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nbrockmann.bsky.social @nbrockmann.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
I think he meant to put up this one:
Nazi eagle holding a swastika in its talons
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nbrockmann.bsky.social @nbrockmann.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
I wrote a whole thing here but erased it because look, in the end he’s just exemplifying the Sartre thing here
“Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre
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nbrockmann.bsky.social @nbrockmann.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Consecutively on my screen 🤣
Top: Trump saying this is the most successful year of any admin in history. 

Bottom: Jobless claim numbers are out & worse than expected; 209,000 ppl filed last week
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nbrockmann.bsky.social @nbrockmann.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
“Me”
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nbrockmann.bsky.social @nbrockmann.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
I was at one in the county seat of a red county near Pittsburgh (Pgh’s county is reliably blue but is surrounded by red) and it was way bigger than I expected. Lots of ppl driving by honking and waving flags.
One corner of the No Kings protest in Greensburg, PA; lots of people with signs, singing and chanting A protester in an (inflatable?) Donald Trump costume, wearing an orange prison jumpsuit and a fake Hitler-style mustache, marches across the street while maintaining a Nazi salute
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nbrockmann.bsky.social @nbrockmann.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Raar
A creature expresses that it would like to deal with its feelings by being angry, then sad, then comforted, then adventuring for solutions, then giggles
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nbrockmann.bsky.social @nbrockmann.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
ACB makes my head explode here. How can they establish a “history of state actions that reflect animus” if they won’t recognize CLEAR animus in present moment? “Welp, since there’s no history of animus, there must not be any today, which means that tomorrow there will again be no history of animus”
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nbrockmann.bsky.social @nbrockmann.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
I mean … what more is there to say
Gretchen Whitmer hides her face behind a folder so as not to be photographed at the White House
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