sacrebuerre-84.bsky.social
Voracious reader of history, literature, political philosophy. No tv, little internet. Mostly I enjoy a good laugh, but I'm not the entertainment committee. 😉
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You took the words right out of my mouth! I guess we have seen it before, but at such a level of responsibility and with such outright arrogance it is especially disturbing!
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Such a paradox. Hegel would be mystified. Here's a thing that can be and not be at the same time.
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What a great point, "Your only weapon when you are in the minority, is your message." We need to sharpen the message and make use of it with precision and loudly! Thanks!
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These days in the US, they'd put a T before reason and half the country would buy one!
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Funny how at the right angle the web itself looks like a big spider . I never noticed that before.
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Ugh! Good heavens! Absolutely appalling! I had no idea it was so bad but I have never been exposed to so many people. Peace to you!
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Hold strong! A friend's used to quip "Your life is never entirely wasted, at least you can serve as a bad example!" That's the US right now! ðŸ˜
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I think it's best to try to engage less. Tune in to one's own community and lead with compassion . The weight of human history and people's perceived history of having been wronged is too much for any one person to bear.
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Fantastic!!
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I agree that these platforms are incredibly inviting of depersonalization and shockingly hateful speech. It feels so personal, but comes from people one's never met ! Do so many people carry such bitter feelings around every day?
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Please accept the apologies of this American. The felon in chief and his crowd are horrible ! I have trouble believing the vote wasn't hacked, but even so, that there are so many fools here is shocking . We love Canada & Mexico!
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Which ones?
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The whole of the executive branch has gone to the dogs. How do we expect that any part of it might be acceptable. And now, with the evident break down of the rule of law, what is to be done???
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He looks like a deep thinker. I'd be interested to hear what he had to say anyway.
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And harder still, how do you see how these sad family stories went on to play out in your own life? That's far too personal a question to ask on here, but it's one I suppose we all ask ourselves as we trace back the stories of earlier generations, some of the unrealized forces which shape us.
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This is such hard and sad stuff, but it is really our collective history. I think that the industrial revolution really uprooted people in such a way that they had no basis for positive change when things went bad. Alcohol was the common opiate of the dispossessed.
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So long to the United States. Seems fitting, we are so disunited anymore.
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This one! 🤣
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How about members of congress have to buy their own health insurance?
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Funny, when I hear songs like "The Northwest Passage" I think of these hardy sailor men with calloused hands and ruddy windswept complexions. Based entirely on lookism, I have to day that this is not the sort of person I expected to be planning such an expedition!
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Can someone request an investigation of Tom Homan?!
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Incredible that 46% of people at this point support him. So bizarre!
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In Germany the Nazis called it Gleichschaltung: coordinating the Nazi State. This is what they are attempting to do now, here, in the land of free.
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I recall in John le Carre's novels Smiley would muse on seeing the book burnings as the Nazis got up an running, and how he knew it was the end of civilized society in Germany.
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Rewriting history, a classic authoritarian maneuver. The administration's fear is so apparent in these moves to squelch all dissent from their version of events.
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Amazing to consider the waste of effort, firing people who had likely undergone costly training, learning their roles at FAA. If there was any concern for safety of cost effectiveness, firing FAA workers would not be done!
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As kids, at Philadelphia Museum of Art in the '70's, we loved stepping on that first step when the guard was out of the room.
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I recall 35 years ago, when filling out the INS permanent residency form with my husband, it asked "Are you insane?" And " Are you a Nazi" both were grounds to deny permanent residency.
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More like every woman he touches gives birth? A sorcerer's apprentice situation I suppose.
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Learning about people like Christine de Pizan and then being able to look her up is for me some of the best of the internet. Thanks for the prompt!
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The young woman hauling what looks like a mattress up that hilll! Makes me realize how unfit I am
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Do you foresee trials for Musk and his minions?
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Actually not the whole country. It’s literally divided in half. There’s a whole lot of good people who want peace and justice for the world including but not limited to USA. You just don’t hear about us bc the media is owned by not us.
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Beautiful metalwork. Couldn't they just switch the hinges around so it would open the other way? I guess you couldn't drive through it with a car anyway, but still, it's so good looking!
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Moving in lock step together: Industry+ Government + Press = Fascism
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I have been told that the classic psy-ops approach to plausible deniability is to accuse your enemy of the thing which you plan to do, which casts sand in the eyes of viewers. Trump's assertions that the 2020 election were stolen were really just prelude to what he and his crowd did in 2024.