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There's never been a better time in US history to be a criminal. Street bandit✓ Terrorist✓ Crypto scammer✓ Tax cheat✓ Etc. Trump is on your side.
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Must be fun to be a film composer. It's all creative borrowing from classical composers...a huge public domain from which to cut, paste & collage an "original soundtrack."
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But if people DON'T "come together to share the work of caregiving & of building societies where parenting fits better with everything else that people aspire to" BEFORE the magic of pop stability is supposed to deliver that state of grace (per the book), then people won't feel like having more kids
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If US is dead set on "regime change" in the Middle East we should start by supporting Israeli opposition to Netanyahu's corrupt ultra-orthodox coalition & stop helping that jackass stay in power by killing Palestinians & starting wars.
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I think you got it!
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It's muscle memory. Those 2 spacebar taps at the end of a sentence are the physical embodiment of "punctuation" imo.
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Getting US into another war will be the perfect balm for the Orange Felon's ruffled ego.
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Normally, the geopolitics say NO. But with Trump in charge, anything is possible.
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With the ingredients of that shrimp salad, it's like the execs who approved it had never been in an actual McDonald's. Clearly an invitation to food poisoning.
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I just automatically skip to like page 5 of Google search results, where, if you keep looking for a while, you might actually find something useful that isn't advertising or AI slop. Pitiful that now we have to dig for info in so-called search engine output.
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GOP or Dems could have fixed immigration decades ago by enforcing use of e-verify by employers. That would have forced implementation of a sensible work visa system. But corporations need exploitable workers, & both parties played the game. Maybe Trump blowing it up will lead to post-chaos reform.
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Thanks for a great thread. Depressing, because we're up against a very broken individual who succeeds in US politics because there are so many similarly broken people out there who resonate with him. It almost doesn't matter what he says or does beyond mirroring the sick majority worldview.
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I'm tuning out 90% of new "content" already -- it's mostly slop, human or machine made. Soon it will be slop all the way down. Have shelves full of old books to read, DVDs to watch, & CDs to hear. Once I wean myself off social media, only need internet for news & bill-paying. And porn, of course.
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Trump forgot a key fact: We don't produce anything in USA that China needs. They make almost everything we need, including parts for our weapons. We couldn't make iPhones here if we tried. Our rare earth mines closed years ago. And if Trump keeps Chinese students out, we lose 80% of our scientists.
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Prepared to take your place in the idiocracy after graduation
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Pluto in Aquarius. If you are not aware, I highly recommend you look it up. It’s real, and it’s happening.
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You're exactly right. You can't have a conversation here about many topics. There's a Bluesky orthodoxy & if you veer even slightly away from it, the haters pile on. And they're as hateful as haters on Twitter. Hate: the universal language.
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The Supreme Court overruling carefully written judgements by lower courts undermine the entire judicial system.
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I hear lots of complaints but also see the reality.
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Why is that meaningless? Because you've declared the law is meaningless? I believe what I've seen. I work on city streets every day & I've seen many sweeps done according to the letter of the law: Advance notice, social workers, opportunity to take belongings to a shelter, etc.
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together. I got less accommodation from Public Storage before they auctioned off all my shit for overdue rent than homeless people get before camp clearings. There's this little thing called personal responsibility involved, even if you're homeless.
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You just went down the slippery slope. The cops didn't beat the homeless people, so why go there? Where I live, they're given weeks of notice & repeated outreach from social workers. And activists usually succeed in delaying the operation repeatedly. There's ample time to get important things
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I'm with you there. Don't have much patience for help that comes with preaching attached. Unfortunately, under Trump's gov, I expect to see more social services farmed out to religious orgs
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out of mind." But, I can't condone maintaining conditions I've seen in the many camps I've entered, for either the residents of the camps or the surrounding neighborhoods, where people are often struggling to afford rents & survive their own rat race with some modicum of peace & safety.
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with options for the displaced people to move into shelters &/or subsidized housing, get mental health & addiction treatment, etc. To a great extent, that's the approach in LA. I can't speak for other cities, but I know the camp-to-shelter project is possible. The idea shouldn't be "out of sight...
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I'm a city utility worker in LA, so I know many homeless people & deal with their camps frequently. My perspective is informed by the squalor & unsafe situations created by most camps, including serious impacts on infrastructure. I think clearing camps must be done according to civil code and
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Look, I'd refer to myself as an "economically imperiled human." I fight every day to maintain my existence. I've fought eviction. I've fought denial of gov benefits. I've fought for everything I have. What am I to the people who own the world except a conduit for wages to become profits & taxes?
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a civil conversation that involves everyone concerned & doesn't demonize the homeless or property owners & businesses. Ultimately, humans are selfish, including homeless humans. And ultimately the solution to homelessness must be bigger than allowing cities to become a chaotic patchwork of camps.
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I wish I had an answer. I don't. It comes down to a "greater good" argument: Do you care at all about entire neighborhoods calling for homeless camps to be removed? Do you think they just want to arbitrarily hurt you, or do they have legit reasons for wanting homeless people out? Perhaps it requires
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...on X as they try to reconcile Musk's betrayal with his former loyalty, to make sense of 2 facts that can't be true simultaneously: Trump is their infallible, all-powerful leader *and* his BBB is a nightmare that will hurt the USA & majority of MAGA voters. Cue special fx: smoke, sparks, etc
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Unfortunately, true. I think that's partly why camp clearing is usually approved by the public: There's an unspoken fear of the camps spreading out & becoming permanent slums. Of course it's an indictment of our economic & political system, not the people living there. But they take the heat.
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Man, Bluesky is really just as toxic as X if you don't buy into the groupthink. I live in a poor neighborhood where those camps impact all the residents negatively. No one I know here opposes camp clearing. I'd love to see subsidized/affordable housing. Thanks for making assumptions & being a dick!
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Yes, I'm a city utility worker & I know many homeless people personally. I love how you assume I must be some wealthy asshole looking down on them. I interact w homeless & their camps almost daily. Doesn't change my opinion of the problem. We need to find a solution but those camps ain't it.
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If you have to live or work near a homeless camp, you lose sympathy pretty quick. I'm sorry, but the % homeless losing possessions in camp clearings vs everyone else around camps affected by garbage, human waste, crime, fire risk, etc, doesn't make a compelling case. Those camps are unsustainable.