https://bsky.app/profile/cjones47.bsky.social/post/3kpsoxtwlv72t
New bit idea: making a bluesky account with a donut and a US flag in the name and posting things like "As a somewhat conservative liberal, Stalin was right and he shouldn't have stopped at Berlin".
That account would make a lot of libs mad. And they'd get even madder when they discovered/realized it was a novelty account.
Now I'm wondering if I should ditch my bland Bluesky avi for something that's just the right level of provocative to get a hell of a lot more engagement. An RFJ Jr. might be the Goldilocks Zone. Hmm...
Oh by all means, go ham.
I'm the last guy who will tell you not to do an RFK Jr avatar
Idk homie I'd be pretty happy if I never had to see reactionary bullshit online ever again
I think that is part of the end goal of whatever project we are all here in support of. There is no world where we can allow competitive worldviews that are trying to destroy socialism/communism. It's just more civility fetish stuff. The world has always been ran by people who are part of a dominator culture of some kind. If we ever get to see our goals met, we need to fight tooth and nail to keep it that way.
I guess the Bluesky algo has started feeding me "hammer and sickle" discourse. I'm muting the phrase at least for now.
Genuinely, it's getting to the point where I see a hammer and sickle in someone's username/bio and I know that very soon after presenting them with facts, they will completely shut down and isolate themselves further in their disinformation sphere.
https://bsky.app/profile/mike10010100.bsky.social/post/3kpssyig42u2i
I find this quite interesting. For a liberal, "Facts" are indisputable things they agree with, and anyone who honestly disagrees with them is always just "misinformed" and refuses to accept the "Facts." There's no discussion of a topic, no understanding, no nuance, no contextualisation, there are "facts" and there is "disinformation" and if you aren't on team liberal, you are automatically being pumped full of disinformation by nefarious third parties.
They certainly ignore inconvenient facts. Just tonight Chris Hayes mentioned the "draconian abortion bill in Arizona" and he said "The Democrats want to Restore Roe" but he conveniently didn't explain how they would actually accomplish that in the real world. He might as well and the payrolls of the DNC and DCCC and getting fat checks from them.
As far as I'm concerned - even though it involves potential future situations - it's a fact that after the election if the dems are in power - the first step in restoring Roe must be some kind of radical judicial overhaul before they pass a "Restore Roe" law. If the dems don't do that overhaul first but pass a law anyway - the GOP justices will simply say the law is unconstitutional.
But libs keep lying to themselves, lying to each other, and lying to the world that there's some kind of magic where "Restoring Roe" can happen without the overhaul. It drives me insane.
They certainly ignore inconvenient facts.
Inconvienient facts aren't Capital F "Facts" though, they're disinformation. It's a binary, it either supports their worldview (and is therefore a Fact) or it doesn't (and is therefore disinformation).
And they smugly love to tell us how misinformed we are because we try to understand all the relevant information, not just the parts that we already agree with.
The only big right-wing account I know of at Bluesky is Tom Nichols. He has 22k followers because he's an anti-Trump guy who has appeared on MSNBC. Despite having a surprisingly large number of followers at a lib site - I was amused to see that he also has ~1,500 people blocking him. Libs can find him to be very tedious because his "my way or the highway" POV is different from their own.
I knew Bluesky would be liberal. But I have to admit that I didn't think it would be a lib playground where a lot of people would be as bad as the "We're right - YOU ARE WRONG" hivemind redditor mindset of r/politics. Even liberal intellectuals like Adam Serwer say stuff that makes me laugh.
Barack Obama presided over the largest expansion of the welfare state since Lyndon Johnson.
https://bsky.app/profile/adamserwer.bsky.social/post/3kprmxazen42w
In that thread he also acts as a Biden apologist on abortion as he always does. Sad.
Deep down they know there is no such thing as true objectivity, but it's a wonderful cudgel to keep "progressive" Dems in line.
I hope libs get their veto proof majority and sitting president just so they can finally see that it won't make a difference.
Look, voters were smart enough about democracy to give the democrats a veto-proof majority. However - the filibuster still exists and Senators Asshole, Stymied, and Neolib just aren't onboard with the plans to codify Roe. That's the reality right now. But what Biden can do is sign an executive order that sets aspirational goals on abortion so that...
One thing republicans get right is their party are all on board with their stated goals. The only reason you wouldn't be aiming for that is because you want to be controlled opposition so you can fundraise.
Then the Dems will rationalize it by saying
"you can't always get what you want sweaty"Even though Republicans always do, even when they're not in power
You can't even show them the shifting narrative on things they believe in. Take masking during COVID for example. Fauchi was their God and he was caught lying how many times?
Insufferable libs are insufferable.
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Edit
The chutzpah of this guy. He reposted this recently.
The 4 dark laws of online engagement:
- Negativity bias drives headline clicks
- Extreme opinions drive in-group sharing
- Out-group animosity drives engagement
- "Moral-emotional" language goes viral
I discuss our research on the dark side of virality...
https://bsky.app/profile/jayvanbavel.bsky.social/post/3kpsdl44viy2c
Yeah it's called the "capitalist bootlicking coward" mute button
tbh if i see a hammer+sickle on twitter, they're almost always a grifter/someone trying to build a media brand.
I don't know anything about him. But in the 60+ seconds I spent looking at his profile I assumed he was Trump Derangement Syndrome sufferer with a broken brain. They seem to all have the same POV - if you don't think the worst thing in the universe is Trump - you are the enemy.
i had to get off bluesky got sick of people saying i have to vote for joe biden
I just learned two things are far more common than I thought. "Sign in" posts and like farming posts (in particular with bullshit news). On the upside - I started focusing on small accounts where people actually do stuff - play guitar, take photos etc. But politically - I assume most of the accounts with 10,000s of followers are libs. Being a lib is the norm there.
Every once in a while I check clearsky.app to see who's blocking me. A recent account is a guy with this as a bio...
Reaganite technologist in Northern Virginia
He's going to be very lonely - haha.
Is it possible not to shid and fard every time someone challenges my neoliberal worldview?
