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drdavidking.bsky.social

PhD in Psychology. Writer. Lecturer @ UBC Nature Lover 🌱 & Dog Dad 🐾 Pro: Democracy, Science, Planet, & Social Justice 🏳️‍🌈💙✌️ Blog: https://www.thestateofus.net

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It’s sadistic at this point. There’s no way around it. Implying that Americans can find pleasure in watching people be deported in shackles is next level cruelty… www.cnbc.com/amp/2025/02/...

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It’s all SO reckless…

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You’ve gotta be kidding…

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🇨🇦

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This is what I find so unsettling: waiting until it mounts to a more extreme level is when it’s going to be too late. We should be responding to any little hint of #fascism as it arises. As time passes, more power will be accrued and the worst-case scenario will only become more likely…

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👇

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Anti-fascist all the way…

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“The professors are the enemy,” according to them. Of course they are. Education broadly is the enemy when you seek unmitigated power…

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#context

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Proudly #woke ✌️

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This...

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So, just to be clear, one of his PRIORITIES this time around was to roll back decades-long protections against discrimination on the basis of sex, race, nationality, religion, and sexual orientation…

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Whether or not it was intentional is sort of beside the point. If I were to make a gesture like this "by accident" in the classroom, I would still be held accountable. In part because I'm white, in part because I'm in a position of authority. Musk should know better. We should all know better...

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It’s crystal clear at this point…

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Not surprising, but still…

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Could they be any more clear about who they are?

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How much more “masculine” could corporate culture get? Almost 90% of Fortune 500 countries are run by men, and men also dominate the tech industry…so……

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Why are people so trusting of billionaires in the first place??

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It is a great, great disappointment to realize how many people view cooperation, respect, and decency as politically motivated pursuits…

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So…hate speech is okay. Swearing at people is okay. Using the R word like Musk has is okay. But anything HE considers negative will be penalized…?! Okay then…..

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Tech bros and billionaires flocking to Trump…I wonder how long it will last?

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#tesla ☺️

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Holy narcissism…

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Good old right-wing family values… Interestingly, according to numerous psychological studies, it’s liberals and Democrats who have more communal values. Conservatives and Republicans, in contrast, are driven more by power, self-reliance, and independence…

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The current resurgence in toxic masculinity is difficult to endure, but it won’t last forever. It is by definition volatile and therefore unsustainable—self-destructive even—and terribly unpopular amongst the rest of us…

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Yeah the hypocrisy’s pretty thick on the other side…but I often wonder how much denial and projection are necessary to sustain it all…

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There are conspiracy theories, and then there are real conspiracies… What baffles me is that the conspiracy theorists never care about the real conspiracies (and in fact deny climate change).

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This sounds about right…

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Some quotes age too well… #Asimov

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I would like to introduce the Bluesky community to Hunter! Hunter (nicknames: Hunty, Hunter Bunter, Little Monkey, Handsome Boy) is a rescue from Mexico. He’s almost 8 and is the sweetest little guy in the world… 🐾 #prouddogdad

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We need more of this…!

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“We are all one – and if we don’t know it, we will learn it the hard way.” This quote by civil rights activist Bayard Rustin describes our current predicament so well. Everything we're up against comes down to this single problem: we're either in this together, or we're not in it... #weareallone

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This is such a good example of everything wrong with right-wing politics broadly and Trumpism specifically: they’re devoid of all humanity, to the point that even ASL interpreters are not off limits. If they only knew how completely unsustainable their approach is…

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Capitalism has a long relationship with fascism. In motivational terms, it makes a lot of sense: capitalists and fascists are both motivated by power, displaying what is referred to as unmitigated agency—the pursuit of individual power at the expense of communal values and concerns (like empathy).

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