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I think any preparation for what will happen next year or in 2028 has to keep in mind that a federal government unshackled from oversight will simply seek the most efficient ways to strangle any opposition. Those ways won’t necessarily be by force.

But one thing about the breakdown of the rule of law is that doing things like closing polling places or roads near polling places under any guise becomes conceivable simply because the rewards for doing so outweigh the risks.

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I for one have no illusions that whatever they do will be done competently. However incompetence at large scales can still be very effective.

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Tbf it’s not exactly unfathomable that they would literally enlist militias and brownshirts into federal service alongside every government employee qualified to carry a weapon in order to achieve this. They could also do what the NSDAP did, which was simply close polling places for “security.”

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Look, they do not have the capacity or competence to do this at the scale they want you to fear they do, and your fear is precisely their greatest force multiplier. Everybody who is cowed into silence by their threats allows them a smaller pool to focus on.

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It’s interesting to me that the surface level ideas and sometimes even the institutions of a movement can become a vehicle for something that that movement wouldn’t even recognize as belonging to it. It’s like success breeds not only imitation but cooption.

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Absolutely, you’re right. I appreciate the correction. I was honestly thinking more about the meta-movement as a whole rather than the individuals in that movement. You’re right to emphasize that what the TERFs are is what they say they are.

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There’s something about every liberation movement that makes it so that once the basic goals of that movement are accomplished (on a surface level) some part of that movement pivots to an orthodoxy that defends that new status quo at the expense of the next liberation movement.

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But the second it’s over, like with McCarthy, it will be as if all of this just never happened.

Fuck, that makes me sad. He’s not a dumb guy, even if he is a lame liberal fascist-appeaser.

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The Angry Video Game Nerd is now older than the distance between the release of the NES and his first video.

Well I’m sure nothing could possibly go wrong for him. He’s a Kennedy after all.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Laying claim to the left while trashing the left is so cool and not at all gross or offputting.

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We’re in the bragging-about-tax-hike-revenue phase.

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It seems silly to have to say it to people, but expertise is as deep a knowledge of what is false, as of what is true. It’s not a statistical average of everything you’ve been exposed to. It’s exercise over diet in that sense.

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As far as I know, and that isn’t very far tbf, an LLM cannot apply an experienced human level of discernment between information that is of low value or veracity, and information that is of high value. It can’t read critically, which is what an expert does by definition.

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If they’re whining about it, you know it matters.

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Is that the same Hamilton who wanted to sh*** the vice president?

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It’s literally what historians do. Maybe it’s in free fall because the capital class wants us to repeat history and do so blindly.

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Wonderful use of light, on the building. It has a lot of depth.

Lloyd @lloydw.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Public service announcement: “how old were you when” posts are intended to gather security questionnaire information. Don’t answer them.

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Lloyd @lloydw.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Leave your shits in the toilet.

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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

We now have a concentration camp in Florida. Stop pretending any of this is normal. If you claim to be a good person and you're not outwardly opposing this regime, you're not a good person. Be human.

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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Some people get into journalism because they’re skeptical of power, and others do so because they’re impressed by it. Moments like this are clarifying with respect to who’s who.

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Lloyd @lloydw.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Sadly I can’t think of many liberals in the media who fall into the first category anymore. Lots of Jake Tappers creaming themselves to the “sight of the power of our freedom” (a real thing he said about cruise missiles hitting Syria).

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Lloyd @lloydw.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Trump has bulldozed the rose garden. You literally can’t be given a brighter red flag than this.

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Lloyd @lloydw.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

He is in fact, above the law. That’s simply the situation we are now in. We have a dictator in the White House.

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Lloyd @lloydw.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Just to be crystal clear, this is a coup.

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Lloyd @lloydw.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

It’s a wonderful privilege to be allowed to live that way.

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Lloyd @lloydw.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Yes mom. What if children see it.

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Ok. It’s just a show recommendation.

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I grew up around a lot of undocumented people. They had no less right to breath free air than I did. They were no less American than I was. That’s how I feel about it. This is a betrayal of them, and that is a betrayal of ourselves.

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I do recommend it. Very timely.

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It’s crazy that Americans really gaslit themselves into thinking they invented freedom for decades. I think if we’re even allowed to talk about anything that’s happening now in 100 years, it will be that.

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I realize they cannot legally do that. But I’m telling you they do it. It’s a well known thing.

You know they’d kill you if they could. I’m just pointing out how this is going to end. A lot of people won’t be there to see it.

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