CJ Paloma ...again

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Pro democracy, pro compassion, pro peace, anti social hierarchies of all kinds

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2024-07-29 00:22:10

If all leaders clapped back on oppressive know nothing entitled regressive jerks the way the Harris campaign has so far, we'd have a much better world.

2024-07-17 15:50:14

There is this incredible planet filled with billions upon billions of true wonders, and then there are people with humongously infantile egos tantrumming because they don't think they have enough money or power
And so these incredibly small (usually male) failed humans create ways to ruin it for …well, everyone.
I suspect the overlap in the Venn diagram between them and the folks who think "man" is the most advanced species in the universe is rather large.

2024-06-29 16:45:00

Normal people are often angry/sad/enraged etc that "we" haven't done more to stop things from getting/staying* this bad
People say "we" are (pick your favorites: lazy, stupid, apathetic, entitled, easily duped, etc)...
But truly: trillions* of dollars have gone into defensively MAINTAINING cultures of greed, hate, violence and the normalizing of those things by a small group of power mad fools. They have *skills*, and $$
They wouldn't spend that much if they didn't have to.

2024-06-29 01:44:17

Maybe instead of asking if millions of kids get it…maybe you could ask if the -one- guy could pander just a little to -them- and give them some (even false) hope he'll work for a more peaceful planet, a more habitable planet, a country with a better functioning judiciary?
What could it hurt for the one guy to move a little left? It's not like they're asking him to go out and kill people. Or do I really have to remind you: they are asking for the opposite, ackshully.

2024-06-19 14:48:16

What's a free market
On the one side you have people seeking "stuff" (aka goods and services) that satisfies their needs and identified wants.
And on the other side we have people seeking profit by providing stuff.
Seeking profit is by definition: seeking gain -in excess- of the value of the stuff. Read that again.
So first off: "seeking profit" basically boils down to someone getting over on you. Our first problem.

2024-06-12 18:51:30

scrolled past some article pondering
"What if these leaders really aren't that bright?"
Some of these people really do believe white males are smarter because they were historically able to kill/beat/cheat their ways into authoritarian forms of power.
And…meanwhile…they can't help but be exposed to literally millions of folks saying "Ummm…noooo,"
And yet they still unconsciously listen mostly to white men, I mean…
this is almost the very definition of "not bright"

2024-05-31 22:32:02

Honestly, I think people who are convicted of crimes having to do with election fraud really should lose their right to vote, and run for office... I'm not talking at all about blanket disenfranchisement for people convicted crimes. I'm not even talking about people who vote twice, or vote when they are on parole or whatever. I am talking about felonies having to do with election interference and manipulation.
Seems like a pretty low bar, ack-shually.

2024-05-31 16:39:24

😆 my phone has been blowing up this morning with little messages of celebration by people who are not terminally on line…or maybe they are, and just want to keep sharing some good news🤷‍♀️.
regardless, it works for me.

2024-05-31 02:31:54

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@npub1mmf…eknq I miss seeing posts from her and a few other people…and I really wish she'd set up an account here.

2024-05-29 03:13:02

time for me to get off the internet when I start seeing white men quoting other white men and telling us "we (humanity) are stuck with having Paleolithic emotions"
Quit telling yourselves that. You are just afraid of developing emotions because of all the bullshit you've learned about what men are supposed to be. It's a huge fucking part of the problem.

2024-05-27 22:09:14

it's getting hard to ignore:
The truly stunning diversity of life, and the physical beauty of this planet, with all its incredibly ingenious systems and interconnections.
And all of it threatened by a tiny minority of utterly insane greedy pigs, and enabled by too many -deliberately- clueless and cowardly privileged folks (desperately trying to remain clueless) who could step up, but haven't.
ALL of the worst offenders have names and addresses.

2024-05-24 21:43:01

Most people who aspire to being "rugged individuals" have been told in tons of ways that it is not cool to be vulnerable. Ever. In any way.
Unfortunately avoidance of vulnerability ALSO keeps tons of people in really stunted levels of emotional awareness.
Why? Because allowing a little bit of vulnerability is necessary for us to truly experience all kinds of good emotions: compassion, trust, love, generosity, etc.

2024-05-22 14:21:50

This morning's rabbit holes includes finding out more about the term ecocide itself, and the quest to make ecocide a crime against humanity.
https://www.stopecocide.earth

2024-05-15 18:59:36

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@npub1qzc…yetl I'm surprised no one has mentioned Steven Donziger yet? After winning big time in Ecuador, Chevron hounded him
They spared no expense trying to ruin that guy.

2024-05-14 14:59:01

as we breeze right past various tipping points, panic will rise up in different ways for different people.
Partly because it IS so obvious, a fair amount of otherwise sane people WILL go into denial around certain things. They'll become convinced that working class people and their children are terrorists, for example,
And that peace mongers are dangerous.
Plus the billionaires have already captured most platforms, making this much easier.
Oh, wait.

2024-05-10 14:32:31

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@npub1scr…teus even with the state of search engines right now, it took me less than a minute to find out the think tank that produced this study "advocates for free markets" which is code for "capitalism is always a good thing"

2024-05-09 16:05:33

Hot take:
incredibly popular degrowth ideas:
implementing 4 day work weeks and WFH,
installing lovely pedestrian (and wheelchair friendly) city centers.
taxing the ultra rich
reducing militarism
Using clean energy in innovative ways
those who like manicures won't have to imagine ever digging in the dirt for potatoes to cook over currently clunky solar ovens…but they'll use -efficient ones- as status symbols in 10 years.
but newsflash: 1/2

2024-05-09 14:24:25

Some simple steps to a dystopia:
1) Socialize a group to believe that to be "superior" in the world they need to amass as many little pieces of paper as possible.
2) get them to believe that emotional sensitivity is "not important", that logic (and violence applied as necessary) will work fine, instead.
Watch them invade and oppress and create social hierarchies based on physical size and ability to overpower others
In a few generations a few true believers, WILL crash the entire planet.

2024-05-04 02:02:14

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@npub17z6…4mp8 looking at her wikipedia page all I can say is WTF, NYC District 19, wtaf were you on when you selected this horrendous bigot to represent you?

2024-04-24 18:47:49

Saw a post commenting that the "built to withstand an apocalypse" protections of the internet must be weak...due to it basically being destroyed by corporate monetization in 30 years….
I'd say it's more a testament to how poisonous the current forms of capitalism are…
The scramble for profit is destroying both the internet and um... the. habitability. of. the. planet for countless species, not just internet nerds.

2024-04-05 03:49:34

Karl fuckhead Rove was a HUGE homophobe y'all. He was one of the biggest "masterminds" behind same sex marriage BANS being passed in over 30 fucking states in in the early 2000s..
This…pig... knew EXACTLY what the fuck he was doing 20 years ago. He used hate and lies his whole career - he designed -this- fucking dystopia.
And now I see some attempts to try to rehab this pig?
IDGAF if he's "Anti MAGA" -now. So are literally hundreds of million other people. Amplify them.

2024-03-31 03:50:13

My data's out there. I've gotten more than a half dozen letters including more than one from financial institutions, and one from my main medical organization, informing me of data breeches in the past few years…yet I have to do 2 factor bullshit every time I go to look up the amount of my gas bill?

2024-03-30 15:39:56

trillions of dollars spent on "defense" and the world is….um, obviously not safe. I'm so tired of a tiny minority of completely unhinged war mongering men riling up mediocre chuds to use violence to "prove" their "superiority". As if.
These chuds are so attached to notions of "power over" that they really don't grasp how sick and stunted it is. Authoritarian notions of power OVER others regularly allows completely unfit amoral assholes to ascend to power. That's the root problem.

2024-03-26 13:49:54

🎷 I can't seem to forget you, your stunted sense of ethics stays on my mind🎶

2024-03-23 14:51:35

Before you block me, consider: Western Civilization's worst impulses -have been- a history of folks listening primarily to other folks who look and think like them, and being satisfied with rationalizations that serve their points of view.
All accomplished while blocking or angrily dismissing input from all Others.
IOW: a good therapist would invite you to wonder why my comment made -you- ...so upset.
That's all, carry on.

2024-03-17 15:10:55

So...what is the difference between a yearning for as much "power over" others as possible, and fascism itself?
In business, corporations relentlessly strive towards ever more market share…w/monopolies being unstated end goals
*This* kind of authoritarian born power is pervasive (after all we come from colonizer cultures).
And it does corrupt.
But the kind of power to simply live your own life in ways you see fit... is so closely akin to "freedom" it's difficult to parse the differences

2024-03-10 14:01:22

I rarely make a comment more than once about a book I am reading/listening to, but for the second time: NOW is a fantastic time to read Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the US" for so many current reasons.
If you are a liberal, read it to understand: how easily really ugly things get rationalized.
If you are a leftie, read it to understand how much gaslighting is -and has always been- a huge part of the containment strategy of how the ultra wealthy stay in power.