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Hapalochlaena Lunulata 🍁🦜🐤🐙 🇺🇦

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Varied interests. Cephalopods, parrots, photography, fishing, archery, amateur radio. Centrist with no love of right or left extremism. I block blockers and follow most who follow me. I have a blue and gold macaw (39) and an African grey (21)

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Alan Smithee DGA @alansmitheedga.bsky.social · 18h

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Hapalochlaena Lunulata 🍁🦜🐤🐙 🇺🇦 @hapalochlaena.bsky.social · 12h

some historian with a sense of humour and access to a time machine.

Hapalochlaena Lunulata 🍁🦜🐤🐙 🇺🇦 @hapalochlaena.bsky.social · 12h

Back when he got that, I really felt it was undeserved. Even today, I thought it was undeserved.

Then I realized that what's happened here: someone from after 2025 has time machined back, and set up Obama to troll Trump. cue Dr. Who music...

Hapalochlaena Lunulata 🍁🦜🐤🐙 🇺🇦 @hapalochlaena.bsky.social · 12h

Someone could present him with the Knob-L Piss Prize, and as long as it came with a cheque and the presenter could manage a passable northern European accent, I bed he'd let you pour it on him.

Hapalochlaena Lunulata 🍁🦜🐤🐙 🇺🇦 @hapalochlaena.bsky.social · 12h

another way to look at it. You know the shit you get away with, that other people don't see. If you start becoming comfortable with that stuff, you're going to forget that you're just getting away with it. Then one day, you don't get away with it. Until that day, it must be that everyone does it.

Hapalochlaena Lunulata 🍁🦜🐤🐙 🇺🇦 @hapalochlaena.bsky.social · 12h

Sorry, that was long-winded.

Hapalochlaena Lunulata 🍁🦜🐤🐙 🇺🇦 @hapalochlaena.bsky.social · 13h

I took a psych minor and the concept of "projection" always interested me. You can look around and see people doing it if you pay attention, but the way these guys do it is almost inconceivable. These events need to be in Psych 101 level courses.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSSW...

Every inconceivable from The Princess Bride

YouTube video by tim lindner

www.youtube.com

Hapalochlaena Lunulata 🍁🦜🐤🐙 🇺🇦 @hapalochlaena.bsky.social · 13h

5/... 45 years ago, I might have been one of them.

But then... I grew up.

Hapalochlaena Lunulata 🍁🦜🐤🐙 🇺🇦 @hapalochlaena.bsky.social · 13h

4/... That's what's happening right now. People bought the message for too long, and never thought about the consequences. Obviously, I did at some point, but I'm certain there are not as many who thought far into it. We have people here who would love full Trumpism or even to be the 51st. .../5

Hapalochlaena Lunulata 🍁🦜🐤🐙 🇺🇦 @hapalochlaena.bsky.social · 13h

3/... Thing is, when you're poor, you don't always really appreciate the things taxes actually give you. Esp. in Canada, people take things for granted. You take, health care for granted, and suddenly you're paying $50k in the hospital because you "broke" your leg playing kick the Tannerite. .../4

Hapalochlaena Lunulata 🍁🦜🐤🐙 🇺🇦 @hapalochlaena.bsky.social · 13h

2/... Now I'm Canadian, so I had the advantage of seeing the experiment play out in the USA over the last half-century, without having to actually live it.

But that message was strong, and if you were confident you could get out of being poor, it was a place you wanted to go.

.../3

Hapalochlaena Lunulata 🍁🦜🐤🐙 🇺🇦 @hapalochlaena.bsky.social · 13h

Regan got elected when I was 15. And TBH, I loved that message. We were poor. We *wanted* stuff like that to happen; AND if we got rich somehow, we'd have lower taxes. If we didn't get rich, life was already shit, so no change. It was a low-odds dice roll, but seemed to have no downside. .../2

Hapalochlaena Lunulata 🍁🦜🐤🐙 🇺🇦 @hapalochlaena.bsky.social · 13h

[sound of time passing... do de do]

Continuing this thought. My neighbourhood was built in 1962, making it just a little older than me. The nearest grocery store is 1.7 km as the google walks. I'm 60, I'm not walking that with groceries when it's -25, and certainly not 15 years from now.

Hapalochlaena Lunulata 🍁🦜🐤🐙 🇺🇦 @hapalochlaena.bsky.social · 13h

And do you notice, it's the first thing to use on liberal politician, and always come up blank.

Hypothesis: they're a pedo club and think it's so normal they can't imagine anyone *not* being a pedo. Hence, it's a thing to nonchalantly throw to "pwn a lib" but because it's not normal, they lose.

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Hapalochlaena Lunulata 🍁🦜🐤🐙 🇺🇦 @hapalochlaena.bsky.social · 13h

All that's missing on the right is a pencil 'stache.

Hapalochlaena Lunulata 🍁🦜🐤🐙 🇺🇦 @hapalochlaena.bsky.social · 13h

You're welcome, and thank you.

When you live next door to a madman who thinks he's some kind of Caesar and regularly threatens to annex your country...

well, you know it better than I.

Keep up the good fight!

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Hapalochlaena Lunulata 🍁🦜🐤🐙 🇺🇦 @hapalochlaena.bsky.social · 13h

To me, voting is just about the most important thing I do that isn't a medical emergency or breathing.

Hapalochlaena Lunulata 🍁🦜🐤🐙 🇺🇦 @hapalochlaena.bsky.social · 17h

heh, I found a picture of young me in university... i am closest to the camera.

Hapalochlaena carrying the Queen's Colours in a military parade. Behind him, a colour guard, and the unit colours.

Hapalochlaena Lunulata 🍁🦜🐤🐙 🇺🇦 @hapalochlaena.bsky.social · 18h

Dude, it's their environment plan. now the terrorist planes won't have to fly as far.

Hapalochlaena Lunulata 🍁🦜🐤🐙 🇺🇦 @hapalochlaena.bsky.social · 18h

>> Many people seen the line and walked out.

That, unfortunately is something that does make my skin crawl. People will bitch and moan about the government but won't stand in a bit of a line to have their say.

Democracy is work, and people can't be lazy about it.

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Hapalochlaena Lunulata 🍁🦜🐤🐙 🇺🇦 @hapalochlaena.bsky.social · 18h

Definitely some polling stations work better than others. If i were to pick one thing to fix about them it would be that EC really needs to come down with some standards about managing the stations, and *enforce* those standards.

Manual or machine, voting sucks if the poll station is a shitshow.

Hapalochlaena Lunulata 🍁🦜🐤🐙 🇺🇦 @hapalochlaena.bsky.social · 18h

I grew up in British Columbia, so London is kind of sunny and dry by my standard :)

Hapalochlaena Lunulata 🍁🦜🐤🐙 🇺🇦 @hapalochlaena.bsky.social · 18h

Ah, the ol' "stiff the lawyer" game.

Hapalochlaena Lunulata 🍁🦜🐤🐙 🇺🇦 @hapalochlaena.bsky.social · 19h

I live in Ontario, and I've worked elections. We have occasional *trials* of machines at the federal level, but it's still nearly all manual unless that's changed really recently.

I know provincial elections are done by machine though.

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Hapalochlaena Lunulata 🍁🦜🐤🐙 🇺🇦 @hapalochlaena.bsky.social · 19h

To be fair, Canada does paper ballots and manual counts with 20 million, and is done in essentially 1 day.

It's easy to do if you can muster the resources.

The US wouldn't be able to manage it because there's likely not enough people who could remain politically neutral.

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