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@eclecticspirit.bsky.social

Old Millennial dude. Biracial (b/w). Exploring Theravada Buddhism.

created November 8, 2024

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Profile picture Oak (@eclecticspirit.bsky.social) reply parent

Actually, "Mulatto" was an official US Census category up to 1920. It was only taken off due to the rising eugenicist/KKK/nativist movement of the 1920s.

27/7/2025, 4:32:06 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Oak (@eclecticspirit.bsky.social) reply parent

Israel has shown itself to be a Satanic country.

23/7/2025, 6:51:32 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Oak (@eclecticspirit.bsky.social) reply parent

This is one horrifying Judeofascist. Netanyahu-level Judeofascist.

19/7/2025, 11:51:19 AM | 4 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Oak (@eclecticspirit.bsky.social) reply parent

Trump is a bit bucktoothed like Jerry Sandusky.

19/7/2025, 1:14:55 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Oak (@eclecticspirit.bsky.social) reply parent

Remember when Republicans persecuted heavy metal rockers in the '80s for being part of some satanic pedophile network? Always projection.

19/7/2025, 1:12:27 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Oak (@eclecticspirit.bsky.social) reply parent

Epstein = Trump thermal exhaust port. Keep digging everyone.

18/7/2025, 9:31:58 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Oak (@eclecticspirit.bsky.social) reply parent

Merrick Garland, man.

18/7/2025, 9:13:35 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Oak (@eclecticspirit.bsky.social) reply parent

The connections are bubbling up. Also, Trump was president when Epstein died, and there's missing footage. Conspiracy theories grow legs sometime.

18/7/2025, 9:09:04 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Oak (@eclecticspirit.bsky.social) reply parent

Any premature deaths among the contestants? Just curious.

18/7/2025, 9:05:41 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Oak (@eclecticspirit.bsky.social) reply parent

There are different factions in MAGA. The more "populist" faction may catch on to what Miller/Loomer are up to eventually.

18/7/2025, 2:05:40 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Oak (@eclecticspirit.bsky.social) reply parent

Somehow, Trumpism manages to be even less "populist" in practice than the Bush dynasty.

18/7/2025, 1:50:47 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Oak (@eclecticspirit.bsky.social) reply parent

He does have a bit of a Jerry Sandusky demeanor come to think of it.

17/7/2025, 9:58:48 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Oak (@eclecticspirit.bsky.social) reply parent

Acoustic guitars, Seattle, brightly-colored floppy disks,etc. All sorts of things.

17/7/2025, 9:55:57 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Oak (@eclecticspirit.bsky.social) reply parent

Holy cow. I didn't know my folks were this mired in MAGA.

16/7/2025, 5:23:03 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Oak (@eclecticspirit.bsky.social) reply parent

Archetype? Is there another one besides French chateau guy?

16/7/2025, 5:17:57 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Oak (@eclecticspirit.bsky.social) reply parent

I think Russia has video of Trump with children.

16/7/2025, 2:03:07 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Oak (@eclecticspirit.bsky.social) reply parent

Does Russia have video of Trump diddling younglings?

16/7/2025, 2:00:41 PM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Oak (@eclecticspirit.bsky.social) reply parent

I'm not in the target demographic for her projects, but I've supported her as a fellow Biracial American...a beautiful and classy one at that.

15/7/2025, 1:48:35 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Oak (@eclecticspirit.bsky.social) reply parent

Maybe it's like what you did in 0 BBY.

13/7/2025, 12:43:54 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Oak (@eclecticspirit.bsky.social) reply parent

Nobody's safe...not even white people. Just ask the kids that got swept away by the river.

12/7/2025, 4:44:15 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Oak (@eclecticspirit.bsky.social) reply parent

I think you're having a hard time processing that "law" is breaking down and that famous Mao quote about power is becoming more obvious.

12/7/2025, 3:04:43 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Oak (@eclecticspirit.bsky.social) reply parent

This spat is not good for Zionist-Aryan relations in the MAGA coalition.

11/7/2025, 8:08:07 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Oak (@eclecticspirit.bsky.social) reply parent

I've been saying for a while that Homan is this era's Bull Conner.

11/7/2025, 8:05:01 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Oak (@eclecticspirit.bsky.social) reply parent

You don't talk like a mixed person. I'm suspicious.

10/7/2025, 2:16:25 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Oak (@eclecticspirit.bsky.social) reply parent

Biracial/mixed/mulatto is its own identity...flowing from black and white but distinct from them.

10/7/2025, 1:55:47 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Oak (@eclecticspirit.bsky.social) reply parent

I'm biracial and I disagree.

10/7/2025, 1:07:39 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Oak (@eclecticspirit.bsky.social) reply parent

I'm wondering if DSA may be the vehicle we need to reconstruct the country.

10/7/2025, 2:08:46 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Oak (@eclecticspirit.bsky.social) reply parent

Trump stocked his cabinet with the most bottom-shelf white people.

10/7/2025, 12:54:32 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Oak (@eclecticspirit.bsky.social) reply parent

Nah, you're engaging in sophistry to strip me of my identity while keeping yours in place. If you are white and are aware of other white people being racist, you should talk to them directly.

7/7/2025, 4:34:35 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Oak (@eclecticspirit.bsky.social) reply parent

Nah, you're just another bigot trying to prevent mixed people from expressing themselves and calling out unfair behavior.

7/7/2025, 3:55:43 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Oak (@eclecticspirit.bsky.social) reply parent

She said she was Indian and Black. That's Biracial. Also, Biracial people aren't putting up with those controllimg attitudes from monoracial people anymore.

7/7/2025, 2:50:20 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Oak (@eclecticspirit.bsky.social) reply parent

We shouldn't forget that the country of Israel is a huge suck on the American taxpayer. They make themselves out as high and mighty but they are true welfare queens.

7/7/2025, 2:09:03 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Oak (@eclecticspirit.bsky.social) reply parent

Biracial is its own thing now. That's how most biracial people see it. I guess other people will need to take it or leave it based on how we arrange our lives.

7/7/2025, 12:29:10 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Oak (@eclecticspirit.bsky.social) reply parent

Love it. A big chunk of MAGA is just "angry young men" looking for expression. This will help siphon them off. They would have been hardboiled communists in another era.

6/7/2025, 5:22:18 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Oak (@eclecticspirit.bsky.social) reply parent

Lasker, Miller, Yarvin, Loomer...Massive amount of hatred and racism boiling up in America from a relatively narrow slice of society.

5/7/2025, 9:47:37 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Oak (@eclecticspirit.bsky.social) reply parent

Not sure if this will snap MAGAts back to reality. They are deeply depressed and want to take us all with them.

5/7/2025, 8:34:10 PM | 12 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Oak (@eclecticspirit.bsky.social) reply parent

Their focus on arresting Palestine activists in the US shows it's an interconnected process.

5/7/2025, 7:23:00 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Oak (@eclecticspirit.bsky.social) reply parent

The main antagonist to the white supremacist side in "Birth of a Nation" was a "mulatto" (movie's description) politician. There has been concern about biracial men in some quarters for a while.

5/7/2025, 6:23:51 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Oak (@eclecticspirit.bsky.social) reply parent

They'll make up anything to avoid questioning their assumptions. During the first Trump term, they argued themselves out of taking the vaccine and died by the thousands.

5/7/2025, 6:13:13 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Oak (@eclecticspirit.bsky.social) reply parent

I was telling everyone I could during the DOGE purges that federal workers do a lot to keep the country functional.

5/7/2025, 1:35:17 PM | 6 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Oak (@eclecticspirit.bsky.social) reply parent

Apt user name I guess. Much of the MAGA project seems focused on normalizing Zionism's status within white supremacy.

5/7/2025, 1:05:30 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Oak (@eclecticspirit.bsky.social) reply parent

We're at the nucleus-splitting stage of FAFO.

5/7/2025, 1:00:58 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Oak (@eclecticspirit.bsky.social) reply parent

It's hard to predict exactly what will happen in the next few years, but the consequences of different kinds of GOP malfeasance will converge and likely generate catastropic results. This specific event appears to be the result of the convergence of climate denial and DOGE.

5/7/2025, 12:57:02 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Oak (@eclecticspirit.bsky.social) reply parent

Her comment is helpful in that it probably illuminates the thought process of those who were cheering on Elon's chainsaw.

5/7/2025, 12:01:09 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Oak (@eclecticspirit.bsky.social) reply parent

"American" should definitely be on the list. Other countries have climate and science deniers but they don't have nearly as much influence.

5/7/2025, 11:56:24 AM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Oak (@eclecticspirit.bsky.social) reply parent

Who's "we" here? You're talking about some specific demographics here, disproportionately rural and white.

5/7/2025, 11:28:11 AM | 19 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Oak (@eclecticspirit.bsky.social) reply parent

Red state IQ fail.

5/7/2025, 11:25:52 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Oak (@eclecticspirit.bsky.social) reply parent

Maybe Curtiss Yarvin, Stephen Miller, and Laura Loomer should undergo genetic screening to see if there is something funky firing in their DNA that causes them to be racist and genocidal.

5/7/2025, 4:51:17 AM | 14 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Oak (@eclecticspirit.bsky.social) reply parent

Stay safe. Looking at the news right now.

5/7/2025, 12:16:05 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Oak (@eclecticspirit.bsky.social) reply parent

This is a wee bit controversial yo say but I don't think Zionist factions and white supremacist factions are as at odds with each other in 2025 as many assume.

5/7/2025, 12:14:02 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Oak (@eclecticspirit.bsky.social) reply parent

That's good to know and make people aware of. I haven't thought about them in years and wouldn't recognize them. However, many in the population likely are still sensitive about Westboro.

4/7/2025, 10:19:07 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Oak (@eclecticspirit.bsky.social) reply parent

Mamdani is in their crosshairs for simply being Muslim while Elon does Nazi salutes and Trump discusses shylocks.

4/7/2025, 5:35:41 PM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Oak (@eclecticspirit.bsky.social) reply parent

Part of me wonders whether Zionism has decided American multiculturalism is a problem. My understanding is that Obama was less deferential to Netanyahu than Trump and even Biden. Minorities in general tend to be more sympathetic to Palestine. Perhaps this is why...

4/7/2025, 5:34:37 PM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Oak (@eclecticspirit.bsky.social) reply parent

Also, many (maybe most) countries root their identity in national culture more than racial heritage. For example, someone from the Dominican Republics is more likely to say that they are "Dominican" than they are triracial/biracial for example.

4/7/2025, 2:34:55 PM | 20 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Oak (@eclecticspirit.bsky.social) reply parent

This is fake GOP outrage manufacturing. I'm biracial (half Af. American and half British) and have made heavy use of the option to check multiple boxes. I can see multinational folks like Mamdani using those boxes as well. What the GOP really hates is ethnic/racial/cultural fluidity.

4/7/2025, 2:23:41 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Oak (@eclecticspirit.bsky.social) reply parent

E.g., (for the GenZ crowd) they celebrated American deaths in Iraq as God's punishment for America condoning homosexuality.

4/7/2025, 2:11:54 PM | 16 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Oak (@eclecticspirit.bsky.social) reply parent

Maybe this is one of Fred Phelp's girls? They hated LGBT and America like no one else circa 2002.

4/7/2025, 2:06:12 PM | 16 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Oak (@eclecticspirit.bsky.social) reply parent

Not sure MAGAts understand the full implications of rejecting scientific expertise.

4/7/2025, 11:32:49 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Oak (@eclecticspirit.bsky.social) reply parent

I'm biracial too - half Af. American and half British. I've always tried to look past the American approach to race bc it's obviously not designed for mixed ppl. Mamdani did nothing wrong. I understand cultural heritage is equally if not more important than race ourside the US.

4/7/2025, 12:57:18 AM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Oak (@eclecticspirit.bsky.social) reply parent

Looks great. Just ordered a paperback copy.

3/7/2025, 11:57:33 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Oak (@eclecticspirit.bsky.social) reply parent

Jeffries just tried to save the red states from themselves.

3/7/2025, 6:54:12 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Oak (@eclecticspirit.bsky.social) reply parent

Your hostility to the Democratic Party, your refusal to state whether you voted for the Dems in 2024, and your assertio the Dems don't reach out enough to non-constituents all indicate to me you're crypto-MAGA.

3/7/2025, 6:02:33 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Oak (@eclecticspirit.bsky.social) reply parent

Actually they have been doing town halls im red states and blue states. Not clear that they are best positioned to organize a nationwide strike. That might be better handled by civic orgs as with Tesla Takedown and No Kings.

3/7/2025, 5:41:06 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Oak (@eclecticspirit.bsky.social) reply parent

Like what?

3/7/2025, 5:31:34 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Oak (@eclecticspirit.bsky.social) reply parent

What do you suggest they do?

3/7/2025, 5:27:30 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Oak (@eclecticspirit.bsky.social) reply parent

You didn't answer the question. Lots of people who talk like you are 5th columnists.

3/7/2025, 5:14:42 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Oak (@eclecticspirit.bsky.social) reply parent

Did you and your entire family vote straight line Dem in November? If not, you're the reason the Congessional Democrats are low on options right now.

3/7/2025, 5:09:21 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Oak (@eclecticspirit.bsky.social) reply parent

So, slavery.

3/7/2025, 4:30:28 PM | 16 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Oak (@eclecticspirit.bsky.social) reply parent

My wife is a doctor who treats lots of MAGA with diabetes, heart disease, etc. She quipped that there might not be any Republicans left next election due to health spending cuts.

3/7/2025, 2:10:21 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Oak (@eclecticspirit.bsky.social) reply parent

FAFO is entering the nucleus-splitting stage.

3/7/2025, 2:08:00 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Oak (@eclecticspirit.bsky.social) reply parent

"Berenstain Bears", man. Everyone except Honey had a first name that corresponded to their familial role.

3/7/2025, 1:46:12 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Oak (@eclecticspirit.bsky.social) reply parent

Miller and Loomer should undergo genetic screening. There's probably something funky firing in their DNA that makes them want to murder other groups of people.

3/7/2025, 1:36:16 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Oak (@eclecticspirit.bsky.social) reply parent

Do you see divergences in the 2021-2024 period? 2017-2020 had a commonality with the current period.

3/7/2025, 1:28:42 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Oak (@eclecticspirit.bsky.social) reply parent

Are the two estimates typically opposite sign?

3/7/2025, 1:11:50 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Oak (@eclecticspirit.bsky.social) reply parent

Why so inconsistent with yesterday's private sector job loss figure?

3/7/2025, 12:53:12 PM | 25 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Oak (@eclecticspirit.bsky.social) reply parent

Im response to the crisis, I started studying Buddhism for the first time since my teenage years. I'm taking to heart the Buddha's teaching about everything outside Nirvana being impermanent and subject to flux. The country I grew up in during the 1990s is gone, but Trump and MAGA will pass too.

3/7/2025, 11:14:56 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Oak (@eclecticspirit.bsky.social) reply parent

No, some people are just boiling over with hate. It's probably in her DNA.

3/7/2025, 2:46:53 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Oak (@eclecticspirit.bsky.social) reply parent

She's probably used to using the "antisemitism" card to shut down all criticism.

2/7/2025, 9:13:32 PM | 3 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Oak (@eclecticspirit.bsky.social) reply parent

Not so outlandish. Look who is genociding Gaza.

2/7/2025, 9:08:44 PM | 27 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Oak (@eclecticspirit.bsky.social) reply parent

She's actually Jewish. Christofascists are a problem but so are Judeofascists.

2/7/2025, 9:04:05 PM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Oak (@eclecticspirit.bsky.social) reply parent

GOP millionnaires must have no clue that tons of their "salt-of-the-earth", white constituents are on Medicaid. My wife is a physician and she had a Medicaid-recipient white lady come in yesterday in a red MAGA hat. She was worried about the bill but still favored Trump.

2/7/2025, 12:24:18 PM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Oak (@eclecticspirit.bsky.social) reply parent

Also, tons of money for Israel to commit genocide.

2/7/2025, 1:36:09 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Oak (@eclecticspirit.bsky.social) reply parent

We've mostly stopped talking about FAFO but it's still a very relevant framework. Indeed, the Find Out stage is intensifying.

2/7/2025, 12:43:25 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Oak (@eclecticspirit.bsky.social) reply parent

Not unprecedented for him. During his first term, he proposed creating a moat at the border wall and filling it with snakes and alligators.

1/7/2025, 7:02:31 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Oak (@eclecticspirit.bsky.social) reply parent

I know Trump thinks he's going to pull off an ethnic cleansing but it and a dozen other crises he's causing are going to converge and trip a wire. I think the country will be an inferno in a few months.

1/7/2025, 7:00:27 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Oak (@eclecticspirit.bsky.social) reply parent

I saw the story about the old Cuban guy who died in custody today but could only think about how lame brain Cubans have to be to put Desantis and Trump, and other Republicans, into power. I bet many of them will end up in these cages.

1/7/2025, 6:29:15 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Oak (@eclecticspirit.bsky.social) reply parent

It's all about the numbers of votes.

1/7/2025, 6:22:02 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Oak (@eclecticspirit.bsky.social) reply parent

I was telling my wife the rubber will probably hit the road by fall. They're going to try to exile 40 million Latinos and I don't see that happening without a fight.

1/7/2025, 6:19:32 PM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Oak (@eclecticspirit.bsky.social) reply parent

Maybe they'll put Cuban Republicans in those cages?

1/7/2025, 5:35:57 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Oak (@eclecticspirit.bsky.social) reply parent

She was trying to get the rest of us to subsidize Alaska.

1/7/2025, 5:33:18 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Oak (@eclecticspirit.bsky.social) reply parent

Voting Sarah Palin into that seat would be an upgrade.

1/7/2025, 5:28:34 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Oak (@eclecticspirit.bsky.social) reply parent

I'm a bit worried that MAGAts view this as national murder-suicide, and want it.

1/7/2025, 5:12:14 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Oak (@eclecticspirit.bsky.social) reply parent

I hope MAGA Latinos can read between the lines a smidge and realize Vance is saying the ethnic cleansing of their communities (legal or not) is his top priority.

1/7/2025, 1:14:07 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Oak (@eclecticspirit.bsky.social) reply parent

Vance can't draw the low-propensity voter demographic like Trump can.

1/7/2025, 1:11:46 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

19/6/2025, 11:21:19 AM | 29390 8617 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Oak (@eclecticspirit.bsky.social) reply parent

It's long past time to recognize the Murkowski-Collins "apprehension" thing as a political gimmick, pretend moderation.

1/7/2025, 12:56:43 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Oak (@eclecticspirit.bsky.social) reply parent

Maine is complicit.

1/7/2025, 12:50:16 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Oak (@eclecticspirit.bsky.social) reply parent

I'm growing weary of Jewish worries and suffering being the reference for everything when I see this on the news every day.

1/7/2025, 10:56:53 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Oak (@eclecticspirit.bsky.social) reply parent

Gill's wife is Indian too (Dinesh D'Souza's daughter).

30/6/2025, 6:27:42 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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