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_cryptagion [he/him]

@cryptagion@unwilling.observer

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likes #anarchism, #copyleft, #piracy, drinking #tea, #photography, #GenAI, and watching nazis/zionists get punched. the only good authoritarian is a dead authoritarian. all cops are fascists. liberals are nazi collaborators. the united states is a terrorist state. israel does not have any right to exist.

any original art or software I post here is public domain under the unlicense, use it as you want.

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_cryptagion [he/him]1d ago

🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽1d ago

Let’s put this to bed.

_cryptagion [he/him]1d ago

That whole thing with Trump and the Liberian president was awkward as fuck. You know he has no idea where Liberia is on a map, let alone anything about the country.

_cryptagion [he/him]1d ago

@sand I mean, that’s even worse when you consider that there was already tools out there to outsmart captchas before AI.

_cryptagion [he/him]1d ago

Jan Wildeboer 😷

Let's be clear. This is a car. Four wheels. It weighs 225 kg empty and you can add up to 200 kg of cargo. That's not an electric bike, as the manufacturer claims it is. This is a small car that occupies and blocks the bike lane. This concept shouldn't exist. Us cyclists already have to deal with bad infrastructure. I see this as a provocation, not as the positive change it pretends to be. Such vehicles belong on the road, not the bike lane.

(Gift link, needs email) https://wapo.st/4nCgi10

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_cryptagion [he/him]1d ago

@jwildeboer that’s some straight up bullshit. We can’t have anything nice without corporations trying to take it over.

_cryptagion [he/him]1d ago

ProgressivePower 1d ago

#MAGA oppose America, the Constitution, and American democracy.

_cryptagion [he/him]1d ago

Augie Ray 1d ago

Joe Walsh is a former Tea Party Republican who has joined the Democratic party.

Real conservatives prioritize their commitment to democracy and the Constitution above party. The conservatives who voted for Trump are just some combination of selfish, racist, and hateful.

_cryptagion [he/him]2d ago

Augie Ray 2d ago

That is an awful lot of words to say, "I had sex with underage girls and the Epstein files prove my guilt."

_cryptagion [he/him]2d ago

Radical Graffiti 2d ago

"Healthcare is on the way out, thanks 2 Amazon"
Seen on an Amazon delivery van in Seattle

_cryptagion [he/him]2d ago

Radical Graffiti 5d ago

"Do not mistreat or oppress a foreigner" - Exodus 22:21
Stencil seen in Charlevoix, Michigan

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Augie Ray 1d ago

Joe Walsh is a former Tea Party Republican who has joined the Democratic party.

Real conservatives prioritize their commitment to democracy and the Constitution above party. The conservatives who voted for Trump are just some combination of selfish, racist, and hateful.

@augieray trusting Walsh is a BIG MISTAKE.

Big.

There. Are. No. Decent. Republicans. They. Are. *ALL*. Filthy. Nazis. Without. Exception.

#TurdReich #TEAParty #MAGAts #GOP

Augie Ray 1d ago

@faraiwe I don't trust Walsh. I welcome his voice in criticizing Trump and encouraging other Republicans to do so.

The enemy of my enemy is not my friend. But it's stupid to reject Republicans who want to stand up for democracy and the Constitution and join the resistance against Trump.

I may never agree with Walsh's policies, but I can respect his commitment to doing what's right at this moment.

If you're drowning and a Republican holds out his hand to save you, you take it.

BronMason 1d ago

👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 Well said!

Saving our democracy (as flawed as it is) from maga. is a heavy lift.

We need all the helping hands we can get.

We can resume our differences later.

@bronakins @augieray as long as everyone is well aware that Walsh is not doing this because he has any principles, but because he was left out of the grift roster.

See also "Lincoln Project", and so many other repenting magdalenes, who develop "principles" when the money stops flowing.

As mentioned, the enemy of my enemy is not my friend. What you do is, you let them both shoot at each other, then you finish the survivor off.

fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻1d ago

Then have him help quietly without giving him a platform that he can use against us later. We are in no shortage of white guys with microphones.

@bronakins @augieray @faraiwe

Augie Ray 1d ago

@fromjason @bronakins @faraiwe IMO, we need more loud white guy Republicans who can influence white guy Republicans. We need people who look and act like Joe Rogan to counteract Rogan. If you think we chip away at Republican support by burying the few GOP voices criticizing Trump, I think your strategy will fail.

fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻1d ago

Because the strategy of appealing to rich white centrists has gone so well? At the expense of virtually every oppressed identity in this country no less. Yeah I'm good with not doing that anymore actually. I'm not going to keep begging white men to stop over funding ICE and the police, or to give trans people their humanity.

Every fascist tool Trump is using was funded by those we insist on courting.

@augieray @bronakins @faraiwe

Augie Ray 1d ago

@fromjason We share the same perspective but disagree on approach. Either way, neither you nor I will have an impact on whether Republicans like Joe Walsh raise their voices. I just think, if you look at the 2024 election, the problem was NOT that Harris didn't have enough influencers who were trans or POCs speaking up. It was that white males listened to people like Rogan and Charlie Kirk. Like it or not, if we want to win more white males, we need to accept white male voices opposed to Trump.

fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻1d ago

@augieray I think we may differ on perspective a bit. The people we have a chance at converting, not the upper middle class who vote Trump for their wallets, but the poor who want change, will never come to the Dems because our corporate donors decided that a populist message is a non-starter.

What's a liberal Joe Rogan with the same status quo corporate approved messaging?

The last election people were drowning, and we were pointing at graphs about how the economy was good, actually.

fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻1d ago

@augieray and then when we lost the election, we tried to blame Black and Latino people. MSNBC primetime blaming Latinos. This is not a matter of poor messaging. It's a matter of poor policy. The people voting for Trump are misguided, sure. But they'll never come over if we keep gaslighting them. Joe Walsh being anti-Trump is not good enough. Us being anti-Trump is not good enough.

fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻1d ago

@augieray Joe Walsh is not changing minds. He is the archetype of why people are fleeing the Democratic Party in the first place.

@fromjason @augieray @bronakins we must both court and cater to NON WHITES NON MALES vote, trying to - maybe who knows - put forth YOUNGER, PROGRESSIVE people with PROGRESSIVE - did I mention PROGRESSIVE? - policies and platforms that white male majority is not exactly keen on.

THAT is how dens would win elections... If they cared to do so, instead of catering to white male conservatives, while demonizing anyone else.

#TurdReich #Democrats #USPol

@augieray Fair enough, and I relate.

@augieray @faraiwe too bad his hand is coming with a baggage 🙁

@BroGle @augieray *lead weight and a rope

@faraiwe @augieray right

crazyeddie 1d ago

@augieray There really is no left wing party. There are liberals in the Democratic Party, but they're NOT well received. What we really have is conservative corporate owned vs. Nazi corporate owned.

Augie Ray 1d ago

@crazyeddie I am exhausted having to argue with people about idiocy like this. The Democrats may disappoint you, but if you cannot fundamentally tell the difference between the unconstitutional, racist and demented policies of this administration and the alternative offered by the Democrats, that says a lot more about you than it does US political parties.

crazyeddie 1d ago

@augieray You read a lot into that and became a total asshole for no reason.

Later.

Ariaflame 1d ago

@crazyeddie @augieray Well you were the only person talking about 'left wing' parties. So why did you go there?

@augieray @crazyeddie

"The white conservatives aren't friends of the Negro either, but they at least don't try to hide it. They are like wolves; they show their teeth in a snarl that keeps the Negro always aware of where he stands with them. But the white liberals are foxes, who also show their teeth to the Negro but pretend that they are smiling. The white liberals are more dangerous than the conservatives; they lure the Negro, and as the Negro runs from the growling wolf, he flees into the open jaws of the "smiling" fox."

Malcolm X

She Was Speaking 1d ago

@augieray @crazyeddie Or maybe you're just a racist who was fine with record deportations, record shootings by police, and genocide when it was a Democrat doing it.

@ushmel @augieray How dare you say we piss on the poor

cwicseolfor 1d ago

@augieray Recognizing “conservative” as a coherent worldview & politics which - whatever one’s personal opinion - DO directly oppose those of this regime, despite maga’s insistence otherwise, is both excellent tactics to reinstate American pluralism via schism of the far-right coalition, and an effort to revive intellectual honesty over tribalism(which also imo takes significant bravery when even legibility of others’ beliefs is often held suspect.) It’s the right, hard thing.

Petr Skála 1d ago

@augieray 👍👍👍

MemphisDaPlaya 🎲🎲1d ago

@augieray
He was good in The Eagles.

Augie Ray 1d ago

@GoatRoper What is it with people who see a serious post about a deadly serious topic and think, "I'll make a silly dad joke?"

MemphisDaPlaya 🎲🎲1d ago

I'm sorry I bothered you. I will fix that for you. Have a blessed and holy day! Thoughts and prayers!🙏

@augieray I agree the US should have open borders and shouldn't be harassing civilians at work regardless of their naturalization status. The anti-immigration efforts are a smokescreen for the fact Republicans have offered nothing tangible to the working class. We need lower cost housing, higher wages, better educational opportunities, lower grocery prices. Kidnapping someone at their job isn't going to fix that.

@augier if these scum who voted the felon (not once but twice, even more likely three times) now wants to join the opposition, they can prove themselves first, not by hijacking the opposition agenda but by showing their true patriotism and their undying love for guns by exercising their 2A rights first, if not enjoy MAGA lite until whatever even more vile comes after MAGA.

Kevin Russell 1d ago

👆 👆 🔥 👏 👏

#racism #ICE #WhiteSupemacy #Court #Kidnap #Jansixth #ProudBoys #dems

Tattered 1d ago

@augieray Joe Walsh is more acceptable to the DNC than Zohran Mamdani…

Augie Ray 1d ago

@Tattered The Democratic Party would not support Joe Walsh running as a Democrat. They welcome his criticism of Donald Trump.

I am frustrated with how many in the DNC have treated Mamdani, but the comparison you made is hardly apples to apples.

Tattered 1d ago

@augieray If a former member of the Tea Party is now a member of the Democrats, it seems a fine distinction to me. But then, I am no admirer of any political party to the right of socialism. The idea that the DNC represents the American Left seems to me to be a very large part of the current political difficulties faced by the US.

Edelruth In The Wrong Timeline 1d ago

Joe Walsh did what now? I need a moment.