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You don't have to convince me that the surveillance is bad. I know it is.

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Yes, you've mentioned the stingray. I am telling you that I do not care about it. What does it prove? That I attended a very popular protest? Sue me. Lock me up. I don't have to act like a spy.

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I don't. Of course I don't. But I'm also not going to allow them to scare me into acting like I've done something wrong. Collect a database of half the population, go for it. The more people who are on it, the less useful it is.

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You say, as we are surrounded by Stalinists on Bluesky dot app.

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I'm still not sure you understand where I'm coming from with this. The people at the No Kings protests were average citizens, and that is the point. Having my phone on isn't "misplaced bravado." I am not interested in your revolution and I have nothing to hide.

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Randy Pneuman @pteridoid.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Spend five minutes on here and it's obvious why too.

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There's one reply to this and I can't see it. Presumably it's someone with a Karl Marx pfp saying "you know, I never thought of it that way. I agree!"

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Randy Pneuman @pteridoid.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Some deluded lefties who think they're the revolutionary guard kicked him out because he was inviting the press along for ride-alongs. He had the right idea. The deluded lefties who think they're secret agents are accomplishing little on their own. "consent"? wtf are you talking about?

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Randy Pneuman @pteridoid.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

nah. That's secondary. You might effect a small amount of change obstructing ICE. But nothing really changes until the public turns against ICE, which won't happen without exposure and mainstream media. The change you're trying for us peanuts compared to that.

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I don't have any problem letting the FBI know I'm there. I post that shit on Facebook. There are millions of us and we aren't scared to show them we hate fascism. That is the point. The image is part of the point.

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I guarantee you that the ones who "need to be a lot more careful" are accomplishing next to nothing in real terms. And if they get caught, public opinion will swing heavily against them. You simply do not get it.

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This is the exact wrong attitude to have, as has been proven multiple times over. All your secret cloak and dagger lefty shit does very little. Public exposure to turn opinion against the fascists does so much more.

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I don't know how you can possibly say this, unless perhaps you're talking exclusively about elected officials. That is the only sense which could be even remotely true. The DSA is rife with Stalinists.

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It is, actually. I know you meant that ironically, but it sucks donkey balls. Everyone but me is an authoritarian and I'm treated like trash anywhere I go because of it. And for you, it must suck having lots of friends but being dead wrong all the time.

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All of society's problems are due to the fact that true capitalism has never been tried.

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Congrats. You sound pretty cool.

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It sucks, in different ways.

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You morons just dogpile anybody with a mild disagreement. Push people away and then wonder why you have no allies.

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You guys are trying to argue that there was "no clear partisan valence" for Platner, a guy pushed extremely hard by the left on the rest of us. You've got to be kidding me, right? Does everybody else just go along with the lie around here because they don't want to be ostracized? Pathetic.

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There are three comments on this, but I can't see any of them, lol. If you want me to see your hate reply, you can't also block me at the same time.

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What's that supposed to mean? Only young people know who that clown is or something? Sorry if I'm an old head yelling about children, but that child just tanked an important senate race due to lack of adult supervision.

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Going back to Twitter. Bluesky sucks and you're all a bunch of liars. Block me or something, I don't give a fuck. Not replying.

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eh, farther left than center anyway. No, I'm not saying those guys are Stalinists.

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I guess "gave a pass" is ambiguous here. I mean they passed on him, not that they gave him a get out of jail free pass.

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No clear partisan valance? All of his most die-hard supporters were far left. Ryan Grim, Hasan Piker, the Pod Save guys, Morris effing Katz... a lot of lefties come out of this looking bad, and the centrists almost to a man gave Platner a pass.

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If it doesn't discredit progressivism nationwide, it's at least an indictment against Morris Katz and the ability of progressives to pick their candidates, no?

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I built a nice cedar planter box for my patio and it turned out pretty good. What are we talking about?

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