Huntn00 @Huntn00@talkedabout.social
#PoliticalModerate #Independent, #SocialLiberal, #Agnostic, #Unions, #Veteran, retired airline pilot. Supports level playing fields, equal opportunity, and democracy, not how to twist it to my advantage; capitalism/corporation critic, 🚫Today’s GOP, 🚫MAGA. Human species pessimist, pondering the Great Filter and do we have the Right Stuff? 🇺🇸 Citizen residing in a blue enclave of Texas.
Joined May 2023
@axios GUNS transforming America. Is there any way I can make a Darwin Award argument out of this? 🤔 https://darwinawards.com/darwin/
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NEW: A mass shooting at a Baltimore block party early Sunday morning left two dead and at least 28 injured, city officials said. https://t.co/zOFTnB6Gfs
@DanaDee@mstdn.social Gun addiction, we are reaping what we have sewn, an explosion of the #MyPrecious! Crowd who has plenty of “So sad, sorry for you losses” ready to distribute daily, content to sleep in their blood soaked beds just as long as they can caress their sweet lethal babies without inconvenience, “Oh you’re so cute!” 😕 Seriously they need to stop arguing about how safe we are in the O.K. Corral America.
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A new day, a new chance to succeed.
Something I noticed this year:
I've almost eradicated "need to do" from my lexicon. Now I have a list of things I "want to do" every day.
Even the chores that used to drag on have become new moments to be in.
Can I do it better? Is this the right thing? Are there alternative ways to do this?
The repeated tasks become challenges revisited, a journey toward mastery of simple things.
I hope you get to do at least a few of the things you want to do #today
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“The Court of Foolishness”by Gerard de Lairesse.
The accused, pursued by Hatred, is led by Calumny, Envy and Perfidy before a judge with donkey ears, surrounded by Ignorance and Suspicion.
@SouthernLibtard What they call America is a personally beneficial fantasy, where they get every advantage while denying others equal rights, and EO, causing disruption at the expense of the majority, nothing like the Founding Fathers believed or wrote into the Constitution. Most significant, they abandoned honestly stated positions to become full time liars, pros at misdirection and manipulation, possessed by the #Trump Fool’d Ya? Crowd, to be propelled by selfish STUPID bigots.
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Republicans scream to the rafters about how they love America.
But goddamn, do they ever hate Americans.
@sentient_water Excellent video. My wife has been saying Thump has dirt on these people for several years now as a likely explanation for their support of him after all the bad things they previously said about this walking, talking poison spraying pestilence. 🤬
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Trickle Down economics is BS
Trickle Down Kompromat is not
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@TomWellborn@universeodon.com Omg this is the reality of the My Precious crowd.
@StillIRise1963 I hated “tweet” and the idea of “twittering”, but never joined that place. Musky seems to be bad turn for that platform.🙃
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Russia is getting desperate, conscripting pensioners now.
@tigerpunk@masto.pt Nihilism: A doctrine that nothing actually exists or that existence or values are meaningless. I have been pondering this since I retired without work to occupy a hefty junk of my life. Here is the point, if our existence is just one lifetime, a flash in the infinite expanse of time, nothing matters, who cares? We’re all dead, non-existence is the norm. For it to matter, have meaning, there must be more. I like this idea, just not prepared to speculate on what that more is.
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Two new holes dug in the lawn. These plants were transplanted from a seldom visited side yard. Making the lawn dissappear one hole at a time
See previous post for more pics
@wakame @Radical_EgoCom@kolektiva.social @shuro Hell there was a time when everyone in your company was part of the team and the owner wanted to share the wealth. Sometimes that still happens, but in many cases the team itself is divided between the important people and the expendables, and don’t forget about the shareholders. 🤔 Look at the CEO/worker pay ratio from the 1950s as compared to today.
@wakame @shuro @Radical_EgoCom@kolektiva.social Wealth, I would not advocate the cliff solution, 😉 but I would advocate hard significant wealth caps. With automation arising, I don’t see the 1%living well and everyone else struggling as viable. Besides who needs more than $1m/yr to live a good life? When I was working I was very comfortable at $250k/yr but that was not living in California. 🫤
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@shuro @Radical_EgoCom @Huntn00
I implicitly assumed that the "important" part of exploitation would not be natural resources, but humans/human labor.
I agree that someone could become a stronger opponent if you, for example, take nutrition and materials for weapons and armor into account. This would be only based on resources.
My argument for your example would be either "Who cares for the US?" or "If you really wanted to eliminate a single person, why not just pay for it?"
In the second case, I am not talking about having more money/resources than Bezos, but just enough money/resources to pay a motivated person somewhere in his vincinity to throw him off a cliff.
@shuro @Radical_EgoCom@kolektiva.social That’s what I say, any economic system designed by humans with the best of intentions is more than likely to be corrupted, by…humans. An easy example is Social Security in the USA. Almost from the start it was undermined, robbed the money taken from it for other purposes. Now it’s in trouble and the GOP wants to kill it. We’ll see how that goes. 😳
#PoliticalModerate #Independent, #SocialLiberal, #Agnostic, #Unions, #Veteran, retired airline pilot. Supports level playing fields, equal opportunity, and democracy, not how to twist it to my advantage; capitalism/corporation critic, 🚫Today’s GOP, 🚫MAGA. Human species pessimist, pondering the Great Filter and do we have the Right Stuff? 🇺🇸 Citizen residing in a blue enclave of Texas.
Joined May 2023
