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The bar for "doing politics the right way" can't be as low as "despite being murdered, he was not himself a murderer." Kirk was not a "robust supporter of free speech," he cut his teeth compiling lists of college professors to be fired, harassed, or worse. He was a fascist through and through
These people have smarted themselves into the dumbest fucking arguments.
Determining whether someone is "doing politics the right way" depends almost entirely on the content of their speech! If someone lies constantly and endorses authoritarians that's not practicing good politics.
Determining whether someone is "doing politics the right way" depends almost entirely on the content of their speech! If someone lies constantly and endorses authoritarians that's not practicing good politics.
September 13, 2025 at 7:08 AM
The bar for "doing politics the right way" can't be as low as "despite being murdered, he was not himself a murderer." Kirk was not a "robust supporter of free speech," he cut his teeth compiling lists of college professors to be fired, harassed, or worse. He was a fascist through and through
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And again: Kirk was very much *not operating within the framework Egger describes* - he was targeting people with opposing ideas for harassment. He did not support free speech, and he knew he *could not* because the content of his speech would lose in an actual liberal framework of persuasion.
These people have smarted themselves into the dumbest fucking arguments.
Determining whether someone is "doing politics the right way" depends almost entirely on the content of their speech! If someone lies constantly and endorses authoritarians that's not practicing good politics.
Determining whether someone is "doing politics the right way" depends almost entirely on the content of their speech! If someone lies constantly and endorses authoritarians that's not practicing good politics.
September 13, 2025 at 11:05 AM
And again: Kirk was very much *not operating within the framework Egger describes* - he was targeting people with opposing ideas for harassment. He did not support free speech, and he knew he *could not* because the content of his speech would lose in an actual liberal framework of persuasion.
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The discourse over Kirk’s career is really hammering home how little the media and so many Dems understand the concept of lying or bad faith arguments.
An entire life dedicated to poisoning the well under the guise of ‘an exchange of ideas’ and nobody is capable of calling it out for what it was.
An entire life dedicated to poisoning the well under the guise of ‘an exchange of ideas’ and nobody is capable of calling it out for what it was.
heres fucking democrats being stupid as shit after kirk was killed www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
September 12, 2025 at 2:18 PM
The discourse over Kirk’s career is really hammering home how little the media and so many Dems understand the concept of lying or bad faith arguments.
An entire life dedicated to poisoning the well under the guise of ‘an exchange of ideas’ and nobody is capable of calling it out for what it was.
An entire life dedicated to poisoning the well under the guise of ‘an exchange of ideas’ and nobody is capable of calling it out for what it was.
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Anyone saying Kirk "practiced politics the right way" thinks being pro shooting, pro stoning gay people, pro trans genocide, pro Palestinian genocide, anti abortion rights, pro public execution and keeping a list of marginalized professors for his fans to harass was "the right way"....
September 11, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Anyone saying Kirk "practiced politics the right way" thinks being pro shooting, pro stoning gay people, pro trans genocide, pro Palestinian genocide, anti abortion rights, pro public execution and keeping a list of marginalized professors for his fans to harass was "the right way"....
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I made a video with a bunch of my thoughts regarding the Charlie Kirk assassination and the state of pop culture politics in the US for anyone who wants to see what I gotta say about all that
youtu.be/QPtpk2Yxdgo
youtu.be/QPtpk2Yxdgo
On the topic of Charlie Kirk's Assassination
Yesterday, we saw multiple shootings, including the wildly unexpected assassination of a high profile figure in pop culture politics in the US.
In this video, I talk about what happened and how I…
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September 11, 2025 at 3:08 PM
I made a video with a bunch of my thoughts regarding the Charlie Kirk assassination and the state of pop culture politics in the US for anyone who wants to see what I gotta say about all that
youtu.be/QPtpk2Yxdgo
youtu.be/QPtpk2Yxdgo
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We have to stop this refusal to live in reality bullshit, using the mans own words to show what type of person he was isnt cosigning murder.
September 11, 2025 at 12:26 PM
We have to stop this refusal to live in reality bullshit, using the mans own words to show what type of person he was isnt cosigning murder.
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They are going to claim we (left/liberals/Democrats/non-white non-supremacists) said whatever is most convenient for them to say we said, no matter what we say. So all the appeasement is pretty much in vain.
they just decide what they think we’re like and proceed as though
September 11, 2025 at 12:14 PM
They are going to claim we (left/liberals/Democrats/non-white non-supremacists) said whatever is most convenient for them to say we said, no matter what we say. So all the appeasement is pretty much in vain.
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If liberals like Ezra are saying that someone who called for Gay people to be stoned, trans people to be lynched, Black people to accept police violence and women to obey did politics "the right way", that is in some respects more alarming that the bloviation of the far right. Bend that knee, Ezra.
September 11, 2025 at 1:16 PM
If liberals like Ezra are saying that someone who called for Gay people to be stoned, trans people to be lynched, Black people to accept police violence and women to obey did politics "the right way", that is in some respects more alarming that the bloviation of the far right. Bend that knee, Ezra.
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This is extremely cool. GOG is taking a stand against payment processors caving to fundamentalist religious groups and is offering a bunch of "banned" games for free.
freedomtobuy.games
freedomtobuy.games
Freedom To Buy
Join the 48-hour giveaway and stand for the freedom to buy games.
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August 1, 2025 at 7:27 PM
This is extremely cool. GOG is taking a stand against payment processors caving to fundamentalist religious groups and is offering a bunch of "banned" games for free.
freedomtobuy.games
freedomtobuy.games
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The fact that right now I can take my Visa card and buy something from Barely Legal Boobies Dot Com or whatever, but I can't take that same Visa card and buy an erotic visual novel on itch because Visa themselves told the platform to censor adult content is just outrageous, and they need to be told.
July 24, 2025 at 1:57 AM
The fact that right now I can take my Visa card and buy something from Barely Legal Boobies Dot Com or whatever, but I can't take that same Visa card and buy an erotic visual novel on itch because Visa themselves told the platform to censor adult content is just outrageous, and they need to be told.
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There is no acceptable sacrificial lamb to appease purity culture. Whatever weird little pervert you are personally icked by should not be collateral damage in a discussion where, essentially, banks are vying to be the arbiters of morality so they can decide whose dirty evil money they get to pocket
July 24, 2025 at 2:40 PM
There is no acceptable sacrificial lamb to appease purity culture. Whatever weird little pervert you are personally icked by should not be collateral damage in a discussion where, essentially, banks are vying to be the arbiters of morality so they can decide whose dirty evil money they get to pocket
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As a maker of exceptionally sexless art, I just wanna say publicly that any attempt at censorship of the arts is to be resisted. NSFW art is always an easy target, but it’s also always only the first step in a chain, not to mention the artistic value of this stuff in its own right.
July 24, 2025 at 2:50 PM
As a maker of exceptionally sexless art, I just wanna say publicly that any attempt at censorship of the arts is to be resisted. NSFW art is always an easy target, but it’s also always only the first step in a chain, not to mention the artistic value of this stuff in its own right.
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this is a good illustration of what “compromise” on trans rights looks like. there’s no “everyone gets rights but we take it easy on the pronouns.” if you head down that road you will end up denying that trans people are real.
Rahm Emanuel criticized Dems for talking about "pronouns," but Megyn Kelly is the first interviewer I've seen drill down for his views.
Boys + girls are "fundamentally, physically different." No "men claiming they're women" in women's prisons.
"Can a man become a woman? No."
Boys + girls are "fundamentally, physically different." No "men claiming they're women" in women's prisons.
"Can a man become a woman? No."
July 22, 2025 at 2:26 AM
this is a good illustration of what “compromise” on trans rights looks like. there’s no “everyone gets rights but we take it easy on the pronouns.” if you head down that road you will end up denying that trans people are real.
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Why are they they fighting Zohran harder than they’re fighting Trump
Hakeem Jeffries has reportedly told allies that if Zohran Mamdani wins, he can't become Speaker of the House.
Leaders like Jeffries see this fight as existential for their control of the party:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/party-cont...
Leaders like Jeffries see this fight as existential for their control of the party:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/party-cont...
Party Control Is Dead
From Mamdani to Trump’s Epstein fiasco, Americans are turning on their leaders
www.kenklippenstein.com
July 21, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Why are they they fighting Zohran harder than they’re fighting Trump
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I don't know if it's because people have bought into the hype or if it's because they don't know how LLMs work, but, like... I'm gonna need people to stop treating AI like it's people. It's software. It's just really good predictive text. It says what it thinks you want to hear.
In a stunning moment of self-delusion, the Wall Street Journal headline writers admitted that they don't know how LLM chatbots work.
July 21, 2025 at 2:28 AM
I don't know if it's because people have bought into the hype or if it's because they don't know how LLMs work, but, like... I'm gonna need people to stop treating AI like it's people. It's software. It's just really good predictive text. It says what it thinks you want to hear.
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I'm getting real tired of not being able to trust that a video game doesn't have AI crap in it:
aftermath.site/the-alters-ai-...
aftermath.site/the-alters-ai-...
June 30, 2025 at 11:32 PM
I'm getting real tired of not being able to trust that a video game doesn't have AI crap in it:
aftermath.site/the-alters-ai-...
aftermath.site/the-alters-ai-...
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Same folks who insist there are only two genders have 50 subclasses for men...
June 19, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Same folks who insist there are only two genders have 50 subclasses for men...
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I truly believe we will look back at this attitude as *the* sickness of our political era.
It is an extremely basic fact, and has been for decades, that the vast majority of political violence in the US is committed by the right! You cannot solve a problem if you refuse to identify it.
It is an extremely basic fact, and has been for decades, that the vast majority of political violence in the US is committed by the right! You cannot solve a problem if you refuse to identify it.
June 17, 2025 at 1:59 PM
I truly believe we will look back at this attitude as *the* sickness of our political era.
It is an extremely basic fact, and has been for decades, that the vast majority of political violence in the US is committed by the right! You cannot solve a problem if you refuse to identify it.
It is an extremely basic fact, and has been for decades, that the vast majority of political violence in the US is committed by the right! You cannot solve a problem if you refuse to identify it.
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Why is there a curfew if the protests were peaceful and powerful? Why deploy cops at all?
Bad actors? Look how easy it is for the supposed progressives to use the propaganda of the right. Get the fuck outta here.
Bad actors? Look how easy it is for the supposed progressives to use the propaganda of the right. Get the fuck outta here.
30,000 people showed up across our city to exercise their constitutional right to peaceful protest today — that's powerful.
A curfew is in effect in Downtown Los Angeles to stop bad actors who do not care about immigrants rights.
Get home safe, LA.
A curfew is in effect in Downtown Los Angeles to stop bad actors who do not care about immigrants rights.
Get home safe, LA.
June 15, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Why is there a curfew if the protests were peaceful and powerful? Why deploy cops at all?
Bad actors? Look how easy it is for the supposed progressives to use the propaganda of the right. Get the fuck outta here.
Bad actors? Look how easy it is for the supposed progressives to use the propaganda of the right. Get the fuck outta here.
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There's a kind of male violence that is often misinterpreted as being in defense of women when it's actually in defense of who has the right to harm women (in a "we do; they don't" mode, see KKK, southern lynching, etc.)
"They did not show up for any of the other outrages against women and girls ... the only kinds of riots that are ever treated with such solicitousness, such strenuous attempts to 'understand', such charitable interpretation — are race riots." @leninology.bsky.social
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www.patreon.com/posts/131211...
June 14, 2025 at 11:58 AM
There's a kind of male violence that is often misinterpreted as being in defense of women when it's actually in defense of who has the right to harm women (in a "we do; they don't" mode, see KKK, southern lynching, etc.)
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Republicans: WE NOMINATE SKELETOR
Democrats: We dislike Skeletor but we will vote to confirm him. Please give us between 5 and 50 dollars.
<Later>
Democrats: I stand before you to condemn the actions of Skeletor. He should have never been given this power. Please give me between 5 and 50 dollars.
Democrats: We dislike Skeletor but we will vote to confirm him. Please give us between 5 and 50 dollars.
<Later>
Democrats: I stand before you to condemn the actions of Skeletor. He should have never been given this power. Please give me between 5 and 50 dollars.
June 13, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Republicans: WE NOMINATE SKELETOR
Democrats: We dislike Skeletor but we will vote to confirm him. Please give us between 5 and 50 dollars.
<Later>
Democrats: I stand before you to condemn the actions of Skeletor. He should have never been given this power. Please give me between 5 and 50 dollars.
Democrats: We dislike Skeletor but we will vote to confirm him. Please give us between 5 and 50 dollars.
<Later>
Democrats: I stand before you to condemn the actions of Skeletor. He should have never been given this power. Please give me between 5 and 50 dollars.
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FIrst off, none of these fascists are going to resign on their own nor will they be asked to, so seems like the oppostion party should be impeaching people and not voting with R's on their bullshit.
Secondly, you voted to thank ICE this week!
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Secondly, you voted to thank ICE this week!
bsky.app/profile/jona...
Kristi Noem must resign. She has deported a four year old with cancer, detained a U.S. marshal, and arrested two members of Congress. She’s lost the confidence of the American people. ICE must stop terrorizing our communities.
June 12, 2025 at 10:19 PM
FIrst off, none of these fascists are going to resign on their own nor will they be asked to, so seems like the oppostion party should be impeaching people and not voting with R's on their bullshit.
Secondly, you voted to thank ICE this week!
bsky.app/profile/jona...
Secondly, you voted to thank ICE this week!
bsky.app/profile/jona...
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booker ready to do anything other than vote no on republican legislation
Sen. Cory Booker: When you see a democratic nation having their executive begin to arrest mayors, begin to arrest judges, begin to arrest a United States senator who was simply asking for answers to their questions [...] this is something that we should not tolerate.
June 12, 2025 at 7:07 PM
booker ready to do anything other than vote no on republican legislation