tacojolly.bsky.social
Writer, social services worker, and Oregonian.
For Christ. Against nationalism.
Union Member | SEIU
www.aaronepperson.com
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Oh just all of it. And the Church in America
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Hey! I need to throw my hat in the ring. I bake and I was once told by a stranger at Chipotle I have “a genuine and kind aura.”
That’s a solid recommendation, @meredithsalenger.bsky.social
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I want them to let us access their live metrics so we can put up a running counter of users is the hotel.
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Hey, can I put money on something heretical happening? Literal worship of Trump or someone denouncing the Hyperstatic Union? But the twist will be Evangelicals will love it.
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You’re absolutely right. But I think Trump is going to be so bad that, when he’s removed, future politicians in both parties are going to use him as permission to be worse in general. He’s completely destroyed presidential norms and standards. It will fundamentally alter the office forever.
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Absolutely and I don’t think we talk about it enough. Trump is an active threat and I did vote for Harris. But we shouldn’t delude ourselves. Dem Presidents are still going to do things that are reprehensible. Our whole political system promotes and rewards those behaviors from our leaders.
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ways of thinking. I’m humbled by my own shortcomings in this work and how little empathy and understanding I’ve had most of my life. It’s been truly eye opening.
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But those people are not living different versions of our lives in a worse way. They are often making bad choices as they flee worse alternatives. Currently our inability to handle the complexity of human suffering in our society is leading to the xenophobia we have against other communities and
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turns everything you thought would be a black and white moral or ethical issue into a gray sludge. And honestly I think our education completely fails us to handle those moral and ethical questions. Because of that we fall back on our own life experiences, our bias, and our prejudices.
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I had the expectation that a big chunk of this job was going to be black and white, yes or no. But every day I am asked to explore and examine situations in people’s lives that are factual complex and difficult to navigate. Actually getting an in-depth perspective into the life of real human beings
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Okay fancy
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3 The Harris and Biden campaigns went out of their way to gaslight us into think we should be happy about the economy. They wouldn’t engage with people who are struggling. They focused on going after Republican voters over those people. I fear that strategy is still the mindset with elected Dems
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2 There’s also a case to be made that Dems are completely out of touch with normal people. This article by @politico.com is a good example of them loving the economy under Biden but now they say it’s bad under Trump.
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1 It’s a good question. First I think it’s more about the need for change like admitting some people currently in leadership need to step down. The over all mind set is business as usual. Biden’s silence right now for example. Chuck Schumer is not a convincing face of an Anti-Trump resistance.
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I mean to say they are more interested in getting reelected than doing what’s right.
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It’s not even my final form!
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God forbid they loose reelection
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Firing people in these positions is how we know it’s a coup. They’re targeting specific people and sectors of workers first because they are the backbone of democracy.
I don’t understand why Democrats aren’t raising absolute hell.
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This has been the trick of US conservatives. Anyone who embraces conservatism is welcomed like a hero. If you’re a pundit or an influential person you can rake in the money. I don’t think that it’s healthy in some cases but it’s a hell of a lot better than being shamed.
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This wasn’t the gif I meant to use but I’ll let it stand
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A single wench?
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But that kind of sounds nice. Do I get a hammock? Can I read most of the day?
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This has always been one of my favorites.
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I agree.
The most radical thing is to live as God’s embassy on earth, rejecting the supremacy of death and welcoming the refugees of the fall home into the Kingdom. All of that looks insane to the world
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That is mind numbingly stupid.
My bet is attempting to privatize the IRS is on someone’s roadmap.
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3. Is that the kind of thing you signed up for with your vote? If not, why shouldn’t you be held accountable for it? Should your support of Biden then be an excuse to deny you the right to employment or social services?
We all choose to vote for a guy 100% willing to let children die in Gaza.
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2. Look at the propublica reporting. Biden’s top leadership ignored internal experts looking to deny Israel weapons and *suppressed* reports of human rights abuses by the IDF. All because Biden decided that supporting Israel is a non-negotiable position in US foreign policy.
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1. Great. So did I and I would have again. Under the logic people are pinning onto Trump voters en mass, we’re all 100% guilty and culpable for Biden’s refusal to do anything about Gaza. And for his support of a state sponsored Israeli genocide conducted against Palestinian.
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Did you vote for Joe Biden?
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Who supports something like this without seeing it as cult like?
Why would this one president get it when he has no record of major accomplishments (he doesn’t! They pretend!).
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But what if it isn’t using clean data? If you’re able to get a result but there’s a 500 sources are researchers going to actually verify them? And if the data AI pulls from isn’t reliable en mass (scrapping the internet at random) are we not missing a giant problem?
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This. The problem I worry about is that there might be instances where fact checking AI results is too laborious. Or people are too lazy so we accept false information as fact.
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4 Sure - there are terrible Trump voters. But we have to chew gum and walk at the same time right now. Not piss in the wind because we want nuance to be the tool of oppression.
There’s a fucking coup happening - we don’t have time to litigate this kind of dumb bullshit.
Call your congressperson.
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3. them into supporting this they otherwise wouldn’t. “Hey! You let a scam artist scam you! You’re scum for not seeing the thing designed to be hidden from you!”
You know what I’m fuckin’ saying here team?
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2 How many times are we going to rail against the far right and FOX news for pumping evil propaganda while at the same time demanding every Trump voter was also fully informed, and are all only motivated by hate? By definition misinformation and propaganda is a tool that victimizes people and dupes
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Do you support universal medical care or UBI? What about welfare or prison reform?
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I didn’t say that? 🤷🏻♂️
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4. Trump voters absolutely bear responsibility and blame for their vote. But broadly condemning vast groups of people is an authoritarian tactic and we won’t win using it. We have to support and protect right *for everyone* so that they are strong enough to protect people we care about.
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3. with no real context about them. That’s not practical because we’re going to get stuck in flame wars trying to litigate the life of every single person in the country. It also provides no place for people to go when they stop supporting nationalism.
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2. The moment we use one thing about a person to determine how they are treated in society we can’t make the argument that Trump is hurting *the whole country*. If we don’t fight for boiler-plate-everyone-deserves-these-rights then what we’re actually saying is we’re okay watching people suffer
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1. I’ll take the flack for saying this - we can’t have that mindset. I’m not trying to attack you personally or even say it’s not completely understandable why you feel that way. But as hard as it is, we cannot tie people’s rights to simple things like their voting record.