dankuser2020.bsky.social
@dankuser2020.bsky.social
Polisci/Pre-Law student
Socdem with Neolib Characteristics
Pragmatic Interventionist
Fanfic writer
Uphold Machiavellian-Clausewitzian-Tzuian thought

https://www.fanfiction.net/u/9569537/dankuser
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The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city.

This is not a joke. This is not normal.

Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.
September 6, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Buying anything from overseas is about to get more expensive, more logistically complicated, slower, and overall more annoying. Film photography community, retro games community, people into skincare already seeing chaos on eBay. eBay sellers locking US buyers out.

www.404media.co/trump-tariff...
Trump Tariffs Cause Chaos on Ebay as Every Hobby Becomes Logistical Minefield
Buying cameras, retro games, board games, skincare, flashlights, sex toys, watches, and anything else from overseas just became far more complicated, slow, and expensive.
www.404media.co
August 28, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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I think the thing here is apparently no one in civil society, particularly the business side, wants to be the first to say the music is slowing. Everyone is gambling on being able to ride out the storm without the bottom falling out, but by doing so they increase the chances that it actually does
we live in "butlerian fascism" where it's all a rinky dink performance of totalitarianism but somehow everyone goes along with it for insane, also performative reasons
the question of this historical moment is "when will the simulacra actually become real?" depending on your answer, you might find it easy to shrug this off or alternatively want to run around grabbing every random stranger by the shoulders, shake them, and yell they should be as panicked as you are
August 28, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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what can you even say
wtf is this nonsense? He thinks he can understand kid’s “mitochondrial challenges” just by looking at them?

This is an insane person.
August 28, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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I think a lot about the phrase "a well armed society is a polite society" because it's implicitly premised on this kind of "freedom as domination" that everyone will be polite to you otherwise you shoot them
all of this makes total sense when you recognize that “freedom” here means the freedom to dominate those you view as your subordinates and “tyranny” is when someone threatens that “freedom” or worse, when those subordinates try to claim power as political equals
IMO many Americans don't even buy guns for personal protection or to defend themselves against a tyrannical government. They simply have a shopping addiction
August 28, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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Noticing a pattern here.
August 6, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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happy Fourth, everybody. this country is still worth fighting for.
July 4, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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but like in a liberal, non-MAGA kind of way 🇺🇸
July 5, 2025 at 5:35 AM
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🔥ART RAFFLE🔥

To celebrate hitting 300 followers on Bluesky, I'm doing an art raffle give away!

To enter:
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Thanks again for all the support y'all!
June 24, 2025 at 4:28 AM
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>they voted for “anti-war”
>more war
June 22, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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The realist case for abandoning support for a war that was crippling your second largest strategic competitor so you can start a conflict that will consume an order of magnitude greater amount of resources and could have been solved through diplomatic means.

-by JD Vance
June 22, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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“I find it unconscionable that someone could step up to serve, voluntarily, in our military and be willing to sacrifice their life for our country only to have their families torn apart.”

This article first appeared @thewarhorsenews.bsky.social
"They’re taking Shirly": An Army sergeant thought his family as safe. Then ICE deported his wife.
For tens of thousands of US service members with undocumented family members, there’s no guaranteed protection from immigration raids.
www.motherjones.com
June 16, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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George Carlin on abortion (1996):

“Conservatives want live babies so they can raise em’ to be dead soldiers.”
June 16, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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This is our documentary moment. 💙🇺🇸
June 16, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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“We should measure the prosperity of a nation not by the number of millionaires, but by the absence of poverty, the prevalence of health, the efficiency of the public schools, and the number of people who can [and] do read worthwhile books.”

-- W. E. B. Du Bois
June 15, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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A bald eagle died somewhere yesterday
June 15, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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We were told the mineral deal would deter Russia from targeting U.S. businesses - something supposedly beneficial for both the U.S. and Ukraine. So what happened to that assumption? It seems Russia doesn't care. No one takes tough talk seriously when it's never backed by action.
A building used by Boeing in Kyiv was badly damaged in a recent large-scale Russian air attack, in what appeared to be a deliberate strike on the US aerospace company, according to six people familiar with the matter and photographs seen by @financialtimes.com.

on.ft.com/3TnpFDN
Russia air attack damaged Boeing offices in Ukraine
Aerial strikes hit US aerospace giant’s premises in Kyiv, raising questions about Moscow’s intent
on.ft.com
June 15, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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June 14, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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Time for your homework on MENA and APAC kids :)
June 13, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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the entire rw media ecosystem including things like fox news, are completely beholden to the monster they created and nurtured. audience capture is a helluva drug
June 13, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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NEW AP-NORC POLL: 60% say Trump’s military parade isn’t a good use of taxpayer money. Only 38% think it’s worth it.
June 12, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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On the negotiations in Istanbul rn Ukraine passed a list with the names of children deported to Russia

Head of the russian delegation Medinsky responded with "Don't put on a show for bleeding-heart European old ladies with no children of their own"
June 2, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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How’s this making America great?
May 31, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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Another "Literally Me" for the collection. #starwars #andor
May 29, 2025 at 1:01 PM