d-wade.bsky.social
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It’s all just good old American hucksterism and flim-flam
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Most Americans probably couldn’t pass a citizenship exam, let alone understand how complex systems work. Why are we surprised by a regression towards an infantile worldview? Most people are bewildered and terrified - which is exactly how the power-mongering sociopaths want them.
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Revenge of the stupidest Sith ever…
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Can confirm. Still have no feeling in the roof of my mouth 40 years later…
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No matter how much shit they have to eat, they’re not going to do squat in Congress. They’ll be intimidated, extorted and bribed to be the “flak catchers” - as will their replacements if voted out.
We’re in a mafia state now
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An Ernst Röhm for our times.
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Forging our chains, one “exploration” at a time. AI is not solving any of the core threats to humanity- let alone help us grow into our own humanity
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You’ve obviously never had it with DUCK gravy
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Preach!
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Rubio is not ignorant but he is shilling to the rubes who would flat out fail a citizenship test
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Good call
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A metaphor for our times…
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They’re Golems - the pure embodiment of our culture and society’s darkest impulses confronting us - inescapably - with our own choice of who we are and what we’ll stand for
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Utterly brilliant - passionate and wickedly humorous! Bra-va!!!
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People have been diligently propagandized with all kinds of imaginary threats - transgender, immigrant caravans, vaccinations, communism, pedophile rings, Quanon - they’re completely distracted from the poverty, illiteracy, unaffordable healthcare, immiseration, injustice right in their daily lives
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They’re just warming up
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I made a similar reference on another thread. The world order is devolving from nation-states into oligarchs and their autocrat enforcers
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It’s not unimaginable that this is an intentional, very public “F-U, we’re in power now and we’ll do as we please!”
I mean, why not? We’re seeing this now daily in ways to numerous to list here
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And I think Aristotle said something like “Oligarchy ends either in tyranny or revolution”
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Reminds me of the (apocryphal) Oscar Wilde quip: “The trouble with socialism is that it takes up too many evenings.”
It may take a lot more suffering and material loss to shake us out of our digital-consumeristic torpor.
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At least try to storm the cockpit to take back the controls before they intentionally crash the plane, right??
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“Cultural Revolution” has been on my mind as well. And how might it descend into Pol Pot or Reign of Terror fanaticism I wonder. Much of our populace appears to be deeply propagandized
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That’s commitment! Respect!!
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What I believe Sarah Kendzior used to say about Russia: “A transnational crime syndicate masquerading as a nation-state”
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That’s why it’s fantasy…
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No, this is MORE fascism
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History would predict this may take a while to emerge with some false starts and flameouts in the early days.
Reading about the French Revolution that saw waves of leaders who are quickly superseded by events and new, more radical leaders, culminating in a military dictatorship and 10 yrs of war.
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Beat me to it. Thank you
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He is the dark apotheosis of our culture. He can be seen as the distilled embodiment of our collective shadow that we’ve not fully faced - selfish individualism, greed, racism, hubris, sexism, willful ignorance, entitlement, etc. - which lurk in every human psyche.
@sophiacycles.bsky.social
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Doctor’s orders!
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A Transnational crime syndicate masquerading as a nation-state
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A very John Brownish thing to propose
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“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities”
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3-5 years from now will corporate crime even be prosecutable??
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We are now in the era of oligarchs and autocrats
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You’ll be printing money!
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Thank you for all you’re doing! ✊🏻
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This guy is a Brownshirt right out of central casting. Too many neglected, bullied, sexually abused little boys grow up into monsters devoid of human empathy
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I’ve seen cheerier morticians
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Politics Girl is legit, not some “clickbait influencer”. Please post links to anything any one of them has said or done in the past 3 weeks. My Google-fu cannot find it.
We can all only hope they’re all together in a secret command center hatching a cunning plan but I suspect they’re laying low
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Thank you for that laugh amidst the doomscrolling
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“What most Americans don’t understand” about our government, history, the way the world works could fill terabytes of server space.
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This ☝🏻 💯
(All the rest was sooo meticulously researched/portrayed. Incongruous casting move there)
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Freiwillige Gleichschaltung
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A Cacophonous Convergence of Charlatans
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With all the self awareness of a dog licking its own butt in the middle of a family gathering. Chasing astronomical wealth does that to humans
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Run for a credit union or community bank!