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Kyle @kbergan.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

You could quote post her

Kyle @kbergan.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

If you look at the photo, lots of those generals had their command sergeant majors (or equivalent) with them, and they were equally unimpressed

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Kyle @kbergan.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Is there a reason you're not just reposting them directly?

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Kyle @kbergan.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

So, you're having an 8th grade, or even a 5th grade, civics discussion?

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Kyle @kbergan.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

You missed Trump turning the GOP into a cult of personality, so that this time around he's surrounded not by half-competent people who respect the constitution a few days out of the week, but by sycophantic yes-men who don't get in the way of Miller and Trump

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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 30/09/2025

one can (and probably should) fault Clintonian/Blairite "triangulation," but "if we do this, the left will yell at us" was part of the strategy! if the left yelling at you is bad then it is a bad strategy!

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Kyle @kbergan.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Military rule? No ICE as an instrument of state terror? Totally

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Kyle @kbergan.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

*looks across border into Indiana* They hadn't done that already?

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Ragnarok Lobster @eclecticbrotha1.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Folk in Pennsylvania voted for John Fetterman because they thought he was a progressive and found out he was just Kyrsten Sinema in a funky hoodie and unwashed basketball shorts.

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Two senior Republican appropriators agree it doesn't make any sense for Democrats to agree to a government funding deal unless Trump actually adheres to the deal. The Democratic alternative CR had language that would address this, but the White House came out strongly against.

“I don’t think the Democrats want to shut down either,” Rep. Mike Simpson (R-Idaho), a senior appropriator, told Bloomberg Government. “Their concern right now, and it’s a legitimate concern, is that, how can we agree to any deal when our OMB director will just impound the funds and say we’re not going to spend them there?”

“If you’re a Democrat — even just like a mainstream Democrat — your predisposition might be to help negotiate with Republicans on a funding mechanism,” said Rep. Steve Womack, a senior GOP appropriator. “Why would you do that if you know that whatever you negotiate is going to be subject to the knife pulled out by Russ Vought?”

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Kyle @kbergan.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

There are nonviolent militaries?

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Kyle @kbergan.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Supporting fascism is voting your conscience?

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Kyle @kbergan.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

It should be about separation of powers and constitutional order, but sure, go ahead and use your focus-group messaging

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Hundreds of generals and admirals had to fly in from all over the world so Pete Kegseth can live out his Patton fantasies.

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Kyle @kbergan.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

And since when is Jeffries the Speaker? Yes, he kisses the asses of reactionary centrists, but he also doesn't have the votes to start impeachment

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Kyle @kbergan.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

60 votes to invoke cloture

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Kyle @kbergan.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

May they only ever be served Malört to drink

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

"Dems will get blamed for a shutdown" as opposed to what, all the friendly coverage and positive credit they'd get for caving yet again? This whole premise is built on a delusion about what the alternative is. There's no cowering in the corner and being so inoffensive they won't still attack you.

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Kyle @kbergan.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

As I've said elsewhere, direct action involves actually doing things that disrupt and draw attention, not just sitting around doing nothing and letting things get worse

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Kyle @kbergan.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

I think everyone deserves rights, and I also think that without a functioning democracy no one's going to have them. Doing things that end up supporting the fascists leaves us without a functioning democracy

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Kyle @kbergan.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

If you think that the outcomes would have been the same if Harris had won, I have no idea where you parted with reality

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Kyle @kbergan.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

...not only are you doing an excellent job of putting words in my mouth that I never said, I don't even know what you're talking about

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Kyle @kbergan.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Direct action is not sitting with your thumb up your ass

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Kyle @kbergan.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

"Direct action" is not taking action that furthers fascist aims Direct action is going to businesses that will refuse you service for who you are and refusing to leave, it's organizing a peaceful march where you know the police will brutalize you, it's voting where you know they will come for you

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Kyle @kbergan.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

And you've not been taken

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Kyle @kbergan.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Can you think of how that reason doesn't apply to you? Your ability to participate in electoral politics is not systematically denied from the ground up

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Kyle @kbergan.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

I have read it, and MLK wasn't encouraging actual voters to sit out elections

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Kyle @kbergan.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Because trans people aren't the only people being affected, and I am opposing it

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Kyle @kbergan.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

That's not my area of scholarship, and I pointed you to a good definition.

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Kyle @kbergan.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Because primary challenges work

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Kyle @kbergan.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

And I'm telling you that your behavior is tantamount to supporting the fascists, because that's also true

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Kyle @kbergan.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Since you obviously don't know what fascism is, and you're not going to listen to me when I give you a definition, I'm done talking to you

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Kyle @kbergan.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

I would go for full on socialism if it ever worked outside of a society of 100 people or fewer

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Kyle @kbergan.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Yes, because the argument was even Dick Cheney thought it was bad If you think that's a stupid argument to make to those on the right, then that says more about yourself than the argument

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Kyle @kbergan.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

I contact my borderline Quisling senator regularly

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Kyle @kbergan.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Once wants to replace capitalism whereas one wants to heavily regulate capitalism

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Kyle @kbergan.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

It occurs through letter writing, through protest, through all sorts of stuff - but saying that you're going to sit things out just takes you off the table entirely. Saying you're going to support an opponent is different - because then you're an actual voter

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Kyle @kbergan.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Also, tell that to the historically Blue States, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania

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Kyle @kbergan.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Why should it radicalize me? I already know that the Electoral College is broken

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Kyle @kbergan.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Imperialism isn't fascism Again, fascism isn't a term that gets applied to everything you don't like

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Kyle @kbergan.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

If you think that, then you're not worth having serious discussion about political ideology with

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Kyle @kbergan.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Show me where Pritzker is collaborating with the fascists

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Kyle @kbergan.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

I have my actual name on here

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Kyle @kbergan.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

If you think that you're completely ignorant

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Kyle @kbergan.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

What's fucked up is rhetoric that promotes abstaining from politics in a time where fascism is establishing a hold, where anyone and everyone's civil rights will be gone if it's not opposed

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