Matt Baldwin

Matt Baldwin @thisbrokenwheel.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 21:48 UTC

I’m 45. A 20 year-old made a pass at me at my sister’s in May and I just said, “flattered, but not happening.” It’s not that hard!

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Matt Baldwin @thisbrokenwheel.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 20:54 UTC

Yes, correct, you were performing digital blackface, (and now digital brownface), and that's racist hell in and of its own self.

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Matt Baldwin @thisbrokenwheel.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 20:53 UTC

"Racism in bigotry" Out of curiosity, is English your first language?

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Matt Baldwin @thisbrokenwheel.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 20:52 UTC

That's some nice new DARVO there, man. Looks heavy! Were you able to get it out to the car by yourself, or did the Lowe's customer service person have to help you carry it?

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Matt Baldwin @thisbrokenwheel.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 20:05 UTC

Technically, I crossed two continents, twice apiece!

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Matt Baldwin @thisbrokenwheel.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 20:04 UTC

So maybe take some time to consider what feeling entitled to dump all of your little meltdown into a Black woman's timeline, and then refusing to stop when she demands you do so – never mind apologize – says about whether or not your behavior is recognizably racist.

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Matt Baldwin @thisbrokenwheel.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 20:01 UTC

You did that. You, all on your own. I mentioned you anonymously, you decided to troll around in my mentions with an alt because you're still upset over getting called out a racist and decided to fill an unrelated Black woman's timeline with your nonsense rather than at me directly. That's all you.

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Matt Baldwin @thisbrokenwheel.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 19:58 UTC

I genuinely don't remember much about getting off the plane back from SA other than something like, "Welcome home." Granted, it was after 36 hours of travel, so my recall may not be 100% there.

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Matt Baldwin @thisbrokenwheel.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 19:56 UTC

Just another insecure online weirdo having a meltdown over being called racist. Not the first time, doubt it'll be the last.

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Matt Baldwin @thisbrokenwheel.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 19:32 UTC

Huh. Now I'm curious as to whether I'll get this coming back from New Zealand in September. Was definitely not the case in coming home from South Africa.

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Matt Baldwin @thisbrokenwheel.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 19:26 UTC

@followevidence.bsky.social Dude, leave her alone.

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Matt Baldwin @thisbrokenwheel.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 19:25 UTC

This has not been my experience of coming home after foreign travel, either.

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Matt Baldwin @thisbrokenwheel.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 18:51 UTC

I did not realize that you skeeted at me under Ms. James's mentions this morning and she's justifiably upset at having all of this dumped in her lap. So it stops now.

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Matt Baldwin @thisbrokenwheel.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 18:38 UTC

Again, I apologize. The fault is mine in not tracing the thread back to the start rather than assume it was posted to me directly.

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Matt Baldwin @thisbrokenwheel.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 18:36 UTC

One thing that actually give me hope about our current situation is that GOP campaign coffers are seriously depleted at the moment, while the Democrats are very flush.

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Matt Baldwin @thisbrokenwheel.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 18:29 UTC

Apologies, I thought he posted at my account directly instead of horning in on that earlier conversation.

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Matt Baldwin @thisbrokenwheel.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 18:27 UTC

I remember thinking that a "think tank" had to be some sort of cool, science-y lab space when I was a teen. Nope, just a PR agency for lobbyists. Buncha assholes in an office somewhere, that's it.

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Matt Baldwin @thisbrokenwheel.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 18:24 UTC

You utter dumbfuck, she blocked your Malcom X sock puppet account, not me. She was already onto your bullshit. You really rolled out of bed today aiming to be the most pathetic person on this here website, didn't you?

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Matt Baldwin @thisbrokenwheel.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 18:23 UTC

lol now you're just outright lying. If we're blocked, how did I go get the screengrab then? How can we read each others' timelines & replies, hmmmm?

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Matt Baldwin @thisbrokenwheel.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 18:22 UTC

No, I said facts about an individual, who is Black, and whose public tax records very openly demonstrate that he is a deadbeat who owes millions in child support and alimony. Anyone is free & able to verify that.

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Matt Baldwin @thisbrokenwheel.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 18:20 UTC

Oh so now you're saying you did slur me? Well, look at that.

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Matt Baldwin @thisbrokenwheel.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 18:19 UTC

lmao. Nothing I do makes you putting around in digital blackface *not* racist as hell, bud.

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Matt Baldwin @thisbrokenwheel.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 18:13 UTC

Not only does that not surprise me, I feel like I could name two or three potential candidates without even knowing specifically who it is.

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Matt Baldwin @thisbrokenwheel.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 18:05 UTC

Yup, and I really wish that was more broadly known and better integrated into our general history education. I grew up with the "madman" canard about Brown and didn't even learn Stevens's name until I was in my 20s.

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Matt Baldwin @thisbrokenwheel.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 18:03 UTC

I have no evidence for this whatsoever, but a hypothesis is slowly congealing in my head that one of the big reasons US media is in such a state is that we now have a generation of op/ed writers who've never actually had any other job and don't know shit about the rest of the world.

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Matt Baldwin @thisbrokenwheel.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 17:57 UTC

Yes, correct. (Also Stevens deserves to be a bigger figure in the general pantheon of American heroes, if we're going to have such a thing.)

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Matt Baldwin @thisbrokenwheel.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 17:30 UTC

Oh and also, this was a typical response to my comment about you by actual Black people.

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Matt Baldwin @thisbrokenwheel.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 17:28 UTC

*taps sign again* bsky.app/profile/this...

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Matt Baldwin @thisbrokenwheel.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 17:16 UTC

Dude, I talk openly about my anxieties and insecurities about my ethnic & racial mix and how that's impacted my ties to the broader Hispanic/Latino communities. My father being an outright coconut didn't help! It's a fact I embrace and feel no shame over. bsky.app/profile/this...

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Matt Baldwin @thisbrokenwheel.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 17:13 UTC

Yeah, all of that is factually true, objectively verifiable, and most importantly, not contingent on West being a Black man. The man is a blowhard has spent almost two decades blowtorching his academic reputation and deserves scorn for it. As do the gullible white people propping him up.

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Matt Baldwin @thisbrokenwheel.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 17:11 UTC

That you think accusing "you don't care about brown-skinned lives" (or whatever the exact wording was) at someone who is themselves a member of a targeted minority group isn't deeply fucked-up thing to do is emblematic of your entire problem.

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Matt Baldwin @thisbrokenwheel.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 17:04 UTC

*taps sign* bsky.app/profile/this...

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Matt Baldwin @thisbrokenwheel.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 16:53 UTC

Rollins for one has done weirder things just for the hell of it and/or money.

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Matt Baldwin @thisbrokenwheel.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 16:51 UTC

Paul Cook and Steve Jones still seem like decent fellows, at least. I don't listen anymore but I enjoyed Jonesy's Jukebox for a while.

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Matt Baldwin @thisbrokenwheel.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 16:47 UTC

Sue every company that does this into the ground.

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Matt Baldwin @thisbrokenwheel.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 16:32 UTC

Yeah, I gotta find a new gym, my last one closed at the start of June after getting priced out of their building and I don't like either of the two closest options, but my overall health is starting to be impacted.

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Matt Baldwin @thisbrokenwheel.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 16:28 UTC

Well hey there gun show.

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Matt Baldwin @thisbrokenwheel.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 16:27 UTC

Also, LMAO, I just notice that you changed the screen name of the other account. It's still digital blackface, and still racist as hell! Maybe work on developing the courage of your convictions to espouse your bullshit under your own face & name rather than purloin minority status you don't deserve.

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Matt Baldwin @thisbrokenwheel.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 16:23 UTC

So that's a "yes" then. You really do just have a little closet of non-white people avatars to masquerade under (which is racist as hell). And I got your goat about that so badly yesterday that you blocked me in a snit, then came back to seek out what I might have said about you. That's PATHETIC.

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Matt Baldwin @thisbrokenwheel.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 16:20 UTC

Well see the thing is, what does or does not happen to Palestinians has no impact on someone else being racist to members of other minority groups. They are not actually related!

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Matt Baldwin @thisbrokenwheel.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 16:18 UTC

Yeah, and I'm not Figs, am I? That was a separate conversation, about a different subject: you.

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Matt Baldwin @thisbrokenwheel.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 16:16 UTC

Kiefer Sutherland gets a few more key scenes as well, I think.

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