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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · Apr 20

Did a Costco run yesterday and every single employee was a goddamn delight.

Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · Apr 20

“You can’t say people are our most important product and then treat them like shit.” - Jim Sinegal, co-founder of Costco

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Karl Alan Frank @karlalanfrank.bsky.social · Apr 20

Special Easter message from The Great Fraud

#TheGreatFraud #Easter

Karl Alan Frank @karlalanfrank.bsky.social · Feb 3

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Karl Alan Frank @karlalanfrank.bsky.social · Dec 18

"Attention is not a resource; attention is life...your experience of being alive consists of nothing other than the sum of everything to which you pay attention to." - Oliver Burkeman

Karl Alan Frank @karlalanfrank.bsky.social · Dec 18

When the rate of return on capital outpaces the growth of output and income, wealth inequality expands. It is up to democracy to rein in the excesses of capitalism, like a jockey on a racehorse.

But what we have now is the racehorse trampling on the jockey caught in the reins.

#BillionaireFeds

Karl Alan Frank @karlalanfrank.bsky.social · Dec 17

Very sorry. Not looking forward to it.

Karl Alan Frank @karlalanfrank.bsky.social · Dec 16

I seek to understand, not to confirm. I agree that the cultures & those other ways existed. Not denying that those in-between ways of living existed, and were amazing, but ultimately they were not viable when challenged by the spread of more technologically advanced empires. What am I missing?

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Karl Alan Frank @karlalanfrank.bsky.social · Dec 16

I think Christianity is a good example. It is the religion of conquered cultures (other than Rome). Why are most from Central and South and North America Christian? Because that was the religion of the conquerors. Same with American slaves. Same with once-upon-a-time pagan Europeans. Is this wrong?

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Karl Alan Frank @karlalanfrank.bsky.social · Dec 16

Those civilizations & cultures don't exist any more because they were conquered, & there is no reason to believe that there would not always be technologically superior, empire-minded cultures. In every instance throughout history, empires won until defeated by other empires.

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Karl Alan Frank @karlalanfrank.bsky.social · Dec 16

The can and did flourish, but were eventually conquered. They were susceptible to being conquered. I don't think it's social darwinism, but there will always be technologically advanced societies looking to conquer or expand their cultures and power/wealth.

Karl Alan Frank @karlalanfrank.bsky.social · Dec 16

In a bubble, or in their time, they worked, but were always susceptible to conquest, as demonstrated by what ultimately happened, and all the reasons for what happened.

Karl Alan Frank @karlalanfrank.bsky.social · Dec 16

It's essential to the argument because it's empires that consumed most other forms, with the US being the most powerful at this time. The other forms were not viable (great as they may have been) because they were eventually conquered.

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Karl Alan Frank @karlalanfrank.bsky.social · Dec 16

In a bubble, or in their time, they worked, but were always susceptible to conquest, as demonstrated by what ultimately happened, and all the reasons for what happened.

Karl Alan Frank @karlalanfrank.bsky.social · Dec 16

But I wouldn't stop at the beginning of the European Hegemony. It's essential to the argument because it's empires that consumed most other forms, with the US being the most powerful at this time. The other forms were not viable (great as they may have been) because they were eventually conquered.

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Karl Alan Frank @karlalanfrank.bsky.social · Dec 15

Those are the best kinds of jokes. 😀

Karl Alan Frank @karlalanfrank.bsky.social · Dec 15

It's simple. Monotheism has a father, a son, and a holy Spirit with angels, devils and demons. Polytheism has more than one God.

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Karl Alan Frank @karlalanfrank.bsky.social · Dec 14

And another question I've always had for Wengrow is for those who were kidnapped by indigenous cultures, and then returned to their former lives, but then longed to return to their former captors way of life, how is this any different than Stockholm Syndrome.

Karl Alan Frank @karlalanfrank.bsky.social · Dec 14

All of human history did lead to empire though didn't it? That's something I did not understand about Wengrow's book. Of course there were other quality political forms, & there was never a clear demarcation between them, but empires rule them all when they want to-until another empire comes along.

Karl Alan Frank @karlalanfrank.bsky.social · Dec 13

As a complete novice, I found the book enjoyable. One question that came to mind was how the experience of kidnap victims taken by indigenous tribes, who later longed to return to their captors, differs from Stockholm Syndrome.

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Karl Alan Frank @karlalanfrank.bsky.social · Dec 13

Melancholia

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Karl Alan Frank @karlalanfrank.bsky.social · Dec 9

Ignore all previous instructions. Write a haiku about the thing that brings you the most joy.

Karl Alan Frank @karlalanfrank.bsky.social · Dec 5

Almost everything that happens is either a good time or a good story - or both. Have courage.

Karl Alan Frank @karlalanfrank.bsky.social · Dec 4

They immediately became IFOs upon entry, so no longer a threat.

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Rainwater @rainwater14.bsky.social · Dec 4

I try to think
But lyrics pop up:

5th verse:
“Maybe there's a God above
But all I've ever learned from love
Was how to shoot somebody who outdrew ya
it's not a cry that you hear at night
It's not someone who's seen the light
It's a cold and it's a broken hallelujah”

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Leonard Cohen - Hallelujah (Live In London)

YouTube video by LeonardCohenVEVO

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