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Diogenes of Santa Cruz

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Diogenes of Santa Cruz @hoplit.bsky.social · 14h
how to scare the yokels
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Diogenes of Santa Cruz @hoplit.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
what a time to be alive
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Diogenes of Santa Cruz @hoplit.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Diogenes of Santa Cruz @hoplit.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
the idiocracy in full effect
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Diogenes of Santa Cruz @hoplit.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Feels like the reign of boomers will never end.
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Diogenes of Santa Cruz @hoplit.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
the 21st century really turned out to be garbage
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Diogenes of Santa Cruz @hoplit.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
When republicans are in power.
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Diogenes of Santa Cruz @hoplit.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
truth
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Diogenes of Santa Cruz @hoplit.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
in some ways this defines the political tragedy the last decade, sadly www.youtube.com/watch?v=wm47...
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The End Of Milo Yiannopoulos
YouTube video by matt bernstein
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Diogenes of Santa Cruz @hoplit.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
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Diogenes of Santa Cruz @hoplit.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
a full decade of it; so existentially exhausting
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Diogenes of Santa Cruz @hoplit.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
It's so wild that republicans just want everyone to suffer and somehow that platform convinces the red state hillbillies to vote for them.
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Diogenes of Santa Cruz @hoplit.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
hey whadyaknow, the vanity projects by the theocratic petro-monarchy can't actually happen www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbB3...
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Why the World’s Largest Megaproject Collapsed | WSJ
YouTube video by The Wall Street Journal
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Diogenes of Santa Cruz @hoplit.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
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Diogenes of Santa Cruz @hoplit.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
what a time to be alive
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Diogenes of Santa Cruz @hoplit.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
for some reason this is extremely difficult for red state americans
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Diogenes of Santa Cruz @hoplit.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
this was excellent www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBoE...
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Craig Ferguson: Late Night, Sobriety & Fame | FULL EPISODE
YouTube video by Neal Brennan
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Diogenes of Santa Cruz @hoplit.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
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Diogenes of Santa Cruz @hoplit.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
it gets exhausting
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Diogenes of Santa Cruz @hoplit.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
"decadence without pleasure" is like the stagflation of culture www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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Why does everything feel so joyless? Welcome to the age of decadence without pleasure | Michèle Mendelssohn and Charlie Tyson
Decadence in our era comes in technologically mediated forms, emptied of desire and obsessed with self-optimisation
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Diogenes of Santa Cruz @hoplit.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
The rest of the 21st century in a nutshell.
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Diogenes of Santa Cruz @hoplit.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
china passing us at least one area for sure www.youtube.com/watch?v=sovr...
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How China is already living in an EV future | Foreign Correspondent
YouTube video by ABC News In-depth
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Diogenes of Santa Cruz @hoplit.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
somehow it's impossible to convince the hicks of this
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Diogenes of Santa Cruz @hoplit.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
i guess that's why they're not investigating it
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/07/2026
Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.
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Diogenes of Santa Cruz @hoplit.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
the new ways of war www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgA0...
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On The Ground Inside Ukraine's Secret Uncrewed Weapons Revolution | Dispatch
YouTube video by Business Insider
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Diogenes of Santa Cruz @hoplit.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
problems in cloning www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOny...
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A Tale of Two Fruits | Lost LA | S9 E2
YouTube video by PBS SoCal
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Diogenes of Santa Cruz @hoplit.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
what a low place we've come to
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Diogenes of Santa Cruz @hoplit.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
generational trauma
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Diogenes of Santa Cruz @hoplit.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
correct
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Diogenes of Santa Cruz @hoplit.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Centrists democrats will fight the left way hard than they ever fight the right.
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Diogenes of Santa Cruz @hoplit.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
tfw the idiocracy wins out
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Diogenes of Santa Cruz @hoplit.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
"Members of Patriot Front ride the metro as a commuter looks on, REUTERS/Cheney Orr" DC, July 4th, 2026
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Diogenes of Santa Cruz @hoplit.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
this is nazi the best era in america
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Diogenes of Santa Cruz @hoplit.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
The current admin has gotten away with so many crimes they're now bagging about how they've pulled down the whole moral standards of the country.
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Diogenes of Santa Cruz @hoplit.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
in a socialist utopia we should now nationalize facebook as a family picture archive because it holds too many probably otherwise deleted pictures which could be lost to time
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Diogenes of Santa Cruz @hoplit.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
When you elect scum you get scum.
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Diogenes of Santa Cruz @hoplit.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
now we're going backwards
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Diogenes of Santa Cruz @hoplit.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
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Diogenes of Santa Cruz @hoplit.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
The paradoxical nature of being an American conservative.
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Diogenes of Santa Cruz @hoplit.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Republicans can't do anything right. They are great at wasting money though.
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Diogenes of Santa Cruz @hoplit.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
"One of the greatest challenges in combating fascism, both in the early-to-mid-twentieth century and today, is getting comfortable, middle-class, politically moderate people to understand that its adherents actually mean what they are saying." Very difficult, I've found.
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Diogenes of Santa Cruz @hoplit.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
the richest man in the world is a nazi newrepublic.com/article/2119...
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Elon Musk’s Race War Just Took Darker Turn—Time for a Global Response
The violent fascist riots in Belfast reveal the future that the trillionaire really wants. We need an international movement to constrain him.
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Diogenes of Santa Cruz @hoplit.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
'Murica!
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Diogenes of Santa Cruz @hoplit.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Shortsighted republican governing at work.
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Diogenes of Santa Cruz @hoplit.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
thanks red state hillbillies!
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Diogenes of Santa Cruz @hoplit.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
America be like
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Diogenes of Santa Cruz @hoplit.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
the idiocracy in full effect
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Diogenes of Santa Cruz @hoplit.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
and a racist one at that
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Diogenes of Santa Cruz @hoplit.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
the hick idea of culture
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