this fucking faux-serious, take him literally but not seriously, what’s the harm in discussing it, just asking questions shit over the last three decades isn’t the only reason musk is about to destroy social security and trump wants to seize gaza, but it is very definitely a large part of the story - ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

golikehellmachine.com • 4 days ago

this fucking faux-serious, take him literally but not seriously, what’s the harm in discussing it, just asking questions shit over the last three decades isn’t the only reason musk is about to destroy social security and trump wants to seize gaza, but it is very definitely a large part of the story

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jesus christ, fuck you, man

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minerva1.bsky.social•4 days ago

I guess Peter liked what he saw when he was the Moscow bureau chief.

anniegirl.bsky.social•4 days ago

What thought experiments will they be toying with with Quebecois partisans are causing havoc in NYC and the White House is on every Canadian insurgents' radar? Because seriously people's grandmas up here are ready to roll up their sleeves, do Americans not understand what could happen?

boogerminer.bsky.social•4 days ago

we look like them, we talk like them, we go out in the cold for fun, we're armed to the teeth by and large, and most of those guns could merc you from the other end of the laneway.

anniegirl.bsky.social•4 days ago

I saw an American commentator remark, "We can't tell if a person is Canadian by looking at them! They'd infiltrate us easily." And they have so many regional accents we can pick from too.

boogerminer.bsky.social•4 days ago

I think there's something deeply Canadian about living in a place where for most of us it's normal that being outside for too long unprepared will kill you. There's a reason the Minnesotans feel a kinship. Being isolated enough to realize that help isn't coming for you and to plan accordingly.

boogerminer.bsky.social•4 days ago

What I'm saying is that the insurgency is going to be rough. For the Americans.

anitmata.bsky.social•4 days ago

IIRC, this is pretty much Margaret Atwood's survival thesis! The Canadian term for 'rugged individualist' is 'corpsicle'

anitmata.bsky.social•4 days ago

Half of Canadians can sing the chorus of H-O-T-T-O-G-O but not one in a hundred Americans know the bridge to Bobcaygeon

sesquiotic.bsky.social•4 days ago

To identify a Canadian, start by singing “God damn them all!…”

electricland.bsky.social•4 days ago

“You’ll have to excuse me, I’m not at my best” and check out who starts slow dancing

anitmata.bsky.social•4 days ago

I WISH I WAS IN SHERBROOKE consarn it

davealbertson.bsky.social•4 days ago

Baker is mentally incapable of seeing any consequences for Trump’s actions beyond a shift in electoral votes.

jefffreyspies.bsky.social•4 days ago

Trump got Montreal to scream the Canadian anthem, I don’t think most Americans appreciate what that means

anniegirl.bsky.social•4 days ago

They don't know the first goddamn thing about us.

jefffreyspies.bsky.social•4 days ago

At least some of us do?

nifferama.bsky.social•4 days ago

No, it’s true most of us don’t, but there was a bunch of us on here trying to learn what things like that actually mean all I know is he got booed and that you sang your anthem really loud and that made me happy because he’s been a jerk to y’all.

shackleford.bsky.social•4 days ago

Say it again from the rafters, because I don’t think most Americans realize how wild that is. Our friends in Montreal belting out the Canadian anthem is not something to take lightly.

jefffreyspies.bsky.social•4 days ago

Does anyone actually have friends in Montreal?

shackleford.bsky.social•4 days ago

Lol fair question, though I actually do.

jefffreyspies.bsky.social•4 days ago

I only visited it once, I found it incredibly rude. Polite suggestion, you should update your avi and handle

joycereynoldsward.bsky.social•4 days ago

Some of us do.

eweidenh.bsky.social•4 days ago

"Local cannibal says that he's going to eat his neighbor. It's an unusual plan. Here's how it might play out."

algoresmilkymams.bsky.social•4 days ago

jeffrey dahmer offered distinct, but promising, plan for alleviating impacts of food deserts.

walkabalkaframe.bsky.social•4 days ago

Hmm, mayhaps. Then again, hAvE u coNSidEreD,

danifroom.bsky.social•4 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/danifroom.bsky.social/post/3ligag7rpsc2y

paulcallahanmv.bsky.social•4 days ago

Maybe the complete story is that the people who seem to be aiding Trump and Musk inadvertently actually want him to succeed and have been doing it intentionally. It wasn't my conclusion before, but this is starting to get impossible to explain any other way.

nnscott.com•4 days ago

Yes, but I've never thought it was very deep. The big media owners are rich financiers who hate paying taxes, hate unions, hate regulations, and presume they and their families are insulated from the bad consequences of trump terror and corruption. So they do what they can to elect and protect him.

rowyourbot.bsky.social•4 days ago

I believe we can see now how complicit many people have been with fascism for a very long time. We didn’t see it when conditions were ostensibly liberal because liberalism is more of a free-for-all. But now, it’s obvious they WERE arguing on behalf of the fascists.

phld.bsky.social•4 days ago

Hi. Here I am, in Canada, one km from that flag on that canal. The most serious and literal discussion I had today was about whether or not 🇨🇦 could join the 🇪🇺. We are truly done with your imperial shit, guys. Back off.

scdallav.bsky.social•3 days ago

Well, we have a land border with an EU member state, so . . .

jessliotta.bsky.social•4 days ago

Sometimes I wonder if these big legacy outpost journalists are even running their own accounts and if anyone is reading replies to their posts. They seem to just post links to their own articles and like nothing else, and never engage with other content on the site. It’s weird and off putting

hotel-putingrad.bsky.social•4 days ago

I'm sure an intern posts the story links.

underscore-proto.bsky.social•4 days ago

"I'm not agreeing we should concentrate them all in a camp -- heaven forbid. But perchance we discuss the logistics, theoretically, as a cocktail hour thought exercise once we've had a chance to animatedly agree on how terribly poor Bari has been treated. You can't even ask a damn question anymore!"

jmchao.bsky.social•4 days ago

What will it take for them to admit he’s fucking demented? An unprovoked first strike nuclear attack?

green496.bsky.social•4 days ago

Nah, even that wouldn't do it

badgerhokie.bsky.social•4 days ago

"HERE'S WHY THAT COULD HELP THE DEMOCRATS"

liminalatlaw.bsky.social•4 days ago

Against where?

gepgun.bsky.social•4 days ago

Nothing. His base has no material concerns and his economy runs on Elon tweeting about robots. The chuds will still hoot from radioactive hovels and TSLA etc will still go to the moon long after every American city is destroyed (and those were mostly Democrats anyway). It's a post-material regime.

dangerrangerrabbit.bsky.social•4 days ago

The answer is nothing. Admitting that he's wrong would be admitting that they themselves were wrong, and they would rather go to their graves, clinging to the belief that they were right than ever admit fault. This is what makes opposition so hard.

johnlk.bsky.social•4 days ago

We know what it is, because they actually did it from January 6 to January 20, 2021. It's for Republican elected officials to get publicly mad at him.

dangerrangerrabbit.bsky.social•4 days ago

Echo.

tomlavan.bsky.social•4 days ago

I’m not joking when I say that i thought I was the only one screaming into the void about the very specific and deliberate role the NYT has played in our collapse

xiruxi.bsky.social•4 days ago

Same here. I think more people are noticing it. AG Sulzberger is as much a Trumpist lickspittle as Jeff Bezos or Rupert Murdoch.

tomlavan.bsky.social•3 days ago

💯 He literally thinks Trump is good for subs.

nd7654.bsky.social•4 days ago

Leading with Analysis ain't exactly screaming murder.

golikehellmachine.com•4 days ago

to the degree that the overton window exists, it has largely allowed elite media institutions to play footsie with thoroughly unamerican and illiberal ideas in an attempt to make them more palatable to the mainstream and it has largely been successful

chasequarius.bsky.social•4 days ago

Biden was correct to treat these people with the contempt they deserve.

davealbertson.bsky.social•4 days ago

He didn’t treat them with enough contempt.

supersaiyan95.bsky.social•4 days ago

And that’s why they did everything they could to undermine him and put Trump back in power.

Clicks mattered more to them than self-reflection.

dakkster.bsky.social•4 days ago

If that were true, Trump would be behind bars now. Biden was toothless against Trump.

newsincontext.bsky.social•4 days ago

One might even say some of these MAGA people gaming out their Nazi America fantasies are: deplorable

shaziaahmad.bsky.social•4 days ago

Yup. And the Times has been at the forefront of it.

lurkymclurk.bsky.social•4 days ago

The entire cadre of times “journalists” who actually make their money spouting their cokie Roberts level takes on cnn

juleswinnfeild.bsky.social•4 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/juleswinnfeild.bsky.social/post/3ligeb5prcs2w

aiddonvalentine.bsky.social•4 days ago

Baker at this point just going "Y'know, old-fashioned land-grabbing sounds really fun!" Dude has a brain full of cottage cheese

rufus-hickok.bsky.social•4 days ago

It's the normalization part of the fascist project, which has always been fairly central.

jaykaydee.bsky.social•4 days ago

Peter Baker, personally, bears a very non-zero share of the blame for this.

sushil.bsky.social•4 days ago

Post-Modernist propensity to regard all truths are valid, combined with the Straussian propensity to claim that there is something esoteric and not stupid in the words being spoken by right-wing politicians, creates a potent concoction of a fact-free reality in America.

jimsdouglas.bsky.social•4 days ago

Just for the sake of argument, let’s imagine that the U.S. annex a treaty ally, in obscene violation of international law and repudiation of the rules based international order the U.S. defined after WWII. Hey, just asking questions, why are those Canadians so sensitive?

piercepresley.bsky.social•4 days ago

[email protected] Would a fascist takeover be all bad? By Peter Baker

molesoy175.bsky.social•4 days ago

It's very devils advocate bullshit

various-threnodies.bsky.social•4 days ago

I'm so fucking sick of this man. Our stupid Beltway press corps will keep whistling past the graveyard until everything starts going up in flames.