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Max 🇺🇸 🌐☯ @maximumeffort433.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

There was a guy on 4chan one time who used a half dozen different criteria to cut firearm related homicides down to, like, 1,000 incidents per year, then loudly proclaimed that wasn't a big enough number to care about. I guess he's working for Heritage, now.

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Max 🇺🇸 🌐☯ @maximumeffort433.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

That's the thing, though: The can achieve respect, but they'd need to change their opinions to do it, and they see change as tantamount to defeat, as giving into the shame that's pushing them to change. They want us to respect their opinions more than we respect facts, and that's not happening.

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Max 🇺🇸 🌐☯ @maximumeffort433.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

They want us to respect them and their ideas as equals, they want the recognition. The problem is, of course, that no smart institution is going to hire someone to teach ecology who thinks climate change is a Chinese hoax.

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Max 🇺🇸 🌐☯ @maximumeffort433.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

I remember one guy describing the Republicans as a hurricane and the Democratic party as a rickety old shed, they were complaining that the shed wasn't good enough to protect them from the coming natural disaster. Murk's law is subconsciously ingrained at this point.

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Max 🇺🇸 🌐☯ @maximumeffort433.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

It's tough, because we want to protect people, we voted to protect people, it's in our blood. Is there any doubt that Democrats would vote for a farm bailout at a time when American farms are going bankrupt? Democrats don't like inflicting pain, it's not in our wheelhouse.

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Max 🇺🇸 🌐☯ @maximumeffort433.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Cancel the cuts, lower the costs, save healthcare. Eight words.

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

No veteran should have their social security number leaked, let alone passed to a political opponent by the government.

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Max 🇺🇸 🌐☯ @maximumeffort433.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Also, all else being equal: Would you be giving him less shit if he *wasn't* delivering a speech? Because it kind of seems like he's damned when he does, and damned if he doesn't.

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Max 🇺🇸 🌐☯ @maximumeffort433.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

I love how one of those replies is giving Jeffries shit for giving a speech on a Friday; likely that same person would be giving Jeffries shit for *not* giving a speech on a Friday, too. All rocks are wrong rocks.

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Max 🇺🇸 🌐☯ @maximumeffort433.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Jeffries is doing it wrong because he's [checks notes] delivering a speech on a Friday, he should have picked a different rock. Granted, he's been giving speeches and press releases all week, all of which also got ignored, but those were the wrong rock, too.

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STEMthebleeding @stemthebleeding.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

I want to point a very important detail of this: Jeffries is holding a press conference trashing Trump. And only CSPAN is carrying it. And that is the problem with America right now. The only place Democrats get any press coverage are places where no one watches.

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Max 🇺🇸 🌐☯ @maximumeffort433.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

They're throwing shit at the wall to see what sticks, unfortunately for them I don't think the mass of Americans is buying their bullshit anymore.

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Max 🇺🇸 🌐☯ @maximumeffort433.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

"When the chips are down, you ghost." Not including the voting, and the marches, and the protests, and the lawsuits, and the obstruction, and the speech; if you ignore liberal's words and deeds, it's like they're not doing anything at all!

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Max 🇺🇸 🌐☯ @maximumeffort433.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

May the Goddess bless their ineptitude and keep it strong.

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Max 🇺🇸 🌐☯ @maximumeffort433.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

I guess it's good that Harris lost, then.

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Max 🇺🇸 🌐☯ @maximumeffort433.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

The only reason Bernie lost is because he got 3,700,000 fewer votes than Clinton and 9,000,000 fewer votes than Biden.

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Max 🇺🇸 🌐☯ @maximumeffort433.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Trigger a thousand fandoms with a single sentence.

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Max 🇺🇸 🌐☯ @maximumeffort433.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

At least we can trust our federal government to always be upfront and honest with us!

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Waiting for Godot: The Hunt for Godot is the recently announced newest installment of the Godotverse. The long awaited sidequel follows Godot's adventures during the events of the original play.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Van Hollen: I will just say that anybody who thinks we're on the way to authoritarianism is wrong. We are there

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Max 🇺🇸 🌐☯ @maximumeffort433.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

The Homan bribery scandal wasn't even a week ago.

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Max 🇺🇸 🌐☯ @maximumeffort433.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Fucking Watergate is downright quaint these days.

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Max 🇺🇸 🌐☯ @maximumeffort433.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

I think angry-guy is a permission structure; he "Tells it like it is," and that gives them permission to speak their minds, too. "If the President can do it and get away with it, so can I! I mean look at him, he did it and he became the President!" Angry-guy is a permission structure.

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

I feel like a lot of our political moment stems down to tens of millions of Americans literally incapable of imagining something worse than someone being annoying.

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Max 🇺🇸 🌐☯ @maximumeffort433.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Obligatory: Borderlands 4 was released two weeks ago, and it's a semi-direct competitor to Destiny 2 (They're both looter shooters), so that could be cutting into Bungie's bottom line - but this trend started well before BL4 came out. This has been in the making for months.

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Max 🇺🇸 🌐☯ @maximumeffort433.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

#Destiny2 dropped below 9,000 active players last night, for maybe the first time ever. Things are not going great in the house that Bungie built. steamdb.info/app/1085660/...

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Destiny 2 Steam Charts

Steam player count for Destiny 2 is currently 17602 players live. Destiny 2 had an all-time peak of 316750 concurrent players on 28 February 2023.

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Max 🇺🇸 🌐☯ @maximumeffort433.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

CATO did a big topic on right wing political violence earlier this week that I ended up sharing; the popular front is wild, man.

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Max 🇺🇸 🌐☯ @maximumeffort433.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

I'm feeling a lot of emotions right now.

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Max 🇺🇸 🌐☯ @maximumeffort433.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

I don't mind people telling personal stories, I don't really think it's a problem, all we really know in the world is ourselves. Despite what OOP says, sharing personal stories is fine; keep it up!

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Max 🇺🇸 🌐☯ @maximumeffort433.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

What a(nother) disheartening day. I should have enjoyed those four years of boredom under Biden more than I did.

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Max 🇺🇸 🌐☯ @maximumeffort433.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

I admit to being poorly emotionally regulated, but I do my best to keep that shit and the personal stories to myself, and I've never sent anyone death threats. But it's good to know what people think about me!

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Max 🇺🇸 🌐☯ @maximumeffort433.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Watching the new Wolverine trailer and I think video games have hit the level of graphical fidelity where I'm genuinely a little uncomfortable with the violence. I started off with bouncing on goombas, now we're up to photo realistic mutilation. Maybe that's just me, though.

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Max 🇺🇸 🌐☯ @maximumeffort433.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Dude, I'm already freaking out enough as it is.

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Max 🇺🇸 🌐☯ @maximumeffort433.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Dude's gotta' be wearing a corset or something.

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Max 🇺🇸 🌐☯ @maximumeffort433.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

I'm glad you can't relate, and I'm glad your son is normal.

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Max 🇺🇸 🌐☯ @maximumeffort433.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

We've already put tariffs on lumber, aluminum, and steel, why not on home furnishings, too? I'm sure this will make prices go down.

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Jon M @jjm2377.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

I don't like talking about this but as a single guy, especially as you get older, you're not really wanted or welcome in progressive spaces and I don't really want to be in maga spaces, and realistically that leaves you very few options.

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Max 🇺🇸 🌐☯ @maximumeffort433.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

I think there's a perception among many men that other people don't want us around, that it's better to be lonely than disliked, that enforced self solitude is being part of the solution in lieu of being part of the problem.

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Max 🇺🇸 🌐☯ @maximumeffort433.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Maliwan shotguns haven't excited me that much, but I might just have gotten some mediocre ones. BL4 boasts having more than a billion guns, some of those are going to wind up being stinkers. Luck is a big factor in enjoying Borderlands. 😅

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Max 🇺🇸 🌐☯ @maximumeffort433.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Upgrading from PS2 graphics to PS2.5 graphics.

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Max 🇺🇸 🌐☯ @maximumeffort433.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Yeah, Order weapons didn't impress me all that much, COV is useful for making some guns, like sidearms and shotguns, fully automatic, but it still doesn't feel great. Vladov/Torgue all the way!

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