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rauder

@rauder@norcal.social

Parent, US citizen.
Like people, cats, redwoods, democracy, not necessarily in that order.

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RustyBertrand, to random
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Imagine if someone told you 20 years ago that free speech was bad and bombing children and food trucks was good?

rauder,
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@RustyBertrand
Well, I do recall that around 20-years ago the U.S. was fighting in Iraq, families were being killed, conservatives were objecting to peaceful protests about it…

IzabelaKaramia, to random
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Morning came too soon. But I slept long and well and I hope that I will have better energy today but I probably should still take things easy as possible.

I can hear Ginza thrashing away at the ball that dangles from her cat tree.

Time to make me breakfast.

rauder,
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@IzabelaKaramia Personally, I’d rather be enlightened.

TheSpaceshipper, to random
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was released 19 years ago today.

"Mere seconds before the Earth is to be demolished by an alien construction crew, journeyman Arthur Dent is swept off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect."

rauder,
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@TheSpaceshipper
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy was released 45 years ago on 12 October, 1979.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy_(novel)

gulovsen, to random
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It is highly unlikely that anything which happens between now & November will prevent the former President of the United States from running again.

If you want to get worked up about things like the Supreme Court, or whether gag orders are being violated, or whether he spends time in jail, that's fine, but please don't let that distract you from what you could actually be doing between now & November to make sure that he never sets foot in the White House again.

November is all that matters.

rauder,
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@gulovsen
As the excellent @Teri_Kanefield has repeatedly stated: the courts won’t save us from fascist Trumpism. He needs to be defeated at the ballot box.

Hitler was aressted and put in jail and his Nazi party still grew.

The right-wing extremists need to lose elections widely and resoundingly to break their power.

rauder, to random
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India targets Apple over its phone hacking notifications
Free article on how India’s right-wing, extremist government is using state security services to surveillance and harass political critics and journalists.

https://wapo.st/3NEJYub

clive, (edited ) to random
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NYC area lovers of music 🎶

I have your plans for Friday night

Come end 2023 with Lipstick Driver 🎸

We are bringing a wall of beautiful noise to Rockwood Music Hall stage one — 7 pm 📣

SEE YOU THERE 🎉

https://lipstickdriver.bandcamp.com

rauder,
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@clive
Hey Clive, I am still figuring out this Mastodon/Fediverse thing, and I think you will get more visibility on your post if you edit it to include something like the hashtag # NYC (no space).

Sounds like fun, wish I could be there.

rauder, to random
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That’s the power of love

https://youtu.be/wBl2QGAIx1s?si=KRo4DmAmfkCoY5W7

vlrny, to random
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Well, I'm going to go for a walk, can't remember the last time I moved my body, urk.

Then I think I need some utter bloody silliness. Who's up for an installation of
later this aft?

If you have access to any of these movies and are free for a couple hrs later today, give a wave, we'll work out deets.

(or organize your own movie watch cohorts)

rauder,
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@vlrny
Ready

georgetakei, to random

Shots of me, going into 2024.

rauder,
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@georgetakei
As quite a handsome and refined gent, I am sure the hippos are proud to have you.

NatureMC, to music
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    rauder,
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    @NatureMC

    Thanks - fun!

    Here is my contribution to your light-hearted counter-Christmas carol collection:

    With Cats’ Like Tread..

    https://youtu.be/WdJg6Duzzf4?si=4y2VHa1Js6_17ZGe

    appassionato, to palestine
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    “There is only one country to unlock what’s happening at the moment – the carnage, the mass-scale violations of international law. That country is the United States. People in the White House and the State Department, they hold the key to aid delivery and a ceasefire.”

    Agnes Callamard, secretary-general of Amnesty International

    @palestine




    rauder,
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    @appassionato @palestine

    Sure, let’s not mention Russian invading Ukraine and committing slaughter and ethnic cleansing, China exterminating the Uyghers, crushing the Tibetans and Hong Kong, Israel slaughtering civilians.

    Blame only the U.S. for not stopping them all nor controlling the world.

    GhostOnTheHalfShell, (edited ) to music
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    rauder,
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    @GhostOnTheHalfShell
    Steams?

    Tasty!

    RickiTarr, to random
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    MY HUSBAND SAID I CAN ONLY WATCH ONE BABY GENIUS MOVIE PER DAY!

    rauder,
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    @RickiTarr
    I take it he doesn’t qualify?

    rauder,
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    @RickiTarr
    Would a fully grown man make arbitrary demands like that?

    StillIRise1963, to random
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    I blocked Threads.

    rauder,
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    @StillIRise1963
    I’m still a big fan of Yarn.

    fitheach, to random
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    I've been promising myself to get Game of Thrones, as I'd never seen it. Watched the first few episodes and I didn't enjoy it. I persevered, last night, and by episode six I was enjoying it.

    rauder,
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    @fitheach
    The books are quite good.

    StillIRise1963, to random
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    Marco

    rauder,
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    @StillIRise1963 Polo

    …seems pretty fun.

    TammyGentzel, to NFL
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    Would someone please explain to me why football players can’t squirt their own water bottles? @nfl

    rauder,
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    @TammyGentzel @nfl

    CTE?

    gratefuldread, to news
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    rauder,
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    @gratefuldread
    What a cretin.

    Wish these people felt shame so they could be discouraged.

    rauder,
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    @DrAlexandraK @gratefuldread

    Dr.K,

    Thanks for sharing!

    Sometimes I struggle with subtlety…

    Are you implying it is insulting and unfair to actual cretins to associate them with morality deficient MAGAts?

    cstross, to random
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    You know how with the right it's always projection?

    So—who is Trump confessing he had killed?

    https://www.mediaite.com/news/trump-rants-late-into-the-night-about-how-he-totally-meant-to-keep-not-knowing-who-president-is-2/

    rauder,
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    @cstross
    Trump killed Ivanka, and buried her in his golf course?

    https://news.yahoo.com/heres-donald-trumps-ex-wife-015248332.html

    StillIRise1963, to random
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    If you have the power to create positive change, I think you also have an obligation to do it.

    rauder,
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    @StillIRise1963
    I agree with the concept of “if you have the power to create positive change, you have an obligation to do so.”
    Yet personally struggle with drawing the line on how much to sacrifice for my family and self in helping others.

    skaly, to Israel
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    Hamas abused our children and are still currently doing so. They were repeatedly showing children videos they filmed of themselves committing the massacre while guns are pointed at their heads. Aged 4 to 16 including babies, one they claim to have murdered after kidnapping. Some of those children can barely speak and cannot smile. Some were separated from others in a dark room for many days. When will the world will see?
    Writing from within Israel.

    rauder,
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    @skaly
    Yes, what Hamas has done is terrible, cruel, depraved. To approx 1,400 people, too many of them children. Hamas terrorists need to be punished, captured, killed.

    And Netanyahu’s military has slaughtered approximately 14,000 people in Gaza, around half innocent children. So are those actions ~10x worse?

    rauder,
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    @skaly
    This last statement of yours seems to be jumbling multiple, irrelevant things.

    To reiterate, you were originally complaining the Hamas terrorists did terrible things to some children.

    I was noting that Netanyahu’s response has killed around 10x as many children in Gaza.

    Seems to me that both actions are terrible, awful crimes and tragedies.

    Collective punishment and targeting civilians is wrong.

    RD4Anarchy, to anarchism
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    When we suggest that capitalism must be eliminated, someone always wants to know:

    "What will you replace it with?"

    If you have a cancerous tumor removed, do you think you need to replace it with something?

    If you have a parasite sucking your life away, you remove it. You don't replace it with something else.

    If you are a slave, you need freedom, not a new master.

    Someone always asks:

    "What is your solution?"

    As if it's up to me. Like they can't imagine a world where people work things out together instead of following some leader's proprietary "solution". As if there has to be one solution for everyone. As if there even has to be "a solution".

    As if capitalism was ever a solution to anything.

    Solution to what?

    The "problem" of being human beings?

    rauder,
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    @Cirdan @Loukas @HeavenlyPossum @RD4Anarchy

    Look if you are saying the only improvement / replacement for is ending all laws and society, I fundamentally disagree.

    People naturally and beneficially forms groups and do things that take collective action. We have seen that some laws are better than no laws. That people are cantankerous and messy and there is no simple, perfect solution for society. There are only choosing between imperfect options.

    https://washingtonmonthly.com/2020/08/30/libertarians-took-control-of-this-small-town-it-didnt-end-well

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