@thelonelytapir.bsky.social
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People need to realize the filibuster wasn’t meant to have a practical effect but to be a symbol and a rally point. Beating Thurmond’s record isn’t a hollow victory at all.
People keep saying Senator Booker's filibuster was meaningless and people who were moved by it are naive and gullible but I lived and organized in a south where this record stood and slavery and Jim Crow cast a long shadow and I tell you Booker taking that record means something.
In his 1957 filibuster, Strom Thurmond said "Negroes ... are not so well qualified to vote as are the white people.”
A Black senator just broke the record Thurmond set with that speech.
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/cory-bo...
A Black senator just broke the record Thurmond set with that speech.
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/cory-bo...
April 2, 2025 at 3:05 AM
People need to realize the filibuster wasn’t meant to have a practical effect but to be a symbol and a rally point. Beating Thurmond’s record isn’t a hollow victory at all.
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Caesardorf
the senators recoil in horror as a wounded Caesar rises from the floor and a second health bar appears on the screen
March 16, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Caesardorf
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Democrats cannot go five minutes without firing a machine gun directly into their own dicks.
March 6, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Democrats cannot go five minutes without firing a machine gun directly into their own dicks.
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What if, I don't know, there was good news. Have we thought about doing that.
February 2, 2025 at 9:30 PM
What if, I don't know, there was good news. Have we thought about doing that.
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YOU: wasted 600 years in cryosleep re-experiencing formative memories, cultivating a profound sense of peace
ME: used lucid cryosleeping techniques to master every martial art, the times tables, and juggling. wrote the first great space novel. furnished memory palace
ME: used lucid cryosleeping techniques to master every martial art, the times tables, and juggling. wrote the first great space novel. furnished memory palace
January 8, 2025 at 4:26 AM
YOU: wasted 600 years in cryosleep re-experiencing formative memories, cultivating a profound sense of peace
ME: used lucid cryosleeping techniques to master every martial art, the times tables, and juggling. wrote the first great space novel. furnished memory palace
ME: used lucid cryosleeping techniques to master every martial art, the times tables, and juggling. wrote the first great space novel. furnished memory palace
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they should gamify feeding your baby. if I’m not getting any XP for this it feels like a waste of time
January 5, 2025 at 4:44 AM
they should gamify feeding your baby. if I’m not getting any XP for this it feels like a waste of time
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Elon Musk has Done It Again 🎯
December 4, 2024 at 11:25 PM
Elon Musk has Done It Again 🎯
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South Korea declared martial law because Stellar Blade was snubbed at the Game Awards.
December 3, 2024 at 5:22 PM
South Korea declared martial law because Stellar Blade was snubbed at the Game Awards.
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Terrible Game Idea: Fishing game but you're the worm on the hook. Survive.
November 30, 2024 at 9:53 AM
Terrible Game Idea: Fishing game but you're the worm on the hook. Survive.
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Lots of people are about to be really mad that price of eggs goes up but they can’t get a 2nd job because they can’t afford childcare and when they do finally get the eggs they get E Coli because there’s no FDA but can’t go to the doctor because they got kicked off their health plan. #FAFO
November 19, 2024 at 1:18 AM
Lots of people are about to be really mad that price of eggs goes up but they can’t get a 2nd job because they can’t afford childcare and when they do finally get the eggs they get E Coli because there’s no FDA but can’t go to the doctor because they got kicked off their health plan. #FAFO