Donkey

Donkey

@donkeytable.bsky.social

Doing the right thing is never the wrong thing.

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This is ultimately what is being demanded of us, to become willing martyrs in perpetuation of Neoliberalism and Imperialism, and told we're ungrateful if we don't walk willingly into the gas chambers.

It's fucked up that trans people have been presented with a new version of the trolley problem. In this new version, the trans person "pulling the lever" is also tied to the tracks and will die either way. They're being asked to make a decision that won't save them, but might save others. 1/2

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Centrists be like: Minorities who want to live and people who want to murder minorities need to come together and realize they’re both being unreasonable extremists who are turning off the average American who is fine with minorities living as long as he doesn’t have to think about or see them

It's weird that the GOP has basically decided that our leaders should be decided by a push up contest despite most of their most outspoken mouthpieces being shaped like broken mops or garbage bags full of shredded phone books.

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Thank you, uh, Bill Kristol.

Bill Kristol@billkristolbulwark.bsky.social

“Originalism is an incoherent doctrine. It allows you to prove anything. Thus what it amounts to is a ritual invocation of the Founders, gesturing at this or that piece of text, before delivering whatever conclusion was approved on Fox News the night before.” www.liberalcurrents.com/we-have-no-s...

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Ed Sheeran the coward: We must defer to the oligarchs, simply no choice. It's out of my hands. Zach Bryan the hero: Naw, you can just say fuck it and fuck them.

Pop Crave@popcrave.com

Country singer Zach Bryan wore a “Free Palestine” shirt at his Gillette Stadium show in Massachusetts.

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Man Confident He Would’ve Been Brave Enough To Send Thumbs Down Emoji In Cornell Group Chat

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BREAKING: Israel snatched an American teen from his West Bank home in the middle of the night — just days before his birthday and during his critical national exams. He's now been held for 3 months, with no charges. Netanyahu just came to the US for the *eighth* time since Trump took office.

zeteo.comFirst Draft: Israel Has Kidnapped Another American TeenagerAbdalkareem Issa Ahmed Safi has Texas roots but languishes in a notorious jail, one more victim of Benjamin Netanyahu’s cruel impunity. Donald Trump, meanwhile, is losing some of his most ardent fans.

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The CEO of Starbucks makes 1,700 times what the baristas make. He commutes by private jet. In other words, Starbucks can afford a fair contract. I'm boycotting Starbucks until they sign one. No contract, no coffee.

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These people make Marie Antoinette look connected to the people and empathetic by comparison. They laugh at what their own voters are going through as they continue to mock them as they enrich themselves and have a great time.

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Replying to @marawilson.bsky.social

What I've found is there's an unsettling amount of cis straight men who do not see women as people. And they certainly don't actually like women. They just like what they can get out of them. Sex, kids, domestic labor, etc. I'm SO glad I'm not straight and I don't attract those types of men.

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The party that fears furry pilots, trans kids, and married women with new last names just threw a state dinner for the country shipping drone parts to Iran and invited Putin to Miami. Their courage is extremely selective.

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It’s mind-blowing that we have literal white nationalists in the White House carrying out unfathomably cruel, abusive, white nationalist policies, and the punditariat has spent the last two weeks debating if some people were too intemperate after a Black man was murdered by cops six years ago.

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people love acting like they know what a snowball's chances are in hell. they go, oh it's too hot down there, it'd melt. ok.. so dogs can eat a guy's bits 'n pieces over and over, all day every day forever and never run out, but you figure thermodynamics are still etched in stone? honestly, fuck you

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Like I’ve said: I am well aware it’s possible we undercounted here zeteo.com/p/19-ways-tr...

zeteo.comHere Are 19 - Yes, 19! - Ways Trump and Republicans Are Plotting to Rig and Steal the Midterm ElectionsAttacking immigrants and Black voting power. Gutting election security. Voter purges. Threats of arrests and raids. And so much more. Trump’s assault on elections is truly unprecedented.
A.R. Moxon@juliusgoat.bsky.social

I know there are lot of people who think voting does nothing to stop fascism, but I do notice that one group who seems to think voting does something to stop fascism are the fascists, who are trying to prevent it as much as possible.

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You all should be ashamed of yourselves! You’re setting back women’s equality by 100 years by suggesting it’s weird for a professional woman to write love letters to her boss or run behind his golf cart or get saved from the decoy plane over the secretary of state. Typical lib hypocrites!

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Once you get used to it, discomfort* rocks. You can feel your brain making new connections! *-the actual discomfort of trying new stuff you won’t always like, not the forced discomfort of making yourself be around people who feel a false power in making you feel like shit

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Plenty to reflect about re: the Arday affair, but I'm going to repeat this one thing. The playbook the right used here is effective even though it's not especially sophisticated, as it relies on the audience to do the dirty work. I've been calling it "Trojan horse propaganda", let's go with that. 1/

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I know you're not allowed to say this during the current debate, but the reason the left dominates academics, art, comedy, and music is that the right has stupid, discredited ideas, they're not funny, and dull resentment does not make for good art. No grand conspiracy required.

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So, Trump wants to make the MMR vaccine into three vaccines? Let’s see, three separate trips to the pediatrician, three copays, more missed work, and more missed appointments, leaving kids not fully protected from measles, mumps and rubella. None of it supported by scientific evidence.

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If we are ever gonna improve society we have to fucking break the scum mindset that it’s acceptable to treat unhoused people as sub human because it makes people feel better about their shitty lives and lets them believe they aren’t a few big expenses or bad experiences away from their situation.

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media when maga wins an election: we must travel the country and speak to these voters and extend empathy to them and give credence to their bigotry and false beliefs media when the left wins an election: is this the end of the american experiment

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Replying to @transsalamander.bsky.social

all of contemporary transphobia feels so manufactured and fake and it's hard to explain how and why to people who haven't felt it happen at them but like people used to not like Really Care; there were shitty people but like no one built their life around being transphobic

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Replying to @jamellebouie.net

Their model: 1) Racism is largely individual not systemic. 2) Racism only exists if it’s egregious. 3) Racism is only egregious if it’s outlandish/one explicitly states their intent to be racist. 4) Even then, it’s probably just words that won’t extend to action, and they didn’t *really* mean it.

Colorado GOP: Sure, our candidate for governor says he murdered a man when he was 7, does exorcisms over the phone, says he has called in airstrikes in Syria, refuses to say how many people he has personally killed, and made up his own style of Christian kung fu but those democrats are CRAZY.

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Having social media access made growing up gay 1 million times easier (I don’t think I would even know I was gay as a teen if it weren’t for social media), but it also made growing up progressive and informed possible. Social media was where I learned about abortion rights, for starters

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This is Holly. Every day for the past 5 years, she picks out a stick and brings it to her favorite spot for “zen time.” While her stick may change, her routine never does. 13/10 (IG: hollythebluestaffy)

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Trump hates this country.He shit talks on it every time he speaks.He was the only president to ever denigrate his own nation on foreign soil.Maga hates everything about the U.S., the values upon which it was founded and the guarantees of the constitution. That’s why they are trying to burn it down.

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Iran players were forced to leave the US for Mexico.straight after their game, even though all of their games are played on US soil. The way FIFA have allowed their members to be treated shows them up for the spineless, corrupt, incompetent pathetic article that they are.🤬

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I do blame Trump for the Knicks stuff by the way. He’s such a unique vibesmonster. Just a succubus of any and all joy. A sleep paralysis demon that takes anything that looks like light and turns it into the visage of death. He is intent on haunting anywhere happiness appears for even a second.