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This account is permanently inactive. Find me on discord (The Leftist Cooks server in particular discord.gg/fnPCSAdEAM), or my now main NSFW account @dzabi.bsky.social. Stay safe, live your life fully and with love. Oh yeah, and be gay. Very very gay.
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May 7, 2025 at 9:07 AM
This account is permanently inactive. Find me on discord (The Leftist Cooks server in particular discord.gg/fnPCSAdEAM), or my now main NSFW account @dzabi.bsky.social. Stay safe, live your life fully and with love. Oh yeah, and be gay. Very very gay.
Popping in to share: Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #125,376! I could not wait to join. I first heard of BlueSky being made in 2020 and wanted in since. Also, I will not be on this account until late January for my mental health. I'm ok-ish. See you all next year 👋.
September 16, 2024 at 10:23 PM
Popping in to share: Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #125,376! I could not wait to join. I first heard of BlueSky being made in 2020 and wanted in since. Also, I will not be on this account until late January for my mental health. I'm ok-ish. See you all next year 👋.
As a PSA I am not going to be checking this bluesky account for some time. Mental health demands it.
July 17, 2024 at 1:04 AM
As a PSA I am not going to be checking this bluesky account for some time. Mental health demands it.
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Yeah I keep seeing this reaction, but it’s wholly at odds with the history of these things.
The bump Reagan got was short lived and that was the exception to the rule. TR, George Wallace, Gerald Ford all survived attacks but did not win their races.
The bump Reagan got was short lived and that was the exception to the rule. TR, George Wallace, Gerald Ford all survived attacks but did not win their races.
People who are assuring us that this means Trump is going to win are clearly unfamiliar with the deeply weird lore of this country's THREE mid-seventies presidential-candidate assassination attempts.
July 13, 2024 at 11:37 PM
Yeah I keep seeing this reaction, but it’s wholly at odds with the history of these things.
The bump Reagan got was short lived and that was the exception to the rule. TR, George Wallace, Gerald Ford all survived attacks but did not win their races.
The bump Reagan got was short lived and that was the exception to the rule. TR, George Wallace, Gerald Ford all survived attacks but did not win their races.
My best plan is to stay right where I am. I've thought for years about what I could do to protect myself, and the sad conclusion is that I am safest where I am, in the US, in this blue state. Short of someone taking me in abroad and letting me hide if things go full fash, I have no other options.
July 14, 2024 at 12:53 AM
My best plan is to stay right where I am. I've thought for years about what I could do to protect myself, and the sad conclusion is that I am safest where I am, in the US, in this blue state. Short of someone taking me in abroad and letting me hide if things go full fash, I have no other options.
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They are about to redefine violence as anything that is done to them and anything they do as retribution and justice.
July 14, 2024 at 12:50 AM
They are about to redefine violence as anything that is done to them and anything they do as retribution and justice.
The election doesn't matter anymore. If it happens, vote, 100%, all that can must do so. But in reality, it's extremely unlikely that the election will decide who is in charge. Violence will determine it.
This is about to become so dangerous it’s really hard to explain what has just happened.
July 14, 2024 at 12:48 AM
The election doesn't matter anymore. If it happens, vote, 100%, all that can must do so. But in reality, it's extremely unlikely that the election will decide who is in charge. Violence will determine it.
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It’s hard to overstate what a victory for democracy it is that in France the far right lost to both the center and the left. working together to reject these fascists is key if America does the right thing we can, and will dismantle the worldwide fascist movement and destroy any chance they have had
July 7, 2024 at 6:27 PM
It’s hard to overstate what a victory for democracy it is that in France the far right lost to both the center and the left. working together to reject these fascists is key if America does the right thing we can, and will dismantle the worldwide fascist movement and destroy any chance they have had
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Thousands in the streets of Paris celebrating and cheering “no pasaran” or "They will not pass” as the far right falls out n France’s election. Just absolutely amazing scenes tonight across France as they fight the fascists back. Now it’s our time to be brave and come together to for a united front.
July 7, 2024 at 11:03 PM
Thousands in the streets of Paris celebrating and cheering “no pasaran” or "They will not pass” as the far right falls out n France’s election. Just absolutely amazing scenes tonight across France as they fight the fascists back. Now it’s our time to be brave and come together to for a united front.
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The far right stochastic network is starting to push its followers into participatory events that are crimes. We are starting to see the game plan for the rights attempt to disrupt the election nationwide not just the process to make it law. This has the hallmark beginning of something really dark.
Here we see a right wing Twitter account with 1.3 million followers being retweeted by an account with 2.5 million followers calling for conservatives to sabotage the upcoming American election. Musk, BTW, has interacted amicably with these accounts several times.
July 7, 2024 at 10:50 PM
The far right stochastic network is starting to push its followers into participatory events that are crimes. We are starting to see the game plan for the rights attempt to disrupt the election nationwide not just the process to make it law. This has the hallmark beginning of something really dark.
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The Heritage foundation is a terrorist organization engaged in a coup against the United States.
July 5, 2024 at 5:13 AM
The Heritage foundation is a terrorist organization engaged in a coup against the United States.
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The “it is inevitable” discourse is designed to disempower actual pushback and demoralize voters to turn away or give up on democratic processes and voting. As much as it may seem like things have fully collapsed. Winning the election keeps options on the table that give us actual power to stop this
July 4, 2024 at 10:03 PM
The “it is inevitable” discourse is designed to disempower actual pushback and demoralize voters to turn away or give up on democratic processes and voting. As much as it may seem like things have fully collapsed. Winning the election keeps options on the table that give us actual power to stop this
My body is reacting to stress in ways it has not in 5+ years. I know how to calm my mind and emotions now, and I have. I couldn't back then. I really, really need my body to relax though because frankly, if it doesn't I won't survive fascism long. I can barely move at its strongest.
July 4, 2024 at 8:38 PM
My body is reacting to stress in ways it has not in 5+ years. I know how to calm my mind and emotions now, and I have. I couldn't back then. I really, really need my body to relax though because frankly, if it doesn't I won't survive fascism long. I can barely move at its strongest.
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“conservatives” in USA today are fascists
July 3, 2024 at 2:19 PM
“conservatives” in USA today are fascists
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I’ve had over a decade to miserably marinate on an anti-democratic process in which, to my great sorrow, all my gloomiest, wildest predictions keep coming true.
Despite that, I still don’t think we’re doomed or that we should give up and walk into the sea en masse.
Despite that, I still don’t think we’re doomed or that we should give up and walk into the sea en masse.
on the record, I’ve been losing my mind with anxiety and fear over the fall of American democracy since 2013, when I noticed how similar U.S. politics was starting to sound to the kleptocracy I reported on in Cambodia.
This is terrifying, but at least we know exactly the enemy’s intention are.
This is terrifying, but at least we know exactly the enemy’s intention are.
July 3, 2024 at 2:02 AM
I’ve had over a decade to miserably marinate on an anti-democratic process in which, to my great sorrow, all my gloomiest, wildest predictions keep coming true.
Despite that, I still don’t think we’re doomed or that we should give up and walk into the sea en masse.
Despite that, I still don’t think we’re doomed or that we should give up and walk into the sea en masse.
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Truthfully, I’ve been a complete existential-dread ridden anxious wreck ever since 2013, to one extent or another, because I kept having my worst fears for the US come true.
I’m legitimately surprised that I’m handling this latest spate of bad signs better than I have in the past. But I am.
I’m legitimately surprised that I’m handling this latest spate of bad signs better than I have in the past. But I am.
I really did spend much of 2013 and 2014 - when I was in grad school at Stanford, immediately after Cambodia - utterly destroyed by anxiety and dread about the GOP extremism I’d realized was coming swiftly down the pipeline in the US. I was a *wreck*.
I’ve had over a decade to miserably marinate on an anti-democratic process in which, to my great sorrow, all my gloomiest, wildest predictions keep coming true.
Despite that, I still don’t think we’re doomed or that we should give up and walk into the sea en masse.
Despite that, I still don’t think we’re doomed or that we should give up and walk into the sea en masse.
July 3, 2024 at 2:08 AM
Truthfully, I’ve been a complete existential-dread ridden anxious wreck ever since 2013, to one extent or another, because I kept having my worst fears for the US come true.
I’m legitimately surprised that I’m handling this latest spate of bad signs better than I have in the past. But I am.
I’m legitimately surprised that I’m handling this latest spate of bad signs better than I have in the past. But I am.
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Hey so…we are in the middle of a far right coup and the far right is telling you they are going to continue and if we try to stop them they will resort to open violence.This is cartoonish and people need to push these fascist now. Not tomorrow not next week we need massive protests and direct action
July 3, 2024 at 1:19 AM
Hey so…we are in the middle of a far right coup and the far right is telling you they are going to continue and if we try to stop them they will resort to open violence.This is cartoonish and people need to push these fascist now. Not tomorrow not next week we need massive protests and direct action
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Caring about things like democracy and wanting to protect one’s friends and family’s civil rights and human rights is good actually. Wanting to maintain at least a non fascist hellscape is good and right. Nihilism and apathy are some of the most potent tools of the autocrat or the fascist.
July 2, 2024 at 4:19 AM
Caring about things like democracy and wanting to protect one’s friends and family’s civil rights and human rights is good actually. Wanting to maintain at least a non fascist hellscape is good and right. Nihilism and apathy are some of the most potent tools of the autocrat or the fascist.
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The United States has always been a democracy for some and a brutal authoritarian regime for others, and the effort to expand it to democracy for all has led to a 70+ year backlash culminating in SCOTUS claiming that kings are totes cool and also judges are the ones to coronate them
July 1, 2024 at 11:11 PM
The United States has always been a democracy for some and a brutal authoritarian regime for others, and the effort to expand it to democracy for all has led to a 70+ year backlash culminating in SCOTUS claiming that kings are totes cool and also judges are the ones to coronate them
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This is so important because the fascists are depending on us to be cynical and hopeless. It is literally part of their strategy.
The Court ruling today is terrible but expected. I will just gently remind everyone that the election hasn’t happened yet. We shouldn’t assume the worst outcome as a foregone conclusion. That only encourages more apathy than many are already feeling.
July 2, 2024 at 12:48 AM
This is so important because the fascists are depending on us to be cynical and hopeless. It is literally part of their strategy.
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We gained loads of subscribers on our last video so now it's time to lose them all by yammering away on a Q&A and catch-up livestream. On Wednesday. Feel free to drop questions below.
July 1, 2024 at 9:02 PM
We gained loads of subscribers on our last video so now it's time to lose them all by yammering away on a Q&A and catch-up livestream. On Wednesday. Feel free to drop questions below.
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So everyone understands project 2025 is already in action right? The judicial coup is a massive part of it. Trump is the figurehead not the real power.
June 28, 2024 at 11:54 PM
So everyone understands project 2025 is already in action right? The judicial coup is a massive part of it. Trump is the figurehead not the real power.
I think something we can all start doing is challenging anyone who implies or directly makes this kind of commentary towards you. Tell them that's not what you care about, and if they persist, be blunt and shut them down, and *insist* on redirecting the conversation elsewhere.
One of the most worrisome and problematic developments of the last few decades is the idea that everything has to be monetized, and that spending time simply taking joy in an activity is somehow wasteful or foolish.
June 24, 2024 at 2:41 AM
I think something we can all start doing is challenging anyone who implies or directly makes this kind of commentary towards you. Tell them that's not what you care about, and if they persist, be blunt and shut them down, and *insist* on redirecting the conversation elsewhere.
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This is what I've been saying about white rural voters for some time now– they don't support Trump because they believe he will help* them, they support him because he reinforces their bigotries.
No book better explains Trumpism than “Dying of Whiteness.” Metzl finds exactly what you’re saying: white people would prefer to suffer than see POC thrive alongside whites.
June 24, 2024 at 12:14 AM
This is what I've been saying about white rural voters for some time now– they don't support Trump because they believe he will help* them, they support him because he reinforces their bigotries.