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hoipolloiboytoy.bsky.social @hoipolloiboytoy.bsky.social · 3h

If the supposition is- I oppose all American offensive wars and military operations, then I’m on board. But the US not arming smaller nations/not maintaining deterrence would lead to far, far greater death and suffering.

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hoipolloiboytoy.bsky.social @hoipolloiboytoy.bsky.social · 3h

That to me is a pretty difficult position to defend in the abstract. It basically just amounts to a total end to deterrence. In this scenario there are about a dozen European and Asian countries that cease to exist within a year or two.

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 19h

Confiscating the passport of the elected representative of the opposition territory in a raid with a flimsy pretext to attempt to strip them of citizenship is something we have words for when it happens in other countries

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hoipolloiboytoy.bsky.social @hoipolloiboytoy.bsky.social · 7h

The Silence of the Lambs also has most of its truly frightening stuff at the end of the movie.

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hoipolloiboytoy.bsky.social @hoipolloiboytoy.bsky.social · 7h

That movie is also veeery slow for the first hour. House maybe? It’s so corny but then does get pretty scary.

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hoipolloiboytoy.bsky.social @hoipolloiboytoy.bsky.social · 8h

I fundamentally disagree about NATO (especially as a German citizen) but this is a totally reasonable view. That said it is not uncommon for countries under siege to pause elections and the counter factual has gone quite badly often. Britain in 1945 is one such example.

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hoipolloiboytoy.bsky.social @hoipolloiboytoy.bsky.social · 17h

I simply refuse to believe there is some massive demand out there for sane washing Trump and both sidesing everything.

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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 18h

aww it's those nice people we interviewed in the diner

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hoipolloiboytoy.bsky.social @hoipolloiboytoy.bsky.social · 18h

My Balkan friends would definitely point to that operation as legitimate peacekeeping

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hoipolloiboytoy.bsky.social @hoipolloiboytoy.bsky.social · 18h

Genuinely curious do you think Pepfar and USAID were bad?

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hoipolloiboytoy.bsky.social @hoipolloiboytoy.bsky.social · 18h

Ehhh, I don’t think the audience has a sincere preference for sane washing Trump and boosting the GOP

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hoipolloiboytoy.bsky.social @hoipolloiboytoy.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Tangential but I’ve come to view electoral politics as defense and mutual aid as offense.

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hoipolloiboytoy.bsky.social @hoipolloiboytoy.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Must say I have taken the unconventional path of actively rooting for economic collapse, while also in my personal life taking on way more mutual aid and volunteering. If my thoughts are impure at least my actions are good.

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hoipolloiboytoy.bsky.social @hoipolloiboytoy.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Victims of the Trump admin’s persecution don’t deserve it. But the American people absolutely deserve $10 diesel.

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hoipolloiboytoy.bsky.social @hoipolloiboytoy.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

It absolutely is. When Trump won a second time I said, ‘I will weep for immigrants, people in the LGTBQ+ community, minorities, but the economy I refuse to weep for, in fact the American people deserve unfettered Trump economics.’ Nothing that has happened since has shaken me out of that.

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hoipolloiboytoy.bsky.social @hoipolloiboytoy.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

That was absolutely galling. Obviously the standard is in the basement with Schumer but even so that was shocking.

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hoipolloiboytoy.bsky.social @hoipolloiboytoy.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Is it electorally possible to be pro immigration in the 2020s? It doesn’t seem like it.

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hoipolloiboytoy.bsky.social @hoipolloiboytoy.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

It absolutely is not more complicated. Those countries entered alliances with the United States of their own volition. There’s no coercion to force them to take American military bases. They all asked for a NATO military presence. Why is the will of these people completely unimportant to you?

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hoipolloiboytoy.bsky.social @hoipolloiboytoy.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

The thing I think you are absolutely correct about is that the people of Ukraine and also Russia are victims here. But I would argue they are victims of Russian oppression and aggression. The US and NATO ending any support of Ukraine doesn’t improve anyone’s station.

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hoipolloiboytoy.bsky.social @hoipolloiboytoy.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

It seems like your problem with NATO’s and the US involvement in Ukraine is that it is artificially prolonging this war that would have ended without their support. But it would have ended with Ukraine’s annihilation. I’m not sure the Darwinian implications of that are any better.

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hoipolloiboytoy.bsky.social @hoipolloiboytoy.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

I mean it definitely is in the way that it is trying to keep Russia out of Europe. The fact that you disagree with a lot of what NATO has done doesn’t negate that. I’d agree NATO has no business in places like Libya, though Afghanistan was definitely supported by Article 5.

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hoipolloiboytoy.bsky.social @hoipolloiboytoy.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

NATO is by design an anti-imperialist organization designed to curb the expansionist influence of the most imperialistic country on earth.

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hoipolloiboytoy.bsky.social @hoipolloiboytoy.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Money and also they substantively support Trump’s agenda so to them the lies are true.

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hoipolloiboytoy.bsky.social @hoipolloiboytoy.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Their owners get mergers and deregulation and steal from our tax dollars with government subsidies and tax cuts. The people in the press get a modest bonus for their essential part.

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hoipolloiboytoy.bsky.social @hoipolloiboytoy.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Equally load bearing is the press insisting at every possible juncture that it is not their job to discern truth from fiction or even report accurately on what Trump actually says or does. It’s all one big grift to make him sound sane so they can get their bonuses.

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

it’s fucking crazy to me that there are still leftists out there who refuse to pin the blame for the war in Ukraine on the fascist Russian state

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hoipolloiboytoy.bsky.social @hoipolloiboytoy.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Thinking of all the smelly computer dorks who voted for Trump

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hoipolloiboytoy.bsky.social @hoipolloiboytoy.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

To point out the absolute obvious- if this happened under Biden his name would be in the headline, but since it’s Trump they refuse to blame him.

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hoipolloiboytoy.bsky.social @hoipolloiboytoy.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Let them? Ben’s NYT hates Biden more than Red Sox fans hate the Yankees. They’re one of the great purveyors of that idea.

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hoipolloiboytoy.bsky.social @hoipolloiboytoy.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Can’t wait for your employer to tell us why that’s good news for Trump and bad news for Dems

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hoipolloiboytoy.bsky.social @hoipolloiboytoy.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

According to his own logic he espouses constantly this should result in a landslide victory for Republicans

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hoipolloiboytoy.bsky.social @hoipolloiboytoy.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

It’s getting in the way of democratic campaigns getting their voters out

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hoipolloiboytoy.bsky.social @hoipolloiboytoy.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Could not imagine a worse time. Literally Election Day would be better.

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hoipolloiboytoy.bsky.social @hoipolloiboytoy.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

This weekend’s No Kings protest is the dumbest shit ever

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hoipolloiboytoy.bsky.social @hoipolloiboytoy.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

It’s why I’m constantly smug about where I went to school- there’s a 0% chance I’d get in now

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hoipolloiboytoy.bsky.social @hoipolloiboytoy.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I sure as hell don’t have my original greencard application

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hoipolloiboytoy.bsky.social @hoipolloiboytoy.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

It makes it harder on everyone involved, volunteers, election workers, poll watchers….

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hoipolloiboytoy.bsky.social @hoipolloiboytoy.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I can personally name more trans and non binary candidates than candidates that have said anti trans things.

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hoipolloiboytoy.bsky.social @hoipolloiboytoy.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I guess if you’re dealing with like nuclear physics less than 1% is a high number, but in basically every other field that is a tiny outlier, especially in politics.

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hoipolloiboytoy.bsky.social @hoipolloiboytoy.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

It literally is a few. If you add up all the Democratic candidates in the United States up for election at the federal and state level the number who have said something that could be interpreted as anti trans is easily less than 1%

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hoipolloiboytoy.bsky.social @hoipolloiboytoy.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

A thing I’ve learned in the last 11 years is that virtue signaling is a load bearing pillar for a functioning society

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 12/10/2026

This is the level of social acceptance I want for LGBT people:

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hoipolloiboytoy.bsky.social @hoipolloiboytoy.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Guy blocked me for not being supportive of the teamsters 🤷‍♂️

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hoipolloiboytoy.bsky.social @hoipolloiboytoy.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

There’s a thing among Gen Z people where they are really into voting on Election Day. Don’t do that!!

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hoipolloiboytoy.bsky.social @hoipolloiboytoy.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

People love to blame Dems for this but at a certain point people should be honest that the press actively pushes GOP propaganda and that voters need to take some culpability for their own votes and actions.

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hoipolloiboytoy.bsky.social @hoipolloiboytoy.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Are you under the impression democrats are not spending money on messaging?

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