Mac McGill
@maddmac.bsky.social
Studying for a PhD in psychology while the world goes insane. Currently very interested in conflict science and rebellion studies. I have friends everywhere.
created November 23, 2023
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Mac McGill (@maddmac.bsky.social)
I guess Trump allegedly did an interview last Friday which is just coming out. But for a guy who loves cameras it's all written, which only makes it more bizarre. I am still not sure I buy this as proof of health or even life.
Mac McGill (@maddmac.bsky.social) reply parent
Those Marines need to refuse a clearly illegal order and surrender their post.
Mac McGill (@maddmac.bsky.social) reply parent
Wiping tears from eyes at work.
Mac McGill (@maddmac.bsky.social)
Here, have something good. Not everyone sucks.
Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 (@maxbrockbank.com) reposted
Rachel Maddow outlines Trump's panic.
Mac McGill (@maddmac.bsky.social)
Anybody want to take bets on whether or not Trump's big announcement today is a deep fake?
Mac McGill (@maddmac.bsky.social) reply parent
Neither am I! *cough* Of course not.
Mac McGill (@maddmac.bsky.social)
JFC
Trixie 🌸🇨🇦 (@trixie57.bsky.social) reposted
All major entrances to Walter Reed Hospital have been closed off in Washington, and apparently there have been sightings of Melania taking “tours” of it alone. An admin at the hospital says that Donny has been there. Something weird is going on, and Donald is holding a presser at 2 PM EST today.🧐
LorennaCleary.bsky.social (@lorennacleary.bsky.social) reposted
Guess what USMC and National Guard? You followed illegal orders. It’s almost like we all stood in the streets and yelled it in your faces. apple.news/AI2Kh-eP0R-y...
Jon Cooper (@joncooper-us.bsky.social) reposted
Beyond pathetic.
Mac McGill (@maddmac.bsky.social) reply parent
My bank frequently uses a pop up that asks " Do you love [this bank]?" Like, look, I just want to check if I have beer money before I go to the store.
Mac McGill (@maddmac.bsky.social) reply parent
I had no idea vaccines cause drowning
Mac McGill (@maddmac.bsky.social) reply parent
Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com) reposted
New York does not miss. The bleach did it for me. 😭
Mac McGill (@maddmac.bsky.social) reply parent
I would unplug him to recharge a butt plug.
Mac McGill (@maddmac.bsky.social) reply parent
I don't know but it sure looks like it.
Steven Larsson (@skl101.bsky.social) reposted
👍👏
Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis (@jeffjarvis.bsky.social) reposted
Alarm after FBI arrests US army veteran for ‘conspiracy’ over protest against Ice www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Mac McGill (@maddmac.bsky.social) reply parent
Will he do it via tweet?
SassySenora701 (@sassysenior70.bsky.social) reposted
Mac McGill (@maddmac.bsky.social) reply parent
During the Cold War, we looked down on countries with state run media.
rusty54.bsky.social (@rusty54.bsky.social) reposted
Nita Cosby (@5-2blue.bsky.social) reposted
Mac McGill (@maddmac.bsky.social)
Wow. This Newsweek article is exactly what's wrong with the US press. "Baseless speculation" and "False rumors" are both terms in the article used before claiming that they had been completely "quashed". They say there is "no evidence" without providing any of their own. This is terrifying.
Cheshire Muser (@cheshiremuser.bsky.social) reposted
Artworks have developed a format in the new trending topics
Oscar&Felix (@oscar-felix.bsky.social) reposted
💯
Mac McGill (@maddmac.bsky.social)
#Trump continues to ghost America and the media is utterly silent save when bizarrely debunking rumors as in the media below. Trump is obsessed with media coverage. He hasn't been absent from view for a full week since the 1980's. Literally. Stand-ins and AI could explain everything we're seeing.
Mac McGill (@maddmac.bsky.social)
I am just blocking the next crop of motherfuckers who think I am saying we should all become hyperindividualistic subsistence farmers because that is the exact opposite of what I am saying. It gets really fatiguing how reactionary some of you people can be. This is why we can't get anything done.
Mac McGill (@maddmac.bsky.social) reply parent
That is not what I am saying and I am getting fatigued by pointing that out. Of course no one can individually survive societal collapse with a backyard garden. But enough people growing food becomes calories that will fill in gaps created by the collapse so that fewer people will die.
Mac McGill (@maddmac.bsky.social) reply parent
I definitely do not think that. We absolutely will NOT get through this period on rugged hyperindividualism. That's what got us into this mess to begin with. However, if we act collectively and emphasize food production in urban settings more of us will survive than otherwise would.
Mac McGill (@maddmac.bsky.social) reply parent
I did mean to say if US urban centers don't get more serious about growing more food locally, there will be even more suffering and death than I currently fear. Which is a lot.
Mac McGill (@maddmac.bsky.social) reply parent
I did not say that at all. Currently I can grow exactly ZERO food. If it weren't for the local food bank I don't know how I would have eaten for the last year and a half as the deep blue state of New York used bureaucratic bullshit to deny me SNAP I said is food is going to be a problem. Grow some
Mac McGill (@maddmac.bsky.social) reply parent
Yeah, I am very concerned what we may live to see and endure.
Mac McGill (@maddmac.bsky.social) reply parent
Nope
Mac McGill (@maddmac.bsky.social)
GREEDFLATION IS REAL!!! It is particularly true in food, which people need so they don't die. This is what is happening before a true supply crisis has even manifested. #Capitalism is failing. The free market wants you to starve to death so that everyone else will pay more Grow your own food!!!
Mac McGill (@maddmac.bsky.social)
I suppose I am on a kick at the moment. I know at best a fraction of the people who see this post will actually spend the time to watch the full videos I post. Especially when they are from Bloomberg or BEC Finance. Do you eat? Then you need to know these things. We are all about to become hungry
Mac McGill (@maddmac.bsky.social)
The complexity of this issue resist the limitations of the format. I urge you to start paying more attention to agricultural issues. Yes, 80% of farmers voted for Trump. I cannot explain that. GROW YOUR OWN FOOD TO THE DEGREE POSSIBLE!!! Very soon we may see billions starving. Billions Be aware
Mac McGill (@maddmac.bsky.social)
Arlington National Cemetery, where my father's ashes are interred, was placed on the site of Robert E Lee's plantation as a PUNISHMENT for his traitorous actions When the reckoning comes, this portrait of Lee and his slave, should not only be removed again, it should be destroyed.
Mac McGill (@maddmac.bsky.social)
I don't usually go for things like this, but I found this moving. #Zelensky honoring the fallen, and the living, fighting for #Ukraine As far as I'm concerned, right now he is the leader of the free world.
Mac McGill (@maddmac.bsky.social)
Why are younger people so ready to reject the Establishment? Well, the Establishment is killing them. Might be related I dunno...
Mac McGill (@maddmac.bsky.social) reply parent
That haircut is a big hit with the ladies, I'm sure.
Mac McGill (@maddmac.bsky.social)
Wanna bet it's like a really nasty diaper bag? They figure if it's just sitting in the bushes no one will connect it to Trump.
Dr. Jack Brown (@drjackbrown.bsky.social) reposted
Mac McGill (@maddmac.bsky.social)
What gif pops up when you type in your name?
White Rose Resistance (@whiteroseresistance.org) reposted
Serena (@bibliophile99.bsky.social) reposted
Yes Vance is a fuckwit but maga thinks so too and the maga cult would die
Mac McGill (@maddmac.bsky.social) reply parent
And we will have to keep fighting them. It is not a responsibility that will go away, but I do not think it will continue to go as well for them as it has recently. There will be no final victory for either side, but US politics are profoundly thermostatic. The backlash will be severe. It always is.
Mac McGill (@maddmac.bsky.social) reply parent
But it is nascent and feeble still and it can be stopped. That bastard will be dead soon, and though I am not afraid of Vance, it will try and move to someone else soon. That is why we must create a world it cannot survive in. Everyone who hates, and yes I mean you, feeds it. So stop doing that.
Mac McGill (@maddmac.bsky.social)
The first Trump administration was the last gasp of an old conservatism But this is like the first gasps of something being born. It really is like some kind of @stephenking.bsky.social horror. Some ancient evil that emerges into the world when we are weak and don't care for each other enough.
Mac McGill (@maddmac.bsky.social) reply parent
Right?
Mac McGill (@maddmac.bsky.social)
Another great piece from @chrislhayes.bsky.social "Trump consistently outperforms Trumpist candidates..." This is why I assert as soon as this motherfucker is dead, its a new ball game. Populism will hardly be over, but for some unfathomable reason, no one can do Trump but Trump.
Mac McGill (@maddmac.bsky.social) reply parent
Keep it up. I got a few names for ya if you need inspiration.
C Hanna (@chcowgirl.bsky.social) reposted
Don't give up!
Mac McGill (@maddmac.bsky.social)
NOT saying he deserves a Nobel but Trump has driven India into trying to reconcile with China and that's fucking incredible.
Mac McGill (@maddmac.bsky.social) reply parent
I think Foyer is fine. Horsey Doovers is a little awkward though.
Ruben Garcia (@gorubenruben.bsky.social) reposted
ORALÈ RESISTER NEW HASHTAG FOR MIDTERMS! VOTE DEMOCRATS! #ImpeachThemAll2026 #Midterms #VoteBlue #USDemocracy
Meta Resistance (@meta-resistance.com) reposted
Doug Doan (@jumped-ship.bsky.social) reposted
Not feds. Jan 6 criminals.
Mac McGill (@maddmac.bsky.social) reply parent
I always thought that was a pretty nice suit.
Just my thoughts 🇨🇦 (@bc60.bsky.social) reposted
This
Mrs. Betty Bowers (@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social) reposted
"The lunatics are running the asylum."
Mac McGill (@maddmac.bsky.social) reply parent
I really like appetizers. Thank you.
Mac McGill (@maddmac.bsky.social)
Who would be the greatest reporter to break the news?
Mac McGill (@maddmac.bsky.social) reply parent
I've tried it several times. Literally every single time the driver stole some of my order. It's a whole racket. They sell what they steal to convenience stores in part because they are terribly paid by the techbros. I won't do it again.
Krassensteins (@krassenstein.bsky.social) reposted
Mac McGill (@maddmac.bsky.social)
Can you imagine being this needy?
Wim Meijer (@wimgmeijer.bsky.social) reposted
Life expectancy in the US is 4.1 years shorter than in comparable countries. This certainly won’t improve with RFK in charge of public health. 🧪
Angry (@angrystaffer.bsky.social) reposted
What in the ever loving fuck is going on here
Mac McGill (@maddmac.bsky.social) reply parent
I don't disagree with anything you say, but if you look at cults they are extraordinarily dependent on a charismatic leader. None of those guys have any charisma whatsoever, much less the benefit of decades of media worship of Trump. I am not saying it will be a cake walk, but it'll be a major blow.
Mac McGill (@maddmac.bsky.social) reply parent
Boy, I am not afraid of Vance. He's nothing. A fart in a Jacuzzi. Trump was decades in the making. I am not saying when he's gone all of this will dissolve away, but it will be a major blow to their ability to be cohesive.
Mac McGill (@maddmac.bsky.social)
#Trump did a three hour rambling insane cabinet meeting the other day. How much you want to bet he spent most of those three hours squatting in his own shit while his clown car disgustingly stroked his ego? He is dying. Right now.
Mac McGill (@maddmac.bsky.social) reply parent
Inevitably one side plays the game better Even under the most violent periods there are seasons of respite and a generalized containment of kinetic side effects and collateral damage. However, human history is littered with general massacres beyond counting. Human conflict is terrifying .
Mac McGill (@maddmac.bsky.social) reply parent
For a counter elite to entrench themselves they must shatter the status of the very best in the opposition while keeping the rank and file internally fractious. Divide and conquer. To be clear, both sides are largely playing exactly the same game. This is not a moral proclamation by any means.
Mac McGill (@maddmac.bsky.social) reply parent
What's next is elites go at each other. Pretty much #Turchin As sides emerge they try to herd the Hobbesonian Leviathan. It's dangerous as fuck. People die. The management technique is to create games of thrones at every level. It's fractal, reflecting their own machinations. Status. It works well
Mac McGill (@maddmac.bsky.social) reply parent
Many groups status' has changed. Often in laudable waves. Not that long ago in the grand scheme of things women couldn't vote (more recently couldn't have bank accounts) and black people were slaves. It's a burden that continues. So if you can't change that (spoiler alert: you can't) what's next?
Mac McGill (@maddmac.bsky.social)
Here is the fundamental issue tied up in a bow. This whole thing, all of it, is about status. Psychologically, status is an inescapably differential phenomenon. The best way to raise one's status is NOT to speak against an out-group. That's a given minimum. The best way is to diminish one's peers
Mac McGill (@maddmac.bsky.social) reply parent
I love Garbage!
Mac McGill (@maddmac.bsky.social) reply parent
It actually is a feature of science to listen to experts. It's called "peer review". It is also a feature of democracy. It's called "an informed electorate."
Mac McGill (@maddmac.bsky.social) reply parent
Madz (@madz123.bsky.social) reposted
Do It
Mac McGill (@maddmac.bsky.social) reply parent
Tom Reagan’s Hat (@rufustsuperfly.bsky.social) reposted
‘I see dead people’ ‘WHY ARE YOU SAYING THAT? ‘WHY ARE YOU SAYING THAT?’
Mac McGill (@maddmac.bsky.social)
Is he dead?
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Mac McGill (@maddmac.bsky.social) reply parent
It's not guns. It's that people with guns are crazy. Actually that makes sense. Well, if can't cure crazy we better take away their guns.
Mac McGill (@maddmac.bsky.social) reply parent
I don't disagree with any of that. Again, I was homeless for the better part of a decade and housing insecure ever since, but these camps are not the answer either.
Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” (@ryanjreilly.com) reposted
Art depicting “Sandwich Guy” now at the scene of the alleged misdemeanor.
Mac McGill (@maddmac.bsky.social) reply parent
We should eliminate federal districting altogether.
Nemesys23 (@nemesys23.bsky.social) reposted
Jesse droppin bombs. #musicsky youtu.be/PL0oB1gbZE4?...
Mac McGill (@maddmac.bsky.social) reply parent
Patience
Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) reposted
Garcia: We finally got word from the Epstein estate. They're going to be providing the actual Epstein book… the estate is actually going to actually now get us that book and a bunch of other documents that they have that's actually not been reported yet.
Mac McGill (@maddmac.bsky.social)
Blatant effort to create violence based enclaves for Christian Nationalism. How many of these grants do you think will go to minority churches or Muslims? DHS is also illegally burning through it's budget.
Mac McGill (@maddmac.bsky.social)
Deeddra 📎🇺🇸🔵 (@deeddra.bsky.social) reposted
This is a blessing! These people need to move on and disappear completely.
Mac McGill (@maddmac.bsky.social) reply parent
That may be long enough to reveal what a disaster they are.
Mac McGill (@maddmac.bsky.social) reply parent
This is definitely an underreported story. If it weren't being executed by this lunatic I could support the move.
paulpro (@mariopro.bsky.social) reposted
Bookmarking this form next week: Boston, Philly, Chicago
Mac McGill (@maddmac.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes. It's a big if. I do think we are doing this backwards. However, I don't think it is particularly enlightened to defend people's right to live in violent squalor.
Mac McGill (@maddmac.bsky.social) reply parent
Little late to worry about being embarrassed.