blayzeon.bsky.social
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Or they just say whatever they’re paid to say, no questions asked, no research, no critical thought.
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Good and evil aren’t real concepts. There’s integrity and dishonesty.
Humans did intentionally act dishonestly in a way that harmed the environment, continue to do so, and no one is effectively stopping them because we value time and money over morality as a society.
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Is this a takes one to know one situation? Not sure if I wanna be a pea in your pod 😂
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Are you trying to convince us or yourself because you just acted so shocked regarding some related common knowledge 😂😂😂
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How do you not know about this?
Here’s a random article from a quick search but these types of stories are incredibly common all over the world.
It’s especially sick when parents raise kids to marry off to older people for this kind of thing, too.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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The person you’re replying with to is talking about a movement. So you’re saying that raising children and young adults with the intent for legalized, “consensual” slavery is a kink now and not a cult?
Not sure if I’m on board with this. Kinda feels like the pro “MAPs” movement all over again.
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It’s not like using a calculator. It’s like asking someone else to do the calculation for you.
The problematic part comes if the person asking can’t tell if the answer provided is correct or even reasonable.
Calculators don’t hallucinate or lie. LLMs and third parties can and will.
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It’s a white woman that they’re talking about in the video, they still cut her benefits.
Poor children are meant to be uneducated so they can be manipulated and exploited. Rich children are meant to maintain the status quo.
The identity divide is used to scapegoat minorities and manipulate bigots.
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Maybe builders would start making affordable starter homes to meet demand?
No one has a crystal ball to predict the future but a ton of overpriced starter homes on the market seems better than a ton of overpriced luxury houses and apartments like they’re building now.
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So what’s the plan? No incremental progress on anything until we elect the candidate that the 0.1% will never let us have?
Straight R victories until then? Just let them deport and attack our vulnerable groups because we can’t have everything everywhere all at once?
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It’s really funny when I see comments like this.
It reads like “does unions telling workers to protest really help employers right now?”
“Have unions given workers any specific action other than ‘fight for your best interest’?”
“Collecting union dues doesn’t help employers at this time.”
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You haven’t provided anything that backs that up.
Female boomers lean more left than male boomers. Women live longer than men, if time is the only factor, that should be reversed, no?
My theory aligns perfectly. I’ve heard your theory before but it doesn’t seem to match reality.
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I know koolaid can be pretty tasty when it comes with a side of confirmation bias, but the longer you drink it, the harder it is to go back to water
DEI exists because people would rather hire their friend than the best possible candidate and the only people mad about it are racist and the ignorant
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You got it backwards, mate.
Try reading an actual study or paper about why DEI works rather than just gobbling up whatever the demagogue of the week prepared special for ya.
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Marginalized groups are more likely to be victims of systemic violence, they are also more likely to be leftists.
We have a history of putting poor and marginalized people on the front lines.
Sexual minorities are more likely to be leftists and victims of hate crimes.
See where I’m coming from?
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Why do you keep making this personal?
It is a fact of life that a higher percentage of older people have more free time simply because they’re retired or have more stable careers. It’s not a bad thing and it’s not something to be defensive about.
For someone who likes to lecture, maybe think more
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You said imagine genx and boomers being the only ones with free time on the weekends.
I replied many younger gens don’t have free time on the weekends.
I said nothing else. It’s great that you worked hard. It sounds like you have weekends off now, I’m happy for you.
Many young people don’t.
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Are you okay? I assumed nothing and said nothing about you. I just stated a fact.
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Well… a lot of younger people have multiple jobs and work weekends so they can afford rent and groceries.
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You think today’s trends are a deciding factor for the longevity of a generation that had a completely different culture?
The majority of older people go to the doctor because they have socialized medicine.
I’m more interested in the impacts of war and deadly prejudice marginalized groups faced.
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It makes sense if you’ve been following the fact that Elon has been doing this exact thing on Twitter even before X.
Say something to crash the market, buy the dip, say something different to rally the market. Sell and profit.
Trump told people to buy on social media before announcing the pause.
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What makes you think republicans don’t stand for anything?
I agree that many republican politicians don’t seem to, but republicans voters seem to be very passionate about issues.
I think that’s why they’re more likely to protest and vote.
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I know it’s not about me but I’m suggesting there is more to this.
Do you believe those same hippy boomers are now voting for conservative?
Could it be that people do not grow more conservative, but conservatives live longer or are more likely to vote? Most female boomers still vote left.
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I can sympathize with that belief.
Do you think it would be better overall to advocate for as many good things as possible to rally single issue voters, or should we rank what’s most important and focus on trying to agree on key issues?
I just don’t see republicans infighting as much as dems.
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Maybe that’s been the case in the past but millennials grew up with Bush and Trump as republican presidents.
I can’t speak for all millennials, but I don’t see myself ever voting conservative. They’ve not only consistently trashed our economy, they’re an absolute embarrassment.
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We can advocate for more than one thing at once, that’s what republicans do and it’s a big part of why they’re more popular with single issue voters.
If you focus on categories instead of specifics, this is a human rights issue and human rights are incredibly important in general.
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You can do both. Politicians keep going to the right because conservatives vote every single election whereas the left has a habit of “making a statement” by not voting.
If the most left politician wins every time, politicians on both sides of the isle will race left.
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You need to update your propaganda graph. It’s gone down a lot more 😅
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Maybe you’re the blue maga for dismissing what I’m saying, ever consider that?
Because I’ve already heard your theory from non-credible sources.
Jimmy Dore Says stuff like that and he IS blue maga lol
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People tend to only understand things that they care about, and tend to only care about things that already have good optics.
Someone can be incredibly smart but incapable of making a cognitive connection that goes against what they were taught.
Those that force it can face life changing backlash.
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He bought twitter and used it to shovel right wing content to every single user regardless of what they engage with.
Someone documented a new account and it took them like a month of liking every single pokemon post they saw and blocking everything else before the right wing content let up.
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So holier than thou.
No one will ever listen to you if all you offer is judgements and complaints while completely dismissing those who are working hard within the party to actually bring about the change that you claim to want.
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Or maybe, the US is full of imperfect (and often bigoted) people in general and while there is a movement away from that, the democratic party is older than the general population so it’s moving at a slower pace than the rest of us might like.
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So your theory is it’s all a grand conspiracy. Got it.
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Don’t get it twisted, we got him because billionaires wanted his tax cuts. Thats why we got him in 2016 and then in 2024 just as they were set to expire in 2025.
The free marketing he got on fb and xhitter was enough to brainwash most of the boomers, misogynists, and apparently alt lefties.
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I think too many people refuse to acknowledge and appreciate what those before us sacrificed so much to achieve.
Yes there is still a long way to go but throwing away what we have isn’t the path to something better.
We need to accept that we’re falling and the bottom is still a long way down.
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Wow the entire democratic party is pro genocide?
That’s news to me. I guess I should let all the democrats who have been risking their safety and careers in order to advocate for a free Palestine know. 🤪
Ignorance is strength ig 😂😂😂
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Yeah, I know. Every dem sucks because they’re either a woman, or old, or queer, or they are too rich, or they accept the wrong donations, or they are cringe, etc.
So I guess we should keep infighting while the other side unites over their hatred of us.
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Prior generations fought hard for rights in the form of laws and regulations.
It took lobbyists this long to dismantle them all.
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The question wasn’t about Hillary.
I just thought I’d provide a real answer instead of an emotional response like everyone else 😘
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She’s done a lot of questionable things in the past.
Two things that come to mind: She raised over $1M in donations for a “recount” on behalf of Hillary in 2016 but put in the fine print that the money actually is going to the green party. She also appears to have ties with Russia.
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I’m gonna try to figure it out after work today. This thread has inspired me to take action.
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I don’t know what page is but this article touches on some issues: www.forbes.com/sites/tonyae...
Another concern is cyber security, especially amongst the elderly, trusting and technologically illiterate. Lot of potential for fraud and abuse. I know fiat also has issues but those are more known.
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Having hundreds of millions or billions sitting in a brokerage account collecting interest and dividends while it’s used it as collateral for tax free loans at a lower interest rate than it is gaining while being in the market.
It’s utilized that way so it grows faster than it can be spent.
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I agree that if we never left the gold standard we would have a lot less issues but switching from fiat currency to something like bitcoin is going to cause a whole mountain of new problems.
I can’t explain with the character limit lol. Basically a lot of people will suffer.
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I’d share with you for free 😂😂😂
I know you probably don’t see that as a real response but food is plentiful with access to land. Chickens are easy to raise and veg is plentiful. The issue isn’t a lack of resources but poor allocation.
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Close. I’m saying all currency has issues.
We can say some issues are bigger than others but we won’t all agree on everything.
I don’t think abandoning fiat currency is any more of an answer than abandoning all currency, crypto included.
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Yup. We need tax reform. I believe taxing wealth instead of wages is the way to do it. There may be better ways but I prefer simple solutions and this method discourages wealth hoarding which I believe is the root cause of many of the issues we face globally.
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It doesn’t matter. It’s the same. Earn $1B through labor and you pay more than if you earn $1B through inheritance.
The details don’t matter. Earned income is under more scrutiny than any other kind of income.