Janus
@keyofjanus.bsky.social
♑️History lover, bibliophile, and Dirt worshiping Pagan. 🏳️🌈
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First they came for the immigrants, and I spoke out, because I’ve read the damn poem before and I know how it ends.
January 25, 2025 at 2:30 AM
First they came for the immigrants, and I spoke out, because I’ve read the damn poem before and I know how it ends.
Once again I hate this timeline
January 25, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Once again I hate this timeline
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Anyone else going to commit the sin of empathy today?
January 25, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Anyone else going to commit the sin of empathy today?
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Instant reaction to this news from a friend (as White as I am) who retired from the USAF as a colonel: "What the fuck?!"
The Air Force is stripping Tuskegee Airmen lessons from basic training curriculum because of our White supremacist government.
Put that in a headline.
www.expressnews.com/news/article...
Put that in a headline.
www.expressnews.com/news/article...
January 25, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Instant reaction to this news from a friend (as White as I am) who retired from the USAF as a colonel: "What the fuck?!"
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*raises hand
Because we've let the press consolidate in the hands of right wing billionaires with a vested interest in the hollowing out of informed consensus and real journalism, replaced by shallow ad-based controversy infotainment designed largely to disorient, distract, and coddle power?
Because we've let the press consolidate in the hands of right wing billionaires with a vested interest in the hollowing out of informed consensus and real journalism, replaced by shallow ad-based controversy infotainment designed largely to disorient, distract, and coddle power?
How come we've left it to Teen Vogue and Rolling Stone to bring all the real heat lately, while the OpEd pages of the NYT and WaPo and half the regulars in pubs like The Atlantic have gone so far as to practically join the bad guys?
When a single billionaire can accumulate more money in 10 seconds than their employees make in one year, while workers struggle to meet the basic cost of rent and medicine, then yes, every billionaire really is a policy failure.
Read our op-ed here ⤵️
Read our op-ed here ⤵️
January 25, 2025 at 2:54 PM
*raises hand
Because we've let the press consolidate in the hands of right wing billionaires with a vested interest in the hollowing out of informed consensus and real journalism, replaced by shallow ad-based controversy infotainment designed largely to disorient, distract, and coddle power?
Because we've let the press consolidate in the hands of right wing billionaires with a vested interest in the hollowing out of informed consensus and real journalism, replaced by shallow ad-based controversy infotainment designed largely to disorient, distract, and coddle power?
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Were they right to take Trump at his word the first time? No. Did they acknowledge this failure? They did not. Ahhh!! But did they learn from their mistake? Also no.
January 25, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Were they right to take Trump at his word the first time? No. Did they acknowledge this failure? They did not. Ahhh!! But did they learn from their mistake? Also no.
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Remember the "fact checkers" who upraided the Harris campaign for (correctly) stating that Project 2025 was an adjunct to Trump?
January 25, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Remember the "fact checkers" who upraided the Harris campaign for (correctly) stating that Project 2025 was an adjunct to Trump?
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Trump is one of those shitty people Jesus warned you about.
January 25, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Trump is one of those shitty people Jesus warned you about.
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Politics is easier to understand if you realize the voters and policy are the product and the donors are the customers
Just like media is easier to understand if you realize the readers are the product, and the advertisers are the customer
Just like media is easier to understand if you realize the readers are the product, and the advertisers are the customer
January 25, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Politics is easier to understand if you realize the voters and policy are the product and the donors are the customers
Just like media is easier to understand if you realize the readers are the product, and the advertisers are the customer
Just like media is easier to understand if you realize the readers are the product, and the advertisers are the customer
I've fallen down the rabbit hole of creating a post-apocalyptic matriarchal Norse society where Freya is the Queen of the Gods and the Norse Pantheon is one big polycule
January 25, 2025 at 3:33 AM
I've fallen down the rabbit hole of creating a post-apocalyptic matriarchal Norse society where Freya is the Queen of the Gods and the Norse Pantheon is one big polycule
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Ah yes, the fundamental error of the Dem mind: assuming that the public is somehow directly observing politics, and that the Democratic role is to react to the public's reaction, rather than help SHAPE the public's reaction
i think dems are waiting to see what the public's reaction is to the promises not being kept. i agree it's risky, but it's also risky right now to act like an outraged lib because there is a sense where when we act like that we're doing what far right media wants us to do.
January 25, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Ah yes, the fundamental error of the Dem mind: assuming that the public is somehow directly observing politics, and that the Democratic role is to react to the public's reaction, rather than help SHAPE the public's reaction
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"The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty."
- James Madison
- James Madison
January 14, 2025 at 10:29 PM
"The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty."
- James Madison
- James Madison
Well it’s been an interesting few days
January 23, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Well it’s been an interesting few days
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A Trump presidency is the answer to the question “What would it look like if the U.S. government was actively trying to make people’s lives worse?”
January 23, 2025 at 12:02 PM
A Trump presidency is the answer to the question “What would it look like if the U.S. government was actively trying to make people’s lives worse?”
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“The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting.”
Charles Bukowski
Follow my timeline for a curated collection of practical philosophy ##quotes.
Charles Bukowski
Follow my timeline for a curated collection of practical philosophy ##quotes.
August 19, 2024 at 1:03 PM
“The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting.”
Charles Bukowski
Follow my timeline for a curated collection of practical philosophy ##quotes.
Charles Bukowski
Follow my timeline for a curated collection of practical philosophy ##quotes.
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STEP ONE: Massive right-wing culture war and witch hunt against any expression of cosmopolitan or liberal values by prominent individuals or institutions.
STEP TWO: ???????
STEP THREE: Multiracial working class movement capable of taking on corporate and oligarchic power.
STEP TWO: ???????
STEP THREE: Multiracial working class movement capable of taking on corporate and oligarchic power.
DEI was an active impediment to the project of building a multiracial working class movement capable of taking on corporate and oligarch power. Rufo did the left a favor in nuking it.
January 22, 2025 at 8:42 PM
STEP ONE: Massive right-wing culture war and witch hunt against any expression of cosmopolitan or liberal values by prominent individuals or institutions.
STEP TWO: ???????
STEP THREE: Multiracial working class movement capable of taking on corporate and oligarchic power.
STEP TWO: ???????
STEP THREE: Multiracial working class movement capable of taking on corporate and oligarchic power.
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There’s a lot of value in a humanities education, but being able to see through glib con men is a nice one.
The rise of Curtis Yarvin is a good example of the value of expertise and the problems when it's dismissed. People with philosophy and history training recognize him as an intellectual fraud. But he was able to convince enough VCs and software engineers who didn't have the chops to see his errors.
January 22, 2025 at 7:52 PM
There’s a lot of value in a humanities education, but being able to see through glib con men is a nice one.
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The white nationalists are happy that Trump repealed a landmark executive order implementing the Civil Rights Act that has been in place since 1965
January 22, 2025 at 6:54 PM
The white nationalists are happy that Trump repealed a landmark executive order implementing the Civil Rights Act that has been in place since 1965
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BILLIONAIRE PLAYBOOK:
1. Buy all media
2. Brainwash masses
3. Oligarchy
1. Buy all media
2. Brainwash masses
3. Oligarchy
January 22, 2025 at 10:14 AM
BILLIONAIRE PLAYBOOK:
1. Buy all media
2. Brainwash masses
3. Oligarchy
1. Buy all media
2. Brainwash masses
3. Oligarchy