Wannabe Apparatchik
@apparatchikwannabe.bsky.social
he/him
History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
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People don’t really understand the nature of the problem. It’s not lots of little random ankle-biter tweets. That’s annoying but whatever. It’s when hating you becomes this communal pursuit that exists separately from yourself. Like there’s an entire group of people working together to target you.
ignore it. why do you big accounts always complain? it’s like a celebrity complaining they get too much attention in the street. it comes with the territory. just ignore or mute those accounts. it seems you might have a kind of para social relationship back.
February 14, 2026 at 3:40 AM
People don’t really understand the nature of the problem. It’s not lots of little random ankle-biter tweets. That’s annoying but whatever. It’s when hating you becomes this communal pursuit that exists separately from yourself. Like there’s an entire group of people working together to target you.
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She fucking killed an entire family while speeding in her Mercedes SUV and they’re not going to even take her license away??
February 14, 2026 at 2:45 AM
She fucking killed an entire family while speeding in her Mercedes SUV and they’re not going to even take her license away??
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Murder is legal, so long as you do it with a car.
The woman prosecutors said killed a family of four after ramming into a bus stop with her car in San Francisco’s West Portal neighborhood will avoid jail time after changing her plea in court.
S.F. driver accused of killing family of 4 in West Portal crash likely to avoid prison time
The woman prosecutors said killed a family of four after ramming into a bus stop with her car in San Francisco’s West Portal neighborhood will avoid jail time after changing her plea in court.
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February 14, 2026 at 3:38 AM
Murder is legal, so long as you do it with a car.
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"Community" is one of those big words that's naturally double edged and it would be nice for us to acknowledge that more often.
Just chiming in to second this from the enby experience; I have been explicitly accused of being a gender traitor for both a. Being a member of the Bergen county democratic committee and b. Being an economist in manufacturing. I’ve also been accused of straight up “faking it” which is…. Not fun!
it is absolutely a thing that happens that if a trans person is trying to be a regular person who belongs to the normal political party that supports their rights, members of The Community will "call them in" and tell them that their insufficient radicalism should embarass them
February 13, 2026 at 11:57 PM
"Community" is one of those big words that's naturally double edged and it would be nice for us to acknowledge that more often.
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Not to worry, friends, it’s only many of the best universities in the country.
February 14, 2026 at 1:45 AM
Not to worry, friends, it’s only many of the best universities in the country.
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I think a lot of you don’t understand the concept of surrender involves a credible commitment not to harm once demands are met. Japan wasn’t going to surrender if they thought they‘d get nuked a third time then get invaded by the Americans and Soviets anyway. Inability to take a W is unhelpful.
February 14, 2026 at 2:25 AM
I think a lot of you don’t understand the concept of surrender involves a credible commitment not to harm once demands are met. Japan wasn’t going to surrender if they thought they‘d get nuked a third time then get invaded by the Americans and Soviets anyway. Inability to take a W is unhelpful.
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One of the ways you can tell this is all about shifting expectations is that two weeks ago the narrative was that Democrats were missing an opportunity to shut down DHS by only demanding minor reforms that the GOP was desperate to take because they were so scared.
DHS is shutting down shortly while the rest of the government remains open bc democrats (so far, things could change) actually handled this situation pretty well, but if you think those facts are going to have any effect on senate Gabe’s poasting, well, I’m afraid you don’t know senate Gabe.
February 14, 2026 at 2:13 AM
One of the ways you can tell this is all about shifting expectations is that two weeks ago the narrative was that Democrats were missing an opportunity to shut down DHS by only demanding minor reforms that the GOP was desperate to take because they were so scared.
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cassie pritchard* also has an extremely good writeup elsewhere for this
*better known for other work
*better known for other work
February 14, 2026 at 2:13 AM
cassie pritchard* also has an extremely good writeup elsewhere for this
*better known for other work
*better known for other work
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if you're an older person who finds words like mogg and maxxing annoying, just starting using them. people over the age of 30 have the superpower to end trends by simply adopting them
February 14, 2026 at 1:50 AM
if you're an older person who finds words like mogg and maxxing annoying, just starting using them. people over the age of 30 have the superpower to end trends by simply adopting them
if he lost a scholarship over it, he should just make a gofundme about it, he’d be able to replace it with donations
February 14, 2026 at 1:45 AM
if he lost a scholarship over it, he should just make a gofundme about it, he’d be able to replace it with donations
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You just know this kid is gonna be trading on this for the rest of his time in high school
February 13, 2026 at 11:19 PM
You just know this kid is gonna be trading on this for the rest of his time in high school
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one of the fundamental thesis of conservatism is that the liberals are all too chickenshit to do anything about their antics. anyways
"you're gonna get in trouble for that"
*stone-faced*
"okay"
goddamn son
*stone-faced*
"okay"
goddamn son
get the kid in the brown hoodie a scholarship
February 13, 2026 at 11:03 PM
one of the fundamental thesis of conservatism is that the liberals are all too chickenshit to do anything about their antics. anyways
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get the kid in the brown hoodie a scholarship
February 13, 2026 at 10:28 PM
get the kid in the brown hoodie a scholarship
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it seems very obvious to me that you’re much better off being an extremely rich person in the US than in Russia or China or KSA but apparently some number of rich Americans disagree
February 14, 2026 at 12:29 AM
it seems very obvious to me that you’re much better off being an extremely rich person in the US than in Russia or China or KSA but apparently some number of rich Americans disagree
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Wild that a sitting member of Congress, a Republican no less, feels compelled to post this.
February 13, 2026 at 9:59 PM
Wild that a sitting member of Congress, a Republican no less, feels compelled to post this.
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[poster with "cumbag enthusiast, rest in piss fred rogers" in bio] what, just because i don't worship your pathetic shitlib podcast king gavin newsom, i can't have an opinion
[normal poster]:
[normal poster]:
a man in a suit and tie says i don t think about you at all
ALT: a man in a suit and tie says i don t think about you at all
media.tenor.com
February 13, 2026 at 9:50 PM
[poster with "cumbag enthusiast, rest in piss fred rogers" in bio] what, just because i don't worship your pathetic shitlib podcast king gavin newsom, i can't have an opinion
[normal poster]:
[normal poster]:
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me when i'm definitely not racist
Hey Cameron just fyi after the Dems finish throwing LGBT people under the bus they're going to turn on black people. All this shucking and jiving isn't going to save you.
February 13, 2026 at 10:07 PM
me when i'm definitely not racist
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hey cool man while you were deep in research or whatever you might want to catch up on some other stuff that has happened in the world in the past year
February 13, 2026 at 7:34 PM
hey cool man while you were deep in research or whatever you might want to catch up on some other stuff that has happened in the world in the past year
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Anyone currently involved in federal immigration enforcement, every officer, every bureaucrat, every lawyer, every judge, is a member of the most evil group of people this country has seen since Reconstruction. Darkness personified, every one. Doing this to children is beyond depraved.
On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast.
The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.
But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.
But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
February 13, 2026 at 8:21 PM
Anyone currently involved in federal immigration enforcement, every officer, every bureaucrat, every lawyer, every judge, is a member of the most evil group of people this country has seen since Reconstruction. Darkness personified, every one. Doing this to children is beyond depraved.
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This is something the Nazis used to do to Jewish children in the camps. It happened to a man I knew when he was a child in Auschwitz. The camp guards thought it was funny as hell.
On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast.
The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.
But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.
But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
February 13, 2026 at 8:09 PM
This is something the Nazis used to do to Jewish children in the camps. It happened to a man I knew when he was a child in Auschwitz. The camp guards thought it was funny as hell.
this is just the basic contradiction of Biden, between the skilled, observant politician able to put himself at the center of where the party is going, and Biden, the self-understood Savior of the Republic who was uniquely capable of taking the necessary actions regardless of what anyone said
February 13, 2026 at 8:28 PM
this is just the basic contradiction of Biden, between the skilled, observant politician able to put himself at the center of where the party is going, and Biden, the self-understood Savior of the Republic who was uniquely capable of taking the necessary actions regardless of what anyone said
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fascinating that Biden was often his strongest when he was embodying a coalitional generic democrat and often got progressively worse the further out of step with the coalition median he got
also extremely not surpised that AOC is mostly reiterating bidenist vibes because bidenism was actually not really about joe biden and more about the general consensus of the contemporary democratic coalition and Biden himself, particularly on FP, was kinda separate from his own admin's posture
February 13, 2026 at 8:24 PM
fascinating that Biden was often his strongest when he was embodying a coalitional generic democrat and often got progressively worse the further out of step with the coalition median he got
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also extremely not surpised that AOC is mostly reiterating bidenist vibes because bidenism was actually not really about joe biden and more about the general consensus of the contemporary democratic coalition and Biden himself, particularly on FP, was kinda separate from his own admin's posture
February 13, 2026 at 8:21 PM
also extremely not surpised that AOC is mostly reiterating bidenist vibes because bidenism was actually not really about joe biden and more about the general consensus of the contemporary democratic coalition and Biden himself, particularly on FP, was kinda separate from his own admin's posture
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One issue here is crank convergence, and the escalation ladder of a competitive media environment. The other is that there's no social cost to beliefs anymore, being a 9/11 truther or an anti-vaxer or a Nazi doesn't actually *mean* as much as it used to, because identity has become so cheap.
Going to need to a complete and total shutdown on podcasters and political livestreams until we can figure out what’s going on
February 13, 2026 at 8:05 PM
One issue here is crank convergence, and the escalation ladder of a competitive media environment. The other is that there's no social cost to beliefs anymore, being a 9/11 truther or an anti-vaxer or a Nazi doesn't actually *mean* as much as it used to, because identity has become so cheap.
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This elitist view that only rich/Ivy/private school kids should study/have access the liberal arts is so deeply ingrained in so many highly educated Democrats’ views (including tons who majored in the lib arts themselves) that they don’t even realize they hold it, let alone how ugly & elitist it is
(3) But the Democrat view is also bad: while it's fine for people at Princeton and Harvard to study Latin and Sanskrit, public higher education is about job training and $ ROI. There is no room for the idea that curiosity-driven inquiry is a good that should be supported by the public.
February 13, 2026 at 3:54 PM
This elitist view that only rich/Ivy/private school kids should study/have access the liberal arts is so deeply ingrained in so many highly educated Democrats’ views (including tons who majored in the lib arts themselves) that they don’t even realize they hold it, let alone how ugly & elitist it is