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Jesus, if Trump can sell out on his NFTs maybe he should come up with insurrectionist NFTs for the the rubes. Hell! Even I might even pony up for a Marjorie Taylor Greene-Lantern. Or a Lauren Boebert Cat Woman, if you know what I mean😏.

…They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.

- Jean-Paul Sartre 2/2

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Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors…1/2

RT @glastris
There’s no mystery why news outlets are conflicted about Twitter. It’s is a monopoly with a resource – – access to key readers—that the news media needs. That’s why monopolies are bad! ⁦The media are hostages in this case not hypocrites. @monthly⁩ washingtonpost.com/media/2022/

Black twitter right now reminds me of just how deeply contingent black communities — digital and physical — are upon the whims of white people.

People are nice on Mastodon, and it's a deeply weird experience to not have to brace for trolls when I click send.

I wish my progressive brethren of all stripes could learn to stop getting mad and start getting even.

I have question. Remember in the 70s, when that commercial showed the Chippewa chief in tears? Was he crying over what white man had done to his river - or was it because he thought he wouldn't live long enough to see a Ceasars sportsbook built on his ancestoral land?

@philmyboots

This is only the tip of the iceberg.

It's 1993. The Internet has just entered public conciousness. The next 2 years see WILD growth.

It's 2023. Same thing. This is going to be WILD.

The man who chased US Capitol Police Officer Eugene Goodman up flights of stairs near the Senate chamber on January 6, 2021, has been sentenced to 60 months behind bars. Via CNN.

If you want your user interface to look like Twitter, go into preferences and check enable advanced web interface. Remember to hit save changes.

This didn't age well. Looks like what is useful to Mastodon will be coming here on it's own.

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I still have that Pavlovian reflex honed by years of Catholic adjacency that makes me almost feel sorry for Trump and Musk because they are such damaged people.

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