AmericanSilo
@americansilo.bsky.social
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Registered Independent and always thinking. Artistic anti-fascist. Ex-cityslicker and aspiring hillbilly. From Liberal to Leftist, common sense, Socialist, radical.
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I'm upset by all that is about to take place. And I am not doing well.
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We've arrived at that point along the authoritarian timeline where the least helpful amongst us still believe we'll have free and fair elections so Democrats can win, indict, convict and incarcerate Republicans.
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Most philosophical culture agrees self-knowledge is the path to human happiness. Joni wrote and Crosby Stills sang "And I don't know who I am but life is for learning." Indeed, many rivers to cross.
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Facts are objective but truth is subjective.
As you evolve, so will your truth.
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Mamdani gets it. Trans rights are human rights.
I'm not interested in negotiating human rights.
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I'd rather just launch a nationwide effort to suffocate them in their beds but, y'know, so politically incorrect. Can't have that.
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I was engaged to a girl with a wooden leg but we broke it off.
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Where is this? What Police Department is this?
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Oh, they know what they are doing. They are counting on MAGA not understanding and being impressed by a wild percentage like that. It's all Fascist theatre.
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170 billion in just a year is about 1.5 times the $109b American WINE industry. Not liquor. Not beer. Just our WINE x 1.5.

Get a grip.
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#votebluenomatterwho because every GOP at the moment has so little integrity it can be packed into a thimble with enough room left over for Pam Bondi's ethics. Choosing among blue is something else entirely.

I know so many wonderful people in Los Angeles, Renée. Why be so uncharacteristically curt?
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She has a very good heart. I met her after she spoke at Melissa Mark-Viverito's swearing in for City Council. Tish just blasted stop-and-frisk and reminded the auditorium she was "not a well behaved woman." lol
Loved her from that moment on.
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I loved her in the Bronx. When she was happy she beamed, and when she was angry she radiated.
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The decline of edu institutions and literacy diminished intellectual life compared to the Roman period.

The loss of economic integration led to shortages of goods and specialized labor.

The formation of new kingdoms with different traditions led to turmoil and loss of existing infrastructure.
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Been reading up on the Dark Ages. Similar reasons. All the same outcomes. History is like Joni Mitchell's Circle Game. It's worth a search. Here's three similarities to start.
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I may have. I shopped them a bunch back in the day when I was doing projects over there. After the EU formed in '93 shipping across the continent became a snap. Your quality is comparable and reminds me. Thanks for posting. :-)
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What a beautiful sterling set, Teri, you have the best stuff.
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I'm wrinkling my nose... and agreeing Lysistrata is correct.
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Well said and all true.
I'd like to hear from someone with a realistic vision that retakes power from a heavily armed 1/3rd of this nation and takes the very people they would gladly die for into custody to investigate and indict, convict and incarcerate, all without firing a shot. I do not see it.
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Better times are Nighy.
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Indeed.
The cognitive dissonance might register on the Richter.
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A traveled/educated person can be persuaded because their evolution is rooted in their intellect. But MAGA is rooted in their pride, their dick and their gun and so any “evolution” is inherently a LOSS OF PERSONAL IDENTITY.

There will be no peaceful sharing of a country with a people such as this.
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Excellent, clear-eyed explanation. More of this.