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Kansas ain’t sending their best.
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Kansas ain’t sending their best.
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We’ll get the real announcement in two weeks
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If and when he takes over for the creature, JD Vance/James Donald Bowman/James David Hamel should get the full “Barry Soetoro” treatment. Demand his long-form birth certificate.
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A skeet of skeets
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Lenny Bruce is not afraid!
Ian Against the Machine (@alkalinian.bsky.social) reply parent
Media deserves a lot of credit (blame) for that.
Ian Against the Machine (@alkalinian.bsky.social) reply parent
“He killed a pope. He may have killed a president. When will JD Vance (not even his real name) kill again??”
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Live on tv pls
mtsw (@mtsw.bsky.social) reposted
"President Trump owes us answers about his health": weak, frames him as good-faith statesman, boring "What did JD Vance know about Trump's health and when did he know it?": interesting, carries implication Trump's health is fucked up as a given, implies scandal spreading throughout admin
Ian Against the Machine (@alkalinian.bsky.social) reply parent
Scavino puppeteering a dead or dying man here.
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What is that, a time machine for ants?
Ian Against the Machine (@alkalinian.bsky.social) reply parent
I’ve been offering free vasectomies for Republicans since Roe was overturned. I’m not a surgeon, just a patriotic citizen with some scissors.
Ian Against the Machine (@alkalinian.bsky.social) reply parent
Auden is undefeated.
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Just like Minneapolis and Portland have been smoking craters since 2020, right? These people think their voters are complete idiots.
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The Years of Lead Paint
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But at least we’ll never see him again.
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“…whose army captured and enslaved at least several hundred black Americans during its invasion of a free American state…”
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On live television
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Fuck that eugenicist bastard.
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Riot Fest campaign appearance pls. Bring Mr. Onion
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The water spraying *through* the coffee table is another giveaway.
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Another annoying thing is that he if he did take it, tens of millions of Americans would insist that all of his incorrect answers were right and should be taught as such in public schools.
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The real curse was all the Kennedys we met along the way
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Chucklefucks
Ian Against the Machine (@alkalinian.bsky.social) reply parent
See also: “Dad, I’m pregnant.” “Mom, I can’t keep this baby.” “Dad, I’m not your son, I’m your daughter.” “Mom, I don’t believe in God anymore.” “Dad, I’m not taking my kids to church.” Etc etc
Ian Against the Machine (@alkalinian.bsky.social) reply parent
Courtiers? Collaborators? Chumbucket?
Ian Against the Machine (@alkalinian.bsky.social) reply parent
Not the only ones at fault, but the most culpable. And maintaining normal diplomatic relations with either is also a form of culpability.
Ian Against the Machine (@alkalinian.bsky.social) reply parent
Every civilized country should be telling their American and Israeli ambassadors to pack their shit.
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This is the way.
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‽ TIL it had an actual character. Look at that thing! Absolute madlad.
Ian Against the Machine (@alkalinian.bsky.social) reply parent
So it goes.
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Right?! (ooh there it is)
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Everything these bastards claimed to fear from liberals was just them fantasizing about what they’d do with total control of government. And here we are.
Ian Against the Machine (@alkalinian.bsky.social) reply parent
There are no rules anymore. You’re free to wantonly split infinitives if you want.
Ian Against the Machine (@alkalinian.bsky.social) reply parent
I do try to avoid it for that reason, but I love the lil guy. Second-favorite punctuation mark after the interrobang.
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The humble dash and the semicolon are due for a renaissance anyway.
¡matt! ✶✶✶✶ (@mattfromchicago.bsky.social) reposted
Hard not to connect the dots in a world run by these "born on 3rd base" eugenist tech bro shitheads who think mental health crises are a sign of weakness, telling their shitty AI therapy bots to nudge people who need real help over the edge Really depressing, dystopian stuff
Ian Against the Machine (@alkalinian.bsky.social) reply parent
Every accusation a confession, exhibit 7,492
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Bangers, every single one of those scenes. Those are display pops.
Ian Against the Machine (@alkalinian.bsky.social) reply parent
Fortunately, history tells us exactly what to do with dictators and the people who want dictators.
Dinner is 6 pm (@internethippo.bsky.social) reposted
No amount of appearing reasonable and trying to avoid provoking them will stop them from escalating against you. The only thing you'll do is inspire revulsion in everyone else: if you won't even stand up for yourself how can you stand up for anyone else
Ian Against the Machine (@alkalinian.bsky.social) reply parent
Ironically, the positions that could be most easily replaced with LLMs in my opinion.
Ian Against the Machine (@alkalinian.bsky.social) reply parent
Miller being a fascist thug is hardly a story. The really alarming part of this is Fox putting this out there with this kind of framing - and they know exactly what they’re doing.
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You’re absolutely right (to be fair, I never said it was a *good* likeness). My concern is not that LLMs are actually intelligent, but about the harm of marketing the counterfeit to the credulous and uninformed.
Ian Against the Machine (@alkalinian.bsky.social) reply parent
Does this cover the war through A Storm of Swords, or does it stop after A Clash of Kings? (I’m so sorry)
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Meanwhile, Fox continues to audition for the eventual role of “Radio Rwanda” in this horrific story.
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Bad news for the “Democrat party,” whatever that is.
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Who could’ve foreseen giving the world’s most powerful job to a convicted fraudster would lead to an epidemic of fraud?
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“Oops! All Scorpions”
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Trying to remember the last time Aaron was relevant and 🎶it’s been awhile🎶
Ian Against the Machine (@alkalinian.bsky.social) reply parent
He and John Roberts are as responsible for all this as anyone is.
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I’m sure Sammy Alito would love a crack at those precedents.
Ian Against the Machine (@alkalinian.bsky.social) reply parent
“Jefferson Park Police Department” is more accurate, but not quite as catchy.
Ian Against the Machine (@alkalinian.bsky.social) reply parent
Should’ve called out his complicit (and drunk) lackey at the Pentagon too. Otherwise, no notes.
Ian Against the Machine (@alkalinian.bsky.social) reply parent
If they bury the draft-dodging fascist at Arlington, I’ll vote for the candidate whose single-issue platform is digging him up and dumping him in the Potomac.
Ian Against the Machine (@alkalinian.bsky.social) reply parent
Surely Tengri smiles on us this day 🙏
Ian Against the Machine (@alkalinian.bsky.social) reply parent
Never thought I’d wish the DTs on anyone, but the thought of Hegseth waking up in a cell sweating and shaking does bring me a little joy in these grim times.
Ian Against the Machine (@alkalinian.bsky.social) reply parent
What exactly is negotiated in an “unconditional surrender?”
Ian Against the Machine (@alkalinian.bsky.social) reply parent
This man thinks his voters are absolute idiots, and I suppose he has good reason to.
Ian Against the Machine (@alkalinian.bsky.social) reply parent
Turns out when you offer voters the choice of “Republican vs. Diet Republican,” a lot of them either go for the real thing or just stay home.
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Olyphant is cooking so far.
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The Years of Lead Paint
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Why did we stop calling these people weird
Ian Against the Machine (@alkalinian.bsky.social) reply parent
They fall under “regime” and/or “minions.”
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This is the way.
Ian Against the Machine (@alkalinian.bsky.social) reply parent
Third Way is laundered conservatism and always has been.
Ian Against the Machine (@alkalinian.bsky.social) reply parent
This quote has been rattling around in my head since the election. This guilty land, indeed.
Ian Against the Machine (@alkalinian.bsky.social) reply parent
Get that man across the Canadian border.
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God’s own Mississippi: where a girl can marry an old man three years before she’s allowed to use the internet without supervision.
Ian Against the Machine (@alkalinian.bsky.social) reply parent
Being a kid just discovering superheroes during the DoS/Knightfall arcs was awesome, and I was mostly a Marvel kid.
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Some 70 million of whom have Stockholm syndrome.
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Obeying their masters.
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We can all see Bezos’ hand up your ass while Trump’s hand is up his ass.
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The guiltiest-sounding person of all time.
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True, but they don’t want tourism. They want a ring of steel around the presidential palace and a city of 700,000 hostages.
Ian Against the Machine (@alkalinian.bsky.social) reply parent
Oppositional defiance disorder and lots and lots of guns.
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Applies to buildings and organizations as well as people. He’s not a man. He’s a contagious disease. bsky.app/profile/alka...
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Oh buddy, your minions are NOT gonna like Chicago.
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May his memory be a curse.
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Counterpoint: it’s not his fucking house.
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Besides not being high enough, the problem here is that those Republicans believe democracy is in danger because we allow people who aren’t them to vote and hold office.
Ian Against the Machine (@alkalinian.bsky.social) reply parent
This is why we ride with the Great Khan.
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Sometimes only the fancy yikes will do
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“The Republicans are complaining about this move because they want open digital borders.”
Ian Against the Machine (@alkalinian.bsky.social) reply parent
This man and Mitch McConnell gleefully dug the grave of American democracy.
Ian Against the Machine (@alkalinian.bsky.social) reply parent
I think there are 2 sources of vulnerability here: - Undiagnosed mental health issues previously masked - Ignorance of how LLMs work means people don’t protect themselves I think of how many people never showed signs of gambling addiction before online betting became widely legal and acceptable.
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Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind. Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind. Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.
Ian Against the Machine (@alkalinian.bsky.social) reply parent
I don’t think it’s out of order to say that people who want Confederate monuments in public spaces because “history” while also censoring museum exhibits on slavery are, in fact, evil.
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Rest in piss, Jimbo.
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Bezos wearing the corpse of a great American newspaper like a costume.