SithOfAvignon

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He/him. Here for the low-anxiety alternative to Twitter.

Horror, Sci-Fi, and Fantasy. And, grudgingly, a bit of freaking out about American politics.

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future jefftopher🙋🏻‍♂️

Either that or three used to be but are now dead. That’s the more concerning possibility, I think.

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Kevin Church 🖖🏻

Somehow, despite being born in 1983, this is the movie I’ve seen the most times in a theater.

Describing Biden as “the lesser of two evils” willfully disregards how much greater the other evil is this time around.

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Seth Cotlar

Well, the *regulatory* government sure will be limited…

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SithOfAvignon

This is so good.

New: I did not support Kamala Harris in the 2020 primary. But that won't keep me from backing her in Biden's place this November. Here I make the case for candidate Harris: www.thehandbasket.co/p/kamala-har...

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Emily St. James

I think it’s partly misapplied nostalgia—“He reminds me of the kind of presidents we used to have [in movies]—fused to blind terror and a desire for the familiar and a return to “normalcy”.

Dystopian fiction wasn’t an instruction manual.

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Micah

Almost makes one wonder what horrors were contained in previous drafts if THIS is the version he signed onto. I say “almost”, because—and I say this the decorum required when speaking of the Chief Justice—fuck that guy.

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Aaron Rupar

A Biden win isn’t a panacea. It’s the start of a long, hard, journey without any guarantees. But no plausible roads that lead *anywhere* we want to go begin with Trump being reelected.

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Peter

If I weren’t already exhausted, I’d be tired.

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Isabel Cañas

How much coffee does it take to time warp back to a *previous* morning? That is how much I’d like.

The Unbearable Lightness of Forever Re-Litigating Every Democratic Primary From 1980 Onward

no we are stuck in an endless loop of both the 2016 and 2020 primaries because people who were voting for the first time in 2012 are starting to wake up with pains they can’t explain and are desperate to RETVRN

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Ariel Waldman

Checking my list of Noteworthy Events Since the Last Ice Age, it looks to have survived the “Dean Scream” and the “Release of the Snyder Cut” as well. …Truly the wonders it has seen.

Hey, y’all—assuming we GET another election after this one, what say we maybe just once try nominating someone who ISN’T just the lesser of two evils? I only bring it up because a lot of today’s horror could’ve been avoided if we’d, you know, picked better candidates in any election this century.

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Roxane Gay

It should instead motivate the shit out of anyone who wants to stave off the worst, for at least a while longer.

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mx elle is eepy

Yep. Biden made the same mistake in standing for reelection. I say “standing” because it doesn’t feel like an energetic enough campaign to call it “running”. So, once again, all we can do is hope there’s juuust enough juice left to stagger across the finish line before finally giving up the ghost.

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Todd G

Best case for an automated strike zone I’ve ever seen.

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow

Just add water.

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Micah

Good luck, SCOTUS… See also: ➔ “Box, Pandora’s” ➔ “Bottle, Genie Back in the” ➔ “Paradise, Expulsion from” ➔ or even “1933, Germany”

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Matthew Downhour

This is giving real “Aryan Physics” energy.

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Vomiting Kermit

To lose our capacity to be shocked (and motivated) by horrors is another step on the road to giving up hope they can be changed.

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No one cares

Quick—ask him to walk on his hind legs and we’ll see who’s so tough.

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Maddy Myers 🏳️‍🌈

Yeah, this sort of shit falls into the category of “shocked but not surprised”. Like, yes, I’m not caught totally unawares but it’s still fucking awful and a blow to the remaining good in the world.

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Kevin Church 🖖🏻

Yes. It’s like Hellblazer in this way.

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow

Yep. That was lockdown. Didn’t help.

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Daniel Pereira

…Fungible or not so much?

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Chuck Wendig

It’s what happens when the right hand is firmly on the wheel and the left is arguing with itself about ideological purity.

This is just the foreplay.

I really need someone to tell me we are not absolutely fucked. Because it sure feels like it.

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sam

Ah, yes. “Waiting mode”.

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Chris Geidner