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The best explanation I've seen is a mix of threat to their profit margins and "how dare you tell me what to do"

This site has the whole thread transcribed if you want a good read but don't want to go to twitter www.forwardky.com/ex-republica...
Here is the Republican message on everything of importance: 1. They can tell people what to do. 2. You cannot tell them what to do. This often gets mistaken for hypocrisy, there’s an additional layer of complexity to this (later in the thread), but this is the basic formula. The whole point of an arrangement where you can tell people what to do, but you can’t be told what to do, is precisely to avoid having to consider others. This is why this is their ideal arrangement: so they don’t have to do that. As you can see, this is a very toxic relationship with the idea of who can tell who what to do. So much so that it seems like the entire point is to conceive of a “right” kind of people who can tell other people what to do without being told what to do. Yep, that’s the point. So let’s add one more component to the system for who tells who what to do: 1. There are “right” human beings and there are “wrong” ones. 2. The “right” ones get to tell the “wrong” ones what to do. 3. The “wrong” ones do not tell the “right” ones what to do.
February 10, 2026 at 4:24 PM
bobismeisbob.bsky.social
So many quotes and messages about being neutral in the face of oppression. We need more of those taught along side the "never again" messages.
almost_bobby political cartoon, person being chased by man with stick asks for help, 3rd person says sorry mate I'm apolitical. Person gets beaten, man with stick says "thanks for helping mate!"
January 30, 2026 at 1:55 PM
bobismeisbob.bsky.social
I'm reminded of when New York called Amazon's bluff on capital flight years ago and it wasn't real. They threaten it as a negotiation tactic but it's rare that they'll change long term plans over it.
January 29, 2026 at 1:23 AM
bobismeisbob.bsky.social
English has an active voice, a passive voice, and a secret unlockable exhonerative voice that only journalists who are describing cops and soldiers actions use
January 24, 2026 at 9:20 PM
bobismeisbob.bsky.social
Nah, you're pushing a false equivalence hard when the reality is that Trump has been clearly worst than Biden's worst day for years and everyone makes excuses for him.

i.imgur.com/td4ycci.png
"See both sides do it there's literally not difference between them" said in front of tally marks that are grossly unequal.
January 22, 2026 at 10:58 PM
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January 21, 2026 at 6:26 PM
bobismeisbob.bsky.social
Scene from Andor. "They don't even bother to lie badly anymore." "I supposed that's the final humiliation."
January 21, 2026 at 6:22 PM
bobismeisbob.bsky.social
Empathy is not owed to oppressors. Mourning is not mandatory. Pretending that 'civility' in the face of fascism makes you morally superior is nothing but cowardice. Y'all give me a headache.
January 20, 2026 at 9:20 PM
bobismeisbob.bsky.social
I'm reminded of this post (especially the first two sentences). This video is such a domestic abuser cliche it hurts.
Jeremy McLellan said: One of the most common characteristics of abusers that I noticed when I worked with people with disabilities was the attitude that the client's resistance to the abuse was itself thought of as justification for the abuse. Once that feedback loop is established, control is justified through both acquiescence and resistance, and there's nothing the client can do (behavior wise) to escape. The same holds true for abusive relationships, prisons, police, or any other kind of authoritarian regime. The broader message is "Your resistance to my behavior is the reason I behave this way in the first place." Remember this over the next four years when you hear the trope "See this is why Trump won." If you call his appointees racist, that's why Trump won. If you boo Mike Pence, that's why Trump won. If you protest in the streets, that's why Trump won. If you insult him or his supporters, that's why Trump won. It's a rhetorical tool for neutering resistance. Always ask what function it serves.
January 20, 2026 at 9:17 PM
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Terminator labelled "their own imaginations" hunting down a scared little girl labelled "right wingers"
January 12, 2026 at 4:59 PM
bobismeisbob.bsky.social
The pace of repression outstrips our ability to understand it. And that is the real trick of the Imperial thought machine. It’s easier to hide behind 40 atrocities than a single incident. - Nemik from Andor
January 10, 2026 at 5:07 PM
bobismeisbob.bsky.social
Well put for my final message one I focused on how it would cost them money long term:
User's reply to discord AI survey. Useless waste of time and money that you'll then have to recoup by putting more things behind paywalls which will make the discord experience worse which will drive users away making it so you need even more paid things to recoup your money. In short enshitification.
January 10, 2026 at 4:42 PM
bobismeisbob.bsky.social
The projection works better if they don't brag about it first. But then again they don't bother lying convincingly anymore.
January 8, 2026 at 3:26 AM
bobismeisbob.bsky.social
Here's him publicly admitting it for those thinking that might have been at all subtle, nope he brags about it.
various Chris Rufo tweets about how he's weaponizing words. "We have successfully frozen their brand 'critical race theory' and steadily driving up negative perceptions." "I am quite intentionally redefining what 'critical race theory' means in the public mind, expanding it as a catchall for the new racial orthodoxy" "The goal is to have the public read something crazy and immediately think 'critical race theory'" "It means we have the capacity to define the terms in our own language and reinforce them through repetition as we have done with 'critical race theory'."
December 30, 2025 at 6:51 PM
bobismeisbob.bsky.social
Again nothing but buzzwords mixed with "The generation of synthetic data" (aka making things up, something very dangerous when mixed with health care and medicine) and "the potential to".

No examples of it actually helping.
No datasets were generated or analysed during the current study.
December 25, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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Meme of guy wiping his brow with a cloth, captions saying "oh god there's no slash-S"
December 12, 2025 at 11:25 PM
bobismeisbob.bsky.social
A true Alpha Male, always feeding his pack.
"I'm an alpha male" no, you're not. Your an ass that thinks talking over people makes you important. Do you even know what an alpha does?? They feed and protect their pack. Where's your fanny pack full of cheesy crackers, Steve. If you are out with your buds and don't have ibuprofen, Neosporin, and cheesy crackers with you, you are not an alpha.
December 7, 2025 at 6:27 PM
bobismeisbob.bsky.social
wint dril issuing correction on a previous post of mine, regarding the terror group ISIL. you do not, under any circumstances, "gotta hand it to them"
November 13, 2025 at 5:38 PM
bobismeisbob.bsky.social
Once again a piece of Ethan Grey's long twitter thread applies.
This is because the press has chosen to accommodate the Republican Party in a very specific way: 1. It normalizes the republican agenda. 2. It normalizes framing the responsibility for stopping that agenda as ultimately being on Democrats.
November 6, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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"You criticizing me for ceding grounds on human rights to the nazis is making me side with the nazis."
BORS comic calling racists racist is forcing them to become a nazi.
November 2, 2025 at 6:14 AM
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The "economist" would know that those policies would help the city's economy.

But then like everywhere else:
Replacing the words "the economy" with "rich people's yacht money" -How can we respond to COVID without sacrificing rich people's yacht money? -Saving the environment sounds nice but what about rich people's yacht money? -Medicare for all would destroy rich people's yacht money
October 31, 2025 at 3:50 PM
bobismeisbob.bsky.social
You see it so often with surveys that check. They'll ask about support for something named then separately ask about support for something by describing it.

The ACA was a big example of that but it happens across the board.
Jeopardy meme: Something you can describe in detail that almost everyone agrees with until you say it's name. What is socialism?
October 30, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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"This constant lying is not aimed at making the people believe a lie, but at ensuring that no one believes anything anymore. A people that can no longer distinguish between truth and lies cannot distinguish between right and wrong. And such a people, deprived of the power to think and judge, is, without knowing and willing it, completely subjected to the rule of lies. With such a people, you can do whatever you want." unknown source not by Hannah Arendt but commonly attributed to her
October 29, 2025 at 3:48 PM
bobismeisbob.bsky.social
I'm reminded of this Partially Clips comic.
Couple discussing a bad dinner party with a pushy religious couple who kept trying to convert them, wife replied with "If the bible pushers hadn't gotten to you first you'd be gushing about how great your lives have been since you found Amway"
October 28, 2025 at 8:44 PM
bobismeisbob.bsky.social
It's another topic for this old tweet thread.
We're at a moment in time where radical change is necessary *because* those in power refused to make incremental change over the last 20 years. That's as true on minimum wage as it is on climate. We could have slowly increased min wage over the past 20 years, but those proposals were blocked at every turn, mostly by GOP and corporate interests. Now we need to double it overnight which is exponentially harder. We could have decarbonized gradually but those proposals were blocked at every turn for going on 40 years now. Now we need to decarbonize in a decade, which is exponentially harder. It's not that today's progressives are "radical" it's that they've been handed a pile of shit created by decades of inaction and total dereliction of duty when it comes to the government working for individual citizens and not just corporate citizens. So yes, proposals of incremental change now are ridiculous. Proposing solutions now that would have actually worked 20 years ago are ridiculous. It's radical change or radical failure, that is the situation we've all been placed in by the radically self-interested few tweet by Amy Westervelt
September 30, 2025 at 8:02 PM