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Nix Onyx
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"Maverick cop" is really not looking so good either.
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Nix Onyx@nixonyx.bsky.social |
51 followers 128 following 798 posts
She/they. Makes things. Has opinions. Probably a socialist. Maybe an anarchist. Definitely anti-fascist.
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Nix Onyx
@nixonyx.bsky.social
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"Maverick cop" is really not looking so good either.
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Jason, ex Inferis
@benedictsred.bsky.social
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Might just fuck around and admit between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
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Asawin Suebsaeng
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I unironically believe a small but not completely insignificant amount of this has to do with a number of the greatest and/or most famous political and social heroes of the mid 20th century being killed/assassinated before they had a chance to get slightly older and therefore publicly more flawed
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Nix Onyx
@nixonyx.bsky.social
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My guess is it has something to do with convincing themselves they're on theright side. "Yes, my religion tells me to love and accept people, but these repressions for gender reasons are necessary, because demons are real!"
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Shiv Ramdas
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right wing govts across the world have spent the entire period since the 2010s weakening and looting the countries that were fool enough to elect them and the flow of kickbacks to legacy media has ensured collaboration in the whole project. Enough.
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Nix Onyx
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Ugh. Tell me you never read a history book without telling me you never read a history book. All of these retvrn guys need some remedial education on why the Middle Ages were Bad Actually.
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Nix Onyx
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People in the past did not just calmly live their lives and be left alone in turn by their governments. There was rebellion, and state repression, and conscription into the many many many wars the ruling class got themselves into. Like read one (1) history book about the 19th century my dude!
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Nix Onyx
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This Kind of Guy pisses me off on a visceral level. His opinions make it very clear that he is utterly ignorant about any human experience outside his own short, privileged life. History is full of regime changes! And voting means you don't have to have a fucking civil war every time!
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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very much the words of a man who has never once worried, not for a moment, that he would be outside the law
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Greg Pak
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NO KINGS. That's the bare minimum these days. NO KINGS. NO KINGS. NO KINGS.
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Iron Spike
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Didn’t even need to click through to guess the author’s race an gender. Do you what you want, fucker. But too many people got savaged by dogs, blasted with fire hoses, and hung from trees to get me into the voting booth for me to ever opt out.
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Nix Onyx
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I'm pretty sure I've studied a bit more history than you, and I can't think of anyone whose civilization was made worse at war or logistics or empire building by their people having gay sex. There's no logical reason it would.
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Nix Onyx
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Putting aside that many ancient empires were in ways more permissive about homosexuality than weird puritanical Americans, what exactly are you proposing is the mechanism for your thesis, exactly? God punishing them? Your ideas about gay men being weak? (The Spartans/Thebans would disagree.) How?
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Ada Palmer
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first cohort of the American Climate Corps has been sworn in. 9,000 people will be deployed in the coming weeks to restore landscapes, erect solar panels, and work on environmental projects across America. #ShareGoodNewsToo grist.org/solutions/am...
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ryan cooper
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"Lawsuits are slow, they are complicated, they are often decided on arbitrary technicalities or total nonsense, and being so costly they are hideously biased toward the rich and well-connected." prospect.org/justice/amer...
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Nix Onyx
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Are they paid to be smart or to say what the ruling class wants to hear? I feel like it's the latter...
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Nix Onyx
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I saw a thread on one of the trumpy reddits back before they got banned. Bunch of chuds gleefully fantasizing about how they would go play "CoD in real life" and then go home at night for a beer. They have no idea what war is. Even some vets didn't seem to realize what war *at home* would be like.
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Nix Onyx
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Also, Americans would find out first hand what it's like to go begging for asylum to other countries who *at best* don't consider you a priority.
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Nix Onyx
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The South, for one, isn't so much demographically conservative as it is gerrymandered and voter suppressed all to hell. Federal laws re:gerrymandering would probably help there. Wyoming isn't having demographic shifts that other places have because young people are just leaving, and Utah is weird. 🤷♀️
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getnorthern
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A recent poll puts the LibDems at just 3 seats behind the Tories. 3 seats! Check the tactical voting sites. And if you’re in a constituency where the LibDems have the best chance of beating the Tories - vote LibDem. Imagine a Labour government with a LibDem opposition. What a game changer!
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Nix Onyx
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A few years ago, we found a diary my grandfather had kept during WWII (he was in England, Home Guard). Reading his responses to things happening really drove home how uncertain things were. When you watch a WWII movie, you already know the ending, but they just had to give it their all and hope.
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Buttadeus
@thewanderingjew.bsky.social
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Rules would be mainly ending blue slips and ending the filibuster. Laws: Admit PR and DC as states, double the size of the House, expand the Court, lobbying/corruption reform
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Buttadeus
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I think a lot of the pieces are pretty easy, too! Constitutional amendments: * Right to vote * Non-immunity of POTUS * Congress can limit political spending * Congress can regulate access to weapons * Anti-gerrymandering * SCOTUS reform (non-life tenure, at least)
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Buttadeus
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I would very much like to see Dems start putting forward a specific reform agenda for constitutional democracy, mixing laws, norms, and Constitutional change, but all to the specific end of restoring majority rule. Even if they can't win it all.
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Nix Onyx
@nixonyx.bsky.social
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Demographically, they will lose their numbers. They already are, really. Project 2025 is an attempt to prevent the loss of power that is coming for them under a democracy.
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Nix Onyx
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They love rules. It seems like they love following them so much that they will continue to do so even when their ideological opponents have changed the rules to the point where opposing them is illegal.
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Huh…
@capitalistfool.bsky.social
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If we're going to march on the Supreme Court, we'd better do it with a president who won't delight in shooting us
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Doomie Scrollerton
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We either get the most vindictive and authoritarian presidency ever, or the oldest and most decrepit ever. All while the courts are damaging protections for every non-rich citizen. So fun
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A.R. Moxon
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Not the most terrifying thing but perhaps the most infuriating: every single thing we said about these fascist Republican fucks has been proved out and all the people who assured us that what is happening would never happen smoothly pivoted to yes it's happening but it will be fine.
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Nix Onyx
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The most savage burn in the article, one that invalidates 100% of this guys arguments, is just a simple statement of fact: "According to Mellon, who inherited his fortune,"
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Melanie D’Arrigo
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If a single billionaire can legally dump $100 million into an election, when the legal maximum an individual can donate is $3300 — that’s not democracy or a free and fair election, that’s an oligarchy and an auction. The corruption is killing our country.
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Hayes Brown
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idk it just seems to me that laws, like tech, should be created with the question "what would the worst person i know be able to do with this power" in mind and it's truly incredible how much this opinion fails at that basic task
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Nix Onyx
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My partner, who joined at 18 to get off the street, pretty much says this as well.
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Claire Willett
@clairewillett.bsky.social
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what if like for one year every single one of us collectively agreed to go as hard as the Republicans are already accusing us of doing anyway and just see where it gets us
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Nix Onyx
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People who think rabies vaccination is unnecessary should be required to watch some of those old videos of animals and children with rabies.
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Former Pingu Child Actor
@heresy.bsky.social
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How centrism descends into fascism
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Daniel Feldman
@dfeldman.bsky.social
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Mississippi is the poorest state in the US.
Even though the state gets federal welfare funds, it is difficult to get welfare.
The money was all getting stolen, and they got away with it.
Now the journalists who exposed the story are facing a lawsuit and jail.
www.nbcnews.com/investigatio...
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it's gita time
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Being really annoying is praxis. Phone, email, fax, show up in person if that’s an option. Just don’t let up until you’re too irritating to ignore.
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rahaeli
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Maybe your spot is keeping your local school board out of the hands of bigots or organizing people to advocate for climate policy or providing tech services to a local candidate's campaign. Maybe it's writing postcards to voters or phone banking or doing jail support. Pick something. Anything.
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Preeti Chhibber
@runwithskizzers.bsky.social
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apropos of uhhhhhhh everything, reposting this again
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Nix Onyx
@nixonyx.bsky.social
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The atheist Soviet Union, that fell apart in 1991, had a secret plot to install a Christian theocracy in the US in 2024? Yeah, sure, that makes sense...
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Kevin M. Kruse
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Not making any threats here, just thinking out loud as a historian — do they people brazenly pushing for impunity for the wealthy elites not know what traditionally comes next?
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E. Catherine Tobler
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Dear Samsung, I don't want a "new AI experience." I want children to have free lunch, I want homes for the homeless, I want Jan 6 rioters locked up, I want a president born in the 70s/80s, I want reproductive freedom, I want equality, I want UBI, I want clean air, water, and a steady climate, I want
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Nix Onyx
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My mind is always kinda blown by how languages have different categories of things (like how english->japanese onion->tama negi (ball onion) green onion->negi because we have different "default" onions) but it has been blown anew in that a dialect can invent a category that there is no word for!
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Nix Onyx
@nixonyx.bsky.social
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It's me. I am people. I want to live in a house that looks like a moon base/evil lair. (giant mansion is a bit excessive but still)
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Nix Onyx
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Phew, I'm glad I'm not the only weirdo who likes it. There's some "if you think this looks cool that makes you a bad person (and also masc?) on this thread and... no? (Yeah I know concrete is not the best for CO2 but there are alternatives now, and it doesn't change things that are already built)
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Nix Onyx
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Yep. It's pretty much "tell me you're not really an ally without telling me you're not an ally". Oh, you want to pretend your hands are clean by refusing to do a thing that might save actual lives for an empty gesture that will not do anything to help anyone? Moral high ground, my ass.
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Nix Onyx
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It beats the alternative though!
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