uppity for asking for the bare minimum. She's trans, her script is cis.

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Abra / Jessica Conwell, Carmella Creeper's Gender Doula🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽🌼 @pairofclaws.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

No trans is more beloved by cis liberals than one who tells them it's okay to dislike the rest of us because we're so loud and mean.

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USER WAS BLOCKED FOR THIS POST @blockedforthispost.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

quick someone block me rn I wanna be featured on the "user was blocked for this post" account

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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I think we need to take seriously that ordinary folks aren't meant to have audiences in the tens of thousands or more. This is novel and disruptive in human experiences

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Eliza @creatureprincess.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Those market reforms would have amounted to nothing but perestroika-style collapse had they not taken place under the DOTP that Mao had constructed. You cannot have Deng without Mao.

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Eliza @creatureprincess.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Dent’s reforms weren’t possible without the groundwork laid by Mao though.

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Alex @alex66.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

With conservative American leaders it's always nuance nuance nuance. It's complicated. They had their pros and cons. They had some moral failings. With a foreign communist it's "bad" end of story. Why are you trying to muddy the waters with unnecessary nuance

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the most typical @jazzpomegranate.com · 19/09/2026

some people think the angrier you are with them online, the more far left you are

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Eliza @creatureprincess.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

"Everyone who disagrees with me is a bot."

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Fantastic M. Fox @mrfox.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

People tend to overlook how much ongoing improvements and mistakes in agricultural science led to several disasters which had literally nothing to do with political or economic systems

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Eliza @creatureprincess.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The communists ended 4000 years of famine. This is a lukewarm take in China.

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Eliza @creatureprincess.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Look at the Africa line on that graph and get back to us. Better yet, compare life expectancy in the Soviet Union after it fell. Freedom from neocolonial interests has clear health benefits.

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Eliza @creatureprincess.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

"The economy" would have been better because the Nationalists would have followed through with their plan to sell out the country to western interests for the benefit of the rich. The actual people would be worse off. China would just be another India.

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Rosemyne @rosemyne.xyz · 17/09/2026

literally, all y'all "vote blue in the general cause Dems are better for trans rights than Republicans" need to look at the UK. that's our future if y'all keep spouting off this stupid rhetoric

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Kandy @kandyelmo.northsky.social · 16/09/2026

Being on the internet long enough will teach you just how much racism is in EVERYTHING. EVEN IN THE THINGS YOU CARE ABOUT MOST, AND YOU GOTTA LOCK IN AND STOMP THAT SHIT DOWN!

Tumblr post from ferocioustrout where a drawing of a sapphic fem couple and drawn in two different shades of skin color. One is being seen as "masculine butch4butch Yuri", the other is seen as "girly fem4fem Yuri"

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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 14/09/2026

in 2022 I wrote a movie called Route 0. It was submitted to festivals, bounced around a little while, some people read it. Ultimately rejected? But SOMEONE liked it because it was stolen and turned into a movie

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The Loch Ness Monster @nessiopeia.space · 14/09/2026

Thing is, I know why we’re online. Being trans irl is hard and often devoid of positive reinforcement. But you gotta wonder what sort of lives the cis het neo-libs on here must live. They could go have fun lives free of any worries in any space or job and are instead here fighting with trannies

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Vote Angel 2028🏳️‍⚧️ 👉😎👉 @benotafraid.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

If your political party can't beat a guy whose brain barely functions to the point, he shits himself on live tv and frequently forgets where he is, without sacrificing vulnerable minorities, What do you think that says about your party??

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Claire Zagorski, PhD, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I made this design in 2019, and it’s been ripped off by countless creepy little Temu shops, as well as by Shein. Seeing it in an AI ad is ruining my day, ngl. If you like it, buy one from me - link in bio. I actually give money to queer mutual aid and medical care groups.

A shitty AI ad on Instagram showing my “you are safe with me” design being sold by a company that is not me.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

There’s a bizarre contrarianism in the Democratic Party, where, if an idea catches on with the base it’s treated as presumptively unreasonable forever. Not even an effort to *appear* to be supportive. Politicians used to pander!

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Eliza @creatureprincess.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"Minorities who hold politicians to basic standards are all bots."

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Eliza @creatureprincess.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"influencer" is actually manipulative here. One side is a fascist campaign and the other is people who want a good candidate who will not lead to Keir Starmer style decay. Minorities who disagree with you are not a conspiracy.

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Eliza @creatureprincess.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Leveraging one's vote to improve a platform is basic electoralism. He can gain those votes back by reaching out to his base and being a good candidate. Frothing rage at the concept of basic standards is a failed strategy.

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Eliza @creatureprincess.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

And by your own evidence that awful stuff didn't work and was meaningless cowardice.

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Eliza @creatureprincess.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

He said he would vote for an anti trans healthcare bill under the right circumstances. Cruel, unacceptable and unpragmatic.

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Eliza @creatureprincess.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Talarico and his apologists took the bait on the wedge issue. Imagine if you stopped screaming at trans people and put that energy towards asking for basic standards from Democrats running for election.

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Eliza @creatureprincess.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"Trans people don't sincerely care about transphobia and are just being mean to be mean." Great voter outreach!

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Eliza @creatureprincess.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Do those crazy pills make you omit that this was twelve years ago ?

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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 14/09/2026

The midterms are shaping up to be a referendum on whether trans people should exist, with Republicans saying we shouldn't and Democrats saying maybe Republicans have a point on some of these issues. Good luck, everybody!

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samantha @commiesamantha.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

this is what we're all telling you. a democratic majority that includes talarico and others like him is more dangerous to us. because the 'reasonable' versions of anti-trans bills will get written and passed and you all will go back to brunch and not care. you don't care what happens to us.

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samantha @commiesamantha.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"but talarico's voting record was good..." liberals should read what he actually said. he said that his votes were based on republican overreach in those bills but that he wants to write better ones. he literally is saying that in a democratic majority he will help write new anti-trans bills.

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 14/09/2026

This is what has happened with Labour in the UK. Most people don't believe that Labour could be transphobic - they aren't the Tories or Reform after all - and refuse to see it, and they are the most transphobic government of my life. So much harder to fight against, so much more damage done.

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