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Sharlene Beck
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Retired teacher. Lives in Salt Lake City, a blue spot in a red expanse. I ignore DMs.
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Birtherism act Ii

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These right wingers have never heard of the Middle Passage, apparently.

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Yes. Unfortunately, the right doesn’t like positive stories, especially about women.

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I'd say it's more mass personality disorder than any real ideological content. That is, the content (paid lip service to, it's ALWAYS lip service) can wildly vary and turn around on a dime, if need be, without the underlying nature of it changing.

We don't know a perfected totalitarian power structure, because it would require the control of the whole planet. But we know enough about the the still preliminary experiments of total organization to realize that the very well possible perfection of this apparatus would get rid of human agency in the sense as we know it. To act would turn out to be superfluous for people living together, when all people have become an example of their species, when all doing has become an acceleration of the movement mechanism of history or nature following a set pattern, and all deeds have become the execution of death sentences which history and nature have given anyway.

-- Hannah Arendt, "Elemente und Ursprünge totaler Herrschaft" p. 683
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Orowyourbot.bsky.social

Yea, they are sadists. The moral things we care about like fairness and alleviating suffering do not move them.

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Musk is emotionally immature and narcissistic, traits which are undermining every company he leads. He’s self-destructing.

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Amazing! The perceived gap between humans and animals keeps getting smaller.

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Interesting point.

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i think we're seeing people begin to preemptively accommodate themselves to a second trump term

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EBenbuenora.bsky.social

conservatives screamed that every single thing Obama did was an un-Constitutional power grab but when confronted with an actual, literal, cartoonishly obvious un-Constitutional power grab by one of their own, suddenly it's 'am I wrong, no it is the Constitution which is wrong'

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Sharlene Beck
@sharleneb.bsky.social
Retired teacher. Lives in Salt Lake City, a blue spot in a red expanse. I ignore DMs.
24 followers64 following13 posts