harryrilke.bsky.social
Like Dionne Warwick, I am not writing a profile
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Because those who respond to Trump are disturbed by Mexican flags but not Irish. Wow. Rocket science.
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This is how we got here, assuming that Our Great Land and its people are one thing, will react in One way. Maybe the 40% who didn’t vote might respond in unexpected ways. Letting MAGA adjacent control our messaging might just be the problem.
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Electric Slide? Well of course this demands the jarheads from Pendleton need to come… to learn how to dance! USA!! USA!!
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Hmm. We all have a perspective. In the last couple days I’ve had many disagreements on BlueSky. No one called me names nor asked God to kill me… like used to happen on Twitter.
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The "Base" has long, long ago determined that they hate immigrants (and fellow Americans they disagree with) and Only Daddy Trump can save them. No current "picture" can add to their existing prejudice and hate.
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Dems...and the rest of us? There's a story.
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Duh... St Patrick's Day in Boston? Boston is the "back yard" of Ireland and we're all so charmed by it...
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I think we don't accept how the world has changed. Trump was re-elected. His followers are committed to him. No advice about "oh this works for Trump" is worth the breath used to give it. He's got the visuals. He lies constantly. He's got media systems and cult members who repeat the lies.
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Both Obama and Biden deported more migrants than Trump did in his first term. They did it legally. They did, for the most part, respecting human dignity, no matter that a person's status. Trump's performative attacks with masked ICE agents and then military threats following is just a TV show
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Homedepotknacht.
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They don't want "peace" by any definition. They want the cosplay drama of soldiers fighting "Mexicans"... and TV/social media images to inflame Americans on all sides. The Divider in Chief's small hands are indeed heavy.
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Adam, Adam, Adam... as though any "law" or "Constitutional principle" matters now...
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It's crazy-making, isn't it? The Cult will believe exactly what the Leader wants them to believe. The Cult will repeat it over and over. No fact will contradict what the Leader determines is true.
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This account is actually Pete Hegseth drunk posting. Or maybe messaging on Signal, because, you know, gotta be that warrior thing.
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And you speak for working peoples and their motivation to work collectively for something better? It's late Tom. Time to take a break.
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Because the working class are never willing or able to sacrifice for some longer range purpose? Please. Look up the Seattle General Strike of 1919.
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Any hints how? If WE don't figure it out...help Tom, give some ideas or pointers.
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I don't think BlueSky is where all the LA protestors go to get advice ... but I think it's time for some jujitsu here. Go home for a night. Gather peacefully again in the daylight. Trump and the fascists are salivating to declare martial law. Don't play into their hands.
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It's depressing because it's demonstrably true. And my fear is there is no immediate way to fix it.
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good timing...
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"Elitism" is one of those words that evades any critical scrutiny. Armed soldiers firing at you, elite or not, are not a happy thing. Seems the firing is the problem, not elitism. Armed soldiers firing at Americans who are upset ICE cosplay agents are cuffing friends and neighbors to disappear them
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And so it starts...
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I'm curious about the size/impact of counter-Trump demonstrations. Some protests have been well-attended, and in more "non-urban" places. I do hope for larger expressions of American protest against authoritarianism. But I wonder if MAGA wants more violent protests in order to proclaim martial law
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4-D if each D stands for delusional.
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And the President of the United States is accused of involvement with pedophilia and human trafficking but oh, never mind, that's just Alpha males jostling and phallocentric stuff. Right.
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Drones rise up from Musk trucks and head to Trump's airports and then....
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Hapless? this UFC fight is just beginning....
how did our fate wind up in these maniac's hands???
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Srsly. As new funding flows to private contractors to build new prisons/camps for ICE, guess who will compose the construction crews???
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It's like we're in the corner of cafeteria trying to eat the mac and cheese in silence while the popular girls are shouting at each other in the middle. Standing up and shouting. Elon pulls off her earrings, getting ready to throw down...
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Make the guy who owns a media platform with 600 million people logging on every day. Good luck with that.
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The most simple-minded President in our history.
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"it's in my brain, the deadline..."
like a worm, perhaps?
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Babbling on in stream of consciousness clutter ... non compos mentis.
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"Elon was very happy and stood behind me in the Oval Office, even with a black eye, we offered him make-up to cover the black eye, but he said no, very interesting, don't know why he didn't want make-up" What a weird time we are living in.
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Edmund White died today at 85. RIP. The world keeps changing, sometimes for the better, sometimes not.
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This crap is what MAGA is really about, more than secure borders, or anti-abortion, or economic populism. They just want to troll the libs.
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The erratic nature of heavy drug use.
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As of the last couple weeks (still true?) Trump's regime has deported fewer migrants than Biden in his first months. I believe his first term deported fewer than Obama. The goal now is not actually numbers, it's disruption, cruelty, inspiring fear. A reality TV show for the MAGA voters.
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It's curious how this works - powerful people blatantly (so obvious publicly he's loaded) lying in our faces, is supposed to calm our concerns about the judgement of a man who's put servers/back doors in the government data systems. Ketamine? Yeah, tech bro standard behavior. Lying? Yeah, criminal.
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I don’t get the tooth fairy reference. Is the tooth fairy like talking about Jesus? What a weird brain worm MAGA is.
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Thanks for referencing what's mostly ignored in this story"of Musk's excellent adventure in Trumpworld: he deployed servers and back doors in the data systems to collect and manage a huge amount of data about Americans. His project to compete with Altman, DeepSeek and all the other A.I. will now win
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This may be a good use of our dollars. But the Dems do have this problem: I gave more $ than I could afford to Harris. 1.5 billion in her campaign for..?? And afterwards her campaign people rejected any criticism of how the $$were used.
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I think the media have missed the story. He and his tech nerds rush into government agencies, throw up distractions with cuts, firings, emails etc. Install servers and back doors to access tons of private data he'll use in the future. Set up billions of contracts and block investigations into Musk.
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Bloomberg is nuts. Destruction of agencies, expertise trashed, human resource dumpster fire, critical aid that would keep folks alive cut AND he’s got servers and back doors sucking out huge chunks of data.
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I get confused at navel-gazing criticism: every day for months I heard Dems shouting about Musk, DOGE, and the destruction he caused. I don't think anything Dems can do at this point to satisfy the Center-Left-Progressive online influencers, trolls and, well, Dems. i.e Dems will never satisfy Dems.
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Why? Because of the Axis of Banality: International, nativist, authoritarian. But the tide is turning on these wanna be thugs.
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What's up with the word "nasty" in his psychology... he uses it so much with so much energy attached to it. It's just weird.
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The intent of the question is valid, critical, and damning. However there are "logistical" conditions that can inform the answer: in the 60s there were fewer images, and they were much more proscribed, anodyne. Now we are firehoused with images, and those are so horrendous we assume they are AI.
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People mistakenly conflate “simple-minded” with “normal”
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I've thought about this. It's a serious problem. Trump "entertains" no matter what the outrage, offense, grift, or threat. Even progressive critics/podcasters just laugh and "roll their eyes" at "Trump being Trump." Joe's gaffes and declines were never "funny"... this doesn't excuse anything.