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You can’t browbeat me into voting for this man, but that’s irrelevant because he’ll never ever win a national primary anyway

who controlled Congress in every single one of these shutdowns lol

also, in the world where we have emoji reacts for simple acknowledgement, writing this text at all is an act of aggression

the period does a lot there

same energy as the chuds who say "how can you speak about police reform if you aren't a cop"

it's so funny how close the CTA bus stops are to one another honestly. It's high comedy.

how do you have furloughed workers strike, they are already not working???

I literally have no idea who this author is or what bad things he said, but this message alone is enough to convince me that both him and this publisher are huge assholes I want nothing to do with

I don't really know how "actually, I take it back, I want all the money I already promised to charity now" is like a defensible position without even considering whatever comments he might have made in the past. I don't even know who this guy is, that's just cold as hell

it is useful not to lose sight of how, underneath everything else, hollow all of this noise is. portland and chicago are warzones, so i am dispatching a couple hundred best buy assistant managers there to quell the insurrections. potemkin stuff, paper thin

"see guys you don't have to intervene, the site is like totally dying bro!"

this theory does feel a lot like cope but i guess whether or not it's true it gets to the same end state

given that being banned on Bluesky means you can't be seen by users of the separate instance *that hosts you*, it kind of does seem like central moderation overrides everything here? otherwise his account would just keep existing on blacksky and Blueskyers just wouldn't see it

for all their talk, every Democrat is hoping that they can just sort of wait out this escalation so they don't have to expose any of the giant contradictions and smokescreens of institutional power (federal supremacy, lack of power over state police / guard forces, etc etc)

The thing stopping them is that this opens the thing to its raw base parts, and too many Dems are afraid of even coming near that.

the holes that the ban exposes in the "you can just leave if you don't like it here" story is really undercutting their "this is just a platform" narrative too bsky.app/profile/alia...

Apparently other instances have to do *something* to make his account visible or usable too, since the ban seems to extend to Blacksky against their will:

bsky.app/profile/alia...

Banned from this instance - his posts can't be seen here and people with accounts on this instance can't follow him.

Kind of feels like feds occupying our city for a month, killing one person and shooting another while attacking neighborhoods with chemical weapons and kidnapping hundreds of people already counts as a civil war whether the Guard arrives or not, but what do we know?

Graffiti in a bathroom stall that reads "be yourself and know that it is good enough"

Underrated aspect of transitioning is how much more wholesome the graffiti is

people applaud as I walk down the street; strangers in bars are buying me drinks left and right; my life is forever changed

if only there was something you could do in your capacity as governor to order state forces to arrest her or something. you know, for the crimes she is committing on camera to Illinoisans. Please protect us, don't just post.

Someone earlier today said the only reason a guy like this Sephiroth posts is because he knows the house of cards is coming apart and I didn't pay it too much mind but now it's really looking like the case.

time for the Saturday evening dance of "am I going straight home or am I stopping at DMen Tap again"

feel like "the TOS was changed to allow his behavior" is really being lost in the shuffle here

they need to invent a kind of progesterone that doesn't emotionally ruin me so I can take it again someday

I would suggest replying to that post then lol

cracking up at how republicans just fully stopped talking about charlie kirk lol. dropped him like woody. they can't even keep up the pretense of outrage long enough to pretend to care for a whole month. zero attention span, brains like a kennel of angry dogs with a window to a busy street

having people "study to become an influencer" before they have any worldly experiences to share or be informed by, is kinda terrifying ngl

that's not what the post is saying? the post is implying that the lead exposure Gen X had as children (which millennials did not have) influenced their reactionary views

discover tab on Bluesky is based on most popular / highest engagement posts on the website as a whole I think, it isn't specific to you or curated in any way