Joe Shemo

Joe Shemo

@abufurtuna.bsky.social

Pro-Gun Progressive who is watching the rift between morals and ethics grow wider. And no, this is not a spam account 🤦🏻‍♂️

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"That which is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow. That is the whole Torah; the rest is commentary. Go and learn." - attributed to Hillel Babylonian Talmud, Shabbat 31a.

I think Luigi Mangione has more integrity than anyone who has villainized him, criticized him, or may have been harmed by him. Or the president. How ironic when morals conflict with ethics. #LuigiForPresident

Something zionists don’t want you to know: Judaism, including its traditional rabbinic form, was always based on empathy and “what is hateful to you, do not do to another person.” Zionism as a political foundation is the antithesis to Jewish ethics. #Antizionism isn’t #antisemitism. It’s #humanist.

Although Gestapo operated outside law and targeted extermination, the militarization of #ICE —unmarked vehicles, racial profiling, 600% arrest increases, and reduced oversight—demonstrates that authoritarian consolidation need not require a death camp to function as a mechanism of political control.

Mussolini seized power through violence, banning opposition, and concentrating executive authority. Trump via Project 2025 and Vought mirror this: purge the civil service, expand presidential power, erode checks and balances. Similar end, different era. #Trump #MAGA #Democracy

Just a reminder that the real leader of Evil is Russel Vought; Trump is merely his stooge and idiot puppet. (A costly, damaging one…) Time for beatitudinal happenings.

We have learned only tactics since 9/11/01. Not learned actual lessons on treating others better for the sake of humanity. Eg the garbage agency created to fight terrorism post 9/11—DHS—is now the terrorist organization harming Americans. On this anniversary… we should be ashamed of ourselves. #dhs

I was asked to not wake the baby. Ok. I will try to take my morning pills with water more quietly. I’ve been up for two hours trying not to move so no one else wakes up while having to poop. My bad.

I realized I am no longer a liberal. (This is serious.) I’m a mostly-progressive who believes that if the other fuckers are armed and out to get you, arm yourself and practice violence in the hopes you don’t have to use it. Fuck the Democratic Party. They fail us again and again against MAGA.

Fall down seven times, get up eight. My daughter shits seven times, but we change her diaper eight. Then she shits again. Fuck you, Sisyphus. #parenting #diapers #hashtagblessed

My wife told me that she was changing our daughter, and our daughter sneezed which caused her to shit on my wife’s hand. She just threw up on my wife. #Blessed

As a new parent I would like to think I am learning. I have tried many different ways and timing… my kid still pees on me as soon as I am about to close their fresh diaper over their cleaned body. I know I am learning… to accept failure.

It’s not a requirement… but… if you are training #kali or #escrima… you should look like this at least every once in a while. Experience beats theory every time.

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