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
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Seeded stalks bend down
John Barleycorn hangs his head.
Summer's end grows near.
@nlowell AC Time? I live in an area (Houston) where life would not be livable without it as I worry about the power grid going down realizing how much of a limb I’m out living on.…🔥
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"NEVER SURRENDER!" Except when I did. Just now. In Georgia.
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Excellent piece on the Michael Oher story. "White savior syndrome" is very strong in RW Evangelical circles, which describes the Tuohy family. When this movie came out I was writing for CCM magazines, and one of my editors asked me to do a story on the film, which I declined. The story they wanted was one about how a rich white Christian family saved a troubled black kid and wouldn't that just solve all of our problems if more rich, white Christian families did the same?
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/26/opinion/i-have-a-pretty-good-idea-why-michael-oher-is-angry.html
@tomcapuder Here in Texas, I’m running into people <cough> Republicans who get stressed with denial if COVID is mentioned as in being a current thing. “OMG!” One old fart ranted “some states are talking about bringing mask mandates back! It’s a scam! 🙄 It’s tough living in a red state and one of the reasons I don’t look for new friends at the gym… it’s not unusual I hear cringe worthy partisan Faux News BS. 🔥
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@jamieannmason @selzero @Radical_EgoCom@kolektiva.social I agree. The real culprit is Capitalism and profits that Trump everything else. But I am really referencing human beings and the choices they make. “The quality of your life is expendable for my benefit.” If you look at the Constitution, under the GOP and Capitalism, in a civilization of hundreds of millions, a significant segment of them are giving it lip service while actively undermining it. 😬🤔
@selzero @jamieannmason @Radical_EgoCom@kolektiva.social before I watch another video, does it tell you how to avoid compromise in a split chamber of Congress? 🙃
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It's just amazes me that human decency, morality, and human rights are lumped into compromise. #uspolitics
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@selzero @Huntn00 @Radical_EgoCom@kolektiva.social In a Representative Democracy, Republic how do you avoid compromise? 🤔 I think we agree we don’t want to go into GOP Power Grab Mode, but if you look at #GOP tactics today, isn’t that what they are doing, forcing their ideology down everyone’s throats?
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I am just sick of being told we have to compromise when it comes to:
- Climate change
- Feeding children in poverty.
- Protecting the sick from bankruptcy.
- Investing in adult education for a skilled workforce.
- Increasing the value of labour so it returns more than the value of risk taking.
While trillions in subsidies are signed to Halliburton etc for some shareholder payday.
This is not the compromise I am interested in.
Please don't lump me in with "liberals".
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I feel like we aren’t talking nearly enough about DeSantis (FL), Abbott (TX) and Kemp (GA) using or threatening to use state laws that allow for the removal of local elected officials for significant misconduct to replace Democrats with their Republican cronies on the flimsiest of pretexts, and without any due process. DeSantis already replaced 2 prosecutors, it’s how TX took over the Houston schools, and Kemp is threatening Fani Willis.
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Revolution does not have to be violent.
@maggiemaybe @selzero @Radical_EgoCom@kolektiva.social Umm, if more people voted Blue, you’d see the Democrats acting more like liberals. They in most places, are always having to look over their political shoulders. I’m not a Demicrat, but I look at the choices, Red is out, Socialist won’t get elected. I’d have voted Sanders if he had won the Dem nomination.
@selzero @Radical_EgoCom@kolektiva.social because it would not have passed?
@selzero @Radical_EgoCom@kolektiva.social The difference today, is that as of about 20 years ago, automation was reported to be able to replace 75% of the jobs if business wanted to pay for it. If you look at the trend the middle class has steadily shrunk for the last 4 decades in the US due to job exportation.. Now we are approaching something that simulates the human brain, and all bets are off when the first corporation replaces a job or thousand of jobs, maybe more, with AI driven tech, 🤔
@selzero @Radical_EgoCom@kolektiva.social I did not, have not, taken Revolution off the table, I said it could be inevitable. I don’t believe that would be ideal, but I really can’t claim to know how Revolution would unfold, nor how many would die…🤔
@selzero @Radical_EgoCom@kolektiva.social I want to know how you avoid compromise in a Democratic representative system? There is no such thing as just dictating to the other side (ok tell that to the GOP 🤔) You either have the votes or you don’t. And I believe if the majority would get off their asses and vote, the #GOP would be vanquished as a threat to the country as it currently exists.
#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
