Posts by barney@mas.to
(DIR) Post #AlKxOYpmyBhlzjoU2i by barney@mas.to
2024-08-25T20:49:46Z
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No, @steviesyerda you don't actually give a shit about Palestinians at all. Because you're using your Mastodon account to try to convince Americans that making Trump our president is a reasonable thing to do.Stop exploiting Palestinians by using their fragile lives as a prop in your efforts to build your personal sense of style. And stop trying to force me and my fellow Americans spend the rest of our lives in a fascist nightmare. Go fuck up your own country. Leave mine alone.#USPol
(DIR) Post #AlOUsxOQ6d4AoKzdia by barney@mas.to
2024-08-27T03:03:00Z
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Here's a very bizarre and inauthentic-appearing account. It posts totally insane right-wing nut job content, but it doesn't maintain any coherent political ideology. And it also posts a large amount of random non-political content.It links to a web page of a guy who advertises himself as a SEO optimization consultant. But I'm not sure it's really that guy.It has 1.9K followers. That's a lot, for a RWNJ in the Fediverse.
(DIR) Post #AlOUszLeps2qsLiSgq by barney@mas.to
2024-08-27T13:41:39Z
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@TruthSandwich He's consistently pro-fascist, but he can't seem to decide if he's going to explicitly love Trump, or pretend that he dislikes Trump like that qoto guy did.I think I remember seeing a different Mastodon account that also posted offensive RWNJ content, and linked to a professional page from an online scammer type. Maybe such people just have a knack for offensive trolling. "Any engagement is good engagement."
(DIR) Post #AlQmxc5EwplxezJO8u by barney@mas.to
2024-08-28T16:04:42Z
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Trump didn't go to Arlington last year, or the year before. The only reason he's going there now is because his campaign is in trouble.Using the deaths of the people you called suckers and losers to score political points is sickening.#USPol #Military #Patriotism
(DIR) Post #AlVEAYwZPLHt56UlsW by barney@mas.to
2024-08-30T19:44:03Z
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@argv_minus_one @benroyce Yeah, there were about 2 days in 2021, right after the Republican Party tried and failed to massacre our leaders and overthrow our government, when some in the GOP briefly regretted dedicating their lives to fascist insurrection.However, the party (led by McConnell) quickly closed ranks behind the Capitol putsch. And then, because there were never any negative consequences for the insurrection, the GOP learned the lesson that violent revolution is their only option.
(DIR) Post #AlVdAN7DslcJFcU3qC by barney@mas.to
2024-08-31T00:22:08Z
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@Emmreef1 Holy shit. Is that real? Did Politico really just lean all the way in to Racist Birther Lie 3.0?That's bad. Even for Politico.#USPol #Journalism
(DIR) Post #AlZFsSr6HXcfWkH4oy by barney@mas.to
2024-09-01T18:22:17Z
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@DemocracyMattersALot Our US media reports of these terrorist murders are underreporting their impact on Israeli politics, which may most directly affect us here.The Israeli public wants its hostages freed. But, according to the heads of Mossad and Shin Bet (Israel's FBI), Netanyahu is personally sabotaging negotiations to free the hostages. Hamas murdered these hostages only recently, in response to IDF's botched rescue attempt.Israelis are furious at Netanyahu.https://www.ynet.co.il/economy/article/rjkntjf3r
(DIR) Post #AlnNkMOjvTXJ1t5vRg by barney@mas.to
2024-09-08T13:56:05Z
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@fixatedpersonsunit @HumanServitor It's extremely offensive to us Americans when non-Americans, like you, post disgusting pro-fascist garbage like that.Stop trying to force me and 330 million other Americans to spend the rest of our lives in a fascist nightmare. Go fuck up your own country instead.We're not going back.#USPol
(DIR) Post #AlnYnGFQLdRyJrK5PE by barney@mas.to
2024-09-08T15:59:30Z
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@NeonPurpleStar Thank you, but I wouldn't say that it takes much courage to "stand up" to fascist scum like @fixatedpersonsunit on the internet. If filth like that succeed in destroying American democracy, we'll all be in real danger.As an aside, @fixatedpersonsunit, like many similar stinking fascist shitstains in the Fediverse, identifies itself as Australian. But I have increasing doubts that these are really Australians. Note that its profile pic is an AI-generated fake.@HumanServitor
(DIR) Post #AlsNQjpY4CUnhc4qrw by barney@mas.to
2024-09-10T23:35:29Z
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@steve_zeke This is yet another example of Senator Sanders attempting to sabotage an election and help Trump become president.He knows that he's working to destroy American democracy forever, and that's helping nobody but himself and Donald Trump. I'd hoped that he had finally ceased his sickening pro-fascist ratfucking. But, apparently, he hasn't.#USPol
(DIR) Post #AltjhLAtNj8SJ4LHhQ by barney@mas.to
2024-09-11T14:55:03Z
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@rightardia Don't post sickening lies like this. What the hell is wrong with you?
(DIR) Post #Am4f2URLlXgQ5lrgsS by barney@mas.to
2024-09-16T22:01:26Z
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@Nazani Excellent point. Thank you.@ProPublica has done an important service by telling the stories of women who were murdered by the Republican Party's atrocities. But they've erred by referring to so-called "#abortion pills."As you say, mifepristone can treat endometriosis. And it's used to treat miscarriage, which ends about 20% of pregnancies.The Republican Party is denying women #healthcare, forcing them to suffer horribly, become permanently disabled, and sometimes die.#USPol
(DIR) Post #Am4fZtUpd21JMIQDKa by barney@mas.to
2024-09-16T22:07:45Z
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@rhys It's pretty goddamned irresponsible of The Guardian to refer to a so-called "apparent assassination attempt." The man never even fired a shot. He was just one more white man walking around menacingly while brandishing a military weapon in public. In the Republican Party's America, that's a routine, everyday occurrence.
(DIR) Post #AmGdAsJX1EFmROb7A0 by barney@mas.to
2024-09-22T16:37:32Z
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@steve_zeke @aral No, but pro-fascist leftists like you are trying to turn "center-left" and "liberal" into insults.We're not going back, Steven.#USPol
(DIR) Post #AmH9sW04XVkMViLgJ6 by barney@mas.to
2024-09-22T22:43:44Z
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Concerning: The Republican Party's racist lies are getting far more traction than they should.Janet Jackson, of all people, incorrectly said in an earlier interview that she thought Kamala Harris was not Black. She has since apologized, explaining that she was misled by a lie.How many other people still believe the GOP's disgusting racist lies?#USPolhttps://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/janet-jackson-apologizes-kamala-harris-blames-misinformation-1235108908/
(DIR) Post #AmHEFkt7khYXA5R5lI by barney@mas.to
2024-09-22T23:32:54Z
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@Tattered @steve_zeke @aral Remarkably, this thread is dominated by people who aren't French, and know nothing about French parliamentary politics, spouting fantastically ignorant bullshit like "ignoring the results of an election," for the purpose of empowering fascists who aren't French either. Specifically, American fascists.There's a bit of background on what actually happened, here:https://www.france24.com/en/france/20240826-macron-far-right-leader-le-pen-pressure-mounts-name-new-prime-minister
(DIR) Post #AmHFjxgMqdIFU4R864 by barney@mas.to
2024-09-22T23:40:40Z
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Briefly, NFP is an alliance of numerous parties that joined to thwart Le Pen's Nazi-adjacent National Rally. NFP won enough seats to prevent National Rally from forming a government, but not enough to form a government that would survive an immediate vote of no confidence. The far left declined to negotiate, instead demanding a government that would be immediately dissolved.@Tattered @steve_zeke @aral
(DIR) Post #AmHFjzWW0EbJC5qI1A by barney@mas.to
2024-09-22T23:46:24Z
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Did Macron do that as effectively as he could have? Could he have somehow named a government that had more left-wing representation, but could still survive? Did the far-left parties ensure a more right-wing government by refusing to negotiate, knowing that National Rally won 140 seats?I don't know. Neither does anyone else who has appeared in this thread so far. It's just been an avalanche of bullshit from non-French pro-fascist leftists.@Tattered @steve_zeke @aral
(DIR) Post #AmHLkczNs05jJs2412 by barney@mas.to
2024-09-23T00:56:54Z
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@DanaDee I think there's no keeping the Republican name now. The GOP repeatedly conspired with a foreign enemy to commit acts of war against the United States. It is engaged in an ongoing violent attempt to overthrow the United States government. These are not reversible actions.I wish Liz Cheney had realized that a bit sooner, and created the new conservative party that America needs. She might have saved our democracy.
(DIR) Post #AmKqKY1tMoRuSh84hM by barney@mas.to
2024-09-24T17:23:35Z
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Under Trump, EPA scientists were pressured to endanger Americans."They were encouraged to delete evidence of chemicals’ harms, including cancer, miscarriage and neurological problems, from their reports — and in some cases, they said, their managers deleted the information themselves."#USPolhttps://www.propublica.org/article/epa-scientists-faced-retaliation-after-finding-harm-from-chemicals