Rob Fitzgerald
@robfitzgerald.bsky.social
🇮🇪 🇪🇺 Button clicker. Oligarchy is bad.
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PS: But in the NSS there is reason for „great optimism“ because the patriotic parties of Europe will save Europe. So don‘t you despair, my fellow European!
December 5, 2025 at 5:30 AM
PS: But in the NSS there is reason for „great optimism“ because the patriotic parties of Europe will save Europe. So don‘t you despair, my fellow European!
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Trump: "I don't think we're necessarily going to ask for a declaration of war, I think we're just gonna kill people that are bringing drugs into our country. We're going to kill them. They're going to be, like dead."
October 23, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Trump: "I don't think we're necessarily going to ask for a declaration of war, I think we're just gonna kill people that are bringing drugs into our country. We're going to kill them. They're going to be, like dead."
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How it started / how it's going
August 22, 2025 at 8:14 PM
How it started / how it's going
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"The aggressor is always peace-loving (as Bonaparte always claimed to be); he would prefer to take over our country unopposed." - Clausewitz
Nothing ends a war quicker than surrendering
August 18, 2025 at 7:39 AM
"The aggressor is always peace-loving (as Bonaparte always claimed to be); he would prefer to take over our country unopposed." - Clausewitz
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like a golden retriever spotting the UPS guy
August 15, 2025 at 7:16 PM
like a golden retriever spotting the UPS guy
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OTD in 2008 Georgia decided to invade itself before voluntarily moving its border away from Russia which remains peaceful country surrounded by ceasefires & special military operations proving western appeasement works.
August 7, 2025 at 8:48 AM
OTD in 2008 Georgia decided to invade itself before voluntarily moving its border away from Russia which remains peaceful country surrounded by ceasefires & special military operations proving western appeasement works.
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Knocking one out to the Sydney Sweeney advert but shaking my head so everyone else on the bus knows I disagree with it.
August 4, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Knocking one out to the Sydney Sweeney advert but shaking my head so everyone else on the bus knows I disagree with it.
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See also: 'At least the fascists got the trains running on time!' No they didn't, they just shot the people who pointed out they *weren't* running on time.
The President sees a bad jobs report, and responds by getting rid of the person in charge of the statistics. This is how America becomes a third-rate country.
BREAKING: President Trump fires the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics hours after weak jobs report.
August 2, 2025 at 10:15 AM
See also: 'At least the fascists got the trains running on time!' No they didn't, they just shot the people who pointed out they *weren't* running on time.
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It’s a golden age for Cassandras.
My prediction is that in that scenario, he blames the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which puts out employment data. Calls them corrupt, run by Democrats, out to get him. Fires people there, insists their numbers cannot be trusted, White House puts out its own fictitious data to make Trump look good
August 1, 2025 at 11:17 PM
It’s a golden age for Cassandras.
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Restaurants are not always owned by evil corporations, they are more often owned by people who are in the process of making the worst financial decision of their life.
Restaurants are in fact one of the businesses statistically *least* likely to be owned by a giant evil corporation
it’s sad how a few decades of mass corporate chain restaurant proliferation means that a lot of Americans today seem genuinely unfamiliar with the concept of “independent restaurants”
i see people who assume all restaurants are owned by gigantic evil corporations and uh, no, that is not true
i see people who assume all restaurants are owned by gigantic evil corporations and uh, no, that is not true
August 1, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Restaurants are not always owned by evil corporations, they are more often owned by people who are in the process of making the worst financial decision of their life.
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"I have been teaching classes on genocide for a quarter of a century. I can recognize one when I see one."
Omar Bartov, professor of Holocaust and genocide studies at Brown University.
archive.ph/0dpn2
Omar Bartov, professor of Holocaust and genocide studies at Brown University.
archive.ph/0dpn2
July 15, 2025 at 7:04 AM
"I have been teaching classes on genocide for a quarter of a century. I can recognize one when I see one."
Omar Bartov, professor of Holocaust and genocide studies at Brown University.
archive.ph/0dpn2
Omar Bartov, professor of Holocaust and genocide studies at Brown University.
archive.ph/0dpn2
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and we're going to be calling it the American Century of Humiliation, folks. the Century of Humiliation. we've never been humiliated like this before, folks, but now we're being humiliated in a big way in very many fields. big, strong men come up to me, crying, saying sir, the hegemon has fallen,
July 14, 2025 at 9:01 PM
and we're going to be calling it the American Century of Humiliation, folks. the Century of Humiliation. we've never been humiliated like this before, folks, but now we're being humiliated in a big way in very many fields. big, strong men come up to me, crying, saying sir, the hegemon has fallen,
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Here’s the bottom line for what’s going on with Grok - if the owner of the website is putting his thumb on the scale hard enough for the chatbot to turn into Goebbels, you should be deeply concerned about what he’s doing to the algorithm that you can’t so easily see, and what it’s doing to you
July 8, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Here’s the bottom line for what’s going on with Grok - if the owner of the website is putting his thumb on the scale hard enough for the chatbot to turn into Goebbels, you should be deeply concerned about what he’s doing to the algorithm that you can’t so easily see, and what it’s doing to you
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Reconstruction 2.0 needs to be much more brutal.
June 26, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Reconstruction 2.0 needs to be much more brutal.
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John: so it's agreed. We all lean heavily into the psychedelic movement.
George: yeah, with strong Indian influences
Ringo: and doggerel about groovy peaceful undersea adventures
Paul: I want to write Oompah songs
John: ...
Paul: you know, brass band music that grandads like
George: yeah, with strong Indian influences
Ringo: and doggerel about groovy peaceful undersea adventures
Paul: I want to write Oompah songs
John: ...
Paul: you know, brass band music that grandads like
June 22, 2025 at 10:27 AM
John: so it's agreed. We all lean heavily into the psychedelic movement.
George: yeah, with strong Indian influences
Ringo: and doggerel about groovy peaceful undersea adventures
Paul: I want to write Oompah songs
John: ...
Paul: you know, brass band music that grandads like
George: yeah, with strong Indian influences
Ringo: and doggerel about groovy peaceful undersea adventures
Paul: I want to write Oompah songs
John: ...
Paul: you know, brass band music that grandads like
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🧵 I argue that we can understand the functioning of democracy through 3 core ideals, verification, deliberation and accountability. While no democracy fully achieves those ideals, this thread explains how MAGA destroys all three and inevitably results in democratic regression into authoritarianism.
The conditions that have led to what’s happening in the US today exist in democracies around the world.
They are an inevitable outcome of our collective failure to adapt to fundamental changes in the information ecosystem on which our democracies were originally built.
They are an inevitable outcome of our collective failure to adapt to fundamental changes in the information ecosystem on which our democracies were originally built.
June 11, 2025 at 7:00 AM
🧵 I argue that we can understand the functioning of democracy through 3 core ideals, verification, deliberation and accountability. While no democracy fully achieves those ideals, this thread explains how MAGA destroys all three and inevitably results in democratic regression into authoritarianism.
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They were careless people, Elon and Donald. They smashed up things and people, and then retreated back into their money and their vast carelessness.
June 4, 2025 at 4:09 AM
They were careless people, Elon and Donald. They smashed up things and people, and then retreated back into their money and their vast carelessness.
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Gonna give y'all some freebie headlines:
MUSK DEPARTS, LEAVING TRAIL OF DESTRUCTION, DEFICITS, AND DEATHS
MUSK SCORECARD: EMPTY PROMISES, FEDERAL WORKFORCE BRAIN DRAIN
MUSK'S LEGACY: CAREER CIVIL SERVANTS REPLACED WITH INCOMPETENT WHITE NATIONALISTS
DOGE HARMS WILL PERSIST FOR GENERATIONS
MUSK DEPARTS, LEAVING TRAIL OF DESTRUCTION, DEFICITS, AND DEATHS
MUSK SCORECARD: EMPTY PROMISES, FEDERAL WORKFORCE BRAIN DRAIN
MUSK'S LEGACY: CAREER CIVIL SERVANTS REPLACED WITH INCOMPETENT WHITE NATIONALISTS
DOGE HARMS WILL PERSIST FOR GENERATIONS
Editors, please assign a deep dive piece on the grave damage musk & doge have done to the United States, rather than how he’s feeling about it.
May 29, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Gonna give y'all some freebie headlines:
MUSK DEPARTS, LEAVING TRAIL OF DESTRUCTION, DEFICITS, AND DEATHS
MUSK SCORECARD: EMPTY PROMISES, FEDERAL WORKFORCE BRAIN DRAIN
MUSK'S LEGACY: CAREER CIVIL SERVANTS REPLACED WITH INCOMPETENT WHITE NATIONALISTS
DOGE HARMS WILL PERSIST FOR GENERATIONS
MUSK DEPARTS, LEAVING TRAIL OF DESTRUCTION, DEFICITS, AND DEATHS
MUSK SCORECARD: EMPTY PROMISES, FEDERAL WORKFORCE BRAIN DRAIN
MUSK'S LEGACY: CAREER CIVIL SERVANTS REPLACED WITH INCOMPETENT WHITE NATIONALISTS
DOGE HARMS WILL PERSIST FOR GENERATIONS
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“I agree with Nick.”
Kill the industry, you say? That sounds tough for that industry. Which industry was that again?
Oh. The stealing industry? Maybe killing that industry wouldn’t be such a bad thing? Considering it’s kind of a bad industry. Unlike the other one, which it’s currently killing.
Kill the industry, you say? That sounds tough for that industry. Which industry was that again?
Oh. The stealing industry? Maybe killing that industry wouldn’t be such a bad thing? Considering it’s kind of a bad industry. Unlike the other one, which it’s currently killing.
May 24, 2025 at 8:58 AM
“I agree with Nick.”
Kill the industry, you say? That sounds tough for that industry. Which industry was that again?
Oh. The stealing industry? Maybe killing that industry wouldn’t be such a bad thing? Considering it’s kind of a bad industry. Unlike the other one, which it’s currently killing.
Kill the industry, you say? That sounds tough for that industry. Which industry was that again?
Oh. The stealing industry? Maybe killing that industry wouldn’t be such a bad thing? Considering it’s kind of a bad industry. Unlike the other one, which it’s currently killing.
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apparently Elon's gotten so mad about Grok not answering questions about Afrikaners the way he wants, xAI's now somehow managed to put it into some kind of hyper-Afriforum mode where it thinks every question is about farm murders or the song "Kill the Boer"
May 14, 2025 at 4:32 PM
apparently Elon's gotten so mad about Grok not answering questions about Afrikaners the way he wants, xAI's now somehow managed to put it into some kind of hyper-Afriforum mode where it thinks every question is about farm murders or the song "Kill the Boer"
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A core feature of the Trump regime is its embrace of "authoritarian democracy", as a battering ram with which to demolish any obstacle to its power.
The very notion of "authoritarian democracy" can sound contradictory.
But it's an old & dangerous idea, that needs to be better understood. [THREAD]
The very notion of "authoritarian democracy" can sound contradictory.
But it's an old & dangerous idea, that needs to be better understood. [THREAD]
Stephen Miller on the court order to release Tufts student Rümeysa Öztürk: "There's a judicial coup in this country....This judicial coup by a handful of Marxist judges...can only be understood as an attack on democracy."
May 11, 2025 at 5:43 PM
A core feature of the Trump regime is its embrace of "authoritarian democracy", as a battering ram with which to demolish any obstacle to its power.
The very notion of "authoritarian democracy" can sound contradictory.
But it's an old & dangerous idea, that needs to be better understood. [THREAD]
The very notion of "authoritarian democracy" can sound contradictory.
But it's an old & dangerous idea, that needs to be better understood. [THREAD]
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Bluesky is a retirement home for 39 year old millennials who are forcibly turning themselves into history dads (nongendered) so if you have a hot take about one of the more popular history dad wars you had better come strapped
May 7, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Bluesky is a retirement home for 39 year old millennials who are forcibly turning themselves into history dads (nongendered) so if you have a hot take about one of the more popular history dad wars you had better come strapped
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I want a candidate in 2028 to create a vague impression that they will do Obama style looking forward not back admin, and then once in power put these people in jail and possibly give them the death penalty.
April 14, 2025 at 6:00 PM
I want a candidate in 2028 to create a vague impression that they will do Obama style looking forward not back admin, and then once in power put these people in jail and possibly give them the death penalty.