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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social

In today's The Big Picture, Jay Kuo identifies and calls out the classic fascist tactics Trump and Musk are deploying, so that we can fight back against them more effectively.

mar 18, 2025, 9:53 pm • 2,595 517

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grumpy0ldman84.bsky.social @grumpy0ldman84.bsky.social

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mar 20, 2025, 2:42 am • 0 0 • view
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Alyazia @alyazia.bsky.social

FEEDOM IS NOT FREE

mar 19, 2025, 8:12 am • 0 0 • view
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Trifid Duane of Canada🍁🇨🇦 @trifidofcanada.bsky.social

Mini Trojan horse

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mar 18, 2025, 9:58 pm • 17 3 • view
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John H @jhan816.bsky.social

The soldiers should be pooping out of the opening under his tail.

mar 19, 2025, 12:15 am • 4 0 • view
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Philo of Alexan @philoof.bsky.social

🤌

mar 19, 2025, 11:08 am • 0 0 • view
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Dusty Reiber @ottowa.bsky.social

The fuckers are simply Nazi White Supremacists.

mar 18, 2025, 11:24 pm • 1 0 • view
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michaelmozina.bsky.social @michaelmozina.bsky.social

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mar 19, 2025, 1:16 am • 5 0 • view
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rjbjr75.bsky.social @rjbjr75.bsky.social

I sometimes assume people are smarter than they are (often). Musk should know the end game here? Historically fascists are hung from their feet and their supporters ostracized.

mar 18, 2025, 10:06 pm • 4 0 • view
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rjbjr75.bsky.social @rjbjr75.bsky.social

The propaganda exposed by cruel reality and history buries them. There is no surviving this. Best case they die in office. Worst case they see every complicit ally demonized and their legacy shredded

mar 18, 2025, 10:06 pm • 0 0 • view
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pgonz.bsky.social @pgonz.bsky.social

Fuck the two of them!

mar 18, 2025, 10:15 pm • 0 0 • view
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thepowerdroid.bsky.social @thepowerdroid.bsky.social

The best thing to say is "Trump lost 2020. Get over it." Repeat until the end of time.

mar 19, 2025, 2:18 am • 1 0 • view
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mldaig99.bsky.social @mldaig99.bsky.social

I saw this movie that reminds me of these two, I can’t remember the name, but it was Carrey and Daniels who starred.

mar 19, 2025, 12:53 pm • 0 0 • view
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Peter Westman @peter0121.bsky.social

D&D. Touche

mar 19, 2025, 4:57 pm • 1 0 • view
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Ulrich Mehlis @julger.bsky.social

They are stating the obvious at this point! We are beyond the talking stage! Time to act! Don't just complain! Do something about it!

mar 19, 2025, 9:19 am • 1 0 • view
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Whales for Windmills @sasssling.bsky.social

I feel bad for the Wachowski sisters having to see this malignant dork live in strip mall-level Matrix cosplay. +the constant ‘pensive’ hand pose only used in cartoons from the 70s.

mar 18, 2025, 10:07 pm • 1 0 • view
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D@rKfL0w~ 。・゚*🪐。. ・ ✨* @thecentralvoid.bsky.social

We're just getting warmed up and we're coming for The Orange Man ... it's time to kick a fascist out of the White House

mar 18, 2025, 10:14 pm • 4 0 • view
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ealgumby @ealgumby.bsky.social

Can someone please break his fucking Mr. Burns fingers? I am getting sick seeing that bullshit finger tent in every single, inescapable photo of him. Is that natural, or crap he picked up in a ridiculous seminar? Further confirms my understanding that he's NOT a genius, just a buzzword BS spewer.

mar 18, 2025, 10:18 pm • 4 0 • view
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kmbailey59.bsky.social @kmbailey59.bsky.social

There must be some kind of "hand gestures for douchebags" class that they all take.

mar 18, 2025, 11:24 pm • 2 0 • view
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ealgumby @ealgumby.bsky.social

Not excellent, unless one is talking about potential targets for a baseball bat to the noggin.

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mar 18, 2025, 11:32 pm • 1 0 • view
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Javi @himfabulous.bsky.social

This is a sign that he doesn’t truly know how to speak. He’s been called out before for using repetitive and useless hand gestures so this is a neutral point for him. But because he stays here and doesn’t do anything meaningful, it’s equally distracting and annoying. #theartofpublicspeaking

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Creepy Bro 🤘🏻🎮 @creepybro.bsky.social

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mar 18, 2025, 9:58 pm • 6 0 • view
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one-earth.bsky.social @one-earth.bsky.social

George, thanks lending your good name to the resistance against the degradation our democratic institutions and norms by the aspiring autocrat and the assorted sycophants and plutocrats. I Sulu't you sir!

mar 19, 2025, 12:44 am • 1 0 • view
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Jan Brog 🏴🇺🇦🇬🇱🇵🇸🇳🇴🇲🇽🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏴🛸👽 @jmbrog.bsky.social

📌

mar 19, 2025, 5:56 pm • 0 0 • view
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ScarlettOHorror @annesayre.bsky.social

I fixed Elon's shirt...

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mar 18, 2025, 9:59 pm • 5 0 • view
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FatBaldBoomer @fatbaldboomer.bsky.social

Should have fought in november

mar 18, 2025, 10:58 pm • 0 0 • view
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Marie-France @bijal-shah.bsky.social

Definitely worth reading and applying.

mar 18, 2025, 11:17 pm • 1 0 • view
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Art Weber @artweber.bsky.social

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lonston.bsky.social @lonston.bsky.social

It is the party endorsed by the Ku Klux Klan, the Neo-nazisbamdcWhite Supremacists.

mar 19, 2025, 2:53 pm • 3 0 • view
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liberatedwoman.bsky.social @liberatedwoman.bsky.social

These tactics have been ingrained in them by more intelligent people. Peter Thiel members of the heritage foundation and Curtis Yarvin. Well maybe more devious. They are lurking behind the scenes, pulling the strings of two nut jobs.

mar 19, 2025, 9:43 am • 0 0 • view
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Votes Blue @nicolettaacs.bsky.social

The other question is why are so many people so willing to believe the worst about others who are not like them?

mar 18, 2025, 11:54 pm • 0 0 • view
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Dan Kulkosky @dan-kulkosky-nyc.bsky.social

1. Gavin Newsom can no longer be taken seriously as a contender for 2028. 2. I wasn't aware that McCarthyism also included a "pink scare."

mar 19, 2025, 1:58 am • 2 0 • view
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Tim Roberts @timglennroberts.bsky.social

Here's Musk's Russian payday... In Space, George!! www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

mar 18, 2025, 10:02 pm • 2 0 • view
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kmbailey59.bsky.social @kmbailey59.bsky.social

ICE detains immigration advocate who spent years living in Denver church, daughter says "Let’s be clear what happened today. This is not immigration enforcement intended to keep our country safe. This is Putin-style persecution of political dissidents." www.9news.com/article/news...

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Nonamanadus @nonamanadus.bsky.social

bsky.app/profile/nona...

mar 18, 2025, 10:05 pm • 0 0 • view
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twocvbloke @twocvbloke.bsky.social

The classic tactics like promoting cars akin to how the nazis promoted the KDF Wagen (which later became the VW Beetle post-war), only the money went into building a military force, and not making cars...

mar 18, 2025, 9:57 pm • 1 0 • view
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zombiebarricade.bsky.social @zombiebarricade.bsky.social

So I’ve been using something like “while there are good faith arguments to be about (boogeyman topic), that’s not what the Republican Party is doing…” And then I outline why they’re using the topic, and how it’s also hypocritical. For example, Trump killing Biden’s immigration bill so he could….

mar 18, 2025, 10:46 pm • 1 0 • view
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zombiebarricade.bsky.social @zombiebarricade.bsky.social

campaign on the grievance.

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im-human-ur2.bsky.social @im-human-ur2.bsky.social

... #LasVegas #jan6th #Insurrection #traitortrump #trump #musk #doge #spacex #tsla

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im-human-ur2.bsky.social @im-human-ur2.bsky.social

... #LasVegas #jan6th #Insurrection #traitortrump #trump #musk #doge #spacex #tsla

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cmirar.bsky.social @cmirar.bsky.social

📌

mar 18, 2025, 10:02 pm • 0 0 • view
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Dii Moffatt @diimoffatt.bsky.social

This isn't obvious?

mar 19, 2025, 8:22 am • 0 0 • view
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Ernesto O. @ernest33141.bsky.social

List 5 things you did last week, America: - Blocked use of Alien Enemies Act to conduct deportations w/o due process - Declared USAID shutdown as unconstitutional - Blocked EO banning transgender from the military - Protested at town halls - Reduced Tesla inventory across several locations

List 5 things you did last week, America: - Blocked use of Alien Enemies Act to conduct deportations w/o due process - Declared USAID shutdown as unconstitutional - Blocked EO banning transgender from the military - Protested at town halls - Reduced Tesla inventory across several locations
mar 19, 2025, 3:39 pm • 2 0 • view
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Elon's conscience @elonsconscience.bsky.social

Tactics? I thought it was pretty obvious We can try harder

mar 19, 2025, 9:27 am • 1 0 • view
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J. @jay10011z.bsky.social

It would be easier to call out which tactics are not fascist, such as… 🤔

mar 18, 2025, 11:21 pm • 1 0 • view
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Da Kid Woo @dakid007.bsky.social

Yes!! Some one with a freakin plan finally!! Maybe I'll email this substack to good ol' Chuck of NY... he needs some help leading 😉🤣 #truth

mar 18, 2025, 9:55 pm • 2 0 • view
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Drspayne @naturalwanderer.bsky.social

Transparency is the critical component. Call out and question this dark triad.

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Ryan Moore 🏳️‍🌈 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 @rpmoocat.bsky.social

Thank you for sharing this. Excellent and informative.

mar 18, 2025, 10:30 pm • 3 0 • view
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jeb2.bsky.social @jeb2.bsky.social

Thank you!

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shamartivl.bsky.social @shamartivl.bsky.social

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Chewieartist @chewieartist.bsky.social

Free to share my political art externally. Adding Joe Rogan tomorrow. Artists please share your political art. bsky.app/profile/chew...

mar 18, 2025, 11:25 pm • 9 1 • view
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Carolyn @carolyna7.bsky.social

youtu.be/vK6fALsenmw?...

mar 19, 2025, 2:42 pm • 3 0 • view
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JL @jlmatud.bsky.social

Trump and Musk must have failed their history courses… otherwise they would think twice before going down that road.

mar 19, 2025, 3:01 am • 3 0 • view
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Ivor @ivorbolakov.bsky.social

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mar 19, 2025, 4:55 pm • 3 1 • view
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Dianna @diannariparian.bsky.social

All democrats & independents need to subscribe to this, even if it's just the free version. Would be nice idea for media to subscribe too!

mar 18, 2025, 10:16 pm • 0 0 • view
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Catherine Woods @woodsartdesign.bsky.social

Great article

mar 19, 2025, 12:08 am • 4 0 • view
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Real Combat System South West @realcombatsystem.bsky.social

Maga.

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Whales for Windmills @sasssling.bsky.social

+not getting: all the attention, participation trophies, their own DEI…

mar 18, 2025, 10:11 pm • 6 0 • view
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johnbeau1564.bsky.social @johnbeau1564.bsky.social

Does any sane, sensible person still believe that the Tr*mp/Muck Cult will allow free and fair elections in 2026, or ever? They've been laying the groundwork for The Big Steal since 2020. The only real question is what pretext they're going to use.

mar 19, 2025, 2:59 am • 3 0 • view
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Magpie @pegdif58.bsky.social

Well they r so bad at it

mar 19, 2025, 5:36 pm • 0 0 • view
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Arndts @bobbiesgirl.bsky.social

As a transwoman this is overwhelming. I stayed in the closet for over 40 years and came out after Biden got elected and it finally felt safe. Here's the thing though, it has also made me more out and prouder than ever before and I am NOT going back "in".

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The Transmetropolitan Review (Unofficial) @transmetropolitanr.bsky.social

Pam Bondi: 'If you're going to touch a Tesla, go to a dealership, do anything, you better watch out because we're coming after you.' Some random person in Vegas:

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Sandy Q. @skqm.bsky.social

Be like NEW YORKERS, you saw nothing! #freeLuigi

mar 19, 2025, 12:21 am • 4 0 • view
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Barb M. @barb1158.bsky.social

She loves to make threats, too. Like Krasnov.

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mldaig99.bsky.social @mldaig99.bsky.social

Because vandalizing a Tesla is a hate crime!

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triepollan.bsky.social @triepollan.bsky.social

This is probably started by MAGA to shift the narrative. Why would people just boycott Musk in the first place when they could have started torching his cars to begin with?

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The Transmetropolitan Review (Unofficial) @transmetropolitanr.bsky.social

uh...this is a widespread popular movement. pretty sure 'MAGA' didn't torch these charging stations in nanaimo, bc on march 15, 2025 (ie: three days ago) www.timescolonist.com/local-news/t...

mar 19, 2025, 12:34 am • 0 0 • view
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triepollan.bsky.social @triepollan.bsky.social

Yes, the boycott & protests are becoming more widespread, but in whose interest is it to create such a visual? MAGA,Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, etc. It's how those organizations operate.

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The Transmetropolitan Review (Unofficial) @transmetropolitanr.bsky.social

actually, you're completely wrong. people have been torching tesla across the planet pretty consistently since 2023. people like you said it was 'russia' who torched a tesla plant's electricity in germany. meanwhile, in kansas city last night...

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triepollan.bsky.social @triepollan.bsky.social

You can believe what you want, but in the US, it's most likely those who want to create the narrative that liberals are violent so that Trump can put further into motion his authoritarian takeover of this country. Speaking of Russia, these last two months have proven that Trump is a Russian asset.

mar 19, 2025, 12:51 am • 0 0 • view
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The Transmetropolitan Review (Unofficial) @transmetropolitanr.bsky.social

i think you are spreading fear and delusions, which only serves trump, but believe what you want, just don't expect push-back from others, especially when this keeps happening.... www.kmbc.com/article/arso...

mar 19, 2025, 12:54 am • 0 0 • view
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triepollan.bsky.social @triepollan.bsky.social

Haha. I am not the one posting those pictures am I?

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jimgooodman.bsky.social @jimgooodman.bsky.social

Thank you George.

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Rashaverak @centralfloridainternet.com

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Rashaverak @centralfloridainternet.com

Protest List - Ongoing Just not widly reported Here's my latest list. We stand united, peaceful, and powerful!

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liseabetta.bsky.social @liseabetta.bsky.social

#TeslaTakedown #cdnpoli #uspoli bsky.app/profile/ledb...

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incal555.bsky.social @incal555.bsky.social

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Cheeky Alpha Monkey @alpha-aurora.bsky.social

Thank you for bringing this article to my/out attention. It is eye opening.

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seauursol.bsky.social @seauursol.bsky.social

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Arnaud Meuret @meuret.net

Speaking of 1939 Germany tactics: youtu.be/ZlLv_EIL9OE?...

mar 18, 2025, 10:31 pm • 3 0 • view
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re:Parsons @reparsons.bsky.social

Seriously, everyone needs to read this article and pass it along. We have to start addressing the why's of what Trump and Musk are doing.

mar 18, 2025, 11:08 pm • 0 0 • view
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David Worley @burnedup.bsky.social

Can't decide between Fucktard Fascist or Dickless Dictator...for all the damage they're doing, thank goodness they are corrupt incompetents...the backlash on Conservatives over the coming years for this will teach them that "The ends justifies the means" politics is poison to their careers & souls.

mar 18, 2025, 10:07 pm • 3 0 • view
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LillianTJ @lilliantj.bsky.social

Tweeter and the monkeyman

mar 18, 2025, 10:21 pm • 3 0 • view
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Terri Lukavec @idesent.bsky.social

Excellent article!

mar 18, 2025, 10:56 pm • 0 0 • view
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Titan @titan245.bsky.social

Tesla dealership attacked as 20 cars left with smashed windows and huge dents www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2028...

mar 18, 2025, 11:07 pm • 1 0 • view
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D @drewnd.bsky.social

Something to consider: 💔🤍💙 💪🏽🇺🇸 gameperson.github.io/info/pages/I...

mar 18, 2025, 9:55 pm • 2 0 • view
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elitemattrix.bsky.social @elitemattrix.bsky.social

So how do we explain this to people who don't grasp this concept and just idolize trump and musk?

mar 18, 2025, 11:01 pm • 1 0 • view
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cliffboz.bsky.social @cliffboz.bsky.social

You don't think you're too late?

mar 18, 2025, 9:53 pm • 2 0 • view