Sean Cr8on
@seancr8on.bsky.social
Pro-Democracy
Anti-Authoritarianism
Phl/Edu - Pragmatism
Anti-Authoritarianism
Phl/Edu - Pragmatism
For absurd humor to work, you sort of need a backdrop of normalcy. That's gone now.
December 19, 2025 at 2:08 PM
For absurd humor to work, you sort of need a backdrop of normalcy. That's gone now.
We could tax the rich more and provide healthcare for everyone with those funds.
There are straightforward mechanisms in our policies, laws, and enforcement that enable us to enact this decision.
Nearly everything that suggests otherwise is a bunch of smoke and mirrors.
There are straightforward mechanisms in our policies, laws, and enforcement that enable us to enact this decision.
Nearly everything that suggests otherwise is a bunch of smoke and mirrors.
November 26, 2025 at 11:38 AM
We could tax the rich more and provide healthcare for everyone with those funds.
There are straightforward mechanisms in our policies, laws, and enforcement that enable us to enact this decision.
Nearly everything that suggests otherwise is a bunch of smoke and mirrors.
There are straightforward mechanisms in our policies, laws, and enforcement that enable us to enact this decision.
Nearly everything that suggests otherwise is a bunch of smoke and mirrors.
A great economy for who? The people who hide their wealth in foreign tax havens? People live on the streets and die from treatable problems in the US.
The Economist said that under Biden, the American economy was the “envy of the world.”
Why would anyone envy the global exploitation necessary to produce an economy like ours?
It was only possible through global markets that underpay labor in corrupted nations that do not protect their citizens.
Why would anyone envy the global exploitation necessary to produce an economy like ours?
It was only possible through global markets that underpay labor in corrupted nations that do not protect their citizens.
November 25, 2025 at 1:56 PM
A great economy for who? The people who hide their wealth in foreign tax havens? People live on the streets and die from treatable problems in the US.
The Economist said that under Biden, the American economy was the “envy of the world.”
Why would anyone envy the global exploitation necessary to produce an economy like ours?
It was only possible through global markets that underpay labor in corrupted nations that do not protect their citizens.
Why would anyone envy the global exploitation necessary to produce an economy like ours?
It was only possible through global markets that underpay labor in corrupted nations that do not protect their citizens.
November 25, 2025 at 1:53 PM
The Economist said that under Biden, the American economy was the “envy of the world.”
Why would anyone envy the global exploitation necessary to produce an economy like ours?
It was only possible through global markets that underpay labor in corrupted nations that do not protect their citizens.
Why would anyone envy the global exploitation necessary to produce an economy like ours?
It was only possible through global markets that underpay labor in corrupted nations that do not protect their citizens.
We create these political systems. It’s entirely up to us whether these systems benefit lower and middle class folks or the wealthy.
The economy is human made. It does what we tell it to do. It doesn’t need to be “left alone” for wealthy people to exploit at the expense of everyone else.
The economy is human made. It does what we tell it to do. It doesn’t need to be “left alone” for wealthy people to exploit at the expense of everyone else.
Framing political problems as capitalism vs socialism has already lost the debate by accepting the premise.
We live in a liberal democratic society. If people matter, they deserve health care, a living wage, leisure time, and access to higher education. Houselessness is a failure of democracy.
We live in a liberal democratic society. If people matter, they deserve health care, a living wage, leisure time, and access to higher education. Houselessness is a failure of democracy.
November 25, 2025 at 3:05 AM
We create these political systems. It’s entirely up to us whether these systems benefit lower and middle class folks or the wealthy.
The economy is human made. It does what we tell it to do. It doesn’t need to be “left alone” for wealthy people to exploit at the expense of everyone else.
The economy is human made. It does what we tell it to do. It doesn’t need to be “left alone” for wealthy people to exploit at the expense of everyone else.
Framing political problems as capitalism vs socialism has already lost the debate by accepting the premise.
We live in a liberal democratic society. If people matter, they deserve health care, a living wage, leisure time, and access to higher education. Houselessness is a failure of democracy.
We live in a liberal democratic society. If people matter, they deserve health care, a living wage, leisure time, and access to higher education. Houselessness is a failure of democracy.
November 25, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Framing political problems as capitalism vs socialism has already lost the debate by accepting the premise.
We live in a liberal democratic society. If people matter, they deserve health care, a living wage, leisure time, and access to higher education. Houselessness is a failure of democracy.
We live in a liberal democratic society. If people matter, they deserve health care, a living wage, leisure time, and access to higher education. Houselessness is a failure of democracy.
How do people cope with economic insecurity?
Fascism, white supremacy, fundamentalism, and whatever over-simplified doctrine you can concoct.
People do not understand that our ability to relate to one another is structured by politics, history, norms, and powerful interests.
Fascism, white supremacy, fundamentalism, and whatever over-simplified doctrine you can concoct.
People do not understand that our ability to relate to one another is structured by politics, history, norms, and powerful interests.
When you see MAGA’s popularity as a response to economic insecurity, then Trump supporters start to make more sense.
Trump and the oligarchs are maniacal lunatics enriching themselves at everyone else’s expense.
Trump supporters are lower & middle class folks coping with a political structure.
Trump and the oligarchs are maniacal lunatics enriching themselves at everyone else’s expense.
Trump supporters are lower & middle class folks coping with a political structure.
November 21, 2025 at 4:41 PM
How do people cope with economic insecurity?
Fascism, white supremacy, fundamentalism, and whatever over-simplified doctrine you can concoct.
People do not understand that our ability to relate to one another is structured by politics, history, norms, and powerful interests.
Fascism, white supremacy, fundamentalism, and whatever over-simplified doctrine you can concoct.
People do not understand that our ability to relate to one another is structured by politics, history, norms, and powerful interests.
When you see MAGA’s popularity as a response to economic insecurity, then Trump supporters start to make more sense.
Trump and the oligarchs are maniacal lunatics enriching themselves at everyone else’s expense.
Trump supporters are lower & middle class folks coping with a political structure.
Trump and the oligarchs are maniacal lunatics enriching themselves at everyone else’s expense.
Trump supporters are lower & middle class folks coping with a political structure.
November 21, 2025 at 4:31 PM
When you see MAGA’s popularity as a response to economic insecurity, then Trump supporters start to make more sense.
Trump and the oligarchs are maniacal lunatics enriching themselves at everyone else’s expense.
Trump supporters are lower & middle class folks coping with a political structure.
Trump and the oligarchs are maniacal lunatics enriching themselves at everyone else’s expense.
Trump supporters are lower & middle class folks coping with a political structure.
Tuberculosis kills over a million people a year. The cure is known. It costs about 5k per person for treatment.
If we wanted to eradicate Tuberculosis from the planet, we could design and fund policies to do so on an international scale.
Instead, Musk and Trump cut funding to these programs.
If we wanted to eradicate Tuberculosis from the planet, we could design and fund policies to do so on an international scale.
Instead, Musk and Trump cut funding to these programs.
November 9, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Tuberculosis kills over a million people a year. The cure is known. It costs about 5k per person for treatment.
If we wanted to eradicate Tuberculosis from the planet, we could design and fund policies to do so on an international scale.
Instead, Musk and Trump cut funding to these programs.
If we wanted to eradicate Tuberculosis from the planet, we could design and fund policies to do so on an international scale.
Instead, Musk and Trump cut funding to these programs.
Economies are human designed. If we want to alter the political structures that shape how we interact with one another, we can. Usually through policy.
Capitalism/socialism don’t contain nonhuman properties that structure our relations. We make these structures up. People live in poverty by design
Capitalism/socialism don’t contain nonhuman properties that structure our relations. We make these structures up. People live in poverty by design
November 9, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Economies are human designed. If we want to alter the political structures that shape how we interact with one another, we can. Usually through policy.
Capitalism/socialism don’t contain nonhuman properties that structure our relations. We make these structures up. People live in poverty by design
Capitalism/socialism don’t contain nonhuman properties that structure our relations. We make these structures up. People live in poverty by design
Trump looked at Congressionally appointed funds & determined that he could get a slice of them by extorting institutions. Trump is currently negotiating $230 mil in damages with DOJ & would be paid from the Treasury (where $30 mill of these funds go), although from the Judgment Fund, not Gen Fund.
This capitulation will only embolden Trump to target other universities and institutions. This helps no one and only feeds the beast.
We must continue to stand with those who resist Trump’s lawlessness and call out those who don’t. Shame on Cornell.
We must continue to stand with those who resist Trump’s lawlessness and call out those who don’t. Shame on Cornell.
Cornell University to pay $60M in deal with Trump administration to restore federal funding
Cornell University has agreed to pay $60 million and accept the Trump administration’s interpretation of civil rights laws in order to restore federal funding and end investigations into the Ivy Leagu...
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November 7, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Trump looked at Congressionally appointed funds & determined that he could get a slice of them by extorting institutions. Trump is currently negotiating $230 mil in damages with DOJ & would be paid from the Treasury (where $30 mill of these funds go), although from the Judgment Fund, not Gen Fund.
Democracy means that people come first.
Any social arrangement that sorts people into de facto hierarchies (castes) is anti-democratic because it fails to acknowledge the priority of every person within that social arrangement.
These social structures are human designed. They can be changed.
Any social arrangement that sorts people into de facto hierarchies (castes) is anti-democratic because it fails to acknowledge the priority of every person within that social arrangement.
These social structures are human designed. They can be changed.
November 7, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Democracy means that people come first.
Any social arrangement that sorts people into de facto hierarchies (castes) is anti-democratic because it fails to acknowledge the priority of every person within that social arrangement.
These social structures are human designed. They can be changed.
Any social arrangement that sorts people into de facto hierarchies (castes) is anti-democratic because it fails to acknowledge the priority of every person within that social arrangement.
These social structures are human designed. They can be changed.
Meritocracy is a phenomenon where powerful people collect up as much as they can so that other people can die in the streets.
November 5, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Meritocracy is a phenomenon where powerful people collect up as much as they can so that other people can die in the streets.
We have the cures for starvation, diarrhea, malaria, cholera, HIV-AIDS, COVID-19, yet people across the globe die from these things in massive proportions.
USAID cuts, if continued, will lead to the deaths of millions.
We designed these global systems as people. We can change them.
USAID cuts, if continued, will lead to the deaths of millions.
We designed these global systems as people. We can change them.
November 5, 2025 at 12:55 PM
We have the cures for starvation, diarrhea, malaria, cholera, HIV-AIDS, COVID-19, yet people across the globe die from these things in massive proportions.
USAID cuts, if continued, will lead to the deaths of millions.
We designed these global systems as people. We can change them.
USAID cuts, if continued, will lead to the deaths of millions.
We designed these global systems as people. We can change them.
Until we equalize relations in the US, we cannot say we live in much of a democracy.
November 5, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Until we equalize relations in the US, we cannot say we live in much of a democracy.
A billionaire class is by design. We can design things differently.
November 4, 2025 at 2:17 AM
A billionaire class is by design. We can design things differently.
The US killed a million people during the War on Terror. Indirect deaths put that number over 3.5 million.
Putin, Netanyahu, Trump, Theil, and Musk saw those numbers and said, “We can do better.”
Putin and Netanyahu add another 400k+. USAID cuts another 500k+
Putin, Netanyahu, Trump, Theil, and Musk saw those numbers and said, “We can do better.”
Putin and Netanyahu add another 400k+. USAID cuts another 500k+
November 4, 2025 at 12:49 AM
The US killed a million people during the War on Terror. Indirect deaths put that number over 3.5 million.
Putin, Netanyahu, Trump, Theil, and Musk saw those numbers and said, “We can do better.”
Putin and Netanyahu add another 400k+. USAID cuts another 500k+
Putin, Netanyahu, Trump, Theil, and Musk saw those numbers and said, “We can do better.”
Putin and Netanyahu add another 400k+. USAID cuts another 500k+
Malaria is not cured by science at this point. It is cured by democracy. To get rid of malaria and many other diseases, we need to end the existence of a billionaire class.
November 2, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Malaria is not cured by science at this point. It is cured by democracy. To get rid of malaria and many other diseases, we need to end the existence of a billionaire class.
If we find it acceptable that people live on the streets, then we already live in an authoritarian society that promotes an infrastructure of hierarchical relations.
These are conditions that lead to more and more authoritarianism.
These are conditions that lead to more and more authoritarianism.
November 2, 2025 at 7:52 PM
If we find it acceptable that people live on the streets, then we already live in an authoritarian society that promotes an infrastructure of hierarchical relations.
These are conditions that lead to more and more authoritarianism.
These are conditions that lead to more and more authoritarianism.
I don’t want to call my dogs crazy, but their FOMO is off the charts. A psychotic level of FOMO. You’d think they were being stabbed repeatedly by 1,000 knives when placed in an adjacent room during a party.
October 21, 2025 at 2:06 AM
I don’t want to call my dogs crazy, but their FOMO is off the charts. A psychotic level of FOMO. You’d think they were being stabbed repeatedly by 1,000 knives when placed in an adjacent room during a party.
Faith in others: “…as long as we have a jury system, our citizens will continue to rebuke the DOJ through speedy acquittals.”
Wow. Sidney Reid, the DC woman just found not guilty of assaulting an FBI agent, issues a withering and gutsy statement on Trump through her attorneys.
"I feel sorry for the prosecutors really, who must be burdened by Trump's irrational and unfounded hatred for his fellow man."
It's a must-read:
"I feel sorry for the prosecutors really, who must be burdened by Trump's irrational and unfounded hatred for his fellow man."
It's a must-read:
October 17, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Faith in others: “…as long as we have a jury system, our citizens will continue to rebuke the DOJ through speedy acquittals.”
If you want to feel optimistic about the future, attend the No Kings protest. There will be so many like-minded folks there to globalize concerns.
Catch y’all in the streets!
My sign is simple: Authoritarians are unAmerican.
Catch y’all in the streets!
My sign is simple: Authoritarians are unAmerican.
October 16, 2025 at 11:49 PM
If you want to feel optimistic about the future, attend the No Kings protest. There will be so many like-minded folks there to globalize concerns.
Catch y’all in the streets!
My sign is simple: Authoritarians are unAmerican.
Catch y’all in the streets!
My sign is simple: Authoritarians are unAmerican.
We have no safeguards in place to protect liberal democratic life outside of the political apparatus. Once the authoritarians took over the Federal Government, there was not much else for them to do besides pressure the media with legal sanctions or get some billionaire buddies to buy them outright.
October 7, 2025 at 11:13 AM
We have no safeguards in place to protect liberal democratic life outside of the political apparatus. Once the authoritarians took over the Federal Government, there was not much else for them to do besides pressure the media with legal sanctions or get some billionaire buddies to buy them outright.
All we need is for everyone to stop what they are doing and hit the streets until this authoritarian takeover is squashed.
A collective, "This is entirely unacceptable" attitude expressed all at once and from this day forward.
A collective, "This is entirely unacceptable" attitude expressed all at once and from this day forward.
October 6, 2025 at 9:45 PM
All we need is for everyone to stop what they are doing and hit the streets until this authoritarian takeover is squashed.
A collective, "This is entirely unacceptable" attitude expressed all at once and from this day forward.
A collective, "This is entirely unacceptable" attitude expressed all at once and from this day forward.
Solution: instead of Hot Yoga, consider, Black Lung Yoga where coal is burned directly in the studio.
truly: it is a fetish. The government is only invested in perpetuating jobs they see as sufficiently butch.
There are only 41,000 coal miners in the United States. By way of comparison, there are 100,000 **registered** yoga teachers, 361,000 Starbucks baristas and 265,000 faculty and staff members working for the University of California system alone.
September 29, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Solution: instead of Hot Yoga, consider, Black Lung Yoga where coal is burned directly in the studio.