Arcenciel 🇨🇦🌈
andrewbza.bsky.social
Arcenciel 🇨🇦🌈
@andrewbza.bsky.social
Father of two 👦🏼👧🏻 Tech worker in Canada 🍁🇨🇦 Trying to stay optimistic about the future of humanity 🌎 I believe in truth, I value empathy, and I trust the science
My four year-old already makes surprisingly insightful connections; I have no doubt that a 10 year-old could say this!
April 17, 2025 at 2:12 PM
I’ve switched to praising skill rather than talent

Skill is earned, talent is given, and even the talented most work hard to become truly skilled
April 16, 2025 at 9:55 PM
The benefits are many and significant!

Less crime to worry about and shield against, fewer negative interactions with people who resent your wealth, less chance of communicable disease spreading to your family, etc.
April 14, 2025 at 4:45 PM
@mcuban.bsky.social what motivates you to oppose this administration?

And how do we motivate other ultra-wealthy people to oppose authoritarianism?
April 14, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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April 10, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Yes, but sometimes making money means fighting hard for your client against opposing counsel (or you get dropped for a firm that will).

My main hope is that most firms realize capitulation to Trump at this moment is not so much a slippery slope as a cliff overlooking a yawning abyss.
April 9, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Ironically, the truth is that Orwell never said this. It was written by Selwyn Duke, a right wing freelance writer:

www.reuters.com/article/fact...
Fact Check: Quote misattributed to George Orwell about society drifting from the truth continues to circulate online
A quote dating back to a 2009 opinion piece has been repeatedly misattributed to British writer George Orwell.
www.reuters.com
April 9, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Also, many manufacturers may decide to halt production rather than relocate facilities to the US, as they may assume the tariffs will be repealed (either by Trump or his successor) within 4 years
April 8, 2025 at 11:17 PM
It’s more like “but at least we’ll hunt down the people we encouraged you to hate”

“Enemies” suggests their targets have done them harm
April 6, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Maybe Trump and Elon are not ignoring this fact; seems like a great opportunity for big business to permanently crush their SMB competition
April 4, 2025 at 5:54 PM
They may go out of business anyway, since higher prices on nonessential goods means fewer customers willing to purchase them

No escaping the fallout of these policies, unfortunately
April 4, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Reposted by Arcenciel 🇨🇦🌈
Listen to what GOP used to say
April 3, 2025 at 9:48 PM
“A lack of empathy. It’s the one characteristic that connects all the defendants, a genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow men. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.”

– Captain G. M. Gilbert, the Army psychologist assigned to watching the defendants at the Nuremberg Trials
April 1, 2025 at 8:50 PM
“We are currently clean on OPSEC”
– Some Unqualified Moron
March 27, 2025 at 5:05 PM