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Strandschaf

@strandschaf.bsky.social

he/him; proud of my kids; Guardian reading, tofu eating wokeratus; LGBTQIA+ supporter; #fcknazis, #fckafd, #fcktrump; ✊ ÖPN✌️; LLM-AI vegan; no DMs w/o interaction; 🌍 🇪🇺 🇩🇪 🇺🇦

created November 25, 2024

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Profile picture Strandschaf (@strandschaf.bsky.social) reply parent

Let's play telephone: I understood he'll have a stroke live on camera.

2/9/2025, 7:23:10 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Strandschaf (@strandschaf.bsky.social) reply parent

Thanks for the news! 🤣 He already got the highest honour. And here is a free article I found.

2/9/2025, 7:17:19 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Deviating from the usual protocol, Guiliani will receive the medal at Four Seasons Landscaping. They really found a flattering photo of him (the first in the article). 🤣 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/01/trump-rudy-giuliani-presidential-medal-of-freedom

2/9/2025, 7:05:54 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It's in the queue, but first, his groundbreaking book about Roosevelt sitting in a wheelchair and how this will surely hinder him from getting a second term.

2/9/2025, 6:40:42 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Was sagt wohl der Ex dazu?

Smiling Putin shakes the hand of a deflated, visibly uncomfortable Trump. Meeting on the war against Ukraine, Alaska Aug, 15th 2025.
2/9/2025, 6:35:30 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Strandschaf (@strandschaf.bsky.social) reply parent

Man muss ja schon etwas gehirntot sein um für die AFD zu kandidieren, da bleibt das nicht aus.

2/9/2025, 6:31:06 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Strandschaf (@strandschaf.bsky.social) reply parent

Could be an insane rant about litter and leaves all over Chicago, dripping showers, the etymology of groceries, Californian fires, woke mushrooms, and again litter in Chicago, so he's sending the troops to fix this.

2/9/2025, 4:32:07 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Strandschaf (@strandschaf.bsky.social) reply parent

If they get away without punishment, the punishment must be harder. Organize a boycott, maybe even some picketing in front of stores. That will cost them more than some fines. BTW: I love the term maple washing!

2/9/2025, 4:26:39 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Strandschaf (@strandschaf.bsky.social) reply parent

A former inhabitant, Nancy Reagan, would have told you, "Heavy metal poisons your mind!'

2/9/2025, 3:59:09 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Timeline cleanser. I don't like the cellphones, but the kids and their cats are so sweet! They must really feel comfortable to do that.

2/9/2025, 3:55:25 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Strandschaf (@strandschaf.bsky.social) reply parent

I didn't know that someone already wrote novels about her.

Kat Abughazaleh
2/9/2025, 3:49:36 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Strandschaf (@strandschaf.bsky.social) reply parent

I was, but only if the CEO was as good at his job as the janitor at his.

2/9/2025, 3:45:15 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Al Cappuccino…☕️🇮🇹 (@alcappuccinoit.bsky.social) reposted

Pretty amazing point in history: we have an administration in place that we distrust so thoroughly that we assume we might not be told if the head of state were to die.

1/9/2025, 5:10:04 AM | 1756 359 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Strandschaf (@strandschaf.bsky.social) reply parent

wobei progressiv in den USA höchstens gemäßigte Sozialdemokratie ist. Die sind notwendig um die Katastrophe zu reparieren, aber auch um endlich die Leute, die nichts haben, wieder von Trump zu holen. Noch ein Präsident der Milliardäre wäre schlimm und würde die Faschos nur stärken.

2/9/2025, 3:38:51 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Strandschaf (@strandschaf.bsky.social) reply parent

Von seiner Vorgeschichte her ist er mit nicht so symphatisch. Er versteht sich gut mit den TechBros und hat auch den Clown brav im Weißen Haus besucht. Jetzt lässt er sich von Camille Zapatas toller Kampagne zur Kandidatur tragen. Den Wiederstand haben erstmal die progressiven organisiert, /2

2/9/2025, 3:38:51 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Strandschaf (@strandschaf.bsky.social)

He found a new best buddy. Looks somehow more equal than that. I bet neither Xi nor Modi let their soldiers kneel before Putin.

2/9/2025, 3:13:03 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Strandschaf (@strandschaf.bsky.social) reply parent

Do you have a source? I only found something about the tensions in July, with Russia downplaying it. There should be something in an old-fashioned journalistic source. Until that, I'm not getting my hopes up for more support for Ukraine.

2/9/2025, 3:09:15 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Strandschaf (@strandschaf.bsky.social) reply parent

Stupid me, I thought it was fascism. Isn't he from the South? Oh, he meant brown-skinned people.

2/9/2025, 2:56:38 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Strandschaf (@strandschaf.bsky.social) reply parent

To be fair, growing potatoes is way down on the scale of diplomatic feats. 😁 As is appearing at the SCO. Xi and Modi are the last remaining contacts, and Russia will have to pay a lot for this pure gesture. Summoning your plant to Alaska is not a feat either; puppets have to obey.

Dejected Trump, looking at the floor, besides a smugly smiling Putin at Helsinki 2018. Smiling Putin shakes the hand of a deflated, visibly uncomfortable Trump. Meeting on the war against Ukraine, Alaska Aug, 15th 2025.
2/9/2025, 2:46:52 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Strandschaf (@strandschaf.bsky.social) reply parent

May the unladen European and African swallows put their strength together and drop some coconuts on them. If they assemble on the roundabouts, there are already crosshairs painted on them. Besides a lack of straight thinking, they also can't paint a straight line.

St George's Cross painted very shoddily and unevenly on a roundabout. St George's Cross painted very shoddily and unevenly on a roundabout.
2/9/2025, 2:32:52 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Strandschaf (@strandschaf.bsky.social) reply parent

If you manage that the public opinion is absolutely disgusted about a place, even most psychopaths won't go there. Most of them are also narcissists, after all.

1/9/2025, 7:30:00 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Strandschaf (@strandschaf.bsky.social) reply parent

These times are mostly gone. Nowadays, most are getting rich through parents or scams. These are reachable. With current financial scams, some people who are not scammers are winning too. So a part of those people have morals. You'll never teach the psychopaths; you have to reach the others.

1/9/2025, 7:23:42 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Strandschaf (@strandschaf.bsky.social) reply parent

I think it would look a bit tacky to have a hot dog monument next to the Lincoln memorial, but the hot dog would have merited it, and tacky is The Clown's thing.

1/9/2025, 6:43:04 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Strandschaf (@strandschaf.bsky.social) reply parent

They don't like The Clown's plan of self-genocide. That's enough for that bastard.

1/9/2025, 6:40:10 PM | 25 10 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Strandschaf (@strandschaf.bsky.social) reply parent

Riesen-Fahrradparkhaus. Damit geht's dann zur Arbeit oder Uni. Wenn der Bahnhof irgendwo ist, wo keine soziale Kontrolle gibt, dann gibt's auch sowas. Wir zahlen Unmengen an Steuergeldern für den Straßenverkehr und die Schäden, die nur zum kleinen Teil von den Benzin und Kfz-Steuern abgedeckt sind.

1/9/2025, 6:26:32 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Strandschaf (@strandschaf.bsky.social) reply parent

Es fehlt einfach an Infrastruktur. Es gibt Länder die das hinkriegen und auch Gegenden in Deutschland. Wenn ich mal in Oldenburg bin, dann staune ich immer wie gut das da geht. Da wohnen jede Menge Leute auf dem Dorf, da gibt's vernünftige Fahrradparkplätze und in Oldenburg am Bahnhof ist ein /2

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1/9/2025, 6:26:15 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Strandschaf (@strandschaf.bsky.social) reply parent

Nee, das geht ja gar nicht! Da muss schon Milch in den Kaffee, damit die schön ausflockt, wenn Vitamin C dazukommt!

1/9/2025, 6:12:14 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Strandschaf (@strandschaf.bsky.social) reply parent

Danke, dass du die Dreckarbeit gemacht hast. Ich muss sowas heute nicht mehr haben.

1/9/2025, 6:09:25 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Strandschaf (@strandschaf.bsky.social)

They are really insane. The Clown's dream of Germania of all places in the ethnically cleansed Gaza. Absolute fucking Nazi scum!

1/9/2025, 6:03:37 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Strandschaf (@strandschaf.bsky.social) reply parent

🤣

1/9/2025, 5:42:27 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Strandschaf (@strandschaf.bsky.social) reply parent

That's a brilliant idea. Why not make it a thesis for a Dr soc. med. and post the peer reviews here?

1/9/2025, 5:42:01 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Strandschaf (@strandschaf.bsky.social) reply parent

🤣 I'll review the movie on Bluesky.

1/9/2025, 4:58:56 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Strandschaf (@strandschaf.bsky.social)

It might be false, but there are concise sentences, not, enough, commas, And Not Enough Capital Letters, and he surely doesn't know what 'ponder' means. That is not from The Clown. Also, the "Thank you for your attention to this Muppet" is missing.

1/9/2025, 4:57:55 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Strandschaf (@strandschaf.bsky.social) reply parent

Come on, that can't be: she's of legal age!

1/9/2025, 4:50:52 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Strandschaf (@strandschaf.bsky.social) reply parent

The Hell's Grannies from Monty Python. I know, it's a bit old, but worth a re-watch. 😁

1/9/2025, 4:42:00 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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🤣🤣🤣

1/9/2025, 4:39:43 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Strandschaf (@strandschaf.bsky.social) reply parent

Enough with the anti-Soviet propaganda! This is just a victory torch for comrade Putin!

1/9/2025, 4:38:55 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Strandschaf (@strandschaf.bsky.social) reply parent

But if you're under 16, 100% of the job growth occurred under Republican administrations.

1/9/2025, 4:36:04 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Strandschaf (@strandschaf.bsky.social) reply parent

I don't know. Those presidents on Mount Rushmore are missing something. You could put his mouth as an arsehole on the other side of it.

1/9/2025, 4:26:08 PM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Strandschaf (@strandschaf.bsky.social) reply parent

It was brutal, and I could speak better English and French otherwise. I missed the chance to learn Greek. My favourite history teacher taught ancient Greek (8 pupils) and ancient Hebrew (2 pupils). It was a very cosy atmosphere. 😁 After my time, they had Dutch and Mandarin. I'd have liked that.

1/9/2025, 4:22:22 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Strandschaf (@strandschaf.bsky.social) reply parent

They are renowned for their fantastic work, especially for traditional crafts. I know that they make up at least 50% of those doing the restoration on mediaeval cathedrals in Germany and, I think, all over Europe.

1/9/2025, 4:16:37 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Strandschaf (@strandschaf.bsky.social) reply parent

Wait until that term is over... It's so funny that the Reps (Reagan, Bush, Clown) always talk about "fiscal responsibility" and explode the debt and the Dems are the "socialists" and get the debt down.

1/9/2025, 4:12:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Strandschaf (@strandschaf.bsky.social) reply parent

You were lucky! It was an extremely outdated curriculum for me, but it was also my first foreign language (from 5th term), so we were rather stupid little kids.

1/9/2025, 4:09:26 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Strandschaf (@strandschaf.bsky.social) reply parent

Ist das Video zu kurz geraten? Das ist natürlich kein Ersatz für eine gute Behandlung des Themas in der Schule, aber dafür etwas was bei den Kids hängenbleibt.

1/9/2025, 4:00:39 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Strandschaf (@strandschaf.bsky.social) reply parent

I really would have paid to watch when they tried to replace the fruit pickers from Poland with jobless people. They had years of experience in a hard job and had no problems finding work elsewhere.

1/9/2025, 3:57:15 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Strandschaf (@strandschaf.bsky.social) reply parent

Looks nice. You can switch off AI and the discussions in the settings. I have to compare the search results when I have some time.

1/9/2025, 3:53:19 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Strandschaf (@strandschaf.bsky.social) reply parent

I'll check it out. I always use DuckDuckGo, but I hope there's a search engine better at ignoring the first 20 hits with AI-generated slop. I know, Wikipedia is always first, but that's where I look first, with their search function.

1/9/2025, 3:51:06 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Strandschaf (@strandschaf.bsky.social) reply parent

But you had to read De Bello Gallico, right? "Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres..." Boring old git... We had to learn the first sentence by heart. I looked it up, and I made one error, so I'm thankful it at least leaves my head slowly. I did prefer reading "Asterix Gallus". 😁

1/9/2025, 3:45:54 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Strandschaf (@strandschaf.bsky.social) reply parent

It seems that the capitalist paradise isn't doing so well compared to the socialist countries in the EU. That doesn't even yet include the second explosion of debt that will come again with The Clown's second term. You can clearly see the Dems' terms, but red is the colour of the Reps, so...

US debt to GDP ratio. From around 40% at start of WW II, peaking at 110%, down to 30% in the 70s, growing up to 75%, than a sharp rise to over 100% in the first term of Trump, followed by a slight reduction in the Biden years.
1/9/2025, 3:40:27 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Strandschaf (@strandschaf.bsky.social) reply parent

I did nothing wrong. I just worked for a Nazi. I did my duty. He's already been making far-right propaganda for years. They could look for another job and might even get a proper union job. That company is going down anyway. The cars are shitty, and the market puts all its hope into robo-taxis.

1/9/2025, 3:18:17 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Strandschaf (@strandschaf.bsky.social) reply parent

Even when you ignore the racism: the outcome of Brexit was that they replaced temporary EU workers with brown people having permanent residence.

1/9/2025, 3:11:20 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Strandschaf (@strandschaf.bsky.social) reply parent

It affects their memory? That doesn't sound good. You mean they will remember who is curtailing their rights and wants them to stop voting when they're standing in the voting booth?

1/9/2025, 3:06:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Strandschaf (@strandschaf.bsky.social) reply parent

Toll und wichtig! Etwas off-topic, da für Ältere: Es gibt nur eins, das schlechter als ein staatliches Aufklärungsvideo ist, nämlich eines von der Polizei. Das hier klappt aber. Sie lachen, schauen es nochmal, lachen über den Schlussgag, dann denken sie drüber nach. Das bleibt wirklich hängen.

1/9/2025, 2:56:53 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Strandschaf (@strandschaf.bsky.social) reply parent

Ja, da war doch irgendwas, das früher immer auf den Demos in Berlin lief... Aber die BVG hat sich ja mittlerweile doch etwas rehabilitiert.

1/9/2025, 2:41:34 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Obviously I then want to read a review of that book on Bluesky. Meta³

1/9/2025, 1:02:40 PM | 10 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Strandschaf (@strandschaf.bsky.social) reply parent

I want to see this conversation printed in a book!

1/9/2025, 1:01:44 PM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Strandschaf (@strandschaf.bsky.social) reply parent

I love the idea with the spiders! I once stumbled over a wonderful blog with creative Halloween food, but that is gone. The picture search gives you mostly commercial rubbish. It took me a while to find something good, and the eyes lack good veins. The arm is marvellous, though.

1/9/2025, 9:38:46 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Strandschaf (@strandschaf.bsky.social) reply parent

The Heritage Foundation, Thiel, Musk, Murdoch, and the Federalist Society will consolidate their wins and continue under the hood with the transformation into an anarcho-capitalist country. The new VP will be someone trying to keep the European allies. That won't work, though.

1/9/2025, 4:56:33 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Strandschaf (@strandschaf.bsky.social)

I guess they've already played out what will happen if The Clown, amid loud exclamations of grief here, will kick the gilded bucket. After destroying the government from all sides, JD Bowman can cosplay as the more sane president and use the "it's The Clown's fault" line for the worst failures. /2

1/9/2025, 4:56:33 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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🤣 So, who's the cleric officiating over it?

1/9/2025, 4:43:51 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Yes, I really want to know why. 🙄 An overview of the "non-"questions and omissions in the "interview" of Maxwell. Despite [...] openly mentioned Epstein associates as being in Trump’s current cabinet, Blanche [...] did not pause to ask Maxwell to identify the cabinet members she was referring to. 🤮

1/9/2025, 4:38:58 AM | 3 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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We all have burnt our eyes by watching The Clown's tacky decorations, but "professional wrestler’s dressing room" is something new and fits his favourite "sport". A lot more work for the cleaning staff; now there are nearly 20 presidents whose vomit they have to clean each time they see it.

1/9/2025, 4:30:48 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Just like The Clown did in his first term.

1/9/2025, 3:43:02 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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So, one of the effects will be that a lot of manufacturers won't sell specific vaccines in the US because of judicial risks. For the poor, it's illegal stuff from the internet; for the rich, a holiday to Canada or Mexico. Another effect is that manufacturers will produce outside the US.

31/8/2025, 7:27:50 PM | 4 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Sure he will end the mental health crisis in America; if most kids die from measles, polio, or diphtheria, they will take much less antidepressants.

31/8/2025, 7:18:06 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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🤣🤣🤣 It's completely safe, because even when you hear that, you don't know that he spelled Dewey wrong. 😁

31/8/2025, 7:13:07 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The amount of money this doomed city receives from the federal government: -$72bn in 2002. Totally desolate, nobody goes out on the street and works.

31/8/2025, 7:08:47 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Strandschaf (@strandschaf.bsky.social) reply parent

Didn't you read what he wrote? The workers don't want it either! Especially "for every once working day". The workers want to do hard work instead; they want to hit golf balls on the course!

31/8/2025, 7:02:14 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Strandschaf (@strandschaf.bsky.social) reply parent

"It happened", "He died", "Is he dead yet?" Some things are self-explanatory.

31/8/2025, 6:50:22 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Don't just destroy it; you'll need new offices for the current administration after the elections (if any).

31/8/2025, 6:47:26 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I have a controversial opinion. I want The Clown to have the best healthcare and JD Bowman to continue bragging, instead of him becoming president. It's OK if the dumpster where they throw him in explodes, and that's them all away, though.

31/8/2025, 6:33:27 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This time it will probably be worse. They will see "gangs" and wage a full-on war to "defend" themselves. I hope that every camera in Chicago, or whichever is next, is trained on them so that they can't pull that off too easily.

National Guard vehicle in DC. On its canvas are two pictures of the Kent State University massacre by the National Guard on May 4, 1970.
31/8/2025, 6:25:08 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Sometimes Putin needs to lead him around on a dog leash in person, not always on the phone.

31/8/2025, 6:17:23 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I think it's a bit disrespectful to hack an account and then use it for such a stupid scam. Couldn't they think of something more believable? Can I pick my badge up in the Nigerian Central Bank? 🤣

31/8/2025, 6:12:56 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He Always Voted By Mail-In Because He Is Very Ill In The Head.

31/8/2025, 6:05:43 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Strandschaf (@strandschaf.bsky.social) reply parent

There was a trade deal: he traded America's dignity against nothing. As a quid pro quo, he lowered the tariffs on Russia from 0% to 0%.

US soldiers on their knees preparing the red carpet for a war criminal. Putin + Trump meeting on Russia's war against Ukraine on Aug 15th 2025, Alaska. Dejected Trump, looking at the floor, besides a happy Putin.
31/8/2025, 6:03:46 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I think it is totally OK to leave all that be and even rename Miami to Trump City *if* they have the guts for a blanket annulment of *every* *single* Trump hire and appointment where legally possible (so no judges). I bet that he removed every single protection against dismissal, so there you go.

31/8/2025, 5:49:14 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That's a bleak projection for the Olympics. Now they want to prohibit athletes from training! Some people climb with their hands, others with their feet...

Person clapping hands with climbing chalk. Foot covered in chalk.
31/8/2025, 5:34:58 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Many, many, countries over the last thousand years and all western countries together in this century ☹️.

31/8/2025, 4:47:09 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Probably yes. But Afghanistan 🇮🇳 had 🇮🇷 never 🇲🇳 any 🇨🇳 involvement 🇹🇷 from 🇬🇧 other 🇷🇺 states 🇺🇸. I forgot some and it's not the right order...

31/8/2025, 4:45:50 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Sure, that was only to complete the list: civil war, pestilence, famine or natural disasters.

31/8/2025, 4:34:32 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I can tell one, Afghanistan. There is another item for the list: absolute misogyny and religion.

31/8/2025, 4:29:41 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It started even before the corporations. That arsehole alone makes you vomit.

31/8/2025, 4:27:16 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Strandschaf (@strandschaf.bsky.social) reply parent

Exactly. The countries she named had/have a total breakdown of society. There are a lot of regions in Africa I'd rather live in than in the desolate regions of the US. I always ask someone like this about the average life expectancy in Africa. They're probably way off, and Africa makes big strides.

31/8/2025, 4:22:45 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Strandschaf (@strandschaf.bsky.social) reply parent

There are regions all over the world where I don't want to live, and it has more to do with what arseholes are in the government. The high birthrate has to do with a breakdown of said "governments", so you have to rely on many children to survive so that you're taken care of when you're old.

31/8/2025, 4:08:34 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Strandschaf (@strandschaf.bsky.social) reply parent

Pensions are introduced (1900s), and people don't need to have their kids caring for them when they're old, and the birth rate decreases again. Every country had that cycle, and you see that also in Africa. These are just a bit after the middle of the cycle.

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It's the other way round. If you look at history (here Europe), you have a high birth and infant death rate and a stable population. Medical care improves (1800s), and the population increases drastically. /2

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Depends on where you live, as always. It is already beginning, surprisingly in blue states. 😁 I didn't dive into finding good sources, but here is one. I think that, if the fascists don't win altogether, there will be a big countermovement, because they fucked up everything. This is a chance.

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That's only a temporary solution anyway. The only continent with a growing population is Africa, and they are already over the peak. The women having children now will have fewer girls, so they will be in decline after a generation, too. There are better reasons for immigration, though.

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There's a stupid saying, but with a core of truth, "America will always do the best thing, but only after it has tried all other paths." So, there's hope. In reality, there is a fascist wave all over the world, strongly connected to each other. We all need to fight that off.

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A big step was that both parents must alternate parental leave or lose the money. I definitely support people being childfree. It's a decision you take on for decades, and you should really stand behind it. Everybody has their own things that they're good at.

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If I compare how children are treated and cared for today compared to my childhood, including expenses for kindergarten and schools, things have gotten much better. This, and fairer sharing of the burdens, is key to motivating people to get kids. /2

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It was probably also helped by the fact that we didn't have The Clown as president. Countries with authoritarian figures at the head did worse and the scars in their societies were larger. The worst influence was probably Fox News, stoking distrust. We had that in the 1920s, with horrible results.

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I'm not as pessimistic, but we also have less American individualism over here. We also have a *lot* of idiots here, and their numbers grew during COVID, but there is generally an understanding that a society only functions as a whole. /2

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Absolutely. Children are valued much more now, at least in my country. But there is a proverb, "Nach mir die Sintflut!" "After me, the Deluge!" There are too many people who already follow that stance. Saving the Earth for the children is a strong driver.

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They're picking up trash? That's why nobody heard of The Clown in the last days!

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😂 I guess it's just that something is itching.

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I'm all for reducing the human footprint, but it should be a gradually decline, or the remainder will fuck the planet up completely when societies doesn't work at all.

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Profile picture Strandschaf (@strandschaf.bsky.social)

Finally it improves, but we're still not doing enough.

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You shouldn't have heroes; goals can be heroic. Dr Fauci saved countless lives by doing his duty and defending science while facing hostility. Most countries had such scientists who relentlessly fought for the people, even those who declared them enemies. I admire that and hope they are rewarded.

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