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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 random
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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

TonyStark, to random
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America, we have 11 months to stop a dictator. Don't be fooled by the familiarity of the fool or by any soft-pedaling of the situation. Trump means us excessive harm.

Nobody in the Democratic Party, including Joe Biden, is perfect. We don't need that and we won’t get it. We need people that will stop this march to autocracy, misogyny, racism, and the deletion of our rights.

One chance, people.

Voters must take Trump seriously and literally. The stakes are that high.
https://wapo.st/47EtCsV

CivilityFan,
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@PopOfAfrica
If you don’t see the good that Biden has done, you are being intentionally obtuse. He inherited, like Obama, an economy in free fall with record unemployment and inflation. GDP is over 3%, job growth & real earning power are higher than at anytime in tfg’s time in office, inflation is being managed without a recession that hurts the poorest people. My God, man, he walked the picket line with UAW workers, the 1st time a President has done that. His record for protecting minorities is solid. Quit spreading lies about how ineffective he is, b/c he has stood up for my very progressive values more than any POTUS since Carter.
@havvyhh2 @MJ

black_intellect, to random
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The Proud Boys are collapsing: Surprise! Legal consequences do hurt authoritarian movements | https://www.salon.com/2024/01/11/the-proud-boys-are-collapsing-surprise--legal-consequences-do-hurt-authoritarian-movements/

CivilityFan,
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@black_intellect
The last line:

“But we've already lost if we roll over and let the criminals run free.”

is what happened in Italy when Mussolini threatened violence and the authorities surrendered without a fight. It’s what can happen anywhere when people of conscience submit to threats.

Holding tfg and extremists responsible will always prove more practical and effective than holding your nose and letting the stink pervade society. Hate and violence are easy, but the tools of cowards in a mob. Hold the leader accountable and the mob will either turn on each other or run for cover.

RickiTarr, to random
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What are your true opinions and thoughts on marriage?

Just for fun, this is a photo from my wedding day (ignore the reflection of my phone lol) I was all of 21.

CivilityFan,
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@RickiTarr
Wife and I married at 19, nobody thought it would last. We had very different upbringings, had known each other only 14 months and we were both as clueless as kids generally are. We were afraid her parents might travel up from LA to Berkeley and find out we were living together (out of wedlock!) and so we got married.

Neither of us is the same, growth and change are unavoidable, but we’re still the same person in an undefinable and distinct way & my luck has been to see that same person inside as I have learned to appreciate the person she has grown into being. It has not always been easy, but it has always been worthwhile. There is an inevitable ebb and flow in any relationship, I have been lucky both of us stuck it out during the rough patches.

In August we will celebrate our 55 year wedding anniversary.

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.

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”

ChrisMayLA6, to random
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Matt Downie (Crisis) on the intention to replace the already draconian (Victorian vintage) Vagrancy Act with something even more punitive.

'People become homeless because there are not enough homes, rents are soaring & the cost of living crisis has eaten away at their incomes. People become homeless because of failed policy....

Being homeless should not be a crime. Society must change. It’s time to leave the 19th century behind'!

Being is bad enough without making it worse

CivilityFan,
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@ChrisMayLA6 I disagree that homelessness isn’t a crime. The policymakers are the criminals and the unhoused their victims

SrRochardBunson, to random

A "2nd civil war" wouldn't be Meal Team Six lining up against the army.

It would be JimBob taking out that immigrant couple on their street or family with the trans kid, that they've been pissed at for years. All it takes is some sign or assurance that they might get away with it.

CivilityFan,
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@SrRochardBunson
The MAGAts that are so proud of their AR-15’s & think the second amendment right has enabled them to withstand perceived Federal overreach remind me of the Southerners in the beginning of Gone With The Wind, which is a great film for understanding hubris and the belief these folks have of their superiority and lack of humanity.
They think guns will protect them against the Army, but I think that they will more likely be reminded of out how Waco turned out, though not until tens of thousand die in the streets. The only hope I hold is if this next election is decided by an overwhelmingly Democratic majority. Which is why third party candidates are so dangerous

makkhorn, to FreeSpeech
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Going off the deep end
THE AMERICAN WAY

we don’t have to tolerate intolerance, extremism

CivilityFan,
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@LouisIngenthron
There are techniques to battle misinformation & lies that don’t require eliminating free speech, though admittedly it’s difficult to thread that needle. Dominion made Fox pay for the big lie, & I believe Jack Smith will make tfg pay as well, but justice delayed isn’t just justice denied, it propagates exponentially, so I do believe the threat from intentionally deceiving the public needs some very strong remedy. Money damages are a powerful deterrent, but imo challenging a broadcasters license should be on the table for the destruction of democracy that the Fox network has wrought

@makkhorn

WmShakesp3are, to random
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I really hate really old people. What sucks is that I am old people.

CivilityFan,
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@WmShakesp3are
A lot of my union coworkers voted for that evil douchebag, it was appalling. First thing he did was to screw over the air traffic controllers union. Since he was elected, income inequality stopped getting narrower and began its current trajectory with poverty increasing and the hollowing out of the middle class. He was a horrible criminal, the only thing that kept him from being impeached was Alzheimer’s. I’m glad he died, he was more crooked than Nixon
@Snowshadow @thepoliticalcat @Barbramon1 @dbc3

CivilityFan,
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@Snowshadow
I have always maintained that he was really the Devil incarnate. Neither Carter nor Mondale could fathom how disposable and dangerous he was, or how underhanded his campaign could be. Americans have been led to believe he was a great communicator, but really he was the first fascist fox in the Democratic henhouse, making deals with Iranian terrorists to delay the return of our kidnapped diplomats & giving weapons to right wing dictators in Central America

@WmShakesp3are @thepoliticalcat @Barbramon1 @dbc3

CivilityFan,
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@Snowshadow
Was working long hours during a few crisis weeks near the end of my career, a few 12 & 14 hour days when renewing and replacing a whole labor & delivery unit’s fetal monitoring when the nurses decided the newer models just weren’t cutting it, and coffee was my drug of choice. But those kinds of work related calamities were few and far between, mostly just normal 40 hour work weeks and only four or five cups of coffee a day
@thepoliticalcat @WmShakesp3are @zakalwe @dbc3 @Barbramon1

TonyStark, to random
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It’s another sweeping assault on the rights and dignity of transgender people in Florida by Republicans. Acts like this want to deny their existence. Ron DeSantis is particularly hateful.

Hopefully, it gets overruled in court. We should all care about this. Everyone’s rights are connected.

Florida barring transgender residents from changing gender on driver's license:
https://abcnews.go.com/US/florida-barring-transgender-residents-changing-gender-drivers-license/story?id=106896871

CivilityFan,
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@cynblogger @TonyStark Well, I think that making it illegal to be trans is the goal. It’s how the Nazi playbook works, or it did in the 1930’s. Jews couldn’t work in certain jobs, had to stay restricted to certain areas and had to wear identifying patches on their clothes. Then they are easy to spot, round up and dispose of, like trash. That’s how you eliminate empathy for a population, bit by bit diminish their rights until the majority see them as other instead of seeing a shared humanity.

JoshuaHolland, to Russia
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112 voted to let crush . But the aid bill passed.

CivilityFan,
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@objectinspace
My sentiments exactly, I’m for non violence and finding a peaceful solution to problems, but unchecked aggression cannot be resolved by compromise. Chamberlain wanted to promise the British “peace in our time” by giving in to Hitler. It didn’t turn out well for him, and if Ukraine falls, it will end up being US troops on the ground in Europe again.
@JoshuaHolland

CivilityFan, to HashtagGames
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In olden days, people used paper printed and coins minted by the government to exchange for goods and services, this cash register was where the amounts that were required to pay were totaled up and the tokens kept.


CivilityFan, to HashtagGames
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The Price is Right
Starring Bob Menendez


darnell, to america
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lady advocates that 🇺🇸 repeal the 19 Amendment of the 🇺🇸 Constitution 📜, which guarantees women the right to vote.

👉🏾 https://x.com/lizziemarbach/status/1780956793985712206 (screen shot provided below)

I discovered this via 🧵: https://www.threads.net/

I heard chatter from some advocating this (offline), but I considered the idea fringe & wacky.

I am wondering if this idea is somehow gaining acceptance amongst the crowd‽

better win on November 5th!

CivilityFan,
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@darnell
Had to laugh at that line about “Women in leadership create chaos”

Just the recent history of the House, where Nancy Pelosi ran a tight ship that secured Biden’s agenda passed through the previous Congress, and this Congress whose Speaker couldn’t get our bills paid or budget passed without help from the opposition, then got fired and a new guy who is unable to support our allies without being threatened by his own rw extremists.

How much chaos when led by a women versus two men? Lmfao.

They live in an alternate reality devoid of facts

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 random
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Even in Berkeley, Holocaust denial and antisemitism. I am so disappointed that this hate is being embraced by a new generation
https://apple.news/AxamBMQl8Si2iMDNs7G914Q

CivilityFan, to HashtagGames
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I, Robot


CivilityFan, to HashtagGames
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John Tooturro


TonyStark, to random
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Voice of internet maturity. /s

CivilityFan,
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@TonyStark
Had the SC stayed out of that election, I feel confident Gore would have done the job of listening to the presidential briefings and stopped the attack on 9/11 instead of being on vacation all the time in the lead up to that awful day. How much would have changed? Trillions in military spending, countless deaths and empowered extremists in the Middle East all due to Bush/Cheney attempt to get Iraq’s oil.
Yeah, not much difference. What an ass

StillIRise1963, to random
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Name a search engine NG or “not google."

CivilityFan,
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@StillIRise1963
Ecosia. They contribute to climate action by planting trees from monies received through searches

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

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

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