TonyInAsheville (He/Him)
@tonysarris.bsky.social
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Humanist, mensch, husband-to-my-husband, father & friend. Love nature, architecture, travel, world history, books, food, wine & craft beer. So fortunate to live in beautiful Blue Ridge Mtns in cool, quirky Asheville, NC (AVL). Follow mostly ppl in AVL/NC.
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That's weird. All my Antifa checks are drawn from the US Bank of Non-Existent Organizations, based in Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg, Massachusetts [it's a real place!]
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Timely, given that Thanksgiving is just around the corner. Gobble, gobble.
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If the tRump regime really wanted to address street crime & homelessness in our cities, they'd provide funding in the form of block grants that the cities could use to hire more police & provide more mental health programs & housing. $ could come from the tariff revenue or tax cuts given to the rich
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She loves his politics, but like any smart woman, finds the man himself creepy AF.
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Turkey isn't Communist. It's essentially a dictatorship or authoritarian state, with Islamist leanings. Not so long ago, it was a democracy. Sound familiar? But as both a NATO member & big trading partner to Russia, Turkey likes to play both sides to its own advantage. Helping Ukraine? We'll see.
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Can't wait to see them prosecuted under the RICO Act! 2026 & then on to 2028! We still have a chance to return America to freedom & democracy, although election rigging & voter suppression will make the job much harder. But as long as there are still elections, there is a path back.
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City of Chicago or State of Illinois should pass an ordinance only permitting [Texas] National Guard patrolling within say 50 ft of Federal government buildings. If they are there to protect those properties, they damn well don't need to be walking the streets as part of Kosplay Kristi's show on Fox
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Not surprising that tRump is asking the Israeli Parliament to pardon Netanyahu. Everything with tRump is transactional. But if the reactions in Israel to Netanyahu's role in all this is any indication, pardon or not it doesn't guarantee that he'd win another election (when new elections are called).
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Which tool? How about including a link?
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The only insurrection taking place in the US in recent history was on January 6, 2021.
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Many working class ppl have been beaten down for so long they feel they don't deserve fair pay and decent benefits. They admire those at the very top who they've been told worked hard to earn that position. They blame their own situation on more educated "elites" & foreigners.
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Many were pardoned once before for crimes committed on January 6th, so they sure as hell aren't too worried about being held accountable for heavy-handed tactics now.
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They no longer need to worry about their Federal funding being cut, so you'd expect them to be more straight-forward in their reporting.
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Written by a lesbian feminist, so the likelihood of that ever being considered, even if there was a serious push to replace the current national anthem, is something between zero and nil.
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It's not just the DNA mutation, don't forget about the nanochips they'll use to control you, probably remotely from some space laser.
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This is what happens when replacement phobia, racism & the financial interests of oligarchs merge.
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This is the very definition of gross indecency.

When I see Kosplay Kristi, who is nothing but a paid spokesmodel for tRump's private domestic paramilitary force, show up for one of her made-for-Fox-News media events, it makes me want to hurl.
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Looks like another beautiful fall day in Chicago! The tRump regime will probably portray this as Chicago citizens "running for their lives". Which they are in a way, just not in the way tRumpers would mean it.
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I took heart in hearing that my son's GenZ generation didn't make a big deal about people's sexuality. But in the past couple of years, I've started to worry again that young LGBTQIA2S ppl saying the wrong thing to someone will once again risk them being verbally harassed, assaulted or worse.
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Huh. I'm still waiting for my checks from Antifa for appearances at previous protests. I guess the checks are in the mail, and you know how the USPS is these days. Anybody know what the going rate is for a guest appearance at a protest? Is it the same as the daily rate for Screen Actors Guild?
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It also makes me wonder: where are they getting all those black face masks?

A. Iranian women's clothing stores clearance sales?
B. Recycled & repurposed COVID masks?
C. Orville Peck's hand-me-downs?
D. All of the above
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This photograph perfectly captures the face of America's failing state of fascism.
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Imagine how different things would be if these were the 3 powerful women running DHS, the Dept of Justice & the Dept of Education?
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And of course part of what is driving poverty in rural states & the dissolution of small towns is the aggregation of what were once profitable family farms into huge agribusiness conglomerates. Once again the oligarchs behind the GOP profit from exploiting the working class, then blame "elites".
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Intragroup signaling can certainly be a kind of safety measure. But it's also true that oppressed groups often adopt some aspects of their oppressors both explicitly as pushback ("We can look more masculine than you!") & implicitly as fetishizing some of the things that are used against them.