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Severian @fuliginously.bsky.social

So you think Democrats should tell people to talk like humans and make a point of rejecting nonsense words like “birthing person,” “unhoused,” and “latinx”? Good. We agree! Now, let’s go win elections, me and you. ♡

aug 24, 2025, 6:52 pm • 0 0

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Natespeed @natespeed.bsky.social

Ah yes, condescending and trying to control people. That's a good look for democrats. Tell me - how many of these terms did you first hear by someone using them earnestly, and how many by a conservative complaining about liberals using them?

aug 24, 2025, 10:09 pm • 6 0 • view
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Severian @fuliginously.bsky.social

Elected Dems used “defund the police” Stupid.

aug 24, 2025, 10:19 pm • 0 0 • view
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Natespeed @natespeed.bsky.social

Again - where did you FIRST hear the term? And which elected dems? How many? Was it widespread? Did party platforms or policies reflect this?

aug 24, 2025, 10:33 pm • 7 0 • view
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Corey Bowers @cbowers.bsky.social

Yes, that is a stupid claim

aug 24, 2025, 10:41 pm • 5 0 • view
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Severian @fuliginously.bsky.social

Fact. Google it.

aug 24, 2025, 10:44 pm • 0 0 • view
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Corey Bowers @cbowers.bsky.social

lol

aug 24, 2025, 10:45 pm • 6 0 • view
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Mitchell Horton @jarlent.bsky.social

That term isnt on the list lmao

aug 25, 2025, 4:16 am • 1 0 • view
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Chad Denton @reluctantlychad.bsky.social

Activists started using it and many elected Democrats were tripping over each other in the rush to decry it.

aug 25, 2025, 2:29 pm • 1 0 • view
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Severian @fuliginously.bsky.social

Not loud enough. They got tarred with it. Doesn’t matter if it’s unfair. They lost. BTW, what is your plan to flip TX?

aug 25, 2025, 2:57 pm • 0 0 • view
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Chad Denton @reluctantlychad.bsky.social

Health care, green energy jobs, and not buying into right-wing framing like you and Colin Allred have done.

aug 25, 2025, 3:16 pm • 1 0 • view
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Severian @fuliginously.bsky.social

I generally agree with you. But you gotta show TX voters you ain’t a lefty loon. Whether fair or not. That’s what I mean by having to do “ridiculous and distasteful stuff” - you shouldn’t have to fend off FNC propaganda, *but the propaganda works,* so unfortunately you gotta deal with it.

aug 25, 2025, 3:51 pm • 0 0 • view
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Chad Denton @reluctantlychad.bsky.social

You don't deal with it by signaling to voters you're a fickle coward by who'll shove your own supporters under the bus at the first sign of pushback.

aug 25, 2025, 4:01 pm • 1 0 • view
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One of 65 Million @sthelen.bsky.social

Which ones? Be specific

aug 24, 2025, 10:30 pm • 4 0 • view
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ChatGPT Quantum Particle Physician @smullins3000.bsky.social

Name them.

aug 25, 2025, 2:44 am • 6 0 • view
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Severian @fuliginously.bsky.social

amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/07/...

aug 25, 2025, 3:55 am • 0 0 • view
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Natespeed @natespeed.bsky.social

An article written in 2024 bringing up that in 2020 Harris said that the Defund the Police movement was right for pointing out how we are excessively funding police at the expense of schools and other public services, and more police funding doesn't mean less crime. Do you think she was wrong?

aug 25, 2025, 1:14 pm • 2 0 • view
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Severian @fuliginously.bsky.social

She should never have associated with an obviously stupid and harmful slogan like “defund the police.” Obviously stupid. Democrats that associated themselves with stupid nonsense like that have their heads so far up their own asses they deserve to lose. Rs are criminals, wish Ds weren’t losers.

aug 25, 2025, 1:28 pm • 0 0 • view
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Natespeed @natespeed.bsky.social

How then, in your mind, should she have answered the question "What do you think of the Defund the Police movement?"

aug 25, 2025, 1:50 pm • 2 0 • view
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Severian @fuliginously.bsky.social

“That’s crazy, we should INCREASE funding for police departments. They keep our streets safe and our cities prosperous. But also we should root out abuses, get rid of bad cops, and that policing should be done in partnership *with* the community. I know: I was a enforcement officer myself.”

aug 25, 2025, 2:14 pm • 0 0 • view
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Natespeed @natespeed.bsky.social

So basically, advocate to make the problem worse while turning her back on an extremely motivated grassroots movement. People who could have easily been converted into canvassers, doners, phone bankers, etc are now not only dissuaded from voting for her, they're likely to campaign against her.

aug 25, 2025, 4:11 pm • 1 0 • view
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Natespeed @natespeed.bsky.social

The movement will continue to use the slogan "Defund the Police" It will still be attached to the democrats. And the people who vote for "tough on crime" politicians still won't vote for her.

aug 25, 2025, 4:11 pm • 1 0 • view
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Severian @fuliginously.bsky.social

Nope. Big tent. I want a big tent. And BTW I don’t actually think canvassing, donations, or phone banking matters much at all. Winning swing voting by taking popular positions wins.

aug 25, 2025, 4:43 pm • 0 0 • view
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Energetic Nova @energetic-nova.bsky.social

We don’t deserve to lose. MGP does.

aug 25, 2025, 1:48 pm • 1 0 • view
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ChatGPT Quantum Particle Physician @smullins3000.bsky.social

You're completely captured the propaganda that being near a "bad phrase" means that Democrats support everything associated with that "bad phrase". Funny how that never happens to Republicans. They're never punished because of an association with a phrase like "they're murderers and rapists".

aug 25, 2025, 7:59 pm • 1 0 • view
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Severian @fuliginously.bsky.social

I didn’t say it was fair, it’s not. I can’t make the world fair. All I can do is fight on an uneven playing field.

aug 25, 2025, 8:46 pm • 0 0 • view
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ChatGPT Quantum Particle Physician @smullins3000.bsky.social

Or "grab them by the pussy". Weird, huh?

aug 25, 2025, 7:59 pm • 0 0 • view
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ChatGPT Quantum Particle Physician @smullins3000.bsky.social

Yeah, how dare she say that we should look at priorities and maybe not buy police departments an M1-A Abrams tank and close schools. You've been played, player, and you don't even realize it. Kamala Harris did not say "defund the police". Try again.

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aug 25, 2025, 7:55 pm • 2 0 • view
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Severian @fuliginously.bsky.social

She came close enough to cause herself problems

aug 25, 2025, 7:58 pm • 0 0 • view
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ChatGPT Quantum Particle Physician @smullins3000.bsky.social

"Close enough" you mean she mentioned the words. You're angry at the wrong people but it's the people that the propagandists in the media *want* you to be mad at. So they won.

aug 26, 2025, 2:48 pm • 0 0 • view
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Severian @fuliginously.bsky.social

The world is unfair. I am far more angry with the media and Republicans than I am with Dems. But requesting fairness isn’t in the cards right now. Our fate is to fight in an unfair fight. But fight we must. Even if it’s distasteful or ridiculous that we have to hold our side to unfair standards.

aug 26, 2025, 3:40 pm • 0 0 • view
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Liz @ilisabat.bsky.social

Is cisgender a nonsense word

aug 25, 2025, 7:59 pm • 0 0 • view
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Severian @fuliginously.bsky.social

To most people. Just say “not trans” if you want people to understand you. Perfectly good word for sociology textbooks, but people hate jargon. Drop it for most situations.

aug 25, 2025, 8:45 pm • 0 0 • view
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Liz @ilisabat.bsky.social

nah i'm good you're cis

aug 26, 2025, 3:16 am • 0 0 • view
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CJTheran @cjtheran.bsky.social

You are asking them to not do a thing they aren't doing, and repeatedly raising the issue (that does not exist) serves only to keep it an issue

aug 24, 2025, 7:05 pm • 60 0 • view
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helen, gender goblin @gendergoblinhelen.bsky.social

what the fuck is these people's obsession with 'latinx'? oh, and can they point to one time Harris or Walz said it (no)?

aug 24, 2025, 8:02 pm • 11 0 • view
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Kevin Bird @stairwaytokevin.bsky.social

They shouldn't though

aug 24, 2025, 8:12 pm • 1 0 • view
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ricky cilantro @rickycilantro.bsky.social

jesus does it physically hurt being this fucking stupid?

aug 26, 2025, 3:25 am • 3 0 • view