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Emma Jones

@majacita.bsky.social

Lawyer. Mom. Grandmom. Artist. Activist. Writer. Reader. Nerd.

created November 19, 2024

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Profile picture Emma Jones (@majacita.bsky.social)

Apparently the death panels are going to run by AI.

3/9/2025, 1:07:30 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emma Jones (@majacita.bsky.social)

Kind of pleased with the internet sometimes. The Coldplay CEO and now the Hat CEO getting what they deserve.

1/9/2025, 3:24:24 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emma Jones (@majacita.bsky.social)

Tomorrow I’m buying a bottle of champagne. Just in case.

1/9/2025, 2:47:14 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emma Jones (@majacita.bsky.social) reply parent

Who says? For real has there been a sighting by legitimate sources

30/8/2025, 3:06:32 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emma Jones (@majacita.bsky.social)

I think they should have to do a presser on whether he’s actually alive.

30/8/2025, 3:04:43 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emma Jones (@majacita.bsky.social)

The rumor is that he’s dead.

30/8/2025, 1:07:18 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emma Jones (@majacita.bsky.social) reply parent

She actively campaigned against Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee. She also denounced the people trying to make her into a conservative symbol.

28/8/2025, 6:54:35 PM | 15 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Truthout (@truthout.org) reposted

George Retes, a 25-year-old U.S. citizen and Army veteran, was driving to work when he encountered an ICE checkpoint, where agents broke his car window, pepper-sprayed him and dragged him out of his vehicle for arrest. He was detained for three days and three nights without explanation.

25/8/2025, 7:59:43 PM | 471 245 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emma Jones (@majacita.bsky.social)

Please stop shaming cancer patients or other terminally ill people. Please quit telling them about miracle cures when they want to talk. And when they die it isn’t because they didn’t fight hard enough. Be grateful for the time they’re giving you. Make good memories. Hug them and laugh.

27/8/2025, 3:39:32 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emma Jones (@majacita.bsky.social) reply parent

I thought this myself. If you gerrymander too closely a wave election can take people out

26/8/2025, 10:18:51 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emma Jones (@majacita.bsky.social)

The rule of law has now become the rule of Trump.

25/8/2025, 3:41:45 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emma Jones (@majacita.bsky.social)

Even though he did mean it how could anyone vote for someone who said such things.

25/8/2025, 3:10:51 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Jacob (@markjacob.bsky.social) reposted

I want a president who thinks slavery was a big deal.

19/8/2025, 11:45:32 PM | 3281 509 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emma Jones (@majacita.bsky.social)

There’s only one party with prominent members saying women shouldn’t have the right to vote. Once they start coming for your rights they don’t stop.

18/8/2025, 3:30:11 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Concerned (Half-)Human Being (@humanexistence.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

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18/8/2025, 2:33:24 PM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emma Jones (@majacita.bsky.social)

When the people on your side have Nazi and white supremacist tats and do Nazi salutes it’s fair to call them Nazis. And if you don’t have a problem with standing next to them you’re a Nazi as well. It’s that simple.

18/8/2025, 3:08:53 PM | 3 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emma Jones (@majacita.bsky.social) reply parent

Political parties other than the National Socialists were banned within Hitlers first year. It’s definitely on the agenda.

18/8/2025, 3:01:28 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emma Jones (@majacita.bsky.social)

I’m a fan of Derry Girls. Set in the Troubles in Northern Ireland the girls just try to live their lives. Now as I eat my danish and drink my tea it’s the ordinariness of life when our country is crumbling around me that makes everything so surreal. Is it really happening?

18/8/2025, 2:56:47 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tyler King (@tyleraking.com) reposted

The rapist doesn’t believe women should have rights.

12/8/2025, 5:49:53 PM | 476 182 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emma Jones (@majacita.bsky.social) reply parent

This doesn’t look like satire. I’ve heard MILs say this. When your son gives birth you can be there! Your place is wherever she wants you. In the room with her or the waiting room or waiting at home. She’s in charge.

11/8/2025, 9:28:17 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emma Jones (@majacita.bsky.social) reply parent

I don’t think he’s playing dictator.

11/8/2025, 9:05:47 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emma Jones (@majacita.bsky.social)

Look around you. If the people on your side are holding confederate flags and wearing Nazi emblems you are the Fascists. If your side is banning books and advocating restrictions on voting, you’re the authoritarian. This is in answer to a conservative who thinks I’M supporting Fascism.

11/8/2025, 9:04:43 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emma Jones (@majacita.bsky.social)

So when we give Alaska to Putin will Murkowski finally pay attention? Or become concerned? I blame all Republican Senators for not voting yes on the easiest impeachment vote that could have been devised.

9/8/2025, 12:44:38 PM | 4 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emma Jones (@majacita.bsky.social)

No wonder Las Vegas tourism is down

9/8/2025, 12:39:35 PM | 2 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emma Jones (@majacita.bsky.social) reply parent

You were one of the reasons I read the Post. And one of the reasons I dropped my subscription.

7/8/2025, 3:22:13 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emma Jones (@majacita.bsky.social)

I rarely get into brangles with individuals but I’m still blocked by people regularly. I block unnecessarily rude people or people making bad faith arguments but far less often than I’m blocked myself. Is it all viewpoint blocking?

4/8/2025, 4:04:56 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emma Jones (@majacita.bsky.social) reply parent

People complaining that she’s not using her “power” please tell me what that is. She has no elected office. She has no campaign infrastructure. She told us exactly what would happen and we still voted for it. I’d like to know exactly what she should do that any other private citizen would do.

1/8/2025, 1:05:02 PM | 37 4 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emma Jones (@majacita.bsky.social) reply parent

I was disappointed with Americans. Not her. And disappointed with myself. I didn’t work hard enough for her win. I couldn’t even imagine her losing. I really thought we’d come through in the end.

31/7/2025, 6:30:14 PM | 4 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emma Jones (@majacita.bsky.social) reply parent

If we don’t win in court we need to be flipping some seats. This has the potential to come back and bite them.

31/7/2025, 6:27:59 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emma Jones (@majacita.bsky.social) reply parent

Heck I wanted to read the study!

29/7/2025, 6:31:26 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emma Jones (@majacita.bsky.social) reply parent

How would this be tested?

29/7/2025, 1:55:28 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emma Jones (@majacita.bsky.social)

Why are there Trump stores? When has our country ever worshipped anyone like this before? America has become insane.

26/7/2025, 2:48:42 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emma Jones (@majacita.bsky.social)

Has Donald Trump ever said about anyone else, “I wish her well?” Under any circumstances? Let alone when she’s facing child trafficking charges.

25/7/2025, 5:40:37 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emma Jones (@majacita.bsky.social)

I hope more people see this.

25/7/2025, 4:41:24 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emma Jones (@majacita.bsky.social) reply parent

After what happened to Ms Pelicot in France nothing will surprise me.

25/7/2025, 3:10:05 PM | 22 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emma Jones (@majacita.bsky.social) reply parent

So who should be on the bottom of the list then?

25/7/2025, 1:14:12 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) reposted

Just this week, the 79-year-old president hallucinated a lie about the Unabomber, forgot he appointed the Fed Chair he hates, blanked on names of officials, fell asleep at a rally, threatened to strip Rosie O'Donnell of her citizenship and spun wild theories about his good friend the pedophile.

16/7/2025, 5:53:08 PM | 5035 1353 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emma Jones (@majacita.bsky.social)

I’m really unhappy that Jasmine Crockett isn’t getting the Oversight Committee chair job. I don’t want to Dem bash but who do they think is better?

14/7/2025, 8:47:57 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emma Jones (@majacita.bsky.social)

It’s the power of Christo Fascism. Christo Nationalism. The country started down this path of worshipping Republican politicians. We saw it with Bush Jr. It’s now an absolute cult. I don’t know how to fight it.

14/7/2025, 6:37:13 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jon of The North (@krauza.bsky.social) reposted

Hey, remember when the Panama Papers were released and they showed how basically every wealthy person on the planet was avoiding taxes by offshoring their money and nothing was done about it except the reporter who broke the story was murdered with a car bomb?

13/7/2025, 1:39:37 AM | 17979 5690 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emma Jones (@majacita.bsky.social) reply parent

Now we know why Bezos wants to buy Wired.

11/7/2025, 6:06:17 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emma Jones (@majacita.bsky.social) reply parent

That’s a self employed person, not a stay at home spouse.

11/7/2025, 3:55:12 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emma Jones (@majacita.bsky.social) reply parent

Because Hobby Lobby doesn’t carry Halloween stuff. Only Fall decor.

11/7/2025, 1:49:42 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emma Jones (@majacita.bsky.social) reply parent

It’s the same man in both pictures. No way he’s not screaming at his wife too.

11/7/2025, 1:30:58 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emma Jones (@majacita.bsky.social)

Watching Dean Withers videos and again and again the callers hear new to them information and say it doesn’t matter. It doesn’t matter that he’s a cheat and a crook and a liar. That he stands for no principle beyond hate. The level of ignorance is so profound. And the absolute hypocrisy of it all.

9/7/2025, 5:13:48 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rapunzel (@corapunzel.bsky.social) reposted

Please read this. Everyone should know about this.

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3/7/2025, 12:11:53 AM | 9 8 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emma Jones (@majacita.bsky.social) reply parent

The Stainless Steel Rat was my introduction to humor in SF

2/7/2025, 5:31:04 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emma Jones (@majacita.bsky.social) reply parent

People die now. And this will make it worse.

2/7/2025, 5:27:32 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emma Jones (@majacita.bsky.social) reply parent

That’s next.

2/7/2025, 1:44:29 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture jdtechie.bsky.social (@jdtechie.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

It's why I get tired of (especially online) pundits claiming Dems keep failing because they have a "messaging issue" unlike the GOP. Dems have problems but when one side tells the truth and is treated as a liar and the other lies and its treated as the truth, that's not on the messenger

2/7/2025, 11:35:16 AM | 41 6 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture digby (@digby56.bsky.social) reposted

The new ICE budget is $160 billion. The Marine corps budget is $57 billion. Try to imagine the graft and corruption that's going to be happening at DHS over the next couple of years. Nobody will be accountable. It's going to be a fascist candy store.

2/7/2025, 4:32:50 AM | 1686 668 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emma Jones (@majacita.bsky.social) reply parent

American Auschwitz

2/7/2025, 1:23:54 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emma Jones (@majacita.bsky.social) reply parent

The problem for him is the AI girlfriend won’t be paying the bills.

2/7/2025, 1:21:23 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emma Jones (@majacita.bsky.social) reply parent

He legitimately sounds like the guy who shot up our school because women were taking the spots that should have gone to men. This stuff is dangerous.

2/7/2025, 12:56:32 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ⚘Carina (@carina-amyth.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

It's a ridiculous excuse for double standards. 😒

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2/7/2025, 2:26:13 AM | 72 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Anonymous (@youranoncentral.bsky.social) reposted

Trump is coming after US citizens next, ICE has been granted a $160B budget which is more than the Marines, 17 million US citizens are being autogenocided, and today the 1st official US concentration camp was unveiled to the public. The water isn't going to boil any hotter. #3E #EndImpunity

1/7/2025, 11:17:53 PM | 1788 810 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture jamelle (@jamellebouie.net) reposted

this is just an observation but one way to think of the civil war is that it WAS about states rights, but the right in question was the right of free states to stay free

27/6/2025, 3:14:26 PM | 7016 1386 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emma Jones (@majacita.bsky.social)

The Supreme Court is calling out to be expanded if we have another presidential election again.

27/6/2025, 2:30:59 PM | 3 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emma Jones (@majacita.bsky.social)

This ruling essentially says that Trumps executive orders have the force of law unless the Supreme Court itself disagrees.

27/6/2025, 2:28:26 PM | 0 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Negan (@rogernegan.bsky.social) reposted

This

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26/6/2025, 5:32:19 PM | 43 28 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emma Jones (@majacita.bsky.social) reply parent

Haha!

25/6/2025, 10:38:14 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emma Jones (@majacita.bsky.social)

My husband is alive because of all the breakthroughs in cancer research we’ve had in the last several years. Thanks to President Biden’s initial cancer moonshot. I know so many people still alive and thriving who wouldn’t be in an earlier time. It is so painful to watch that be thrown away.

24/6/2025, 5:35:49 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emma Jones (@majacita.bsky.social)

How many that we don’t know about? We’ve now our own Disappeared.

23/6/2025, 2:09:23 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emma Jones (@majacita.bsky.social) reply parent

That where all the safety pins go.

21/6/2025, 12:56:29 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emma Jones (@majacita.bsky.social) reply parent

This is horrifying.

18/6/2025, 10:21:31 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emma Jones (@majacita.bsky.social) reply parent

I’ve represented people whose crime was having the officer break his hand while beating them. Also getting blood on the uniforms.

18/6/2025, 2:54:38 PM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emma Jones (@majacita.bsky.social)

I hope this backfires and he becomes Mayor. It’ll be impossible for ICE to operate without city back up.

17/6/2025, 6:18:10 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emma Jones (@majacita.bsky.social) reply parent

People will have to drive hours to get to a hospital

16/6/2025, 5:26:11 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emma Jones (@majacita.bsky.social) reply parent

My family protested. We knew there were no WMDs and we knew that they weren’t going after Bin Laden anymore if they went to war with Iraq. It wasn’t hard to know. In fact it was screamingly obvious.

16/6/2025, 2:50:54 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John Pavlovitz (@johnpavlovitz.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

MAGAs are so morally broken that they can't even bring themselves to condemn the shootings of Democratic politicians in their homes. They would rather push a baseless and destructive false narrative than simply be decent human beings. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/the-minnes...

15/6/2025, 7:00:39 PM | 213 55 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emma Jones (@majacita.bsky.social)

I’m mad at white people too. Mad and disappointed with my country. But the marchers are out there putting it on the line. There are play actors but the majority are doing what they can to stand up against Fascism. And protests work. The old ladies know this. They’ve been on the front lines before.

15/6/2025, 5:41:42 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emma Jones (@majacita.bsky.social) reply parent

Tens of millions of people including a still significant minority or white people voted for Harris. I’d say the large majority of those marching voted for her.

15/6/2025, 5:34:51 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emma Jones (@majacita.bsky.social) reply parent

He thinks being called the Fortunate Son is a compliment

15/6/2025, 1:17:42 PM | 88 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emma Jones (@majacita.bsky.social)

I don’t know what to say.

14/6/2025, 1:43:37 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emma Jones (@majacita.bsky.social) reply parent

The empaths I know are the first sort.

13/6/2025, 5:50:31 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emma Jones (@majacita.bsky.social) reply parent

Says he agrees with his policies generally. I’d ask what policies those are. Somehow they never ask that follow-up question.

12/6/2025, 2:25:46 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emma Jones (@majacita.bsky.social)

The gestapo were the legal actors and the people who hid the Franks were the criminals. I know where I want to stand and who I want to stand with.

11/6/2025, 8:26:49 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture muscular baby jeb lund (@mobute.bsky.social) reposted

Waiting for the big outlets to put two and two together and realize that police whose identities are secret and facilities are secret are secret police.

11/6/2025, 3:16:50 PM | 6817 1782 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emma Jones (@majacita.bsky.social)

Nazis but with Klink in charge.

10/6/2025, 7:09:11 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Sylvia at Tono Latino (@tonolatino.bsky.social) reposted

This is what’s happening

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10/6/2025, 5:45:31 PM | 570 347 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emma Jones (@majacita.bsky.social) reply parent

And endless whining that President Obama and VicePresident Harris wave their magic wands and fix everything despite having no political office.

9/6/2025, 8:05:09 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emma Jones (@majacita.bsky.social) reply parent

Stuff by Radley Balko. He’s been working on this issue for years. Articles and a book and he’s here on Bluesky.

9/6/2025, 8:01:02 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emma Jones (@majacita.bsky.social) reply parent

In this case the dismissal is of the immigrants request for asylum. So they’re dismissing the request which makes the person here with no pending legal case. So before they can file an appeal or apply under some other program they’re deported.

9/6/2025, 7:16:50 PM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emma Jones (@majacita.bsky.social) reply parent

I wanted kids from my earliest memory. I also love chocolate. I don’t think any less of people who don’t want children but I have to admit being a bit shocked they don’t like chocolate.

9/6/2025, 5:32:11 PM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chad Loder (@chadloder.bsky.social) reposted

Four LAPD officers on horseback surround a man laying on the ground, trample him, and beat him with their polycarbonate "saber" batons.

9/6/2025, 3:39:43 AM | 5035 2762 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Catherine Rampell (@crampell.bsky.social) reposted

How now-DHS Secretary Kristi Noem felt about a president potentially federalizing the National Guard one year ago:

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8/6/2025, 5:23:15 PM | 3337 1311 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emma Jones (@majacita.bsky.social)

Another reason we love Andy.

8/6/2025, 4:03:59 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emma Jones (@majacita.bsky.social) reply parent

Also his Irish name

6/6/2025, 3:10:16 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emma Jones (@majacita.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

We’ve seen the list. He’s on the list. We’ve seen the lawsuits. We’ve heard him admit to sexual assault and peeping at young naked girls. We’ve heard him make graphic sexual references to his own daughter. What else could be in those files that could make a difference!

6/6/2025, 12:28:27 PM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emma Jones (@majacita.bsky.social) reply parent

We’ve seen the list. He’s on the list. We’ve seen the lawsuits. We’ve heard him admit to sexual assault and peeping at young naked girls. We’ve heard him make graphic sexual references to his own daughter. What else could be in those files that could make a difference!

6/6/2025, 12:28:27 PM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emma Jones (@majacita.bsky.social) reply parent

She even commanded troops.

6/6/2025, 11:58:49 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Profile picture Emma Jones (@majacita.bsky.social)

Controversy welcome. Aunt Bee’s pickles is the best Andy Griffith episode.

6/6/2025, 12:48:57 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Corporate greed at work again.

5/6/2025, 6:16:10 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emma Jones (@majacita.bsky.social) reply parent

We’ve already had deaths in eastern Kentucky.

3/6/2025, 12:42:42 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emma Jones (@majacita.bsky.social)

Our National Parks are our nations pride.

2/6/2025, 7:06:30 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emma Jones (@majacita.bsky.social)

People need to put really nice pictures of Trump up on Truth Social with damaging admissions underneath and see if he reposts them without reading.

2/6/2025, 2:56:53 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture judithbolyard.bsky.social (@judithbolyard.bsky.social) reposted

Powerful

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Profile picture Emma Jones (@majacita.bsky.social)

No more Job Corps.

1/6/2025, 3:07:31 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emma Jones (@majacita.bsky.social) reply parent

Why doesn’t he treat everyone with kindness and respect automatically? Shouldn’t that be the default behavior towards everyone?

1/6/2025, 1:44:58 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view