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brickfroggci.bsky.social
Guild of Calamitous Intent authorized antagonist. Key Skills: Brick Thowing, Frog Being
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President has a right to be horrifically wrong (which is why no one is going to launch a coup even though he fired a Chairman solely based on the color of his skin), it's the responsibility of the rest of civil society to act accordingly when his wrong actions make the military a partisan actor

submitted 23 hours ago • 2 comments

Calling a healthcare company denying coverage "murder" is running really, really fast down a road nobody wants to walk to its conclusion. The conclusion, BTW, is "So long as you can build a network of causal linkages between your act or inaction and someone's death you are a murderer".

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

Yeah! The notable goddamn difference between this and the pager operation was that not a single Russian drone operator was going to be wearing his special drone operating goggles doing anything other than drone operating!

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

I'm glad you've made it over from twitter so you can beclown yourself with your takes on Ukraine here too. Trump, by betraying NATO allies, didn't demonstrate the failure of NATO: he demonstrated the inherently fascist nature of the same collaborationist foreign policy he shares with people like you

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

My warmest greetings go out to the wonderful people who built their careers sniffing out “Ukrainian Nazis” under every stone in Ukraine for tasty headlines that fueled Russian war propaganda on this-is-why-Ukraine-must-be-dealt-with, only to get Nazi salutes normalized in their own country.

submitted 2 days ago • 84 comments

it's downstream of the (politically universal) failure to identify Ukraine's self-defence and Syria's revolution as anti-imperial struggles that have more akin with the struggle for a free Palestine than with Friedmanism

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

People who spend their time claiming Democrats are complicit in fascism are themselves more complicit in fascism than any Democrat, ironically.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

It is a great way to lose elections and it’s what we’ve been doing for twenty fucking years

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Fun fact: while at Vox, @mattyglesias.bsky.social was famous for not washing his hands. This technique is how he manages to smear shit everywhere instead of writing a cogent essay every single time

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments