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Civilisation #RIPfreeWorld

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Atheist progressive pragmatic writer. Zero tolerance for insults (incl. via meme) aimed at me. Tries to make points, not score points. #BeAHeroDontOwnAGun

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Civilisation #RIPfreeWorld @civilisation.bsky.social · Nov 15

I make my morals, mark, soul.
Live this life well is my goal.
No man with myth commands me.
I'm logical, I am free.

#poem

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Civilisation #RIPfreeWorld @civilisation.bsky.social · 2h

He’s so welcoming, such a nice face of this ↓

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C Hanna @chcowgirl.bsky.social · 1d

Most Americans are genuinely good people, regardless of their political affiliation.
So when the White House says horrible things to make you hate your neighbor, the White House IS THE PROBLEM.

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Civilisation #RIPfreeWorld @civilisation.bsky.social · 4h

Most of them, i.e. the House, have already largely driven themselves out of power. They handed the WH the purse. I don’t know how they’re going to fundraise from the lobbies without the purse.

Civilisation #RIPfreeWorld @civilisation.bsky.social · 4h

I worry for his safety if he keeps going back there while this dictator is in charge.

Civilisation #RIPfreeWorld @civilisation.bsky.social · 4h

Driving a 2 ton vehicle into a crowd at even walking pace is criminal🤦 That was was way too fast. The driver should be in serious trouble. I hope that guy is okay.

Civilisation #RIPfreeWorld @civilisation.bsky.social · 4h

Try to keep up. The ceasefire is over. It lasted about a week.

Civilisation #RIPfreeWorld @civilisation.bsky.social · 5h

Nice sarcasm, @anonopsse.bsky.social ↓. So all Hamas got from the deal was relief from whatever he threatened them with, accusations of planning to break the ceasefire (a blatant pretext), and then watching more Palestinians die. We can give him credit… for failure.

Anonymous Operations @anonopsse.bsky.social · 9h

1 week? Nice work...

Civilisation #RIPfreeWorld @civilisation.bsky.social · 5h

@atrupar.com please stop just reposting GOP talking points without context. If you’re not him and reading this, consider whether following amplifies those messages—intentionally or not, it helps spread them🤦

Civilisation #RIPfreeWorld @civilisation.bsky.social · 5h

I’ll take unnecessary arrests for $200, Bob.

Civilisation #RIPfreeWorld @civilisation.bsky.social · 5h

not so long. It took me just a few hours to come up with the start of a draft for something intrinsically better ↓

The New Constitution

docs.google.com

Civilisation #RIPfreeWorld @civilisation.bsky.social · 5h

Instead the Constitution is based on governance. So every single human right has to be fought over interminably as they all conflict with some vested interest, even if just to have a group to use as a foil for campaigning. Fixing it within its constraints could take over a century. Replacing it…

Civilisation #RIPfreeWorld @civilisation.bsky.social · 6h

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” Alarms should have gone off when equality didn’t make it into the Constitution.

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Tennessee Lookout @tennesseelookout.com · 1d

No Kings rallygoers in Nashville are lining streets and chanting: the crowd is a mix of ages and genders.

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Civilisation #RIPfreeWorld @civilisation.bsky.social · 6h

“There are no civilians [in Gaza]”
“Everyone over the age of three is a terrorist” IDF leaders said.
So this is what they did. Netanyahu has never visited the prison he runs. Without schools there is no future. Without hospitals life is fragile. Without shelter there is no life at all. #apartheid

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OrangeSage @orangesage.bsky.social · 1d

#NoKings Miami!

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Civilisation #RIPfreeWorld @civilisation.bsky.social · 8h

Props to indivisible.org for organising No Kings Day, but more thanks to everyone who, unlike me, could actually make it to one of the events yesterday. I was there with you in spirit and I’ll be with you in one way or another moving forward. If you want to be on board moving forward, use the link.

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Civilisation #RIPfreeWorld @civilisation.bsky.social · 20h

@cnn.com The felon president did not #allow George Santos to be free, he #made him free. Stop lying to us.

Civilisation #RIPfreeWorld @civilisation.bsky.social · 22h

Striking this down does not put America first. It puts the country on the wrong side of the future, undermining its own security as surely as implementing fascism in what was a democracy.

Civilisation #RIPfreeWorld @civilisation.bsky.social · 1d

Fixing critical flaws in the constitution could take over a century. To fix it in our lifetimes, we’d need a new Constitution — one built around individual rights and equality, not governance with those rights tacked on and fought over endlessly. Here’s the start of a first draft I threw together ↓

The New Constitution

docs.google.com

Civilisation #RIPfreeWorld @civilisation.bsky.social · 1d

…their moral innocence and is one of the most profoundly damaging things a government can do to its own people.

Civilisation #RIPfreeWorld @civilisation.bsky.social · 1d

The IDF are both perpetrators and victims. Mandatory conscription trains young Israelis to mistreat and look down on Palestinians. This isn’t just about harming others — it’s a system that warps the soldiers themselves, teaching prejudice and shaping them into tools of the state. It attacks… 1/2

EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 1d

How about Aston Villa F.C. refuse to play Maccabi Tel Aviv F.C. on November 6th?
Would you in good conscience play against a team who have served in the IDF?

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Civilisation #RIPfreeWorld @civilisation.bsky.social · 1d

Do they all have shares in the horse dewormer?

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 1d

Trump commuting Santos is not just a curiosity. It’s a feature of corruption… it’s a message… if you like me you can get away with anything. If we accept this as ok our kids will never forgive us

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Civilisation #RIPfreeWorld @civilisation.bsky.social · 1d

I like the Ew one. That pretty much sums up the entire administration.