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Kaia Bell
@kaiabell.bsky.social
Writer, historian. Pro-decriminalization, sex worker rights, & freedom of sexual expression.
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That was such an unsettling choice on their part. They were offered an incredible opportunity to bring some unity to a divisive issue and allow an important voice to be heard and they just cruised right past it.

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Good god. So the service they’re providing is to ad buyers now, not users, because this is essentially like asking Whole Foods for directions to Trader Joe’s.

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I used to see the occasional mob of extremely online, extremely misguided leftists but I think that’s spillover from platforms that incentivize toxic behavior. Toxicity might be more noticeable here because it’s so out of place (& easily fixed with a block).

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Every time I see this stuff, I genuinely wonder what his supporters are hearing. Like, is it just soothing background noise to them? Or are they hearing the words and thinking, “yeah, that’s my guy spitting some hard truths”?

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That’s such a Bret Stephens thing for him to do.

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I think this means Manchin is to the right of Dick Cheney now.

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I know this can only do so much but damn, it’s an important thing to do.

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Oh my god, that’s *exactly* what it is.

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Whoa. The tree one’s a thinker. It’s like when a kid says something unintentionally hilarious but then you find yourself lying in bed staring at the ceiling, wondering what it means for a tree to be the wrong height.

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Kaia Bell
@kaiabell.bsky.social
Writer, historian. Pro-decriminalization, sex worker rights, & freedom of sexual expression.
156 followers332 following564 posts