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Mimey @lordmimey.bsky.social

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Oh and one final thought: This is also the most nefarious thing the Right does to make themselves *seem* like they're somehow fighting for something. They take a kernel of 'truth' and then blow it up and throw on a bunch of BS and lies to then redirect people's energy into their actual focus.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net

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And yet, the thing that animates them the most is calling them transphobic and by saying that it is somehow "shutting down debate." The feigned outrage is literally the same tactic used by white supremacists who bring up "race science" or antisemites talking about Jewish people in media.

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Mimey @lordmimey.bsky.social

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So whenever you see that by conservatives elsewhere, just know it's something they do without even thinking about it. It's a knee-jerk response to just instantly dismiss anything that isn't perfect good news about anything the Right is doing, even if (and quite often) the reality is the opposite.

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Mimey @lordmimey.bsky.social

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Funny that he got CN'd like that, but folks should just remember: That's what the GOP says about anything that makes them look bad.

Post or say something that they don't like, and they call you a 'liar' instantly, on instinct. Because they can't actually counter whatever point you are making.

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Mimey @lordmimey.bsky.social

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"Adventurism" basically feels like the "Great Man Theory" but for Leftist ideas.

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Mimey @lordmimey.bsky.social

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Ok but how would one celebrate bad news but in a good way?

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Mimey @lordmimey.bsky.social

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I will say that despite everything else going on, as someone who love space exploration and all that, I'm really, genuinely glad that the Artemis launch went off without a hitch.

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com

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“If people really are arguing that the price of winning is becoming like a bigoted misogynist like Hasan Piker, then I’ll take not winning." - Third Way President Jonathan Cowan

Iiiiiiinteresting.

www.thebulwark.com/p/how-big-is-the-democrats-big-tent-hasan-piker-litmus-test?utm_campaign=email-half-post&r=1edyjz&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

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Meatball Ron: Serving Twitter Realness @wrenispinkle.bsky.social

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Endlessly tapping the

“Explaining a thing is NOT the same as endorsing it”

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social

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This isn’t really about Today’s Thing, but if you are a journalist you are either explicitly a leftwing activist or you are default serving the right. Neutral is rightwing we count those.

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Mimey @lordmimey.bsky.social

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I've noticed a trend where the establishment/RW claim to hate something "the Left" does. But then turn around and do it themselves.

Yes it's a double standard, but they're not against it 'on principle', they're against it being done against *them*. Everything is meant to be Left-punching 24/7.

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Mimey @lordmimey.bsky.social

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Of course this can just as much be a bad faith RW talking point because the person doesn't want to *admit* they're a conservative, so they feign ignorance and act like their views are just something 'everyone thinks' to appeal to the masses without having to defend how they really feel about things.

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Mimey @lordmimey.bsky.social

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It's astounding that once you know how to spot and see the bad-faith RW framing of things, you can spot it anywhere.

This is also where the "I'm not political"-talk comes from too. People have been so flush with RW BS that they genuinely see RW views as being normal.

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Mimey @lordmimey.bsky.social

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Even the framing about Piker is still being used in a RW fashion:

"Hasan Piker is the Nick Fuentes of the Left."

They compare the two but still frame it to favor the Right even with that.

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Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social

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This is just an incredible visual model of what being on X is like

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Alan Wessman @alanwessman.bsky.social

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The peril of the SAVE Act is not that its requirements inherently disfavor Ds over Rs. It is that once a nation-scale systemic mechanism to reject voters on the say-so of the federal government is put in place, that mechanism can be abused to target regime opponents and allow supporters leniency.

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Mimey @lordmimey.bsky.social

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Us on the Left (even more moderate ones) might disagree (even vehemently) sometimes. Those never reach the level of "You're part of an assassination plot against others in the MAGA movement!"

And yet us Leftists are supposedly the 'radical' ones?

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Mimey @lordmimey.bsky.social

18d

Thinkin on this a bit more, the Right is gonna pass all these laws and force women to follow all these rules, it's gonna eventually collapse womens' sports entirely. They're not gonna jump through all those hoops to play sports, they'll just quit and start their own thing without all the BS rules.

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Mimey @lordmimey.bsky.social

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I think we can also toss in the hyper-individualist "succeed at all costs" mentality we have in this country.

"If you're not winning, then you're losing, and if you're losing, then you're a loser and you'll lose everything forever, so stop losing." - Mindset of far too many people in this country.

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Mimey @lordmimey.bsky.social

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Point being is that just because someone's old, or black, or a woman, or all of the above, let alone any other identity someone could be, giving them "Power" and letting them keep it will show them for who they are every time.

Sadly, we see that in real time from Congress right now.

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Mimey @lordmimey.bsky.social

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As I've gotten into older adult years, I've noticed that "Power" really is proof that we're all human beings no matter who we are or what we look like or identify as.

Give someone "Power" and it always reveals who they truly are, good or bad. It's universal. "Power" doesn't discriminate when given.

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Mimey @lordmimey.bsky.social

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The GOP is right in that millions of 'illegals' are voting for Dems insofar as the GOP wants to make it 'illegal' to vote for Dems.

Or really vote for anyone besides the GOP. Or really taking any action that would result in the GOP losing the tiniest iota of power anywhere for any reason.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com

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here's my plan prospect.org/2026/03/18/senate-democrats-should-kill-filibuster-save-act-trump-republicans/

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Mimey @lordmimey.bsky.social

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That way they never *outright* deny you the right to vote, they "just happen" to make you jump through so many new hoops (that are purposefully done to be as frustrating as possible) that you just decide to give up and not bother voting.

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Mimey @lordmimey.bsky.social

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And the 'trick' the GOP uses to make it not *seem* as bad is they'll do this at the Federal level while leaving out the fact that at State/local level they'll "just happen" to shut down places people can *get* these new mandatory Voter IDs in primarily Dem-leaning areas.

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Mimey @lordmimey.bsky.social

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If you aren't generating profit, then the State will make you generate profit for someone somehow.

That's what this boils down to ultimately. And it also gets rid of 'undesirables'. It's starting with "just" homeless vets, but it won't only be done to them, they'll move onto others before long.

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emeritrix @emeritrix.bsky.social

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Extractive abandonement stimpunks.org/glossary/extractive-abandonment/

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Mimey @lordmimey.bsky.social

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This is probably one of the most frustrating part of trying to talk to people about politics, this "head in the sand" mentality so many people have.

"If I didn't see it happen, it didn't happen at all and therefore I'll base my political view/talking points around that."

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