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@dirkbender.bsky.social

Raised KS Mennonite. NJ, DC, now following UU's 7 principles in Metro ATL Physically disabled due to Multiple Myeloma lesions in 15 vertebrae + multiple compression fractures. Treatment keeps the MM at bay Believe Barney's got a Colt .38, BTW

created February 3, 2024

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Profile picture Dirkbender.bsky.social (@dirkbender.bsky.social) reply parent

Well now you go and tell me.

1/9/2025, 8:48:10 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dirkbender.bsky.social (@dirkbender.bsky.social)

Only one living editorial cartoonist can make an Anne Frank joke work. Stan #Kelly needs to win all the awards.

1/9/2025, 6:29:44 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dirkbender.bsky.social (@dirkbender.bsky.social) reply parent

Ouch. Y'all aren't taking any prisoners and I'm here for it.

1/9/2025, 6:24:56 PM | 17 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dirkbender.bsky.social (@dirkbender.bsky.social) reply parent

They ARE using that slur, as far as I'm concerned. Whenever I've seen #DEI the past two years, given that it's ALWAYS surrounded by conservative whining, I've heard "n****r" Who doesn't? These (almost entirely white) ignor-anuses have successfully appropriated the term. Congratulations, Whitey!

1/9/2025, 6:22:41 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture TrumpsTaxes (@trumpstaxes.com) reposted

Photo of the Three Stooges promoting the polio vaccine for kids in 1961. You know your country’s in trouble when Moe, Larry and Curly Joe understand more about public health than the Secretary of HHS.

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29/8/2025, 1:09:25 PM | 492 164 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Stabby Spice (@stabbyspice.bsky.social) reposted

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAS

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1/9/2025, 6:00:48 PM | 12 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dirkbender.bsky.social (@dirkbender.bsky.social) reply parent

Dunno! Something must color that decision not to return to his homeland, huh? It's a mystery though.

1/9/2025, 2:34:54 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dirkbender.bsky.social (@dirkbender.bsky.social) reply parent

Edge-lordy.

1/9/2025, 12:39:58 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dirkbender.bsky.social (@dirkbender.bsky.social) reply parent

...and hung.

1/9/2025, 12:23:09 AM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dirkbender.bsky.social (@dirkbender.bsky.social) reply parent

You're also good at saving our Republic as a voting bloc. Belated thanks for that.

1/9/2025, 12:06:54 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dirkbender.bsky.social (@dirkbender.bsky.social) reply parent

Brought back fond memories of my siblings' high school theatrical efforts, it did.

1/9/2025, 12:05:29 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Martti Nelson, Lady Author (@martti.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

It’s a shame that he won’t keep, but it’s summer and we’re runnin’ out of ice.

31/8/2025, 10:51:15 PM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dirkbender.bsky.social (@dirkbender.bsky.social) reply parent

Whenever I think my country sucks dead donkey rectum I have to remind myself that at least I don't have the UK's waffletwats to account for.

31/8/2025, 4:17:30 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dirkbender.bsky.social (@dirkbender.bsky.social)

And I'm the bad guy for saying these "men" should be in work camps because they'd be happier after a few months.

31/8/2025, 4:15:02 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dirkbender.bsky.social (@dirkbender.bsky.social)

That's pretty bad. You're about 80% more likely to have died at the hands of Officer Friendly in Bangladesh last year than you were here in the U-S-A. U-S-A!

31/8/2025, 1:04:42 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dirkbender.bsky.social (@dirkbender.bsky.social)

Rarely is the question asked (and answered): Q: Is our children learning? A: No. Put another way: White people! Amirite? #Trump #Felon apnews.com/article/trum...

31/8/2025, 12:46:53 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dirkbender.bsky.social (@dirkbender.bsky.social)

"Save us, commie press!" Seriously. Do try to imagine being the butt-boy who had to deliver the news to Kegsbreath that the libturds exposed a gaping security hole that any competent government oversight would've nipped in the bud. www.propublica.org/article/micr...

31/8/2025, 12:21:33 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dirkbender.bsky.social (@dirkbender.bsky.social) reply parent

Well remember, Biden was old!

30/8/2025, 6:50:42 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dirkbender.bsky.social (@dirkbender.bsky.social)

Foreign Affairs magazine isn't exactly what I'd ever call "alarmist" but they're certainly sounding an alarm here. Worth the long read.

30/8/2025, 6:48:13 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dirkbender.bsky.social (@dirkbender.bsky.social) reply parent

Anything less than this agenda will doom this Republic to failure. I hope Team Blue understands this. Yes, Democrats must become staunch (lowercase) republicans.

30/8/2025, 5:03:29 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dirkbender.bsky.social (@dirkbender.bsky.social)

This account rarely gives us accounts of those who survived, but I appreciate them coming up for air now and again.

29/8/2025, 5:07:18 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dirkbender.bsky.social (@dirkbender.bsky.social) reply parent

I'd add "their Oath of Office" but it might be cluttered already.

29/8/2025, 5:03:47 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dirkbender.bsky.social (@dirkbender.bsky.social) reply parent

Homan seems unaware of a concept entitled "the Chicago way."

29/8/2025, 4:07:06 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dirkbender.bsky.social (@dirkbender.bsky.social) reply parent

At the risk of piling on the ickiness, ask yourself what denomination of paper money would he carry on his person and make available for certain services? It sure as shit wouldn't be C-notes. 20s would be more in his range of generosity. And thus... (Off to gargle with chlorine bleach, BRB.)

29/8/2025, 12:35:24 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dirkbender.bsky.social (@dirkbender.bsky.social) reply parent

If I may, it seems not unlike the divisions within the slavery abolition movement. There was a noble, common goal among the masses forces, but different factions had different motivations.

29/8/2025, 12:27:40 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dirkbender.bsky.social (@dirkbender.bsky.social) reply parent

I'd hoped knowing this dreadful bloke's villainous role, standing in our way of women's suffrage, would enhance folks' understanding Woodrow Wilson wasn't just misogynistic, he was horribly racist & arguably America's worst President Not nearly enough folks know just how FUBAR he left everything

29/8/2025, 12:22:36 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dirkbender.bsky.social (@dirkbender.bsky.social) reply parent

1. Yes. 2. No. I'd never deny the utter bravery of those who endured not just imprisonment but beatings to fight for civil rights 1/2

29/8/2025, 12:15:35 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dirkbender.bsky.social (@dirkbender.bsky.social) reply parent

All true. (Andrew Jagoff is supposedly DJT's favorite prezzie BTW.)

29/8/2025, 2:43:15 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dirkbender.bsky.social (@dirkbender.bsky.social)

As terrible as our current President might be, we've had worse. Particularly this piece of garbage, Wilson. Racist and misogynist AF, and he sent 116,000 brave Americans to die in a meat grinder.

29/8/2025, 1:36:19 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dirkbender.bsky.social (@dirkbender.bsky.social) reply parent

Woodrow Wilson was a horrible man, a vile racist, misogynist, and warmonger, whose reputation as some kind of progressive needs to be burnt to a crisp.

29/8/2025, 1:33:34 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dirkbender.bsky.social (@dirkbender.bsky.social) reply parent

It's a painful read.

29/8/2025, 1:25:10 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dirkbender.bsky.social (@dirkbender.bsky.social) reply parent

I'm trying not to vomit reading this. He needs to be left in the desert without water.

29/8/2025, 1:23:59 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dirkbender.bsky.social (@dirkbender.bsky.social)

The world simply doesn't regard certain people as human. That's my only explanation for the continued, massive shrug over the loss of life, month after month.

29/8/2025, 1:17:37 AM | 5 5 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dirkbender.bsky.social (@dirkbender.bsky.social) reply parent

It's a AAA team they're playing

29/8/2025, 1:13:34 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture andy™ (@andylevy.net) reposted

hey hey rfk how many kids did you kill today

28/8/2025, 7:13:12 PM | 3491 754 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dirkbender.bsky.social (@dirkbender.bsky.social) reply parent

I regret to inform this would be an American conservative dream come true: Starving those commie Yurpeens.

28/8/2025, 7:42:51 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dirkbender.bsky.social (@dirkbender.bsky.social) reply parent

I believe the Fawlty Towers quote was "there's enough there for an entire psychiatric convention".

28/8/2025, 7:38:36 PM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dirkbender.bsky.social (@dirkbender.bsky.social) reply parent

Earth-Hating Administration Issues Stay of Execution.

28/8/2025, 7:36:19 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dirkbender.bsky.social (@dirkbender.bsky.social) reply parent

What effect would #RFK Jr. being strapped to a rocket and launched into outer space have on violence? Many people are asking: Isn't that worth funding to find out?

28/8/2025, 5:12:24 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dirkbender.bsky.social (@dirkbender.bsky.social) reply parent

Problem is, even Donnie Two Scoops isn't stupid enough to take that lunatic's advice.

28/8/2025, 5:05:29 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dirkbender.bsky.social (@dirkbender.bsky.social) reply parent

How about lunacy?

28/8/2025, 5:03:34 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dirkbender.bsky.social (@dirkbender.bsky.social) reply parent

With ground glass for lube.

28/8/2025, 4:42:00 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dirkbender.bsky.social (@dirkbender.bsky.social)

Ed talk. You listen.

28/8/2025, 2:08:08 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dirkbender.bsky.social (@dirkbender.bsky.social) reply parent

No. (THBAEOSATSQ.) Unless by "thinking individuals" you mean "armed leftist militia members." I don't think there are enough at present to perform what's necessary but, as they say, watch this page.

28/8/2025, 12:55:46 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dirkbender.bsky.social (@dirkbender.bsky.social) reply parent

Resign, and be forced to submit to being kicked while prone on the ground. By you.

28/8/2025, 12:50:42 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dirkbender.bsky.social (@dirkbender.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh you nervous nellies. It's totally worth it so I can have a machine text me my grocery list

28/8/2025, 12:48:04 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dirkbender.bsky.social (@dirkbender.bsky.social)

In fairness, this deranged lunatic has no concept of what constitutes the truth. All sane folks need to know is the one basic rule of life in the past half century: American conservatives relentlessly redistribute wealth and income upward. apnews.com/article/rura...

28/8/2025, 12:42:06 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dirkbender.bsky.social (@dirkbender.bsky.social)

I'm of an age that has been blissfully unaware of just how ugly lunch boxes became after they stopped making them out of metal. Crikey!

28/8/2025, 12:28:14 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dirkbender.bsky.social (@dirkbender.bsky.social) reply parent

I'm sure Dayen sometimes gets something wrong, but I have yet to see it.

28/8/2025, 12:25:16 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dirkbender.bsky.social (@dirkbender.bsky.social) reply parent

Yebbut imagine how these schmucks would actually go about it. I'm sorry for making light of a serious diplomatic breach, but I think the execution would*have* to be comically inept.

28/8/2025, 12:12:49 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dirkbender.bsky.social (@dirkbender.bsky.social) reply parent

Knowing these stealthy stable geniuses, they probably approached the Greenlanders by claiming we had "heap good idea!" to battle "bad palefaces".

28/8/2025, 12:08:06 AM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dirkbender.bsky.social (@dirkbender.bsky.social) reply parent

Yes, it makes sense if only to cover all the circuits thus.

26/8/2025, 4:53:41 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dirkbender.bsky.social (@dirkbender.bsky.social) reply parent

Just here to say I'm so glad "expanding SCOTUS" has become utterly sane, normal discourse. (I prefer "un-packing the Court" but it's all good.) I can't help but add: Back when I started carrying on in November 2016 about updating the Judiciary Act of 1869, people looked at me like I had two heads.

26/8/2025, 3:57:53 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dirkbender.bsky.social (@dirkbender.bsky.social) reply parent

True, if we're continuing to assume that it's got to be legal and non-violent. We all have our bright red lines at which point those two Big Ones get defenestrated. For the sake of remaining online and not booted from this platform, I'll keep mine under wraps for now.

26/8/2025, 3:54:10 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dirkbender.bsky.social (@dirkbender.bsky.social) reply parent

I listened to the clip. I was assuming that the "great case" meant knowing you'd never have to encounter her frightening, worked-to-death face in real life.

26/8/2025, 3:51:04 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dirkbender.bsky.social (@dirkbender.bsky.social)

I learned a new swear! "Amodei said he & other House Republicans were concerned about the impact, especially when looking at where some stations fell on the electoral map 'Jesus crackers — these people voted for the president,' he said" So GOPers aren't useless. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/u...

26/8/2025, 1:39:27 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dirkbender.bsky.social (@dirkbender.bsky.social) reply parent

"I want to bond with cowardly white people. Vote for me because you're a coward too."

26/8/2025, 2:57:21 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dreamweasel (@dreamweasel.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

“But what about the people who aren’t racist, but truly and sincerely wanted to rid of the country of illegal immigrants by any means necessary?” Shut up. These people do not exist.

25/8/2025, 4:08:17 PM | 8 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dirkbender.bsky.social (@dirkbender.bsky.social)

I feel pretty horrible laughing at this.

26/8/2025, 2:30:30 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dirkbender.bsky.social (@dirkbender.bsky.social) reply parent

Not sure why that's so hard for otherwise sensible people to figure out.

26/8/2025, 2:16:16 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dirkbender.bsky.social (@dirkbender.bsky.social) reply parent

So desperate of late. Golly I sure hope he's not about to stroke out.

26/8/2025, 1:20:27 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dirkbender.bsky.social (@dirkbender.bsky.social)

I saw exactly one episode of The Sopranos and wondered how people subjected themselves to such boring, predictable crap.

26/8/2025, 12:44:48 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dirkbender.bsky.social (@dirkbender.bsky.social)

Not sure who at #CrackerBarrel needs to see this, but I've gone and pulled up an image that might be more to some traditionalists' liking as the company finds a path to a redesigned logo

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25/8/2025, 4:04:05 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dirkbender.bsky.social (@dirkbender.bsky.social) reply parent

As Madge would say: "1984? You're soaking in it!" youtu.be/2dFlJikh0PY?...

25/8/2025, 3:49:20 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dirkbender.bsky.social (@dirkbender.bsky.social)

It's only surprising when you consider what kind of psychopath regard them that way.

25/8/2025, 3:43:48 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dirkbender.bsky.social (@dirkbender.bsky.social)

This is a reminder that getting cancelled is actually a great thing to happen to assholes who deserve it. Like #Snoop, who is at present lower than whale shit on the scale of human decency. Not looking too good, his prospects for rising above, at this point. FTG. #LGBTQIA+

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25/8/2025, 3:33:17 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dirkbender.bsky.social (@dirkbender.bsky.social) reply parent

We really need to get them to learn how to talk themselves into eating a Glock. Um, hypothetically.

25/8/2025, 1:17:35 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dirkbender.bsky.social (@dirkbender.bsky.social) reply parent

Let's not ever forget that the Nazis took their cues from the successful slaveowners' rebellion of 1861 to, well, the present, here in the USA.

25/8/2025, 1:13:14 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dirkbender.bsky.social (@dirkbender.bsky.social) reply parent

Actually I think those comparisons are wrong because they're using the wrong historical figure for their similes. It should be Stalin, not Hitler.

25/8/2025, 1:11:08 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dirkbender.bsky.social (@dirkbender.bsky.social) reply parent

Sounds like a very smart way to run foreign policy! By any chance are you a billionaire?

25/8/2025, 1:07:17 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dirkbender.bsky.social (@dirkbender.bsky.social) reply parent

Curious: Does your autocorrect do that to all recurrances of "Stalin" and you've not managed to fix it yet?

25/8/2025, 1:06:11 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dirkbender.bsky.social (@dirkbender.bsky.social) reply parent

Put another way: A lot of white cisgender guys like me are going to find out pretty soon that our privilege didn't really count for as much as we'd thought.

25/8/2025, 1:04:04 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dirkbender.bsky.social (@dirkbender.bsky.social) reply parent

With the #Roberts court deciding anything and everything their boss DJT does is constitutional, your statement is hilarious. They'll say it's ok for him to run for a third term. (And that'll be that for this Republic, barring multiple brain transplants that'd effectively un-pack the Court.)

25/8/2025, 1:01:11 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dirkbender.bsky.social (@dirkbender.bsky.social) reply parent

I've heard rumors that you're an actual human being. But with messages as phenomenally clueless as this I'm beginning to think you're some improv guy's character.

25/8/2025, 12:55:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dirkbender.bsky.social (@dirkbender.bsky.social) reply parent

Jeez, Hakeem, how hard is it to say "Can you believe this? fuck that guy!" That's all you gotta say, every day and maybe twice on Sundays.

25/8/2025, 1:54:04 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dirkbender.bsky.social (@dirkbender.bsky.social) reply parent

Our current SecDef excluded of course!

25/8/2025, 1:51:33 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dirkbender.bsky.social (@dirkbender.bsky.social)

As I was just saying about the #ChamberOfCommerce? They've been terrorizing us for a very long time. open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

24/8/2025, 11:26:48 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dirkbender.bsky.social (@dirkbender.bsky.social)

Hear "Chamber of Commerce", think "domestic terror cell," and you're rarely too far off, I'm afraid. #Entrepreneur www.propublica.org/article/memp...

24/8/2025, 12:26:19 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dirkbender.bsky.social (@dirkbender.bsky.social) reply parent

He'd say "World Wars One through Six," apparently.

23/8/2025, 8:08:51 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dirkbender.bsky.social (@dirkbender.bsky.social) reply parent

So, five of the six states were such candy ass cowards they wouldn't go on record to respond to a simple question. About what I'd expect.

23/8/2025, 8:02:56 PM | 38 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dirkbender.bsky.social (@dirkbender.bsky.social)

Jason #Torchinsky nearly succumbed to a serious heart ailment a year ago. Blessedly he survived to give the world brilliant lived-experience journalism such as this. "The rich are no better than the brokest-asses out there in the world." www.theautopian.com/how-a-13-hat...

23/8/2025, 7:59:05 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Luna (@lunalore.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

… oh dang 🤪

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23/8/2025, 3:50:59 PM | 1597 60 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dirkbender.bsky.social (@dirkbender.bsky.social)

If I'm ever to be a published #Autopian author, they tell me, I have to know this work backwards, sideways, and frontwards. I guess it's worth the effort for what could be fame, the respect of fellow feature article authors and a BIG payday worth dozens, perhaps scores, of dollars? #AP

Printed copy of the Associated Press Stylebook, 57th edition (current).
23/8/2025, 5:59:07 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dirkbender.bsky.social (@dirkbender.bsky.social) reply parent

There've been several books written about it, actually. Here's the one I've read: www.amazon.com/Sum-Us-Every...

23/8/2025, 3:45:05 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dirkbender.bsky.social (@dirkbender.bsky.social) reply parent

"To Serve Man"?

23/8/2025, 2:49:30 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dirkbender.bsky.social (@dirkbender.bsky.social) reply parent

"None of 'em, Katie!" --the ghost of Caribou Barbie

23/8/2025, 2:48:42 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dirkbender.bsky.social (@dirkbender.bsky.social)

Bunch of dumb shit #MAGAts are too stupid to realize their taxes have been raised massively. And I'm the bad guy somehow for pointing out that they're dumb shits.

23/8/2025, 2:47:06 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dirkbender.bsky.social (@dirkbender.bsky.social) reply parent

They had to destroy the city in order to save it? Or was that some other war?

23/8/2025, 2:42:45 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dirkbender.bsky.social (@dirkbender.bsky.social) reply parent

Nor do the vast majority of internet users.

22/8/2025, 11:44:03 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dirkbender.bsky.social (@dirkbender.bsky.social) reply parent

To quote Rick from Casablanca: "There are some neighborhoods... I recommend that you don't occupy"

22/8/2025, 11:35:10 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dirkbender.bsky.social (@dirkbender.bsky.social) reply parent

The only way we'll keep American safe will be to send the entire Administration to a gulag. Maybe a #GatorGulag, if the land's cheap.

22/8/2025, 7:19:22 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dirkbender.bsky.social (@dirkbender.bsky.social) reply parent

It's a lonely but noble fight. The pigs know "reliable" conservative counties can turn left with an absolute vengeance. Mine (Gwinnett) went from solid red in 2000, to +16.5 for Kamala. I guaran damn tee that Trump knows this GA county and hates it; it's just low on his revenge list for now.

22/8/2025, 3:10:11 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dirkbender.bsky.social (@dirkbender.bsky.social) reply parent

It remains as much a write-off as America's Dong. But we could cede the latter back to Spain. Maybe France or England would be interested in annexing OH but it's doubtful.

22/8/2025, 2:54:17 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dirkbender.bsky.social (@dirkbender.bsky.social) reply parent

In earlier times such individuals as these white citizens might have some mercy bestowed, after a significant number were summarily dispatched. I *guess* it's on balance a good thing that ours aren't earlier times, but I do wonder sometimes.

22/8/2025, 2:51:07 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dirkbender.bsky.social (@dirkbender.bsky.social) reply parent

Hey Springfieldians? How's it feel, not getting properly lubed beforehand?

22/8/2025, 2:47:22 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dirkbender.bsky.social (@dirkbender.bsky.social) reply parent

Alligator Auschwitz, folks.

22/8/2025, 2:24:04 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dirkbender.bsky.social (@dirkbender.bsky.social) reply parent

Another bad one gone.

22/8/2025, 2:03:50 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dirkbender.bsky.social (@dirkbender.bsky.social) reply parent

In all seriousness, one does what one can do. For example, ~30 years ago while on foot from the Port Authority en route to Radio City Music Hall, I made a point of visiting Trump Tower to take a leak in its restroom. Just so I could say I pissed on Trump Tower. (Yeah, he and I go back a ways.)

22/8/2025, 1:49:46 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dirkbender.bsky.social (@dirkbender.bsky.social) reply parent

I think you scope it out first; if there are cameras, you tuck away, discreetly collect a sample, and return to drain said sample from its container. (Not that I've spent a lot of time plotting this work.)

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Profile picture Dirkbender.bsky.social (@dirkbender.bsky.social)

I understand that there are still good options available for those looking to commit assault with a deadly sammich

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