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Ralph Snyder

@ralphsnyder.bsky.social

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I post and repost about books, philosophy, art, history, photography, random observations, and, sometimes, just silly stuff.

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Ralph Snyder @ralphsnyder.bsky.social · Aug 20

l make distinction between Poltical and political

The Political is akin to Philosophy and Religion. It is about how we understand our relationship to one another, how we navigate our disagreements, how we make decisions together, how we imagine our relationships within the larger social setting.

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Ralph Snyder @ralphsnyder.bsky.social · 9h

The Post died a long time ago. Frankly, it was never the same after Watergate.

Ralph Snyder @ralphsnyder.bsky.social · 9h

It doesn't matter and it won't change anything, but I have to say for my own peace of mind:

The X in Gen X is the Roman numeral for ten, as in the tenth generation since the Revolution.

So Millenials are Gen XI and Gen Z is Gen XII.

Ralph Snyder @ralphsnyder.bsky.social · 17h

Cyclical time, the repetition of misery

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Fiddler On The Roof sunrise sunset

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Ralph Snyder @ralphsnyder.bsky.social · 17h

Well, yeah. But Cano didn't illustrate it so much.

Ralph Snyder @ralphsnyder.bsky.social · 17h

This is welcome news. The growth of renewables is great, but matters is the shrinkage of fossil fuels.

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Sham Jaff @shamjaff.bsky.social · 1d

It’s a "crisis" when immigrants "take jobs away", but "innovation" when machines do. Funny.

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Ralph Snyder @ralphsnyder.bsky.social · 18h

"Normal people" is a terrible framing. As if injustice towards white people is more heinous that any other injustice.

Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 1d

More propaganda with painfully normal people zip-tied at the side of the road please, this will for sure convince the American people that you're the good guys

Homeland Security @DHSgov

We're having an All Night Revival

Still frame from a video: Painfully normal people zip tied on the side of the road, sitting on a guardrail in a row

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Ralph Snyder @ralphsnyder.bsky.social · 18h

I have been angry for 50 years or more. I've never denied it (though I've lamented it)

And it has never lessened nor gone away.

Ralph Snyder @ralphsnyder.bsky.social · 18h

I will say the Kaddish for them

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Ralph Snyder @ralphsnyder.bsky.social · 18h

American politics has been remarkable stable at least since Bacon's Rebellion (1676): the rich splitting the poor into competing factions.

The only real change has been the emergence of a middle class, which was somehow hoodwinked into thinking their interests aligned with the rich.

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Ralph Snyder @ralphsnyder.bsky.social · 19h

Cano's narrative of the passage of the 1957 Voting Rights (née Civil Rights) Act in "Master of the Senate" really illustrates Bismark's comment about the law and sausages.

With the addendum that sometimes the sausage is just a generic, store brand hotdog.

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LK @lkcreations.art · 23h

Here's today's sketch ✨️

#art #ink #artsky #sketch

Sketch of a tree with a human silhouette in the foreground, a torii behind the figure and in the distance a faint mountain.
Made with an ink brush

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Ralph Snyder @ralphsnyder.bsky.social · 1d

What, Rockefeller Chapel isn't a smoldering ruin?

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Ralph Snyder @ralphsnyder.bsky.social · 1d

Still relevant.

Still spectacular

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West Side Story (4/10) Movie CLIP - America (1961) HD

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Ralph Snyder @ralphsnyder.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Birthday according to a half dozen classical composers.
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How to play "Happy Birthday" Like Beethoven, Chopin, Brahms, Bach and Mozart Piano by Nicole Pesce

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Ralph Snyder @ralphsnyder.bsky.social · 1d

And don't you forget it.

Ralph Snyder @ralphsnyder.bsky.social · 1d

What Thorton wants Thorton gets.

Capice?

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Ralph Snyder @ralphsnyder.bsky.social · 1d

Per Mirriam-Webster ...

Ralph Snyder @ralphsnyder.bsky.social · 1d

"Lord, you made many, many poor people.

Now, it's no shame to be poor, but it's not great honor either."

Tevyah the Milkman.
-- Fiddler on the Roof

Ralph Snyder @ralphsnyder.bsky.social · 1d

And another hundred pages to go!

Ralph Snyder @ralphsnyder.bsky.social · 1d

Similar to the lists in Buddhism of questions that are pointless

Ralph Snyder @ralphsnyder.bsky.social · 1d

💬📚 🧵

As much as I admire Robert Cano as an historian and writer, at 940 pages I'm more than ready for this book to be done.

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Semi-Verbal Autistic 🌈 @autisticventing.bsky.social · 2d

Autism is not a set of external behaviours.

It's a fundamental neurological difference that can be visible or hidden, but you're Autistic regardless of which one you are.

#actuallyautistic

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Ralph Snyder @ralphsnyder.bsky.social · 2d

Maybe but it also implies that Heaven is ableist.

Ralph Snyder @ralphsnyder.bsky.social · 2d

Republicans are trying to make me resent using "my tax dollars" to treat immigrants' emergency medical needs.

Oh, hell no. The law requires stabilizing their condition. How about we go beyond that and restore them to full health.