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djakfrost.bsky.social
Transcendental anarcho-communist with a theory of everything. Also: Zen Buddhist, Navy vet, semiconductor process tech, logophile, AuDHD (aphantasic, misophonic, and cyclothymic)
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We need to get stop this "darkest timeline" nonsense. There are no others. It has always been this, and liberal magical thinking otherwise is precisely why it is this now. No magical land of the past. Nor future. Everything you think is past—or future—is here, now else you couldn't access it.

This is the greatest scandal of Western journalism of our age - and we must keep the receipts for the reckoning ahead.

Work and a job should not be the primary measure ofhappiness and fulfilment. But - even if you are obsessed with it as politicians often are - there's now very clear evidence that a Universal Basic Income doesn't stop people working. It's time for Universal Basic Income.

How it was that they so aboundingly responded to the old man’s ire—by what evil magic their souls were possessed, that at times his hate seemed almost theirs

Crashes aren't a bug of capitalism; they're a feature. It makes no difference to the billionaire if they're worth 3 billion or 1.5 billion, and unlike the working class dupes who shout "It's buy time, baby," they can afford to not just eke out margins but to buy the system out from beneath

Republicans/"libertarians" a decade ago: Hate crime legislation is Orwellian!!! A crime is a crime. You can't punish someone for protected speech. Now: ...

Everyone wants to talk about the importance of self-love, having to value yourself if you want others to. But go around liking your own posts...

Today at the protest downtown, white organizers with 50501 called the police on a vendor for selling Black Panther merchandise in their protest even though he only had a small table and stayed out of the public right of way. Here is the vendor’s statement:

'He is possessed of certainty. He holds to a secure vision of the world, a man with the correct answers – that the prerequisite questions were themselves the correct ones goes without saying. A citizen with certainty, Yathvanar, can be swayed, turned, can be made into a most diligent ally.

On one hand, sure. Solidarity. I'm with you. On the other... I see a whole lotta feel good but not a lot of do good. And sure, that's par for the course for liberalism, but... What am I missing? Explain it to me like I'm 10.

And what are you, reader, but a Loose-Fish and a Fast-Fish, too?

If you look out into the universe and see it not only as a reflection of yourself but everyone else, see how unfathomably vast it is, you can also see how insignificant our differences are. You, me, Bob who never existed but could've... practically all the same. Yet that difference is all we know.