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Darth Hippy @darthhippy.bsky.social · Feb 16

He has refused His Assent To Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Feb 15

sounds legit

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Darth Hippy @darthhippy.bsky.social · 8h

If you pay the Danegeld you will never be free of the Dane.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 9h

When prices were going up under Biden there was a constant deluge of news stories about it because the media did not like Biden and wanted him to lose. Under Trump there is not a constant deluge of news stories about coffee prices because they like Trump and want him to win

delrayser @delrayser.bsky.social · 9h

everything is on fire these days, sure, but how is it that 50% of all news stories are not about how I just spent $20 on a bag of store brand coffee at fucking costco

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Darth Hippy @darthhippy.bsky.social · 11h

I mean they would understand the best that you should never pay the Danegeld.

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Lucius Fox In The Box @carnegro.bsky.social · 20h

Pope Leo is spitting.

www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...

Leo questioned a world where the wealth of the elite grows
"exponentially" while many "millions of people die of hunger or survive in conditions unfit for human beings." He also criticized "ideologies that defend the absolute autonomy of the marketplace and financial speculation,"
with false promises "that a free-market economy will automatically solve the problem of poverty."

Leo described a "new tyranny," which shuns any kind of oversight and where the economy is structured "in such a way that sacrifices are demanded of the masses in order to serve the needs of the powerful." The poor, he wrote, are only allowed "drops that trickle down."

The pope openly challenged "prosperity theology" and called Christians to the practice of giving charity. "It will not solve the problem of world poverty, yet it must still be carried out, with intelligence, diligence and social responsibility," he wrote.

Popular movements that challenge "the empire of money," invite people to take on the cause to combat poverty alongside the poor, instead of on their behalf, and "make history," the pope said. It our duty, Leo said, to "make their voices heard, albeit in different ways, in order to point out and denounce such structural issues, even at the cost of appearing foolish or naïve."

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Darth Hippy @darthhippy.bsky.social · 16h

Is this sort of like chasing, killing, and deporting all the ag workers then saying we need to get so helots on h-2s or we will have engineered a famine?

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JB stan account @johnbrownstan.bsky.social · 17h

We have a fertility crisis! Gotta fix that.

Also social security doesn't have enough contributors. The only solution is to raise the retirement age, ensuring that it's even harder for new parents to find childcare.

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Lamont A. Turner @lamontaturner.bsky.social · 1d

#books #johnwaters #booksky

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Darth Hippy @darthhippy.bsky.social · 18h

Oof.

Darth Hippy @darthhippy.bsky.social · 18h

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Darth Hippy @darthhippy.bsky.social · 19h

Aal I know I don't engage in political "streams" or streamers so I live this the hell alone.

Darth Hippy @darthhippy.bsky.social · 19h

If you pay the Danegeld you'll never be free of the Dane

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 1d

via @denam.bsky.social

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Darth Hippy @darthhippy.bsky.social · 1d

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Why

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Darth Hippy @darthhippy.bsky.social · 1d

I'm a conservative I believe the dead have a right to remain dead.

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Darth Hippy @darthhippy.bsky.social · 1d

I mean he is already giving sermons from beyond.

AI Charlie Kirk Preached From Beyond the Grave at Prestonwood Baptist Church

Speaking artificially from heaven, we presume, the AI voice told the crowd to "dry your tears."

www.dallasobserver.com

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · Aug 3

Computer, zoom out bsky.app/profile/numb...

Laura Ingraham is giving Nazi salute to large image of Trump doing the same gesture.

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 1d

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · Aug 3

Computer, zoom out bsky.app/profile/numb...

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Darth Hippy @darthhippy.bsky.social · 1d

We are going to be competing with gulf monarchies for helot labor in SE Asia. Brilliant move.

Darth Hippy @darthhippy.bsky.social · 1d

Not only will you get yesterday's labor saving device (human property) tomorrow you will also be forever young. Anyway buy my crypto currency TulypCoinz

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 1d

i have questions WSJ

AI and the Fountain of Youth
Technological advances may turn back aging, extending the average life span by at least a decade.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

Oh — new reporting on Pope Leo from El Paso Matters, citing footage they have of yesterday's meeting.

Sounds like the pope was even *more* forceful in urging U.S. bishops to speak out about immigration than first reported.

I mean, that's…not subtle. elpasomatters.org/2025/10/08/e...

“I was struck at the beginning (of the video), it talks about the feeling of powerlessness, which I think is so much. I think it’s so important that we as a church give a message of hope in the midst of these horrible struggles, what’s going on in so many cities in the United States right now. At least the church cannot be silent,” the pope told the El Pasoans, according to a video of the meeting provided to El Paso Matters by Hope Border Institute.

Seitz responded: “You’ve spoken very strongly. We’re trying to do the same in our country and yet not get into the political fray the best that we can.”

Pope Leo told Seitz that he’d like to see the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops become more vocal on immigration issues.

“I mean, even within the conference, there are challenges. That’s one place they should be … I wish they were stronger in their own voice,” Leo said, adding that Archbishop Timothy Broglio, the president of the conference, should speak out more on immigration.

“There’s been some good movement in that sense, but I certainly intend to continue to encourage” U.S. bishops to address immigration, Leo said.

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Darth Hippy @darthhippy.bsky.social · 1d

An authoritarian doesn’t have to destroy your life if fear has already done it for him.

From Fear to Fidelity: How to Live Well in the Return of Normal History

Yesterday I asked my subscribers a simple question: What are you most worried about in your life right now?

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Darth Hippy @darthhippy.bsky.social · 1d

Are you Cato-pilled on the Russian "Federation"?

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Department of Shoe @shoe.bsky.social · 1d

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Darth Hippy @darthhippy.bsky.social · 1d

Hot potable water, liquid and solid waste piped directly out of my home, heat, electricity. Trash disposal. Recycling. Wonderful stuff hope the years of lead paint don't take them away because maga got upset a Black Man was president that one time for the constitutional maximum 8 years.

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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 1d

Free trade worked basically as advertised - the problem is that anti-traders get to argue from an imaginary world of 1920s ads and free traders have to defend the real world

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