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@welcome2absurdia.bsky.social

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Keep calm and opposition-party on. NF writer-editor turned grad student. Fan of democracy & freedom, nature & conservation, potato chips, and cats. ******AGAINST EXTREME WEALTH INEQUALITY.******

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West Coast Chick @welcome2absurdia.bsky.social · May 5

I have concluded, after learning about the history of the social safety net in the US, that the reason Republicans in Congress are doing zero zilch nada to stop Trump is bc he is accomplishing their longstanding dream of diverting all public monies into private profits.

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West Coast Chick @welcome2absurdia.bsky.social · 11h

I don’t know about the other places but I know Gluesenkamp Perez squeaked out a win over Joe Kent, a Trumper who would be infinitely worse. Until the right wing disinformation advantage is addressed, it’s going to be v hard for Dems to win in places where people can’t easily get accurate info.

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West Coast Chick @welcome2absurdia.bsky.social · 3d

Also “Christian”

West Coast Chick @welcome2absurdia.bsky.social · 4d

Unfortunately, there’s never been a better time in history for doltish grifters.

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West Coast Chick @welcome2absurdia.bsky.social · 5d

I value your voice, @walshfreedom.bsky.social but you are mistaken about what Dems supposedly focus on. Dems fight an uphill battle every day against RW misinformation and disinformation and this is the biggest problem facing both Dems and the country.

West Coast Chick @welcome2absurdia.bsky.social · 6d

The full quote as it should have been imo: “As is typical for Mr. Trump, he has identified a real problem” along with 99 similarly oversimplified, misleading, or outright fake problems he has made up, all of which we, the credulous press, take seriously to avoid being called nasty, biased, or fake.

West Coast Chick @welcome2absurdia.bsky.social · 6d

I like his point about anti-woke being anti-Black but at this point it seems ridiculous to say it’s not about Democrats and Republicans when Republicans are very much enabling all of it.

West Coast Chick @welcome2absurdia.bsky.social · 6d

It makes people jerks, too, per this research experiment:

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Monopoly Social Experiment - How Money and Power can Modify Your Mind

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West Coast Chick @welcome2absurdia.bsky.social · Mar 8

Political #corruption made Americans in the 1800s distrust social programs, a prob that continues today, when wealth inequality has grown to Gilded Age (1870-1910) levels. This is the time Trump wants to take us back to. #Dems in ofc should be loudly anti-corruption, pro social programs.

West Coast Chick @welcome2absurdia.bsky.social · 7d

Same!!!

West Coast Chick @welcome2absurdia.bsky.social · 7d

I don’t know if this is true but I heard Grover drowned in a bathtub?

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West Coast Chick @welcome2absurdia.bsky.social · Sep 28

This experiment is very revealing about the antisocial effects of money.

West Coast Chick @welcome2absurdia.bsky.social · Sep 24

youtu.be/Qri10wUxyos?... Watch this and then see whether you think the current number of #billionaires in the U.S. and elsewhere is good for the rest of us.

Monopoly Social Experiment - How Money and Power can Modify Your Mind

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West Coast Chick @welcome2absurdia.bsky.social · 8d

Hmmm…I’ll have to check those out….

West Coast Chick @welcome2absurdia.bsky.social · 8d

I hope so. My husband likes to say I unravel more than I knit.

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West Coast Chick @welcome2absurdia.bsky.social · 8d

“As the Kaiser Family Foundation notes, Go Fund Me campaigns soliciting donations to pay for obscenely high medical bills are becoming more and more common in the United States. This is a moral failure.” 🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯

West Coast Chick @welcome2absurdia.bsky.social · 8d

Starting my most ambitious project: a wool vest. 😬 I anticipate it will be ready for winter … 2029.

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 8d

its remarkable to see random suburbanites in their fucking PJs have more courage than the vast majority of america's political, social, and civil elites

armando l sanchez @mandophotos.bsky.social · 8d

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West Coast Chick @welcome2absurdia.bsky.social · 8d

@therickwilson.bsky.social is a brilliant writer and this piece is an elegy for what we have lost. How now do we recover and rebuild when the GOP is complicit/fascist and the Supreme Court and states like NC and TX are trying to make it impossible for Democrats to win elections ever again?

West Coast Chick @welcome2absurdia.bsky.social · 9d

This is the best story I've read on these here internets all week.

West Coast Chick @welcome2absurdia.bsky.social · 9d

Thank you, Marc! I’m reading about Rucho v. Common Cause for a class and am filled with rage!!!

West Coast Chick @welcome2absurdia.bsky.social · 9d

How do you know I don’t follow Democrats?

West Coast Chick @welcome2absurdia.bsky.social · 9d

Wouldn’t the stock market work the same way it did BEFORE there were billionaires? Wasn’t Rockefeller (or Ford) the first?

West Coast Chick @welcome2absurdia.bsky.social · 9d

This is what I’ve been faulting Dems for, for years. Stop FOLLOWING polls and LEAD. People will have more respect for them, and if people don’t, they wouldn’t have either way.

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West Coast Chick @welcome2absurdia.bsky.social · 9d

Yes! That’s the perfect description! I’m glad too and hope you have a similar experience. I was desperate when I started eliminating things and hoped it would help but had no idea whether it would. I feel very lucky it eventually did, and am amazed at the body’s capacity for healing.

West Coast Chick @welcome2absurdia.bsky.social · 9d

Incredible!

West Coast Chick @welcome2absurdia.bsky.social · 9d

Are you feeling better bc you’ve figured out how to avoid many problematic things but now feel well enough that you notice new problematic things? That’s what happened for me. But with time I have become able to tolerate small amts of things I couldn’t tolerate 10 yrs ago.

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