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Dashing Downward

@dashingdownward.bsky.social
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Actor. Artist. Historist. Armchairian.🇺🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️ He/Him. No DMs unless we know one another in meat space.

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Dashing Downward @dashingdownward.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
I haven’t been here for a while. I thought I’d check in.
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Dashing Downward @dashingdownward.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Without oil there is no reason for any Western powers to be involved in the region.
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Dashing Downward @dashingdownward.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
What if they held a war and nobody came?
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Dashing Downward @dashingdownward.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
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Dashing Downward @dashingdownward.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
So. How’s your end of the world going?
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Dashing Downward @dashingdownward.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
I’m having tortellini for dinner.
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Dashing Downward @dashingdownward.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Didn’t she get shitcanned?
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Dashing Downward @dashingdownward.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
He’s no worse than any of the other tech bros. If you use a computer at all you’re feeding that collective beast.
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Dashing Downward @dashingdownward.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
This is verifiably false. I think he’s confusing respect with “terrified because they think he’s dangerously irrational and erratic.”
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Dashing Downward @dashingdownward.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Crowd control isn’t their job
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Dashing Downward @dashingdownward.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
And nobody found it necessary to shoot the attacker.
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Dashing Downward @dashingdownward.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
“Simple yes or no - are you here right now?”
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Dashing Downward @dashingdownward.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
It’s a good start.
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Dashing Downward @dashingdownward.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Stalin looked better after he’d been lying in state for a while.
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Dashing Downward @dashingdownward.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Don’t worry, DJT has just *checks notes* loosened-up nuclear safety standards.
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Dashing Downward @dashingdownward.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
“They’re not here to hurt me.”
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Dashing Downward @dashingdownward.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
I hope I may be forgiven for wanting independent verification of their word.
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Dashing Downward @dashingdownward.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
I’m conflicted. It’s shameful that it took the cold-blooded murders of a couple of white folks to wake some people up. But if that’s what it takes…
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Dashing Downward @dashingdownward.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
I think they were handing out donuts and coffee to demonstrators yesterday.
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Dashing Downward @dashingdownward.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
I can’t find a lot. Sounds like crowd control. Working with police instead of feds. www.minneapolismn.gov/news/2026/ja...
minneapolismn.gov
City requests MN National Guard to help with staffing after 3rd shooting by federal agents
At the recommendation of the Minneapolis Police Chief and out of an abundance of caution, Mayor Jacob Frey formally made a request to Minnesota Governor Tim Walz for the Minnesota National Guard.
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Dashing Downward @dashingdownward.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
He activated the guard a couple of days ago.
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Dashing Downward @dashingdownward.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
I wouldn’t know. I don’t pay attention to them. I block them when I run across them.
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Dashing Downward @dashingdownward.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
I hope Green Day doesn’t play it safe.
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Dashing Downward @dashingdownward.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
media.tenor.com
a man in a suit and tie is sitting at a table looking at the camera .
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is sitting at a table looking at the camera .
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Dashing Downward @dashingdownward.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
The Bay Area would not be kind to him.
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Dashing Downward @dashingdownward.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
That’s easy. I’m unemployed and broke.
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Dashing Downward @dashingdownward.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
All Musk does is buy other people’s work and hype it.
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Dashing Downward @dashingdownward.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
It discourages people. It generates a general atmosphere of danger and fear.
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Dashing Downward @dashingdownward.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
The “I did it so you can too” people bug the shit out of me. If I could have done it I would have.
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Dashing Downward @dashingdownward.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
media.tenor.com
a wooden beam with a sign that says ' a ' on it
ALT: a wooden beam with a sign that says ' a ' on it
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Dashing Downward @dashingdownward.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
I think about this way too much these days. I feel like I’m stuck in a mashup of “The Wall” and “Idiocracy”. youtu.be/196h-nUrNB4?...
youtu.be
Pink Floyd - In The Flesh / Run Like Hell / Waiting For The Worms
YouTube video by HQWulf
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Dashing Downward @dashingdownward.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
I ofern cite the Trump Doctrine: “So sue me!”
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Dashing Downward @dashingdownward.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Education is key to eradicating it.
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Dashing Downward @dashingdownward.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
It’s amazing what a bomb threat will accomplish.
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Dashing Downward @dashingdownward.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
That’s a lie, Ka$h
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Dashing Downward @dashingdownward.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
He’ll try to cancel the elections and buy time by legal escalation all the way to SCOTUS.
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Dashing Downward @dashingdownward.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
I’m so tired of the nation becoming everything I was raised to oppose.
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Dashing Downward @dashingdownward.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
They’re the “but what was she wearing?” crowd.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 22/01/2026
Democrats Condemn ICE For Murdering Without Proper Warrants theonion.com/democrats-condemn-ice-…
Democrats Condemn ICE For Murdering Without Proper Warrants
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Dashing Downward @dashingdownward.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
“We licked it!”
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Dashing Downward @dashingdownward.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
*sigh* I blew it on TwitX again.
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Dashing Downward @dashingdownward.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
We are pretty officially under a fascist regime. It checks every one of the 14 boxes.
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Dashing Downward @dashingdownward.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
The Donroe Doctrine: “Legal Schmegal”
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Dashing Downward @dashingdownward.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
He doesn’t want to hurt anybody. Except maybe the 80-100 people he murdered in the Venezuela mission or the fishermen he’s been bombing or the people he’s doomed to death and disease due to defunding USAID, or the Gazans, or the people ICE is murdering…
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Dashing Downward @dashingdownward.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Let’s give him the same due process he gave her.
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Dashing Downward @dashingdownward.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Don’t pretend he’ll be suffering any legal consequences from the Feds. I’d get a small bit of satisfaction seeing him taken into custody at very least.
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Dashing Downward @dashingdownward.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Demoralized.
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Dashing Downward @dashingdownward.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Come to my door. I dare them.
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Dashing Downward @dashingdownward.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Get out.
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Dashing Downward @dashingdownward.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
I seriously want to live someplace governed by sane people.
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