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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social

Apparently I've been consistently wrong about "nearly" everything bc I believe you fight fascists by actually focusing on fascists rather than making shit up about Democrats. And I must have the "grace or shame" to cow to lecturing man-children who want to fight fascism by making shit up abt Dems.

jul 23, 2025, 7:26 am • 218 22

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Stephanie Jones @stephaniejones.com

You also fight fascists by NOT demanding our side mirror fascists and attack, smear and undermine them when they don't. Using fascist tactics against fascists doesn't fight fascism. It just spreads it around and makes it impossible to tell us apart from them - because we are then all fascists.

jul 23, 2025, 9:01 am • 1 0 • view
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tagishsimon.bsky.social @tagishsimon.bsky.social

Empirically, much of your focus, for idk the last year or more, has been on fighting people who criticise the Democratic Party and its politicians.

jul 23, 2025, 7:58 am • 1 0 • view
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social

Empirically you ignore virtually all of my work, correct? Not just most of what I post here but also what I write on a daily basis? Fun stuff!!!

jul 23, 2025, 8:06 am • 6 0 • view
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tagishsimon.bsky.social @tagishsimon.bsky.social

Fair point. Much of your focus <> has been on fighting people who criticise the D Party & its politicians.

jul 23, 2025, 8:09 am • 1 0 • view
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social

Not even that is remotely true. It is true that I do call out feckless impotence IN BETWEEN highlighting the things people in Congress are actually doing and disseminating both my own work and that of others that exposes what his admin is doing. The calling out is a tiny fraction.

jul 23, 2025, 8:29 am • 3 0 • view
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tagishsimon.bsky.social @tagishsimon.bsky.social

We'll have to agree to disagree on that analysis. For me it's a noticable, repeated and significant part of your Bluesky output nowadays.

jul 23, 2025, 8:36 am • 1 0 • view
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social

Sure. You have your feelings and I have the timeline to prove you're wrong. 😜

jul 23, 2025, 8:45 am • 4 0 • view
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tagishsimon.bsky.social @tagishsimon.bsky.social

We both have the Bluesky timeline available to us; both of us are entitled to read it and reach our different views.

jul 23, 2025, 8:53 am • 1 0 • view
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Twenty Thousand Thorns @20000thorns.bsky.social

I generally agree with this, but there are absolutely examples of speed bump electeds who are completely out of touch and need to be replaced. Factual, focused attention on dem quislings is warranted.

jul 23, 2025, 5:45 pm • 0 0 • view
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Gilles Jaunes Deleuze @jackazure.bsky.social

Dems--particularly Biden--supported/support Israels genocide of the Palestinians. Nothing more fascist than that

jul 23, 2025, 7:43 am • 0 0 • view
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joewv.bsky.social @joewv.bsky.social

Israel is doing exactly what the Arab world has been doing for over 100 years across North Africa, Middle East and Asia Minor. Every theocratic dictatorship in the region has committed sustained, systemic religious and ethnic cleansing since the turn at least of the 20th century.

jul 23, 2025, 10:45 am • 0 0 • view
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Gilles Jaunes Deleuze @jackazure.bsky.social

This is a bullshit, genocidal excuse

jul 23, 2025, 1:14 pm • 0 0 • view
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joewv.bsky.social @joewv.bsky.social

It doesn’t justify Gaza but there is no solution that only holds one genocide in the area accountable while ignoring the much larger regional problem mainly fueled by dumbass ancient religious family squabbles.

jul 23, 2025, 10:45 am • 0 0 • view
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Gilles Jaunes Deleuze @jackazure.bsky.social

That's like saying we should have ignored the holocaust as there were bigger regional problems Fuck off and take a mute

jul 23, 2025, 1:14 pm • 0 0 • view
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andybigman @andybigman.bsky.social

Im consistently wrong about most things Im also a redhead. Let’s team up! 🙌

jul 23, 2025, 7:46 am • 1 0 • view
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Paul "8647" Hoffman • Antifascist anecdotes, free of charge @paulhoffman.bsky.social

Amen! I'm so sick of the whole "Trump & Co. are doing fascism to us and Ds in Congress aren't coming to our rescue so we will hide under this rock and curse the latter for not making us come out from under this rock to do what they can't!" spiel.

jul 23, 2025, 7:51 am • 1 0 • view
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kevingan52 @kevingan52.bsky.social

He seems to have a beef with “Liz Wheeler.” Maybe she gets stuff wrong, whoever she is—he obviously doesn’t know who you are or anything about your body of work.

jul 23, 2025, 8:01 am • 1 0 • view
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Raven Onthill @ravenonthill.bsky.social

They have to someone to blame for what has gone wrong.

jul 23, 2025, 8:46 am • 2 0 • view
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Skeletired @skeletired.bsky.social

It seems like you have been consistently and specifically right about things for a long time.

jul 23, 2025, 7:28 am • 7 0 • view
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bnitz.bsky.social @bnitz.bsky.social

You & Medhi Hassan have too much patience "debating" Putin's bots & demented useful idiots. I'd start with challenging then to find something #Doe174 was right and truthful about in the past 48hours. And No, admitted liar entertainment network FoxNews can't serve as fact checker.

jul 23, 2025, 8:00 am • 0 0 • view
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imissjohnprine.bsky.social @imissjohnprine.bsky.social

Dear Abby, Dear Abby, my control button sticks, I read through the comments there's nothin but dicks, they've all got solutions of nothing they've fixed, if it weren't so expensive I'd wish I were nixed. Signed, Unhappy.

jul 23, 2025, 11:04 am • 0 0 • view
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Cheryl @cabarkk.bsky.social

Luke has TDS

jul 23, 2025, 7:38 am • 1 0 • view
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cartologist 🇺🇸 🔯 🏳️‍🌈🟦 💿 @cartologist.bsky.social

Well, you’ve been wrong, I’m sure, since you are a person and not one of the Pure AOC for President crowd.

jul 23, 2025, 10:30 am • 1 0 • view
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Shari in AZ🌵 @mutsy67.bsky.social

The men have gone all-in on "unhinged" as their fav word lately. Pretty soon it will be "hysterical" followed quickly by "too emotional"

jul 23, 2025, 7:58 am • 7 1 • view
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Sun Dog @kristenarden.bsky.social

I have noticed that Law Dork gets pushback from reply guys along the lines of 'it doesn't matter what you say, we're all f'ed'. The reply guy pushback you get is always a personal attack, usually about how you're so angry and always wrong. They might as well tell you to smile more. It's the sexism.

jul 23, 2025, 1:09 pm • 1 0 • view
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kgay2.bsky.social @kgay2.bsky.social

Just wow. I guess you just need to be quiet and listen to your “ betters”. Solidarity sister!

jul 23, 2025, 9:23 am • 0 0 • view