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Baron of Booze

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Pro meme miner 🕵️‍♂️. I left the wastelands of Twitter, Meta & TikT. Dropping opinions marinated in $Billion in global biz experience. The only safe social media account…probably. Used 2B MySpace famous—so you know I definitely peaked too early🤷🏻‍♂️🇺🇦

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Baron of Booze @baronofbooze.bsky.social · 1d

open.substack.com/pub/sayanthi...

Project 2025 Wants to Criminalize OnlyFans...and Redefine Freedom While It’s At It

The Purity Police Go Digital: How Project 2025 Plans to Criminalize Desire

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Baron of Booze @baronofbooze.bsky.social · 5d

The hard truth is:the corridor of freedom is narrow.Every generation has to walk it again.Not by burning institutions down,but by keeping them honest.

Freedom doesn’t survive by accident.It survives because people keep showing up & fighting for it. Every generation has a role in pushing us forward

Baron of Booze @baronofbooze.bsky.social · 5d

When the state gets too strong, it’s tyrannical. When it’s too weak, anarchy takes over. But when both hold each other accountable: when government serves and citizens stay engaged, that’s where liberty lives.
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Baron of Booze @baronofbooze.bsky.social · 5d

In their book The Narrow Corridor, Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson (you should read this) reveal something profound:
Societies stay free only when the power of the people and the power of the state grow together—in tension, but in trust.

Baron of Booze @baronofbooze.bsky.social · 5d

We like to believe freedom is something we win. A revolution happens. A constitution is written. The good guys prevail. But freedom isn’t a prize you win once, it’s something you continually practice at in an infinite game.
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Baron of Booze @baronofbooze.bsky.social · 8d

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'

The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

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Baron of Booze @baronofbooze.bsky.social · 8d

You speak of freedom, yet you practice tyranny.

And when a government can do that to you without a warrant, without a reason, without a consequence, then it doesn’t matter what they call you: citizen, voter, taxpayer, but in reality you are nothing but their prisoner.
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Baron of Booze @baronofbooze.bsky.social · 8d

They call themselves the party of freedom. But freedom doesn’t break down your door in the dead of night. Freedom doesn’t zip-tie your children while you watch. Freedom doesn’t strip you naked, drag you into the street, and throw you into a van with no lawyer, no trial, no call.
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Baron of Booze @baronofbooze.bsky.social · Aug 30

Just saw it

a man wearing a blue sweater is sitting in front of a window .

ALT: a man wearing a blue sweater is sitting in front of a window .

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Baron of Booze @baronofbooze.bsky.social · Aug 30

Reports are that he hasn’t been seen since Tuesday

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Baron of Booze @baronofbooze.bsky.social · Aug 24

Imagine passing on Kamala Harris over the price of eggs… only to watch everything get more expensive, lose your health insurance, see soldiers patrolling your neighborhood, and be stuck with a geriatric capitulating president ranting about ending ten wars (of countries he can’t name) all at once.

a bald man with a beard is wearing earbuds and making a funny face

ALT: a bald man with a beard is wearing earbuds and making a funny face

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Baron of Booze @baronofbooze.bsky.social · Aug 17

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Baron of Booze @baronofbooze.bsky.social · Aug 17

Let’s see em

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Baron of Booze @baronofbooze.bsky.social · Aug 17

Are we doing it right?

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Baron of Booze @baronofbooze.bsky.social · Aug 17

Baron of Booze @baronofbooze.bsky.social · Aug 15

Keep people exhausted and they won’t organize. Keep them struggling and they won’t unite. Keep them divided and they won’t resist. The system isn’t failing, it’s doing exactly what it was built to do.

Baron of Booze @baronofbooze.bsky.social · Aug 13

When fear replaces integrity and prejudice replaces critical thinking, the great American experiment doesn’t just lose its way—it risks losing everything. We built the most prolific democracy in human history… but it survives only if we can to keep it.

Baron of Booze @baronofbooze.bsky.social · Aug 13

It was never about the values, it was about holding power and finding someone to blame for their own struggles, even when those struggles were shaped by their own choices at the ballot box.

Baron of Booze @baronofbooze.bsky.social · Aug 13

Republicans who claimed to stand for faith, law, and country abandoned those ideals to defend a leader who violated the Constitution, profited from public office, and lived in direct opposition to the principles they preached.

Baron of Booze @baronofbooze.bsky.social · Aug 13

Over the past decade, I’ve learned a hard truth: values only matter if they hold when it’s inconvenient.

Baron of Booze @baronofbooze.bsky.social · Aug 13

The most sobering truth I’ve learned in the past decade is this:

Republicans never meant a word of what they claimed to stand for. Not one.

Baron of Booze @baronofbooze.bsky.social · Aug 11

Look at the gerrymandering
It’s awful.

Baron of Booze @baronofbooze.bsky.social · Aug 11

When Trump refuses to leave in 2028, history will mark the day he federalized and militarized D.C. (without a shred of justification) as the opening move of his coup.

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Baron of Booze @baronofbooze.bsky.social · Jul 11

put 100 red ants and 100 black ants in a jar, nothing happens. shake the jar and they start killing each other.

Black ant vs red ant.
But the real enemy?
The one shaking the damn jar.

👀 Sounds familiar?

we’re so busy fighting each other, left vs right, we forget to ask:

Who’s shaking the jar?