iSqueam (@isqueam.bsky.social) reply parent
Is anyone surprised that Muskrat wants a world where women are forced to have his children and be entirely subservient?
iSqueam (@isqueam.bsky.social) reply parent
Is anyone surprised that Muskrat wants a world where women are forced to have his children and be entirely subservient?
iSqueam (@isqueam.bsky.social) reply parent
The only good Nazi is a dead Nazi. Does this statement make me feel gross? Not at all, it's like a bath for my moral compass.
iSqueam (@isqueam.bsky.social)
All usage of currently available commercial generative AI models is unethical.
iSqueam (@isqueam.bsky.social)
Bombs are already illegal. They're still "arms". Regulation has has already been deemed necessary. Slippery slopes are what you find around all the dead kids. Rights come with responsibilities; we have proven ourselves unable to bear the responsibility of bearing arms so apathetically.
iSqueam (@isqueam.bsky.social) reply parent
He's outright calling for his supporters to murder migrants, bury them, and not tell anyone. Dude really is speedrunning the Fourth Reich, since we're already at civvie brownshirts murdering anyone they want.
iSqueam (@isqueam.bsky.social) reply parent
More of the people who stormed our Capitol Building should have been shot. They wanted to attack the United States seat of Legislative power? They earned that prize.
Stephen King (@stephenking.bsky.social) reposted
As long as guns are easily available to crazy people, mass killings directed at so-called soft targets will continue. This is a fact. Countries where it's more difficult for crazy people to obtain guns have less shootings. This is also a fact. Do with these facts as you will.
iSqueam (@isqueam.bsky.social)
The lesser of two evils does not mean you've chosen a good candidate. Demand better, vote in your local primary elections. When one member of the party is attacked, everyone rolls for initiative.
iSqueam (@isqueam.bsky.social)
When we decided that this was something our children should be subjected to just so the adults aren't required to bear responsibility for failing to protect them, We the People should have demanded better.
iSqueam (@isqueam.bsky.social) reply parent
"Allow" ourselves to become numb? There's been 174 school shootings this year alone. How many of them made national news? Maybe a dozen? We *HAVE* become numb to it. Each one commemorated with a national holiday for reflection, and there wouldn't be a single day kids could go to school without one.
iSqueam (@isqueam.bsky.social) reply parent
When we collectively decided that dead kids was not too high a price to pay for the ability to efficiently kill our neighbors before they could get close enough to talk to, our soul as a nation was forfeit.
iSqueam (@isqueam.bsky.social) reply parent
Don't feed the bots.
iSqueam (@isqueam.bsky.social) reply parent
Palestine is fighting a war against genocide. Palestine isn't targeting individual 11 year olds carrying water with guided missiles, or shooting into unarmed crowds of children waiting for food, or murdering journalists, or a host of other things. Two state solution or bust.
iSqueam (@isqueam.bsky.social)
Stephen Miller calling the Democrat Party a "domestic extremist organization" is only one step away from this Regime officially declaring the opposition party a terrorist organization. Doing that would make it a felony to be a part of or support the Democrat Party in word, action, or donation.
iSqueam (@isqueam.bsky.social) reply parent
Obama doesn't have any authority over policy agendas.
iSqueam (@isqueam.bsky.social) reply parent
Shit in one hand, pray in the other. Tell me which one fills up first.
iSqueam (@isqueam.bsky.social) reply parent
Ah. Give it a few days for investigations to actually happen. Everything right now is speculative, given how recent it was.
iSqueam (@isqueam.bsky.social) reply parent
www.nbcnews.com/tech/interne... Here's one. There are more.
iSqueam (@isqueam.bsky.social) reply parent
Except that shooter wasn't transgender. That was proven a lie.
Larry Hochman (@larryhochman.bsky.social) reposted
EPSTEIN Epstein Epstein Epstein Government buying stake in private companies: socialism Epstein Epstein Epstein President having stakes in those companies: corruption Epstein Epstein Epstein Worrying about Cracker Barrel logo instead of governing Epstein Epstein Epstein EPSTEIN
iSqueam (@isqueam.bsky.social) reply parent
Said as though you're ever going to China?
iSqueam (@isqueam.bsky.social) reply parent
The voting age should be the youngest age anyone is charged as an adult. If you can be charged as an adult, you should be able to vote like one.
iSqueam (@isqueam.bsky.social) reply parent
When you systemically dismantle access to quality education, that is not a learning disability. There's a huge difference between the two.
iSqueam (@isqueam.bsky.social) reply parent
Worst education system in the country. So not mentally handicapped, rather educationally stunted by design.
iSqueam (@isqueam.bsky.social) reply parent
I'm on team Burn All The Pedophiles. I did not make a distinction about political party affiliation.
iSqueam (@isqueam.bsky.social) reply parent
All of that is predicated on a well educated domestic workforce prepared and empowered to engage in post-industrial economic activity. 21% of US adults are functionally illiterate. More than half can't read at a 6th grade level.
iSqueam (@isqueam.bsky.social) reply parent
Words, words, words. We've got lots of words. Action is needed from people in authority positions. Less talk, more walk.
iSqueam (@isqueam.bsky.social) reply parent
Oh, I can type them. Let bsky come at me for calling fascist pieces of shit what they are: disgusting, inhuman, garbage disposal muck sucking child raping neanderthals who couldn't pay a Grindr hooker enough to even show up.
iSqueam (@isqueam.bsky.social) reply parent
Because they did the terrorism on his behalf.
iSqueam (@isqueam.bsky.social) reply parent
He pulls off a 1000% decrease in my medications, they're paying me to take them. I can use that to pay for some lettuce.
iSqueam (@isqueam.bsky.social) reply parent
And of course, listen to MAGAts argue the same. That it's entirely legit when they do it, but not when anyone else does - all without even a smidgeon of irony or self awareness.
iSqueam (@isqueam.bsky.social) reply parent
While I love that he's bringing some kinda energy to the fight, that cannot propel this man to any higher office or authority. He is as fickle as fickle gets, and one good deed does not absolve a lifetime.
iSqueam (@isqueam.bsky.social)
If other countries decided to simply stop buying new US Treasury Bonds, that's the kind of solidarity that we need with what we're doing domestically to resist the regime.
PapaJ (@michiganpapa.bsky.social) reposted
"Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires." John Steinbeck
iSqueam (@isqueam.bsky.social) reply parent
This guy actually thinks that going on the network who shit all over him (sometimes justifiably) four years ago, to talk to that same audience, is in any way going to be helpful?
CatCmdr1 (@catcmdr1.bsky.social) reposted
youtube.com/post/UgkxVb6...
Parkrose Permaculture ❌👑 (@parkroseperma.bsky.social) reposted
There are so many of things you can do right now and in the coming weeks to actively push back against fascism. Here are 3:
iSqueam (@isqueam.bsky.social) reply parent
I believe she self-ejected from life as much as I believe Epstein did.
iSqueam (@isqueam.bsky.social) reply parent
Oh, there's risk. There end up being huge losses, which get converted into tax credit. Because, the "risk" part of investing is only a factor if you're not already loaded.
iSqueam (@isqueam.bsky.social) reply parent
I managed several Steak n Shakes under Biglari. That chain went from the sit down service with waitstaff it'd had since founding to just another fast food stain, complete loss of all the things that made SnS a good place to eat. It isn't even a shell of its former self, just a rotting corpse
iSqueam (@isqueam.bsky.social) reply parent
The Cracker Barrel thing is just another example of enshitification gone rampant. Keep making everything worse, for the same price or more, and what are we gonna do about it? Fuck all, that's what.
iSqueam (@isqueam.bsky.social) reply parent
Dr. Sattler, world renowned paleobotanist and bigger badass than Samuel L. Jackson. He got et, she got away.
iSqueam (@isqueam.bsky.social) reply parent
Not the conditions the people there are kept in or subjected to, not the absence of due process or transparency... but because of the environment. When the GOP finally can't ignore climate change, they'll give us the most dystopian version of dealing with it imaginable.
iSqueam (@isqueam.bsky.social) reply parent
In all fairness, that was probably a drug deal gone wrong rather than a bribe. That wasn't nearly enough pieces of money to bribe a journalist.
iSqueam (@isqueam.bsky.social) reply parent
Their public statements mean jack shit. Same for all politicians. Show me with your vote.
iSqueam (@isqueam.bsky.social) reply parent
This is who runs this account:
iSqueam (@isqueam.bsky.social) reply parent
379,564 Nevadans in poverty (from 2019, latest numbers I could find. So that's a dollar a month each for... not even 5 months. Very helpful. Where should I mail the thank you card that cost more than the monthly savings, not even half a year, per impoverished Nevadan?
iSqueam (@isqueam.bsky.social) reply parent
Anyone who wants to argue that slavery was good has absolutely no credibility to engage in any conversation of any sort. And I'm including discussing what their own name is.
iSqueam (@isqueam.bsky.social) reply parent
The moral superiority complex of the Dems is the old playbook. Time for a new one, where our electeds aren't lecturing, but listening. And acting in accordance with the people's best interests.
iSqueam (@isqueam.bsky.social) reply parent
Don't wanna be an American idiot One nation controlled by the media Information age of hysteria It's calling out to idiot America
iSqueam (@isqueam.bsky.social) reply parent
Just because you're the enemy of my enemy, that does not make you my friend.
Charlotte “Pure True Love” (@charluv.bsky.social) reposted
I want you to Stop being afraid of other Americans. Of other Religions. Of other Classes. Of other Nations. Of Speaking Out. You’re Americans. Act like it! If you don’t get it Ask an American who does🤷🏽♀️
iSqueam (@isqueam.bsky.social) reply parent
Herr Goebbels would be very proud of Herr Miller.
iSqueam (@isqueam.bsky.social) reply parent
Oh, no no no no. Do NOT give the USA any ideas.
iSqueam (@isqueam.bsky.social)
I was under the impression that government owning businesses was evil socialism, if Lutnick is to be believed.
iSqueam (@isqueam.bsky.social) reply parent
Barbie Girl was from 97. Objectively, a better song.
iSqueam (@isqueam.bsky.social) reply parent
If Pharmaceutical companies want US Taxpayer money, to do research, I figure we should be in on the take after development - not gouged with the highest prices in the world. We spend more on medical research than any other country and pay the highest prices for the fruits of our investment.
iSqueam (@isqueam.bsky.social) reply parent
"Just Comply" is predicated on due process. If my right to have my day in court is not guaranteed, my right to self defense will be.
iSqueam (@isqueam.bsky.social) reply parent
Barefoot through the woods? My feet would get stabbed, and I'd be turning back for shoes right quick. Definitely punk. Folksy from the woods and acoustic. So sure. folk-punk.
iSqueam (@isqueam.bsky.social) reply parent
'They didn't die from blunt force trauma, they had other health problems" "They didn't die from the gunshot wound, they had seasonal allergies"
iSqueam (@isqueam.bsky.social) reply parent
With enough weed, every road is the high road.
iSqueam (@isqueam.bsky.social) reply parent
"Consent" is predicated on the ability to refuse it. Without that, consent cannot exist.
iSqueam (@isqueam.bsky.social) reply parent
The horror of what remains is a pale shadow of the lived reality.
iSqueam (@isqueam.bsky.social) reply parent
I've been anti-U2 since there was a whole album of theirs on my phone that I could not delete.
iSqueam (@isqueam.bsky.social) reply parent
Towards? We been a police state for decades already. The most total number of incarcerated persons in the world, and by a wide margin.
iSqueam (@isqueam.bsky.social) reply parent
Once you accept that fascism is the guiding principle of the current US Government, it's really easy to understand.
iSqueam (@isqueam.bsky.social) reply parent
He's like a kid having a sleepover - hey look at my cool hat collection!
iSqueam (@isqueam.bsky.social)
Amna al-Mufti was 11 when IDF murdered her with a precision missile strike. The USA is the largest supplier of military arms to Israel.
iSqueam (@isqueam.bsky.social)
Rights are only rights if they can't be taken away. This is them being taken away. That means they're not rights.
iSqueam (@isqueam.bsky.social) reply parent
Over 18 years, the federal minimum wage earner at full 40 hours every week of every year, would only have a net income of $271,440 - a shortfall of $38,560 on the estimated average cost of raising a single child.
iSqueam (@isqueam.bsky.social) reply parent
Need to swap Education and Law Enforcement salaries and budgets. Spend where your priorities are. Education should always be the largest portion of gov spending. Otherwise, what are we defending, or even gaining?
iSqueam (@isqueam.bsky.social) reply parent
Don't Ask Me Why - Billy Joel
iSqueam (@isqueam.bsky.social) reply parent
Huey Lewis and the Chews
iSqueam (@isqueam.bsky.social) reply parent
I’ll take no kings please,and thank you for it.
iSqueam (@isqueam.bsky.social) reply parent
Newsom is like Littlefinger. Right now, he’s trying to save Sansa. It strengthens his ambition. We know he will betray us, the things he’ll betray us for.
iSqueam (@isqueam.bsky.social) reply parent
Newsom is fighting back. The enemy of my enemy, something something something.
iSqueam (@isqueam.bsky.social) reply parent
That wasn’t Jeffries’ filibuster. It was Booker. Cory Booker.
iSqueam (@isqueam.bsky.social) reply parent
But I’m vegetarian. Cucumber and spinach just doesn’t slap as hard.
iSqueam (@isqueam.bsky.social) reply parent
Any time I hear “working families” it always leaves me looking for the ubiquitous “means testing” required for government benefits. The limitations on getting access to the program. How many are priced out of it from the start. Why differentiate “families” of any kind?
iSqueam (@isqueam.bsky.social) reply parent
There’s no financial incentive for developers to build less expensive homes. The larger the yield per property, the better incentivized they are. So they’ll never build the affordable home, since the same time could be spent building a far more expensive one, with higher margins.
iSqueam (@isqueam.bsky.social)
Now they’re also boldly self identifying as fascists. “What up my Nazi?” - Guttfeld on Fox.
iSqueam (@isqueam.bsky.social) reply parent
So at what point will voters realize that those representatives do not represent them?
iSqueam (@isqueam.bsky.social) reply parent
Twice.
iSqueam (@isqueam.bsky.social) reply parent
Your rights exist in the past tense, based on the whims of someone beyond legal action if any kind. They’re a wonderful idea, but they are fictional right now. Just temporary privileges, revocable by a flight of fancy, with no guaranteed legal defense.
iSqueam (@isqueam.bsky.social) reply parent
With all due respect, thank you for your attention to this matter.
iSqueam (@isqueam.bsky.social) reply parent
Careening? Pops, we in it. Fight the fight of today, not the road that got us here. It’s not theoretical anymore. Anyone fails to see we’re already waist deep in the shit is not paying attention. They’re in. They’ve got the keys. They’re pulling the levers. The guardrails didn’t hold.
iSqueam (@isqueam.bsky.social)
The GOP wants you to believe the pedophiles are the actual victims here. They’re talking to the criminals, not the victims. Victims come forward, GOP insists they’re lying - despite Maxwell being CONVICTED. Why’s the only person in jail for a billionaire chomo ring a woman, and not for long now?
iSqueam (@isqueam.bsky.social) reply parent
@xandrick64.bsky.social
iSqueam (@isqueam.bsky.social) reply parent
Just because you’re violent toward the people closest to you doesn’t mean you’re dangerous to people you don’t care about at all. Everyone’s safer when everyone has guns. Except under certain conditions, like where it’s justification for extrajudicial summary execution.
iSqueam (@isqueam.bsky.social)
Easy. R’s legitimately believe that corporations should be superior to government. CEOs are simply more valuable than politicians.
iSqueam (@isqueam.bsky.social) reply parent
The irony of a Subway sandwich being thrown at a pedophile's goons should not be lost on anyone.
iSqueam (@isqueam.bsky.social) reply parent
Her last "work assignment" involved SAing children. And did so for a very long time. On what planet would anyone else convicted of that crime be given *any* time outside of prison? Only on the one where she's made a deal to cover up someone else's involvement in her crimes.
iSqueam (@isqueam.bsky.social)
Maybe if the rest of the world starts treating USA as it is instead of as it was, more USians will as well.
iSqueam (@isqueam.bsky.social) reply parent
Ain’t mandatory use of specific social media platforms exactly one of the things they rail against happening elsewhere in the world?
iSqueam (@isqueam.bsky.social) reply parent
Means-testing has always been the bluntest tool against the poor.