Micah

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Recovering forum poster, politics doomer, basketball nerd. I write code for a living. He/him.

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE

my working assumption at this point is they saw a poster once and thought it looked cool

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jamie quinn 🏳️‍⚧️

it has way too many ending bits but also I love a good ending bit

the children’s insult of choice this evening is apparently “big bad booty” which is invariably followed by gales of uproarious laughter wife and I are not sure how we feel about this one

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France out here proving that actually you can tell the far right to go to hell even when it looks like they’re on track for a big victory are we going to let ourselves be shown up by the French?

French exit poll news and which seems a good sign

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david van duzer

no, I burned out on shounen many years ago unfortunately

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☀️ Starshine

we have entered the bad fanfiction stage of the process and this has significantly less charm than My Immortal

the left is generally extremely bad at organizing, as you can see by *gestures broadly at bluesky* unfortunately for Macron, "fuck you, we're doing this to spite your smug face" is an extremely effective organizing motivator

I wrote this in 2017, shortly after Macron's 1st win. I said: Macron is so open about being hostile to Left, that it salvages a huge path for the broad left to be an alternative... if it manages to unite. Few things I've ever written have aged so well. democracyjournal.org/arguments/re...

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Pad Rock

to be fair I also really enjoy White Collar but Burn Notice is the best of them

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Micah

Dem weirdos dreaming up tournament-style solutions to Joe Biden being the nominee and Catturd-grade reactionary types crying about cheating in the French election have one crucial thing in common, which is that they transparently lack the emotional maturity and patience required to be sports fans.

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Kaitlin Has Had Enough

I am losing my mind "stick with Biden or go with Harris" is the open question, anything else is absolute guaranteed disaster what do any of these people think they're doing

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G. Willow Wilson

he'd be a real step up from Macron, that's for sure

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Erica Exercise Arc

at the end when the dude they were helping snaps his fingers in admiration easily one of the best of the series

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE

I thought we settled "don't diagnose people through the fucking television" several cycles ago but I guess not

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Faine Greenwood

I got a lot of these, because my wife and I host a trash TV tuesday with a friend every week and we watch bad reality TV and drink wine and it's great probably the stupidest one I unironically love is fboy island

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The Silvered Spherical Ideal Median Voter

"For a job like getting rid of the drug dealer next door, I'll take a hardware store over a gun any day. Guns make you stupid; better to fight your wars with duct tape. Duct tape makes you smart." and of course you can't forget Sam Axe god I love that stupid show so much

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The opting out is especially wild Like, Republican governors are being actively presented with money to feed kids and affirmatively saying 'I would like children to starve actually' (Also, if I'm a Dem campaigner, I'm making some ads and placing some op eds about this immediately)

The governors of a dozen Republican-led states — AL, AK, FL, GA, IA, MS, OK, SC, SD, TX, UT, WY — opted out of a new federal food assistance program, leaving about 9.5 million students without the aid this summer

Republican-led states are blocking summer food benefits for hungry familieswww.usatoday.com Money for food is especially tight for families in a dozen states where Republican lawmakers declined to accept federal food assistance.

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Micah

There is particular power in such an ideologically diverse coalition rejecting the French right because fascists should be reminded often that they’re repugnant to a broad swath of society, not just getting outmaneuvered by the wily left

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE

“probably stands little chance of being implemented” understatement of the year here folks

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Micah

Discworld QOTD, from The Truth “Are you sure you’re allowed to do this?” she said. “No! I’m not! I won’t know until after I’ve done it! That’s why I’ve got to do it! Then I’ll know!”

Discworld QOTD, from I Shall Wear Midnight

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Ed Burmila

this is not, in fact, a sporting event that isn’t living up to its billing not that you could tell from listening to these people

I have been very open, quite possibly incorrectly, to the idea that Kamala would be preferable to Biden at this point but those are so self-evidently the only two options that every single person in Democratic politics proposing anything else should be banned from ever speaking to the media again

Hey you guys wanna see the dumbest plan to replace Biden possible? www.semafor.com/article/07/0...

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Cooper Lund

“pledge to run positive only campaigns” what the fuck is wrong with these people

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Micah

They tried this four years ago with varying results. The far better use of the money is by buying existing local TV stations and newspapers and staffing them properly

if there is one thing I want to come out of this election, regardless of result, it is Dems - and the left more generally - finally understanding that they need to make their own media ecosystem and stop relying on folks who want them to lose to get their message out

yeah the obliteration of local news - and the fact that what remains has been hoovered up by Sinclair and private equity - has done more damage than even the national level shitshow

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ghostesq.bsky.social

I was rooting for Messi to get a World Cup finally last time around but maybe I’ll be down with the French next time

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TTRPG Class Identifier

stick to sp - *holds hand to ear* wait, hold up a second folks, I’m getting some news here

"I think more than ever we need to go out and vote. We can't leave our country in the hands of these people [the far right RN party]," Mbappé said at a press conference in Hamburg ahead of France's Euro 2024 quarter-final against Portugal there on Friday." he did it www.lemonde.fr/en/politics/...

French elections: Mbappé says voting is 'urgent' after 'catastrophic' resultswww.lemonde.fr Star French forward Kylian Mbappé had previously called on young French people to vote at this 'crucial moment,' on Sunday, June 16, joining his team-mate Marcus Thuram in speaking out against the far...

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Micah

BREAKING: Upside side down French flag spotted outside the Alitos' summer residence

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Jibé

this is a “come on, America, we pride ourselves on supposedly being the best at stuff so let’s be the best at beating back fascists too” post not a “fuck the French” post nothing but admiration for what you all pulled off here