brad-carpenter.bsky.social
Interests include politics, sports, and painting Warhammer 40k models. Oh, and it'd be great if we could do something about income inequality and the impending fascism. Yeah...
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I haven't really talked to my father, a Fox News MAGA, for a few days. I'll have to ask him and see what he's actually heard.
I already know how it will go,. unfortunately. He'll either know nothing or regurgitate whatever the collective RW ecosystem has gotten to stick against the wall.
So, yeah
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I assume it's because the thread that's been shared around covering the current LA ICE protest, kidnappings, and injuries from ICE ramming protesters ended with the person skeeting saying the milk was no longer helping for the teargas.
Just a guess
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There is no bottom for these ghouls, only the narrative, which must be fully supported.
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Feels like the right place to share this great @somemorenews.bsky.social video:
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The only justification that makes sense is "the guy has all of the money and money dictates political wins" and even that is a disgusting non-starter.
Who the person is has to matter, and we shouldn't be embracing Nazi villains. It's not hard.
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This does highlight who the real victim of all of this is: Jake Tapper
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The LA police force being made up of multiple different white supremacist gangs does make this feel more dangerous.
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It's only enemy turf if you're poor enough to not know how to read a stock ticker.
They're playing on the field that keeps them wealthy and employed. Some people may lose rights or assets, but it's a sacrifice they're willing to make to maintain standing.
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And I'm a guy who listened to "The Weeds" for most of Trump's first term. Even if you want to give all of those guys more credit or the benefit of the doubt, their message obviously didn't resonate when the guardrails were in place, and it definitely won't now that fascism is alive and well.
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The idea of "just give people the help they need" is the answer to most of society's ills, but it's the one thing we've been conditioned to rail against.
How will we pay for it? Taxes, of course. Let's get on with building a society that works for everyone.
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This seems to be downstream from the fact that normal people have very little understanding of how anything happens in science, academia, or scientific academia.
Add in decades of disinformation and the recent demonization of education and here we are. Fucked.
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His marching orders are evil, given to him by a Nazi.
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Can't form a big tent with people whose goal is to steal the tent or burn it down.
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Related content:
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This years' Abundance conference is being sponsored by 5 groups. Among them is Chamber of Progress, which not only opposes social media regulation, but it has been funded by every big tech company you can think of, including Facebook and Instagram parent firm Meta
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The fact that he thinks this is some sort of "gotcha"
Fuck that guy