jack
@gorillawarfare.bsky.social
speedrunner, socdem, physics student, philosophy nerd | ✡️ | 22 | they
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There shouldn’t be a single word written about this that doesn’t note it’s his birthday parade
Constitution Avenue has been selected as the main route for Trump’s Jun. 14 military parade, so for once “trampling on Constitution” will be more than a metaphor for him.
Here's what we know about Trump's June 14 D.C. military parade
From the route to the music, permit applications give us a glimpse into the spectacle.
www.axios.com
May 9, 2025 at 1:42 PM
There shouldn’t be a single word written about this that doesn’t note it’s his birthday parade
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Trump right now is playing on easy mode, where he can do white supremacy without paying any of the political costs of white supremacy because no one will identify it as white supremacy
May 9, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Trump right now is playing on easy mode, where he can do white supremacy without paying any of the political costs of white supremacy because no one will identify it as white supremacy
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You really think it would be a bigger deal that US policy is now “White people are good and nonwhite people are bad.” Even from a neutral, horse-race perspective, about 40% of the country is nonwhite and many of those people vote!
The Trump administration is working to bring the first group of white South Africans it has classified as refugees to the U.S. early next week.
Read more: nyti.ms/3F47waH
Read more: nyti.ms/3F47waH
May 9, 2025 at 4:04 PM
You really think it would be a bigger deal that US policy is now “White people are good and nonwhite people are bad.” Even from a neutral, horse-race perspective, about 40% of the country is nonwhite and many of those people vote!
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Just really fucked up, bleak stuff. The fascists have breached the gates, but you had a "bad" take on my space wizard movie so I refuse to show you basic empathy. No fucking wonder leftism in America is so cooked
May 9, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Just really fucked up, bleak stuff. The fascists have breached the gates, but you had a "bad" take on my space wizard movie so I refuse to show you basic empathy. No fucking wonder leftism in America is so cooked
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"if you don't like getting death threats you should stop expressing opinions I don't agree with"
Do you understand why that's bad?
Do you understand why that's bad?
May 9, 2025 at 9:00 PM
"if you don't like getting death threats you should stop expressing opinions I don't agree with"
Do you understand why that's bad?
Do you understand why that's bad?
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a lot of the ringleaders ARE blocked. look at the top of this thread: it’s large accounts sharing screenshots they got from other large accounts. you can’t block away this kind of kiwifarms dynamic and they know it. stop acting like the nuclear block gives you permission to act like a lunatic
LOG OFF! Block people. Jesus christ you pissbaby, you like the attention. Just BLOCK PEOPLE! Its the fucking internet, good lord.
May 9, 2025 at 8:20 PM
a lot of the ringleaders ARE blocked. look at the top of this thread: it’s large accounts sharing screenshots they got from other large accounts. you can’t block away this kind of kiwifarms dynamic and they know it. stop acting like the nuclear block gives you permission to act like a lunatic
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These people understand they are completely untouchable and they’re getting bolder by the day
May 9, 2025 at 7:44 PM
These people understand they are completely untouchable and they’re getting bolder by the day
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the harassment is getting worse because these people get endless positive reinforcement and engagement for acting like lunatics and believe (seemingly correctly) that their behavior is tacitly condoned by the site leadership.
May 9, 2025 at 7:38 PM
the harassment is getting worse because these people get endless positive reinforcement and engagement for acting like lunatics and believe (seemingly correctly) that their behavior is tacitly condoned by the site leadership.
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it is time to start banning people for god’s sake
May 9, 2025 at 7:36 PM
it is time to start banning people for god’s sake
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every single online forum in history has discovered this: either you mete out bans for consistent bad-faith trolls, or you watch the community devolve into endless toxicity and harassment
May 9, 2025 at 5:13 PM
every single online forum in history has discovered this: either you mete out bans for consistent bad-faith trolls, or you watch the community devolve into endless toxicity and harassment
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The people who want to treat this site like leftist kiwifarms should be banned
blue sky basically doesn’t ban and the trolls are figuring this out. I have people sending me pictures of bullets and stuff, it’s not acceptable and it’s got to stop
May 9, 2025 at 7:34 PM
The people who want to treat this site like leftist kiwifarms should be banned
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it’s the kiwifarms thing: you can try to pretend they don’t exist but they will not extend you the same courtesy and you can’t control their interactions. bans and social censure are the solution
May 9, 2025 at 11:51 PM
it’s the kiwifarms thing: you can try to pretend they don’t exist but they will not extend you the same courtesy and you can’t control their interactions. bans and social censure are the solution
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The problem the US faces right now is not the dozens of structural issues we’ve been grinding through for decades, although they haven’t gone away. It’s that an authoritarian cult of personality has seized the nation. That cult has many faces and members but would likely collapse if not for one man
May 10, 2025 at 12:31 PM
The problem the US faces right now is not the dozens of structural issues we’ve been grinding through for decades, although they haven’t gone away. It’s that an authoritarian cult of personality has seized the nation. That cult has many faces and members but would likely collapse if not for one man
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Saying the problem with the US is Trump is not “individualizing systemic problems.” Sometimes leaders and the infrastructure of power around them become equivalent to a systemic problem. That’s especially true in authoritarian movements where loyalty to a specific leader is a core principle
The incredibly stupid shitlib impulse to individualize systemic problems....
The next 4-8 years of American political needs to be organized around a single simple principal of political philosophy: "Orange man bad"
May 10, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Saying the problem with the US is Trump is not “individualizing systemic problems.” Sometimes leaders and the infrastructure of power around them become equivalent to a systemic problem. That’s especially true in authoritarian movements where loyalty to a specific leader is a core principle
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I really think the desire to normalize Trump and characterize him as the next logical step in presidential history is counterproductive. He is dangerous specifically because he’s a freakish aberration, a break from normality. Even if you liked Bush or Reagan or whatever, you should hate him
Yeah the idea we can’t criticize Trump because the real problem is “the system” is shit-tier thinking. Trump sucks. And yes, he does suck in a way that’s different in type and magnitude from other American Presidents.
May 10, 2025 at 12:42 PM
I really think the desire to normalize Trump and characterize him as the next logical step in presidential history is counterproductive. He is dangerous specifically because he’s a freakish aberration, a break from normality. Even if you liked Bush or Reagan or whatever, you should hate him
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Yup, Bush was as bad as we remember and it would still be wildly comforting in some impossible hypothetical where he replaces Trump tomorrow.
May 10, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Yup, Bush was as bad as we remember and it would still be wildly comforting in some impossible hypothetical where he replaces Trump tomorrow.
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time to rate some sums of money
$100: classic amount of money
$0.55: not very much
$320.13: not bad
$2.02: i think you can do a little better than that, don't you
$74,000,000: huge amount of money
$74,000,100: just when i thought it couldn't get any better!
$16: sure
-$7230: you GOTTA be kidding me
$100: classic amount of money
$0.55: not very much
$320.13: not bad
$2.02: i think you can do a little better than that, don't you
$74,000,000: huge amount of money
$74,000,100: just when i thought it couldn't get any better!
$16: sure
-$7230: you GOTTA be kidding me
December 13, 2024 at 2:28 AM
time to rate some sums of money
$100: classic amount of money
$0.55: not very much
$320.13: not bad
$2.02: i think you can do a little better than that, don't you
$74,000,000: huge amount of money
$74,000,100: just when i thought it couldn't get any better!
$16: sure
-$7230: you GOTTA be kidding me
$100: classic amount of money
$0.55: not very much
$320.13: not bad
$2.02: i think you can do a little better than that, don't you
$74,000,000: huge amount of money
$74,000,100: just when i thought it couldn't get any better!
$16: sure
-$7230: you GOTTA be kidding me
just stayed up all night reading 20020 start to finish holy shit i’m 4 years late to the party but how does @jonbois.bsky.social do this
his fuckin mind
(spoilers)
also i CALLED the fuckin “burn obt to run across fields” goddamn this story is so fucking good
his fuckin mind
(spoilers)
also i CALLED the fuckin “burn obt to run across fields” goddamn this story is so fucking good
December 7, 2024 at 11:52 AM
just stayed up all night reading 20020 start to finish holy shit i’m 4 years late to the party but how does @jonbois.bsky.social do this
his fuckin mind
(spoilers)
also i CALLED the fuckin “burn obt to run across fields” goddamn this story is so fucking good
his fuckin mind
(spoilers)
also i CALLED the fuckin “burn obt to run across fields” goddamn this story is so fucking good
road planners be like “insert car or select pavement type”
November 23, 2024 at 6:52 AM
road planners be like “insert car or select pavement type”
everything abt bluesky and its users and the way they’re like “we’re twitter but Not” is irreparably cringe so i propose we just start calling this app “twitter” and call the posts “tweets” and just use all the twitter lingo
we should also still refer to twitter as twitter
we should also still refer to twitter as twitter
November 21, 2024 at 8:42 PM
everything abt bluesky and its users and the way they’re like “we’re twitter but Not” is irreparably cringe so i propose we just start calling this app “twitter” and call the posts “tweets” and just use all the twitter lingo
we should also still refer to twitter as twitter
we should also still refer to twitter as twitter
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2025 white house cabinet meeting
November 19, 2024 at 11:35 PM
2025 white house cabinet meeting
jon bois is carrying this app im ngl where’re all the real posters
too many ppl tryna bring back 2020-level humor policing
too many ppl tryna bring back 2020-level humor policing
November 19, 2024 at 6:52 PM
jon bois is carrying this app im ngl where’re all the real posters
too many ppl tryna bring back 2020-level humor policing
too many ppl tryna bring back 2020-level humor policing
i’m so sleepy i hate weekly essays that’re due at 1pm bc i always all nighter
i’m so fukcin done w this class
i’m so fukcin done w this class
November 19, 2024 at 6:52 PM
i’m so sleepy i hate weekly essays that’re due at 1pm bc i always all nighter
i’m so fukcin done w this class
i’m so fukcin done w this class
she give me that traumatizing head
November 4, 2023 at 2:51 AM
she give me that traumatizing head