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@doikeit.bsky.social

Software Engineer, Jew, and Feminist Conservative—I want to preserve the world's postcolonial momentum from Nazism. They take what they want, and you take it sitting down?

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🚨Nonviolent Actions Save Lives 🚨 🧵The attached thread is the table of contents from Gene Sharp's encyclopedic "Methods of Nonviolent Action". 🔄 Threads of historical examples are being attached via quote to each category. 🫱 Don't hesitate; TRY something and see how it feels to ACT.

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\## The Methods of Nonviolent Protest and Persuasion

Tennessee Republicans passed a new congressional map that splits the state's only majority-Black district (the 9th, centered in Memphis) into three Republican-leaning districts. As Chairwoman of the House Calendar & Rules Committee, Moody's scheduled and advanced the redistricting bill.

I would not say that the fascists are happy but they do seem to be the only group that is really enthused and energized in this moment. All of the so-called resistance seem to be tired old people. And all of the youth are nihilistic. Cowards calling themselves introverts.

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Movements that promise certainty, enemies, and belonging can feel energizing when institutions seem slow or ineffective, which is one reason authoritarian or extremist politics can attract intense commitment.

By contrast, many mainstream opposition efforts are broad, procedural, and coalition-based, which often looks less thrilling even when it is more durable. That doesn’t mean the energized side is healthier; it often means it is better at channeling frustration into action.

I would not say that the fascists are happy but they do seem to be the only group that is really enthused and energized in this moment. All of the so-called resistance seem to be tired old people. And all of the youth are nihilistic. Cowards calling themselves introverts.

🚀 The spectacle is the ultimate stage of market penetration, where commodities have successfully colonized our social lives. 💼 It’s a major disruptor because it alienates talent from their own output, replacing authentic experiences with a "pseudoworld" of mere representation.

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🧠 High screen time is directly correlated with "malaise," from chronic headaches to burnout and depression. 📉 Philosophically, the spectacle is a total boundary-blurrer. By crushing the individual under a false reality, it drives us toward total disconnection.

🧩 Unable to find our "why" or engage in true dialogue, we’re forced into a cycle of "retail therapy" as a magical, illusory escape from our fundamental lack of agency. 🛍️✨ #ThoughtLeadership #SocialCritique #FutureOfWork #Authenticity

🚀 The spectacle is the ultimate stage of market penetration, where commodities have successfully colonized our social lives. 💼 It’s a major disruptor because it alienates talent from their own output, replacing authentic experiences with a "pseudoworld" of mere representation.

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🏟️ Look at the 1930s: those rallies were engineered to make individuals trade their independent mindset for a "herd" mentality. 🐑 Unlike traditional events that foster peer-to-peer creativity, these authoritarian spectacles demand we just sit back and applaud.

👏 By cutting us off from reality, propaganda replaces the real world with a consistent system of lies, feeding the desire to escape the unpredictable nature of the hustle. 📉 This environment of isolation and passive consumption has a real impact on our ROI—our health.

🚀 The spectacle is the ultimate stage of market penetration, where commodities have successfully colonized our social lives. 💼 It’s a major disruptor because it alienates talent from their own output, replacing authentic experiences with a "pseudoworld" of mere representation.

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🤝❌ Through screens, we get a false sense of connection—"remote-control politics." 📺 We feel engaged with the world without putting in the work or taking ownership of our societal responsibilities.

🛋️ Public spectacles, from viral trials to celebrity news, keep us in a state of "parallel play"—captivating the audience without driving real-world networking or social action. 🎭 Historically, mass spectacles have been used to scale passivity and turn nations into audiences.

🚀 The spectacle is the ultimate stage of market penetration, where commodities have successfully colonized our social lives. 💼 It’s a major disruptor because it alienates talent from their own output, replacing authentic experiences with a "pseudoworld" of mere representation.

📉 This creates a cycle of consuming illusions and artificial "pseudoneeds" just to keep the capitalist engine running. ⚙️ We’ve shifted from *being* to *having*, and now, simply to *appearing*. Tech like cars and TV?

They’re just tools reinforcing the "lonely crowd" dynamic. 🚗📺 The spectacle brings us together only in our isolation, disrupting community life and privatizing both our downtime and our civic impact.

I'm done pandering to men's insecurities when studies across the board show that women's anxiety is greater and growing faster in recent years. A lot has been made of the crisis of men's alienation in the last decade, but it's a relatively minor issue compared to women's. In short: it's a hoax.

So, it turns out that pedophilia is compatible with industrial capitalism? Maybe we should evolve economic systems with which the abbhorent is incompatible?

Gimme a break. No ethical consumption under capitalism. Your AI-plagiarism pearl-clutching is a distraction from real issues like wage stagnation, profit-sharing, and public health!

Feeling more and more Zionist as the anti-Israel rhetoric loses touch with reality. Deplorable as their murderous apartheid is, Israel is enmeshed in a geopolitical web of adversarial actors. When anti-Israel posts fail to recognize the roles of Hezbollah, of Qatar, of Iran, I can only despair.

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FLOCK OUT of Santa Clara County! Tuesday Feb 24th at 12 pm See original post by @sirenimmigration.bsky.social on Instagram: www.instagram.com/p/DU7Hj1bEadb/

Taniel@taniel.bsky.social

Mountain View “allowed hundreds of unauthorized law enforcement agencies to search information captured by the city’s license plate cameras for more than a year.” Particularly important amid immigration enforcement. www.mv-voice.com/police/2026/...

> Several years earlier, Epstein had been convicted for the trafficking of minors and had spent a year in prison. While [his] public reputation was... destroyed, many people whose judgement I trusted assured me that he had reformed himself and was committed to staying on the good side of the law.

Joscha Bach@joscha.bsky.social

For some people, the relationship between mind and reality is confusing because they don’t see how reflexive oberservers could arise from physical reality, for others, it’s the experience of their own consciousness as an external phenomenon, for a third group the observation of transcendental agents

> The scientist, Joscha Bach, took tens of thousands of dollars from Epstein, going beyond research funding to accept money for flights, rent and his children’s tuition at a private school in Menlo Park.

Joscha Bach@joscha.bsky.social

For some people, the relationship between mind and reality is confusing because they don’t see how reflexive oberservers could arise from physical reality, for others, it’s the experience of their own consciousness as an external phenomenon, for a third group the observation of transcendental agents

Something that always backfires, I'm beginning to feel, is ridicule. Fascists are immune to it. They, in a sense, thrive on it. Fascism is adapted to exploit being ridiculed. It's part of their camouflage. "Haha, ja, ve are all laughink!"

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Replying to @la-tron.bsky.social

The linchpin of Trump's entire strategy this time around is to concentrate resources in ICE so he has loyal shock troops with which to impose totalitarianism. He's been investigated over and over for decades. That means nothing to him. He fears communities mobilizing to become ungovernable.