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Who's A Grumpy Bear? @whosagrumpybear.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

This is a classic logical fallacy (the hypothetical person in the argument, not the OP's argument)

A picture of an NFL referee signaling a foul with the text "We have a fallacy of relative privation on the field. Just because there are worse things in the world doesn't mean other problems should be ignored."

Who's A Grumpy Bear? @whosagrumpybear.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Translated: "I don't understand the difference in counting 150 million votes across thousands of disparate locations and individual local races. I also forgot that the Republicans won the 2024 election."

A tweet from "@rogeramundson.bsky.social" that says "Democrats are really good at counting all the votes in one night when they want to. Weird how that works" with a rolling eyes emoji

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Who's A Grumpy Bear? @whosagrumpybear.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

You've heard of Elf on a Shelf, but have you heard of...

Donald Trump smiling and sitting on a crocodile

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Who's A Grumpy Bear? @whosagrumpybear.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

I think this is a really good point. It is why gangs form, though I'm sure there are significant differences (like not having a stable family to begin with). If they can't belong to MAGA, where can they belong? I'm not aware of any mass exodus from the GOP, and this might be a factor.

Some comments on an article about politics:

Person 1: "Put it this way: other than occasional postings from disgruntled or bewildered Republicans, is there any solid evidence of a mass exodus from the GOP?"

Person 2: "Nope. In all the articles I have read where some trump voter is getting screwed, not one has regretted their vote for trump. There is always some kind of rationalization. “Sure, we lost our farm, but we still believe in what he is doing.”

Why would someone do that? I think maga provides a sense of identity, a sense of community and belonging, a sense of purpose. My wife works with the homeless / addict community where we live. People from that community — and it is a community — will not go to rehab, because if they get clean, they will have to find another community. No one wants to do that. Fear of being outside the tribe outweighs doing what is best for yourself.

I think the in case of gop, someone who leaves the gop needs a place to go to — one that they can see themselves going to and one that will provide the same sense of community and identity as where they are. They need to have confidence that if they leave their current tribe they will be welcomed in a new one. We are not providing that at all. And so no one is leaving the gop."

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Who's A Grumpy Bear? @whosagrumpybear.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

The decision of locking replies to a post asking a question about potential action aside, I'm all for this. Of course, I don't do Black Friday anyways, but anyone else who wants to join... I'll leave the light on for ya.

Bluesky post:

"One person announced an actionable next step: BOYCOTT BLACK FRIDAY

Shouldn’t everyone who marched post that?

I’m just wondering. Just asking.

We are behind the scenes doing what we are doing - I just want to know what the visibility was about. "

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Who's A Grumpy Bear? @whosagrumpybear.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

@apnews.com Police stenography, not just for local media

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Who's A Grumpy Bear? @whosagrumpybear.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Not surprising but the first one I searched was incorrect.

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Who's A Grumpy Bear? @whosagrumpybear.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Notably already gone from @apnews.com front page: Judge's house -- who happened to rule against current Federal administration -- blown up

A screenshot of the front page of APNews.com, without any further mention or update on the explosion at Judge Goodstein's house.

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Who's A Grumpy Bear? @whosagrumpybear.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Never subbed to the Washington Post, but she's interesting enough to earn my first Substack sub

receipt from subscribing to Karen Attiah's substack

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Who's A Grumpy Bear? @whosagrumpybear.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Meanwhile, the original link (nij.ojp.gov/topics/artic...) gives me this:

Notice

The Department of Justice's Office of Justice Programs is currently reviewing its websites and materials in accordance with recent Executive Orders and related guidance. During this review, some pages and publications will be unavailable. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

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Who's A Grumpy Bear? @whosagrumpybear.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Because he speaks from his posterior. A rare shot of his internal monologue:

A scene from Ace Ventura where Ace is ... parting his gluteals... and it says "Hello, I would like to ass you a few questions"

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Who's A Grumpy Bear? @whosagrumpybear.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Unfortunately it seems to be untrue =( leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2...

Transcript of the conversation between Secretary Hegseth and Senator Slotkin:

Secretary Hegseth: Senator, I would be careful what you read in books and believing it, except for the Bible.

Senator Slotkin: Oh, my God. So your former predecessor, I guess that is not enough for you. Okay.

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Who's A Grumpy Bear? @whosagrumpybear.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Yes, I would attribute it more to incompetence, deliberate unwillingness to upset the status quo, whatever before malice in that administration. This administration doesn't really have a reason why not to, unless they're preserving themselves. Classic "tu quoque" fallacy on someone using this.

A picture with the text "Your logical fallacy is 'tu quoque'. You have avoided having to engage with criticism by turning it back on the accuser -- you answered criticism with criticism"

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Who's A Grumpy Bear? @whosagrumpybear.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Parents: Kids, you need to share! Republican Parents:

A gif of an older man with the text "The money is mine. I have the money. The money is mine. I got it!"

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Who's A Grumpy Bear? @whosagrumpybear.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

This is fun, let's do more! pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

A meme of an NFL referee with the text "Illegal use of a Strawman argument. Attempted deflection of an opponent's argument to a point they weren't defending. Play is no good"

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Who's A Grumpy Bear? @whosagrumpybear.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Here's some Onion to balance it out 😜

A snip of articles from The Onion (a satirical website) that says "Peter Thiel Shows Trump How to Sort Spreadsheet Of Americans By Ethnicity" and other tops like "Supreme Court Rules 6-3 That Everyone A Damn Critic" and "Andrew Cuomo Subpoenas Gynecological Records Of Women Who Didn't Vote For Him"

These are all fake articles intended to be funny

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Who's A Grumpy Bear? @whosagrumpybear.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

for those just trying to make ends meet, especially when compared to the past 70 years or so. Capitalism tends towards wealth consolidation when left unchecked.

a graph showing the share of wealth owned by the top 1% vs the bottom 50% over time. The rich are getting richer, the poor are getting poorer

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Who's A Grumpy Bear? @whosagrumpybear.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Look at you workin' hard for your money!

A meme of Vladimir Putin, Chicago News Bench's boss, pointing and saying "Give that man a slice of Ukraine".

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Who's A Grumpy Bear? @whosagrumpybear.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Well, I think I can understand the libs worries, because of the historical gullibility of others over the past few years (hence my lament as well). It's the ones that actually believe it that worry me! And it's a shame because it ruins otherwise good humor. Like this.

A picture of Bruce Springsteen with the words "Bruce Springsteen is canceling his Atlantic City Summer Concert Series for the first time in 25 years due to low ticket sales. The blowback over his comments on stage in Europe has been unrelenting and fierce".

In the lower left corner is a small sticker which says "Nothing on this page is real". yet people passed this around like it was real.

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Who's A Grumpy Bear? @whosagrumpybear.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Oops, maybe not. But I know facts aren't your strong suit.

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Who's A Grumpy Bear? @whosagrumpybear.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

If this was based on truth, this would be the places to go first. 1. New Orleans, LA 2. St Louis, MO 3. Baltimore, MD 4. Philadelphia, PA 5. Memphis, TN 6. Birmingham, AL 7. Kansas City, MO 8. Washington, DC 9. Milwaukee, WI 10. Norfolk, VA

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Who's A Grumpy Bear? @whosagrumpybear.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

In the oft-ignored logic business, we call this...

A meme of an NFL referee with his arms in the air and the words "False Dichotomy -- there are more than two options"

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Who's A Grumpy Bear? @whosagrumpybear.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Oh, almost forgot -- the ratio of wages-to-profit shows similarly bad, since 2008: fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=kUBE

A graph showing total wages-to-profit ratio

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Who's A Grumpy Bear? @whosagrumpybear.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Here's the US equivalent, this one even accounts for CPI (inflation): fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=dhB

a graph of corporate profit, accounting for inflation, over time

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Who's A Grumpy Bear? @whosagrumpybear.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news... The father of VML, who lives in the U.S., sought custody of VML after the mother was detained this week and asked that the girl be placed with a custodian who is “ready and willing” to care for her in the U.S., attorneys for the custodian wrote.

A meme of an NFL Referee with the words "We have cherry picking on the offense. Omitting relevant facts detrimental to their argument"

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Who's A Grumpy Bear? @whosagrumpybear.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

www.factcheck.org/2018/06/did-... Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said at a June 18 press briefing: “The Obama administration, the Bush administration all separated families. … They did — their rate was less than ours, but they absolutely did do this. This is not new.”

Meme of an NFL referee with the text "We have cherry picking on the offense. Omitting relevant facts detrimental to their argument"

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Who's A Grumpy Bear? @whosagrumpybear.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

We have a relatively prevalent human being who does some repugnant stuff who highlighted that you can take advantage of still photographs caught at the right time. Video can show differently. Now there are certainly extra circumstances as you mention, so your pics have a tiny bit more credence.

Libs of Tiktok (spits on ground) posts an image of Hilary Clnton, Barack Obama, Elizabeth Warren, and Kamala Harris each appearing to do a Nazi salute (in still pictures). In videos these turned out not to be the case.

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Who's A Grumpy Bear? @whosagrumpybear.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Blocked for this. I'm deeply appreciative not to waste any future time on such a person. Why not just disable replies if you're so offended by everything people say on your posts?

A tweet from @mattmurph24.bsky.social saying "Bernie Sanders legislative career: 421 bills sponsored 3 bills became law" and a reply from @whosagrumpybear.bsky.social saying "I'm assuming, based on post history, that the conclusion here is that this is his fault?"

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Who's A Grumpy Bear? @whosagrumpybear.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Rep. Kenyatta, we need to know what this is at CECOT. Quietly, if they haven't already cleaned it up. This is from Google Maps. You can see this RIGHT NOW at www.google.com/maps/place/C... There is a good chance this is, quite literally, a death camp.

A satellite image of CECOT in El Salvador showing a large dark reddish-brown stain on the ground and several indistinct shapes.

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