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Joel Simons

@nceconandhistory.bsky.social

Husband, brother, son, teacher and Farker.

created November 9, 2024

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Good Morning! I talked about coffee and Hawaii this week in my economics and personal finance class, vis-a-vis tariffs against Colombia and Brazil.

4/9/2025, 9:36:46 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I'm not worried about a Terminator future, I'm worried about a mad Max future. Maybe the fire guitar will be worth it.

4/9/2025, 9:02:22 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I found this only partway through.

2/9/2025, 11:15:38 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Please excuse my ignorance.

2/9/2025, 11:15:21 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Case in point, the person behind the big bang theory, and you!

2/9/2025, 11:13:52 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Joel Simons (@nceconandhistory.bsky.social) reply parent

You sound deflated

2/9/2025, 1:30:42 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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1/9/2025, 7:13:33 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Freedoms and security to do what? Make money as they saw fit, whether it was crossing the Appalachian mountains or to the ability to own slaves on their own terms. Take a look at the April 12 Halifax Resolve from Halifax, NC.

1/9/2025, 10:30:16 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That may be the point. Everything Trump is doing is helpful towards brics and yuan hegemony.

1/9/2025, 10:25:47 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The revolution was about mercantilism versus capitalism.

1/9/2025, 10:23:38 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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We need to give Pauli Murray some love.

1/9/2025, 2:30:43 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Jane crow.

1/9/2025, 2:28:22 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You're not wrong but you're forgetting one thing. The government is a currency creator, not just a currency user. We'll do fine as long as those idiots from the balancing a checkbook brigade don't show up.

30/8/2025, 11:44:40 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It's like the buildup to the war of 1812 all over again.

30/8/2025, 6:09:34 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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ChuckGPT?

30/8/2025, 1:11:47 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Is this like how people who enjoy hockey are secretly there for the fighting?

29/8/2025, 12:49:12 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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@pattonoswalt.bsky.social, you're on strange new worlds?

28/8/2025, 11:58:07 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I think we're going to finally get our third amendment landmark case...

27/8/2025, 8:29:04 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Joel Simons (@nceconandhistory.bsky.social) reply parent

There is a fantastic book called The Rape of Europa about the art stolen along with the care different museums took with their art to keep it from Nazis.

27/8/2025, 7:35:34 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Boston historically has not been crazy about soldiers in their city.

27/8/2025, 7:32:48 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Impeach

26/8/2025, 1:47:04 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Cell phones have been ubiquitous for the new century this far. It certainly hasn't helped with shootings.

25/8/2025, 3:54:19 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I mean it was negotiated, with bombs.

24/8/2025, 2:46:52 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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@greenleejw.bsky.social how's the puppers?

24/8/2025, 12:19:48 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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They are responsible for the QANON that got him elected.

23/8/2025, 12:13:39 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Is that when you ask people whether they chew or swallow the host?

22/8/2025, 2:50:00 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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@alyankovic.bsky.social they're going after your hometown!

22/8/2025, 2:49:20 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Good.

22/8/2025, 1:50:34 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Umm...how far have we gone? Slavery is still legal in jail.

22/8/2025, 1:49:24 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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What happened

21/8/2025, 12:24:19 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Joel Simons (@nceconandhistory.bsky.social) reply parent

Hey, the wildcats called, they want their era back.

20/8/2025, 9:26:09 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Is he aware that non academics are the reason why we have vaccines cause autism?

19/8/2025, 10:40:53 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Who wrote that line for the Simpsons?

18/8/2025, 9:41:05 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Splitters.

18/8/2025, 1:02:41 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Were there more soldiers in our capital after January 6th?

18/8/2025, 1:01:32 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Joel Simons (@nceconandhistory.bsky.social) reply parent

Did you read Patton's book?

17/8/2025, 10:39:24 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Rules are for thee, not for me, etc.

16/8/2025, 1:40:09 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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No love there.

15/8/2025, 11:05:58 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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@kairyssdal.bsky.social @planetmoney.bsky.social are white collar jobs being outsourced and that is why there is such a death of jobs?

15/8/2025, 10:05:43 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Joel Simons (@nceconandhistory.bsky.social) reply parent

Is that legal? Not that it matters, I suppose.

14/8/2025, 12:07:18 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Joel Simons (@nceconandhistory.bsky.social) reply parent

This may be crazy, give them homes? Seems to work every time they do it.

13/8/2025, 5:20:53 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Joel Simons (@nceconandhistory.bsky.social) reply parent

Wasn't that what the shootout at the OK Corral about?

13/8/2025, 10:00:48 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Joel Simons (@nceconandhistory.bsky.social) reply parent

Why did I think she converted to Christianity?

12/8/2025, 1:56:13 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Joel Simons (@nceconandhistory.bsky.social) reply parent

Well...yeah.

11/8/2025, 12:02:31 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Joel Simons (@nceconandhistory.bsky.social) reply parent

What happened?

10/8/2025, 11:59:26 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Judging by all the rape happening, no.

8/8/2025, 10:18:43 PM | 32 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The shooter at the cdc?

8/8/2025, 9:33:42 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This is so incredibly stalinist it's not even funny. Are they going to create a jewish autonomous region next?

8/8/2025, 1:56:30 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Joel Simons (@nceconandhistory.bsky.social) reply parent

It was smack dab in the Jim crow era. Back during that time, the industrialist focus of the white supremacists Democrats drove the Agrarian section away into the populist party creating the fusion movement.

8/8/2025, 1:28:09 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Joel Simons (@nceconandhistory.bsky.social) reply parent

The irony is that Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina had black representation during the 1880s and 1890s, when no other states did.

8/8/2025, 1:12:40 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Yigail yadin, get your bones over here!

8/8/2025, 1:10:54 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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What about the quality of the series?

8/8/2025, 1:09:54 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Joel Simons (@nceconandhistory.bsky.social) reply parent

Give people a bunch of money for taking a loss on their houses.

8/8/2025, 12:09:04 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Joel Simons (@nceconandhistory.bsky.social) reply parent

The issue with this is that people using GPT will act as though they are engaging in research level AI. This would take Dunning Kruger to a stunning level.

7/8/2025, 10:32:52 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Joel Simons (@nceconandhistory.bsky.social) reply parent

Dagnabit, sorry. Want me to delete my post?

7/8/2025, 1:58:08 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Joel Simons (@nceconandhistory.bsky.social) reply parent

I really feel like @greenleejw.bsky.social should be a part of this conversation.

7/8/2025, 1:55:17 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Joel Simons (@nceconandhistory.bsky.social) reply parent

The only thing more Texan is this scene.. youtu.be/9cHLoHou8uY?...

7/8/2025, 1:54:10 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Rapeublican.

6/8/2025, 10:31:28 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Joel Simons (@nceconandhistory.bsky.social) reply parent

If I WERE Robert Dudley, my first order of business would be changing the pronunciation of Leicester to LAYSESTER.

6/8/2025, 11:46:13 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I think about the fact that William of Orange supported Johann Dewitt getting eaten.

6/8/2025, 11:42:44 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Real men think about 1588 and the Spanish armada!

6/8/2025, 11:39:48 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Joel Simons (@nceconandhistory.bsky.social) reply parent

Well he definitely had stuff to say and he had died just a few years before. What i also find fascinating is he may have been involved with the Denmark Vesey execution/murder in South Carolina.

5/8/2025, 2:30:23 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Joel Simons (@nceconandhistory.bsky.social) reply parent

Have you read David Walker's Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World (1829)?

5/8/2025, 2:12:39 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I wondered when the cftc would show up.

5/8/2025, 3:19:53 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Weird AL movie was on there, right?

4/8/2025, 1:32:48 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I get this from the adag, I am rubber you are glue what you say bounces off of me and sticks to you.

3/8/2025, 1:01:13 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Joel Simons (@nceconandhistory.bsky.social) reply parent

Every accusation is an admission. Dude's low IQ.

3/8/2025, 12:59:25 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Forgive me ignorance.

2/8/2025, 3:56:51 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Congress needs to do that.

2/8/2025, 3:37:08 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Every crazy accusation this far has been an admission.

2/8/2025, 2:31:15 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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2/8/2025, 12:03:47 PM | 16 6 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Joel Simons (@nceconandhistory.bsky.social) reply parent

If only for the golf factor.

2/8/2025, 11:18:26 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Glasgow/st Andrews Atlanta/Augusta.

2/8/2025, 11:17:55 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Joel Simons (@nceconandhistory.bsky.social) reply parent

Also, I think the person you're talking to before is a tankie.

1/8/2025, 11:49:19 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Between the Holodomor, Gulags, the great Terror, and everything else, I would say Stalin was on par with Hitler.

1/8/2025, 11:43:44 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Also, when are you coming to the Durham area?

1/8/2025, 12:15:41 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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If you chew your nails while doing this, that's cannibalism...

1/8/2025, 12:15:13 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Wouldn't getting this message to Nazis be a good idea?

31/7/2025, 5:38:27 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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What did he say?

31/7/2025, 3:10:58 AM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The Middle

31/7/2025, 2:29:00 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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True, but he was not nice to Rushdie.

31/7/2025, 1:56:08 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Joel Simons (@nceconandhistory.bsky.social) reply parent

Remember cat stevens who is now known as Yusuf Islam after he converted to Islam and Iran declared death on a certain author

31/7/2025, 1:33:02 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Joel Simons (@nceconandhistory.bsky.social) reply parent

I deserve that. Just like the Palestinians deserve a state.

31/7/2025, 1:31:23 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Good luck.

30/7/2025, 10:23:08 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Looks like Israel will be having...(Puts on sunglasses) Nunavut.

30/7/2025, 10:07:38 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I have no inherent problem with them recognizing Palestine but I have to ask, who's in charge, what's the capital, etc?

30/7/2025, 9:47:06 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Do UBI and universal healthcare so that people can opt out of jobs that pay them less.

30/7/2025, 5:27:50 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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@denverr.bsky.social @thehistorychicks.bsky.social @legaleagle.tv

30/7/2025, 11:33:18 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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29/7/2025, 11:34:05 PM | 16887 7614 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Joel Simons (@nceconandhistory.bsky.social) reply parent

Anytime. Keep being awesome. How's the new book doing?

29/7/2025, 10:08:47 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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@stephaniekelton.bsky.social book is amazing.

29/7/2025, 6:55:38 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Your taxes don't fund the government. Do you remember Musk talking about finding the magic money computers? fortune.com/2025/03/19/e...

29/7/2025, 6:40:15 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Currency is created by the federal government. It is a currency creator.

29/7/2025, 6:33:02 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The question is not whether he's stealing money from us, as the federal government is a currency creator. The question is why does he get access to those resources and we don't?

29/7/2025, 6:18:26 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Porque no los dos?

29/7/2025, 4:58:09 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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TPS reports getting you down?

29/7/2025, 4:42:28 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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There really is a horrifying sect within our community, isn't there?

29/7/2025, 1:41:34 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Did wonder why your pinky kept lifting up?

29/7/2025, 12:22:31 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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How can we help besides buying the book?

28/7/2025, 8:25:21 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view