harleycat24.bsky.social
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Well, I would tell a friend that watches only Fox News but I don’t know ANYONE who meets that description.
Such people just aren’t part of my world except that I have to suffer the consequences of their choices.
How do we reach them?
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Yum!
I live in a city so have no garden but super love this time of year at the farmer’s market!
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Oh, have they read about how Putin treated the oligarchs who cozied up to him and gave vast sums of money to fund his rise to power?
First move: nationalize their companies
Second move: imprison or exile them depending upon mood
They thought they’d grow even more obscenely wealthy.
Sorry, FAFO
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I know! I’ve had this thought so many times. Living in France during Bush, I was stigmatized for being from the States.
I had a person shake his fist in my face and was told I’d keep my mouth shut there.
I didn’t vote for Bush.
I didn’t think it could be worse but that was before MAGATS.
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I completely recall!
We experienced the same in San Francisco.
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Thank you
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I come to believe that the person is morally bankrupt.
I guess you could call that a loss of respect.
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Are you outside there in LA?
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Are people crying that they can’t get in?
I’m fairly new here; my only entrance barrier was signing up for the platform.
I have posted warnings to the community about hateful posters and said if they didn’t want to listen to repugnant vitriol, they may wish to block someone.
Is this the issue?
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Happy birthday!
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So nice to see good news once in a while…thank you for the post
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And to you
😊😊😊
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That’s hilarious
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If it’s not removal, I don’t care.
The MAGAT king has been impeached twice to no avail.
Even Nixon resigned ahead of impeachment on the basis of the now quaint scandal of Watergate.
MAGATS don’t seem to have any sense of shame or decency.
Solution?
Midterms I guess?
Seems too far away.
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Well, I’ll be fighting for as long as I last because even though I don’t have direct decedents, I fear very much for our young people and will give whatever I have left to fight for their future.
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Also, interesting article.
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I was a high earner until I fell ill in my early 50s.
I started from abject poverty and scratched and clawed my way to being a top 10%er for about 15 years.
Now I’ve spent nearly all of my savings and have no idea how I’m going to manage.
Likely best if illness would go ahead and solve the problem.
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Yeah, I was shaped (warped?) by Pink Floyd as well.
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I see your point and also know that I’ve given myself room to not have to confront such decisions. It was at a significant personal cost, though, to eschew the situation in which I was responsible for anyone. How do we break the sort of society that requires such a choice?
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Yeah, but those of us who didn’t FO are forced along on the same ride.
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We all have to suffer because this lot decided to FAFO.
I’ll be forced to bankroll the subsidies of the corporate interests of their industry. Small farms will be F***ed as usual.
I’m tired of being the bail out bank from the “hellscape” of urban CA.
Won’t they stop voting against self interest?
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Well, yes, I’ve been saying this since the mid 2000s.
Here in the States, we privatize profit and socialize loss.
How else can the wealth divide be ever further increased?
Reagan started this trajectory; now we are living the fruition of his efforts.
There’s not much left to wring from the 90%.
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You make a good point and I’m never happy to learn that anyone is made to suffer while just trying to make their ways in this life.
However, it seems a bit of a microcosm of the MAGAT mindset: “oh, well, I’ll throw in with the leopards…I’m sure they won’t eat MY face”.
Scorpion and frog!!
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I wish I could repost 100 times
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This is brilliant.
I live in San Francisco so MAGATS hide their identity.
If I see an open one, though, you can be sure that this will be my playbook.
I’m having a little fantasy right of traveling to someplace where they are out and proud just so I can give it a go.
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I have a very difficult time believing that these outrages to the US population are partisan.
I really have the sentiment that this is a straight up class war.
All of us who produce, white collar, blue collar, anyone not already possessed of massive privilege/influence are being trampled upon.
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As much as I would love to see this happen I think first, it’s just a happy fantasy that someone is enjoying and second, the MAGATS would just lie and say that it’s a bunch of lunatic libs telling lies for which they should be jailed and all of their acolytes would fall in line.
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Disappointing, isn’t it?
First 2016, then Biden not winning by a landslide, then 2024.
I know that the grossly manipulated electoral college is quite a lot of the problem but REALLY!?! There are enough people in this country who are so racist/misogynistic/self interested to welcome this admin?
😩😩😩
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The problem is that we all have to suffer even if we didn’t vote for any of that and we deplore to the depths of our being.
I am emotionally attracted to saying “you’re getting what you deserve!”; I’m trying harder to figure out a way to help them understand that they voted against self interest.
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Yet ask a MAGAT and they’ll say any mad thing that they can conceive rather than it’s because of the mad F***er I elected.
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Or any American “up” on their luck?
I’ve been raped by the tax system because, while I managed to scratch and claw to a position of doing fairly well, I didn’t marry or reproduce.
When did I have time working 60-80 hrs/wk in an unfair environment?
Only the absurdly privileged have benefited.
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Maybe an excellent form of Soylent Green?
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I’ve been saying the same for quite some time now.
I’m a bit more radical on the point.
The US deserves complete shunning in every way by the free world.
I know that the consequences to the US and others would be dire; I think it warranted to prevent capitulation to the oligarchs running the US.
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I have trouble drumming up empathy for Walmart corp EEs who are now getting F***ed.
They knew all along that they were working for a company with possibly the most draconian policies surrounding its treatment of the bulk of its workers.
Apparently their position was well, it’s them, not me.
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Reports of the angst of MAGATS often causes me to practice yoga for an hour to calm down.
If employing undocumented workers, it’s likely because they can profit most readily off of their backs. Arrest the profiteers instead.
Did they think a crowd of Proud Boys would show up to do the work?
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I don’t have to imagine that, I’m living that reality.
You forgot to mention gaming the stock market to push more wealth into the hat of the few after the majority of us were forced out of defined benefit pensions and post retirement healthcare into the easily manipulated stock market in the 90s.
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I am moved to say more.
The difficulties of boycotting a corporate monster such as Amazon illustrate what an actual monopoly it holds in urban environments.
I seek alternatives because my voice is small; I can vote with my feet to refuse to enrich that which I despise.
Come on everybody, join.
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It’s becoming harder and harder, isn’t it?
The list of corporations that I refuse to give my trade grows longer.
I’ve boycotted Walmart for three decades, I most recently threw Amazon and Target under the bus too.
Amazon is the most difficult due to living in an urban environment without a car.
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I’m trying
I do struggle to find a venue but keep turning up for the protests and making my calls.
I only know one person who doesn’t agree with my politics so am uncertain about how to reach those that might be persuaded to alter their allegiance.
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Oh, it’s just a playbook for “see, the systems don’t work; clearly we must privatize!”
There aren’t really very many ways left for the insanely privileged to wring even more out of the population.
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Oh, I get so excited when it’s State charges!
No pardon wand!
Except, of course, if you’re the president.
Convict, convict, convict all of those breaking laws in fealty to the MAGAT king.
SCOTUS didn’t give them a free pass.