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Chris Peterson

@realchrispeterson.bsky.social

Paperboy, amateur submarine captain, and part-time model.

created November 4, 2023

698 followers 632 following 12,143 posts

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Profile picture Chris Peterson (@realchrispeterson.bsky.social) reply parent

It absolutely was, and neither of these things you posted contradicts that.

2/9/2025, 3:27:11 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Peterson (@realchrispeterson.bsky.social) reply parent

Her stance that there needed to be an immediate ceasefire followed by Israel's withdrawal, rebuilding of Gaza, and a two-state solution?

2/9/2025, 3:08:45 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Peterson (@realchrispeterson.bsky.social) reply parent

That there are not choices that will satisfy everyone and require no trade-offs is of course the reason politics exists.

1/9/2025, 11:46:55 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Peterson (@realchrispeterson.bsky.social) reply parent

Mid-90s NBA on NBC was literally the same four teams every weekend.

1/9/2025, 5:31:25 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Peterson (@realchrispeterson.bsky.social) reply parent

Why's it made out of a baguette, btw?

1/9/2025, 4:52:25 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Peterson (@realchrispeterson.bsky.social) reply parent

He literally said he's open to bathroom bans? Newsom is a scumbag, horrible on trans sports issues, and dumb as shit, but I haven't seen this.

1/9/2025, 5:48:09 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Peterson (@realchrispeterson.bsky.social) reply parent

I totally think we should indulge people who are still grinding the (checking notes) John Kerry axe from literally *21 years ago*

1/9/2025, 5:46:09 AM | 11 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Peterson (@realchrispeterson.bsky.social) reply parent

I mean, from what I've seen, not supporting Newsom to be the candidate is the overwhelming sentiment.

1/9/2025, 3:02:38 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Peterson (@realchrispeterson.bsky.social) reply parent

Damn, man, police sounds like a hell of an improvement.

31/8/2025, 9:46:00 PM | 10 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Peterson (@realchrispeterson.bsky.social) reply parent

That's a fucking tragedy then, considering how much worse things have gotten under the guy who told Netanyahu to hurry up and finish the job and gave him back the 2000 lb bombs that Biden withheld.

31/8/2025, 8:40:19 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Peterson (@realchrispeterson.bsky.social) reply parent

Wait, are you pro censorship or anti?

31/8/2025, 12:05:49 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Peterson (@realchrispeterson.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh, okay. The something congressional dems should do is something. That clears it up.

31/8/2025, 12:03:23 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Peterson (@realchrispeterson.bsky.social) reply parent

As a Washington fan, I thought I was past DeBoer schadenfreude. Turns out, I absolutely am not.

30/8/2025, 11:32:09 PM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Peterson (@realchrispeterson.bsky.social) reply parent

Probably should have said that instead of telling us that saying someone calling for immediate martial law and tribunals was nuts is walking willingly into the camps.

30/8/2025, 11:29:12 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Peterson (@realchrispeterson.bsky.social) reply parent

It couldn't possibly get any worse, I guess.

30/8/2025, 11:19:42 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Peterson (@realchrispeterson.bsky.social) reply parent

Do you think setting off a cycle of retaliatory violence is going to go well for you?

30/8/2025, 10:55:07 PM | 6 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Peterson (@realchrispeterson.bsky.social) reply parent

Listen up, dummies. A man very much smarter than you is talking.

30/8/2025, 10:43:37 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Peterson (@realchrispeterson.bsky.social) reply parent

We're all ears, man. What you got?

30/8/2025, 9:18:19 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Peterson (@realchrispeterson.bsky.social) reply parent

Nominative determinism is real

30/8/2025, 8:02:17 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Peterson (@realchrispeterson.bsky.social) reply parent

*liked by no one in the national political press

30/8/2025, 7:36:50 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Peterson (@realchrispeterson.bsky.social) reply parent

That is 100% irrelevant to the question of whether offspring that are neither of the two predominant sexes can be produced.

30/8/2025, 4:43:37 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Peterson (@realchrispeterson.bsky.social) reply parent

This seems like a real problem if you are arguing a maximalist position.

30/8/2025, 4:41:49 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Peterson (@realchrispeterson.bsky.social) reply parent

If you cannot lay out a rule that objectively sorts the hard cases into one of two exes, (b) cannot be true.

30/8/2025, 3:53:13 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Peterson (@realchrispeterson.bsky.social) reply parent

That is a different thing than "reproduction can only produce one of two distinct sexes"

30/8/2025, 3:50:08 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Peterson (@realchrispeterson.bsky.social) reply parent

In relation to his recognition by the US military, I think that's a perfectly reasonable position.

30/8/2025, 5:32:03 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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30/8/2025, 4:10:44 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Peterson (@realchrispeterson.bsky.social) reply parent

Donald, walk towards the dark

30/8/2025, 4:08:42 AM | 42 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Peterson (@realchrispeterson.bsky.social) reply parent

She does not seem the type who is aware of the concept of fun.

30/8/2025, 4:04:53 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Peterson (@realchrispeterson.bsky.social) reply parent

The Rapid Ride busses in Seattle are actually pretty good.

30/8/2025, 3:55:40 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Peterson (@realchrispeterson.bsky.social) reply parent

Sorry people on bluesky wasted your time.

30/8/2025, 3:50:00 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Peterson (@realchrispeterson.bsky.social) reply parent

No we don't. He sucks shit.

30/8/2025, 3:34:23 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Peterson (@realchrispeterson.bsky.social) reply parent

I can bring my own shovel.

30/8/2025, 3:32:15 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Peterson (@realchrispeterson.bsky.social) reply parent

Or ten years later.

30/8/2025, 2:28:40 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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30/8/2025, 2:24:45 AM | 55 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Peterson (@realchrispeterson.bsky.social) reply parent

I WILL kill him

30/8/2025, 2:18:07 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Peterson (@realchrispeterson.bsky.social) reply parent

Needs a hint more queasiness

30/8/2025, 12:14:27 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Peterson (@realchrispeterson.bsky.social) reply parent

I hate this so much. Bless you.

29/8/2025, 11:31:02 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Peterson (@realchrispeterson.bsky.social) reply parent

I only see one.

29/8/2025, 11:29:25 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Peterson (@realchrispeterson.bsky.social) reply parent

Uh oh. I hope no one signed a statement under penalty of perjury to the contrary and filed it with the court.

29/8/2025, 11:19:50 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Peterson (@realchrispeterson.bsky.social) reply parent

So why did we all have trash cans decades before NYC did?

29/8/2025, 10:35:31 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Peterson (@realchrispeterson.bsky.social) reply parent

It would be so easy, if your new thing is that being cynical and nihilistic is poisonous, to say "Yeah, I was a huge culprit and I've seen the damage it's done. Don't be like me." Saying you didn't mean it and everyone should lighten up rings real shallow.

29/8/2025, 9:24:43 PM | 16 4 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Peterson (@realchrispeterson.bsky.social) reply parent

What about town or county council?

29/8/2025, 6:25:29 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Peterson (@realchrispeterson.bsky.social) reply parent

I'm getting a little concerned about this recent trend of talking up how healthy primary fields are a good thing and then trying to clear the field for some new person who gets a little traction online. Let's maybe cool it until we are within 12 months of the general, huh?

29/8/2025, 6:21:41 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Peterson (@realchrispeterson.bsky.social) reply parent

And if they didn't realize these things are important and have consequences, it's time to grow the fuck up and come to grips with it.

29/8/2025, 6:08:33 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Peterson (@realchrispeterson.bsky.social) reply parent

So tell them what you want them to do.

29/8/2025, 6:06:50 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Peterson (@realchrispeterson.bsky.social) reply parent

Has she released her contract so we can see how hers is so much more ethical than the ones she's criticizing?

29/8/2025, 5:44:08 PM | 10 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Peterson (@realchrispeterson.bsky.social) reply parent

We all capitalize things strangely and don't use articles for some reason.

29/8/2025, 5:33:00 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Peterson (@realchrispeterson.bsky.social) reply parent

But what you guys do affect me here in Calgary greatly, so basically I know as much as you do (because I follow a bunch of nihilists)

29/8/2025, 5:31:37 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Peterson (@realchrispeterson.bsky.social) reply parent

I love how people disagreeing with him is evidence of group think. Seems kind of like ... the opposite?

29/8/2025, 3:03:55 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Peterson (@realchrispeterson.bsky.social) reply parent

I love having American politics explained to me by people who spell words centre and mobilising.

29/8/2025, 2:24:12 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Peterson (@realchrispeterson.bsky.social) reply parent

Her Substack is not funded by Omidiyar. It just gives her, personally, a lot of money to live on so she doesn't have to care if her Substack makes any money.

29/8/2025, 2:11:57 PM | 8 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Peterson (@realchrispeterson.bsky.social) reply parent

The reason they sought to paint it that way is that it is precisely what happened.

29/8/2025, 4:54:37 AM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Peterson (@realchrispeterson.bsky.social) reply parent

Watch the part where he qualifies Marisa Tomei as an expert witness.

29/8/2025, 12:26:13 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Peterson (@realchrispeterson.bsky.social) reply parent

The scenes from Better Call Saul where he's wheeling and dealing with prosecutors in courtroom hallways are pretty accurate.

29/8/2025, 12:25:30 AM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Peterson (@realchrispeterson.bsky.social) reply parent

You're a real monster for proposing that the government assist people in escaping the problem they're complaining about.

28/8/2025, 7:59:55 PM | 17 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Peterson (@realchrispeterson.bsky.social) reply parent

Saw Snow get booed off the stage in Vancouver.

28/8/2025, 7:47:13 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Peterson (@realchrispeterson.bsky.social) reply parent

Here's a guy arguing that *maybe* it's already a consolidated fascist state. Is that close enough?

28/8/2025, 7:08:39 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Peterson (@realchrispeterson.bsky.social) reply parent

He may not think he does, but he does.

28/8/2025, 5:48:20 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Peterson (@realchrispeterson.bsky.social) reply parent

You can tell people are very serious about how important it is that people be aware that fascists are running the government by the way they never actually talk about it, but rather complain about how Democrats are talking about it wrong.

28/8/2025, 5:41:49 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Peterson (@realchrispeterson.bsky.social) reply parent

It's close to Kent Des Moines Road

28/8/2025, 5:28:31 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Peterson (@realchrispeterson.bsky.social) reply parent

I meant the other one. I was agreeing with you.

28/8/2025, 5:15:51 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Peterson (@realchrispeterson.bsky.social) reply parent

And the coffee tastes like charcoal. But mostly fuck Schultz.

28/8/2025, 5:15:03 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Peterson (@realchrispeterson.bsky.social) reply parent

That the government can't take your property without due process and just compensation is literally in the Constitution.

28/8/2025, 5:13:26 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Peterson (@realchrispeterson.bsky.social) reply parent

Roll that baby up in a burrito and nestle it between some beans and rice.

28/8/2025, 4:54:55 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Peterson (@realchrispeterson.bsky.social) reply parent

Only slightly below baby in a spaghetti pot.

28/8/2025, 4:31:52 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Peterson (@realchrispeterson.bsky.social) reply parent

Baby in a bucket is also delightful.

28/8/2025, 4:31:09 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Peterson (@realchrispeterson.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh damn, I haven't seen one of these dumb as shit "actually, popular artists are conservative coded" pieces in a long time. This really takes me back.

28/8/2025, 4:21:57 PM | 69 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Peterson (@realchrispeterson.bsky.social) reply parent

My fucking cold, dead hands.

28/8/2025, 4:16:17 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Peterson (@realchrispeterson.bsky.social) reply parent

"Associated with" "Vast majority" These are not words you use when a strict binary exists.

28/8/2025, 2:38:45 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Peterson (@realchrispeterson.bsky.social) reply parent

Man, if my free speech absolutism led me to a place where I concluded that nothing can be done to prevent AI from killing more suicidal people, I'd probably have some deep thinking to do.

28/8/2025, 2:13:01 AM | 30 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Peterson (@realchrispeterson.bsky.social) reply parent

That's crazy that she spoke in the third person like that.

28/8/2025, 2:00:22 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Peterson (@realchrispeterson.bsky.social) reply parent

It's like "there is no racism, just class conflict" but WAY WORSE. I did not realize this was possible, but probably should have.

27/8/2025, 9:41:15 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Peterson (@realchrispeterson.bsky.social) reply parent

Nah. Get lost with this "ends justifies the means" bullshit.

27/8/2025, 8:03:41 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Peterson (@realchrispeterson.bsky.social) reply parent

Yeah, "you grow dependent on their money and they pull the rug the second they don't like what you publish" is not a great business plan.

27/8/2025, 7:40:51 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Peterson (@realchrispeterson.bsky.social) reply parent

Probably depends on who the shit-talkee is, tbh.

27/8/2025, 7:32:17 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Peterson (@realchrispeterson.bsky.social) reply parent

Unless this is your patient, your read of this child is meaningless.

27/8/2025, 7:31:22 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Peterson (@realchrispeterson.bsky.social) reply parent

Well said

27/8/2025, 7:16:40 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Peterson (@realchrispeterson.bsky.social) reply parent

"I should be able to take their money and spend all my time sabotaging other people paid to promote the message"

27/8/2025, 7:15:20 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Peterson (@realchrispeterson.bsky.social) reply parent

I mean, the reaction to this is a symptom of the reason Democrats have these "messaging problems" and why the dream of building lefty media infrastructure is pretty optimisitic.

27/8/2025, 7:11:42 PM | 28 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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27/8/2025, 6:27:47 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Peterson (@realchrispeterson.bsky.social) reply parent

I certainly wouldn't do it the day before I published an article about how influencers and the people who give them money sometimes sign contracts that keep that relationship confidential.

27/8/2025, 6:13:39 PM | 8 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Peterson (@realchrispeterson.bsky.social) reply parent

This is what stuck out to me too. "This thing that dems are doing is soooo shady. Shame on them. Also, they're pathetic because they didn't do it 20 years ago."

27/8/2025, 5:49:16 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Peterson (@realchrispeterson.bsky.social) reply parent

Does he think most popular artists are the same age as the majority of their fans? I don't think this has ever been true.

27/8/2025, 3:06:10 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Peterson (@realchrispeterson.bsky.social) reply parent

"I'm old"

27/8/2025, 3:00:55 AM | 11 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Peterson (@realchrispeterson.bsky.social) reply parent

Journalists really need to get comfortable with the question "Do you think we're stupid?"

27/8/2025, 2:45:28 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Peterson (@realchrispeterson.bsky.social) reply parent

This is a good dog.

27/8/2025, 1:31:53 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Peterson (@realchrispeterson.bsky.social) reply parent

Really something, huh?

26/8/2025, 11:06:01 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Peterson (@realchrispeterson.bsky.social) reply parent

I didn't know there were sovereign biologists.

26/8/2025, 9:35:28 PM | 50 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Peterson (@realchrispeterson.bsky.social) reply parent

Okay, why don't you continue this conversation with your straw man friend and not tell me what I'm saying. Have a nice time, you two.

26/8/2025, 9:01:22 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Peterson (@realchrispeterson.bsky.social) reply parent

That is not at all what I said.

26/8/2025, 8:59:06 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Peterson (@realchrispeterson.bsky.social) reply parent

Your claim is that there is some critereon by which the entire population can be sorted into either female or male with no third category. For some reason, you are not able to identify what this critereon is.

26/8/2025, 8:42:45 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Peterson (@realchrispeterson.bsky.social) reply parent

He was elected to be a legislator. One of 435 members who need a majority of that body and concurrence of the other house of Congress to set policy. His caucus chose him to lead the caucus.

26/8/2025, 8:32:57 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Peterson (@realchrispeterson.bsky.social) reply parent

You don't want that either. Also, not the thing he was elected to do.

26/8/2025, 7:52:57 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Peterson (@realchrispeterson.bsky.social) reply parent

I thought you were talking about the Democrats.

26/8/2025, 7:33:41 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Peterson (@realchrispeterson.bsky.social) reply parent

You don't want Jeffries to lead you. Be serious.

26/8/2025, 7:32:34 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Peterson (@realchrispeterson.bsky.social) reply parent

Why is it always the guys who would be first up against the wall who talk like this?

26/8/2025, 6:08:56 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Peterson (@realchrispeterson.bsky.social) reply parent

I feel like if people were really concerned with alerting people to how dangerous the current GOP control of the federal government is and building a movement to fight it, they would be talking about something other than how Democrats are messaging wrong. Like the things the GOP is doing for example

26/8/2025, 6:01:08 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Peterson (@realchrispeterson.bsky.social) reply parent

How do I reconcile making fun of you being condescending?

26/8/2025, 5:58:07 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Peterson (@realchrispeterson.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh, I'm so dumb. I don't understand why Trump trying to fire a member of the fed board is bad because Hakeem Jeffries did not walk me through all the finer points of it. I guess everything is fine and dandy.

26/8/2025, 4:56:54 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Peterson (@realchrispeterson.bsky.social) reply parent

Who are the people who are only getting their information from Hakeem Jeffries statements?

26/8/2025, 4:50:59 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view