rds9674
@rds9674.com
Just a GenXer trying to get through this thing called life.
Not really here on this account much (IYKYK).
Detroit sports junkie, roadgeek, and nerd-at-large who just wants everyone to get along and live in peace.
Not really here on this account much (IYKYK).
Detroit sports junkie, roadgeek, and nerd-at-large who just wants everyone to get along and live in peace.
Been feeling burned out lately.
Half work, half personal.
Half work, half personal.
November 26, 2025 at 4:52 AM
Been feeling burned out lately.
Half work, half personal.
Half work, half personal.
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It's not that posts like this are wrong, exactly. But this isn't some special form of fascism, it's just what fascism is. Fascism is always stupid and petty and cowardly and pathetic. There isn't another version
They can’t win fairly with policy or eloquence or fairness or intelligence so they’ll just silence everyone who disagrees with them. It’s fascism but in its most cowardly and pathetic form.
September 18, 2025 at 12:04 AM
It's not that posts like this are wrong, exactly. But this isn't some special form of fascism, it's just what fascism is. Fascism is always stupid and petty and cowardly and pathetic. There isn't another version
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September 18, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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Huge week for people crashing out in The Verge comments saying “I thought this was a tech blog!!!” Anyway here are just a few pieces from our policy and politics desk 🙂
www.theverge.com/policy/77979...
www.theverge.com/report/77935...
www.theverge.com/policy/77897...
www.theverge.com/policy/77979...
www.theverge.com/report/77935...
www.theverge.com/policy/77897...
Republicans are honoring Charlie Kirk’s memory by declaring war on the First Amendment
Where’s all that free speech absolutism now?
www.theverge.com
September 18, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Huge week for people crashing out in The Verge comments saying “I thought this was a tech blog!!!” Anyway here are just a few pieces from our policy and politics desk 🙂
www.theverge.com/policy/77979...
www.theverge.com/report/77935...
www.theverge.com/policy/77897...
www.theverge.com/policy/77979...
www.theverge.com/report/77935...
www.theverge.com/policy/77897...
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Remember when trans people complained about some of Chappelle's jokes and then he got a multi-million dollar deal to make more Netflix specials? Now THAT was cancel culture!
September 18, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Remember when trans people complained about some of Chappelle's jokes and then he got a multi-million dollar deal to make more Netflix specials? Now THAT was cancel culture!
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“Debate Me” culture is not organic, endemic, or apolitical. This mode of high jacking discourse is and has been central to a 30-year conservative training program that has produced untold numbers of people to do this for every reason but “civil discourse”
It's wild to me how ostensibly smart people cannot/could not/will not see what is so obvious.
@mmasnick.bsky.social nails it. And my hunch is we'd be a better society if the Very Serious People with the Very Serious Ideas opened their fucking eyes.
www.techdirt.com/2025/09/17/t...
@mmasnick.bsky.social nails it. And my hunch is we'd be a better society if the Very Serious People with the Very Serious Ideas opened their fucking eyes.
www.techdirt.com/2025/09/17/t...
September 17, 2025 at 7:01 PM
“Debate Me” culture is not organic, endemic, or apolitical. This mode of high jacking discourse is and has been central to a 30-year conservative training program that has produced untold numbers of people to do this for every reason but “civil discourse”
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Get a load of this fucking bullshit from my home state.
Charlie Kirk Free Speech Day? Oklahoma lawmakers file bills to honor right-wing influencer
One bill would require each public university in Oklahoma to designate a prominent area on its main campus as the "Charlie Kirk Memorial Plaza."
www.oklahoman.com
September 18, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Get a load of this fucking bullshit from my home state.
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BBC News captures Doctor Who himself Sylvester McCoy at the Trump protest seemingly unaware of who they're interviewing.
September 17, 2025 at 6:29 PM
BBC News captures Doctor Who himself Sylvester McCoy at the Trump protest seemingly unaware of who they're interviewing.
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This is all he said.
“The MAGA Gang (is) desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it,” Kimmel said. “In between the finger-pointing, there was grieving.”
September 17, 2025 at 11:51 PM
This is all he said.
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Don’t let this make you quieter.
Get louder.
Get louder.
September 17, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Don’t let this make you quieter.
Get louder.
Get louder.
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“fascist government controls media and bans dissent” is a straightforward description of what’s happening in the united states
The federal government is dictating what speech is permitted.
*DISNEY SAYS 'JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE' TO BE PREEMPTED INDEFINITELY
*DISNEY SAYS 'JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE' TO BE PREEMPTED INDEFINITELY
FCC Chairman Brendan Carr: "There's actions we can take on licensed broadcasters. It's long past the time that...Comcast and Disney say 'We're not gonna run Kimmel anymore...because we licensed broadcasters are running the possibly of fines or licensed revocation from the FCC.'"
September 17, 2025 at 10:46 PM
“fascist government controls media and bans dissent” is a straightforward description of what’s happening in the united states
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ABC immediately caves to tiniest bit of gov’t pressure. If you don’t defend basic free speech rights, you’ll lose them. Simple as that.
Gov’t hasn’t just threatened us at media matters, they’ve actually used power against us. We don’t fold, we fight in court. If we can, ABC has no excuse
Gov’t hasn’t just threatened us at media matters, they’ve actually used power against us. We don’t fold, we fight in court. If we can, ABC has no excuse
September 17, 2025 at 11:32 PM
ABC immediately caves to tiniest bit of gov’t pressure. If you don’t defend basic free speech rights, you’ll lose them. Simple as that.
Gov’t hasn’t just threatened us at media matters, they’ve actually used power against us. We don’t fold, we fight in court. If we can, ABC has no excuse
Gov’t hasn’t just threatened us at media matters, they’ve actually used power against us. We don’t fold, we fight in court. If we can, ABC has no excuse
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You can not “debate” someone who doesn’t believe what you are exists and is aggressively opposed to you because they believe your existence is in opposition to an all-powerful invisible authority figure they worship. Fuck off.
September 17, 2025 at 11:36 PM
You can not “debate” someone who doesn’t believe what you are exists and is aggressively opposed to you because they believe your existence is in opposition to an all-powerful invisible authority figure they worship. Fuck off.
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in light of the kimmel news, just a reminder that a few days ago a prominent fox news host literally called for killing homeless people. right afterward, someone shot up a couple homeless encampments.
that fox news host still has his job.
that fox news host still has his job.
Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."
September 17, 2025 at 11:23 PM
in light of the kimmel news, just a reminder that a few days ago a prominent fox news host literally called for killing homeless people. right afterward, someone shot up a couple homeless encampments.
that fox news host still has his job.
that fox news host still has his job.
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Like, I just want to post about videogame nonsense and my stupid soccer shenanigans and fun, happy stuff, but every time I look up it’s “The government has cancelled free speech” or “JD Vance jokes about murdering fishermen” or “Donald Trump has declared war on the moon” and I dunno man. Shit sucks.
September 17, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Like, I just want to post about videogame nonsense and my stupid soccer shenanigans and fun, happy stuff, but every time I look up it’s “The government has cancelled free speech” or “JD Vance jokes about murdering fishermen” or “Donald Trump has declared war on the moon” and I dunno man. Shit sucks.
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Ah. Should he have speculated like that? No. Should this get his show pulled off the air? Also no. bsky.app/profile/maev...
according to the Hollywood Reporter, it was because of this comment
September 17, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Ah. Should he have speculated like that? No. Should this get his show pulled off the air? Also no. bsky.app/profile/maev...
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conservatism, particularly in its American form, is incompatible with any society worth living in and the sooner we realize this and begin to treat these people as corrosive monsters who must be converted from their evil beliefs or crushed into nonexistence so they cannot harm us the better
September 17, 2025 at 10:50 PM
conservatism, particularly in its American form, is incompatible with any society worth living in and the sooner we realize this and begin to treat these people as corrosive monsters who must be converted from their evil beliefs or crushed into nonexistence so they cannot harm us the better
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“Jimmy Kimmel wasn’t doing politics right.”
—Ezra Klein
—Ezra Klein
this is quite genuinely insane, and I want to believe the backlash to this will be severe
ABC Pulls Jimmy Kimmel Off Air for Charlie Kirk Comments
www.nytimes.com
September 17, 2025 at 11:01 PM
“Jimmy Kimmel wasn’t doing politics right.”
—Ezra Klein
—Ezra Klein
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The Conservative project to control and operate the media as a way to eliminate even the most gentle of opposition ideas, using threats or lawsuits or just any molehill they can mountain-ize, is in full swing. We are careening toward a monopolitical media ecosystem.
This is...something
Nexstar, one of largest owners of TV stations in the country, is pre-empting JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE "for the foreseeable future":
"Nexstar strongly objects to recent comments made by Mr. Kimmel concerning the killing of Charlie Kirk and will replace the show with other programming."
Nexstar, one of largest owners of TV stations in the country, is pre-empting JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE "for the foreseeable future":
"Nexstar strongly objects to recent comments made by Mr. Kimmel concerning the killing of Charlie Kirk and will replace the show with other programming."
September 17, 2025 at 10:35 PM
The Conservative project to control and operate the media as a way to eliminate even the most gentle of opposition ideas, using threats or lawsuits or just any molehill they can mountain-ize, is in full swing. We are careening toward a monopolitical media ecosystem.
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thinking about this screenshot from Columbo that makes it look like a 90s point-and-click adventure game
September 16, 2025 at 11:13 PM
thinking about this screenshot from Columbo that makes it look like a 90s point-and-click adventure game
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Robert Redford on Richard Nixon's death. Not much changes, I guess.
September 17, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Robert Redford on Richard Nixon's death. Not much changes, I guess.
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Mace is the hateful, nasty bitch here, not Omar.
Mace can fuck off.
Mace can fuck off.
lowering the temperature check:
“She’s a nasty human being. She hates her country. She hates our country so much she doesn’t have to be here,” Nancy Mace said of Ilhan Omar.
"Fuck her."
www.huffpost.com/entry/nancy-...
“She’s a nasty human being. She hates her country. She hates our country so much she doesn’t have to be here,” Nancy Mace said of Ilhan Omar.
"Fuck her."
www.huffpost.com/entry/nancy-...
Nancy Mace Pushes Ilhan Omar Censure, Suggests Deportation, Says ‘F**k Her’
The House could vote on dueling censure resolutions Wednesday evening.
www.huffpost.com
September 17, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Mace is the hateful, nasty bitch here, not Omar.
Mace can fuck off.
Mace can fuck off.
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She can't get out of her own way, can she?
“Words are not violence”
- proceeds to quote Hitler’s words
- proceeds to quote Hitler’s words
September 17, 2025 at 9:38 PM
She can't get out of her own way, can she?
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Ms Crockett I love you 🤣
CROCKETT: When I say that you are the least qualified FBI director in the history of the FBI, that is real, because you are the only one that never even served with the FBI
PATEL: That's false
CROCKETT: I didn't ask you a question
PATEL: That's false
CROCKETT: I didn't ask you a question
September 17, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Ms Crockett I love you 🤣
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Trans people exist and are loved outside the left and right ideological divide.
September 17, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Trans people exist and are loved outside the left and right ideological divide.