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Penny "still in circulation" Sterling @psiluvu.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Good point. Except we know that Dems can be swayed and/or voted out, and neither of those things will be possible if the GOP maintains control. Will that happen if Democrats take control? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ But we know for sure it won’t happen if the GOP maintains control.

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Penny "still in circulation" Sterling @psiluvu.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

This is the last comment I’m making on this thread: Someone in the last frustrating 18 hours or so asked me what am I doing to help the cause? As far as you can tell from my online presence, I’m doing nothing But if I WAS doing something, I sure as fuck, would not put it on any public platform ☮️ out

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Penny "still in circulation" Sterling @psiluvu.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Also, none of you have any information about yourselves on here as if you think that will protect you if someone wants to find you. All it means is that I don’t know who I’m talking to. All I know is that you guys are using fascist language techniques to attack people who should be allies.

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Penny "still in circulation" Sterling @psiluvu.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

All y’all there telling me who you think I am when not paying attention to me telling you what you are doing. Not a one of you has tried to engage with the words the OP said, and the words that I responded to her with.

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Penny "still in circulation" Sterling @psiluvu.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Also, show me where I said or possibly even alluded to the fact that the comment was a joke. I can point to many times where I tried to point out the difference between jokes and turning the words of someone against them. Which is what you’re trying and failing to do right now.

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Penny "still in circulation" Sterling @psiluvu.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

It makes sense that Godwin’s Law has evolved away from Hitler, since way too many threads start there. My point here is, and always has been, that y’all are using the techniques of MAGA to attack people who are your allies. You are taking words and not using context, nuance and intent to attack.

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Penny "still in circulation" Sterling @psiluvu.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

You got me. That’s right. Although I was simply adopting that classification in a sarcastic way in order to point out the intolerance of the person I QT’d. Which is what the person in the screenshot did to the leader of all intolerant people in the US. He was using their language as ridicule.

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Penny "still in circulation" Sterling @psiluvu.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

You are assigning me a history without ever talking to me. This is what MAGA does. They make targets of people who make them uncomfortable, and you seem to like using that technique. Is it because what I’m saying makes you uncomfortable? Good. I’m committed to the redistribution of comfort.

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Penny "still in circulation" Sterling @psiluvu.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Hello, cowardly anonymous person! I have not defined myself other than someone who recognizes group speak when they see it. It seems, however, that all of you think that I do consider myself liberal. So y’all are defining and condemning me about something I’m not simply because I disagree with you.

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Penny "still in circulation" Sterling @psiluvu.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I am perfectly OK with you thinking that I am dumb or incoherent or not helping. I don’t think you’re dumb or incoherent, but I do know you’re not helping. Please leave me alone.

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Penny "still in circulation" Sterling @psiluvu.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I also know that the language used in the QT is identical to the dehumanizing way MAGA phrases things to condemn an entire, poorly defined group through the words or actions of one person.

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Penny "still in circulation" Sterling @psiluvu.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

This is why it is so hard not to use Dunning Krueger in these conversations. I don’t know if I’m smarter than you or not, but I’m far more educated. Most likely formal, but definitely the school of hard knocks. That comment was not transphobic It used the language of the enemy against them.

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Penny "still in circulation" Sterling @psiluvu.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

It comes from the fact that the original poster used the techniques that the GOP thought leaders use, including taking one post from someone they don’t know to excoriate an entire group of people with the same goals who don’t agree with her, so much so that I was sure she was a conservative.

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Penny "still in circulation" Sterling @psiluvu.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Also: just because you don’t understand something doesn’t mean it’s incoherent. It just means you don’t understand it.

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Penny "still in circulation" Sterling @psiluvu.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Exactly right.This isn’t a battlefield. My politics is about 30 years of exposing racism, sexism, homophobia and Christian Nationalism behind facist techniques and ego-boosting lies. Nothing on here is real life, but it exposes a dangerous groupthink within my community.

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Penny "still in circulation" Sterling @psiluvu.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

My post is not about jokes in the same way the comment the OP is not about jokes.

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Penny "still in circulation" Sterling @psiluvu.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Tell me more, oh Oracle of people who hide behind fake names and cartoon characters that post nothing about themselves, about which battles I’m in or not

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Penny "still in circulation" Sterling @psiluvu.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

If there’s any mean girls here, they’re not on this side of my screen.

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Penny "still in circulation" Sterling @psiluvu.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Mean girl behavior does not include punching back. Maybe consider the Right-Wing Talking Point style of the OP’s post, who takes a screenshot from who knows where and uses it to condemn “Liberals,” a vast, undefined group that quickly became “any non-MAGA who disagrees with me.”

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Penny "still in circulation" Sterling @psiluvu.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Sorry if the truth upsets you. It doesn’t make it any less true. You are ignorant as fck.

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Penny "still in circulation" Sterling @psiluvu.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

The nuisance really is not on this side of your screen, child. Muting you now.

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Penny "still in circulation" Sterling @psiluvu.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

TLDR: “I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken” —Oliver Cromwell

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Penny "still in circulation" Sterling @psiluvu.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Your points are valid, and there does need to be greater awareness and sensitivity about language, but putting that issue in front of the legitimate existential threat that is Donald Trump is like treating a compound leg fracture and ignoring the patient’s gaping chest wound.

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Penny "still in circulation" Sterling @psiluvu.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Bannon and Miller and all of the other fascists will sit by and smile as the opposition self-destructs over ideological purity. Do you think “liberals” are a greater threat to trans folk then the fascists currently in power?

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Penny "still in circulation" Sterling @psiluvu.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

The world I am fighting for is one that does not look to condemn before seeking clarity and attempting to understand. And that is exactly what everybody here is doing. If the only difference between you and MAGA are the colors of your flags, they have already won.

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Penny "still in circulation" Sterling @psiluvu.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Only one way to look at things is the right way. Don’t question, condemn. Take the words of one person and apply them to an entire group of people. Dehumanize all that disagree with you. Nothing that any of you have done on this thread has done anyone any good. Especially not yourselves.

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Penny "still in circulation" Sterling @psiluvu.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

The reason I’m being so condescending to a lot of you is because none of you seem to understand that you are have the mindset and are using the techniques of right wing fascists. The reason I thought OP was conservative was because everything they did was straight from the Lee Atwater playbook:

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Penny "still in circulation" Sterling @psiluvu.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I see. So this is a great opportunity for the bunch of you to do a little reading up on the work of Dunning & Kruger. You are all displaying how little you know about any of this. I’m truly tired of this

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Penny "still in circulation" Sterling @psiluvu.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I made documentaries, worked in newsrooms, & helped create the first financially sustainable local 24-hr newsroom. None of this means fuck-all to thus thread or to any of you, I know. Nor does it mean I think I’m smarter than you. But I have been where you are. You’ve never been where I’ve been.

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Penny "still in circulation" Sterling @psiluvu.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I’m not gen x. I marched in protest of the Vietnam war in Jr. HS. I got my Masters in Journalism during the Reagan Administration. My first exposure to tear gas was during the Iran-contra hearings. I participated in Fred Friendly’s Media & Society Seminars at Columbia while he was leading them.

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Penny "still in circulation" Sterling @psiluvu.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Ohmygod you’re as dumb as you are cowardly. In this instance the quotes around the word means it’s said with sarcasm, that your observation was trivial, lacking in substance. JFC you’re as inept at pedantry as you are at political science. No wonder you hide behind an alias. Muting you Have a day

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Penny "still in circulation" Sterling @psiluvu.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I believe you meant to say this to somebody other than me, cowardly child.

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Penny "still in circulation" Sterling @psiluvu.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Not particularly, no. Correcting someone over a typo is not the winning rhetorical “take” you think it is, child. Also, cowardly clowns who don’t walk the walk are in no position to explain anything. You know nothing about me.

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Penny "still in circulation" Sterling @psiluvu.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Oh I can live with that Considering I don’t know that I’ve ever interacted with you

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Penny "still in circulation" Sterling @psiluvu.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Ooh An altered meme from someone who is part of the problem I guess you told me off didn’t you. Well. SOMEONE did. Love your energy Too bad you’re sttacking the wrong folk. TTFE (Ta Ta For Ever)

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Penny "still in circulation" Sterling @psiluvu.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Oh dear. Do you actually think that Democrats are liberal? Have you noticed what the reaction is to anybody in the party who actually has a non-centralist opinion? How can someone is unaware as you think they know anything about anything

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Penny "still in circulation" Sterling @psiluvu.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

In battle, the main rule is to shoot the nearest target first. Right up there, though, is the rule that you don’t attack someone whose weapon is pointed in the same direction as yours. Maybe think about that for a while Or not, I don’t care. I’m muting all y’all.

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Penny "still in circulation" Sterling @psiluvu.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Nothing that I have said in any of this this morning is designed to change hearts and minds. I’m just using logic and wit to slap y’all around. I didn’t think I was going to need to explain that purity tests for the people fighting a common enemy is a bad thing.

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Penny "still in circulation" Sterling @psiluvu.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

No thanks. I good. Maybe the anonymous cowards who are showing MAGA-level intolerance and old white guy sensitivities should find the off to which they fuck.

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Penny "still in circulation" Sterling @psiluvu.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Clowns are some of the fiercest enemies of totalitarianism. Clowns speak truth to power and love to make fun of hypocrites. I am going to be attending performances at the international clown festival this evening, where some of my best friends are performing So thanks for the compliment, coward!

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Penny "still in circulation" Sterling @psiluvu.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I’m sorry if y’all are too juvenile to understand subtly and nuance., But that comment was not only not funny, but it wasn’t transphobia either And if y’all are going to attack someone who is fighting against an overpowering enemy because of how they hold their weapon, stop thinking you’re helping.

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Penny "still in circulation" Sterling @psiluvu.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I rarely listen to anonymous cowards, and when I do it’s always to point out they’re as ignorant as they are chicken. That post was not normalizing transphobia. It was throwing the trans phobic terminology used by the right to point out their hypocrisy.

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Penny "still in circulation" Sterling @psiluvu.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I called EVERYONE who tries to police sarcasm directed at undermining the power of a fascist who has marked one of the most vulnerable marginalized groups for elimination >that we both belong to< stupid. Tone-policing the resistance is bullshit.

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Penny "still in circulation" Sterling @psiluvu.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Bitter, cowardly cosplay anarchist says what now?

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Penny "still in circulation" Sterling @psiluvu.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Anarchists despise people who use power to control others. It doesn’t matter where on the political spectrum they are. The person you’re defending is trying to police what kind of humor is used in attacking the same power structures as me.

anarchists.de

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Penny "still in circulation" Sterling @psiluvu.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Anarchists are apolitical, person who takes pride in being despised

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