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Informed Takes

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Someday, I will share my experience on that other platform. I have a long history there. But for now, we celebrate one another. It's great to meet you again for the first time.

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Informed Takes @peebsy0.bsky.social · 16d

My friends, the truth was provided many times to you.

There are no lonely men, or women, or otherwise.

There are people who have come to a new place of being.

They haven't rejected anyone.

They're embracing it all.

Everyone is heard.
Everything gets represented.

youtu.be/oDWJj2ShaWU?...

Why A Chosen Man Always Walks Alone | Alan Watts

YouTube video by Alan Watts Inspires

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Informed Takes @peebsy0.bsky.social · 1h

People who lack self-respect don't deserve respect.

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hoffnagel @hoffnagel.bsky.social · 5h

So true? - because nothing is ever enough for (taps pinned post) the pecuniously or agitproperly motivated troll who couldn’t be bothered to watch a hearing.

PSA: you should have seen her face, as that phrase, delivered calmly, sotto voce, LANDED. Bullseye.

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Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 7h

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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Informed Takes @peebsy0.bsky.social · 1h

Not sure it could cause a crash, but they would find it uncomfortable to be up there.

Informed Takes @peebsy0.bsky.social · 1h

And lasers are good at other stuff, too.

www.cbc.ca/news/world/h...

Hong Kong protesters use laser pointers to deter police, scramble facial recognition | CBC News

Hand-held laser pointers, which emit powerful beams of green and blue light, are being used by Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters to confuse police officers, scramble facial recognition cameras and de...

www.cbc.ca

Informed Takes @peebsy0.bsky.social · 1h

He doesnt respect them.

Informed Takes @peebsy0.bsky.social · 1h

No joke, Trump is going to destroy everything before he's gone.

Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 2h

It's really great that we have a mad-king who thinks he's going to hell no matter what he does and is in charge of a humanity-ending nuclear arsenal.

Informed Takes @peebsy0.bsky.social · 1h

True.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 12h

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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Informed Takes @peebsy0.bsky.social · 8h

www.israelnationalnews.com/news/343914

This Op-Ed provides some clarity on the aims and goals of the Israeli far right. October 7th was necessary to carry out their plans.

My Outline for a Solution in Gaza

Clear and concise, the steps towards achieving quiet in Gaza.

www.israelnationalnews.com

Informed Takes @peebsy0.bsky.social · 10h

"We don't care about THOSE americans, we only serve THESE americans. Thats the american way!"

- JD Vance Boelter

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

WELKER: During the 2019 shutdown when Trump was president, no federal workers were laid off. Why are these firings necessary?

VANCE: Who do we care more about- federal bureaucrats or the troops getting the payment they need?

WELKER: But layoffs are a priority?

VANCE: They have forced us to choose

Informed Takes @peebsy0.bsky.social · 10h

The real intent of this story was to show you that there will be no consequences when masked thugs come to take you away. None.

And that is lawlessness.

Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 19h

Chicago journalist Debbie Brockman, who was thrown to the ground & handcuffed by ICE, has been released without charges

DHS said she assaulted an officer, but eye witnesses claim she didn’t

The lack of charges makes it clear that ICE is lying to try and cover up the fact that they attack the press

Informed Takes @peebsy0.bsky.social · 10h

True story.

Racism, nationalism, ethno-supremacy, ... bigotry more generally.

It's a path to societal dissolution.

A recipe for mediocrity.

Informed Takes @peebsy0.bsky.social · 11h

How is Starmer better than Farage?

Is it because he pretends to be serious?

Informed Takes @peebsy0.bsky.social · 11h

Those are brownshirts. Not cops.

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Ayo @darrylayo.bsky.social · 12h

I have never respected you. Since I was a kid and other kids would scoff “oh he’s using Big Words!” and “he’s trying to sound smart!”

I am smart.

There are a lot of thoughts that you can’t even *have* because you never learned to even imagine those thoughts, much less articulate them

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Informed Takes @peebsy0.bsky.social · 19h

Shithole country?

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 22h

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Informed Takes @peebsy0.bsky.social · 20h

White DEI sure looks like Call of Duty... 😬

Sad little boys... brought up on war.

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d

theonion.com/ice-raids-my...

MYTH: ICE agents lack proper training.

FACT: Most have been racists their entire lives.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d

theonion.com/ice-raids-my...

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Informed Takes @peebsy0.bsky.social · 20h

There is a lot to be said about a guy who worked so many careers.

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Informed Takes @peebsy0.bsky.social · 20h

i would give him another chance for you. But he would have to earn that trust.

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Informed Takes @peebsy0.bsky.social · 20h

Spiritual Warfare is what I got out of his legacy. The church is a reflection of him, but not him. Did he have kids? I wonder when we get a movie about his kids getting hunted by crazed catholic zealots?

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Informed Takes @peebsy0.bsky.social · 20h

I appreciate democracy too much for that sentiment.

Informed Takes @peebsy0.bsky.social · 20h

This is the way.

Just let it be known that ICE needs to be named and shamed, and people will start talking.

John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 22h

Good people need to start outing their ICE family members, neighbors, and community members.

They need to be made into pariahs in the places decent Americans gather.

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