Posting here a thread by Stathis N. Kalyvas, who is not yet in BlueSky: - ThreadSky

laiabalcells.bsky.social • 6 days ago

Posting here a thread by Stathis N. Kalyvas, who is not yet in BlueSky:

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boykobostonian.bsky.social•6 days ago

What Trump et. al. are doing is SEDITION. Overthrowing the gov't, which is what this is, is treason. The "guarantee" clause of the Constitution says states MUST be given a republican form of government (ie a republic). Every GOPer not disavowing Trump is now giving aid & comfort to enemies.

gizmoman.bsky.social•6 days ago

kermitology.bsky.social•6 days ago

The last line of the last post is wrong, the timing couldn’t be more perfect. This chaos is intended to destabilize the entire world. You can include Canada as well, we’re about to have an election ourselves.

tonyarene.bsky.social•5 days ago

Not unrelated: I turned my tv on this morning to an update that wasn’t meant to improve anything, but to give them permission to share my viewing habits to 3rd parties. No thank you.

garyrlundberg.bsky.social•5 days ago

Thank you 🙏

tankelle.bsky.social•6 days ago

We need powerful voices to encourage readers to #Xodus and move to Bluesky

humuhumu.bsky.social•6 days ago

📌

astill73.bsky.social•6 days ago

📌

elanc.bsky.social•6 days ago

All true, except the last sentence “before it’s too late”. It already is too late.

jenniedahlby.bsky.social•6 days ago

Who benefits from the downfall of the US and destabilization in Europe? I'm old enough to remember when the USSR was the enemy of democracy. Now Russia is directing the auctions in the US.

boykobostonian.bsky.social•6 days ago

Well, China via Russia. But ultimately, f'ing China is in charge.

ohnoitsbits.bsky.social•6 days ago

literally don’t understand having important things to say and saying it on twitter

kcarr2015.bsky.social•6 days ago

That's just a convenient outlet, it's probably written up better in a magazine somewhere. 🤷‍♂️

d-marquis.bsky.social•6 days ago

"It might awake us out of our slumber before it's too late"
yes, this.

maverickgator.bsky.social•6 days ago

Who is a world renowned political scientists.

3piecemedia.bsky.social•6 days ago

It won't wake us. Too many people are zombified or compromised. Life as an American went from prideful to praisefully problematic to emphatically embarrassing to actively antagonistic to ferociously fascist in 35years. This is the fall of a democracy so its leaders can manufacture a global dystopia.

jrktexas.bsky.social•5 days ago

Please ask him to join us here!

jamesstein18.bsky.social•6 days ago

What can we do? What organizations are the most impactful and stepping up to prevent this hostile take over?

summerofkangaroos.bsky.social•6 days ago

It is weird that Kalyvas is still publishing on X. That supports Musk whether someone wants to support Musk or not.

billejzak.bsky.social•5 days ago

Trump and billionaire Musk are hyper-predators who are destroying the federal government, the rule of law, the Constitution and the Pax Americana. Haven't we learned that the courts won't save us? We must all take peacefully to the streets in protest. There was NO consent for Project 2025.

efinkel.bsky.social•6 days ago

The only thing that is not entirely clear to me is why, why Stathis is not yet on Bluesky.

pavisuri.bsky.social•5 days ago

I think many academics have not updated on the Bluesky community. Early impressions of "echo chamber" and "don't like alternative view points" have stayed.

efinkel.bsky.social•5 days ago

Interesting. My impression was that it was mostly academics here before the great Twitter exodus started

cathyjlane.bsky.social•5 days ago

Are you on twitter?! Go ask him to get off of there.

darinself.com•5 days ago

We are talking about the people who only update their online CV every few years and their faculty profile picture was taken 20 years ago.

efinkel.bsky.social•5 days ago

I update my online CV once a year at least. The photo, though, is a different thing entirely.

yoshikoherrera.bsky.social•6 days ago

That was my question too!

5plume.bsky.social•6 days ago

Pity the 'confused and disoriented'.

gizmoman.bsky.social•6 days ago

Trump also knows full well that if it ever came to a civil war (G-d forbid), the southern states have the lion's share of military hardware.

boykobostonian.bsky.social•6 days ago

Also the lion's share of inbred dumba**es

gizmoman.bsky.social•6 days ago

YUP!

gizmoman.bsky.social•6 days ago

I fear it's already too late 😟

joshdsw.bsky.social•6 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/joshdsw.bsky.social/post/3lid5cpyauk27

madmoon33.bsky.social•6 days ago

And in the meantime… pain, loss, grief, sorry and rage. Be the NO.

jasinma.bsky.social•6 days ago

Retired from a private-sector, soft-diplomacy international role in May. It breaks my heart to wonder what my former friends and thought partners are thinking now.

madmoon33.bsky.social•6 days ago

We know what they’re thinking as it’s also what we are thinking 😕

andytheentity.bsky.social•6 days ago

US was never the world's oldest democracy. Otherwise agreed.

permosia.bsky.social•5 days ago

Please post if Kalyvas has ideas as to what Americans can do.

kendall-s.bsky.social•6 days ago

Everyday it feels more and more inevitable that we’re headed to war.

thomas-nilsson-se.bsky.social•6 days ago

Trump at 54% approval and effectively complete capitulation by rest of opposition to the rapid dismantling of US democracy and government. Being alarmist is like shouting into the void

anthonydewees.bsky.social•6 days ago

Clearly they are throwing down. I don't know whether they think they have a winning hand or this is their only chance... They definitely need to be stopped. This is not a us-based throwdown. This is global. 3 of the 10 richest men in the world with a weak president they as head of the biggest army

madmoon33.bsky.social•6 days ago

As I see it too.

whoweare4change.bsky.social•5 days ago

Notes:
• We knew his authoritarian plan. Read Project 2025
• The very point is to destroy America - most ppl in prison labor camps a la NKorea with the wealthy hording assets/land/resources. Pay attention to MAGA state legislation.
• Putin & Trump have plan to carve up globe - Aleksandr Dugin essay

whoweare4change.bsky.social•5 days ago

•••> Their plan is 180 days to full control.

Though with Musk + his hackers, this might have accelerated the takeover.

We've lost 28 days already.

No more talking about how bad things are. It's a waste of time. Worse is waiting.

We MUST act as ONE cohesive unit NOW to disrupt their progress.

cathyjlane.bsky.social•5 days ago

Exactly. People are still not activating. Ugh.

fedoddy.bsky.social•6 days ago

World’s oldest democracy?

pepperg1rl.bsky.social•6 days ago

Iceland

stirlingthinks.bsky.social•6 days ago

The Icelandic Republic was established in 1944

fedoddy.bsky.social•6 days ago

Quite a lot depends on your definition of “democracy” it seems.

deadlocked.org•6 days ago

Iceland, if I recall correctly, has the oldest parliament, but parliaments aren’t inherently democratic.

stirlingthinks.bsky.social•6 days ago

Yep

janavs.bsky.social•6 days ago

I completely agree.
Yet, I tell family members who aren't extremists and (as far as I know) aren't Trumpies how serious this is, and they either throw their hands up in the air and get in their Teslas or say, "everyone's entitled to their opinion."

laiabalcells.bsky.social•6 days ago

Many Tesla owers in DC are now unemployed...

liaskwerklooi.bsky.social•6 days ago

I disagree that by their actions they think they are increasing US power. They don't care about US power, relations with allies or containing enemies. It's a gang of grifters out to maximize personal gains while performing a show of machismo to distract their voters long enough.

tompaine1776.bsky.social•6 days ago

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madmoon33.bsky.social•6 days ago

Yes, all——-not doing the correct thing for our democracy. Their fear of trump is misplaced. The fear should be of their constituents, they are the true boss.

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