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CivilityFan

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Met the love of my life in 1968 & together ever since, moved to #SFBayArea at 18 for SF State, drafted away by the #AlternateService as a CO, returned in ‘78. Was a #Union biomedical tech until retiring to Reno, NV. Resettled 03/22 in Vallejo. Never used Twitter but thought I’d give social media a go after learning about #Mastodon. Looking to find a local group of #Chess players. Favorite quote - It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.

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GottaLaff, to legal
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New #TrumpTrial #Trump #legal 🧵starts HERE.

REMEMBER: I can’t/won’t reply while live-posting. Please use NFL (Not For Laffy) so I can skip your reply, but NO hashtag on that. Thx.

Picking up after my "mistrial" thread/ 1/...

All via McB for awhile:

Counsel approaches, brief sidebar

"Binoculars down."

As I mentioned, courtroom rules strictly enforced. During sidebar, court security doesn't allow reporters to use binoculars they had brought to see exhibits and facial expressions better

CivilityFan,
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@ienvision @GottaLaff
Was unable to access the news until this afternoon, so that’s when I started reading the thread. Finally caught up, and see that I’m 2500 new toots to read. This was a wonderful thread - tyvm

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Via Angry Staffer:

…Project 2025 ..

  • would let red states monitor & prosecute women who get abortions

  • won’t commit to defending NATO nations

  • wd fire attys who won’t prosec his political opponents

  • suspend posse comitatus & deploy the military on US soil

  • wd end pandemic preparedness office

  • wd fire 1000s of civil servants

  • pardon all J6 rioters

  • try to make law enf officers immune from prosec

If this doesn’t scare the living shit out of you, you aren’t paying attention.

CivilityFan,
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@trainman
How do we get 2 evils here? Biden has changed the course of US history for the good, establishing initiatives fighting climate change (my #1 issue), rebooting manufacturing in America that support organized labor, and standing up for our allies abroad, including his pressure on Netanyahu to prevent a genocide in Gaza which is unappreciated by most of the fools who think he is in charge there. If tfg was POTUS, there would be ten times as many dead Palestinians
Lessor of 2 evils is a false premise
@GottaLaff

lauren, (edited ) to random
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In 1968, massive campus protests against the Vietnam war spread to the Democratic national convention in Chicago that year, which became a violent confrontation between protesters and police. The result was the election of Republican Richard Nixon, who enormously escalated the war, including the invasion and mass bombing of Cambodia.

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@SallyStrange
The lesson is that protestors need to avoid playing into the hands of a press that wants to demonize them. Protest is necessary but violence will be played on media as coming from the students. Mahatma Gandhi and MLK jr knew how to take the violence without responding in kind, and they made progress. We in the anti-Viet Nam war didn’t and it backfired on us. I think it will take sacrifice and bloodshed to win, but violence even if it’s in self defense will lose. With distrust in msm and social media, I think this movement has a real chance, my generation blew it and over 58,000 of us died.

CivilityFan,
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@SallyStrange
Really don’t understand this comment, sorry. I took part in those demonstrations in the late ‘60’s & early 70’s until I was drafted away from the Bay Area. The big one with 50,000 of us on Easter Sunday, iirc, was the most successful, it couldn’t be denied. The ones on campus where the police could circle us and beat heads in were more of a gift to Reagan, who railed against the lack of law and order while we were being brutalized by the police. It’s not both-siderism to want progressive values to succeed and prevent us from repeating mistakes.
@LLS

CivilityFan,
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@SallyStrange Not just officials, also the protestors. If Biden can maneuver Netanyahu into accepting a three way with the Saudis and get a Palestinian State agreement by the convention, he can pull this out. If not, I fear that Gaza will end up the largest cemetery on Earth

https://apple.news/AqHIV94lSQBWrZ_AykrQpYw

@lauren @LLS

CivilityFan,
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@SallyStrange
You really wanted to be wrong?
Don’t worry, you are.
I will reiterate one time my premise in hopes you can understand it and then leave this thread.
Returning violence for violence is the surest path to defeat for our progressive cause.
As for leaving this thread, I have learned an adage here on Mastodon recently, it goes like this
“The bees don’t waste their time explaining to the flys why honey is better than shit”

CivilityFan,
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@LLS
The response to the demonstrations was what lost Humphrey the election. Remember, too, that RFK won Californias delegates, (with the other peace candidate McCarthy second), the night he was assassinated. Nixon rode into the WH on a law and order platform enabled by live TV of police clashing with thousands of young people portrayed as violent protestors. The majority of Dems wanted to end that damn war, instead, we got the man who made it bigger.

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StillIRise1963, to random
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My parents have been married 65 years today.

CivilityFan,
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@StillIRise1963
My 55th is this August.

CivilityFan,
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@StillIRise1963
That’s wonderful. Congratulations

Free_Press, to news
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Russian President Vladimir Putin's appointment of a new defense minister, Andrey Belousov, is seen as an attempt to streamline Russia's economy and mobilize it for the war effort.

Russia's military has faced numerous supply and logistics problems that thwarted its all-out war against Ukraine from the get-go. Two years later, the problems of poor logistics and lack of strategic planning persist.

CivilityFan,
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@lin11c
Plausible deniability. A bit like Putin with his nukes, putting them on the table, results in action in kind. No one can predict what happens in war, but not responding to threats is what gave us Mussolini and then Chamberlain with his “peace in our time”. Both statements are out there, let Utin suck on that for a bit
@timo21

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@lin11c
Wasn’t that the message from Blinkon yesterday or the day before? The weapons are going to support the war effort, and it’s up to the combatants how they’re best used.
@timo21

dougiec3, to random
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Keep in mind that the US does not have a health care system. It has an insurance/medical industry.
https://www.propublica.org/article/cigna-medical-director-doctor-patient-preapproval-denials-insurance

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@dougiec3
These doctors are not practicing medicine, they are getting paid to review claims. What a waste of an education. Take the profit out of delivering healthcare and these positions evaporate, the money insurance companies siphon away from delivering medical care can be used for preventative strategies and societal costs go down, health outcomes improve and everyone wins except Wall Street

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@dougiec3
This is about doctors working for insurance companies. It may well be an indictment of that working relationship, but there are a lot of moving parts to the U.S. health care system and I believe your blanket statement gives short shrift to a lot of deeply committed persons who work their asses off every day to provide medical care to individuals and communities.
Let’s agree to demonize the real enemy here, those whose work removes money from providing care to others.

TonyStark, to random
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I already shared an article from the ACLU regarding the rights of protesters this week but here’s another one.

There are loads of First Amendment protections that apply to everyone and everyone should know them but there are also things that aren’t covered and it’s nowhere near “do whatever you want wherever you want, zero consequences.”

Know the difference.

Know Your Rights | Protesters’ Rights | ACLU
https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/protesters-rights

CivilityFan,
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@MJ
It’s happened to me, I was standing along side a Black student in ‘69 at an anti war protest at SF State when the tac squad charged us on horseback. We both ran across 19th Ave and he went left and I went right. The cop chased after him and I’m still alive today. I knew I was no different than him except I’m white.
@TonyStark

CivilityFan,
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@MJ
Civil disobedience can result in jail time and fines, but non violent protesting should never be punished by police brutality. It is frequently, though. Be prepared for physical injuries. It’s not right, it’s not fair, but it is inevitable.
@TonyStark

qurlyjoe, to HashtagGames
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Tom Swift and the Deadly FPVs that he builds in his basement workshop and sends to Ukraine every week.

CivilityFan,
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@qurlyjoe
Thanks for that, haven’t thought about Tom Swift for ages, I loved reading those adventures as a child

shoq, to random
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A lot of people feared that the content or behavior of Threads would be a huge threat to the fediverse. I never believed that. It was the sheer size of their clout and reach that would come to dominate by sucking all the oxygen from the room. Even the hardest core fedi evangelists are now posting mostly on Threads first, believing it increases their reach. I don’t know if anything can offset that sea change fast enough to matter.

CivilityFan,
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@shoq
I’m glad you pointed this out, could not agree more

CivilityFan,
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@shoq
I would not touch a Meta product, I’ve blocked it and am happy with this little oasis of a mass commercialism free zone on the Internet

CivilityFan, to HashtagGames
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On a dark desert highway
Cars going everywhere
Little froggers are to be
Amphibians jumping in the air
Up ahead in the distance
Lay many little green toads
Tears form as my eyes see them
Smeared across the roads


CivilityFan, to random
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Constant change is here to stay, soon fossil fuel extraction company owners and executives, their lobbyists and the political leaders they have in thrall to them will lose the clout they currently hold (MBS, McConnell et al), and the generation that will replace them should start planning now to hold them accountable. Their actions have caused the deaths of millions, perhaps plans involving the guillotine are justified. Making it known now may temper the actions of mid level perpetrators. Work to hold them to account

CivilityFan, to HashtagGames
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The Price is Right
Starring Bob Menendez


CivilityFan, to HashtagGames
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Don’t Be Cruella de Vil


CivilityFan, to HashtagGames
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Betty Davis’ Earlobes

Momentarily Young

Paperback Alt Text Editor

CivilityFan, to HashtagGames
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I, Robot


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John Tooturro


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