Stuart Blythe
@stuartblythe.bsky.social
Bibliophile. Professor at Michigan State University. Chronically overmatched.
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Yesterday I woke to learn that white christian presidential candidate Don Trump had blown his mic stand.
It reminded me of a famous Christian thinker named Jesus H. Christ. You may have heard about him; people often say his name when they see such things.
www.the-reframe.com/apology-not-...
It reminded me of a famous Christian thinker named Jesus H. Christ. You may have heard about him; people often say his name when they see such things.
www.the-reframe.com/apology-not-...
Apology Not Accepted
How to heal a hateful spirit that has gripped tens of millions of broken people? Reclaiming lost humanity by finding unacceptable things unacceptable.
www.the-reframe.com
November 3, 2024 at 2:56 PM
Yesterday I woke to learn that white christian presidential candidate Don Trump had blown his mic stand.
It reminded me of a famous Christian thinker named Jesus H. Christ. You may have heard about him; people often say his name when they see such things.
www.the-reframe.com/apology-not-...
It reminded me of a famous Christian thinker named Jesus H. Christ. You may have heard about him; people often say his name when they see such things.
www.the-reframe.com/apology-not-...
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Don't vote as if your life depended on it (though it does).
Vote because other people's lives depend on it.
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Vote because other people's lives depend on it.
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November 2, 2024 at 9:25 PM
Don't vote as if your life depended on it (though it does).
Vote because other people's lives depend on it.
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Vote because other people's lives depend on it.
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Learned an important language lesson from a drunk fan at Detroit City FC's quarterfinal match: It's near impossible to say "Google Calendar" after several beers.
November 3, 2024 at 2:12 PM
Learned an important language lesson from a drunk fan at Detroit City FC's quarterfinal match: It's near impossible to say "Google Calendar" after several beers.
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To stave off early Christmas, we need a more robust Thanksgiving mythology. And I don’t mean Pilgrims and Indians bullshit. I’m talking about, like, a gravy witch.
November 2, 2024 at 11:43 PM
To stave off early Christmas, we need a more robust Thanksgiving mythology. And I don’t mean Pilgrims and Indians bullshit. I’m talking about, like, a gravy witch.
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Cis men, and yes. My whole life has been shaped by the understanding that I got to control if and when I have children.
Dobbs was like stepping through the looking glass and seeing all the many different and much worse ways my life could have unfolded without my consent.
Dobbs was like stepping through the looking glass and seeing all the many different and much worse ways my life could have unfolded without my consent.
A lot of men misunderstand the importance of abortion as an issue for women because they think of it as specifically being about abortion and not about healthcare and bodily autonomy as well. There’s just no equivalent for men and that lack of reference point means they’ll never get it.
November 3, 2024 at 11:26 AM
Cis men, and yes. My whole life has been shaped by the understanding that I got to control if and when I have children.
Dobbs was like stepping through the looking glass and seeing all the many different and much worse ways my life could have unfolded without my consent.
Dobbs was like stepping through the looking glass and seeing all the many different and much worse ways my life could have unfolded without my consent.
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It never matters. None of it ever matters. They hated Clinton for not going to Vietnam and hated Gore and Kerry for going.
During the W years I had Republican family members get so angry with me when I criticized the Iraq War. Some singled out Dick Cheney as a singularly honorable man. Now many of these family members are Trump voters who supposedly oppose foreign wars and despise the politicians who promote them. 🤷🏼♂️
Kellyanne Conway is reduced to stammering while trying to defend Trump's indefensible Liz Cheney comments
November 2, 2024 at 12:15 AM
It never matters. None of it ever matters. They hated Clinton for not going to Vietnam and hated Gore and Kerry for going.
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Turns out when you bend the knee that just tells dictators your knees are pre broken for their convenience
November 1, 2024 at 10:17 PM
Turns out when you bend the knee that just tells dictators your knees are pre broken for their convenience
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October 29, 2024 at 1:02 AM
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Elon posted his MAGA hat which uses the Fraktur font, popular in nazi Germany. He wore this at a rally meant to evoke the 1939 nazi rally at Madison Square Garden.
He's telling you who he is.
He's telling you who he is.
October 28, 2024 at 12:22 AM
Elon posted his MAGA hat which uses the Fraktur font, popular in nazi Germany. He wore this at a rally meant to evoke the 1939 nazi rally at Madison Square Garden.
He's telling you who he is.
He's telling you who he is.
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Refusing to pick a side when one of the sides is fascism is picking the fascist side.
It's not brave. It's not moral. It's just surrendering in advance.
It's not brave. It's not moral. It's just surrendering in advance.
October 25, 2024 at 7:16 PM
Refusing to pick a side when one of the sides is fascism is picking the fascist side.
It's not brave. It's not moral. It's just surrendering in advance.
It's not brave. It's not moral. It's just surrendering in advance.
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I don't know who's worse, tbh--the fascists themselves or the bootlicking toadies who are just happy to be invited to the pogroms
Chris Sununu on CNN on whether Trump praising Hitler causes him to reconsider his support for him: "No ... we've heard a lot of extreme things from Donald Trump. With a guy like that, it's kinda baked into the vote."
Aaron Rupar (@aaron.rupar) on Threads
Chris Sununu on CNN on whether Trump praising Hitler causes him to reconsider his support for him: "No ... we've heard a lot of extreme things from Donald Trump. With a guy like that, it's kinda baked...
www.threads.net
October 23, 2024 at 4:29 PM
I don't know who's worse, tbh--the fascists themselves or the bootlicking toadies who are just happy to be invited to the pogroms
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in a way, this picture is perfect as it beautifully portrays how unreliable (and potentially harmful) genAI is
October 22, 2024 at 10:24 AM
in a way, this picture is perfect as it beautifully portrays how unreliable (and potentially harmful) genAI is
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Here's a staged propaganda photo of facist leader, Benito Mussolini "harvesting" wheat in 1938. Posting for no reason whatsoever.
October 21, 2024 at 9:51 PM
Here's a staged propaganda photo of facist leader, Benito Mussolini "harvesting" wheat in 1938. Posting for no reason whatsoever.
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I think it was very nice for the Make-a-Wish Foundation to shut down that McDonalds and let little Donnie Trump play pretend at the drive thru before he finally succumbs to the ravages of tertiary syphilis
October 20, 2024 at 10:32 PM
I think it was very nice for the Make-a-Wish Foundation to shut down that McDonalds and let little Donnie Trump play pretend at the drive thru before he finally succumbs to the ravages of tertiary syphilis
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A billionaire blatantly breaking election laws to get his preferred candidate into power is the sort of crime that law enforcement should address immediately, rather than giving it a chance to work first and prosecuting only if it fails.
October 20, 2024 at 12:24 PM
A billionaire blatantly breaking election laws to get his preferred candidate into power is the sort of crime that law enforcement should address immediately, rather than giving it a chance to work first and prosecuting only if it fails.
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The Patriots playing in London is such a missed opportunity for the NFL to lean into pro wrestling fun. They should’ve come out as complete heels. Drum line and fifes. Reenactors doing Bunker Hill. Burn an effigy of King George III on the 50-yard line. Get that crowd hyped
October 20, 2024 at 2:45 PM
The Patriots playing in London is such a missed opportunity for the NFL to lean into pro wrestling fun. They should’ve come out as complete heels. Drum line and fifes. Reenactors doing Bunker Hill. Burn an effigy of King George III on the 50-yard line. Get that crowd hyped
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It doesn’t resemble indentured servitude, it is indentured servitude. Though possibly with fewer safeguards.
October 17, 2024 at 4:37 PM
It doesn’t resemble indentured servitude, it is indentured servitude. Though possibly with fewer safeguards.
Remove one letter, ruin a movie
Deadpoo
Deadpoo
Remove one letter, ruin a movie
Ron Man
Ron Man
Remove one letter, ruin a movie
Tar Wars
Tar Wars
October 7, 2024 at 3:17 AM
Remove one letter, ruin a movie
Deadpoo
Deadpoo
"The aftermath of Hurricane Helene has shown that, even as technology has theoretically improved our capacity to connect with other people, our visibility into what’s happening on the ground may be deteriorating."
October 5, 2024 at 7:13 PM
"The aftermath of Hurricane Helene has shown that, even as technology has theoretically improved our capacity to connect with other people, our visibility into what’s happening on the ground may be deteriorating."
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Goddamn this is a good thread
There was a story that went around this week about movie studios' woes with "superfans."
A "superfan" is somebody who has attached their whole personality to hating an intellectual property they loved in their youth.
Full Essay: www.the-reframe.com/killing-our-...
A "superfan" is somebody who has attached their whole personality to hating an intellectual property they loved in their youth.
Full Essay: www.the-reframe.com/killing-our-...
Killing Our Way To Paradise
"One really violent day" in our morally underdeveloped nation. Supremacist superfans, Star Wars, and the popular insistence within a violent empire of owning heroism as exclusive property.
www.the-reframe.com
October 5, 2024 at 5:29 PM
Goddamn this is a good thread
"On the matter of Marcellus Williams, the Supreme Court broke, as it usually does, along the lines of judges who have and judges who have not been bribed by theocratic billionaires, with the bribed majority siding with state murder, as they very reliably do."
There was a story that went around this week about movie studios' woes with "superfans."
A "superfan" is somebody who has attached their whole personality to hating an intellectual property they loved in their youth.
Full Essay: www.the-reframe.com/killing-our-...
A "superfan" is somebody who has attached their whole personality to hating an intellectual property they loved in their youth.
Full Essay: www.the-reframe.com/killing-our-...
Killing Our Way To Paradise
"One really violent day" in our morally underdeveloped nation. Supremacist superfans, Star Wars, and the popular insistence within a violent empire of owning heroism as exclusive property.
www.the-reframe.com
October 5, 2024 at 6:53 PM
"On the matter of Marcellus Williams, the Supreme Court broke, as it usually does, along the lines of judges who have and judges who have not been bribed by theocratic billionaires, with the bribed majority siding with state murder, as they very reliably do."
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This is a fantastic book and you should read it.
I wish I’d had it when I was in 6th grade and was given 4 months of detention for refusing to stand for the pledge or say “under god” because I idolized the ACLU like most kids idolize Batman.
Also it was a mistake to send me to a Christian school.
I wish I’d had it when I was in 6th grade and was given 4 months of detention for refusing to stand for the pledge or say “under god” because I idolized the ACLU like most kids idolize Batman.
Also it was a mistake to send me to a Christian school.
Your reminder that “under God” was only added to the Pledge in 1954, as the culmination of a corporate campaign against the New Deal.
I might have written a book about it:
www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/kevin...
I might have written a book about it:
www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/kevin...
October 4, 2024 at 7:21 PM
This is a fantastic book and you should read it.
I wish I’d had it when I was in 6th grade and was given 4 months of detention for refusing to stand for the pledge or say “under god” because I idolized the ACLU like most kids idolize Batman.
Also it was a mistake to send me to a Christian school.
I wish I’d had it when I was in 6th grade and was given 4 months of detention for refusing to stand for the pledge or say “under god” because I idolized the ACLU like most kids idolize Batman.
Also it was a mistake to send me to a Christian school.
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instead of “my political opponent,” Tim Walz should just refer to JD Vance as “this dumb couch fucker” at the VP debate
September 29, 2024 at 4:54 AM
instead of “my political opponent,” Tim Walz should just refer to JD Vance as “this dumb couch fucker” at the VP debate
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The key to understanding this is to remember Trump’s support is not the working class, but the local aristocracy, the car dealership owners et al. who see themselves as Johnny Big Boy Business like Trump’s jmage.
Trump: "I hated to give overtime. I hated it. I shouldn't say this, but I'd get other people in. I wouldn't pay."
September 30, 2024 at 4:55 AM
The key to understanding this is to remember Trump’s support is not the working class, but the local aristocracy, the car dealership owners et al. who see themselves as Johnny Big Boy Business like Trump’s jmage.