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Patrick McLaughlin

@McPatrick@zirk.us
mastodon 4.7.3
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Formerly @McPatrick@mastodon.social
AKA elsewhere Ogrepat.

Unitarian Universalist minister.

Interests include, but are NOT LIMITED to:
#Antifascism
#Antiracism
#Beer
#Brewing
#Cats
#ClimateChange #ClimateTwitter
#Cooking
#Dogs
#Gardening
#History
#LanguageLearning; currently using:
#DuolingoArabic
#DuolingoFrench
#DuolingoItalian
#DuolingoSpanish
#DuolingoUkrainian
#AZPolitics
#NHPolitics
#USPolitics
#Politics
#PoliticalTheory
#Religion
#RPGs
#SciFi
#Travel
#UnitarianUniversalism

115 Followers
430 Following
23 Posts
Joined December 16, 2023
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Patrick McLaughlin @McPatrick@zirk.us
· 20mo ago
Replying to
@futurebird@sauropods.win What I’m saying is that malicious (non-)compliance can be very effective. Best if we can draw and hold the bright lines (Do Not Comply in Advance!). But if you must, do it very, very, very badly. And slowly. In ways that jam the machine.
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Patrick McLaughlin @McPatrick@zirk.us
· 20mo ago

@Viss@mastodon.social @Gargron@mastodon.social

Even Rollingstone — headline refers to a straight arm salute, and the text to a Roman salute.

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Patrick McLaughlin @McPatrick@zirk.us
· 20mo ago

@Gargron@mastodon.social

And the ADL is trying to pretend that what we can all see (twice) wasn’t what we saw, too.

Cowards and collaborators, all of them.

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Patrick McLaughlin @McPatrick@zirk.us
· 21mo ago

@stux@mstdn.social @mrcopilot@mstdn.social

And saved Canada from a reactor meltdown, just 2 hours NW of Ottawa.

Literally the moral antithesis of 45.

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Patrick McLaughlin @McPatrick@zirk.us
· 20mo ago

@adhdeanasl@beige.party

It’s still reasonable to do so — not because the world doesn’t need to be aware of and alert to sprinting fascism (there’s no “creeping” now). But because it allows people to decide to read — or read later. Or not.

Like picking up a paper, and choosing not to read an article you know will upset you and it’s not the time. Or because your mental health really needs the space.

Not fussing. I’m just aware the alternative some will choose is blocking you. Which defeats your purpose.

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Patrick McLaughlin @McPatrick@zirk.us
· 21mo ago

@inthehands@hachyderm.io @stux@mstdn.social

No one.
I’m all but certain he’s the most decent person to ever occupy the office.

Not the luckiest (in office), unfortunately.

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Patrick McLaughlin @McPatrick@zirk.us
· 20mo ago

@i_give_u_worms@mastodon.cloud

Not really. More… lapdogs.

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Patrick McLaughlin @McPatrick@zirk.us
· 20mo ago

@georgetakei@universeodon.com

One can but hope that they all lose lots and lots of sleep over it. Or that they stroke out. I’m not proud of it, but I am ok with either outcome.

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Patrick McLaughlin @McPatrick@zirk.us
· 21mo ago

@TheBradBlog@journa.host

Um. That…

Okay.

No. Wait.

What?

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Patrick McLaughlin @McPatrick@zirk.us
· 21mo ago

@jnye@mstdn.plus

Me too. The internet (written communications, really) makes it so hard.

And especially in a time when officials suggest things that are so bonkers that one would like to think they were sarcasm.

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Patrick McLaughlin @McPatrick@zirk.us
· 33mo ago
Replying to
@markvonwahlde@mastodon.world @tristansnell@mstdn.social True. There were “states’ rights” — to do what?
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Patrick McLaughlin @McPatrick@zirk.us
· 33mo ago
Replying to
@markvonwahlde@mastodon.world @tristansnell@mstdn.social The shameful 3/5ths of a person is the consequence of a fight over whether the bodies of the enslaved should be counted — in order to grant the power, the weight, of their vote to the slave-keepers. Not because they were deemed 3/5ths of a person. They were not granted being any part of a person in the states they were enslaved in. The people whose political interests and concerns you’re defending are those enslavers.
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Patrick McLaughlin @McPatrick@zirk.us
· 20mo ago

@w7voa@journa.host

Merch for 34 will be.
(Or… maybe not — let the suckers pay for it there too? That would be droll.)

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Patrick McLaughlin @McPatrick@zirk.us
· 20mo ago

@tofugolem@mastodon.social

Yeah.

And a majority of white voters voted for Trump directly. Handing our nation to him.

(I’m not excusing voting for Stein. Stupid to do so. But more explicable than the above.)

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Patrick McLaughlin @McPatrick@zirk.us
· 20mo ago

This (in a different version) has been on my mind on and off all day. And then I heard my spouse playing a version of it in the other room…

https://youtu.be/0bmE9XY3sOc

Hardwell & Maddix - Bella Ciao (Live Video)

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Patrick McLaughlin @McPatrick@zirk.us
· 20mo ago

@kevinrothrock@infosec.exchange

Will require a write of mandamus.

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Patrick McLaughlin @McPatrick@zirk.us
· 20mo ago

@wolfkin@mastodon.social @tofugolem@mastodon.social

Traditional responses to Nazis seem appropriate.

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Patrick McLaughlin @McPatrick@zirk.us
· 20mo ago

@stonekettle@threads.net

Terrified of snowflakes.

Perfect.

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Patrick McLaughlin @McPatrick@zirk.us
· 20mo ago

@stonekettle@threads.net

The folks who — when class was being handed out — decided to cut it.

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Patrick McLaughlin @McPatrick@zirk.us
· 20mo ago

@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io

The moment when suckers begin to wake up to the con. Or at least that they’re being conned.

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Patrick McLaughlin @McPatrick@zirk.us
· 21mo ago

So for what it’s worth, it appears that it will be a shortage of espresso (whole beans, to be ground) that will drive us out to shop post-Xmas.

#CriticalNeeds

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Patrick McLaughlin @McPatrick@zirk.us
· 33mo ago
Replying to
@markvonwahlde@mastodon.world @tristansnell@mstdn.social Even that’s a stretch. The slave states *demanded* an unfair system that advantaged them in the Constitution. Extra seats and by counting the “votes” of the enslaved — but voted by the slavers. Bans on even talking about slavery in Congress. The Runaway Slave law — violating “states rights” in free states. You’re talking the umbrage of the fabulously wealthy of the South at losing control of the US as cause for illegal secession and war. Not even a case they pled.
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