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@tacobell.bsky.social is this nationwide or only certain areas?
May 28, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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Came here to mention that.
Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them. — In this formulation, I do not imply, for instance, that we should always suppress the utterance of intolerant philosophies; as long as we can counter them by rational argument and keep them in check by public opinion, suppression would certainly be unwise. But we should claim the right to suppress them if necessary even by force; for it may easily turn out that they are not prepared to meet us on the level of rational argument, but begin by denouncing all argument; they may forbid their followers to listen to rational argument, because it is deceptive, and teach them to answer arguments by the use of their fists or pistols. We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant. We should claim that any movement preaching intolerance places itself outside the law, and we should consider incitement to intolerance and persecution as criminal, in the same way as we should consider incitement to murder, or to kidnapping, or to the revival of the slave trade, as criminal.
January 30, 2025 at 5:35 AM
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So true on the farming. I always think of this pic.
January 28, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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January 27, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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English translations (full text in alt text too)
Trump, I don't really like travelling to the US, it's a bit boring, but I confess that there are some commendable things. I like going to the black neighborhoods of Washington, where I saw an entire fight in the US capital between blacks and Latinos with barricades, which seemed like nonsense to me, because they should join together. I confess that I like Walt Whitman and Paul Simon and Noam Chomsky and Miller. I confess that Sacco and Vanzetti, who have my blood, are memorable in the history of the USA and I follow them. They were murdered by labor leaders with the electric chair, the fascists who are within the USA as well as within my country. I don't like your oil, Trump, you're going to wipe out the human species because of greed. Maybe one day, over a glass of whiskey, which I accept, despite my gastritis, we can talk frankly about this, but it's difficult because you consider me an inferior race and I'm not, nor is any Colombian. So if you know someone who is stubborn, that's me, period. You can try to carry out a coup with your economic strength and your arrogance, like they did with Allende. But I will die in my law, I resisted torture and I resist you. I don't want slavers next to Colombia, we already had many and we freed ourselves. What I want next to Colombia are lovers of freedom. If you can't accompany me, l'll go elsewhere. Colombia is the heart of the world and you didn't understand that, this is the land of the yellow butterflies, of the beauty of Remedios, but also of the colonels Aureliano Buendía, of which I am one, perhaps the last. You will kill me, but I will survive in my people, which is before yours, in the Americas. We are peoples of the winds, the mountains, the Caribbean Sea and of freedom. You don't like our freedom, okay. I don't shake hands with white slavers. I shake hands with the white libertarian heirs of Lincoln and the black and white farm boys of the USA, at whose graves I cried and prayed on a battlefield, which I reached after walking the mountains of Italian Tuscany and after being saved from Covid. They are the United States and before them I kneel, before no one else. Overthrow me, President, and the Americas and humanity will respond Colombia now stops looking north, looks at the world, our blood comes from the blood of the Caliphate of Cordoba, the civilization of that time, of the Roman Latins of the Mediterranean, the civilization of that time, who founded the republic, democracy in Athens; our blood has the black resistance fighters turned into slaves by you. In Colombia is the first free territory of America, before Washington, of all America, there I take refuge in its African songs. My land is made up of goldsmiths who worked in the time of the Egyptian pharaohs and of the first artists in the world in Chiribiquete. You will never rule us. The warrior who rode our lands, shouting freedom, who is called Bolivar, opposes us. Our people are somewhat fearful, somewhat timid, they are naive and kind, loving, but they will know how to win the Panama Canal, which you took from us with violence. Two hundred heroes from all of Latin America lie in Bocas del Toro, today's Panama, formerly Colombia, which you murdered. I raise a flag and as Gaitán said, even if it remains alone, it will continue to be raised with the Latin American dignity that is the dignity of America, which your great-grandfather did not know, and mine did, Mr. President, an immigrant in the USA. Your blockade does not scare me, because Colombia, besides being the country of beauty, is the heart of the world. I know that you love beauty as I do, do not disrespect it and you will give it your sweetness. FROM TODAY ON, COLOMBIA IS OPEN TO THE ENTIRE WORLD, WITH OPEN ARMS. WE ARE BUILDERS OF FREEDOM, LIFE, AND HUMANITY. I am informed that you impose a 50% tariff on the fruits of our human labor to enter the United States, and I do the same. Let our people plant corn that was discovered in Colombia and feed the world.
January 27, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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The most overlooked EO Trump signed was “Ending the Weaponization of the Fed Govt”

It says Biden admin acted lawlessly, then orders ALL agencies to make reports on that

At best you trash reputations & get ppl harassed. At worst they’ll use it to pursue charges

From latest ep of NYT The Daily pod
So those are the high-profile ones, but there's actually an order that hasn't been getting a lot of attention. I think it's really important and actually could foreshadow where things are heading with Trump. The order is titled, Ending the Weaponization of the Federal Government. When you actually read the order, the preamble asserts as fact that the Biden administration has acted lawlessly. Okay. And then it directs all agencies to produce reports on this. So whether it be through DOJ, through the intelligence agencies, whatever, these reports have to be produced and sent to the White House. Well, if you have asserted as fact that this thing is happening, and then you're telling your cabinet agencies, go and find me evidence of this thing and send it back to me. At a minimum, you're naming a bunch of Biden officials, damaging their reputations, whatever. But more likely perhaps, or equally likely, is you're setting up a roadmap for prosecution, for investigation, et cetera. The president is basically ordering every executive agency to go dig up potentially incriminating evidence that could be used against the outgoing administration and its personnel. Correct. That seems important to me, particularly when you have a campaign where one of the themes was retribution. And then this is sort of the executive order version of, actually, yeah, let's do a little bit of retribution. Right, because it could become a tool of that retribution. Pretty blatantly, yes.
January 22, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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January 20, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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Dustbunnies from “the big comfy couch” TV show
January 19, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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Chuck Tingle may already have something in the works.

Some of his literary masterpieces include:
January 19, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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January 19, 2025 at 5:24 AM
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Yep
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January 19, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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Imposter, I assume?
January 13, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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January 11, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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The ultimate “fuck me up” barber meme
January 11, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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The Watch Duty app is great for the latest updates on wildfires.

#SunsetFire
January 9, 2025 at 5:27 AM
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One of my favorite Deep Thoughts
" One thing kids like is to be tricked. For instance, I was going to take my little nephew to Disneyland, but instead I drove him to an old burned-out warehouse. 'Oh, no,' I said. 'Disneyland burned down.' He cried and cried, but I think that deep down, he thought it was a pretty good joke. I started to drive over to the real Disneyland, but it was getting pretty late." Jack Handey
December 29, 2024 at 10:22 PM
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Not what I was hoping but
December 23, 2024 at 2:24 AM
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These drones are getting out of hand
December 19, 2024 at 5:37 AM
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December 3, 2024 at 5:32 AM
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December 3, 2024 at 5:25 AM
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December 3, 2024 at 5:22 AM
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December 3, 2024 at 5:14 AM
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December 3, 2024 at 5:12 AM
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December 3, 2024 at 5:10 AM
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Add the book to your Christmas list lol
November 30, 2024 at 5:08 PM