Josh

I sincerely keep reflecting on that scene in Spaceballs where Rick Moranis says, "Evil will always triumph, because good is dumb."

For sure. Privleges, not rights. Good news, I believe, is that it can't be kept away forever.

We should also celebrate just how fucking stupid our enemies are. We need some serious work/motivation, but they are also really struggling to keep their foot off of the rake at every single turn.

I think we're losing, but, as Angela Davis pointed out, freedom is a constant struggle.
I agree, largely, but to embrace we've already lost lends permission to accept the failure, which is in no small part why solidarity is so elusive to most who agree.

Hope is a discipline and all that.

Only in the literal sense and only for the politicians.

I have a hard time buying the conviction of any writer on substack the same way I have a hard time buying the conviction of any activist or leftist "content creator" hanging out on Twitter.

Unfortunately, some of the most popular voices are downright defensive of their fascist playgrounds.

Imagine having a job in writing and egging on the AI replacement of a job infinitely harder to usurp than your own. Most of NYT might as well be a corpo propaganda bot at this point, anyway.

The Iron Sheik o @the_ironsheik HULK HOGAN MAY HAVE BEEN A DUMB SON OF A BITCH IN THE RING BUT OUTSIDE THE RING HE WAS ALSO A DUMB SON OF A BITCH

Nobody gives a fuck about Hulk Hogan's fascist ass. We're still mourning Ozzy.

"If anti-genocide activists think 'sanction' applies to military equipment, how can we, feckless conservative neoliberals, be expected to support you? Nazis need that protection!"

Stop bothering to try... As if the notion of stopping mass slaughter should be to appease our ass, you fucking idiot.

Well, that definitely won't work because the term got coopted by an app full of liberals going "she told you so."

People understand what the vote was. This is gaslighting.

Support of the Iron Dome is support of Israel. It isn't even hard.

So disappointing, but the typical base will just buy in and claim fake news.

This is the median bluesky user, and I am less and less a fan of Bluesky as a result.

Lol. You don't know shit about me, jackoff.

Well, thankfully your party is so in the bag of the fascists, you probably don't even need to worry about winning elections, anymore.

It's not a high level of scrutiny that's the issue, it's you that will apply none and pat yourself on the back for a job well done while the planet fucking burns.

An endorsement from Jeffries sullies it for me, personally. I don't want that useless prick to publicly support a socialist, because then I'll have a hard time trusting the socialist.

It's impossible for me to find any amount of faith for any politician that is willing to associate themselves with the party. Even of they go in with a heart, I think it is swiftly shriveled by the capital that maintains the party.

It's been too polluted for subversion my entire life.

Maybe not... I mean, the economy is fucking workers of all sorts.

Because:

Somehow timed years of playing @warframe.com to get my level 30 mastery rank right at the end of the first Tenno Concert. A good Friday.

Don't need to move them if the billions of dollars in munitions every month kills everyone.

Is Trump better? No. But invoking Biden as if he was some sort of honest reprieve from Israel's cruelty is a sick joke.

Ethnic cleansing is ethnic cleansing. Genocide is genocide.

Seconding GrapheneOS if you already have the pixel. Putting google in a box feels good. It's fairly easy to install vs the old days of custom OS, too.

Dude's been a corpse for years.

Also, no.

At the end of the day, Bluesky just feels like more "content creators" with few lay people actually socializing in a meaningful way.

Might be an old man yelling at clouds, but I used to actually meet people online. Now I just watch them.

Brought to you by: "I'm pretty sure most follows are bots."

Watching folks talk about Trump's ankles is kinda funny. I am sure he has venous insufficiency. I'm also sure he is non-compliant af with anything resembling low sodium for his rampant heart failure, too.

It's the body McDonald's built. The real shocking part is that CAD hasn't pulled the trigger.

"Stay rich."

"I will not vote for genocide"

Dems: "Purity test!"

"I want vulnerable communities to be protected."

Dems: "Purity test!"

"We need free healthcare to save lives, not minor reforms."

Dems: "Purity test!"

"I won't vote for politicians attacking homeless people."

Dems: "Purity test!"

I feel like this is legitimately something we rural folk can use to our advantage in confronting the locals, who are really into that kinda thing.

Society really lost it's shit when we moved away from containing the internet to one room in the house.

It's almost like tolerating "lesser evilism" has packed the government with evil.