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Refracted Grove @refractedgrove.bsky.social · 11h

Thats my rep! Closest ill come to stanning a politician these days

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Refracted Grove @refractedgrove.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The fact that you find that incoherent explains a lot, actually

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Refracted Grove @refractedgrove.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

With apologies to child you, the rest of us did get some pretty great storytelling from you out of it 😅🤣

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Cynthia Rose @stillcham.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026

These are the things that reveal why they're trying to force him on us.

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Personally if I was living under a fascist right wing party one thing I wouldn’t do would be to ally with it on ridiculing a minority group that’s a historic genocidal target of fascism, but hey, that’s me.

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This aired just the once in 1998 on the live SNL show for which McKay wrote it. It was effectively banned as it never aired again. I wonder why. MEDIA-OPOLY

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 19/09/2026

It's very clear that companies are generating racist and sexist controversy as a brand strategy, e.g., Sydney Sweeney, Converse.

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Refracted Grove @refractedgrove.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Comments are full of people "☝️🤓 actually that treewarrior account has green party in bio" because its the only deflection they have for a sentiment that has absolutely been expressed by Dems as well

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Refracted Grove @refractedgrove.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Very weird to see people respond to this with "tHaT uSeR hAs 'GrEeN pArTy' In BiO" - the idea that Dems havent said this is obliviousness at best and willful ignorance at work.

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Refracted Grove @refractedgrove.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

No, like five of you have smugly tried to point this out, and its defensiveness in a very weird and willfully ignorant way

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Refracted Grove @refractedgrove.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Dems have said the same thing and its very telling seeing who gets very fixated on this point.

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Refracted Grove @refractedgrove.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Y'all have been "lesser-evil"-ing for several election cycles st this point. I keep hoping you'll realize its how we got here, but that's clearly naivete on my part.

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Refracted Grove @refractedgrove.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I mean you already dont know thr history of social progress so it makes sense you dont get this, either

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Refracted Grove @refractedgrove.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"The entire history of social progress was done by voting for lesser evils" is a really great way to convince people you dont know the history of social progress. It usually involved killing people

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Refracted Grove @refractedgrove.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

There is no reason to believe a democrat willing to give up on the rights of some wont give up on the rights of all. Youre looking at John Rightsabandoner and thinking "well he wont abandon *my* rights".

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Refracted Grove @refractedgrove.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Its not the best way The best way is for people in or seeking power to be pushed not to take anti-trans stances at all Your way throws people under the bus and permits the erosion of rights for all under the guise of some nebulous future victory Dems have not delivered even when they have power

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รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ @sloanelysbeth.northsky.social · 14/09/2026

libs aren't on here harassing and abusing trans ppl bcos they want us to support transphobic dems. they're on here harassing and abusing trans ppl bcos they want us to give them permission to support transphobic dems. it's the same shit they do with harry potter trying to seek our permission.

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Refracted Grove @refractedgrove.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I believe that *you* believe it, people can pretend to be whatever they want

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Refracted Grove @refractedgrove.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha no youre fucking not

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Refracted Grove @refractedgrove.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

You really should. Youre a vote-deflector. Who would read this ghoulish shit and think "damn, im galvanized to vote for whatever this is promoting"? Fascists dont want your diet fascism, and people with principles will find this abhorrent. Silence would be less detrimental to your purported goals.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Can't say it enuff: Every leftist politician should Xerox Mayor Mamdani's direct-to-the-people model, speak DIRECTLY to the constituency about the good they're doing, ignore the billionaire-captured filter of legacy media, & reduce those people to impotent hecklers forever reacting never directing.

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Matt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It was exactly ten years ago today, on my 33rd birthday, that I posted this comic online.

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

sorry, but torturing the omelas kid is just a smart move, polling-wise. i personally wish there wasn't a kid in the omelas hole--of course i do!--but let's not get distracted by purity tests, here.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Hey everybody. On the 25-year anniversary, we're reprinting the much revered 9/11 edition of The Onion and sending that free to every member this month. It's been 25 long years. Look back in anger.

The front page of The Onion's September edition from September 2001 featuring the headline "U.S. Vows to Defeat Whoever It Is We're At War With."

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Refracted Grove @refractedgrove.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

repair or rebuild trust. You will have to try again, with some other people. If youre sincere, good luck. If youre not, I dont particularly care, we won't be continuing to interact.

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Refracted Grove @refractedgrove.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I dont know how to make it any clearer: when Democrats support policies that harm trans people, and you tell trans people to get in line anyway, that is not grounds for very basic trust, much less a friendship. Writing out four more messages calling for "a big tent" does not really suffice to -

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Refracted Grove @refractedgrove.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

My point is you do not sound like you do, and that is gonna cost you in your goal - ostensibly to win votes for a party people already do not trust. Youre right, this is all we see of you. You want people to take your word when you align with people who dont keep theirs

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Refracted Grove @refractedgrove.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Ill roll is back a *little* - it is less specifically you and more that you go along with the garbage that people in power are setting as their policy, and you deride other voters to do it, catalyzing the damage the establishment already does. You could just *not* loudly support their ghoulishness.

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Refracted Grove @refractedgrove.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

There is no reason to believe you would fight your own party once the Dems have snagged the necessary votes. What about this inspires trust? You need trust to win votes, and whether intended or not youre basically saying "im not trustworthy, get in line anyway pleb". Its a losing attitude.

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Refracted Grove @refractedgrove.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Specifically you are fully why Democrats lose campaigns. Who would see this and think, "boy, I sure want to get with them!" anyone with a conscience is going to reject you, and anyone who already likes these things is going to go for the party that does them more.

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 03/09/2026

Gloria Steinem really did work for the CIA & was involved in some dastardly shit despite all the real, true good she did to advance feminism in the world. I just contacted my mentor who's a Black feminist who was her friend with condolences. Famous figures like all humans are flawed & complicated.

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Ashley Holden 🩷 M.Ed. @mrsholden2019.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

So #MitchMcConnell just gets to be dead & no one cares anymore? He just keeps collecting a paycheck, taking unlimited time off & everyone shrugs? I'm a teacher fighting stage 4 #cancer & if I was even 10 minutes late to work, I'd hear about it. If I disappeared, didn't call in, I'd be unemployed.

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Refracted Grove @refractedgrove.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

It is extremely uncommon to see this done in good faith these days, it is almost always a "but you participate in society" kind of response

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Refracted Grove @refractedgrove.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Sure, Lupin is. So why did she have another werewolf being a predatory creep with the same disease perpetuating reagan era aids stereotypes? Was that necessary?

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Refracted Grove @refractedgrove.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Youre not being very excellent to trans people bro

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Refracted Grove @refractedgrove.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

the dems: "vote for us and we will fight fascism!" people: *vote for dems* dems: "actually, no consequences for the fascists" people: "hey what the fuck" you: "you wanting them to do what they said theyd do isnt useful or helpful!"

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Refracted Grove @refractedgrove.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

"These arent elected officials who asked the people for votes so they could be in power, theyre uwu smol beans and therefore cannot bear responsibility" Very normal way of treating elected officials

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Refracted Grove @refractedgrove.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

But if i say what i think should happen to this guy *I'm* the one who will get banned

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Husky "Synthwhoa" Powerfist - Certified Hat Owner @synthwhoa.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Yuri weighs in on the current state of the Democratic party in the US.

Yuri from Tales of Vesperia says "You'd rather tell those people, "Sorry you have to die today, I promise we'll change things soon"?"

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Refracted Grove @refractedgrove.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

"In this future i made up, it was good that we had pro-life democrats preventing the codifying of Roe v Wade" You know, i should have stopped expecting anything remotely serious from you many comments ago, thats on me, thats my bad

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Refracted Grove @refractedgrove.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I don't know, it sounds like if the Democrat needs these votes to win, he should run on different policy.

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Refracted Grove @refractedgrove.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

it was Democrats who were preventing it from being codified into law. The claim at the time even with a majority is that it would be shot down by "pro-life Democrats". If that isnt an example of it mattering who is blue, idk what the hell is.

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Refracted Grove @refractedgrove.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

"if they will sell out one group, they will sell out others" And it follows that "if they will sell out sports, they will likely capitulate on anything else" You are dangerously naive or willfully ignoring the whole point of the comment you responded to, and at this point im not sure it matters

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Refracted Grove @refractedgrove.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

You did see everything from that candidate, correct? That man is indistinguishable from a Republican on trans rights. It does in fact actually "matter who" and it always did Plus, the comment you replied to was "if they will abandon one group, they will abandon any group" - and they will

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