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I'm @shoq from ExTwitter. Self-appointed evangelist for the #fediverse, working on open source projects that can help it become the communications backbone for the planet that Twitter might have been. #fedi22 #opensource #sidetoolz #USpolitics #liberal #invention Other contacts: Twitter.com/shoq, @shoq@bluesky.app; @shoq:sidetalk.net
Inside Stephen Miller’s Dark Plot to Build a MAGA Terror State | The New Republic ▶ He is descended from Russian Jews—you know, the kind of people who were once denounced as alien and unassimilable. Today, his project is to unleash government persecution of those he deems alien and unassimilable. How far will Miller’s sadistic designs go?
This is Wikipedia’s Trump page. I cannot imagine how his sycophants let him think this was flattering or powerful. It makes him look precisely as mean as he actually is. I can’t wait to piss on this monster’s grave. I’ll drive a thousand miles to do it image
It continually amazes me that people can’t figure out how we got here. There is one and only one answer: “Rupert Fucking Murdoch.” His media empires have literally destroyed the civilized world and no one wants to confront that reality because it’s just too easy an answer for people who want to think it must be more complicated. But it’s not. Take he and his demon spawn, Roger Aisles, out of the last 30 years, and we’d be a very different world today. 1/2
You may think this is the dumbest thing anyone has ever Tweeted, but that just tells me you’ve never seen the rest of this nitwit’s timeline. @RealSpitfire is the perfect example of just how wretchedly stupid and mean spirited these MAGA woman can be. Of course, that assume she’s not 19 year old Russian kid named Ivan jerking off in a Kremlin basement, which given her name, makes me think she probably is. There is this small army of these “patriotic blonde) women on X spewing out the same type … image
At the risk of being dragged as an apologist for criminals by people who enjoy lashing out on social media at any target of opportunity, it’s worth saying this plainly: we should not go full Salem witch trials over the latest Epstein photos. That would be illiberal, reckless, un-American, and just flat-out wrong. As Hannah Arendt warned, “Guilt by association is not a legal concept but a political weapon.” And that’s exactly what’s being wielded here. … image
Remember all the media bullshit going back to 2016 about how all of this was economic anxiety blah blah blah. No, it wasn’t really ever that. It was millions of TV-educated white nationalist shit bags finally becoming who they really wanted to be and finding a perfect pretext for their hatreds.
I look for the symbols of wealth inequality in places others don’t. Who the fuck spends $824 on a minimalist bathroom sink faucet, except private equity douche nozzles trying to impress their friends with how much money they can burn on things nobody needs. image
For literally my entire life, American conservatives have been demonstrably, if not empirically wrong about almost every single thing they ever advocated for. Meanwhile, American liberals have been obscenely incompetent at finding ways to make the public understand that. image