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Ghost_of_Gandalf 🇺🇸
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“...and so do all who see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
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Ghost_of_Gandalf 🇺🇸 @quirkyhndl.bsky.social · 15d
The Otpor movement in Serbia *voted* a dictator out of power. The Arab Spring scared the oligarchs so much there has been a global authoritarian crackdown in response.

Non-violent *resistance* works, if you have the courage to wield it.

www.nonviolent-conflict.org/resource/pat...
The Path of Most Resistance: A Step-by-Step Guide to Planning Nonviolent Campaigns | ICNC
You may also be interested in: CANVAS Core Curriculum: A Guide to Effective Nonviolent StruggleThe content of the curriculum is divided into three parts: I. Theory and its applications: The goal of th...
www.nonviolent-conflict.org
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Ghost_of_Gandalf 🇺🇸 @quirkyhndl.bsky.social · 5h
We all knew it was BS, but I just want to take a moment to appreciate people like this, who get dragged through the mud and deal with these attacks so that they can provide a valuable service to our society.
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Ghost_of_Gandalf 🇺🇸 @quirkyhndl.bsky.social · 5h
I have chronic depression, when my dog died I was in a bad state. Went to a friends house and their Great Dane practically pushed me down so they could press their face up to mine. I’ve had plenty of dogs cuddle, I’ve never experienced that before. About broke down in tears.
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Ghost_of_Gandalf 🇺🇸 @quirkyhndl.bsky.social · 6h
Except that’s a lie;

www.commondreams.org/opinion/peac...
'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
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Ghost_of_Gandalf 🇺🇸 @quirkyhndl.bsky.social · 6h
And for *emergency* care. The “Christian” doesn’t want to care for the sick. Hmm, when did I hear Jesus talk about that?…
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Ghost_of_Gandalf 🇺🇸 @quirkyhndl.bsky.social · 6h
Most economics is just oligarch fan fiction.
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Ghost_of_Gandalf 🇺🇸 @quirkyhndl.bsky.social · 6h
It’s important to note that prison labor happens in ALL prisons, not just “for profit.”

Prison labor must be abolished. If states need extra money, they can reduce law enforcement…
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Ghost_of_Gandalf 🇺🇸 @quirkyhndl.bsky.social · 8h
“We took the freedom of speech away,”
-illegitimate president Trump
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Ghost_of_Gandalf 🇺🇸 @quirkyhndl.bsky.social · 11h
We need to organize. We are stronger together. I think local library meetups would be a good place to start. And by a burner phone, leave yours at home wherever engaging in resistance.
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Ghost_of_Gandalf 🇺🇸 @quirkyhndl.bsky.social · 12h
This is a decent article about propaganda. Who on earth chose that horrible, unrelated clickbait headline?
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Ghost_of_Gandalf 🇺🇸 @quirkyhndl.bsky.social · 12h
Which is an incredibly ignorant statement. You don’t care about how we’re taxed, what services we get, what conflicts we engage in, how our science, education, and health is researched and applied, roads and public transit and fire control and…

Haven’t even STARTED on human rights.
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Ghost_of_Gandalf 🇺🇸 @quirkyhndl.bsky.social · 12h
When you click “login” a message appears that just says, “Don’t bother, you’ve already been denied.”
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Ghost_of_Gandalf 🇺🇸 @quirkyhndl.bsky.social · 12h
Yes, this is exactly what it means and this is exactly what they plan.

We can resist. We must resist. The alternative of a slow painful death.

This violates constitutional rights, but no one cares. They set the stage for that with the War on Terror. Those laws are still on the books.
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Natty🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🏐🏈🐕🐴📎 @grillnatty.bsky.social · 12h
@gtconway.bsky.social @democracydocket.com @democrats.senate.gov @judiciarydems.senate.gov @housedemocrats.bsky.social
Is this what it means and what can we do?
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Ghost_of_Gandalf 🇺🇸 @quirkyhndl.bsky.social · 12h
-Violent coup ✅
-Ask Netanyahu to bomb your opponent ✅
-Win Nobel Peace Prize? ✅🤨
-Thank Trump ✅
(wtf is going on here? 🧐)

www.commondreams.org/opinion/peac...
'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
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Ghost_of_Gandalf 🇺🇸 @quirkyhndl.bsky.social · 13h
Indeed. If the people of the world came together and made civic action routine, educated and encouraged, then we could turn this whole ship around.
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Ghost_of_Gandalf 🇺🇸 @quirkyhndl.bsky.social · 13h
The 80s were weird, man.
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Ghost_of_Gandalf 🇺🇸 @quirkyhndl.bsky.social · 13h
It is, indeed, absurd to imagine that only the bodies with names count for the death toll, when the vast majority were buried in or reduced to rubble.

This is OUR WORLD’S genocide.
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Kelly ❌ 👑 @kelofchgo.bsky.social · 14h
"The real death toll estimate is probably around 600,000. "

READ THIS

#Pinks
www.commondreams.org/opinion/medi...
Why Does US Media Continue to Undercount the Gaza Death Toll? | Common Dreams
It makes a difference in driving the greater intensity of political, diplomatic, and civic pressures to have a count of 600,000 rather than 67,000 or 200,000 children rather than 20,000 children murde...
www.commondreams.org
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Ghost_of_Gandalf 🇺🇸 @quirkyhndl.bsky.social · 13h
I feel like this is a real chicken/egg moment…
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Ghost_of_Gandalf 🇺🇸 @quirkyhndl.bsky.social · 13h
a man in a suit is laughing and smiling .
ALT: a man in a suit is laughing and smiling .
media.tenor.com
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Ghost_of_Gandalf 🇺🇸 @quirkyhndl.bsky.social · 13h
Yes.

Their opinions are utter trash. Bordering on malpractice, really.
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Ghost_of_Gandalf 🇺🇸 @quirkyhndl.bsky.social · 13h
Pretty soon people start asking, “Why are we letting these assholes have any money-power at all, when it was exploited in the first place and all they do with it is exploit and oppress us further?”
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Ghost_of_Gandalf 🇺🇸 @quirkyhndl.bsky.social · 13h
Which is why they are so piss scared of equality. If we start up DEI programs that point out that the people with money-power only have it because of favoritism, while others are exploited, that opens the door to question all kinds of things about their ill-gotten gains…
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Ghost_of_Gandalf 🇺🇸 @quirkyhndl.bsky.social · 17h
They are filthy hypocrites, but let’s stop portraying Clinton’s actions as some minor office fling.

Because of the imbalance in power, consent was not really possible here. It was not much better than outright rape.
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Ghost_of_Gandalf 🇺🇸 @quirkyhndl.bsky.social · 17h
Then they said this case “mirrors” the one she made against Trump and pointed out that hers was for much more.

The NYT has always been a mouthpiece of the oligarchy.
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Ghost_of_Gandalf 🇺🇸 @quirkyhndl.bsky.social · 18h
a cartoon character wearing glasses and a white coat
ALT: a cartoon character wearing glasses and a white coat
media.tenor.com
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