I feel you on this one breh.
General Political Fúckery Thread: 119th Congress Begins!
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Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com)
In 1979, Jimmy Carter installed solar panels on the White House. In 1986, Ronald Reagan tore them down along w/Carter’s clean energy funding. This sums up the difference between the two men & political parties. Investing in solutions for the future vs canceling progress to score political points.
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Christopher Webb
In 1979, Jimmy Carter installed solar panels on the White House. In 1986, Ronald Reagan tore them down along w/Carter’s clean energy funding.
This sums up the difference between the two men & political parties. Investing in solutions for the future vs canceling progress to score political points.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com
What Happened to Carter’s White House Solar Panels? They Lived On.
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MAC @mac58.bsky.social
Elon Musk, the shadow president.
https://video.bsky.app/watch/did:pl...iip6gdoewibftszhzo2cog7iw6ssiee/playlist.m3u8
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GemmaGem @tippytaff.bsky.social
It was alarming at the time when GOP installed an ACTOR to do their bidding. It's even more alarming they've installed a failed reality show fake billionaire to openly exploit our systems of government using WWE fan-building fake rage techniques & we fall for it AGAIN!
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Ariel Hand
@adajah55.bsky.social
Republicans are the enemy of progress to protect our environment, fight climate change and our agenda to create clean energy. Think of what we would have accomplished and where we would be right now if Reagan hadn't won. We're repeating the backward trends by placing that party back in power.
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Gina Brown @mzgee41.bsky.social
Reagan was a horrible person and an even more horrible president. He, like DonOld, was a puppet for big money interests. Reagan lowered the tax rate from 73% to 28%, talking about “trickle down economics” that still haven’t “trickled down”.
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deaconpurple.bsky.social @deaconpurple.bsky.social
And started taxing Social Security payments to try to make up for tax revenue lost from the rich.
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liavan.bsky.social @liavan.bsky.social
Yep! Gave Carter one term in favour of Reagan for two terms and continued downhill from there to Trump. What a dumb country!
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Anne Worner 
@anneworner.bsky.social
Reagan was a dikk.
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outdoors27.bsky.social @outdoors27.bsky.social
Reagan was a destroyer, that's why Republicans and now MAGA think he was the greatest President in their lifetimes, until Trump came a long, of course. It's a shame that Jimmy Carter didn't get the credit he deserved not only for what he did as President but also for being a kind, decent, person
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ruipx.bsky.social @ruipx.bsky.social
You really need a new FDR. Desperately.
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nana-p024.bsky.social @nana-p024.bsky.social
President Jimmy Carter’s thoughts were ahead of this world, for he was guided by a different compass
The good ones are always misunderstood
#ThankYouPresidentCarter
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LittleSa$$hole @ilovesuckers.bsky.social
How can something called “the right” always be so fukking wrong
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kwattbud.bsky.social @kwattbud.bsky.social
Carter was a scientist
Regan was a B rated actor
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Gina Brown @mzgee41.bsky.social
Exactly!
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@dianarita.bsky.social
"...the role played by the United States government, the oil industry, automobile manufacturers, consumers, batteries, hydrogen vehicles and the California government in restricting the development of take up of the electric vehicle technology"2006
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edbernard.bsky.social @edbernard.bsky.social
reagan was a senile idiot who tripled our national debt
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Eileen Montrose @eileenmont.bsky.social
And yet one is considered a failure. I think the American people failed and we just keep on failing at the most crucial moments. 1 step forward, 2 steps back. Get $$$ out of politics. Insist your reps get serious about reform.
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Falkirkbairnexiled @falkirkbairnexiled.bsky.social
Having your own energy supplies takes the power away from the oligarchs. Reagan was firmly with the oligarchs.
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Sam @samg92.bsky.social
People need to stop thinking Reagan was a great president. He opened the door to MAGA and slammed the door shut on bipartisanship. The executive and legislative branches have been crippled for decades thanks to him and Newt Gingrich.
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Mark Stroup @smallstreams.bsky.social
This is a good reminder of what a horror show Reagan was.
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franceslarina.bsky.social @franceslarina.bsky.social
Heritage Foundation's first attempt at what is now Project 2025 was called, "Mandate for Leadership" and given to Ronald Reagan when he became President. He based much of his policy on it, eventually accomplishing around half of their goals.
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Wallis @wallish.bsky.social
Yep: Mandate for Leadership - Wikipedia
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fiercelady.bsky.social @fiercelady.bsky.social
Bless him
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szarotka.bsky.social @szarotka.bsky.social
WOW visionary, in 1979 WOW
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Peter F @feenp.bsky.social
Not 'visionary', the danger of #climatecrisis was known then, but not well advertised.
Far-sighted certainly, not much of that around these days.
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szarotka.bsky.social @szarotka.bsky.social
And Regan dismentling it was very telling who wants what and why.
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ducatidave.bsky.social @ducatidave.bsky.social
Reagan was a real POS
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Tall Drink of Swiftness @tallswiftness.bsky.social
Reagan reversed a lot of things from the Carter Admin.
It was the start of our country's decline.
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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social
Sad irony it was the Christian Right who tore down the real Christian.
Rinse, repeat ...
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com
Oh man. Truer words…
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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social
It's a pretty good story.
Wonder why our MSM doesn't spend more time with it ...
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brainwashedlib.bsky.social @brainwashedlib.bsky.social
yeah, why does the demoKKKrat controlled media not spend even more time brainwashing demoKKKrats is beyond me
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der601.bsky.social @der601.bsky.social
Where/who is this Dem controlled media you speak of??? Would love to follow/read/watch it. All the media outlets I know of are controlled by corporations or billionaires who aren’t afraid to throw their weight around.
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Wendy Jo Salazar @newmexicoblue2.bsky.social
Brain looks like a troll. Blocked.
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kimba6.bsky.social @kimba6.bsky.social
Hated Reagan and Nancy.
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Pamela Sykes @sykeology219.bsky.social
I remember that happening. Reagan is what speeded up the earth on the middle class. He was a shytty President and probably an even shyttier human.
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Pamela Sykes @sykeology219.bsky.social
Oh jeezus crist, why can’t we edit??? Should read: “speeded up the WAR on the middle class…” why did auto incorrect change , war to earth I cannot understand.
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mickey23.bsky.social @mickey23.bsky.social
Jimmy Carter such an intelligent man, ahead of his time, true patriot always thinking of ways to help and improve the American experience.
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spurfaninsa.bsky.social @spurfaninsa.bsky.social
Reagan is scumbag trash! I voted against that senile b*stard! He was one of the worst presidents!
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Sherry @sherry2.bsky.social
Thanks to President Jimmy Carter, my husband started in solar energy in very early 1980s
In 1986, he started a small company, and eventually his father joined in with him.
39 years later, our son now runs the company.
3 generations
Almost 40 years
Thanks to
President Jimmy Carter
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John Colbert @johncolbert29.bsky.social
Trump is going to tear out by the roots, everything that is good about America as soon as he steps foot back in office. He will gut America and walk over the ashes when he leaves!
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Yvonne Dyrda @yvonnedyrda.bsky.social
They continue to prove our point: We can’t have nice things in this country because of Republicans.
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Neil Campbell @neils-0n-wheels.bsky.social
Great story, with a reader comment that I think sums things up very well.
Perhaps why those with less to offer speak of 'the left' with such disdain.
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vikingtears61.bsky.social @vikingtears61.bsky.social
Jimmy Carter way ahead of his time. They really don't make em like him no more. I don't think people remember or even know that Reagan tripled our debt and literally accomplished nothing.
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Eat The Rich 
@sburr741600.bsky.social
The Republicans have, for a very long time now, been Repugnant.
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Beckay @jtskiwtr.bsky.social
Republicans are just shytty people.
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MAC @mac58.bsky.social
Elon Musk, the shadow President.
https://video.bsky.app/watch/did:pl...iip6gdoewibftszhzo2cog7iw6ssiee/playlist.m3u8
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bratacat.bsky.social @bratacat.bsky.social
I'm furious about Trump throwing a hissy fit about the flags being at half mast in honor of the period of mourning for Jimmy Carter. Carter has had a lifetime of serving ordinary people. Trump is just a spoiled brat for wanting to ruin the period of mourning of Carter. Trump will always be a brat.
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lucy8060.bsky.social @lucy8060.bsky.social
I wish the media would make a big deal of this!
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Christopher WebbIn 1979, Jimmy Carter installed solar panels on the White House. In 1986, Ronald Reagan tore them down along w/Carter’s clean energy funding.
This sums up the difference between the two men & political parties. Investing in solutions for the future vs canceling progress to score political points.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.comWhat Happened to Carter’s White House Solar Panels? They Lived On.
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MAC @mac58.bsky.socialElon Musk, the shadow president.
https://video.bsky.app/watch/did:pl...iip6gdoewibftszhzo2cog7iw6ssiee/playlist.m3u8
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GemmaGem @tippytaff.bsky.socialIt was alarming at the time when GOP installed an ACTOR to do their bidding. It's even more alarming they've installed a failed reality show fake billionaire to openly exploit our systems of government using WWE fan-building fake rage techniques & we fall for it AGAIN!
5/50
Ariel Hand @adajah55.bsky.socialRepublicans are the enemy of progress to protect our environment, fight climate change and our agenda to create clean energy. Think of what we would have accomplished and where we would be right now if Reagan hadn't won. We're repeating the backward trends by placing that party back in power.
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Gina Brown @mzgee41.bsky.socialReagan was a horrible person and an even more horrible president. He, like DonOld, was a puppet for big money interests. Reagan lowered the tax rate from 73% to 28%, talking about “trickle down economics” that still haven’t “trickled down”.
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deaconpurple.bsky.social @deaconpurple.bsky.socialAnd started taxing Social Security payments to try to make up for tax revenue lost from the rich.
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liavan.bsky.social @liavan.bsky.socialYep! Gave Carter one term in favour of Reagan for two terms and continued downhill from there to Trump. What a dumb country!
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Anne Worner @anneworner.bsky.socialReagan was a dikk.
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outdoors27.bsky.social @outdoors27.bsky.socialReagan was a destroyer, that's why Republicans and now MAGA think he was the greatest President in their lifetimes, until Trump came a long, of course. It's a shame that Jimmy Carter didn't get the credit he deserved not only for what he did as President but also for being a kind, decent, person
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ruipx.bsky.social @ruipx.bsky.socialYou really need a new FDR. Desperately.
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nana-p024.bsky.social @nana-p024.bsky.socialPresident Jimmy Carter’s thoughts were ahead of this world, for he was guided by a different compass
The good ones are always misunderstood
#ThankYouPresidentCarter
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LittleSa$$hole @ilovesuckers.bsky.socialHow can something called “the right” always be so fukking wrong
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kwattbud.bsky.social @kwattbud.bsky.socialCarter was a scientist
Regan was a B rated actor
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Gina Brown @mzgee41.bsky.socialExactly!
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@dianarita.bsky.social"...the role played by the United States government, the oil industry, automobile manufacturers, consumers, batteries, hydrogen vehicles and the California government in restricting the development of take up of the electric vehicle technology"2006
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edbernard.bsky.social @edbernard.bsky.socialreagan was a senile idiot who tripled our national debt
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Eileen Montrose @eileenmont.bsky.socialAnd yet one is considered a failure. I think the American people failed and we just keep on failing at the most crucial moments. 1 step forward, 2 steps back. Get $$$ out of politics. Insist your reps get serious about reform.
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Falkirkbairnexiled @falkirkbairnexiled.bsky.socialHaving your own energy supplies takes the power away from the oligarchs. Reagan was firmly with the oligarchs.
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Sam @samg92.bsky.socialPeople need to stop thinking Reagan was a great president. He opened the door to MAGA and slammed the door shut on bipartisanship. The executive and legislative branches have been crippled for decades thanks to him and Newt Gingrich.
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Mark Stroup @smallstreams.bsky.socialThis is a good reminder of what a horror show Reagan was.
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franceslarina.bsky.social @franceslarina.bsky.socialHeritage Foundation's first attempt at what is now Project 2025 was called, "Mandate for Leadership" and given to Ronald Reagan when he became President. He based much of his policy on it, eventually accomplishing around half of their goals.
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Wallis @wallish.bsky.socialYep: Mandate for Leadership - Wikipedia
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fiercelady.bsky.social @fiercelady.bsky.socialBless him
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szarotka.bsky.social @szarotka.bsky.socialWOW visionary, in 1979 WOW
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Peter F @feenp.bsky.socialNot 'visionary', the danger of #climatecrisis was known then, but not well advertised.
Far-sighted certainly, not much of that around these days.
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szarotka.bsky.social @szarotka.bsky.socialAnd Regan dismentling it was very telling who wants what and why.
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ducatidave.bsky.social @ducatidave.bsky.socialReagan was a real POS
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Tall Drink of Swiftness @tallswiftness.bsky.socialReagan reversed a lot of things from the Carter Admin.
It was the start of our country's decline.
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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.socialSad irony it was the Christian Right who tore down the real Christian.
Rinse, repeat ...
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.comOh man. Truer words…
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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.socialIt's a pretty good story.
Wonder why our MSM doesn't spend more time with it ...
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brainwashedlib.bsky.social @brainwashedlib.bsky.socialyeah, why does the demoKKKrat controlled media not spend even more time brainwashing demoKKKrats is beyond me
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der601.bsky.social @der601.bsky.socialWhere/who is this Dem controlled media you speak of??? Would love to follow/read/watch it. All the media outlets I know of are controlled by corporations or billionaires who aren’t afraid to throw their weight around.
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Wendy Jo Salazar @newmexicoblue2.bsky.socialBrain looks like a troll. Blocked.
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kimba6.bsky.social @kimba6.bsky.socialHated Reagan and Nancy.
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Pamela Sykes @sykeology219.bsky.socialI remember that happening. Reagan is what speeded up the earth on the middle class. He was a shytty President and probably an even shyttier human.
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Pamela Sykes @sykeology219.bsky.socialOh jeezus crist, why can’t we edit??? Should read: “speeded up the WAR on the middle class…” why did auto incorrect change , war to earth I cannot understand.
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mickey23.bsky.social @mickey23.bsky.socialJimmy Carter such an intelligent man, ahead of his time, true patriot always thinking of ways to help and improve the American experience.
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spurfaninsa.bsky.social @spurfaninsa.bsky.socialReagan is scumbag trash! I voted against that senile b*stard! He was one of the worst presidents!
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Sherry @sherry2.bsky.socialThanks to President Jimmy Carter, my husband started in solar energy in very early 1980s
In 1986, he started a small company, and eventually his father joined in with him.
39 years later, our son now runs the company.
3 generations
Almost 40 years
Thanks to
President Jimmy Carter
42/50
John Colbert @johncolbert29.bsky.socialTrump is going to tear out by the roots, everything that is good about America as soon as he steps foot back in office. He will gut America and walk over the ashes when he leaves!
43/50
Yvonne Dyrda @yvonnedyrda.bsky.socialThey continue to prove our point: We can’t have nice things in this country because of Republicans.
44/50
Neil Campbell @neils-0n-wheels.bsky.socialGreat story, with a reader comment that I think sums things up very well.
Perhaps why those with less to offer speak of 'the left' with such disdain.
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vikingtears61.bsky.social @vikingtears61.bsky.socialJimmy Carter way ahead of his time. They really don't make em like him no more. I don't think people remember or even know that Reagan tripled our debt and literally accomplished nothing.
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Eat The Rich @sburr741600.bsky.socialThe Republicans have, for a very long time now, been Repugnant.
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Beckay @jtskiwtr.bsky.socialRepublicans are just shytty people.
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MAC @mac58.bsky.socialElon Musk, the shadow President.
https://video.bsky.app/watch/did:pl...iip6gdoewibftszhzo2cog7iw6ssiee/playlist.m3u8
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bratacat.bsky.social @bratacat.bsky.socialI'm furious about Trump throwing a hissy fit about the flags being at half mast in honor of the period of mourning for Jimmy Carter. Carter has had a lifetime of serving ordinary people. Trump is just a spoiled brat for wanting to ruin the period of mourning of Carter. Trump will always be a brat.
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lucy8060.bsky.social @lucy8060.bsky.socialI wish the media would make a big deal of this!
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Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net)
The thing that the oligarchs fundamentally misunderstand is that civil society and social safety nets were the compromise of the social contract. Dismantling civil society, rolling back civil rights, looting public resources, and exacerbating unimaginable wealth inequality fundamentally breaks it.
bsky.app
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Alejandra Caraballo
The thing that the oligarchs fundamentally misunderstand is that civil society and social safety nets were the compromise of the social contract. Dismantling civil society, rolling back civil rights, looting public resources, and exacerbating unimaginable wealth inequality fundamentally breaks it.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net
Younger generations feeling fed up with the system will have no avenue or outlet for their desire for economic and social progress. You remove the avenues for change and young people will feel they are no longer beholden to the social contract and their capacity for violence will increase.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net
There's a reason civil conflict arises in societies with disaffected and alienated youth. Ultimately, what we will see is increasing political violence by younger generations who feel they have no other means to effectuate change. Luigi Mangione was not a one off and he will not be the last.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net
The oligarchs may believe they can control it but they cannot and I believe society in the US is reaching a fundamental breaking point where the social contract is being shredded in the name of endless wealth and power. Eventually, there will be a violent reaction and it's something no one wants.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net
The oligarchs thought they could ride this populist wave into greater societal control without check on their wealth and power but populism never ends well because it's subject to the madness of the mob. Ultimately, the mob always turns on those who think they can control it.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net
Anyways, the most succinct telling of this is JFK's quote, "those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable."
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Secretary of Balloon Doggies @secballoondogs.bsky.social
tl;dr summary…
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BeachsideWilly @beachsidewilly.bsky.social
They reap what they sow.
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Steve Wisniewski @stevewiski.bsky.social
It all started with Reagan. Bush the dumber & DonOld stripped even more away. Now we’re truly screwed.
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Eva
DeathDollie
@evaddollie.bsky.social
French Revolutionaries had the right idea.
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NuclearVampire @nuclearvampire.bsky.social
I have been saying all of this for ages, I just didn't have some of the technical terms for it.
Just. At this point there is no way out without massive bloody conflict, and I grieve for all of us.
Revolution is bloody! No matter how it ends, it is fueled by the blood of the people. I grieve.
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Liberal Donald J. Trump @notdontrmp.bsky.social
Exactly! The oligarchs are so out of touch, they don’t get that a thriving society depends on a social contract that includes fairness, rights, and dignity. When they loot, dismantle, and exploit—it’s not just wrong, it’s a direct assault on everything that makes America great. We MUST fight back!
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WaluigiYaoi @waluigiyaoi.bsky.social
The social contract isn’t written like an American style one where one side can just change it whenever and face no legal issues
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MR eLIAS @theeliasrework.bsky.social
They break that contract, and it brings anarchy. The thing they built collapses. History is littered with collapsed empires.
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The Skald of PDX, He/Him @skaldpdx.bsky.social
And the social contract also reads, "If we make sure you're taken care of adequately, you'll leave the guillotines at home".
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net
The New Deal was effectively the American oligarchy realizing that they needed to provide basic support or they would end up like the Romanovs. The Reagan revolution and the SV neuveau riche have seemingly forgotten those lessons.
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The Skald of PDX, He/Him @skaldpdx.bsky.social
I think they're convinced they can turn the military on the US people.
Or at least the militarized police force.
I can't think of a time in history where police are so funded and equipped, and yet so incapable of doing basic things.
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The Skald of PDX, He/Him @skaldpdx.bsky.social
Yet when the riots and mobs start up, the police are very ready.
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The Skald of PDX, He/Him @skaldpdx.bsky.social
Meanwhile they peddle the Ayn Rand mindset that convinces people that any human is "self made" and that the only good taxes are the ones that go into creating a police state.
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Spider-Bob ~ Catches geeks just like flies @spiderbob007.bsky.social
The day-one immigration policy is a pretext for a police state.
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HuluAndEbay Man @huluandebayman.bsky.social
Basically the broligarchs are setting up a second french revolution (the people against the rich, not the tea n taxes)
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Kern Daly @kerndaly.bsky.social
Robespierre started out as a reformer, arguing for more rights. Then got caught up in a killing spree until he was killed by guillotine himself
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jackbeingbad.bsky.social @jackbeingbad.bsky.social
Never assume the wealthy aren't keeping track
There are over 1 million hyper aggressive police in the US. That's one cop per 300 people. The highest ratio in history
Most of them are magas. And most of them are 100% ok with killing their fellow Americans.
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Unheavenly Creature @unheavenlycreature.bsky.social
Alright but it took them several days, a massive manhunt, and some pretty glaring mistakes on his part to catch Luigi. Imagine several of these happening at once. What would they even do
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jackbeingbad.bsky.social @jackbeingbad.bsky.social
Look at luigi. Then They'd start tracking voices of dissent and charging them with terrorism.
And the great part is, the working class is paying for those cops and task forces
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Unheavenly Creature @unheavenlycreature.bsky.social
How? There's already enough people saying these types of things they can't keep track/ uo with it.
Learned helplessness is no use to anyone
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jackbeingbad.bsky.social @jackbeingbad.bsky.social
I'm not saying not to resist
I'm saying to not underestimate the powerful
If you think resisting will be some cartoon script where the bad guys see the Angry good guys and surrender you're fukking dreaming
It's going to take sacrifice a lot of sacrifice.
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Unheavenly Creature @unheavenlycreature.bsky.social
no one said anything like that
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Maryam M.-C. @maryneedsnohail.bsky.social
They do understand that. They just assume they have the power to get away with it.
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firegravity @firegravity.bsky.social
Oh, it's not a misunderstanding. Feel free to look up "neoreactionary" which is SV's ideal - the same guys who own Vance and Trump.
They want to be feudal lords, it's really the only endpoint of libertarian tech bro ideas. They know exactly what they're doing.
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TheLibertyEsq @thelibertyesq.bsky.social
Civil society exists so the wealthy can sleep at night and have faith their head of security won’t own the house over their dead bodies in the morning. It has never been for the masses.
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billthinkstoomuch.bsky.social @billthinkstoomuch.bsky.social
… like once we kick out all the “illegals” and block gender care and we spend another decade concentrating wealth at the very top and the “forgotten man” is still forgotten, people might start to wake up, right?
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Uncle Rico Dynamite @unclericodynamite.bsky.social
Bluesky
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whitemagicalhat.bsky.social @whitemagicalhat.bsky.social
No more social contract in the most heavily armed nation on Earth? Oh boy...
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Carol Roper @unrulywomenfiction.bsky.social
We will not go quietly.
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Unheavenly Creature @unheavenlycreature.bsky.social
The thing is they think their money and bunkers will keep them safe. They fail to realize if society crumbles, so does the social contract that kept them safe
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Chaotic DM @tcourtney812.bsky.social
And it's not going to break in a way that's good for anyone
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California National Party @votecnp.bsky.social
I don't think they care.
They are going to try the boots on our throats approach.
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4 more years? @truth-n-science.bsky.social
it kept the poor from eating the rich
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Alice Campos @ok-sure.bsky.social
New social contract = the boot stomps on our face, forever
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Alejandra Caraballo
The thing that the oligarchs fundamentally misunderstand is that civil society and social safety nets were the compromise of the social contract. Dismantling civil society, rolling back civil rights, looting public resources, and exacerbating unimaginable wealth inequality fundamentally breaks it.
2/40
Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net
Younger generations feeling fed up with the system will have no avenue or outlet for their desire for economic and social progress. You remove the avenues for change and young people will feel they are no longer beholden to the social contract and their capacity for violence will increase.
3/40
Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net
There's a reason civil conflict arises in societies with disaffected and alienated youth. Ultimately, what we will see is increasing political violence by younger generations who feel they have no other means to effectuate change. Luigi Mangione was not a one off and he will not be the last.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net
The oligarchs may believe they can control it but they cannot and I believe society in the US is reaching a fundamental breaking point where the social contract is being shredded in the name of endless wealth and power. Eventually, there will be a violent reaction and it's something no one wants.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net
The oligarchs thought they could ride this populist wave into greater societal control without check on their wealth and power but populism never ends well because it's subject to the madness of the mob. Ultimately, the mob always turns on those who think they can control it.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net
Anyways, the most succinct telling of this is JFK's quote, "those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable."
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Secretary of Balloon Doggies @secballoondogs.bsky.social
tl;dr summary…
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BeachsideWilly @beachsidewilly.bsky.social
They reap what they sow.
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Steve Wisniewski @stevewiski.bsky.social
It all started with Reagan. Bush the dumber & DonOld stripped even more away. Now we’re truly screwed.
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Eva
DeathDollie @evaddollie.bsky.socialFrench Revolutionaries had the right idea.
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NuclearVampire @nuclearvampire.bsky.social
I have been saying all of this for ages, I just didn't have some of the technical terms for it.
Just. At this point there is no way out without massive bloody conflict, and I grieve for all of us.
Revolution is bloody! No matter how it ends, it is fueled by the blood of the people. I grieve.
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Liberal Donald J. Trump @notdontrmp.bsky.social
Exactly! The oligarchs are so out of touch, they don’t get that a thriving society depends on a social contract that includes fairness, rights, and dignity. When they loot, dismantle, and exploit—it’s not just wrong, it’s a direct assault on everything that makes America great. We MUST fight back!
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WaluigiYaoi @waluigiyaoi.bsky.social
The social contract isn’t written like an American style one where one side can just change it whenever and face no legal issues
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MR eLIAS @theeliasrework.bsky.social
They break that contract, and it brings anarchy. The thing they built collapses. History is littered with collapsed empires.
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The Skald of PDX, He/Him @skaldpdx.bsky.social
And the social contract also reads, "If we make sure you're taken care of adequately, you'll leave the guillotines at home".
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net
The New Deal was effectively the American oligarchy realizing that they needed to provide basic support or they would end up like the Romanovs. The Reagan revolution and the SV neuveau riche have seemingly forgotten those lessons.
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The Skald of PDX, He/Him @skaldpdx.bsky.social
I think they're convinced they can turn the military on the US people.
Or at least the militarized police force.
I can't think of a time in history where police are so funded and equipped, and yet so incapable of doing basic things.
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The Skald of PDX, He/Him @skaldpdx.bsky.social
Yet when the riots and mobs start up, the police are very ready.
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The Skald of PDX, He/Him @skaldpdx.bsky.social
Meanwhile they peddle the Ayn Rand mindset that convinces people that any human is "self made" and that the only good taxes are the ones that go into creating a police state.
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Spider-Bob ~ Catches geeks just like flies @spiderbob007.bsky.social
The day-one immigration policy is a pretext for a police state.
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HuluAndEbay Man @huluandebayman.bsky.social
Basically the broligarchs are setting up a second french revolution (the people against the rich, not the tea n taxes)
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Kern Daly @kerndaly.bsky.social
Robespierre started out as a reformer, arguing for more rights. Then got caught up in a killing spree until he was killed by guillotine himself
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jackbeingbad.bsky.social @jackbeingbad.bsky.social
Never assume the wealthy aren't keeping track
There are over 1 million hyper aggressive police in the US. That's one cop per 300 people. The highest ratio in history
Most of them are magas. And most of them are 100% ok with killing their fellow Americans.
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Unheavenly Creature @unheavenlycreature.bsky.social
Alright but it took them several days, a massive manhunt, and some pretty glaring mistakes on his part to catch Luigi. Imagine several of these happening at once. What would they even do
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jackbeingbad.bsky.social @jackbeingbad.bsky.social
Look at luigi. Then They'd start tracking voices of dissent and charging them with terrorism.
And the great part is, the working class is paying for those cops and task forces
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Unheavenly Creature @unheavenlycreature.bsky.social
How? There's already enough people saying these types of things they can't keep track/ uo with it.
Learned helplessness is no use to anyone
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jackbeingbad.bsky.social @jackbeingbad.bsky.social
I'm not saying not to resist
I'm saying to not underestimate the powerful
If you think resisting will be some cartoon script where the bad guys see the Angry good guys and surrender you're fukking dreaming
It's going to take sacrifice a lot of sacrifice.
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Unheavenly Creature @unheavenlycreature.bsky.social
no one said anything like that
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Maryam M.-C. @maryneedsnohail.bsky.social
They do understand that. They just assume they have the power to get away with it.
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firegravity @firegravity.bsky.social
Oh, it's not a misunderstanding. Feel free to look up "neoreactionary" which is SV's ideal - the same guys who own Vance and Trump.
They want to be feudal lords, it's really the only endpoint of libertarian tech bro ideas. They know exactly what they're doing.
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TheLibertyEsq @thelibertyesq.bsky.social
Civil society exists so the wealthy can sleep at night and have faith their head of security won’t own the house over their dead bodies in the morning. It has never been for the masses.
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billthinkstoomuch.bsky.social @billthinkstoomuch.bsky.social
… like once we kick out all the “illegals” and block gender care and we spend another decade concentrating wealth at the very top and the “forgotten man” is still forgotten, people might start to wake up, right?
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Uncle Rico Dynamite @unclericodynamite.bsky.social
Bluesky
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whitemagicalhat.bsky.social @whitemagicalhat.bsky.social
No more social contract in the most heavily armed nation on Earth? Oh boy...
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Carol Roper @unrulywomenfiction.bsky.social
We will not go quietly.
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Unheavenly Creature @unheavenlycreature.bsky.social
The thing is they think their money and bunkers will keep them safe. They fail to realize if society crumbles, so does the social contract that kept them safe
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Chaotic DM @tcourtney812.bsky.social
And it's not going to break in a way that's good for anyone
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California National Party @votecnp.bsky.social
I don't think they care.
They are going to try the boots on our throats approach.
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4 more years? @truth-n-science.bsky.social
it kept the poor from eating the rich
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Alice Campos @ok-sure.bsky.social
New social contract = the boot stomps on our face, forever
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DrBanneker
Space is the Place
Nah I think they grasp it but are overconfident. A lot of social media and other stuff is surveillance and they think with big data (social media, street cams, purchase history, credit, med records, etc.) plus AI you can neutralize threats before they emerge.
This is not sci-fi. China is doing this right now.
Planting recently pitched the UK government on a system to 'predict' if inmates would re-offend if released. Minority Report shyt.
This is not sci-fi. China is doing this right now.
Planting recently pitched the UK government on a system to 'predict' if inmates would re-offend if released. Minority Report shyt.
