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Daniel 🦁

@eikonos.bsky.social

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I want to live in a world with less trauma and more love.

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aslynn's tremendous 'tism horror show 👻 🎃 @audhd-psychnp.com · 20h

well, there you have it

A graph that asks "DOES FAST FASHION CAUSE AUTISM?*" with an orange and a blue graph rising over time. The blue graph is generally a few deviations above the orange line. The blue line represents SHEIN SALES and the orange one is AUTISM RATES except *No, this is a fake graph. from @audhd-psychnp.com

Daniel 🦁 @eikonos.bsky.social · 11h

In your version of "abundance", you want to ensure that people can't own their own homes, you want to ensure that landlords are given priority.

Landlords already have priority, that's why there isn't enough housing.

Daniel 🦁 @eikonos.bsky.social · 12h

If only I'd thought to say, "Supermoon turned my son into a werewolf."

Daniel 🦁 @eikonos.bsky.social · 12h

We need to take their license and their car away.

CHEK News @cheknews.ca · 22h

Saanich Police say a driver was handed two tickets for hitting a pair of pedestrians in broad daylight before fleeing the scene.

Driver handed two tickets for hitting pedestrians in Saanich, fleeing the scene

Saanich Police say a driver was handed two tickets for hitting a pair of pedestrians in broad daylight before fleeing the scene.

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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 21h

Personally, I think hitting someone with your car and fleeing the scene is exponentially worse than not paying about $20 worth of transit fares, but the people who make the laws think these things are the same, and should be punished the same.

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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 21h

This driver was charged the same amount for hitting two people with their car and fleeing the scene as they would've been charged for taking a bus without paying the fare about 4 times.

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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 21h

The only explanation for why assaulting people with a car has such insanely minor consequences is that the people who make our laws want to be able to assault people with their own cars.

CHEK News @cheknews.ca · 22h

Saanich Police say a driver was handed two tickets for hitting a pair of pedestrians in broad daylight before fleeing the scene.

Driver handed two tickets for hitting pedestrians in Saanich, fleeing the scene

Saanich Police say a driver was handed two tickets for hitting a pair of pedestrians in broad daylight before fleeing the scene.

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Icarus 👻 Dumpsterfire @pluperfectidiot.bsky.social · 1d

Shopping cart drag races. In the library stacks. At 2am. Covered in glow in the dark paint. Think about it and let me know if you're in.

Daniel 🦁 @eikonos.bsky.social · 12h

When did he get a transplant?

Daniel 🦁 @eikonos.bsky.social · 12h

How are you fighting capital when you're working to create an abundance of landlords?

Daniel 🦁 @eikonos.bsky.social · 13h

Good luck fighting institutional investors, homeowners, landlords, property developers, and mortgage lenders with probably hundreds of billions of investments that would be destroyed by actual abundance.

Some kind of socialist revolution is both more practical and more likely to succeed.

Daniel 🦁 @eikonos.bsky.social · 13h

We're never getting abundance while real estate is an investment system. The incentives of an investment system will always work to constrain supply, as you can see right now.

Daniel 🦁 @eikonos.bsky.social · 13h

I'm walking down a dark street carrying a small dog, and an approaching woman touches her chest in surprise and says, "I thought it was an infant!"

Daniel 🦁 @eikonos.bsky.social · 13h

Right, you don't want to be forced to be a renter. So why should other people be forced to be renters — forced to pay a profit to a landlord while being denied the right to control their own homes?

Daniel 🦁 @eikonos.bsky.social · 13h

You don't want to be forced to be a renter, but you want to force other people to be renters.

There's no "abundance" in a world where others are forced to rent. That's the opposite of "abundance".

As long as there are landlords, there will not be enough housing.

Daniel 🦁 @eikonos.bsky.social · 13h

Do *you* want to rent for the rest of your life?

This is very relevant to the discussion — and you know it. Otherwise, you'd simply answer the question.

The answer is that you do not want to rent. So why should other people be forced to rent, since you don't want to?

Daniel 🦁 @eikonos.bsky.social · 14h

Do you want to rent for the rest of your life?

Daniel 🦁 @eikonos.bsky.social · 14h

So you want renters to be able to reduce their housing costs by owning their homes.

Daniel 🦁 @eikonos.bsky.social · 14h

When you talk about the interests of renters, do you see yourself as a renter, or not?

Daniel 🦁 @eikonos.bsky.social · 15h

I mean, ICE really is the above-the-surface manifestation of all the US colonialism, racism, and capitalism lurking below the surface. Not even metaphorically, just literally.

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 16h

“Machado’s politics are steeped in violence. She has called for foreign intervention, even appealing directly to Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the architect of Gaza’s annihilation, to help ‘liberate’ Venezuela with bombs under the banner of ‘freedom.’”

'Peace' Has No Meaning When Right-Wingers Like Maria Corina Machado Win the Nobel Prize | Common Dreams

As Venezuelan-American, I know exactly what Machado represents: the smiling face of Washington’s regime-change machine, the polished spokesperson for sanctions, privatization, and foreign intervention...

www.commondreams.org

Daniel 🦁 @eikonos.bsky.social · 15h

History repeats itself.

meme image of the "unsinkable" ship Titanic next to a massive iceberg which extends deep underwater. The Titanic is labelled "US empire", above the water the iceberg is labelled "ICE", and below the water, the iceberg is labelled "colonialism, racism, capitalism"

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karen ward @kwardvancouver.bsky.social · 16h

Vpd officers standing with seized alcohol and distilling equipment during prohibition

Daniel 🦁 @eikonos.bsky.social · 16h

Just think how many lives (on both sides) could have been saved if Israel had ended their illegal military occupation of Gaza a decade ago. Israel might even have been able to stop jailing young people who refused military service.

Daniel 🦁 @eikonos.bsky.social · 16h

Literally had a yimby tell me that a change would allow people to own their homes instead of renting, and that would be bad.

They think it's better to prevent people owning their own homes.

People already can't own their own homes, so why aren't they happy the way things are now?