AO
@activeoppressor.bsky.social
Inefficiently educated queer slob nerd. He/him. Avatar photo by Phill Dane on Unsplash.
R.I.P Todd Snider
Wtf is this world
Wtf is this world
November 15, 2025 at 7:43 PM
R.I.P Todd Snider
Wtf is this world
Wtf is this world
Is No Kings a march, a protest, or a demo? Was it coherent, or counterrevolutionry? I don't know! I do know that it's good for people to have fun hating Trump. Maybe it's not tactically optimal, but it's more effective than doing nothing. People did something! Maybe they'll do something else too!
October 19, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Is No Kings a march, a protest, or a demo? Was it coherent, or counterrevolutionry? I don't know! I do know that it's good for people to have fun hating Trump. Maybe it's not tactically optimal, but it's more effective than doing nothing. People did something! Maybe they'll do something else too!
Arguments like ACTUALLY TRUMP ISN'T A KING HE'S A FASCIST are ridiculous. You choose a name that attracts attention and somehow captures the imagination. When Republicans came up with GWOT do you think someone said UM BUT TERROR IS A CONCEPT NOT AN ARMY? Hell no. Precise word usage does not matter.
October 18, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Arguments like ACTUALLY TRUMP ISN'T A KING HE'S A FASCIST are ridiculous. You choose a name that attracts attention and somehow captures the imagination. When Republicans came up with GWOT do you think someone said UM BUT TERROR IS A CONCEPT NOT AN ARMY? Hell no. Precise word usage does not matter.
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This made me laugh
October 17, 2025 at 8:36 PM
This made me laugh
Announcing a CIA operation is super smart
October 15, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Announcing a CIA operation is super smart
I just learned that "bridesmaid proposal boxes" exist. Personal opinion, if you have extra money to spend on a wedding, use it on child care for guests and better food.
October 9, 2025 at 6:44 PM
I just learned that "bridesmaid proposal boxes" exist. Personal opinion, if you have extra money to spend on a wedding, use it on child care for guests and better food.
I hate that I'm afraid Trump's peace plan will work because then "savvy" randos will be calling him Donald the dove and similar nonsense.
Nonetheless I hope it works, but it's quite likely Israel violates it on some pretense within a week. And of course the genocide is nearly complete already.
Nonetheless I hope it works, but it's quite likely Israel violates it on some pretense within a week. And of course the genocide is nearly complete already.
October 8, 2025 at 11:28 PM
I hate that I'm afraid Trump's peace plan will work because then "savvy" randos will be calling him Donald the dove and similar nonsense.
Nonetheless I hope it works, but it's quite likely Israel violates it on some pretense within a week. And of course the genocide is nearly complete already.
Nonetheless I hope it works, but it's quite likely Israel violates it on some pretense within a week. And of course the genocide is nearly complete already.
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One of the things that brings me the greatest despair in authoritarianism is watching people react to state violence the way they react to domestic violence.
By justifying anything and everything the perpetrators does through blaming a victim for failing to be submissive enough.
By justifying anything and everything the perpetrators does through blaming a victim for failing to be submissive enough.
October 7, 2025 at 6:17 PM
One of the things that brings me the greatest despair in authoritarianism is watching people react to state violence the way they react to domestic violence.
By justifying anything and everything the perpetrators does through blaming a victim for failing to be submissive enough.
By justifying anything and everything the perpetrators does through blaming a victim for failing to be submissive enough.
SC "lets" Lisa Cook stay at the federal reserve. I really don't like this phrasing. The attempted firing is illegal and it's not a Constitutional issue. Trump doesn't have the power to fire her, period. SC "won't" make the clearly correct decision is the correct phrasing.
October 1, 2025 at 10:20 PM
SC "lets" Lisa Cook stay at the federal reserve. I really don't like this phrasing. The attempted firing is illegal and it's not a Constitutional issue. Trump doesn't have the power to fire her, period. SC "won't" make the clearly correct decision is the correct phrasing.
Announcing the location and date of a gathering of every senior leader in the U.S. military seems extremely not smart.
September 26, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Announcing the location and date of a gathering of every senior leader in the U.S. military seems extremely not smart.
Don't watch Republican events.
September 22, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Don't watch Republican events.
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I will day this, the Disney Adults have proven themselves much more ready to meet this moment than any Harry Potter Adult has.
September 21, 2025 at 1:37 AM
I will day this, the Disney Adults have proven themselves much more ready to meet this moment than any Harry Potter Adult has.
Jfc you do not need credentials and "access" to do journalism. In fact, all those things get you is bullshit and propaganda. Do actual reporting instead of standing in a room with Hegseth while he talks nonsense.
September 21, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Jfc you do not need credentials and "access" to do journalism. In fact, all those things get you is bullshit and propaganda. Do actual reporting instead of standing in a room with Hegseth while he talks nonsense.
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Calling peoples' employers in a rage because their tributes to Robert Redford weren't horny enough
September 17, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Calling peoples' employers in a rage because their tributes to Robert Redford weren't horny enough
I don't mind being wrong about the Kirk shooter's motivation. But it changes nothing. Kirk was scum and the MAGAts were going to do all this anyway. Reactionaries always pretend they were forced into things they already planned and have already done.
September 16, 2025 at 8:47 PM
I don't mind being wrong about the Kirk shooter's motivation. But it changes nothing. Kirk was scum and the MAGAts were going to do all this anyway. Reactionaries always pretend they were forced into things they already planned and have already done.
Assuming Newsom and Pritzker both seek the Dem nomination in 2028, be ready for the barrage of fatphobic shit-throwing from off the record insiders who are actually Newsom staffers or DNC players.
September 15, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Assuming Newsom and Pritzker both seek the Dem nomination in 2028, be ready for the barrage of fatphobic shit-throwing from off the record insiders who are actually Newsom staffers or DNC players.
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It isn’t “grace” to pretend to hand-wring over a man who called for violence, praised gun culture, dehumanized trans folks, and led young people into violent nationalism. It is disingenuousness at best, rank cowardice at worst. And it does harm.
If your words whitewash a fascist, stop speaking.
If your words whitewash a fascist, stop speaking.
September 11, 2025 at 12:46 AM
It isn’t “grace” to pretend to hand-wring over a man who called for violence, praised gun culture, dehumanized trans folks, and led young people into violent nationalism. It is disingenuousness at best, rank cowardice at worst. And it does harm.
If your words whitewash a fascist, stop speaking.
If your words whitewash a fascist, stop speaking.
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"political violence is never acceptable," is a phrase you don't hear politicians say after cops beat the shit out of peaceful demonstrators
September 10, 2025 at 11:36 PM
"political violence is never acceptable," is a phrase you don't hear politicians say after cops beat the shit out of peaceful demonstrators
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Charlie Kirk spent his life‘s work and all of his energy and time targeting out-groups while arguing for a world in which gun massacres would be easy to enact, plentiful, and inevitable, and he became famous and wealthy doing it, and we’re now not supposed to mention that because it’s not polite.
September 10, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Charlie Kirk spent his life‘s work and all of his energy and time targeting out-groups while arguing for a world in which gun massacres would be easy to enact, plentiful, and inevitable, and he became famous and wealthy doing it, and we’re now not supposed to mention that because it’s not polite.
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I do not understand the mindset that makes liberals express sympathy for someone who would have absolutely celebrated if the roles were reversed, like bro, have some god damned self respect
September 10, 2025 at 11:00 PM
I do not understand the mindset that makes liberals express sympathy for someone who would have absolutely celebrated if the roles were reversed, like bro, have some god damned self respect
Blanket condemnation of political violence is ridiculous. This is a tactical matter. Is Kirk's death going to help reactionaries, or not? Today, next month, in five years? Reactionaries engage in political violence every single day. All of right-wing policy is attempted murder. 1/2
September 10, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Blanket condemnation of political violence is ridiculous. This is a tactical matter. Is Kirk's death going to help reactionaries, or not? Today, next month, in five years? Reactionaries engage in political violence every single day. All of right-wing policy is attempted murder. 1/2
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Political violence absolutely has a place. That's how I'm a free Haitian-American: because my ancestors used the tools available to them.
There may be a time when you need the tool to. That day may not be today, but it's important to have a well-stocked toolbox.
Dealer's choice, of course.
There may be a time when you need the tool to. That day may not be today, but it's important to have a well-stocked toolbox.
Dealer's choice, of course.
September 10, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Political violence absolutely has a place. That's how I'm a free Haitian-American: because my ancestors used the tools available to them.
There may be a time when you need the tool to. That day may not be today, but it's important to have a well-stocked toolbox.
Dealer's choice, of course.
There may be a time when you need the tool to. That day may not be today, but it's important to have a well-stocked toolbox.
Dealer's choice, of course.
Charlie Kirk is, or was, a fascist shitbag and I don't care what happens, or happened, to him. Fascist shitbags should be afraid to appear in public. In a functioning society they would be made irrelevant, not invited to campus. The left can't be the people who get shot but never fight back.
September 10, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Charlie Kirk is, or was, a fascist shitbag and I don't care what happens, or happened, to him. Fascist shitbags should be afraid to appear in public. In a functioning society they would be made irrelevant, not invited to campus. The left can't be the people who get shot but never fight back.
Fuck Charlie Kirk obviously
September 10, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Fuck Charlie Kirk obviously