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Is this really the world you want your children to live in, and your children's children, and the children of the Force?

oh my god

This Christian theocratic project—of which SCOTUS is a crucial part—depends on kids growing up to be bigots. Kids aren’t born to hate. They learn it. We can’t have kids learning to respect differences because that’s how you get communism so we gotta keep letting kids be indoctrinated into bigotry.

Republicans want your kids to have cavities

"I am a proud Democrat who fights for people and thinks Republicans are bad and we should stand up to them": actually a very popular message, which should be a lesson both to the reactionary centrist crowd and to other leftists hoping for similar success

Lots of Democrats are about to reveal themselves as actually Republicans. I think this will be good as a sorting mechanism.

In a time of “campaign to the right to win back alleged centrists,” the consultant class has been utterly embarrassed. All of them should go into exile. We don’t want to hear it anymore! It does not work! Here’s even more proof. Get absolutely *fucked.* Fight for everyone, always, or step aside.

I don’t know man I just love when a party weaponizes racism and Islamophobia against a progressive brown man and then just completely eats shit. Just fucking whiffs it

These are "primary the fuck out of Chuck Schumer" numbers

Star Wars never beating the Jedi tragic romance allegations

Joined a group I found through meetup and wouldn't you know it's the one group in Austin full of "I'm not political" people (they're republicans)

Reached the end of Chapter 22 in Trials of the Jedi and hooooly shit hahahahahaha Porter fucking dog walked her

We're going to war and the people leading are 1) in mental decline 2) on their 3rd bottle of jack Daniel's 3) a little potato 4) a guy that fucks couches

"They should give me the Nobel Prize" *starts WWIII*

"We all share the same tomorrow" -Superman, Superman Smashes the Klan

Hours after @pbump.com posted this today, ICE updated its figure to 500%.

“DEI” wth a hard R

*the couch fucking vice president

the destruction of chattel slavery is one of the great accomplishments in our nation's history and the reason conservatives hate celebrating it is because doing so legitimizes the black counter-narrative of the united states

transition care for trans people is life saving healthcare. the only regret with my transition is that i didn’t start when i was younger. fuck everyone who is cheering on the destruction legal trans healthcare, and fuck those indifferent to it

There are no distractions. It's all bad. Systematically stripping trans people of their rights, guys in balaclavas shoving any brown person with a tattoo into a ummarked vans, ending healthcare for millions. It's all in service of fascism and technofeudalism. It's all one thing. That's the point.

She'll get as much empathy from me as she gives to a 2yr old puppy

High Republic robes are peak

The dog lived and seeks revenge

I'm into it

BTS look at Charles Soule writing Trials of the Jedi

"Hello, Searcher..."

Bringing this back

🧵I think it’s important to understand what disinformation like Sen. Mike Lee’s tweets are trying to do, psychologically/cognitively. In my disinfo class/Substack, I talk about how disinfo often uses “moral disengagement strategies” to manipulate people into accepting harmful conduct 1/

Me: take hours to read a book You: have your super hot ChatGPT girlfriend download a million books, read them, then summarize them all to you in a barrage of lies that you can't even tell are lies because you don't read books; also you have the critical thinking skills of a shovel-struck donkey

This is like, British levels of cooking. It's the beans on toast of political rhetoric

It doesn’t solve anything and it definitely doesn’t change anything but it is kind of nice to know that he knows that his big macho honk honk birthday parade sucked

The Jedi, the Witch, and the Sheer Audacity of This Bitch

Hahahhahaha

Me:Darth Plagueis was a Dark Lord of the Sith so powerful and so wise he could use the Force to influence the midi-chlorians to create life. He had such a knowledge of the dark side he could even keep the ones he cared about from dying. The soldier unlawfully quartered in my house: uh

Lynda Carter continues to be cool af

"My people today, yours tomorrow."

jfc

Everyone I knew who covered disinformation got laid off, their bosses got bullied into firing them, or they changed their beats from actual Nazi harassment campaigns. It cannot be stressed the damage the paid-for Substack “free speech” guys did in the service of fascism and against real free speech.

W.E.B. Du Bois on Robert E. Lee: “Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”

tbh I was expecting her to say this at the end

It's a little funny that the MCU also has an evil spy chief with a white streak in her hair

They're so real for this

If you watched Andor, you know what’s going on in Los Angeles right now.