@mustdrinkmore.bsky.social
Like Hannibal from the A-team, the more time you give me, the better i get.
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Don’t make me tap the sign!
June 10, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Don’t make me tap the sign!
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Trump is attempting to associate all acts of protest with violence to justify govt repression against legitimate dissent.
As @timothysnyder.bsky.social once wrote:
"Authoritarian regimes use isolated incidents of violence to justify broad crackdowns. They don’t seek justice - they seek control."
As @timothysnyder.bsky.social once wrote:
"Authoritarian regimes use isolated incidents of violence to justify broad crackdowns. They don’t seek justice - they seek control."
June 10, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Trump is attempting to associate all acts of protest with violence to justify govt repression against legitimate dissent.
As @timothysnyder.bsky.social once wrote:
"Authoritarian regimes use isolated incidents of violence to justify broad crackdowns. They don’t seek justice - they seek control."
As @timothysnyder.bsky.social once wrote:
"Authoritarian regimes use isolated incidents of violence to justify broad crackdowns. They don’t seek justice - they seek control."
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Someone tell me how this is in any way different to a bog-standard authoritarian dictator.
Trump threatens anyone who protests his birthday military parade this Saturday:
"If there's any protester who wants to come out, they will be met with very big force."
The right to protest is protected under the First Amendment of the US Constitution.
"If there's any protester who wants to come out, they will be met with very big force."
The right to protest is protected under the First Amendment of the US Constitution.
June 10, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Someone tell me how this is in any way different to a bog-standard authoritarian dictator.
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“Occupational therapy provided by local authorities to state school pupils not available to those who opt out of the state system, under legislation brought in by the Tories”
There, fixed it for you.
There, fixed it for you.
June 9, 2025 at 8:58 AM
“Occupational therapy provided by local authorities to state school pupils not available to those who opt out of the state system, under legislation brought in by the Tories”
There, fixed it for you.
There, fixed it for you.
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– Loyalist media amplifying fear
– Attempts to bait more unrest to justify harsher crackdowns
This isn’t law enforcement. It’s a power play.
– Attempts to bait more unrest to justify harsher crackdowns
This isn’t law enforcement. It’s a power play.
June 9, 2025 at 8:26 PM
– Loyalist media amplifying fear
– Attempts to bait more unrest to justify harsher crackdowns
This isn’t law enforcement. It’s a power play.
– Attempts to bait more unrest to justify harsher crackdowns
This isn’t law enforcement. It’s a power play.
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What to expect next:
– Escalation framed as “restoring order”
– Mass arrests under vague pretexts
– Targeting of protest organisers and journalists
– Expansion of emergency powers
– Demonisation of dissent as “terrorism”
– Escalation framed as “restoring order”
– Mass arrests under vague pretexts
– Targeting of protest organisers and journalists
– Expansion of emergency powers
– Demonisation of dissent as “terrorism”
June 9, 2025 at 8:26 PM
What to expect next:
– Escalation framed as “restoring order”
– Mass arrests under vague pretexts
– Targeting of protest organisers and journalists
– Expansion of emergency powers
– Demonisation of dissent as “terrorism”
– Escalation framed as “restoring order”
– Mass arrests under vague pretexts
– Targeting of protest organisers and journalists
– Expansion of emergency powers
– Demonisation of dissent as “terrorism”
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In case you're wondering, authoritarians use this strategy of escalation to manufacture crisis, provoke outrage, then use the reaction to justify repression. It’s not about restoring order, it's about creating a spectacle of chaos they can claim only they can control.
Escalating to escalate.
"Roughly 500 Marines based out of the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center in California have been mobilized ... and will join the National Guard troops that were activated ... over the weekend without the consent of California’s governor or the city’s mayor."
"Roughly 500 Marines based out of the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center in California have been mobilized ... and will join the National Guard troops that were activated ... over the weekend without the consent of California’s governor or the city’s mayor."
Freeways blocked, cars on fire: LA protests against immigration raids and National Guard deployment | CNN
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June 9, 2025 at 8:24 PM
In case you're wondering, authoritarians use this strategy of escalation to manufacture crisis, provoke outrage, then use the reaction to justify repression. It’s not about restoring order, it's about creating a spectacle of chaos they can claim only they can control.
May 24, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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Easy to be glib, but of course Keir Starmer must walk on eggshells around the man whose indispensible and wise counsel has seen the Party's popularity come to rival that of foot fungus.
If only there were someone in a senior position of power in this relationship
May 23, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Easy to be glib, but of course Keir Starmer must walk on eggshells around the man whose indispensible and wise counsel has seen the Party's popularity come to rival that of foot fungus.
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Two types of people are upset about the Chagos Islands:
-Tories, who have forgotten they started the handover process
-right wing gobshites who are somehow furious about a place they didn't know existed a few months ago
-Tories, who have forgotten they started the handover process
-right wing gobshites who are somehow furious about a place they didn't know existed a few months ago
May 22, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Two types of people are upset about the Chagos Islands:
-Tories, who have forgotten they started the handover process
-right wing gobshites who are somehow furious about a place they didn't know existed a few months ago
-Tories, who have forgotten they started the handover process
-right wing gobshites who are somehow furious about a place they didn't know existed a few months ago
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repost if your childhood started with a #Commodore computer.
May 21, 2025 at 8:51 PM
repost if your childhood started with a #Commodore computer.
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All four horsemen of the Brexit Betrayal apocalypse are galloping across tomorrow's RW front pages... And for what? The thinnest of thin gruel.
Starmer and Labour may come to regret not having fanned the ire of their foes with a much more ambitious Brexit reset, since the ire was coming either way.
Starmer and Labour may come to regret not having fanned the ire of their foes with a much more ambitious Brexit reset, since the ire was coming either way.
May 19, 2025 at 11:19 PM
All four horsemen of the Brexit Betrayal apocalypse are galloping across tomorrow's RW front pages... And for what? The thinnest of thin gruel.
Starmer and Labour may come to regret not having fanned the ire of their foes with a much more ambitious Brexit reset, since the ire was coming either way.
Starmer and Labour may come to regret not having fanned the ire of their foes with a much more ambitious Brexit reset, since the ire was coming either way.
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Love the graphic
Seems my post made the point
We need to push back against anti vaccine nonsense!
Seems my post made the point
We need to push back against anti vaccine nonsense!
May 12, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Love the graphic
Seems my post made the point
We need to push back against anti vaccine nonsense!
Seems my post made the point
We need to push back against anti vaccine nonsense!
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Do you know what have NEVER undergone randomised placebo controlled trials?
All those supplements they try and sell you online
All those supplements they try and sell you online
May 12, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Do you know what have NEVER undergone randomised placebo controlled trials?
All those supplements they try and sell you online
All those supplements they try and sell you online
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Brexit hasn't been betrayed.
The British people have not been betrayed.
The betrayal was Brexit.
Once that is the established narrative, we can all go forward together.
The British people have not been betrayed.
The betrayal was Brexit.
Once that is the established narrative, we can all go forward together.
May 19, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Brexit hasn't been betrayed.
The British people have not been betrayed.
The betrayal was Brexit.
Once that is the established narrative, we can all go forward together.
The British people have not been betrayed.
The betrayal was Brexit.
Once that is the established narrative, we can all go forward together.
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If a foreign adversary snuck into our Federal budget and cut science research and education the way we’re cutting it ourselves — strategically undermining America’s long-term health, wealth, and security — we would likely consider it an act of war.
May 19, 2025 at 7:36 PM
If a foreign adversary snuck into our Federal budget and cut science research and education the way we’re cutting it ourselves — strategically undermining America’s long-term health, wealth, and security — we would likely consider it an act of war.
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There's no placating the Brexiters, no reasoning with them, no basic comprehension or adulthood. You can't debate papers behaving like the Sun or the Mail this morning. There's nothing to debate with. They view all trading relations with Europe as humiliation.
May 20, 2025 at 5:39 AM
There's no placating the Brexiters, no reasoning with them, no basic comprehension or adulthood. You can't debate papers behaving like the Sun or the Mail this morning. There's nothing to debate with. They view all trading relations with Europe as humiliation.
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To the cartoonist who drew this, well done.
May 18, 2025 at 3:33 AM
To the cartoonist who drew this, well done.
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The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result
May 18, 2025 at 7:25 PM
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result
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The RW papers, which already scream Brexit betrayal on a daily basis, will dial their criticism up
to 11 as soon as Labour changes a single atom of our relationship with the EU.
Given that, they might as well go for something spectacular instead of these tiny nibbles. It won't change the reaction.
to 11 as soon as Labour changes a single atom of our relationship with the EU.
Given that, they might as well go for something spectacular instead of these tiny nibbles. It won't change the reaction.
May 17, 2025 at 12:47 PM
The RW papers, which already scream Brexit betrayal on a daily basis, will dial their criticism up
to 11 as soon as Labour changes a single atom of our relationship with the EU.
Given that, they might as well go for something spectacular instead of these tiny nibbles. It won't change the reaction.
to 11 as soon as Labour changes a single atom of our relationship with the EU.
Given that, they might as well go for something spectacular instead of these tiny nibbles. It won't change the reaction.
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average comment section in 2025
May 17, 2025 at 4:49 PM
average comment section in 2025
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Robert “Ed” Smylie, the NASA official who saved the Apollo 13 crew in 1970, has died at 95. He cobbled together an apparatus made of cardboard, plastic bags and duct tape after an explosion crippled the spacecraft as it sped toward the moon. nyti.ms/3Sbusb3
May 16, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Robert “Ed” Smylie, the NASA official who saved the Apollo 13 crew in 1970, has died at 95. He cobbled together an apparatus made of cardboard, plastic bags and duct tape after an explosion crippled the spacecraft as it sped toward the moon. nyti.ms/3Sbusb3