Bard spotting on Bluesky 06 August 2024 :marseyrandom:

The New York Times (@nytimes.com):

You would crash the dunk economy? Cancelled.

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BardWatch She/Her Anti-Hate-Brigade 7mo ago #6816828

Gov. Tim Walz has succeeded in projecting an avuncular, affable, relentlessly normcore image to Minnesotans. But not all voters are convinced that he rose above partisanship or united the state.

Zeroisanumber (@zeroisanumber.bsky.social):

He's fine. I didn't like that he opposed police reform in the aftermath of the George Floyd Uprising, and he was too quick to call out the National Guard afterwards. He's also flubbed it a couple times on labor issues and knuckled-under to companies when he shoulda fought. But he's fine.

Kate Rothwell (@kroth.bsky.social):

They should have talked to you

Zeroisanumber (@zeroisanumber.bsky.social):

I doubt I'd have talked to them when they said they were NYT asking about Walz. I know what that article would end up looking like.

Matt Damon's Powered Exoskeleton (@punzer.bsky.social):

This is the most breathtaking ice cold frostbite burn

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BardWatch She/Her Anti-Hate-Brigade 7mo ago #6816483

in 5 words or less, start a fight not about religion or politics:

Pantera, Tool, Deftones, Opeth suck

✨𝓟𝓮𝓻𝓯𝓮𝓬𝓽✨ (@temptingcate.dev):

in 5 words or less, start a fight not about religion or politics:

raphael > michelangelo > donatello > leonardo

Matt Damon's Powered Exoskeleton (@punzer.bsky.social):

Tool … suck[s]

This opinion has angered me so much that I'm seeing black, white, red then yellow

I feel like you might be overthinking, overanalyzing. Maybe separate the body from the mind?

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BardWatch She/Her Anti-Hate-Brigade 7mo ago #6816422

Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 (@joshuafoust.com):

I'm told that the UK has pursued and possibly (?) secured an extradition agreement to haul Tommy Robinson in from his summer terrorism-command-tour "vacation"

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BardWatch She/Her Anti-Hate-Brigade 7mo ago #6816421

This is absurdly unprofessional behavior by the Times politics team. Just absurd, insulting behavior.

The New York Times (@nytimes.com):

Gov. Tim Walz has succeeded in projecting an avuncular, affable, relentlessly normcore image to Minnesotans. But not all voters are convinced that he rose above partisanship or united the state.

"Normcore"? That's a hair away from "Normie"

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BardWatch She/Her Anti-Hate-Brigade 7mo ago #6816034

Kamala: "In fact, when you compare his resume...shall we?... to Trump's running mate..."

Crowd: "Ooooo"

Kamala: "...Some might say it's like a match-up between the varsity team and the JV squad."

Somewhere out there, JD Vance is seething. And it's beautiful.

What makes it even better, is that Walz genuinely seems to be feeling a tiny bit awkward right now, which makes sense. It's a HUGE crowd.

It's such a sincere and stark contrast to whatever the heck schtick Vance has going on.

Walz takes to the lectern. And he's just SO good at speaking. Just so good.

Credits Kamala for bringing the joy back, and immediately gives kudos to Shapiro.

Okay. I've heard a LOT of politicians speak in my life. A lot.

I've written talking points/speeches for politicians too. A lot.

Walz's speaking skills/ability to communicate like this is rare, and it's honestly just really impressive to see.

Walz: "I can't wait to debate the guy."

Me: YESSSSSSS!

Walz: "That is, if he's willing to get off the couch and show off."

Me: OMG.

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BardWatch 7mo ago #6816035

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BardWatch She/Her Anti-Hate-Brigade 7mo ago #6815712

eva (@eva.computer):

>be me

>28yo blackpilled sigmacore NEET

>dad tells me to get a job

>get hired for republicuck social media job on craigslist

>have to go into office kms

>boss makes me rotate his pdfs for him

>wojaklmao.png

>so impressed he makes me director of digital comms

>wtf

>post peepeepoopoo from RNC account

utopia deferred (@utopia-deferred.bsky.social):

frick, it is so funny that groypers are literally running the entire GOTV operation for republicans at this point. you literally put the guys who spent their cumulative teenage years screaming slurs and channeling their dysfunctional psychosexual anxiety via ironic greentexts

Flashbacks to 2015 era /r/The_Donald

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BardWatch She/Her Anti-Hate-Brigade 7mo ago #6815576

Kamala Harris lifting from Barack Obama's Yes We Can speech again.

Barack Obama is going to be the most influential president of the united states of america of the 21st century

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BardWatch She/Her Anti-Hate-Brigade 7mo ago #6815575

Xoe Valk (@x03v.bsky.social):

"Thank you for bringing back the joy"

Trump's cooked.

This is SOOOO good.

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BardWatch She/Her Anti-Hate-Brigade 7mo ago #6815472

"The extraordinary promise of America" Kamala Harris can lift from Barack Obama, too

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BardWatch She/Her Anti-Hate-Brigade 7mo ago #6815471

She's talking up his sponsorship of the GSA & the crowd has gone wild

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BardWatch She/Her Anti-Hate-Brigade 7mo ago #6815470

Emma (Cumslutress) 🏳️⚧️ (@femin.ized.gay):

Feeding kids = crowd goes wild

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BardWatch She/Her Anti-Hate-Brigade 7mo ago #6815469

✅ can't talk about our lived experiences being excluded from women's spaces based on our AGAB

✅ can't talk about our material realities being under the same umbrella (but with some unique considerations) from other trans folks

✅ can't talk about transmisogyny specifically

🙃🙃🙃

Jessie 🏳️⚧️ ϕ (@jessisamess.gay):

this is because of our outsized power, naturally

Emma (Cumslutress) 🏳️⚧️ (@femin.ized.gay):

saw someone yesterday but forget who say we are the mobsters of the queer community apparently lol

Katie Tightkitty (@juicysteak117.gay):

TRANS WOMEN ARE NATURALLY MORE AGGRESSIVE MOBSTERS. NO I AM NOT TRANSMISOGYNISTIC. WHY WOULD YOU SAY THAT.

Peanut Butter & Jelly Wizard (@pbjwizard.bsky.social):

Whoops, sorry, Penny "Got Reddit to kick out the Nazis" Oaken, personally responsible for north of 42,000 bigot user accounts being permanently suspended from the site, is an extreme outlier and should not have been counted.

The average trans woman mafiosos on average 1 pizza slice a year

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BardWatch She/Her Anti-Hate-Brigade BardWatch 7mo ago #6816033

penny did What How

Long story short, I got /r/AgainstHateSubreddits converted from "gripe into the void about hate groups" to "make an argument that hate groups are destroying the site, the AUP already prohibits them, make Reddit execs do something" and then a bunch of us kept hammering away at that.

skyybeans (@skyblu.bsky.social):

Also I used the API & PushShift's API to run a bunch of queries & searches to target hate groups for documentation & reporting, filed & followed up on reports, and made "F*** Your Hate" my avocation for years.

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BardWatch She/Her Anti-Hate-Brigade BardWatch 7mo ago #6816762

Héroïque

skyybeans (@skyblu.bsky.social):

I think / believe most people with the opportunity & skillset would do the same.

Just stubbornness

But you did.

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BardWatch She/Her Anti-Hate-Brigade 7mo ago #6815367

Ted-Cville (@ted-cville.bsky.social):

Both excited to see the GOP get a resounding electoral defeat but also kind of not thrilled that American federal politics continue to boil down to "Can you imagine this person leading Christmas morning presents exchange in your household"

... or the whole have a beer bit. Really?

Ted-Cville (@ted-cville.bsky.social):

Yeah! Like, I could have a beer with Shapiro, Walz, Harris, anyone in attendance at that rally, really.

Anyone at a Trump rally would shove me into a utility closet with their fists.

True..

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BardWatch She/Her Anti-Hate-Brigade 7mo ago #6815366

Last part of Shapiro's speech is patterned on the "We're going to live on, we're goin to survive, today, we celebrate, our independence day" speech from Independence Day

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BardWatch She/Her Anti-Hate-Brigade 7mo ago #6815290

Bethany Albertson (@albertsonb2.bsky.social):

"HE'S A WEIRDO" is now national political rhetoric, folks

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BardWatch She/Her Anti-Hate-Brigade 7mo ago #6815289

Josh Shapiro is giving me strong Matt Damon playing Barack Obama vibes.

That rhythm and intonation and phrasing is so good. So very good.

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BardWatch She/Her Anti-Hate-Brigade 7mo ago #6815288

SHOUT "STREETS OF L.A.", ALREADY JOSH

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BardWatch She/Her Anti-Hate-Brigade 7mo ago #6815286

Comfortably Numb (@numb.comfortab.ly):

Holy shit the crowd just exploded on marriage equality

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BardWatch She/Her Anti-Hate-Brigade 7mo ago #6815285

illumi (@illumi.meme):

breaking: meghan mccain basically endorses the walz vp pick

Walz kinda looks like John McCain

Brooke Binkowski (@brooklynmarie.bsky.social):

There it is, that's the key lol

Sage 🏳️⚧️ (@trans.bsky.social):

The Santa Claus factor helps too

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BardWatch She/Her Anti-Hate-Brigade 7mo ago #6815284

i am already seeing shock from some folks that Kamala Harris is only six months younger than her VP pick Tim Walz.

It is not Tim Walz fault that he looks mummified. The mandatory Midwestern diet of exclusively cream cheese, honey-baked ham, & corn is not conducive to aging gracefully.

Sage 🏳️⚧️ (@trans.bsky.social):

behold, what 60 years of the midwestern food pyramid does to your body vs Californian organic food:

John Romero's B-word 🏳️⚧️ (@triplanetary.bsky.social):

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BardWatch She/Her Anti-Hate-Brigade 7mo ago #6815114

Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social):

Ah yes, there is no one more in tune with Joe Biden's mindset than Donald Trump.

Such a goddarn weirdo. You'd move to another subway car if someone said even one sentence of this paranoid rant

Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social):

Is there a monumental stonemason in the audience? We're gonna need 10 foot high stone letters, spelling

P R O J E C T I O N

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BardWatch She/Her Anti-Hate-Brigade 7mo ago #6815111

Ah yes, there is no one more in tune with Joe Biden's mindset than Donald Trump.

Such a goddarn weirdo. You'd move to another subway car if someone said even one sentence of this paranoid rant

WeeBitSarcastic (@weebitsarcastic.bsky.social):

Biden should attend, step up to the microphone, and call Trump a weirdo.

Alternately, he just sits in his chair while the crowd wends their way around, shaking his hand, patting him on the shoulder, congratulating him on a great career, wishing him a great retirement.

Then he slow dances with Jill when the balloons drop

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BardWatch She/Her Anti-Hate-Brigade 7mo ago #6814888

Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) (@brainnotonyet.bsky.social):

If you showed me nothing but this, I'd vote for him.

Amy Hoy (@amyhoy.bsky.social):

holy crap?

archive.is/fBqUL

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BardWatch She/Her Anti-Hate-Brigade 7mo ago #6814734

On Twitter the "Still not voting" leftists are really showing it's not about principle it's about trying to get revenge, not making things materially better for others. It's also clearly not a stance that is comparable with anti fascist harm reductionist views. It's reactionary and short sighted

Amy Hoy (@amyhoy.bsky.social):

They let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

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BardWatch She/Her Anti-Hate-Brigade 7mo ago #6814732

holy crap?

archive.is/fBqUL

I'm sold.

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BardWatch She/Her Anti-Hate-Brigade 7mo ago #6814527

Just had a Mandela effect moment; I was so sure that George W Bush had made Lee Greenwood the Poet Laureate, but uhhhh nope, he just sat on an arts council

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BardWatch She/Her Anti-Hate-Brigade 7mo ago #6814401

Kerry Ann 🏳️⚧️ (@kerryanncoder.bsky.social):

Dear The Guardian:

When your illo team makes a photo illo for a story about neoNazi terrorists, maybe don't use the same chromatic aberration that neoNazi terrorists use as their signature in their propaganda, kthx

What? What illo? And is Chromatic Aberation a nazi thing now?

www.theguardian.com/world/articl...

The cover illustration on this story:

And the red/green \ red/blue VHS scan / CRT gun misalignment offset chromatic aberration is a signature of terrorwave & fashwave aesthetics

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Revealed: US neo-Nazi terror group aims to revive activities ahead of election

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BardWatch She/Her Anti-Hate-Brigade BardWatch 7mo ago #6814737

Erica Picatinny ᛒᛉᛞᚹ 🕊️ (@picatinnyrailed.bsky.social):

It's a thing that they use. It doesn't make it theirs. Antifascists have used it too.

Erica Picatinny ᛒᛉᛞᚹ 🕊️ (@picatinnyrailed.bsky.social):

I haven't seen that but admittedly I was focused on terrorist rhetoric and shibboleths

Yeah it's been used sometimes in the leftist firearms community. It's unclear to me if it's a "takeback" or if it's folks just doing their own thing.

Anyway, redeath to fascism.

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BardWatch She/Her Anti-Hate-Brigade 7mo ago #6814300

ricky friar (@deepfriar.bsky.social):

I spent way too long on this considering how little attention i expect it to get but:

Walz_Winz.jpeg

ricky friar (@deepfriar.bsky.social):

Well chosen invocation of / tribute to The_Jeb

I had to as soon as I saw the two pictures separately; it was just too good.

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BardWatch She/Her Anti-Hate-Brigade 7mo ago #6814182

Amy Hoy (@amyhoy.bsky.social):

this is amazing

Michael Whitney (@michaelwhitney.lol):

How are they so bad at advance

Kamala (5D) (Chess)

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BardWatch She/Her Anti-Hate-Brigade 7mo ago #6813767

Every crazy Christofascist dog whistle we're hearing now is what I grew up marinating in.

The USAF is rife with Evangelical True Believers.

Once, a Major got videotaped giving a sermon at the church I attended...and got censured for talking about expelling all non-Christians from the US of A.

Brooke Binkowski (@brooklynmarie.bsky.social):

I'm a bit jittery about the arm of the US military that has control over 2/3rd of the nuclear triad being riddled with True Believers in the Coming Rapture.

I try to think about other things at 2am

Brooke Binkowski (@brooklynmarie.bsky.social):

Fun (?) story.

150,000 W AM transmitters have ground wave propagation of the signal to a decent distance.

Which means that bare electrical circuits will vibrate with the signal.

Ever have your toaster or electric shaver give you staticky signs for identifying the coming apocalypse?

I have...

I certainly have!! I love that shit in theory

I'm still trying to figure out why the FCC approved that transmitter.

I guess standards were different in 1970? Were we trying to jam Soviet radar?

KJNP had to reduce to 150,000 Watts early in the Clinton Administration. This was horrible Socialist Godless Oppression per the local newspaper.

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BardWatch 7mo ago #6813768

keep yourself safe

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BardWatch She/Her Anti-Hate-Brigade 7mo ago #6813765

Cersei Transnister 🏳️⚧️🏴☠️🦋 (@khatunjessicabeki.org):

Both excited to see the GOP get a resounding electoral defeat but also kind of not thrilled that American federal politics continue to boil down to "Can you imagine this person leading Christmas morning presents exchange in your household"

Idk, I think its still more about infrastructure and GOTV. Imo the vibes thing is overrated

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BardWatch She/Her Anti-Hate-Brigade 7mo ago #6813764

Phoebe Barton 🚀 🇺🇳 (@phoebebarton.bsky.social):

i'm starting to think that putting the USAF in charge of the stargate was a bad idea

Ken Burnside (@kenburnside.bsky.social):

Every crazy Christofascist dog whistle we're hearing now is what I grew up marinating in.

The USAF is rife with Evangelical True Believers.

Once, a Major got videotaped giving a sermon at the church I attended...and got censured for talking about expelling all non-Christians from the US of A.

The utter sensibility of General Hammond is how I knew that series was fiction.

You'd need a lot more Fundagelical crazies per capita for that to actually take place in NORAD...

Mike Masnick (@mmasnick.bsky.social):

Can confirm that NORAD operations selected for Mushrooms: kept in the dark and fed bullsh*t

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BardWatch She/Her Anti-Hate-Brigade 7mo ago #6813763

Some personal news! I'm excited to be joining the Bluesky board to support Jay and the team in achieving their vision of a decentralized, protocol-based social internet.

bsky.social/about/blog/0...

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Bluesky Welcomes Mike Masnick to Board of Directors - Bluesky

Radley Balko (@radleybalko.bsky.social):

Congrats!

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BardWatch She/Her Anti-Hate-Brigade 7mo ago #6813762

Musk and the Republicans want the government to force companies to buy ads on shitty right-wing websites that promote Nazis and political violence.

Because know, free speech and all.

www.nytimes.com/2024/08/06/t...

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X, Owned by Elon Musk, Brings Antitrust Suit Accusing Advertisers of a Boycott

Denys Beecher (@dbeecher.bsky.social):

It was filed in Federal court because there are (IIRC) no federal anti-SLAPP statutes; this is entirely a "From heck's heart, I stab at thee" gambit, seeking to at minimum bankrupt GARM & chill free speech & free association

Penny, you're offering an awful lot of legal opinions in this thread that seem completely detached from the content of the complaint or even a basic understanding of the law, jurisdiction, and venue.

Denys Beecher (@dbeecher.bsky.social):

Hopefully someone can explain how I'm mistaken!

They filed in Federal court because the plaintiff and defendants are in diverse states (and countries) and they're alleging antitrust violations. Federal law, federal courts have original jurisdiction.

Neither of the counts in the complaint addresses defamation or contract issues.

Stryder (@stryder.bsky.social):

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BardWatch She/Her Anti-Hate-Brigade BardWatch 7mo ago #6814733

Additionally, anti-slapp is State level, so wouldn't be applicable for a federal suit. But, 5th district (TX) is a bastion of ultra right wing trump judges that have been very problematic. Basically expect this to be a SCOTUS fight.

Radley Balko (@radleybalko.bsky.social):

Yep. It's also forum shopping. Hopefully one of the last instances of it.

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BardWatch She/Her Anti-Hate-Brigade 7mo ago #6813567

Musk and the Republicans want the government to force companies to buy ads on shitty right-wing websites that promote Nazis and political violence.

Because know, free speech and all.

www.nytimes.com/2024/08/06/t...

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X, Owned by Elon Musk, Brings Antitrust Suit Accusing Advertisers of a Boycott

Gavin Lux Enjoyer unburdened (@luxenjoyer.bsky.social):

Suing your customers for not buying your product is certainly a strategy. Probably not a good one.

Decade of Indigenous Languages (@thecorrection.bsky.social):

If your strategy is to implode and take a chunk of the English-speaking world's social media ecosystem with it, to be replaced by whatever private equity can vulture capital instead …

well then things are goin' according to sched

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BardWatch She/Her Anti-Hate-Brigade 7mo ago #6813563

Radley Balko (@radleybalko.bsky.social):

Musk and the Republicans want the government to force companies to buy ads on shitty right-wing websites that promote Nazis and political violence.

Because know, free speech and all.

www.nytimes.com/2024/08/06/t...

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X, Owned by Elon Musk, Brings Antitrust Suit Accusing Advertisers of a Boycott

Zachary Edgerton (@doctorbiobrain.bsky.social):

Someone who actually knows something about the law please correct me, but...this seems absolutely insane and not at all a winning suit?

Zachary Edgerton (@doctorbiobrain.bsky.social):

That depends (as always).

If Musk can show that Twitter / X had contractual business with these advertisers that was interfered with by tortious slander / libel on the part of GARM —

But proving that GARM's observations are slander / libel / tortious — tall mountain to climb

Yeah I was reading this as not being any sort of breach of contract, just "they stopped giving us money", which is why it seems so bizarre to me!

In this case, I hope it would come down to what is conscionable snd what is inconscionable.

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BardWatch She/Her Anti-Hate-Brigade BardWatch 7mo ago #6813565

Musk's assertion is that GARM was motivated by political bias, anti-conservative bias. The same reason he sued MMFA.

He's trying to switch "hate speech" — the actual motivation for cutting association — with "conservative political" speech.

This is part of a broad strategy that stretches back —

Abby Koch (@abbykoch.bsky.social):

Back least a decade.

There's some evidence that Reddit didn't move to shut down /r/the_donald (despite mountains of evidence of it being a violent extremist hate group) out of fear of being sued in this way.

To be fair, the Venn diagram of hate speech and conservative political rhetoric can seem pretty close to a single circle these days

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BardWatch She/Her Anti-Hate-Brigade 7mo ago #6813474

So, one party is the party that claims to be Biblical and Christian, but puts children to work in slaughterhouses & mines —

And the other party is the party feeding & housing the destitute, the children, the widows & orphans, visiting the sick …

Seth Cotlar (@sethcotlar.bsky.social):

All I'm saying is that I actually read the Bible

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BardWatch She/Her Anti-Hate-Brigade 7mo ago #6812953

Is America really going to elect a radical lefse-ist Vice President?

Tom O'Brien (@wtsparrow.bsky.social):

Lefse street tacos

Seth Cotlar (@sethcotlar.bsky.social):

ON EVERY CORNER!