Ransom K. Fern
@arcanespaghetti.bsky.social
El Pueblo Unido Jamás Será Vencido 🏴
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"...every ounce of my energy has been devoted to an active
opposition to cruel bigotry, convulsive violence, and the sadistic persecution which has characterised the philosophy and practice of fascism...nothing fruitful or sincere could ever emerge from association between us."
opposition to cruel bigotry, convulsive violence, and the sadistic persecution which has characterised the philosophy and practice of fascism...nothing fruitful or sincere could ever emerge from association between us."
September 16, 2025 at 1:43 PM
"...every ounce of my energy has been devoted to an active
opposition to cruel bigotry, convulsive violence, and the sadistic persecution which has characterised the philosophy and practice of fascism...nothing fruitful or sincere could ever emerge from association between us."
opposition to cruel bigotry, convulsive violence, and the sadistic persecution which has characterised the philosophy and practice of fascism...nothing fruitful or sincere could ever emerge from association between us."
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Major airlines, including American Airlines, United, and Delta, are selling access to five billion plane ticketing records to the government for warrantless searching and monitoring of peoples’ movements, including by the FBI, Secret Service, ICE.
🔗 www.404media.co/airlines-sel...
🔗 www.404media.co/airlines-sel...
Airlines Sell 5 Billion Plane Ticket Records to the Government For Warrantless Searching
New documents obtained by 404 Media show how a data broker owned by American Airlines, United, Delta, and many other airlines is selling masses of passenger data to the U.S. government.
www.404media.co
September 16, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Major airlines, including American Airlines, United, and Delta, are selling access to five billion plane ticketing records to the government for warrantless searching and monitoring of peoples’ movements, including by the FBI, Secret Service, ICE.
🔗 www.404media.co/airlines-sel...
🔗 www.404media.co/airlines-sel...
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One thing that’s different now is there’s virtually no shared foundation of reality, at least not online.
And that’s largely purposeful.
It’s all a bunch of engines to produce emotional reactivity, and we’re all parts of those engines—consciously or not—while also being subjected to their effects.
And that’s largely purposeful.
It’s all a bunch of engines to produce emotional reactivity, and we’re all parts of those engines—consciously or not—while also being subjected to their effects.
September 12, 2025 at 9:31 PM
One thing that’s different now is there’s virtually no shared foundation of reality, at least not online.
And that’s largely purposeful.
It’s all a bunch of engines to produce emotional reactivity, and we’re all parts of those engines—consciously or not—while also being subjected to their effects.
And that’s largely purposeful.
It’s all a bunch of engines to produce emotional reactivity, and we’re all parts of those engines—consciously or not—while also being subjected to their effects.
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I've worked on the far-right beat for nearly 10 years now, and I've had to handle sorting through a lot of misinformation on politically motivated violence. And this is by far the worst instance of it, including from a lot of people who should really know better.
September 12, 2025 at 8:57 PM
I've worked on the far-right beat for nearly 10 years now, and I've had to handle sorting through a lot of misinformation on politically motivated violence. And this is by far the worst instance of it, including from a lot of people who should really know better.
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Currently zero direct evidence the shooter was a groyper™, but it seems that won't matter, the conceptual reality of this event will squarely fall along partisan/politics lines
September 12, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Currently zero direct evidence the shooter was a groyper™, but it seems that won't matter, the conceptual reality of this event will squarely fall along partisan/politics lines
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virtually every single thing we have learned indirectly from local authorities has been immediately retracted and republished with radically different context, sometimes multiple times, nothing is concrete until it's concrete
do not break your brain on rumint
do not break your brain on rumint
September 12, 2025 at 8:31 PM
virtually every single thing we have learned indirectly from local authorities has been immediately retracted and republished with radically different context, sometimes multiple times, nothing is concrete until it's concrete
do not break your brain on rumint
do not break your brain on rumint
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People need to understand that Gamergate is the most important domestic political event of my lifetime
September 12, 2025 at 6:27 PM
People need to understand that Gamergate is the most important domestic political event of my lifetime
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I don’t know man. Something about the fact young guys spend so much time gaming and indoors getting irony poisoned to the fact they write video game memes on bullet casings makes me think we got a problem with aimless young men in society.
September 12, 2025 at 6:24 PM
I don’t know man. Something about the fact young guys spend so much time gaming and indoors getting irony poisoned to the fact they write video game memes on bullet casings makes me think we got a problem with aimless young men in society.
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I do not care how much this annoys people on this website: there is no evidence (yet) that this guy was a groyper. Yes, there are similarities and shared DNA between groypers and the nihilistic brainrotted gaming circles this guy likely came from, but they are not the same thing.
Charlie Kirk’s shooter was a 22 year old white cis man & 4chan groyper.
Charlie Kirk’s last words were “gang violence”. he was claiming Black people were inherently violent right before his life was ended by another white man.
Here is a description of Kirk’s terrorism by one of his many victims:
Charlie Kirk’s last words were “gang violence”. he was claiming Black people were inherently violent right before his life was ended by another white man.
Here is a description of Kirk’s terrorism by one of his many victims:
September 12, 2025 at 4:39 PM
I do not care how much this annoys people on this website: there is no evidence (yet) that this guy was a groyper. Yes, there are similarities and shared DNA between groypers and the nihilistic brainrotted gaming circles this guy likely came from, but they are not the same thing.
@livagar.bsky.social is on Twitch right now talking about the Kirk shooters motivations, and she understands this shit better than 99% of people here, and is pouring cold water on the “definitely a groyper” theory. She is making a lot of sense.
September 12, 2025 at 6:55 PM
@livagar.bsky.social is on Twitch right now talking about the Kirk shooters motivations, and she understands this shit better than 99% of people here, and is pouring cold water on the “definitely a groyper” theory. She is making a lot of sense.
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The one time we got the smoking gun of undeniable ideology that mapped neatly onto american partisanship in political violence was J6, and we decided it was too scary to treat it as such, so now we return to deciphering memes of school shooters like medieval peasants panicking at an eclipse.
September 12, 2025 at 3:01 PM
The one time we got the smoking gun of undeniable ideology that mapped neatly onto american partisanship in political violence was J6, and we decided it was too scary to treat it as such, so now we return to deciphering memes of school shooters like medieval peasants panicking at an eclipse.
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New from @tinanguyen.bsky.social and me: Charlie Kirk's shooter left behind bullet casings with a furry sex meme and a bunch of Helldivers video game references. Subreddits for Helldivers immediately picked up on it.
www.theverge.com/politics/777...
www.theverge.com/politics/777...
Charlie Kirk’s alleged killer scratched bullets with a Helldivers combo and a furry sex meme
The suspected shooter left a hodgepodge of extremely online taunts.
www.theverge.com
September 12, 2025 at 3:55 PM
New from @tinanguyen.bsky.social and me: Charlie Kirk's shooter left behind bullet casings with a furry sex meme and a bunch of Helldivers video game references. Subreddits for Helldivers immediately picked up on it.
www.theverge.com/politics/777...
www.theverge.com/politics/777...
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it's definitely redolent of that broader cultural milieu, but way too random and irony-layered to tie to any kind of specific political goal or meaningful ideological framework
September 12, 2025 at 3:11 PM
it's definitely redolent of that broader cultural milieu, but way too random and irony-layered to tie to any kind of specific political goal or meaningful ideological framework
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[bombing half the planet] haw haw whatchagonnado about it, power flows from a gun
[watching one nazi get shot] please… not Violence
[watching one nazi get shot] please… not Violence
September 10, 2025 at 9:01 PM
[bombing half the planet] haw haw whatchagonnado about it, power flows from a gun
[watching one nazi get shot] please… not Violence
[watching one nazi get shot] please… not Violence
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It’s a real “did you know the Segway inventor was killed by a Segway” moment isn’t it
September 10, 2025 at 8:53 PM
It’s a real “did you know the Segway inventor was killed by a Segway” moment isn’t it
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Compare the tone, quantity and duration of the response to the shooting of Charlie Kirk with the response to the horrific murder of thousands of young children in Gaza.
As for those warning that Trump will use this to clamp down, he will do so to precisely the extent that centrists enable him to.
As for those warning that Trump will use this to clamp down, he will do so to precisely the extent that centrists enable him to.
We have a bit of a natural experiment here. Compare the tone, quantity and duration of Charlie Kirk coverage with that of the two Dem lawmakers gunned down in their homes in Minnesota 6 months ago. May be revealing.
September 10, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Compare the tone, quantity and duration of the response to the shooting of Charlie Kirk with the response to the horrific murder of thousands of young children in Gaza.
As for those warning that Trump will use this to clamp down, he will do so to precisely the extent that centrists enable him to.
As for those warning that Trump will use this to clamp down, he will do so to precisely the extent that centrists enable him to.
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Vance Boelter, a Trump, GOP voting Christian nationalist, was radicalized in part by QAnon, the same conspiracy promoted by Trump and Republicans, even though they knew it had radicalized others to commit violence.
Boelter had a hit list of 70 liberals. He killed Melissa Hortmann and her husband.
Boelter had a hit list of 70 liberals. He killed Melissa Hortmann and her husband.
September 10, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Vance Boelter, a Trump, GOP voting Christian nationalist, was radicalized in part by QAnon, the same conspiracy promoted by Trump and Republicans, even though they knew it had radicalized others to commit violence.
Boelter had a hit list of 70 liberals. He killed Melissa Hortmann and her husband.
Boelter had a hit list of 70 liberals. He killed Melissa Hortmann and her husband.
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Utah was the first state to allow open carry on campus. A would-be assailant could walk right onto campus armed as they please and nobody could’ve done a thing about it.
In 2014, Anita Sarkeesian canceled an event at Utah State after a credible assassination threat because the school’s response was that Utah allows guns on college campuses.
People have warned about this kind of violence for years. But they weren’t the people the powers at be wanted to protect.
People have warned about this kind of violence for years. But they weren’t the people the powers at be wanted to protect.
September 10, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Utah was the first state to allow open carry on campus. A would-be assailant could walk right onto campus armed as they please and nobody could’ve done a thing about it.
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no offends if this is you but if you're thinking "this is going to make the right do fascism" they're already there. they blew up a boat with 11 people on it for being immigrants. they're kidnapping US citizens and trying to rendition them to Uganda. do you think we're on a trajectory to peace
September 10, 2025 at 7:38 PM
no offends if this is you but if you're thinking "this is going to make the right do fascism" they're already there. they blew up a boat with 11 people on it for being immigrants. they're kidnapping US citizens and trying to rendition them to Uganda. do you think we're on a trajectory to peace
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The Charlie Kirk shooting happened essentially as another school shooting happened a state away
NEW: At least 2 people were being transported to a Denver-area hospital after a shooting involving an “active assailant” at Evergreen High School in Jefferson County, officials said Wednesday afternoon // Story by @katielang.bsky.social
Shooting, ‘active assailant’ reported at Evergreen High School
Jefferson County law enforcement are responding to an “active assailant” and shooting at Evergreen High School, officials said Wednesday afternoon.
www.denverpost.com
September 10, 2025 at 7:32 PM
The Charlie Kirk shooting happened essentially as another school shooting happened a state away
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if you have a billion dollars you should be legally designated a dragon and any human can adventure against you
September 10, 2025 at 4:40 AM
if you have a billion dollars you should be legally designated a dragon and any human can adventure against you
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When one of them assassinated those Minnesota lawmakers the message that the right took away from it is that the left is too violent.
September 10, 2025 at 7:23 PM
When one of them assassinated those Minnesota lawmakers the message that the right took away from it is that the left is too violent.
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It is impossible for anyone who is not a fascist to behave well enough that it will make them happy. The excuse for the militarization of DC is that big balls got beat up by a girl. They killed 11 civilians in that boat because I don't know maybe drugs?
September 10, 2025 at 7:18 PM
It is impossible for anyone who is not a fascist to behave well enough that it will make them happy. The excuse for the militarization of DC is that big balls got beat up by a girl. They killed 11 civilians in that boat because I don't know maybe drugs?
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I will say that I find it weird that a lot of people are like "this is the moment that will tip us into violence" when a Minnesota politician was assassinated in her home 2 months ago and someone literally shot Trump in the head last year. how exactly is charlie kirk the tipping point
September 10, 2025 at 7:15 PM
I will say that I find it weird that a lot of people are like "this is the moment that will tip us into violence" when a Minnesota politician was assassinated in her home 2 months ago and someone literally shot Trump in the head last year. how exactly is charlie kirk the tipping point