Victor Bitter
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Watching America die inside
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Victor Bitter
@vicbitter.bsky.social
· Jul 30
As I detailed in WHITE FLIGHT, segregationists in Atlanta absolutely loved public services -- buses and trolleys, parks and pools, golf courses and tennis courts, etc. -- right until they were forced to desegregate and "stolen" from them. They abandoned them and built up private alternatives.
This is everything any foreigner needs to understand in order to make sense of the USA's self-defeating brand of insanity. #USCollapse
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Look, it’s Heroin and Adderall ganging up on Tylenol.
September 23, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Look, it’s Heroin and Adderall ganging up on Tylenol.
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DISNEY: "OK, we are putting Jimmy Kimmel back on the air. You can resubscribe now."
ME: "I unsubscribed because you immorally bowed to fascism. I'm not going to resubscribe because you immorally bowed to finances."
ME: "I unsubscribed because you immorally bowed to fascism. I'm not going to resubscribe because you immorally bowed to finances."
September 22, 2025 at 9:14 PM
DISNEY: "OK, we are putting Jimmy Kimmel back on the air. You can resubscribe now."
ME: "I unsubscribed because you immorally bowed to fascism. I'm not going to resubscribe because you immorally bowed to finances."
ME: "I unsubscribed because you immorally bowed to fascism. I'm not going to resubscribe because you immorally bowed to finances."
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A grim reminder: these people will never be satisfied. There’s no point at which they will say “we’ve won, let’s enjoy life.” They will always be looking for someone else to punish, to revile, to dehumanize. They’re empty without that.
September 18, 2025 at 3:04 AM
A grim reminder: these people will never be satisfied. There’s no point at which they will say “we’ve won, let’s enjoy life.” They will always be looking for someone else to punish, to revile, to dehumanize. They’re empty without that.
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Congressional hearings don’t do shit except make it LOOK like they’re doing something. The J6 committee hearings were some of the best I’ve seen & they led NOWHERE. They give false hope. Right now all branches of government have been stolen. This political theater is part of how we got here.
September 14, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Congressional hearings don’t do shit except make it LOOK like they’re doing something. The J6 committee hearings were some of the best I’ve seen & they led NOWHERE. They give false hope. Right now all branches of government have been stolen. This political theater is part of how we got here.
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If we transported 2025 Charlie Kirk back to 2012 he would have been widely considered the most vile and contemptible human being in politics, worse even than Limbaugh. That he wasn't in 2025 is a testament to how much of a permission structure for gutter racism the right has built.
September 13, 2025 at 2:09 PM
If we transported 2025 Charlie Kirk back to 2012 he would have been widely considered the most vile and contemptible human being in politics, worse even than Limbaugh. That he wasn't in 2025 is a testament to how much of a permission structure for gutter racism the right has built.
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I shouldn't be shocked, but I'm still always brought up short to realize how many people think "civility" means "white people speaking in relatively calm voices" no matter what vile shit they say.
September 13, 2025 at 3:06 PM
I shouldn't be shocked, but I'm still always brought up short to realize how many people think "civility" means "white people speaking in relatively calm voices" no matter what vile shit they say.
Something gloaty and unwelcome about posts like this. Also, was it really that great if you hadn't shared it on social media? Or does it make it better that we get to see it as a 2x3inch reproduction on our phones? #pointless
September 13, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Something gloaty and unwelcome about posts like this. Also, was it really that great if you hadn't shared it on social media? Or does it make it better that we get to see it as a 2x3inch reproduction on our phones? #pointless
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Watching all these centrist pundits stress the “civility” of Charlie Kirk’s style without addressing the ugliness of his substance is giving me a renewed appreciation of how the civil, polite White Citizens’ Councils conned the same crowd into thinking they were distinct from the cruder Klan.
September 13, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Watching all these centrist pundits stress the “civility” of Charlie Kirk’s style without addressing the ugliness of his substance is giving me a renewed appreciation of how the civil, polite White Citizens’ Councils conned the same crowd into thinking they were distinct from the cruder Klan.
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FINALLY.
September 13, 2025 at 1:43 AM
FINALLY.
A great point, and I fear we know why: they don't anticipate there will be elections going forward—or if there are, their outcome will be structurally predetermined.
This administration doesn't appear to have any expectation that it will ever be hamstrung or out of power. Not in 2026, not in 2028.
This administration doesn't appear to have any expectation that it will ever be hamstrung or out of power. Not in 2026, not in 2028.
Republicans aren't running for office...their polls are dropping...their own base is mocking them and yelling at them at town halls...
And yet they seem very comfortable and unbothered.
Ask yourselves why?
And yet they seem very comfortable and unbothered.
Ask yourselves why?
August 31, 2025 at 7:44 PM
i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.
This is a real photograph of Washington, DC this week, where the United States president has ordered military occupation in peacetime, and ordered the display of colossal portraits of himself.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
August 28, 2025 at 8:39 PM
August 20, 2025 at 12:02 PM
With everything going on, I must say, I still have not a clue what their message is.
They are lost and out of their league I’m afraid. And democratic voters know it
They are lost and out of their league I’m afraid. And democratic voters know it
August 13, 2025 at 9:34 PM
This former model, with no background in history, has been put in charge of curating what is "appropriate" at the National Museum of African American History.
August 13, 2025 at 9:28 PM
This is appalling. Civilized countries look at us and are rightly horrified that this idiocy and cruelty is sanctioned by--encouraged by--our government.
(I originally wrote "Other civilized countries look at us..." But do we any longer count in their ranks?)
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
(I originally wrote "Other civilized countries look at us..." But do we any longer count in their ranks?)
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
New Zealand woman and six-year-old son detained for three weeks by Ice in US enduring ‘terrifying’ ordeal
Sarah Shaw, who has a US visa and lives in Washington state, was detained after attempting to re-enter US from Canada
www.theguardian.com
August 13, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Doesn’t deploy federal troops to stop a Capitol invasion or save children from a Texas flood or clean up debris from a StL tornado.
Deployed federal troops to disperse people in sleeping bags.
Got it.
Deployed federal troops to disperse people in sleeping bags.
Got it.
August 11, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Listening to the pussy grabbing EPSTEIN accomplice wife cheater during this press conference has me questioning how in the world America voted this sewer dwelling dipshit into office & how America seems incapable of putting a stop to his destruction of our Democracy and economy.
August 11, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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From this month's edition of The Onion.
August 7, 2025 at 4:32 PM
From this month's edition of The Onion.
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like apartheid-era South Africa, the US should be banned from the Olympics
August 6, 2025 at 5:52 PM
like apartheid-era South Africa, the US should be banned from the Olympics
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Everyone knew about Jeffrey Epstein. Everyone knew about Diddy, R. Kelly, Bill Cosby, Harvey Weinstein, and the Catholic priests. Everyone knew about Donald Trump. I’m so tired of people protecting rich perverts, keeping their dark secrets for decades. So damn tired.
August 6, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Everyone knew about Jeffrey Epstein. Everyone knew about Diddy, R. Kelly, Bill Cosby, Harvey Weinstein, and the Catholic priests. Everyone knew about Donald Trump. I’m so tired of people protecting rich perverts, keeping their dark secrets for decades. So damn tired.
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BREAKING: Convicted sex trafficker who taught young girls how to blow old men says sole person on earth who can pardon her did nothing wrong.
August 6, 2025 at 6:34 PM
BREAKING: Convicted sex trafficker who taught young girls how to blow old men says sole person on earth who can pardon her did nothing wrong.
Nothing can be better than this #Aintgonnagoaway
August 5, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Nothing can be better than this #Aintgonnagoaway
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A timeless rule of history: if you’re standing with the ruling class and against a student movement, you are on the wrong side—morally, politically, and historically. Doesn’t matter the country, the cause, or the decade. The students are almost always right. Every. Single. Time.
August 4, 2025 at 6:06 AM
A timeless rule of history: if you’re standing with the ruling class and against a student movement, you are on the wrong side—morally, politically, and historically. Doesn’t matter the country, the cause, or the decade. The students are almost always right. Every. Single. Time.