Toroid
@toroidal.bsky.social
created November 13, 2024
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Toroid (@toroidal.bsky.social) reply parent
Yuuuuuuup. We continue to make it all about Trump at our peril. He’s the face of the operation. He couldn’t mastermind himself out of a cardboard box. It’s these nutballs who decided to use him that will actually be the death of us.
Toroid (@toroidal.bsky.social) reply parent
Fascists are inherently weak and care a lot about public opinion, which is why they’re constantly trying to manipulate it.
Toroid (@toroidal.bsky.social) reply parent
Tax breaks and reputation laundering! What a great system.
Toroid (@toroidal.bsky.social) reply parent
Toroid (@toroidal.bsky.social) reply parent
This is why you can always trust a ratchet strap
Toroid (@toroidal.bsky.social) reply parent
don’t tell mtg
Toroid (@toroidal.bsky.social) reply parent
Extremely objectionable vibes
Toroid (@toroidal.bsky.social) reply parent
Vance et al should be grateful to get kicked out as opposed to being served the various bodily fluids they’re ingesting everywhere else they expect the public to happily serve them.
Toroid (@toroidal.bsky.social) reply parent
Obama got a fuckin rent free MANSION in this man’s mind
Toroid (@toroidal.bsky.social) reply parent
THE NATIONAL ☠️😭😭😭
Toroid (@toroidal.bsky.social) reply parent
Can’t believe I’m the most common variety of white but they want me to fully type out “Trash”
Toroid (@toroidal.bsky.social) reply parent
Violent intimidation. Fascists gonna fascist.
Toroid (@toroidal.bsky.social) reply parent
I hate it with a passion, but we have to do it. Then we have to hold everyone’s feet to the fire to end partisan gerrymandering nationwide.
Toroid (@toroidal.bsky.social) reply parent
Apparently the greatest threat to his life is launching through the windshield of his jeep
Toroid (@toroidal.bsky.social) reply parent
Turns out Markwayne is known for neither strategic prowess nor bravery
Quark Bee (@quarkbee.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Sarah Kendzior wrote that the phrase "Nobody saw it coming" basically just tells you who society deems to be "nobody". (Scholars, experts, poets and artists saw it coming. Black women saw it coming. Disabled people saw it coming. Trans, gay, poor, indigenous, marginalized people saw it coming.)
Toroid (@toroidal.bsky.social) reply parent
I wish these things were framed less as “people are reacting wrongly” or “x is a distraction from y” and more like “here’s an educated assessment of the consequences and likelihoods of this set of things.” Maybe less clicky, but it invites learning instead of defensiveness.
Toroid (@toroidal.bsky.social) reply parent
it’s people like this who hold the American-made keys to unite the nation
Toroid (@toroidal.bsky.social) reply parent
Everyone running for cabinet positions knew the assignment
Toroid (@toroidal.bsky.social) reply parent
He only bought that $70k truck because the the salesperson complimented him lol. He said he needed the long bed for “cargo” hahaha whatever you say, sweetheart. Hey if it keeps him from yapping on and on about all the little “projects” he wants to do if only he had a shiny new truck, then sure babe
Toroid (@toroidal.bsky.social) reply parent
I thought we were just going to take away guns and Christmas??
Toroid (@toroidal.bsky.social) reply parent
The kid was released. They didn’t shoot him, they traumatized him and recklessly endangered him and others present. ICE are still Nazi goons and many people abducted really are being disappeared.
Toroid (@toroidal.bsky.social) reply parent
This will turn into camps that will turn into work camps that will be slavery, just like ICE “facilities”. It will be far from the first time concentration camps are proposed for unhoused people in this country.
Toroid (@toroidal.bsky.social) reply parent
“Hey, do you want a cupcake? It’s actually a two day old muffin that didn’t sell and our bakery operates out of the sewer. $25.”
Toroid (@toroidal.bsky.social) reply parent
This shit is why laughing was invented
Toroid (@toroidal.bsky.social) reply parent
He already has a super pac that’s raised over $300 million
Toroid (@toroidal.bsky.social) reply parent
You guys I found the perfect candidate
steven monacelli (@stevanzetti.bsky.social) reposted
Now imagine if this was everything
Toroid (@toroidal.bsky.social) reply parent
Parallels word for word statements made by Putin to justify his imperial war of aggression.
Toroid (@toroidal.bsky.social) reply parent
Maybe instead of looking for the most palatable TV man bc we think Americans are stupid and we want to compete in a race to the bottom, we can entertain some of the educated, empathetic, energetic, charming younger progressives who’ve been tirelessly working to reinvigorate the labor movement?
Toroid (@toroidal.bsky.social) reply parent
Look, a slightly younger but still old and disqualified white man! He shall be our leader.
Toroid (@toroidal.bsky.social) reply parent
Toroid (@toroidal.bsky.social) reply parent
I think 80% of them know they’re just cashing in before the grift crashes.
Toroid (@toroidal.bsky.social) reply parent
YOUTHS doing WHEELIES
Toroid (@toroidal.bsky.social) reply parent
you won’t need memories in the singularity
Toroid (@toroidal.bsky.social) reply parent
“congrats for getting your ass kicked by literal children, here’s one of our nation’s highest honors.” sure, checks out
Toroid (@toroidal.bsky.social) reply parent
Toroid (@toroidal.bsky.social) reply parent
I keep having these moments with Pete where I’m like, I see what you’re trying to do… and boy howdy is it the wrong impulse. He thinks his role can be to soften up people on the margins, do the outreach. Okay, sure. But you don’t shake hands with the devil, my guy. It’s wrong and it’s weak.
Toroid (@toroidal.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes, but in the mind of a 21st century Christian nationalist, the divine right of white men to assert their dominance in the name of a Holy mandate is, let’s say, a theme.
Toroid (@toroidal.bsky.social) reply parent
(All the more entertaining is the fact that Excalibur wasn’t real and the Crusades were a miserable failure. So sure, buddy, hang your helm on that.)
Toroid (@toroidal.bsky.social) reply parent
Yeah, you know Pete named it because he’s obsessed with the Crusades. You know he sponsored it because the execution was an absolute shit show.
Toroid (@toroidal.bsky.social) reply parent
Let’s just say it clearly: Pam Bondi is here to make sure powerful men can keep raping—including children—and she’ll provide a pretty face and a legal pretext for any actions furthering that mission.
Toroid (@toroidal.bsky.social) reply parent
Toroid (@toroidal.bsky.social) reply parent
Deprecate funding to Israel, period. They’re committing ethnic cleansing. They’re creating instability in the region that makes Americans—and Israelis and Jewish people around the world—less safe. Their leader is corrupt and can’t be trusted. The moral and logical choice here is extremely clear.
Toroid (@toroidal.bsky.social) reply parent
This is more than a distraction. He’s wanted to do this for a long time. It’s a test case to start taking over city law enforcement and local governments. Every time we’ve underestimated his fascist goals we’ve been corrected. They haven’t always worked, but he’s clearly trying to be a dictator.
Toroid (@toroidal.bsky.social) reply parent
FAFO 🔪
Brian (@bwnash.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
The great news is, if you successfully resist the MLM-like pressure from vapid MBAs in your organization, you can take an active role in helping the worst humans who have ever existed lose half a trillion dollars.
Toroid (@toroidal.bsky.social) reply parent
A rare opportunity to correct the market 🌈
Toroid (@toroidal.bsky.social) reply parent
Lots of Nazi cops have been eagerly awaiting the day.
Toroid (@toroidal.bsky.social) reply parent
DC residents need to shut their city down. Make life miserable for anyone in their city leadership complying.
Toroid (@toroidal.bsky.social) reply parent
I think it’s preferable to provide them with a safe space to say it out loud. Lot easier for these guys to self select as insecure losers than dating them to find out.
Toroid (@toroidal.bsky.social) reply parent
His perception of this event is 100% derived from porn
Toroid (@toroidal.bsky.social) reply parent
Toroid (@toroidal.bsky.social) reply parent
The expression “this fuckin guy” was invented to describe this fuckin guy
Toroid (@toroidal.bsky.social) reply parent
Very literally.
Toroid (@toroidal.bsky.social) reply parent
100% better than most Dems. Bill at least doesn’t suffer from the “if we say it out loud daddy will be angry” problem. But I see a lot of that trying to steer Dems right with, like, the bulwark crew. It’s well-meaning, but wow is it riddled with misreadings of the coalition and dems’ real problems.
Toroid (@toroidal.bsky.social) reply parent
girl, you probably won’t even still have hpv by the time you get your next abobo
Toroid (@toroidal.bsky.social) reply parent
I would also like to communicate that removing traffic calming measures in a city where two pedestrians were killed not a whole calendar week ago is dumb af and I’d like to further petition for advocates of this dumb af idea be subject to glares of withering incredulity
Toroid (@toroidal.bsky.social) reply parent
we moved fast and broke things and yes now everything is broken but we created value for the shareholders so they could buy all the broken things for pennies on the dollar and lord over all of us as nature intended and you know what they say, the pendulum swings and then it just stays there forever
Toroid (@toroidal.bsky.social) reply parent
i am a constituent and I do have a question for @councilorgreen.bsky.social on this topic: hey wasn’t it cool when you voted to expand funding for Portland street response?
Toroid (@toroidal.bsky.social) reply parent
“Portland Police say inhibit patrols of the area”
Toroid (@toroidal.bsky.social) reply parent
I don’t know signs very well but the one that reminds colleagues “she’s not our mommy”
Toroid (@toroidal.bsky.social) reply parent
“Get in dummies and geezers, we’re doing racism”
Toroid (@toroidal.bsky.social) reply parent
Ah, the minimum viable product
Toroid (@toroidal.bsky.social) reply parent
Checks out
Toroid (@toroidal.bsky.social) reply parent
this is what I voted for
Toroid (@toroidal.bsky.social) reply parent
🤷♀️
Toroid (@toroidal.bsky.social) reply parent
fr tho retirees who have time on their hands and no public social media could do a real service to their country by getting hired, going through training, then immediately petitioning for medical leave. clog the arteries of injustice.
Toroid (@toroidal.bsky.social) reply parent
Fuck, I’d missed that one A good reminder, though, that we could all be referencing Gul Dukat more frequently in these trying times:
Toroid (@toroidal.bsky.social) reply parent
Buuuuuuut Ethan Peck is hot. You’ve foiled me yet again, Capitalism!
Toroid (@toroidal.bsky.social) reply parent
Look for ICE raids live streamed on onlyfans
Toroid (@toroidal.bsky.social) reply parent
Discovery literally went several more centuries into the future and it still sucked. I enjoy SNW, tbh, but clearly the studio has lost touch with what was valuable in Roddenberry’s vision. They all need to go read some Octavia Butler and Ursula Le Guin and start asking better questions.
Toroid (@toroidal.bsky.social) reply parent
Massive signing bonuses and incentives. Rock bottom requirements. Pulling people from not just other parts of DHS, but FBI and FEMA. It’s appalling, but only the dumbest, most craven failsons are taking this deal with the devil, and apparently there ain’t enough of them.
Toroid (@toroidal.bsky.social) reply parent
Ethnic cleansing is the only motivation. Sign the Rome Statute and send Kristi Noem to The Hague.
Kelsey Atherton (@atherton.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Bill Kristol, like every Iraq War cheerleader, owns his share of this, but what's useful is that now supporting the continued existence of DHS makes you *to the right of Bill Kristol"
Toroid (@toroidal.bsky.social) reply parent
Sigh. I’ll take it. But that people like Bill Kristol defended for so many years a party that was leaning further and further over the edge only to speak out after it tipped over into hell… His policy, his ideology, his bedfellows—they were always teeing up fascism. Reconcile with that, Bill.
Toroid (@toroidal.bsky.social) reply parent
Leadership across the entire industry has utterly debased themselves on the alter of fascism.
Toroid (@toroidal.bsky.social) reply parent
I’m not into violently doxxing these guys, personally, but homie without the mask needs to never touch another titty for the rest of his miserable life. Let all the ladies in the greater Chicago area know.
Toroid (@toroidal.bsky.social) reply parent
Toroid (@toroidal.bsky.social) reply parent
Well, it’s not inconsistent if your solution to a perceived birth rate crisis is rape culture.
Toroid (@toroidal.bsky.social) reply parent
The Illuminati is way lamer than I was lead to believe
Toroid (@toroidal.bsky.social) reply parent
I’ve aged into a healthy approach to encountering new things
Toroid (@toroidal.bsky.social) reply parent
MAGA is pretty complicated. Some are real Christian nationalists and dyed in the wool racists and really do want trans kids to die. Others tune out the monstrous stuff that they know is wrong and tell themselves Trump is actually good for Black folks and gays and democracy. Cults are weird.
Toroid (@toroidal.bsky.social) reply parent
Yeah, he’s a straight up eugenicist. But it’s pretty fascinating that a guy who basically believes in survival of the “fittest” is also out here eating roadkill and collecting brain worms.
Toroid (@toroidal.bsky.social) reply parent
Yeah, I don’t think Dems have a real choice but to do the same, as shitty as it is. But while they’re doing that, they need to ensure the message is: we should legislatively eliminate gerrymandering and anyone opposed to that are dirty cheaters who want a one party state aka authoritarianism.
Toroid (@toroidal.bsky.social) reply parent
I hate gerrymandering. It’s an outright offense to the project of democracy. Dems need to continue to talking about the anti-gerrymandering legislation non-stop and denounce gerrymandering across the board, even as they’re forced to match the GOP’s moves. Make it an anti-corruption conversation.
Toroid (@toroidal.bsky.social) reply parent
“Someone killed that troublesome priest? Well, that’s not a very uncommon thing.”
Toroid (@toroidal.bsky.social) reply parent
I keep saying, if people wanna show their ass, let em
Toroid (@toroidal.bsky.social) reply parent
Hell yeah
Toroid (@toroidal.bsky.social) reply parent
Toroid (@toroidal.bsky.social) reply parent
(I realize this is obvious to the lawyers and various smartypants around, but for us plebs just trying to understand the basic arguments it’s rarely contextualized and has the effect of asserting presumptive authority (which was of course part of their intended framing).)
Toroid (@toroidal.bsky.social) reply parent
Originalism was made up in the 80s. I feel like we’re not reminded of this often enough. They don’t have some divine thread to the past imbuing them with perfect insight into the founders. They invented a legal theory to justify impeding progress on things like civil rights. Also it’s fucking dumb.
Toroid (@toroidal.bsky.social) reply parent
Every damn day they block this is a win. Fighting back matters.
Toroid (@toroidal.bsky.social) reply parent
Yup. Folks know what to do.
Toroid (@toroidal.bsky.social) reply parent
If I wanted weak drinks and corporate-curated upholstery under unsettlingly inappropriate lighting while a buzzed business bro 20 years my senior vacillates between mansplaining at me and hitting on me I wouldn’t need to pay a fee for the privilege.
Toroid (@toroidal.bsky.social) reply parent
I mean, we can point out their hypocrisies all day but we all know the truth is that they don’t care about the law or public safety or gang violence, and certainly not sexual assault. They hate latinos and gays and enjoyed the idea of torturing this guy.
Toroid (@toroidal.bsky.social) reply parent
I’m still over here feeling secondhand embarrassment for anyone who walks into an airport lounge and doesn’t immediately recognize that is a wack vibe. Writing about wishing you could enjoy the shitty vibe with fewer poors around is next level cringe.
Toroid (@toroidal.bsky.social) reply parent
They manipulate markets. They say this shit to try to manipulate the labor market. They’ll be singing a different tune again when it suits them.
Toroid (@toroidal.bsky.social) reply parent
You know, the flip side is that this is what they have to do to get enough recruits. The enthusiastic brownshirts would do it for free, but apparently there just ain’t enough of them?
Toroid (@toroidal.bsky.social) reply parent
lol he didn’t invent bullshitting