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Adam F. Lawton
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Part-time vegetarian; two steppin' Tathāgata. Doozo, nonde o kudasai (he/him) Proudly #anti-fascist, #anti-racist #anti-capitalist. Learning #feminist. Failed linguist & journalist; currently failing as a PC #tech. Pro-democracy. #BlackMastodon #indie #comics #film #books #politics #philosophy #theology #music We wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against detrimentally repetitive thought patterns and poorly reasoned philosophies; against psychological maladies in high places.

Of course this is the dude who rescues Quark in the Mirror Universe! Of course! #AllStarTrek #DS9

Why...why would a civilian need a suppressor? Gun nuts, please, please, it's late and I'm just asking a question.

Due to the design of the fediverse, I think there will be some commercial instances eventually. I don't think the fediverse as a whole will commercialize.

The rhetoric around this is horrible.

Replying to e37f1530...

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Sounds? Any temperature change? Feel something? Was there a bloody, dismembered, floating head? A slight disturbance in dust?

nostr:npub1lpa5fy5rnlwzp2zfy4m4py9svy4ck6lcs63jp835r9mh90n2d9wsasv7tl lol, nah just listening to Lore and cross-referencing with past personal experience. My personal opinion is that there is such a thing a psychic residue and sometimes what we experience as Paranormal may be echoes of an outsized emotion or recurring thought.

Can't sleep (of course).

Wheel of Time it is.

Firm up. Tough days ahead.

Tuskegee Veterans Affairs hospital, the first to treat Black veterans, turns 100 - https://one.npr.org/i/1202434981:1202434982

Oh that was a wild play

Replying to bebb742b...

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connected trends! when capitalism is in crisis, it is more threatened by class struggle. fascism is capitalisms tool against class struggle at a time such as this one.

the whole point is, the capitalists want to raise paramilitaries so they can go and crack the heads of striking workers without having to send to police or army in; provoke war and draft as many people as possible into it, to wreak massive destruction (clearing the ground for the post-war "recovery"); and maintain a powerful sense of "national unity" so that all people are more paranoid of their radical peers than of their reactionary bosses.

adding:

"Generally though in times of excess for the rich the population movements are geared toward greater social responsibility,  not fascism."

actually, both kinds of movements grow in these circumstances. this was also true of the 1920s and 1930s, when masses of workers flocked to support communism, fascism, and social democracy more than ever before.

nostr:npub1t58d75crc5lmhzmwmfye9zrrqnw52drxn6efp2myghfs5mn27u7qs8x4h3 To your second point, I'd argue that only two countries were openly fascist at the time; Spain and Italy. Everyone else in Europe as well as globally, was moving toward either social democracy or communism and/or socialism. Which in my mind, supports my original point; in eras of material excess social movements tend toward social responsibility.

Not hearing the best about the Creator. I'm going to watch it anyway and draw my own conclusions.

Gen V is ok. Very, uh, sex positive as the hip people say.

Last boost: just a reminder of how artificially cruel we are to each other. We make life harder than it has to be.

Ahhh, apparently senator Feinstein just passed but none of the news sites are letting me share the story. Awesome.

Vivek fucking Ramaswamy. Smh.

Approaching Flu, cold and COVID season and people still reluctant to mask

I know they aren't power transmitters or whatever the tinfoil hat people suggest, but the idea of those huge pyramids being primarily tombs just seems off. I mean yes, they are, but I don't like that being their primary purposes. Seems like a waste.