sjoyner1965.bsky.social @sjoyner1965.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Again, I’d rather not bring whiteness into this, but it’s very clear that Platner has never internalized the idea that people will attack you, simply for existing, and that you won’t always have a machine gun to shoot them down and shut them up. 0140
sjoyner1965.bsky.social @sjoyner1965.bsky.social · 14/07/2026The problem is is that these people only think of appeal, they don’t think of attacks. What struck me about Platner was his outrage that he even be subject to attacks. That is HOW CAMPAIGNS WORK. 1140
sjoyner1965.bsky.social @sjoyner1965.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Making social change requires risk and sacrifice. All that you’re revealing is that you don’t think Palestinians are worth fighting for, so long as you could experience consequence. Again, if you truly believed what you say, you would be willing to take on FAR more risk. 210
sjoyner1965.bsky.social @sjoyner1965.bsky.social · 14/07/2026For one, I’m not religious at all. But the Black church groups helped provide a core structure to refer back to. The BPP went down because they made the mistake of not vetting their so-called allies enough. The training for the CRM was literally to weed out infiltrators. It’s the gold standard. 020
sjoyner1965.bsky.social @sjoyner1965.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Fundamentally, you’re ignoring that COINTELPRO didn’t work on the Civil Rights Movement. While Dr. King was in charge, it was very effective. The problem came when the people who couldn’t make it through training started their own movements. 120
sjoyner1965.bsky.social @sjoyner1965.bsky.social · 14/07/2026I also think you’re ignoring that these movements could have survived, had they ADAPTED. That’s why the Civil Rights Movement was so successful: they developed strategies to weed out infiltrators. The literal reason they locked arms and sang hymns was to weed them out. 220
sjoyner1965.bsky.social @sjoyner1965.bsky.social · 14/07/2026My grandfather, and many other civil rights activists like him, went into protests and integrations, knowing they might die. Sue me, but if you feel a GENOCIDE is being committed, surely there would be more of a willingness to risk personal consequence. Otherwise, that’s revolutionary LARP. 110
sjoyner1965.bsky.social @sjoyner1965.bsky.social · 14/07/2026It’s so fun, because we all just love Laura Dern lol 011
Reposted by @sjoyner1965.bsky.socialMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 14/07/2026This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE. 10746505120334
sjoyner1965.bsky.social @sjoyner1965.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Damn, he really wants all non-white people dead, huh 000
sjoyner1965.bsky.social @sjoyner1965.bsky.social · 14/07/2026The exception to this is genuinely fanfiction. There are people reading entire books in a night. I wrote a fanfiction that was nearly four hundred pages, and some people read it straight. 010
Reposted by @sjoyner1965.bsky.socialAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Trump doesn’t force people to do bad things. All he did was show people they could get away with being horrible if they really wanted to, and a lot of powerful people decided they didn’t need to pretend anymore. Especially those in influential positions who could push back but did not. 14898912534
Reposted by @sjoyner1965.bsky.socialJared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 13/07/2026I'm going to become the Joker 4063082279
Reposted by @sjoyner1965.bsky.socialJoe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 13/07/2026I think a critical thing about liberalism is that it requires moral and intellectual labor because it goes against our tribal nature, our innate intolerance, etc. It's a moral adaptation that lets people of different backgrounds and value systems and definitions of happiness co-exist and cooperate/ 15215
sjoyner1965.bsky.social @sjoyner1965.bsky.social · 13/07/2026youtu.be/nlQotkWWDQI?...youtu.beGay Men's Chorus of Los Angeles Take The Stage | 2020 Spirit AwardsYouTube video by IFC 030
Reposted by @sjoyner1965.bsky.sociallauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 13/07/2026when i say he had "a life well lived" i don't just mean a lengthy career on stage and screen, nor a healthy relationship with an adoring public. i mean he got to be friends with laura dern 262954287
sjoyner1965.bsky.social @sjoyner1965.bsky.social · 13/07/2026I don’t get that—wouldn’t they want his seat filled, given that they made it so Beshear can’t fill the seat? KY is a heavy red state. 000
Reposted by @sjoyner1965.bsky.socialpriscilla page @priscillapage.bsky.social · 13/07/2026mandatory reading 70163143591
Reposted by @sjoyner1965.bsky.socialGwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 12/07/2026We're gonna find out that an hour ago someone placed a $100,000 Polymarket bet that Mitch McConnell would outlive Lindsey Graham 161929301
Reposted by @sjoyner1965.bsky.socialStarfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Stupid question. Do Sikhs have a religious exemption? If the black community in the military suddenly mass converted to Sikhism for mysterious reasons, could Hegseth do anything about it? 6537
Reposted by @sjoyner1965.bsky.socialJames Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 13/07/2026[Me after getting thrown out of a bar] I own this bar, actually 92678381
Reposted by @sjoyner1965.bsky.socialEugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 10/07/2026There is only one real American. He lives in a suburb with real american values. He has never had a matcha latte. He is a great favorite. He knows that real education can’t happen at universities. He has never used a laptop. His feet are light and nimble. He says that he will never die. 553476
Reposted by @sjoyner1965.bsky.socialEric Ansley Díaz 🏳️🌈 @geekboyeric.bsky.social · 10/07/2026RIP Bonnie Tyler. And RIP Tandi Iman Dupree. This remains the best stage entrance by a drag queen of all time, even some 25 years later, and the best use of Tyler’s “Holding Out for a Hero” ever. youtu.be/IHQA5vqn6rw?... 10778092900
Reposted by @sjoyner1965.bsky.socialamanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 11/07/2026Closed out the final day of the Great American State Fair tonight. Here’s a quick video showcasing some of the architecture on its last night. 2459095
Reposted by @sjoyner1965.bsky.socialMoira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 09/07/2026The media’s language in coverage of sexual violence is so wild compared to any other subject matter. Instead of “it rained” they’re like “Several women allege that they received nonconsentual water upon their persons. We interviewed men they know, who confirmed that the women seemed damp.” 16903203
Reposted by @sjoyner1965.bsky.socialDan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 11/07/2026oh hai moana 101493200
Reposted by @sjoyner1965.bsky.socialrimidar @rimidar.au · 11/07/2026You really get the feeling that for a certain kind of pundit, Platner dropping out is the best possible outcome because now they have a new and fresh ‘stabbed in the back by the DNC’ lost cause to justify being wreckers about 833649
Reposted by @sjoyner1965.bsky.socialKen Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 10/07/2026When the weather gets hot, please take special care for the goths in your life. With their floor-length coats, platform shoes, and velvet capes, it’s hard for them to thermoregulate as we do. 13972191185
sjoyner1965.bsky.social @sjoyner1965.bsky.social · 11/07/2026Genuinely grateful I steeled myself before exposing myself to any posts that fell under this type of rape apologist dis purse but holy SHIT I can’t imagine what his alleged victims are going through, when those posts are enough to send a victim of someone else (myself) spiralling. 020
sjoyner1965.bsky.social @sjoyner1965.bsky.social · 11/07/2026I guarantee Platner would never accept being labelled as a Democrat Who Supports Israel. 000
sjoyner1965.bsky.social @sjoyner1965.bsky.social · 11/07/2026He hates Jews, I genuinely think that’s good enough for this guy, given what I’ve seen from him. 000
Reposted by @sjoyner1965.bsky.socialmrsomerton @mrsomerton.bsky.social · 09/07/2026stupid libs, calling a guy a Nazi rapist because he has a Nazi tattoo and he raped a woman. for shame! 318023
sjoyner1965.bsky.social @sjoyner1965.bsky.social · 11/07/2026Does this idiot know he could be Jewish, under an anglicized surname???? 131
sjoyner1965.bsky.social @sjoyner1965.bsky.social · 11/07/2026Yeah, him wearing Blackwater merch to “get a rise out of” people automatically marked him as someone I wouldn’t want to talk to in public, much less have be a representative for over a million people. 020
Reposted by @sjoyner1965.bsky.socialElizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 10/07/2026One minor thing that annoys me personally about this shit is that some people romanticize a blue collar white boy aesthetic but can’t tell an actual working class backwoodser from a rich aspiring dirtbag who went to Hotchkiss 371465174
Reposted by @sjoyner1965.bsky.socialTom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 10/07/2026It's not the Senate Majority Leader's job to go beat the bushes in a rural state to see if he can avert the nomination of a completely terrible candidate. Never, never let the voters off the hook 2223621
Reposted by @sjoyner1965.bsky.socialbrasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 11/07/2026A values system that views Pete Buttigieg’s time at McKinsey as disqualifying, but Graham Platner’s time at Blackwater as not, has beclowned itself regardless of the subsequent scandals. 13784162
sjoyner1965.bsky.social @sjoyner1965.bsky.social · 11/07/2026youtu.be/sNNYei__joU?...youtu.beHayley Williams: True Believer | The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy FallonYouTube video by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon 000
sjoyner1965.bsky.social @sjoyner1965.bsky.social · 11/07/2026I think I wrote some post along the ones of “For posterity’s sake: Massie will be on Nick Fuentes by the midterms.” I hate being proven correct when it comes to the trajectory of bigots who use “thinking freely” as a mask for inciting hatred of Jews. 020
sjoyner1965.bsky.social @sjoyner1965.bsky.social · 11/07/2026Except that I’ve heard neither hide nor hair of any campus protests. 010
Reposted by @sjoyner1965.bsky.socialDiedrich Bader @diedrichbader.bsky.social · 10/07/2026McConnell called me today apparently just to softly sing MOON RIVER and then hang up 1883575312
sjoyner1965.bsky.social @sjoyner1965.bsky.social · 10/07/2026The lesson is to not run male candidates lmao 010
Reposted by @sjoyner1965.bsky.socialghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 10/07/2026i'll take a stab at translating this: one of the theorized risks of an outsider movement is that you get more Badly Vetted Candidates, but this year we've had two real huge blowups and one of them was a decade-plus officeholder, so it's not just an outsider thing 4448732
Reposted by @sjoyner1965.bsky.socialBeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 10/07/2026had an Algerian Uber driver yesterday, asked him who he liked in the match, he said "well, the French killed my grandfather, but I really don't like Moroccans." 252923276
sjoyner1965.bsky.social @sjoyner1965.bsky.social · 10/07/2026And all of the protestors were here on a visa or are unable to protest elsewhere? You have to admit, it is fishy as hell how much they disappeared. 150
sjoyner1965.bsky.social @sjoyner1965.bsky.social · 10/07/2026I’d also say that Morris Katz reminds me of how people get high off their own supply. 040
sjoyner1965.bsky.social @sjoyner1965.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Who also said he wishes he had been able to fight in the Indian Wars and the Vietnam War. He wore Blackwater merch to troll people, ffs. Anyone who cared about murdered civilians would never work for Blackwater. 020
sjoyner1965.bsky.social @sjoyner1965.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Hate to be That Person but wouldn’t it be blinded? That being said this made me cry 000