Profile avatar
nairysez.bsky.social
sic semper tyrannis
18 posts 32 followers 273 following
Getting Started
Conversation Starter

Rep. McGovern: "Maybe before coming after USAID, Republicans should look at the billions and billions of dollars of tax breaks and subsidies they give to oligarchs like Elon Musk. You want to save some money? Let's start there."

In which the nominal aristocracy reveals itself to be an oligarchy while the people clutch pearls, seemingly oblivious of their power. Always and everywhere, government is by the consent of the governed. Solidarity cannot fail. Don’t fume, come together around issues that affect the 99%.

The important qn with social media is really mostly abt architecture and incentives. Water flows along the path of least resistance. Discourse as well. This medium’s form is still attention economy focused, and so will favor certain outcomes. It’s not the people, it’s the attention microeconomics.

Eros or Thanatos with nothing in between. We really need to start worrying about inequality, and not just of opportunity. So much of our collective narrative depends on a shared imagination. Our unifying story no longer holds water. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Um01...

There must be a better way of humans living together. I want to read authors that imagine human societies unencumbered by the ills of class exploitation and indentured servitude. We collectively need to imagine a better way instead of always reacting to the fascistic impulses among us.

💙📚

Things I am learning: -to worry less about perfect results, instead to worry about perfect efforts. -how to be kind to myself in my self talk. I may not be perfect, but I definitely deserve the best of my own compassion. -how little I know, and how limited my perspective is relative to others.