timwhat.bsky.social

timwhat.bsky.social

@timwhat.bsky.social

I am first European then Irish, my interests are history mainly European and North American, politics because you cannot escape politics and gaming. I have found as you get older it is easier to pretend you’re an adult.

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The USA elected for a second time a 9 year old malicious vindictive moron, a person whose ignorance is only matched by his pettiness. The USA chose a fraudster and a rapist who in turn chose an administration of sycophantic liars supported by the rotting corpse of a political party.

Trump represents a part of the USA that is parochial ultra conservative equally as ignorant and vindictive, always existed and intends to reshape the USA in its ugly likeness. It is succeeding and unless US citizens fight back it will consume everything the USA keeps telling itself it stands for.

Just thought I would post this, Carl Sagan 1995, with slight edit to fit. “I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries

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when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness.

The slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance”

Just thought I would post this, Carl Sagan 1995, with slight edit to fit. “I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries

when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority

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