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VT Left Flank

@p2now.bsky.social

Hiking, Politics, Foraging and Gardening. Will yell into void about whatever feels good. Provide for yourself in order to learn how to provide for your community.

created August 8, 2023

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Profile picture VT Left Flank (@p2now.bsky.social) reply parent

I dont think that will happen, mostly because no one likes him. Fascists do actually have to be liked by the base.

30/8/2025, 10:18:24 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief (@katie.bzky.team) reposted

the really tragic thing about donald trump dying is that it has completely overshadowed gavin newsom dying on the same day

30/8/2025, 8:36:48 AM | 738 52 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture VT Left Flank (@p2now.bsky.social) reply parent

People who actually like themselves dont become nazis

29/8/2025, 5:16:13 PM | 11 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture EL BARTO ANTI-WORK (@elbarto.bsky.social) reposted

My "why are LLMs making everyone crazy" thought today is that these algorithms behave like the sycophantic yes-men that surround the very rich and powerful - who also go nuts but, usually over a longer term (over years rather than months) - but as I see it, there are two fundamental differences:

29/8/2025, 4:33:28 PM | 70 11 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture VT Left Flank (@p2now.bsky.social) reply parent

I think they identified as a nazi

29/8/2025, 4:57:30 PM | 13 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net) reposted

Here's a tweet by the current DHS PR officer pushing fascist and nazi imagery. He calls for trans people to be eradicated.

18/8/2025, 11:42:59 PM | 1276 399 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture VT Left Flank (@p2now.bsky.social) reply parent

I chose planting fruit trees, gardening, and goats and bees. They are fun so far

17/8/2025, 6:10:02 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture VT Left Flank (@p2now.bsky.social) reply parent

If they weren't a part of punk history "Nazi Punks Fuck Off" would have never been written

13/8/2025, 11:31:28 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture VT Left Flank (@p2now.bsky.social) reply parent

Will Stancil being wrong and refusing to actually read the entire articulated point? Say it ain't so

13/8/2025, 4:34:30 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Manuel (@robmanuelyeah.bsky.social) reposted

No you read this and then spent the next 5 mins mucking around with a shit bit of Javascript to test the idea out

11/8/2025, 11:13:33 AM | 1120 344 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture VT Left Flank (@p2now.bsky.social) reply parent

Where are all the people who said that we just needed to continue peacefully protesting so Trump didn't have an excuse to declare martial law?

11/8/2025, 3:16:49 PM | 10 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture VT Left Flank (@p2now.bsky.social) reply parent

This was not capitulation says the person capitulating

25/7/2025, 2:44:03 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Phil (@philmarfisi.bsky.social) reposted

"A [Canadian] Federal Court justice has halted the deportation of a non-binary American in a ruling that criticized Ottawa’s Immigration Department for not properly considering the situation of LGBTQ Americans... in a judgment that their lawyers hailed as precedent-setting."

16/7/2025, 1:34:07 PM | 616 190 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture VT Left Flank (@p2now.bsky.social) reply parent

Tom Bombadil would fucking hate you

13/7/2025, 3:43:50 AM | 72 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture VT Left Flank (@p2now.bsky.social) reply parent

One of the best fight scenes in cinema history

13/7/2025, 2:50:05 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture VT Left Flank (@p2now.bsky.social) reply parent

Evergreen tweet unfortunately

11/7/2025, 3:52:53 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rita, antifascist🏴 (@oldsquida.bsky.social) reposted

From a distance you can see a mountain landscape with a blue sky and a few hazy clouds. on the sides of the picture you can see parts of trees. On the left in light green, on the right a smaller dark green tree further away. in the center is a black box on which is written in white “Only caring about your own right is exactly how you lose them”.
29/6/2025, 3:35:04 PM | 19034 4312 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture VT Left Flank (@p2now.bsky.social) reply parent

Great piece, no 🐖 at pride

29/6/2025, 5:25:05 PM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Teen Vogue (@teenvogue.com) reposted

In this op-ed, we break down why police are often not welcome at Pride parades because of a history of violence against the LGBTQ community. Read the full story here ⤵️

29/6/2025, 5:17:46 PM | 770 205 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture VT Left Flank (@p2now.bsky.social) reply parent

*black best friend

21/6/2025, 3:52:00 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture VT Left Flank (@p2now.bsky.social) reply parent

Only thing I know about Santa Barbara is that all the white guys have a black bear friend who cares a lot about Pluto no longer being a planet

21/6/2025, 3:51:11 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture VT Left Flank (@p2now.bsky.social) reply parent

Glad to hear Guster finally got a promotion from pharmaceutical sales and finished his doctoral

21/6/2025, 3:48:22 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture björk 182 (@readsettle.rs) reposted

the process of buying a house made me a socialist; having kids, a communist

9/6/2025, 1:00:31 PM | 45 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture VT Left Flank (@p2now.bsky.social) reply parent

The more I interact with the system, the more I despise it

9/6/2025, 2:45:56 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture VT Left Flank (@p2now.bsky.social) reply parent

They want you to say trump is doing it too(but worse), therefore we should be less critical of Biden's team.

19/4/2025, 12:31:56 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture VT Left Flank (@p2now.bsky.social) reply parent

If someone murders 2 people, does that lessen the severity of murdering one person?

19/4/2025, 12:30:12 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture VT Left Flank (@p2now.bsky.social) reply parent

Pretty sure every American read this story. Recognizing the Author is the real stretch

18/4/2025, 3:44:36 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture VT Left Flank (@p2now.bsky.social) reply parent

Hell and may I even say Yeah

17/4/2025, 1:31:53 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture onion person (@junlper.beer) reposted

important context about the concentration camps in el salvador:

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14/4/2025, 9:12:57 PM | 42255 13950 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture VT Left Flank (@p2now.bsky.social) reply parent

Weird, it's almost like factory jobs (especially after Unions have been stamped out) are low paying crappy jobs

13/4/2025, 7:54:13 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture VT Left Flank (@p2now.bsky.social) reply parent

I'm interested in the lesser water monsters personally. They are way freakier in bed, Nessie is very vanilla

9/4/2025, 9:48:41 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture VT Left Flank (@p2now.bsky.social) reply parent

What the hell is time

7/4/2025, 11:21:52 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture VT Left Flank (@p2now.bsky.social) reply parent

Well, guess I can take it off my to watch list. Damn

5/4/2025, 2:07:38 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bill McKay (@mckay4senate.bsky.social) reposted

The Sopranos is probably the Rosetta Stone of modern American reaction: it consists of people who bemoan the loss of an imagined past they mainly got from movies, claim victimization based on identity but hate when others do it, and view the people who build the society they prey on as suckers.

3/4/2025, 9:27:28 PM | 9960 1780 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture VT Left Flank (@p2now.bsky.social) reply parent

I'm going to the Swiss forcefem factory

3/4/2025, 12:40:08 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andrew Lawrence (@ndrew.bsky.social) reposted

bring us your poor, your tired, and your huddled masses so we can stuff them in an unmarked van and ship them to a slave labor camp in an undisclosed location

29/3/2025, 12:48:58 PM | 16177 4214 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob DenBleyker (@robdenbleyker.com) reposted

?????

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29/3/2025, 11:22:36 PM | 1648 172 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture VT Left Flank (@p2now.bsky.social) reply parent

What opposition to fascism have Dems accomplished? Pretty sure they just gave the fascists more power by not blocking the funding bill that explicitly gave more power to the executive branch

1/4/2025, 12:11:19 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture VT Left Flank (@p2now.bsky.social) reply parent

Actually, it's directly relevant to the conversation because she paid to kneecap Sanders. Her actions directly caused the worse candidate to run in the general. What do you handwave the actions she took?

1/4/2025, 12:06:57 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture onion person (@junlper.beer) reposted

reposting my favorite ‘trans day of visibility’ tweet on bluesky

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31/3/2025, 9:32:10 PM | 4404 356 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture VT Left Flank (@p2now.bsky.social) reply parent

I've never seen anyone talk about her being a woman or a mother. Just a lying grifter, which is genderless and does not require you to be a parent

31/3/2025, 11:40:47 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Parker Molloy (@parkermolloy.com) reposted

Every once in a while I think about Matt Groening's 1996 "wisdom of the ages" cartoon that summed up the Dem approach

31/3/2025, 11:10:10 PM | 3775 854 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture VT Left Flank (@p2now.bsky.social) reply parent

Because to them it is. Most of them are affluent, older and less impacted by the economic policies. So it's all aesthetics based, and the small "incremental change" is good enough, even when that change never comes.

31/3/2025, 11:28:42 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture VT Left Flank (@p2now.bsky.social) reply parent

Hilarious to see this in my feed in response to "blocked post"

31/3/2025, 11:14:43 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture VT Left Flank (@p2now.bsky.social) reply parent

I am a communist

31/3/2025, 11:06:30 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture VT Left Flank (@p2now.bsky.social) reply parent

They in fact do not

31/3/2025, 11:05:53 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture VT Left Flank (@p2now.bsky.social) reply parent

Being called an asshole by neolibs who defend Hilary Clinton is a badge of honor

31/3/2025, 10:53:32 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture VT Left Flank (@p2now.bsky.social) reply parent

I'm blocked, anything good?

31/3/2025, 10:52:40 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture VT Left Flank (@p2now.bsky.social) reply parent

It's unfortunate that your IQ is below room temp

31/3/2025, 10:52:12 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture VT Left Flank (@p2now.bsky.social) reply parent

The rose is the symbol for Democratic Socialists.

31/3/2025, 10:31:50 PM | 10 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture VT Left Flank (@p2now.bsky.social) reply parent

The difference between me and Hilary is that I didn't usher in American fascists with a failing political strategy. I think I'm talking about the right person Oh, I also didn't forgive my partner for blatant cheating, but that's neither here nor there

31/3/2025, 10:27:51 PM | 11 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture VT Left Flank (@p2now.bsky.social) reply parent

Damn. So no shot at you having any redeeming qualities. You win some, you lose some. Well, you don't ever win, but we know that because of the whole Hilary supporter thing

31/3/2025, 10:03:20 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture VT Left Flank (@p2now.bsky.social) reply parent

Sorry your kids don't love you, hope you make better choices next time

31/3/2025, 9:53:27 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture VT Left Flank (@p2now.bsky.social) reply parent

These people are such fucking losers

31/3/2025, 9:43:31 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture VT Left Flank (@p2now.bsky.social) reply parent

A world without you is a better world

31/3/2025, 9:28:47 PM | 128 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Kat Tenbarge (@kattenbarge.bsky.social) reposted

Adding a journalist to a top secret government group chat about dropping bombs *IS* the kind of thing people who aren’t super politically literate can understand and find shocking/notable/disqualifying. Dems should seize on this and never ever let it go. I hope to hear about it in a decade

24/3/2025, 9:56:20 PM | 33134 6136 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture VT Left Flank (@p2now.bsky.social) reply parent

None of that runs counter to my actual analysis that until these parties show actual policy wins, they will not be represented on the national stage proportional to the ideological views of the public. See the Minnesota Democratic Farmer Labor Party for an example

21/3/2025, 12:45:03 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture VT Left Flank (@p2now.bsky.social) reply parent

I'm not making an assessment, I'm calling yours not valid. I think that until an oppositional party actually exists and does good for the people, we won't know how the country leans. Of course the country appears center right when the 2 major parties offer far right and center right policy

21/3/2025, 11:56:29 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture VT Left Flank (@p2now.bsky.social) reply parent

You can't make this sort of analysis when 1/3 of the electorate doesn't vote. I'll remind you the last time a president even came close to implementation of a leftist economic policy they were elected for 4 straight terms.

21/3/2025, 11:40:49 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture VT Left Flank (@p2now.bsky.social) reply parent

They aren't cowards. The Democrats have proven they are willing to use that gun to kneecap anyone running to the left of them. They are controlled opposition

21/3/2025, 10:35:25 AM | 5 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture WhisperingSage (@whisperingsage.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

Giving children agency is good? Well what if the agency was the CIA? Not so good now, huh.

18/3/2025, 5:32:54 PM | 15 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture VT Left Flank (@p2now.bsky.social) reply parent

Bishop, more like bitch-shop

16/3/2025, 8:34:01 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Public Universal Girlfriend 🏳️‍⚧️ (@girlfriend.bsky.social) reposted

oh this economy is OVER over.

Mad Money with Jim Cramer headline: Don't let monday's sell off scare you ot of the market entirely, Jim Cramer says
10/3/2025, 11:51:56 PM | 56 7 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Public Universal Girlfriend 🏳️‍⚧️ (@girlfriend.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

Inverse ETF.

11/3/2025, 1:23:40 AM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture VT Left Flank (@p2now.bsky.social) reply parent

How do you short the entire stock market

11/3/2025, 12:12:29 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 👹👻 boo-rit 👻👹 (@britculpsapp.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

you can boof your drugs through basically any hole — naturally occurring or otherwise

2/3/2025, 8:37:24 PM | 36 4 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture -𝚖𝚘𝚡 (@moxiest.art) reposted

#⏰🐘🧵

15/2/2025, 3:03:39 PM | 273 71 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture VT Left Flank (@p2now.bsky.social) reply parent

Projection on both counts

8/2/2025, 8:50:40 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture VT Left Flank (@p2now.bsky.social) reply parent

Spoiler alert: They won't stop being useless and will blame the left for why they are useless

6/2/2025, 3:34:58 AM | 10 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bryce Youngquist (@bryceyoungquist.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

you'll be shocked to hear how the liberals ate shit: they kicked left in the hopes of appealing to the right, the right told them "you don't get it: we don't want to work with you, we want to crush you," and then the liberals, realizing too late they needed the left, tried to take it back. oopsie

6/2/2025, 2:34:23 AM | 27 7 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Hoodlum 🇺🇸 (@nothoodlum.bsky.social) reposted

Fourteen hours before the crash. 👇

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30/1/2025, 6:53:13 PM | 39257 13514 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Julia Carrie Wong (@joolia.bsky.social) reposted

been staring at this for a while

Elon tweet: Don't say Hess to Nazi accusations! Some people will Goebbels anything down! Stop Góring your enemies! His pronouns would've been He/Himmler! Bet you did nazi that coming Linda Yaccarino (ceo of x) responds with cry laugh emoji
23/1/2025, 6:35:50 PM | 1840 279 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture VT Left Flank (@p2now.bsky.social) reply parent

Linda, the only thing you are resisting is stopping the rise of fascism

21/1/2025, 12:54:18 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture VT Left Flank (@p2now.bsky.social) reply parent

I lived in ABQ for 4 years and it was awesome. It's the only place in the US I would choose to live in (Other than Vermont)

21/1/2025, 12:27:39 AM | 6 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture VT Left Flank (@p2now.bsky.social) reply parent

I suggest if you have any land, plant trees. Learn how to grow food. Talk to your neighbors once a week. Our local communities are one of the few places we can reliably help and be helped.

20/1/2025, 11:59:44 PM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Elad Nehorai (@eladn.bsky.social) reposted

It’s not just the ADL. Every major organization and well known leader positioned to take a stand on Musk has not done so. We are bereft of true leadership. Instead we have clannish power chasing and cowardice. No leadership. No bravery. Those of us on the other side MUST build alternatives.

20/1/2025, 11:51:23 PM | 2103 373 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture VT Left Flank (@p2now.bsky.social) reply parent

Sad to see even the "liberal" power structures fall in line with this deepening fascist government. No one but ourselves will save us now

20/1/2025, 11:55:48 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture VT Left Flank (@p2now.bsky.social) reply parent

Are you high? Honestly, I can't think of worse advice than these

19/1/2025, 12:02:53 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture wint (@dril.bsky.social) reposted

Men , this is the year your dick size is gonna increase like crazy. Im talking 3x gains. Im talking wide ass puds the size of trash can lids

5/1/2025, 12:28:21 PM | 5007 552 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jeanine 💙 (@madammaleficent.bsky.social) reposted

If you ever share / repost anything, please let it be this

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30/12/2024, 4:26:10 PM | 5601 5357 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture VT Left Flank (@p2now.bsky.social) reply parent

National electoral politics. Local voting can still make a good impact. Especially if you have town or neighborhood meetings

4/1/2025, 5:28:49 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rory Blank (on vacation) (@roryblank.bsky.social) reposted

Keep Honking

A man with a mullet and a mustache glowers, saying
3/1/2025, 8:29:22 PM | 1830 362 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture VT Left Flank (@p2now.bsky.social) reply parent

Need this hat for real

4/1/2025, 4:54:33 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture VT Left Flank (@p2now.bsky.social) reply parent

Yeah bud. It lives on a farm in Northern Vermont, right by the Canadian border.

4/1/2025, 4:41:11 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture depths of wikipedia (@depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social) reposted

in the article of former North Carolina Congressman Patrick McHenry:

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3/1/2025, 5:05:00 PM | 21349 3268 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture VT Left Flank (@p2now.bsky.social) reply parent

Unfortunately, the fox was captured and tested for rabies. The process of testing for rabies involves removing the animals head.

4/1/2025, 4:01:42 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture VT Left Flank (@p2now.bsky.social) reply parent

Winning argument, I've heard enough

4/1/2025, 3:54:57 AM | 11 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture onion person (@junlper.beer) reposted

jesus christ this guys needs genuine help

3/1/2025, 1:07:23 AM | 12401 1963 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture VT Left Flank (@p2now.bsky.social) reply parent

Hard boiled eggs are the worst version of egg preparation

2/1/2025, 12:00:58 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture jamelle (@jamellebouie.net) reposted

this urge to launder rfk jr. as “just a guy who is right about a few things” is such a perfect example of how liberals are people who won’t take their own side in a fight

2/1/2025, 2:32:30 AM | 34511 4691 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chad Loder (@chadloder.bsky.social) reposted

Elon Musk is a good example of how terrible people become increasingly radicalized into the far right simply because the far right is a community that accepts cruel, terrible people. It's tempting to say Elon is going "mask off", but I'd wager Elon didn't know who Tommy Robinson was 5 years ago. 1/

1/1/2025, 10:27:25 PM | 8820 2288 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture VT Left Flank (@p2now.bsky.social) reply parent

Mostly that "complacency" was black Americans being given the same social welfare. And to a lot of white voters that was unacceptable

1/1/2025, 1:19:48 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein.bsky.social) reposted

👍

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31/12/2024, 4:21:58 PM | 2872 523 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Uncle Duke (@uncleduke1969.bsky.social) reposted

for the potato fears not death

Printed instructions for microwaving a potato with encircled bullet point, “Potato may whistle in microwave.”
31/12/2024, 1:55:52 PM | 22871 3743 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Billy Bragg (@billybragg.bsky.social) reposted

Merry Christmas to all

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25/12/2024, 12:09:00 AM | 19560 4634 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture VT Left Flank (@p2now.bsky.social) reply parent

Hit dogs holler

25/12/2024, 4:02:15 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view