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Brandon Lighty
@brandonlighty.bsky.social
Political researcher, writer, sometimes an artist - all content is a spicy overzealous emotional outburst

https://itcanbedifferent.substack.com/
DDOS attack on twitter lmao, love to see it
March 10, 2025 at 4:33 PM
The word “shall” gives conjunction vibes

No I will not elaborate
December 18, 2024 at 4:57 PM
This whole app just feels like a thousand people trying to get over the same ex while also pretending they are having a great time with their downgraded new partner lol
OPINION: Bluesky needs to be more like Twitter, the website everyone left because they hated it
November 23, 2024 at 3:10 PM
Reposted by Brandon Lighty
I started this, if you see one of those "listen up new users" posts send it to me and I'll add that user to the block list
is there a blocklist for "bluesky elders" yet
November 16, 2024 at 6:17 PM
Deeply ashamed that my first skeet (post? blweet?) in nine months involved the Jake Paul fight
November 16, 2024 at 6:37 PM
Streaming services truly are the Midas touch but instead of gold it’s shit

We’ve had high definition live broadcasting for decades but Netflix tries it once? Shit
November 16, 2024 at 5:06 AM
I’ve decided I’m going to translate the MEGA as a personal project to both reteach myself German and read through as much of Marx’s work as I possibly can in its original language

I think I’ll also put the translations up on my Substack too, probably weekly or semi-regularly like that
February 2, 2024 at 9:43 PM
One of my favorite parts about sifting through the U.S. government’s raw data is how around every two years the entire format of every report changes and for some reason each time it does it becomes more difficult to decipher and find the info you’re actually looking for
November 27, 2023 at 5:46 PM
It seems like the big tent of the Democratic Party has expanded so far out that the party is beginning to ideologically decouple again

In the next decade we will likely see the reemergence of something akin to the Dixiecrats as the barrier to entry becomes simply “wanting to govern a liberal state”
November 8, 2023 at 3:46 PM
I started writing a series breaking down the different factions involved in the Al-Aqua Flood because I’ve found even among well meaning people in the English-speaking world, there seems to be a complete misunderstanding of who the actors are in this

Links below
October 19, 2023 at 8:59 PM
The immense damage Birthright has had on multiple generations’ understanding of reality genuinely can’t be overstated

The intentional targeting of young [majority Ashkenazi] people in colleges at a time when they are seeking new connection and meaning is straight up cult indoctrination behavior
October 13, 2023 at 8:33 PM
Towing the increasingly frustrating line of

The acts of individual fighters do not delegitimize anti-colonial resistance

And

Most if the the atrocities being denounced by U.S. liberals are completely unsubstantiated and we are watching the mythmaking spin of history happen in real time
October 7, 2023 at 6:05 PM
I think I’ve really begun to appreciate Hauerwas’s belief that (likely pre-Vatican 2 especially) the Catholic Church *was* the church and for Catholics to think of themselves as one of many denominations is as good of a confirmation as ever that it was/had becom[ing]/[e] Protestantism
October 4, 2023 at 8:26 PM