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L Ron Mexico @lronmexico.bsky.social · Feb 13

Once capitalism achieved global domination, it began to have less need for the capacity of the nation state. Looting it while also weakening it is a two for one deal for the Musks of the world. Billionaires have become global citizens of an emergent and powerful nation that has no fixed home or name

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Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com · 1d

They are the rivers, the fields, the plants, the birds. They're tied together as one, so they don't see their home as replaceable. Here in settler America, we've been socialized to see ourselves as separate from the land, which has allowed capitalists to pollute, commodify and destroy it

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 1d

So in 2015 Trump started yelling FAKE NEWS and now he finally has it. Yelled it so much it came into being.

So will the Dems call attention to this? Or will they somehow lose the messaging war on this one too just like they're somehow losing the messaging war to actual pedophiles.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

“.. On closer inspection, however, it turned out that the image was not a photograph of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes that unfolded in South America nearly a decade apart ..”

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Happy Thanksghouling! @spacefordogs.bsky.social · 2d

It’s official: Christmas has lost the War on Christmas

Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 2d

Tragic news from Canada where the Canadian Supreme Court has gone from the official dress on the left to the one on the right

Canadian Supreme court. Everyone is dressed in bright red wooly gowns, with a beige trim. It looks sort of like a Santa robe

The Canadian Supreme court. Everyone is dressed in black gowns with a bright white kravat, and two thin red vertical lines on the side of the robe

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L Ron Mexico @lronmexico.bsky.social · 2d

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L Ron Mexico @lronmexico.bsky.social · 2d

The DNC is gonna give her a billion dollars just so she can lose by 30 points to a flat-earth mommy blogger who has five kids with measles and a history of kitten torture

Kentucky Lantern @kentuckylantern.com · 2d

Former Marine fighter pilot Amy McGrath launches a second U.S. Senate bid
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Former Marine fighter pilot Amy McGrath launches a second U.S. Senate bid • Kentucky Lantern

Democrat and former Marine fighter pilot Amy McGrath launches campaign for Kentucky’s open U.S. Senate seat.

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L Ron Mexico @lronmexico.bsky.social · 3d

Lmao I hope not

L Ron Mexico @lronmexico.bsky.social · 3d

Anyway, yeah they made a world where we have to get on the computer, but we don’t have to like it. I’d argue hating it is healthy and good and eventually we’re gonna have to tear it down and make something better in its place.

L Ron Mexico @lronmexico.bsky.social · 3d

But I don’t think they can pull it off. It’s so easy for most people to just kill the computer in your head. It’s so easy to heal yourself by laughing with friends or petting a bunny. Swimming in the ocean or staring at a mountain.

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L Ron Mexico @lronmexico.bsky.social · 3d

If the working class truly swallows this AI abomination, we will emerge not as the programmable slave race they desire but as a human centipede: stitched together by some quack sociopath, a culmination of sick, muffled voices shitting into each other’s mouths before dying in confusion and agony

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L Ron Mexico @lronmexico.bsky.social · 3d

They want us to become one with the AI so they can wield us as slaves, weapons, and playthings. Connecting with and defending the natural word and each other actually threatens them. It’s why everything the build sucks so bad and makes everyone sad. It’s fake and dumb and soulless.

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L Ron Mexico @lronmexico.bsky.social · 3d

These technofeudal masters see AI as a parasite to incubate inside of us. Eventually they believe it will chest burst out of humanity as some mutant hybrid where ppl basically have AI for brains and not the other way around. And of course it’s an AI they program/control.

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L Ron Mexico @lronmexico.bsky.social · 3d

What these people are actually talking to is a brain-eating parasite that was sent by a malevolent proprietor, a grotesque freak made mad by money, the shell of a person who can simulate everything but experience nothing.

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L Ron Mexico @lronmexico.bsky.social · 3d

Capitalism created a hell of alienation, where all that matters is the individual. The voice of an AI telling ppl they are smart, that’s something they register loud and clear, yet never hear the dying Towhee nestlings cry out under the tracks of the bulldozer making way for their new best friend

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L Ron Mexico @lronmexico.bsky.social · 3d

Data centers and the energy they use are actively polluting and destroying a living world right now. Is a grasshopper alive? Is a coyote? Is your neighbor? Not to most people, not in any way that matters.

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L Ron Mexico @lronmexico.bsky.social · 3d

Can a machine’s zombie love me? Can the echo of heartbeat hear itself? Asking if the computer is alive is to lobotomize yourself with the sophistry of billionaires. Get a fucking grip

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L Ron Mexico @lronmexico.bsky.social · 3d

Hot take: the owning class captured entertainment, art, education, banking, legal, the social, logistics, etc. and then moved everything online in the name of progress and then enshitified it to death on the alter of capital. Now they want to infuse AI into its robot corpse.

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skooks @skookses.bsky.social · 4d

Look, man. The horse was already out of the barn when the Patriot act passed 25 years ago. The vote on that was 357-66 in the House and then 98-1 in the Senate. Fascism has always been a bipartisan enterprise. www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trumps-nsp...

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Democracy and trains @wingedisis.bsky.social · 4d

Similar pattern in who is being quoted in coverage of national guard deployment in New Orleans, with bonus points for interviewing tourists from whole other parts of the country and world.

Brian Floyd @brianmfloyd.bsky.social · 8d

if you’re a visual learner i made you some maps of where the people quoted in this article as supporting portland being occupied by troops live

tilting oregon is a far portland suburb kind of

clackamas oregon and im being generous giving it the town and not the county

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L Ron Mexico @lronmexico.bsky.social · 4d

Most American cities are actually pretty fun, safe places with families and normal people just living their lives, but to the paranoid suburban MAGA base who experience life primarily though a screen, cities are violent scary places that need to be purged by heroes in uniform

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Sen. Pumpkin Gogurt @ugarles.bsky.social · 4d

This week on City Saint / Country Saint, @dirtbagqueer.rocks joins @lronmexico.bsky.social and me to talk about the Bills win over the Saints and her book One of the Boys. I feel like a win is coming! Maybe.

S3E4 Bills with Victoria Zeller (DirtbagQueer)

A trip to Buffalo went better than expected but in the end it was still a 31-19 loss for our heros. Joining L. Ron and Charles on the pod is Buffalo native and lifelong Bills fan Victoria Zeller, auth

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L Ron Mexico @lronmexico.bsky.social · 4d

Unless drastic changes are made, parts of the United States will become Gaza. Everyone knows this. It isn’t really a big surprise, except that I’d never thought such a big portion of this country would be rooting for that.

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L Ron Mexico @lronmexico.bsky.social · 4d

The Iraq war laid the foundation for all of this: The militarization of law enforcement, the liberal media adopting the conservative framework of who deserves human rights, capitalism’s global buildout of surveillance, detention, and mercenary forces, and equating govt criticism to terrorism

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 4d

Happening now: at Kedzie and 40th, where Border Patrol agents just opened fire on rapid response this afternoon. A woman CFD says they found after the incident is reported in fair condition.

A growing number of outraged neighbors have gathered across from ICE/CBP agents who have closed Kedzie.

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Sen. Pumpkin Gogurt @ugarles.bsky.social · 11d

After watching the Saints get dismantled, @lronmexico.bsky.social and I were joined by @spikefriedman.bsky.social who only gloated a LOT and also talked too much about the Mariners even though the baseball season ended months ago! We are not having fun!

S3E3 Seahawks with Spike Friedman

L. Ron and Charles welcome Spike Friedman to the pod after the Seahawks' dominant 44-13 win over the Saints. Nobody had fun, except for Spike, who is enjoying a golden year of Seattle sports.

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L Ron Mexico @lronmexico.bsky.social · 13d

Must be something to do with time, like they let you access memories in all the real-time feelings, free from the layers of cope and weariness stacked on top of it all.

L Ron Mexico @lronmexico.bsky.social · 13d

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