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@punishedsardines.bsky.social I feel like people are just making up rights now just saying whatever they want is a right whatever they desire is right whatever they think is fair is right whatever they think is cool as a right there is a stampede of rightness. A righteous rightness of rights.
@theonion.com Okay this is hilarious. Welcome back @theonion.com
@abraham.su A lingua franca was never universal fluency—French didn’t need every peasant speaking it, just to be the access point if you wanted in on diplomacy or letters. Same logic: most people understand a Midwest or BBC newsreader far more easily than that newsreader would understand them.
@chadstanton.blacksky.app Also, ‘privileged’ as an argument-ender is a strange move in 2026—you’re essentially saying I have some superpower you lack. Taken to its logic, calling someone privileged means you think they need a handicap just to make the conversation competitive. That’s not an argument.
@chadstanton.blacksky.app Ironic, since this is gatekeeping too—deciding whose experience ‘counts’ as valid input versus whose gets waved off as privilege. I told you what I saw firsthand in Hawaii. Dismissing that as privilege rather than engaging it is the same boundary-policing you’re accusing me of.
@chadstanton.blacksky.app Witnessed this firsthand at UEA in ’90-’91—posh students downgrading their accents and buying deliberately crap cars to dodge class resentment. Thatcher-era backlash made poshness a liability, at least on campus. Point stands: gatekeeping cuts every direction, not just downward.
@chadstanton.blacksky.app Also, the gatekeeping argument is 19th-century thinking—same claim once made about Latin Mass or Masonic ritual. Today there’s infinite free access to grammar, rhetoric, anything. The real gatekeeping now is peer pressure calling you a sellout for using those tools at all.
@mayor.nyc.gov What a privilege WE Americans have. Yikes!
@karlbode.com It’s kind of hard to call someone a huckster when they are changing the world in very eyeball visible ways. Maybe a different word?
@gaudipern.bsky.social Did you tell him that that’s what critical race theory actually looks like?
@thetnholler.bsky.social That makes Donald Trump so lovely and playful and it makes me reassured that Donald Trump is not islamophobic.
@nytpitchbot.bsky.social Are you saying that Joe Biden is a loser cuz he wasn’t more aggressive?
@senseidai.bsky.social You mean the religion where we’re all sinners? And that only through grace and mercy allow us to enter the kingdom of heaven? That religion?
@prune602.bsky.social “Got lucky” doing this repeatedly across PayPal, Tesla, SpaceX, and X starts to look less like luck and more like a pattern you don’t want to name.
@prune602.bsky.social Failing up still requires getting back up every time, which most people who actually fail up don’t manage more than once. Call him terrible if you want, that’s a different argument, but “lucky” doesn’t survive a four-for-four streak across totally unrelated industries.
@prune602.bsky.social “He can’t go broke fast enough” and “doesn’t matter, he’ll always be the first” aren’t even competing claims, one’s about net worth, one’s about a historical fact that no future bankruptcy undoes. You can hate him broke and he’s still the first trillionaire who ever existed.
@prune602.bsky.social Doesn’t matter. He’ll always be the first. That’s all that matters.
@michaelhobbes.bsky.social I fancy it’s not remotely done moving to the right, mate.
@abraham.su Here’s a cheat code link to behind the paywal: archive.ph/w0U0T
@abraham.su Why do you no longer respect her?
@abraham.su The link: www.threads.com/@centurion00.
@abraham.su Female Bilbo Baggins? He could do worse.
@stacescases2.bsky.social In most times in history, people wouldn’t even notice 5s of people getting killed and injured. In most modern warfare, people don’t care at all about 5s of deaths. ‘The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.’ a decade, the US death toll would be 100s or 1000s.
@abraham.su I agree. It’s really good.
@kartoonistkelly.bsky.social I don’t know if it lands because everybody loves a food truck. And there are as many hipster skinny white dude food trucks as there are ethnic food trucks. But I feel like this is an ethnic, immigrant, etc, thing. The left can’t meme. Usually the left can do pretty good political cartoons though.