Vi veri universum vivus vici. #PoliticalModerate #Independent, #SocialLiberal, #Agnostic, #Unions, #Veteran. 🇺🇸 Retired airline pilot. Supports level playing fields, equal opportunity, and democracy, not how to twist it to my advantage; capitalism/corporation critic, 🚫Today’s GOP, 🚫MAGA. Human species pessimist, pondering the Great Filter and do we have the Right Stuff? Residing in a purple enclave of Texas.
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Last Notes npub1msz3r9mt3cqgpdu536ur6j7v66xe7p3ueryhha0eyckkg37aedlqgpfj9g Huntn00 Biden is the man. His policies speak for themselves as Trump’s policies speak for him. I’ll assume we are making our premises based on adult, Informed, aware logical people, actual supporters of our constitution which are the majority. We don’t need a new Democratic nominee for President. If my premise is wrong and across America we’re mostly dealing with STUPID then there’s a strong argument that we deserve the coming shit show. 🔥🤔 npub1msz3r9mt3cqgpdu536ur6j7v66xe7p3ueryhha0eyckkg37aedlqgpfj9g Huntn00 i’d like to know about lethal cucumbers. 🙂 npub1msz3r9mt3cqgpdu536ur6j7v66xe7p3ueryhha0eyckkg37aedlqgpfj9g Huntn00 This is all well and good. Maybe you’ve said it already but what do you suggest as a reasonable course of action for a voting citizen in this Presidential election Nov if you were a US citizen? npub1msz3r9mt3cqgpdu536ur6j7v66xe7p3ueryhha0eyckkg37aedlqgpfj9g Huntn00 We’ve got the principles on paper, have to decide we want to actually follow and improve on the basics, and convince the fascists in our midst their schemes won’t work. Trump is the immediate no shit threat to every standard laid out by the founders. Unless the idea is to start from scratch. That would be pleasant. 🤔 npub1msz3r9mt3cqgpdu536ur6j7v66xe7p3ueryhha0eyckkg37aedlqgpfj9g Huntn00 I threw up several choices. 🙂 Not accusing you of anything in particular, but we’re getting a lot of vibe on the board about be mad at Dems, vote, third-party, inferred vote for Beelzebub, or stay at home because “we’re mad”. Then there is the Russian bot possibility, no accusation just clarifying. 🙃 npub1msz3r9mt3cqgpdu536ur6j7v66xe7p3ueryhha0eyckkg37aedlqgpfj9g Huntn00 Have you found paradise after leaving the US? Tell me about it. 😇 npub1msz3r9mt3cqgpdu536ur6j7v66xe7p3ueryhha0eyckkg37aedlqgpfj9g Huntn00 I have no intent of insulting you. Unfortunately, we are where we are. We have a choice to make, and I’m happy to rip on the Democrats after the election. By defeating Trump, at least we’ll have the opportunity to continue the debate.🙃 npub1msz3r9mt3cqgpdu536ur6j7v66xe7p3ueryhha0eyckkg37aedlqgpfj9g Huntn00 You don’t think the Democrats did enough, Obama did quite a bit. 🤔 Your argument is go third-party, find someone better. There is no one better on the ballot, so NOT THIS TIME. I’d like to remain a Democratic Republic and I’m sure as hell not going to vote for Mr 🔥 Fascist, that’s Trump if in case anyone is wondering. 😳 npub1msz3r9mt3cqgpdu536ur6j7v66xe7p3ueryhha0eyckkg37aedlqgpfj9g Huntn00 “ get rid of the two-party system “that’s a huge insurmountable proposition without some kind of calamity taking place. As I tell anarchists, that calamity may be just over the horizon and there will be an opportunity to change things drastically, but as I imagine, at a huge price. npub1msz3r9mt3cqgpdu536ur6j7v66xe7p3ueryhha0eyckkg37aedlqgpfj9g Huntn00 So put your cards on the table, after 5 sequential posts ragging on Democrats are you saying vote for Trump via directly or indirectly by a protest vote? Either you refuse to believe the magnitude of threat posed by Trump POTUS to our democratic Republic, you rely too much on principal, not pragmatic, or you’re in on the plot to get Trump reelected. ? npub1msz3r9mt3cqgpdu536ur6j7v66xe7p3ueryhha0eyckkg37aedlqgpfj9g Huntn00 I think you’re missing the point. That point would be is that this race is close enough, and the ramifications of a Trump win are so atrocious, even terrifying that any pragmatic aware person would not risk throwing away their vote to protest the obviously better candidate and risk un mitigated calamity. 🤔 npub1msz3r9mt3cqgpdu536ur6j7v66xe7p3ueryhha0eyckkg37aedlqgpfj9g Huntn00 “There is no anarchism in nature” What is the central authority that guides a pack of wolves or a herd of sheep? Sure talk about divine/nature rules. You either believe in the concept of choice or you don’t This has nothing to do with intellectual choices made by humans, unless the argument you are making, that we have no choice either? npub1msz3r9mt3cqgpdu536ur6j7v66xe7p3ueryhha0eyckkg37aedlqgpfj9g Huntn00 What is it that I have in common? Speak plainly. npub1msz3r9mt3cqgpdu536ur6j7v66xe7p3ueryhha0eyckkg37aedlqgpfj9g Huntn00 Of interest from your link, the State as a result of rapidly growing cities. Too many people in too close proximity don’t play well without some central authority, might be a resulting assumption. 🙂 npub1msz3r9mt3cqgpdu536ur6j7v66xe7p3ueryhha0eyckkg37aedlqgpfj9g Huntn00 A serious post? 🤔 Anarchy is all over nature. It’s humans who by their intelligence decide to move away from it, for personal advantage. npub1msz3r9mt3cqgpdu536ur6j7v66xe7p3ueryhha0eyckkg37aedlqgpfj9g Huntn00 I’m saying that human nature makes anarchy, as a lasting proposition, doubtful. Basically our collective nature will have to change to make anarchy a standard. npub1msz3r9mt3cqgpdu536ur6j7v66xe7p3ueryhha0eyckkg37aedlqgpfj9g Huntn00 We had a revolution here, a new start. How did we choose to move forward? Not via anarchy. This is our history and the history of the world. Look, I’m not bad mouthing anarchy, I’m saying not enough people historically or now have chosen to make it happen. You can talk about anarchy as this wonderful ideal, but because of human nature, that’s all it is, at least so far. npub1msz3r9mt3cqgpdu536ur6j7v66xe7p3ueryhha0eyckkg37aedlqgpfj9g Huntn00 Don’t confuse this as blind support of the State. Just a discussion. In the US, a historically recent example, colonies, territories voted to become states, democracy. Can anarchists live in a democratic system? Maybe not if majority vote for authority based on a majority. Anarchy to me seems to be a perishable proposition. npub1msz3r9mt3cqgpdu536ur6j7v66xe7p3ueryhha0eyckkg37aedlqgpfj9g Huntn00 2/2 We started as anarchists, but human beings overwhelmingly chose the State. With a breakdown, we’d revert to anarchy for a while, but would we stick with it? The pressure against anarchy is security, power, and democracy which humans are drawn to. And history has shown that most of us chose the State. But not implying this is best for us. Maybe we need to change for anarchy to prevail. npub1msz3r9mt3cqgpdu536ur6j7v66xe7p3ueryhha0eyckkg37aedlqgpfj9g Huntn00 1/2 I live near probably the most polluted city in the US, local pressure makes a difference, but arguably not enough. Politicians are elected based on these kind of issues. Just as with global warming, it’s our economies that prevent doing what should be. I can’t say anarchy could/would fix this. The obvious challenge is the change to anarchy which would only happen as the result of wholesale breakdown. Then the chance might arise. npub1msz3r9mt3cqgpdu536ur6j7v66xe7p3ueryhha0eyckkg37aedlqgpfj9g Huntn00 My position is based on having local community authority only. If you look at the history of the world, I would assume that even in an anarchist dominated world mass production would happen due to its efficiency. And let’s say instead of 50 states you’ve got 5000 or more anarchist communities all spewing pollution say based on coal. I see less ability here to fix this. Sure, suggestions could be forwarded, but for economy sake, rejected. npub1msz3r9mt3cqgpdu536ur6j7v66xe7p3ueryhha0eyckkg37aedlqgpfj9g Huntn00 So how would smallish anarchist communities on a large scale grapple with global warming? Even with Nations, the challenge seems insurmountable because of our economies. Now imagine 1000x more communities. 🤔 npub1msz3r9mt3cqgpdu536ur6j7v66xe7p3ueryhha0eyckkg37aedlqgpfj9g Huntn00 Lol, bottled straight out of the river. 😝 npub1msz3r9mt3cqgpdu536ur6j7v66xe7p3ueryhha0eyckkg37aedlqgpfj9g Huntn00 Anti-woke water, haha, step right up, get your spiked koolaid right here! …all part of the assimilation plan. The “unapologetic drink” as in why should I apologize for being a stupid, selfish, coercive, intolerant, anti-Democratic PRICK? 🔥 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/anti-woke-water-conservatives-freedom2o-b2564039.html npub1msz3r9mt3cqgpdu536ur6j7v66xe7p3ueryhha0eyckkg37aedlqgpfj9g Huntn00 In other words a revolution is required, either soft or hard. This nicking away at the issue, while prioritizing individual wealth among those with most of the wealth, is just not working. 😳 npub1msz3r9mt3cqgpdu536ur6j7v66xe7p3ueryhha0eyckkg37aedlqgpfj9g Huntn00 I’m not an economist, but my impression is the Capitalism mechanism could still be there, but its worst aspects would/could be controlled via taxation. Post WWII, the top tax rate was 90 something %. However by no means am I selling Capitalism, just speculating on how we could transform our current system and avoid an economic breakdown. But a breakdown might be required to provide adequate incentive. 🤔 npub1msz3r9mt3cqgpdu536ur6j7v66xe7p3ueryhha0eyckkg37aedlqgpfj9g Huntn00 Capitalism can only work if it’s severely regulated/ restrained, if the capital that is accumulated is capped for individual possession and it is not allowed to undermine the populace and environment. Easy example, millions of manufacturing jobs exported to Asia to low wage, high pollution countries for profit. The required caveat is the system is not corrupt, which undermines any economic/political system chosen. npub1msz3r9mt3cqgpdu536ur6j7v66xe7p3ueryhha0eyckkg37aedlqgpfj9g Huntn00 I’m not prejudicially hostile regarding Anarchy, but I view it as a crap shoot as to how well it actually works in practise as there are no large scale examples to observe. And for human conflicts I see it as at a distinct disadvantage against Nation States. npub1msz3r9mt3cqgpdu536ur6j7v66xe7p3ueryhha0eyckkg37aedlqgpfj9g Huntn00 Just remember regardless of the economic system your vested in, it’s the human who will screw it up. Garbage in, garbage out. No system works as it should if corruption is allowed. If and when we decide to replace capitalism, I predict it will only be as a result of a general economic breakdown, not a voluntary choice. If you are hoping for anarchy, that would be as a result of a complete breakdown and possible organic development. npub1msz3r9mt3cqgpdu536ur6j7v66xe7p3ueryhha0eyckkg37aedlqgpfj9g Huntn00 I’m observing a consistent background drone on Mastodon attacking President Biden over US Gaza policy. While I disagree with the USA’s complicity with Israel in Gaza, and have complained about it often in smaller forums, the consensus is: Keep some level of perspective and pragmatism. Under no circumstance can you not vote for Biden and expect a better outcome for Gaza and Palestinians. You want to help them? YOU ARE NOT by enabling Trump as POTUS to team up with Netanyahu. 🔥🤔