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Andyroo🇨🇦🖖 @4ndyroo.bsky.social · 2h

Cognitive dissonance-much?!

Andyroo🇨🇦🖖 @4ndyroo.bsky.social · 2h

“The Guide is infallible. Reality is frequently inaccurate.”
- Douglas Adams, The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

Andyroo🇨🇦🖖 @4ndyroo.bsky.social · 1d

Right wing voters are more likely to be religious and most organized religions operate as a temporary salve for death anxiety, instead of leaving individuals to process that anxiety in a healthy way.

Andyroo🇨🇦🖖 @4ndyroo.bsky.social · 1d

Simply put, right-wing voters don’t DO deep thoughts… they’re too afraid of their own minds… this makes them extremely open to manipulation by capitalist elites.

How are ideological rigidity and political conservatism connected to death anxiety?

Recent research found that socially conservative political beliefs are linked to lower fear of death. However, no consistent evidence showed that rigid beliefs reduce death anxiety, suggesting diverse...

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Andyroo🇨🇦🖖 @4ndyroo.bsky.social · 1d

We’re afraid of being black bagged. I’m now hearing first hand accounts of US Customs agents asking about people’s political leanings at the border.

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Andyroo🇨🇦🖖 @4ndyroo.bsky.social · 1d

I think he’s really expanding the bunker under the east wing, somewhere he can hide when the people finally come for him.

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Andyroo🇨🇦🖖 @4ndyroo.bsky.social · 1d

Build back better

Andyroo🇨🇦🖖 @4ndyroo.bsky.social · 2d

1. All humans fear death.

2. Fear of death drives us to adopt meaning-systems.

3. Religion and nationalism deny death through promises of continuity.

4. Secular pluralism accepts death by finding meaning in impermanence.

∴ The right wing defends denial; the left explores acceptance.

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Andyroo🇨🇦🖖 @4ndyroo.bsky.social · 2d

The ballroom will be bulldozed and replaced with a memorial to the East wing.

Andyroo🇨🇦🖖 @4ndyroo.bsky.social · 2d

Something about this reminds me of a particular John Carpenter movie… they’re not gonna send all of you to a concentration camp, they’re gonna bring the concentration camp to you!

Andyroo🇨🇦🖖 @4ndyroo.bsky.social · 3d

The next democrat administration should directly bill the GOP for the restoration.

Andyroo🇨🇦🖖 @4ndyroo.bsky.social · 5d

Part of the problem is people misusing the word “capitalism”. It is a political system, not an economic system. Capitalism is when people who don’t work for a living – capitalists – get to tell the rest of us how to live

Andyroo🇨🇦🖖 @4ndyroo.bsky.social · 7d

“… you know what we mean” 😒

Andyroo🇨🇦🖖 @4ndyroo.bsky.social · 9d

The stock market is not a part of the economy. An economy distributes resources. The stock market distributes profits, the product of withholding resources.

Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 9d

We need rules in place to protect regular investors in crypto and private equity – not a shadowy system that lines the pockets of crypto billionaires and giant private equity firms.

A downturn in these markets could put our whole economy at risk.

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Leslie-Anne 🇨🇦🇫🇷😷☮️**I AM CANADIAN!** @leslie-anne.bsky.social · 10d

Just watched ‘I Like Me’ , John Candy. Holy moly. So well done…..and yes, the tears flowed!

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 10d

California, this November 4th, the whole country is counting on you.

Prop 50 puts our elections back on a level playing field, preserves independent redistricting over the long term, and lets the people decide.

So return your ballot today. Vote yes on 50.