reidob.bsky.social
RN, progressive, proud Seattleite, elderly ice skater, food security activist acting locally/thinking globally, long-time women's basketball fan
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At least back then there was an edge of the Earth we could hope he sailed off
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Wealth makes you right
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If incompetence were a crime we would have a very sparse unincarcerated population
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In Seattle they're all over the place, even quite far from wooded areas. They are amazing animals, as long as you don't leave your small pets outside!
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And no mention of AI should be allowed anywhere without a huge warning about the environmental consequences of its use! We seem to be pretending it doesn't use absolutely fucking ENORMOUS amounts of energy, substantially adding to climate-altering emissions. SMH
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It is so disheartening (if not surprising) that we've gotten here. Theft has somehow been codified as fair use. It began with social media sites making money by reposting content they had not paid for, thereby hollowing out nearly all news media. Now they intend to destroy art and writing as well
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Most I've laughed in months
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Qatlho'
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This conversation is, I'm pretty sure, in poorly translated Klingon. 🤔
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I'm surprised rampant racism isn't listed
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True enough but then what? Do we simply roll over and accept that fact or find an effective way to counteract it? We are approaching a crucial hinge point in the world's liberal democracies where we are going to need to prove to the majority of people that we must do things a different way
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No, it's not. Read history, man
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They have ballistic missiles. What do you have? It's a fantasy to think the left can bring about an armed revolution here. We're not Syria
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Have you seen Haiti lately?
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I'm on your side but we must choose our tactics with care and a moral center. The random killing of one healthcare executive will change nothing and is an immoral act. People have very short memories and will soon go merrily back to complaining about their health insurance and doing nothing
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I'm not saying violence doesn't have its place (Stonewall, for instance), but the times when it is effective are far outnumbered by the times it's not. Violence against the elite causes then to harden their positions and use their greater weapons to increase oppression.
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Civil rights was to an extent won through violence, but it wasn't the violence of those seeking their rights. It was the virulence of violence perpetrated by their racist oppressors that convinced LBJ and the world that change must come
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Holding powerful men accountable through Me Too. Gay marriage, interracial marriage, all came about nonviolently. Abortion rights, both the gaining and the losing of them, came through moral persuasion, and the regaining of them will, too.
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Women's suffrage was won through moral persuasion, not violence (yes, I am aware there was some violence, but that's not what won the day). The Great Society redistribution of wealth which brought us Social Security, Medicare, and other essential programs also came through persuasion
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And yes, for the most part all deaths in war are murder, because those who advocate for and benefit from war are never the ones who die when one is fought.
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This is not a war for the very simple reason that the other side has far more powerful weapons than we do. Mark my words, this act will change nothing and, despite the bellicose rhetoric, the people will not rise up to demand it.
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This too shall pass and nothing will have changed except one man is dead and another will spend most or all of the rest of his life in prison. I'm not enough of a pacifist to believe that all death in the name of justice is wrong, but this act will not bring about lasting change
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Yes, it is
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I am opposed to the death penalty in all circumstances. But using that hashtag makes it seem as if his actions should be condoned, which is morally corrupt. Calling attention to the perversities and grotesque profiteering of the insurance industry is a good thing. Doing so through murder is not
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This is what I came here to say. We have already lost and need to start thinking in terms of cure, not prevention
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Oh, please no, don't go there! People looking at this murder as the beginning of a protracted class struggle are deeply misguided. If we endorse killing those we perceive as having wronged us there will be nothing but killing. This is not how change happens, at least not good change
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Come now, I was making a point, not literally saying nukes would be used. The point is: the colonists were fighting with the same weapons as their enemies, while an uprising of U.S. citizens would be AR-15s against tanks, drones, and grenade launchers. It won't happen
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I and people like me have been advocating for incremental change in healthcare for decades (four decades in my case) and you see where we are. Health insurance companies are a virulent cancer. Only radical surgery will excise them
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You should probably keep violence out of your mouth while the man you are exhorting us to respect is promising to bring violence down on immigrants, journalists, protesters, transgender people, anyone with a uterus, and anyone he disagrees with. He is evil incarnate
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Is it not violence to nominate for HHS a vainglorious sycophant who will bring a plague of preventable diseases to the nation? Is it not violence for the uber-wealthy to cruise around in their yachts while the poor go hungry and die in childbirth for lack of prenatal care? Should I go on?
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Oh, my friend, do you really want to go there? What is violence? Is it not violence to deny healthcare to those who can't afford it and cause them to suffer and die? It is not violence to tell pernicious lies about disenfranchised people, causing them to be attacked verbally and physically?
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I'm 100% with you, doctor. I'm a retired RN who spent 30 years in a public, urban hospital. The denial of care I saw was radicalizing. It is wrong on so many levels. The levels of bankruptcy from medical debt is the definition of malfeasance
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Muskets vs muskets. When your opponent has nukes, you should probably think twice. Like bringing a butter knife to a gunfight.
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Most of those who voted for Trump were lied to. He cannot do most of what he promised and what he can do will be destructive. I have zero respect for him, his minions, or those who voted for him. I wish only they had to suffer because of what he will do; the rest of us don't deserve it
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How in the world do you think the murder of a health care CEO has saved any lives? The health insurance industry shed two quick tears and were right back to business as usual. It's a fantasy to think we have the power to make them notice us, nonetheless scare them
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I think the backlash against the destructiveness of the Trump administration might be severe. It depends on how bad it gets but Trump is truly insane so it could get really bad. I hope I'm wrong. Military intervention in domestic affairs or a deep recession either one could result in violence
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The real problem is that you can't name a single time when it HAS made things better. Don't get me wrong, I'm not opposed to a little constructive assassination. I just don't see where it gets us
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History would seem to suggest that such changes take place after great upheavals rather than in response to incremental change. It makes me inexpressively sad to say so, but all signs point to such an upheaval coming for us. Many will die in the process, I'm afraid
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This is simply not historically true
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Good luck with that
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Or reform the entire system to eliminate the bloodsuckers who have a profit motive to deny claims, make the entire system more rational and just, not to mention cheaper and more effective, as it is in every other developed country.
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As a wise man once said, "If you think having an AR-15 will protect you from the government, you don't know how tanks work." The rich have the government behind them and are largely impervious to our threats. Reform through official channels is, frustratingly, still our best option
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How about the entire first Trump presidency? They were notorious for normalizing all his worst impulses as if they were legitimate and sane. Moving the window of normalcy is precisely how autocracy triumphs
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NYT has become a centrist apologist for autocracy. When fascism is on one side and democracy the other, both-sides-ism serves no one
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IMO, we should also never let any of these tech bros talk about either AI or crypto without asking them about the enormous amounts of energy they use. The world is burning and these elite MF are jacking up our emissions to play silly games
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