surpriseduck.bsky.social @surpriseduck.bsky.social · 9hBut I am repeatedly told that elections do not matter and that only firebombing walmarts brings change. Are you telling me those people are wrong? 130
Reposted by @surpriseduck.bsky.socialashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 12/10/2026hey ben. the guy in the picture here is an actual person, my friend’s dad, and a spiritual leader of Lakota people, Chief Arvol Looking Horse. not only does he support Indigenous People’s Day, he’s the founder of World Peace and Prayer Day. feels weird to use his image and not his name. 402390355
Reposted by @surpriseduck.bsky.socialInnsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Those were extrajudicial murders, people are saying that because words still mean things even if scoring points off people is at stake 147234
Reposted by @surpriseduck.bsky.socialJulia Davis @juliadavisnews.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Meanwhile in Russia: state TV host Vladimir Solovyov and his guests basked in the glow of the diesel deal with America and predicted that Trump would help Moscow to get rid of Zelensky. www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvN2...youtube.comRussian state TV pundits discuss the diesel deal with AmericaYouTube video by Russian Media Monitor 29431238
Reposted by @surpriseduck.bsky.socialThe Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Coupled with “awareness” as currency, there came the sanctifying of “activist” as a label that put somebody beyond reproach, beyond the need to ask whether their methods or focus were effective at anything, let alone what they said they were trying to do 513118
Reposted by @surpriseduck.bsky.socialDmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 11/10/2026I'm so sorry. 241073208
Reposted by @surpriseduck.bsky.socialZoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 11/10/2026The point is that, just like someone else should be doing the voting, someone else should be bombing the Walmart. At no point should the poaster themself have to do jack shit, other than poast and moan about how evil the Democrats and Neoliberal Late Capitalism are. 2527
Reposted by @surpriseduck.bsky.socialDr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 11/10/2026i think the united states shouldn't partner with authoritarian murderers in order to attack democracies 233730
Reposted by @surpriseduck.bsky.socialZoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 12/10/2026We need a better class of anti-AI poaster. One that isn't just QAnon with slightly different aesthetics. 5533
Reposted by @surpriseduck.bsky.socialZoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 10/10/2026The extent to which Trump just overly breaks laws left and right and often gets away with it is why I keep coming back to how Trump 2.0 is just a ramshackle, authoritarian, kleptokakistocratic 3rd World shithole regime we'd recognize instantly if it was happening in Uganda or Venezuela or Yemen. 210115
Reposted by @surpriseduck.bsky.sociallastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 10/10/2026The posture of Knowingness which is quick to assert that actually there is no sense things are getting worse when the state livestreams an execution because it's analogous to cop killings of the past is very stupid. You can and should notice changes. 751473
Reposted by @surpriseduck.bsky.socialAubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 10/10/2026It was true before but now it's especially true that the rest of the world can't rely on what 30,000 voters in Wisconsin decide to do every four years. We're unreliable and should be treated as unreliable. 223124
Reposted by @surpriseduck.bsky.socialBill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026July 31: Russia is sharing intelligence with Iran to launch assaults on US troops October 9: Trump is doing a diesel deal with Russia (which can now use that money to provide intelligence to Iran in launching assaults on US troops) 14270146
Reposted by @surpriseduck.bsky.socialZoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Eh, Plato and Rousseau can lead to places as dark as anything in Randian thought; darker, even. There is virtue in the protection of the collective, but individual drive and ambition and autonomy are as vital to a just society as the protection of collective interests. 2232
Reposted by @surpriseduck.bsky.socialZoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 10/10/2026It's only Imperialism when White People, otherwise it's just sparkling proactive self-defense. 26815
Reposted by @surpriseduck.bsky.socialDavid the Trifecta: Fatty, Beardo, Weirdo @coldwarhost.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Remember folks, Russia doesn't have enough Diesel for Russia, let alone for the United States. It is an empty deal being made to convince midterm voters who don't know better while providing further support for Russia in its murderous war against Ukraine. 2306
Reposted by @surpriseduck.bsky.socialTestudo Aubrei @ritterteufeltod.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Huge part of this is simply admitting that it isnt just faceless systems and it definitely isn’t shadowy elite conspiracies but the evil of very ordinary people that keeps the world mired in shit. America has millions of the kinds of people who post on Nextdoor dot com. There’s our problem! 2354
Reposted by @surpriseduck.bsky.socialSlavaUkraini033 @slavaukraini033.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Breaking: Ukrainian President Zelenskyy responds to Trump diesel deal with Putin: Peace never comes through weakness. Today, representatives of the U.S. Congress were in Kyiv – a bipartisan delegation – and I am grateful to them for visiting Ukraine at such a difficult time. 22341109
Reposted by @surpriseduck.bsky.socialNed Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 09/10/2026All forms of conspiracism go through a process of convergent evolution akin to carcinization, except instead of turning into crabs they end up as, well, you know 531845
Reposted by @surpriseduck.bsky.socialRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 09/10/2026This is completely outrageous and disgusting. This must immediately be blocked by Congress and Trump should be impeached for this. The US is now funding Putin’s war machine as he murders civilians including children. We are lost as a country. 2072162605666
Reposted by @surpriseduck.bsky.socialKate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 10/10/2026I’m feeling sick! Today, our supposed allies decided to give the mad goblin in the Kremlin more money to keep killing us, and blamed us for it in the process! We made them buy russian oil, you see? By defending ourselves. Freaking circus. Donate to the Armed Forces of Ukraine 1111596466
Reposted by @surpriseduck.bsky.socialJordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Sorry but no, it is in fact notable that the US is doing something only very extremist regimes do. To willingly abandon “this isn’t who we are” as a response is to throw away a very powerful rhetorical weapon. 128945114
Reposted by @surpriseduck.bsky.socialVituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 10/10/2026A murder is a different thing than an execution, is maybe one thing here Apart from serving as a parasocial status demonstration, I really don’t understand what the virtue of trying to underplay the significance of the U.S. goverment making an official snuff film is 1124325
Reposted by @surpriseduck.bsky.socialSky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 10/10/2026the cuck american president: stop attacking russian oil the gigachad ukranian military: we will burn their refineries 17914141
Reposted by @surpriseduck.bsky.socialKate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Trump announces importing diesel from Russia. 1 It will kill Ukrainians 2 What happened to the sanctions? 3 IT WILL KILL UKRAINIANS 84860302
Reposted by @surpriseduck.bsky.socialwozvillenation.bsky.social @wozvillenation.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Trump announces he’s funding Putin’s war against Ukraine. 422018
Reposted by @surpriseduck.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/10/2026“Every member of this ethnic group is a criminal who needs to be imprisoned by the state” is just pure uncut Nazi shit 10549801208
Reposted by @surpriseduck.bsky.socialDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Not beating the eugenics accusations 17956297
Reposted by @surpriseduck.bsky.socialMatthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Next time Russia apologists sob about how poorly they were treated by the west 3436
Reposted by @surpriseduck.bsky.socialSam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 09/10/2026They spent a Ukraine aid package worth of money on changing all the signs and letterheads and in 2029 we're gonna have to spend another pile of money on changing them back while the press (derogatory, slur) yells at us for wasting money 337660
Reposted by @surpriseduck.bsky.socialMatthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 08/10/2026This was the most bizarre reaction to October 7 - like somehow actually this was the end of Israel, rather than the beginning of a period of disaster for Palestine & Lebanon 215614
Reposted by @surpriseduck.bsky.socialIsaac (proud small hat wearer) Gantwerk Mayer @isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026for a statement supposed to be about how zionism is bad because of the ethnic cleansing, this post sure is advocating for mass ethnic cleansing 11268
Reposted by @surpriseduck.bsky.socialVaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Okay but look if we talk about that then we might have to talk about how the voters aren’t just socialist utopians suppressed by the corporate Zionist cabal and often want bad or stupid things 67414
surpriseduck.bsky.social @surpriseduck.bsky.social · 08/10/2026If the trireme crews are motivated to the point of being willing to throw away their lives and they're in a weather state that allows them to close in then yes. Otherwise I'd have a hard time seeing the crews wanting to continue after watching the first few ships get reduced to matchsticks 030
Reposted by @surpriseduck.bsky.socialBeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026hmmm do we think maybe there's been some cheapening of the framework around genocide here if it can encompass the pro-Palestinian mayor of New York City. 431402158
Reposted by @surpriseduck.bsky.socialVituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 07/10/2026The blame for Trump 2 lies with voters! That’s a bummer! But you gotta accept that! 821837
Reposted by @surpriseduck.bsky.socialKate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 07/10/2026It's 6:30 in the morning in Ukraine. We have been under russian attack all night, and the heaviest part is still ahead. 37624228
Reposted by @surpriseduck.bsky.socialZoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The casual antisemitism among leftists is really something to behold. Something go wrong? THE J...excuse me...THE ZIONISTS MUST BE INVOLVED. 1024236
Reposted by @surpriseduck.bsky.socialMadeline Sophia Luther 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱🇳🇴 @vinminen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I mean we should ban all flights to and from Russia, but that's just because they deserve to be a pariah state and sealed away until the end of time like Gog and Magog... 1161
Reposted by @surpriseduck.bsky.socialMatthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Why would you allow this in court ever in a million billion years 19898196
Reposted by @surpriseduck.bsky.socialBill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 01/10/2026it is not the most pressing concern in the world but i am actually concerned that a decent number of hard left influencers literally want to kill me and my family 767043
Reposted by @surpriseduck.bsky.socialVaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The Tinfoil Hat Consensus is a very real political bloc and they do not Just Want A Better World 39513
Reposted by @surpriseduck.bsky.socialauonsson @auonsson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Strategic comms, another one. 'Håll gränsen' In a report aboard a Swedish corvette on a live mission to Finland, Paula Wallenburg, operational commander SE Navy makes a reference to the -82 submarine incident where SE armed forces were locked and loaded to deter Russian navy. 212020
Reposted by @surpriseduck.bsky.socialCalliope @calliope5431.bsky.social · 30/09/2026"Places other than the US [and sometimes Russia and China] have agency" continues to be something vanishingly few people either in the US or outside of it understand. This isn't how the Cold War worked, it's certainly not how things work now. 412517
Reposted by @surpriseduck.bsky.socialSam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The thing that pisses me off the most about this one is State never actually used the g-word because of the diplomatic implications of R2P and this same crowd of people pointed at that statement back in 2020 to say "Look, even the State Department doesn't think it's a genocide..." 15710
Reposted by @surpriseduck.bsky.socialKate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I swear, they just randomly choose one of the four and roll with it. 2135779
Reposted by @surpriseduck.bsky.social(Un)Dead Carl 🎃 @deadcarl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026“It’s human nature to want to do labor, like {HOBBIES OF THE ARISTOCRACY}” 412119
Reposted by @surpriseduck.bsky.socialRachel Hallie @dazedrachel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Like the "I would make lattes in the revolution" posts from way back, I would take this sentiment more seriously if they would admit society requires necessary labor that people DON'T WANT TO DO and have to be either paid or forced Notably this post does not say "you dream of cleaning sewers" 1421930
Reposted by @surpriseduck.bsky.socialArgellaStone @argellastone.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Edgy socialists decided to help kill millions of people globally because they convinced themselves this guy was Bibi's best friend. 724960
