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Rick Ladd

@retreado.bsky.social

Feminist - Marxist - anti-capitalist - anti-imperialist - almost an octogenarian - resident of the Haight in '67 - progressive AF - left of Democrats but have voted D since I could first vote in '68 because I'm neither a purist nor a fool. JD, MKM 🚫DMs

created November 15, 2024

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And she's pissed!

2/9/2025, 2:56:22 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Nice sunset here in SoCal this evening.

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2/9/2025, 2:35:19 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You go, L.A.

2/9/2025, 2:21:07 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I've never been a member of a union, but I’ve benefited greatly from their existence, especially the United Aerospace Workers. I support unions wholly and unequivocally. Always have. Always will. Every day should be Labor Day !

1/9/2025, 7:03:49 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Republicans are the Dunning-Kruger party.

1/9/2025, 6:22:53 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Republicans are the Dunning-Kruger party.

1/9/2025, 6:22:42 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I'm not a woman and I'm pissed.

1/9/2025, 6:17:56 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The only thing being showcased in this conversation is how narrow minded you are. "All boomers"? Generalize much? I was organizing against the war and racism and providing armed security for activists while you were still in diapers. There are lots of asshole boomers, but it’s hardly all of us.

1/9/2025, 6:15:09 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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NEVER FORGET!

1/9/2025, 4:05:45 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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1/9/2025, 4:02:42 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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LOL.

1/9/2025, 3:42:06 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This you? Fuck off, ageist. PS - I'm hardly elevating him this far out from the next general election. I am, however, appreciative of his calling out Trump & MAGA. i’ll deal with his negatives if and when the time comes. Take your performative purism and shove it up your overly-tight ass.

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1/9/2025, 2:52:04 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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What's not to love?

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1/9/2025, 3:25:29 AM | 63 13 | View on Bluesky | view

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Yes, and if memory serves, Marx referred to it as State Monopoly Capitalism, the final stage before natural evolution to socialism.

1/9/2025, 3:12:28 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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In what way does what Trump is doing inure to the benefit of "taxpayers" who, by the way, are mostly "workers"?

1/9/2025, 1:33:38 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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1/9/2025, 12:14:46 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Spot. Fucking. On.

1/9/2025, 12:04:58 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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MOURNING DOVES!

31/8/2025, 11:54:34 PM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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I'm 355 days younger than this odious piece of shit, so I was around when this was "fashionable". Had I dressed like this I would have felt honor-bound to commit seppuku.

31/8/2025, 11:52:17 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Please share!

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31/8/2025, 11:47:35 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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31/8/2025, 11:43:06 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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if it’s not owned by the workers, it ain’t fucking communism.

31/8/2025, 11:42:13 PM | 22 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Can't wait. Have to anyway. No choice.

31/8/2025, 11:38:28 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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31/8/2025, 11:03:04 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This woman is a fucking idiot. People have a visceral response because it's clear prayer does diddly squat when it comes to preventing shootings. Sure, it might provide comfort for some after the fact, but it does absolutely nothing preventative. Also, you can't hate something that doesn't exist. đź–•

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31/8/2025, 8:06:54 PM | 5 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Talk about your illusions of grandeur. This is the textbook definition of delusional.

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31/8/2025, 6:57:31 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I believe once he's gone, the infighting will be furious and they will eat each other alive. Doesn't mean the MAGA movement and the billionaire tech bros won't remain dangerous, but none of them will be able to hold the cult in thrall like Trump has.

31/8/2025, 6:53:49 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You definitely need to watch until the end!

31/8/2025, 6:41:42 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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31/8/2025, 6:39:29 PM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Don't let up!

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31/8/2025, 6:39:06 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Listen up!

31/8/2025, 6:11:26 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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31/8/2025, 5:07:56 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Imagine how dizzy that clam is.

31/8/2025, 4:10:26 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Speaking of which, where ARE the Epstein files?

31/8/2025, 4:07:32 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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31/8/2025, 3:57:05 PM | 0 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Me too!

31/8/2025, 3:23:38 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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31/8/2025, 6:05:13 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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31/8/2025, 5:58:16 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The ending is best!

31/8/2025, 5:01:06 AM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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30/8/2025, 11:17:57 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Moving on.

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30/8/2025, 10:50:47 PM | 49 13 | View on Bluesky | view

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30/8/2025, 7:11:19 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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What’s the over under how many people anxiously await his death? In the US, I'm guessing at least 125,000,000 voting age adults

30/8/2025, 5:00:29 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Poifucked!

30/8/2025, 4:18:26 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Dude's a freakin' pig!

30/8/2025, 12:38:11 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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And the institutions that could stop it won't. Now it's going to be up to WE, THE PEOPLE to either make this right or suffer the consequences of slipping completely into authoritarianism and, no doubt, racial violence.

30/8/2025, 12:09:42 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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30/8/2025, 12:04:23 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Everything this administration does is a grift. EVERYTHING!

29/8/2025, 11:55:24 PM | 4 4 | View on Bluesky | view

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29/8/2025, 11:39:42 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The blue states in the west should be doing the same, as well as stopping payment of federal income taxes.

29/8/2025, 11:26:05 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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29/8/2025, 11:24:03 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Who can forget Cracker Jima - When the victorious MAGAts raised their logo for all to see.

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29/8/2025, 11:21:16 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Oops! Missed the "y".

29/8/2025, 11:15:05 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I just recycled this one!

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29/8/2025, 11:13:56 PM | 3 3 | View on Bluesky | view

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If we're luck, the next time we see him it will be a viewing!

29/8/2025, 11:13:22 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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If we're luck, the next time we see him it will be a viewing!

29/8/2025, 11:13:12 PM | 15 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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29/8/2025, 11:11:27 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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An oldie, but a goodie!

29/8/2025, 10:34:44 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I could NOT agree more!

29/8/2025, 10:02:24 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rick Ladd (@retreado.bsky.social) reply parent

Charlie misspelled "inbreed".

29/8/2025, 7:52:10 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Charlie misspelled "inbreed".

29/8/2025, 7:52:01 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I should keep posting this every damn hour, but it would likely only serve to piss people off. We are SO fucking brainwashed against socialism, it's pathetic.

29/8/2025, 7:49:47 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It's why I keep posting here, though it often feels like I'm pissing into the wind.

29/8/2025, 7:44:58 PM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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We truly are the Dunning-Kruger nation; a hopeless kakistocracy. Land of the less than mediocre. Almost makes me glad I'll be dead soon.

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29/8/2025, 7:43:43 PM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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I'd be happy to be a part of the vanguard, except I'm 78 and becoming increasingly frail. I can offer knowledge, but we need young people to take up the challenge. People like Maxwell Frost and David Hogg might be able to provide leadership. Blue states are going to have to step up!

29/8/2025, 7:34:53 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The insanity will continue until WE, THE FUCKING PEOPLE, get off our asses, organize, and take it away from them by any means necessary. Unfortunately, far too many of us still think capitalism is the best economic system ever.

29/8/2025, 6:00:33 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Unfortunately, as apropos as ever.

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29/8/2025, 4:30:21 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Let's not lose sight of the fact that he’s a religious zealot, and a dangerous, dangerous man.

29/8/2025, 4:06:15 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He's what we used to call a Jive-Ass Sissy Punk (and maybe add) Lyin' Motherfucker.

29/8/2025, 4:03:05 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I don’t know, but this cup I made a few years ago is looking more and more accurate.

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29/8/2025, 6:50:13 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Tonight's post-credits scene with Patton Oswalt and Ethan Peck was a wonderful kind of easter egg. I can't recall SNW doing that; surely not on the regular.

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29/8/2025, 5:24:53 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He's a eugenicist, i.e. a Nazi.

29/8/2025, 4:08:06 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Listen up, purists!

29/8/2025, 3:47:19 AM | 5 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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Me too!

29/8/2025, 3:39:19 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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29/8/2025, 3:11:33 AM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Karoline Leavitt is a fucking idiot.

29/8/2025, 3:08:50 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Clearly, he sees his job as the vacationer-in-chief.

29/8/2025, 3:03:05 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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From the mouths of babes.

29/8/2025, 2:41:33 AM | 17 14 | View on Bluesky | view

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How about a choke order?

29/8/2025, 2:30:15 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Make it so.

29/8/2025, 2:29:15 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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29/8/2025, 2:26:21 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I am thoroughly convinced they do care; they want us to die.

29/8/2025, 1:16:52 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I am thoroughly convinced they do care; they want us to die.

29/8/2025, 1:16:39 AM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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29/8/2025, 1:10:55 AM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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It should be glaringly obvious to all but the most obtuse and brainwashed that whatever god(s) there is/are, he/she/it is a colossal fuckup.

29/8/2025, 12:44:54 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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If God is listening, why the Fuck isn't anything, anything at all, being done? Is God obtuse, uncaring, actually evil like you, JD?

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28/8/2025, 10:49:33 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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If God is listening, why the Fuck isn't anything, anything at all, being done? Is God obtuse, uncaring, actually evil like you, JD?

28/8/2025, 10:49:11 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You just don't realize how good you have it until a leak requires you to turn off the water for over 24 hours while the plumbers replace the leaking pipe(s).

28/8/2025, 10:45:54 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I could not have said it better!

28/8/2025, 8:49:29 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It's possible. With these assholes anything is possible. They're surely not the sharpest tools.

28/8/2025, 8:30:48 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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if he has half a brain (big stretch there) he’s made sure he gets pretty pure stuff. You don’t generally rub baby laxative on your gums.

28/8/2025, 8:23:37 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Yes, and they’re just as bad.

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

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This would be funny if it wasn't so stupid. Over three years out from the next general election and some are wasting huge amounts of energy arguing over which (this is important) "imaginary" candidate they won't vote for. Spend some energy getting him to change. He's already a national figure.

28/8/2025, 3:54:23 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This has been obvious from the very beginning.

28/8/2025, 3:43:23 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This has been obvious from the very beginning.

28/8/2025, 3:43:16 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I’m beginning to think Democratic “leadership” is useless as the corporate press.

28/8/2025, 12:26:47 AM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Here's a fucking quack!

28/8/2025, 12:21:18 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He's always been a con man himself; a blatant opportunist.

27/8/2025, 11:43:01 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I don't care how we do it, but we should already have Universal Basic Income as well as single-payer, Universal Healthcare.

27/8/2025, 11:01:10 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view