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
@maggiemaybe @selzero @Radical_EgoCom@kolektiva.social I’m not making excuses. Look at political parties, the balance in Congress, relative level of integrity,, your preference of direction, and make a choice based on who is competitive, ie can get elected. Red has broken bad. Right now blue is the only choice, unless you want to watch the USA likely turn into United Fascist States of America or possibly break apart. And if this is our fate so be it. I’m closer to the end so it will be the young folks headache 🤔
@realTuckFrumper #OKCorralAmerica The tragedy, it was a mistake that can’t de undone. With average citizens armed, life that the GOzP obsesses about in the womb is so easily destroyed by their Preciousss. Too bad, so sad. Here, take a thoughts and prayers card. 🔥
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South Carolina college student fatally shot trying to enter wrong home – police https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/28/university-of-south-carolina-student-shot-wrong-home?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
@wdlindsy Answering article title, Why? Because the gun lobby empowered by Republicans says “my freedom to tote lethal power Trumps you freedom to live, but I have plenty of “thoughts and prayers ready to throw at your feet with some faux tears and hope in the next life you’ll carry an assault rifle to get it on with, in Wild West America…” 🔥
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“Portions of these manifestos detail the shooter's disgusting ideology of hate. This shooting was racially motivated and he hated black people.”
~ Jacksonville, Florida, Sheriff T.K. Waters
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still humid and hot
I cannot deny desires
for the grace of rain...
#575prompt - grace
#MastoPrompt - deny
#DailyHaikuPrompt - humid
#haiku #poetry #poem #smallpoems #writingcommunity #writing #art #artwork #mastoart #fediart #artist #artists #AYearForArt #poet #poets #poems #photography #photographer #photographie #red #flower #flowers #flowerart #rain #rainyday #garden #gardening #gardens #gardener #nature #naturephotography #naturelover
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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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@selzero @Huntn00 @Radical_EgoCom
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.
#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
