Simon
@simon-blone.bsky.social
I thought I'd wasted j-school but I've seen what j-school produces
35 Adelaide, Aus
35 Adelaide, Aus
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Bud, you should stop pretending to be a progressive when you just hate gay people.
Go back to 8chan, fascist.
Go back to 8chan, fascist.
November 10, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Bud, you should stop pretending to be a progressive when you just hate gay people.
Go back to 8chan, fascist.
Go back to 8chan, fascist.
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so today I've seen Chuck Schumer called a "Kapo" a "baby killer" and a "genocide apologist" all because of a bill he does not support and didn't vote for....
but you know... it has nothing to do with him being Jewish......
but you know... it has nothing to do with him being Jewish......
November 10, 2025 at 9:01 PM
so today I've seen Chuck Schumer called a "Kapo" a "baby killer" and a "genocide apologist" all because of a bill he does not support and didn't vote for....
but you know... it has nothing to do with him being Jewish......
but you know... it has nothing to do with him being Jewish......
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That specific account is also almost certainly a fake one:
bsky.app/profile/djdy...
He only ever posts things designed to divide moderate and progressive Dems, is using a lifted profile pic, and refuses to share any biographical details.
bsky.app/profile/djdy...
He only ever posts things designed to divide moderate and progressive Dems, is using a lifted profile pic, and refuses to share any biographical details.
Fun fact, "Bryce" is using the Zillow profile pic of Aaron Fergola, real estate agent in Rhode Island, and commenting exclusively bs political opinions to inflame tensions. It's loser shit typically associated with troll farm accounts. Part of why the fash always lose: total incompetence!
November 10, 2025 at 10:26 PM
That specific account is also almost certainly a fake one:
bsky.app/profile/djdy...
He only ever posts things designed to divide moderate and progressive Dems, is using a lifted profile pic, and refuses to share any biographical details.
bsky.app/profile/djdy...
He only ever posts things designed to divide moderate and progressive Dems, is using a lifted profile pic, and refuses to share any biographical details.
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More than person on here today has told me that the prospect of increased air traffic accidents over the holiday weekend thanks to a lack of air traffic controllers is Good, Actually.
November 10, 2025 at 10:28 PM
More than person on here today has told me that the prospect of increased air traffic accidents over the holiday weekend thanks to a lack of air traffic controllers is Good, Actually.
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I'm starting to feel a lot of people here are a bunch of bitch-asses who don't have family to go to for the holidays and are like, "well. *EYE* don't need to fly to a holiday, therefore no one does, witness my moral superiority!"
November 10, 2025 at 10:32 PM
I'm starting to feel a lot of people here are a bunch of bitch-asses who don't have family to go to for the holidays and are like, "well. *EYE* don't need to fly to a holiday, therefore no one does, witness my moral superiority!"
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Nope, sorry, I have been assured by serious types that that’s the stove and you’re the hand, sorry.
November 10, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Nope, sorry, I have been assured by serious types that that’s the stove and you’re the hand, sorry.
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I don't agree with the decision to vote by the Dems, but I do think a lot of folks really don't grasp how much suffering is on the table if this shutdown continues.
Between federal workers, SNAP beneficiaries, and others, that's a lot of pain to swallow for not a lot of gain.
Between federal workers, SNAP beneficiaries, and others, that's a lot of pain to swallow for not a lot of gain.
November 10, 2025 at 10:38 PM
I don't agree with the decision to vote by the Dems, but I do think a lot of folks really don't grasp how much suffering is on the table if this shutdown continues.
Between federal workers, SNAP beneficiaries, and others, that's a lot of pain to swallow for not a lot of gain.
Between federal workers, SNAP beneficiaries, and others, that's a lot of pain to swallow for not a lot of gain.
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This thread, he is saying everything I definitely would say. Some of you really want to sacrifice people, because you think you aren't impacted by them not receiving paychecks, or not being able to afford food. The GOP has always wanted to wrecking ball everything no matter what!
While there may have been more *emotionally* satisfying ends to the shutdown, once it was proven that GOP weren't caving on ACA subsidies *and* weren't willing to blow up the filibuster *and* Trump went to SCOTUS to defend his right to starve people against the law...
...what would've been left?
...what would've been left?
November 10, 2025 at 10:51 PM
This thread, he is saying everything I definitely would say. Some of you really want to sacrifice people, because you think you aren't impacted by them not receiving paychecks, or not being able to afford food. The GOP has always wanted to wrecking ball everything no matter what!
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elections over so its largely moot at this point, but it was so crazy to watch *months* of ppl on this site create a complete fantasy world where NY Dems (or national Dems!) as a whole loathed Mamdani & were cheering for his defeat. It never happened! NY Dem establishment was largely on board!
not quoting because I don't wanna dunk that hard, but Pelosi never ever forgave AOC for this and allegedly did stimy her. Meanwhile by election day Zohran got every prominent NYC Dem except Schumer on board, got Rodneyse Bichotte giggling while slandering Cuomo too, that was crazy
November 10, 2025 at 10:54 PM
elections over so its largely moot at this point, but it was so crazy to watch *months* of ppl on this site create a complete fantasy world where NY Dems (or national Dems!) as a whole loathed Mamdani & were cheering for his defeat. It never happened! NY Dem establishment was largely on board!
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Update: this is no longer included in the final funding deal. I'm going to keep fighting to lower premiums and ensure Republicans can’t get away with a backdoor national abortion ban.
Senate update: Republicans are now trying to sneak a backdoor national abortion ban into their government funding bill. Republicans will stop at nothing to control women's health care decisions.
November 10, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Update: this is no longer included in the final funding deal. I'm going to keep fighting to lower premiums and ensure Republicans can’t get away with a backdoor national abortion ban.
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The sooner we get past internal recriminations and back to fighting united, the better off we all are — the likelier our victory next November.
November 10, 2025 at 8:40 PM
The sooner we get past internal recriminations and back to fighting united, the better off we all are — the likelier our victory next November.
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1. We need to fight hard for a good ACA extension early in December and hold Republicans fiercely accountable if they betray everyone.
November 10, 2025 at 8:40 PM
1. We need to fight hard for a good ACA extension early in December and hold Republicans fiercely accountable if they betray everyone.
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Do I trust them? No. That’s why I voted no. But they are in a terrible position, and we can use the next few weeks to turn the pressure up even further.
November 10, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Do I trust them? No. That’s why I voted no. But they are in a terrible position, and we can use the next few weeks to turn the pressure up even further.
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That December vote is a huge moment we can turn into a victory. People are watching. Good bill, we win; they cheat, they will lose. If we fight united.
November 10, 2025 at 8:40 PM
That December vote is a huge moment we can turn into a victory. People are watching. Good bill, we win; they cheat, they will lose. If we fight united.
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I think you can both be:
A.) Mad at the Cavers
B.) Call out demands for primarying *all* Dem electeds (even, implicitly, Dems who never supported the cave) as toxic wrecker shit that has nothing to do with the ACA subsidies or the like.
A.) Mad at the Cavers
B.) Call out demands for primarying *all* Dem electeds (even, implicitly, Dems who never supported the cave) as toxic wrecker shit that has nothing to do with the ACA subsidies or the like.
Why is the "we must be united!" hectoring directed at people who are mad at the Cavers and not to the Cavers? Everyone who's mad was united, then the Cave Caucus walked across the aisle and betrayed what the public had been told was the Dem position.
The sooner we get past internal recriminations and back to fighting united, the better off we all are — the likelier our victory next November.
November 10, 2025 at 10:28 PM
I think you can both be:
A.) Mad at the Cavers
B.) Call out demands for primarying *all* Dem electeds (even, implicitly, Dems who never supported the cave) as toxic wrecker shit that has nothing to do with the ACA subsidies or the like.
A.) Mad at the Cavers
B.) Call out demands for primarying *all* Dem electeds (even, implicitly, Dems who never supported the cave) as toxic wrecker shit that has nothing to do with the ACA subsidies or the like.
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And again, one of the infuriating things about this is the same infuriating thing about Manchinema from 2021-2025: the urge toward damning Dems with collective blame meant the actual poison pills get blame toward them diffused, and thus get reign to *keep* being poison pills
November 10, 2025 at 11:04 PM
And again, one of the infuriating things about this is the same infuriating thing about Manchinema from 2021-2025: the urge toward damning Dems with collective blame meant the actual poison pills get blame toward them diffused, and thus get reign to *keep* being poison pills
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For those who refuse to accept that we're locked in a harm reduction situation, read this thread.
Dems were trying to get subsidies reinstated that the GOP had no desire to do. To pay for the wealthy tax cuts, the ACA, SNAP, and even federal payroll cuts have been fair game.
Dems were trying to get subsidies reinstated that the GOP had no desire to do. To pay for the wealthy tax cuts, the ACA, SNAP, and even federal payroll cuts have been fair game.
While there may have been more *emotionally* satisfying ends to the shutdown, once it was proven that GOP weren't caving on ACA subsidies *and* weren't willing to blow up the filibuster *and* Trump went to SCOTUS to defend his right to starve people against the law...
...what would've been left?
...what would've been left?
November 10, 2025 at 11:12 PM
For those who refuse to accept that we're locked in a harm reduction situation, read this thread.
Dems were trying to get subsidies reinstated that the GOP had no desire to do. To pay for the wealthy tax cuts, the ACA, SNAP, and even federal payroll cuts have been fair game.
Dems were trying to get subsidies reinstated that the GOP had no desire to do. To pay for the wealthy tax cuts, the ACA, SNAP, and even federal payroll cuts have been fair game.
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The Dems were never going to get anything with a shutdown, just as they would have failed last March.
Now that everyone has seen the fact that we're dealing with a political party that's basically a suicide pact for America, hopefully folks will quit shitting on the other viable party.
Now that everyone has seen the fact that we're dealing with a political party that's basically a suicide pact for America, hopefully folks will quit shitting on the other viable party.
November 10, 2025 at 11:12 PM
The Dems were never going to get anything with a shutdown, just as they would have failed last March.
Now that everyone has seen the fact that we're dealing with a political party that's basically a suicide pact for America, hopefully folks will quit shitting on the other viable party.
Now that everyone has seen the fact that we're dealing with a political party that's basically a suicide pact for America, hopefully folks will quit shitting on the other viable party.
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What's wild to me is that people are somehow saying that Schumer totally orchestrated everything despite Jeffries specifically *not naming Schumer as the target of his frustration*.
This is significant because *Jeffries specifically blamed Schumer for folding, in public, back in March*.
This is significant because *Jeffries specifically blamed Schumer for folding, in public, back in March*.
so today I've seen Chuck Schumer called a "Kapo" a "baby killer" and a "genocide apologist" all because of a bill he does not support and didn't vote for....
but you know... it has nothing to do with him being Jewish......
but you know... it has nothing to do with him being Jewish......
November 10, 2025 at 10:24 PM
What's wild to me is that people are somehow saying that Schumer totally orchestrated everything despite Jeffries specifically *not naming Schumer as the target of his frustration*.
This is significant because *Jeffries specifically blamed Schumer for folding, in public, back in March*.
This is significant because *Jeffries specifically blamed Schumer for folding, in public, back in March*.
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Is this not just the reality of the senate? As a rule, there aren’t exactly a ton of levers to pull when incumbency is at least as valuable to the party as the candidate.
November 11, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Is this not just the reality of the senate? As a rule, there aren’t exactly a ton of levers to pull when incumbency is at least as valuable to the party as the candidate.
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And rammed through as many Biden judges as possible before Trump took office again.
He held his caucus together, including squishy moderates, for the longest government shutdown in history.
He passed Biden's infrastructure bills with the absolute barest majorities.
He passed Biden's infrastructure bills with the absolute barest majorities.
November 11, 2025 at 1:05 AM
And rammed through as many Biden judges as possible before Trump took office again.
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See, you don’t even deny you didn’t vote Dem lmao got you dead to rights.
(This is literally the exact same logic you’re using against Schumer, by claiming his “no comment” means he actually voted for Cuomo)
(This is literally the exact same logic you’re using against Schumer, by claiming his “no comment” means he actually voted for Cuomo)
November 11, 2025 at 2:00 AM
See, you don’t even deny you didn’t vote Dem lmao got you dead to rights.
(This is literally the exact same logic you’re using against Schumer, by claiming his “no comment” means he actually voted for Cuomo)
(This is literally the exact same logic you’re using against Schumer, by claiming his “no comment” means he actually voted for Cuomo)
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“if you eat synthetic meat you don’t have a soul. synthetic meat is fascist. generations of farmers genetically engineered meat animals and they did not consent to have their labor appropriated by corporations that don’t pay them.”
Gazing into the crystal ball to see future meat discourse:
"veganism is allying with big biotech against small-scale farmers and you still call yourself left-wing?"
"high prices are turning meat into a privilege for the wealthy"
"veganism is cuisine colonialism by white people against POC"
"veganism is allying with big biotech against small-scale farmers and you still call yourself left-wing?"
"high prices are turning meat into a privilege for the wealthy"
"veganism is cuisine colonialism by white people against POC"
also imagine a million of these posts, forever
November 11, 2025 at 3:59 AM
“if you eat synthetic meat you don’t have a soul. synthetic meat is fascist. generations of farmers genetically engineered meat animals and they did not consent to have their labor appropriated by corporations that don’t pay them.”
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Gazing into the crystal ball to see future meat discourse:
"veganism is allying with big biotech against small-scale farmers and you still call yourself left-wing?"
"high prices are turning meat into a privilege for the wealthy"
"veganism is cuisine colonialism by white people against POC"
"veganism is allying with big biotech against small-scale farmers and you still call yourself left-wing?"
"high prices are turning meat into a privilege for the wealthy"
"veganism is cuisine colonialism by white people against POC"
also imagine a million of these posts, forever
November 11, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Gazing into the crystal ball to see future meat discourse:
"veganism is allying with big biotech against small-scale farmers and you still call yourself left-wing?"
"high prices are turning meat into a privilege for the wealthy"
"veganism is cuisine colonialism by white people against POC"
"veganism is allying with big biotech against small-scale farmers and you still call yourself left-wing?"
"high prices are turning meat into a privilege for the wealthy"
"veganism is cuisine colonialism by white people against POC"
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No I've decided that because there literally isn't anything there. You've got literally no evidence. "Well when he behaved completely differently in the past he caved" is not in fact evidence.
I mean the thing is there is, you've just decided it doesn't count because Chuck said nuh-uh.
The fact that you don't find it sufficient to overcome the risible benefit of the doubt you've inexplicably decided to extend to Chuck Schumer does not Thanos snap it out of existence.
The fact that you don't find it sufficient to overcome the risible benefit of the doubt you've inexplicably decided to extend to Chuck Schumer does not Thanos snap it out of existence.
I mean the thing is the total LACK of evidence to draw inferences from. And then there's the real conspiracy mongers who've decided AIPAC actually ordered it.
November 11, 2025 at 4:02 AM
No I've decided that because there literally isn't anything there. You've got literally no evidence. "Well when he behaved completely differently in the past he caved" is not in fact evidence.