DEATHBORNE (@deathbourne.bsky.social) reply parent
And as President and as SCOTUS.
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view profile on Bluesky DEATHBORNE (@deathbourne.bsky.social) reply parent
And as President and as SCOTUS.
Joe Segal (@joesegal.bsky.social) reposted
The President should become a purely ceremonial position. The Senate should not be a thing! It's a vestige of our sin of slavery. One person, one vote! That's democracy! NO electoral college! No Kings! No Dictators!
DEATHBORNE (@deathbourne.bsky.social) reply parent
What value does this topic bring to the issue at hand? We have a PROBLEM and the bickering amongst the children is really disappointing. Can we move on and focus on the material?
Kate from Kharkiv (@kateinkharkiv.bsky.social) reposted
Dear Americans, welcome to the thrilling game of ‘Did this dictator die or just disappear for a day?’ We’ve been playing it with Putin and Lukashenko for decades. Enjoy the suspense.
DEATHBORNE (@deathbourne.bsky.social) reply parent
It feels like the country has been shoved into a garbage disposal machine. Only folks who will benefit are the ones who sell waste.
DEATHBORNE (@deathbourne.bsky.social) reply parent
Money is the root of our dysfunction. Period.
DEATHBORNE (@deathbourne.bsky.social) reply parent
Has been, will be.
DEATHBORNE (@deathbourne.bsky.social) reply parent
That's how I explain it. Do you want to deep dive this?
DEATHBORNE (@deathbourne.bsky.social) reply parent
And see what? That this is a society where people's worth is determined by money, and that even black prime have learned to sell their souls for it? American capitalism was established based on extreme racism, which has morphed into a more polite tho still money driven and misguided system.
DEATHBORNE (@deathbourne.bsky.social) reply parent
Right, just biased.
DEATHBORNE (@deathbourne.bsky.social) reply parent
I'm not sure if you're baiting, a bigot, or a bot. But as any of the three, I think you seem not of quite sound mind. How can I help you?
DEATHBORNE (@deathbourne.bsky.social)
This is it!
Agolf Twitler Slayer (@slayeragolf.bsky.social) reposted
The world has totally lost respect for the USA.
Andrew Lawrence (@ndrew.bsky.social) reposted
a person offering teens free advice on how to take their own life: a monster, immediate jail for life at best a person who owns a company that makes money off giving teens advice on how to take their own life: a genius, this will save civilization, we must give you all the money
DEATHBORNE (@deathbourne.bsky.social) reply parent
If there's a future.
Clear Spies 🪬 (@clearspies.fellas.army) reposted
What Trump is doing is working. Stop calling deliberate power grabs things like “ignorance”. Stop calling willful disregard of the Constitution “stupid”. These people aren’t stupid. They know history. They know law. They’re faking stupidity so they can do whatever they want. They don’t fucking care.
DEATHBORNE (@deathbourne.bsky.social) reply parent
Murderers.
scha·den·freu·de (@blisterpearl.bsky.social) reposted
'The best thing to come out of his mouth will be his last breath'
DEATHBORNE (@deathbourne.bsky.social) reply parent
Amen.
Just Jack (@just-jack-1.bsky.social) reposted
SPEAKER MIKE “HOOKED ON PORN” JOHNSON SAID I, GAVIN CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS NEWSOM BUILDER OF THE BEST MAPS, SHOULD FOCUS ON GOVERNING MY STATE. LETS NOT FORGET “MAGIC MIKE” SHUT DOWN THE HOUSE AND WENT ON EARLY RECESS BECAUSE HE WAS AFRAID OF THE VOTE ON RELEASING THE ESPTEIN FILES! - GCN
DEATHBORNE (@deathbourne.bsky.social)
JD ""Just Dance" Vance!
DEATHBORNE (@deathbourne.bsky.social)
Dying and losing. Losing and dying. Even if it's going slowly, it's still going. Resist where you are. Resist you must. Do something different everyday. Be radical everyday.
HerRoyalThighness (@ourflagmeansbeth.bsky.social) reposted
People enjoying their hobbies isn’t preventing revolution; lack of solidarity is (strike funds, etc.) and the fact most people live hand to mouth. Practicing joy is a revolutionary act under fascism. Do the things you love and help your neighbours.
DEATHBORNE (@deathbourne.bsky.social) reply parent
5 million? Ok, maybe that helps demonstrate the value of money.
DEATHBORNE (@deathbourne.bsky.social)
Societal restructuring: Oligarch class. Enforcer class (ICE). Poverty class (US).
DEATHBORNE (@deathbourne.bsky.social) reply parent
Societal restructuring: Oligarch class. Enforcer class (ICE). Poverty class (US).
DEATHBORNE (@deathbourne.bsky.social) reply parent
Bwahahaha. You are an elevated thinker. Who needs to think outside the box when the solution is to just not think at all? Kudos!
DEATHBORNE (@deathbourne.bsky.social)
Any time you do something different than what you would have done, were money not involved, know you are in error and are making a costly mistake.
DEATHBORNE (@deathbourne.bsky.social) reply parent
Lol. Seems to have been. People are like yep, THIS is Fascism. "Sure, glad you've figured it out. So now let's go fight, OK?
DEATHBORNE (@deathbourne.bsky.social)
Stupidity is more expensive than profit. Bad decisions made in self-interest can benefit the few, but always at significant cost to the many. Structuring and tolerating a society that prioritizes making and accepting bad decisions in the name of profit will continue to be stupid and costly.
DEATHBORNE (@deathbourne.bsky.social) reply parent
Seems like a crumb given all the other cake that is being taken.
Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com) reposted
THIS 👉🏾 What price are you willing to pay? “You’re letting masked men snatch girls’ parents off the streets.”
DEATHBORNE (@deathbourne.bsky.social) reply parent
I don't think I've ever heard this before, but I appreciate the energy. And it does speak to the nature of the moment.
DEATHBORNE (@deathbourne.bsky.social) reply parent
Not kale diverges from our experience and perception. Please don't let him trouble you.
DEATHBORNE (@deathbourne.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes. Seriously. Stay. Resist. Hamper. Slow. This system doesn't respond to shame, outage, or spectacle. Actually do something, or have done nothing at all.
Santiago Mayer (@santiagomayer.com) reposted
I do not understand why government officials resign when asked to do something bad. The resignations will no longer be treated by the public like a scandal. It’ll be out of the news within 24 hours. People should stay and force the White House to fire them. Do not make it easy.
DEATHBORNE (@deathbourne.bsky.social) reply parent
Have you tried the library? Volunteering, meet-ups. Dunno I've been married for 31 years but that's what I'd try.
DEATHBORNE (@deathbourne.bsky.social) reply parent
I'm not afraid. I may be under resourced and under weaponed but - I am not afraid.
DEATHBORNE (@deathbourne.bsky.social) reply parent
Mediocre is being generous. I'm mediocre, and I promise you'd have a significantly more thoughtful outcome with me in any of their roles.
DEATHBORNE (@deathbourne.bsky.social) reply parent
You're doing something wrong. Stare into the void with me. There's rage aplenty therein.
DEATHBORNE (@deathbourne.bsky.social) reply parent
But Batman doesn't exist.
DEATHBORNE (@deathbourne.bsky.social) reply parent
Because we fear death, we never fully live. If we moved in truth rather than fear, everything would be so very different.
DEATHBORNE (@deathbourne.bsky.social) reply parent
I hope so.
DEATHBORNE (@deathbourne.bsky.social) reply parent
I doubt it. No one is going to prioritize the adverse impact of anything or anyone in this administration. Staying in the department provides an opportunity to disrupt their system. Moralizing and public shaming doesn't carry any of the weight we might hope it does. This is different.
DEATHBORNE (@deathbourne.bsky.social)
Is there a point?
DEATHBORNE (@deathbourne.bsky.social) reply parent
How does quitting help????
DEATHBORNE (@deathbourne.bsky.social) reply parent
It's never been joyful to say.
DEATHBORNE (@deathbourne.bsky.social) reply parent
All the quitting just leaves the incompetent in charge.
Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes.bsky.social) reposted
over over and over "The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity"
DEATHBORNE (@deathbourne.bsky.social) reply parent
True. Sign me up Gov
DEATHBORNE (@deathbourne.bsky.social) reply parent
Money over everything. Money as God. Money is God. We are the lost. We are the fallen.
thepinkmonkey.bsky.social (@thepinkmonkey.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
DEATHBORNE (@deathbourne.bsky.social) reply parent
It's not really a point that merits or necessitates discussion. On one side, you have profit, influence, and power. On the other side, you have a society that is clearly tolerant of the deaths of its children. If society wanted to do different, it would. It is, as it manifests itself to be.
DEATHBORNE (@deathbourne.bsky.social) reply parent
I understand the complexity. I'm not sure that violence is ever a good future mitigation strategy for violence. An effective response yes... but
DEATHBORNE (@deathbourne.bsky.social) reply parent
I'm all for the fight, not for the monstrosity.
DEATHBORNE (@deathbourne.bsky.social) reply parent
How do you know it's working?
DEATHBORNE (@deathbourne.bsky.social) reply parent
Why?
DEATHBORNE (@deathbourne.bsky.social) reply parent
I'm on it!
DEATHBORNE (@deathbourne.bsky.social) reply parent
I thought Obi-Wan was?
DEATHBORNE (@deathbourne.bsky.social)
We will now enter the FAFO experience of being ostracized from the global supply chain. See you in the bread line, comrads.
DEATHBORNE (@deathbourne.bsky.social) reply parent
Bruh
Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
bsky.app/profile/sara...
DEATHBORNE (@deathbourne.bsky.social) reply parent
Really? Money just gets folks coming and going....
DEATHBORNE (@deathbourne.bsky.social) reply parent
Law without coinsurance enforcement is capricious.
DEATHBORNE (@deathbourne.bsky.social) reply parent
Might take 5
DEATHBORNE (@deathbourne.bsky.social) reply parent
Which is kind of right but also kind of weird. Like, what they've done so far will likely crash our economy to GD levels. So how will our alignment with their desired outcome benefit us? I mean, I understand, but the logic isn't logic-ing. That's not unusual anymore, though.
DEATHBORNE (@deathbourne.bsky.social) reply parent
Tic Toc.
DEATHBORNE (@deathbourne.bsky.social) reply parent
Intellectual collapse, too. Actually, I'm pretty sure they are collapsing all of the nice things. But crime? Crime will be incentivized.
DEATHBORNE (@deathbourne.bsky.social) reply parent
Careful of becoming the monsters you're fighting against.
DEATHBORNE (@deathbourne.bsky.social) reply parent
I suspect some may be Russian plants as well.
DEATHBORNE (@deathbourne.bsky.social) reply parent
We've been in a civil war is just taking a while to register and "turn hot". Doesn't change the fact of what this is. We can lose by not fighting. It was still a cold civil war.
Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social) reposted
We are in very dark times. It’ll take an entire political/social movement, an overwhelming rebuke at the polls, and a new vision of governance to unstick this country from whatever this collapse is.
DEATHBORNE (@deathbourne.bsky.social) reply parent
Which is why I left law school and never regretted that decision even once.
DEATHBORNE (@deathbourne.bsky.social) reply parent
Why? What incentive does Putin's have with his mind long addled by power? That's not the way sociopathic narcissists behave. We should always try to align our expectations to the situations and respond accordingly.
DEATHBORNE (@deathbourne.bsky.social) reply parent
That has got to be the dumbest headline ever. Would have made the Onion years ago... now it's our new normal.
DEATHBORNE (@deathbourne.bsky.social) reply parent
Death cults gonna death.
DEATHBORNE (@deathbourne.bsky.social) reply parent
It's the consequence of the incentivizing of profit over progress. It's the reason billionaires drag us through the dirt rather than elevate us to the clouds.
DEATHBORNE (@deathbourne.bsky.social)
So we still have mass shooters, but no militias resisting the coup? Got it. This isn't a country; it is an insane asylum run by sociopaths.
DEATHBORNE (@deathbourne.bsky.social) reply parent
They're scared.
DEATHBORNE (@deathbourne.bsky.social) reply parent
Happened and ongoing here in the US, to disastrous consequence. I'm assuming they are likely owned or controlled by the same billionaire buddies. What a world. Hate and power are now one and the same. See what money gets you?
Avocadoplex (@avocadoplex.bike) reposted
Fuck.
DEATHBORNE (@deathbourne.bsky.social) reply parent
Just be about it. Then in 30 years we can figure out how to get rid of you, too. But you may add some value to start. Thank you. Don't forget - power corrupts.
Average J (@eieino.bsky.social) reposted
Racism is the American Achilles Heel
DEATHBORNE (@deathbourne.bsky.social) reply parent
That's not even their lowest entry level employee. These people are just greedy.
DEATHBORNE (@deathbourne.bsky.social)
Ok, my lesson here is to not turn to hate. Forgive them for they know not what they do. They're idiots, possibly abused, clearly misguided, and definitely in error. But my heart, pity, and sorrow goes out to them in all of their error. The will always be part of the whole.
DEATHBORNE (@deathbourne.bsky.social) reply parent
Dafuc.
Mrs. Betty Bowers (@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social) reposted
AMERICA: “It’s a mental health issue.” REST OF THE WORLD: “We have those. But don’t have mass shootings.” AMERICA: “It’s video games.” WORLD: “We have those too. But don’t have mass shootings.” AMERICA B: “It’s cause they took Jesus out of the classroom.” WORLD: “God, you’re stupid.”
DEATHBORNE (@deathbourne.bsky.social) reply parent
I can and I will, the alternative is unacceptable.
DEATHBORNE (@deathbourne.bsky.social) reply parent
Thank you - that statement, that clarification is important, because I think that is what has been breaking me. I will keep it to what I can, and trust that others will do so as well. And that the numbers will add up on their own.
DEATHBORNE (@deathbourne.bsky.social) reply parent
It was that energy that elected this dumpster fire. Now, we have to mature quickly, or become what I think we unfortunately may always have been - a danger to ourselves and others.
DEATHBORNE (@deathbourne.bsky.social) reply parent
America as a nation is/was quite immature in its ideological beliefs - there's a lot of ra-ra, individualistic, hubris driven ideology ~ but very little actual internal reflection. I've thought of America as a late teen bully. Who is strong, cocksure, and can't be told otherwise.
DEATHBORNE (@deathbourne.bsky.social) reply parent
But I'll keep going out, and hope you do as well, and maybe others will join us over time, and maybe we can make this nightmare end without significantly more violence.
DEATHBORNE (@deathbourne.bsky.social) reply parent
I think that those 3% figures or 10s of millions work best in small countries where everyone goes to one place to protest. In a large nation like ours where everyone is disparate. Getting what is or appears to be a critical mass is difficult.
DEATHBORNE (@deathbourne.bsky.social) reply parent
I was out last week, with a couple of blocks of gray hairs. Only me and two other women were remotely under 60. I struggle at the disengagement - at work, in our communities, everywhere. I think people either have no idea what is going on, or no idea how to respond to it.
DEATHBORNE (@deathbourne.bsky.social) reply parent
He's ruling like a rapist too. Because he is fucking us all, and I know that I for one was not consenting to any of this fuckery.
DEATHBORNE (@deathbourne.bsky.social) reply parent
You imply something important. We fall or fail, the world gets scrapped up too. We need to respond to this. We have to respond to this.