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.
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@Huntn00 I'll say up front, I don't have all the answers. I'm still figuring things out, as we all are for our entire existence.
I believe strongly in equality for all, but I also recognize that we are constrained by practicality and live amongst a sizeable number of people who have no qualms about behaving selfishly. That's the reason I can agree with Marxist ideology without being a communist. Capitalism and the free market serve to motivate those selfish folks to better society in return for selfish gain. We treat them as if they are more deserving because of their abilities, because this serves to help our needs be met at a societal level. A necessary evil, you might say.
But capitalism also results in wealth concentration, as we currently implement it, which is an evil which is *far* from necessary. This is largely due to our economy being centered around for-profit corporations with disparate levels of ownership.
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So even though I am not a communist by any stretch of the imagination, I can agree wholeheartedly with Marx in his assessment of what is right regarding abilities and needs. "From each according to [their] ability, to each according to [their] need," is a self-evident truth, derivable from first principles and the sole assumption that human beings have worth in the first place.
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@Huntn00 I agree. And I do not let myself forget that more than 50% of white US Christians of all stripes voted for Trump in 2016 and 2020. This is a huge indictment of the white iteration of Christianity in the US.
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2023-07-10 In defense of Deliverism:
The radical idea that people vote for politicians who make their lives better. (by @pluralistic)
In my view, anyone who says we can't expect our representatives to let us have nice things because we have to compromise is selling something.
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My Dad was a big gearhead — just *really* into cars.
This meant learning basic car stuff was part of my childhood, even though I was never especially interested/good at it.
He knew this, so he’d always low-key fix my car whenever I came home. And he also left stuff in my car he figured I’d need — cables, gear, a helpful note in a manual, etc.
Dad died in 2018, but I keep finding stuff he left behind when I need it — I found another this morning.
Thanks for still looking out for me, Dad.
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Welp!
Lawyers for #Trump asked fed judge to delay criminal trial over Trump’s alleged mishandling of classified #documents until after next year’s election.
In fed court filing in Miami, attorneys for Trump & #Nauta, said that to “begin a trial of this magnitude within 6 mos of #TrumpIndictment is unreasonable, telling, would result in miscarriage of justice” #legal
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So now I’m taking Ergocalciferol.
What a name for vitamin D2.
50,000 units sounds like a lot. Officially I’ve got osteoporosis like Mom and Grandma. I think it means I’m going to be one of those old ladies who gets shorter and shorter. I lost 1” in height within last year or so. Drat. I liked being tall: 69” sounded great. Have to be more careful to avoid breaking a bone. It’s also used to treat rickets (softening of the bones caused by vitamin D deficiency). First time I actually feel old.
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United States Attorney’s Office
Southern District of New York
PRESS RELEASE
U.S. Attorney Announces Charges Against Co-Director Of Think Tank For Acting As An Unregistered Foreign Agent, Trafficking In Arms, Violating U.S. Sanctions Against Iran, And Making False Statements To Federal Agents
Monday, July 10, 2023
For Immediate Release
U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of New York
Gal Luft, a Dual U.S.-Israeli Citizen, Allegedly Evaded FARA Registration While Working to Advance the Interests of China in the United States and Sought to Broker the Illicit Sales of Chinese-Manufactured Weapons and Iranian Oil to China
Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Matthew G. Olsen, the Assistant Attorney General for National Security, and Christie M. Curtis, the Acting Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), announced today the unsealing of an...
https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/us-attorney-announces-charges-against-co-director-think-tank-acting-unregistered
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📢 #RestoreNature 🌱👩🏼🌾🧑🏾🌾🧺🍲🌿🌳🌊🐟
@gretathunberg and activists from all over Europe at European Parliament remind @eppgroup and RenewEurope of their responsibility. #NoNatureNoFood
🎥 Thomas Waitz. Thread with Gretas speech ⏬
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"Jeff Bezos, Feed the Poor"
Seen on an Amazon delivery van in Philadelphia
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Chinese Legislation Takes Aim at US Trade Sanctions https://www.voanews.com/a/chinese-legislation-takes-aim-at-us-trade-sanctions-/7175546.html #voanews #voiceofamerica
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“Associated Press obtained tens of thousands of pages of emails and other documents that reveal the extent to which public colleges and universities have seen visits by justices as opportunities to generate donations -– regularly putting #SCOTUS justices in the room with influential donors, including some whose industries have had interests before the court.”
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Joyce Vance looks at what Alabama Republican senator Turbeville is doing, holding up more than 250 military promotions and, as of yesterday, causing the Marines to be without a Senate-confirmed commandant. Tuberville opposes the military's policy permitting enlistees to access reproductive health care of ouf state when necessary.
Republicans as a party supporting the military? Hardly, she concludes.
#Tuberville #Alabama #Republicans #military
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https://joycevance.substack.com/p/tommy-tuberville-whats-wrong-with
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"Trump supporters are consolidating around the former president and so-called Christian democracy. They are enforcing loyalty so tightly that the far-right House Freedom Caucus recently expelled Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) either because she is too close to House speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) or because she called Representative Lauren Boebert (R-CO) a 'little bitch' on the floor of Congress, or both."
~ Heather Cox Richardson
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http://calendar.eji.org/racial-injustice/jul/11 In South Carolina, where 55 Council chapters were active by July 1956, 17 Black parents were fired or evicted from their farms within two weeks of signing a pro-integration petition in the small town of Elloree. In Yazoo County, Mississippi, when 53 Black residents signed an NAACP petition for integration, the local Council published their names in a newspaper ad, leading to harassment, firing, and credit cancellation. In the end, all signers removed their names from the petition and the Yazoo County NAACP disbanded.
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#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
