Bill Walter
@billwalter.bsky.social
Proponent of remembering again our true American positive-sum core values.
"Until we are all free, we are none of us free." - Emma Lazarus
"Until we are all free, we are none of us free." - Emma Lazarus
November 11, 2025 at 12:17 PM
The problem with having empathy is that we project ourselves onto those we negotiate with. We imagine they feel as we would feel — that their conscience, their good faith, mirrors our own; we look for evidence to confirm it.
It's this bias that makes us especially vulnerable to gaslighting.
It's this bias that makes us especially vulnerable to gaslighting.
Do we really still believe Magas operate in good faith? Or have one ounce of shame?
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Bad Faith: America’s Existential Crisis
And how radical good faith can collectively heal us.
www.mind-war.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:17 AM
The problem with having empathy is that we project ourselves onto those we negotiate with. We imagine they feel as we would feel — that their conscience, their good faith, mirrors our own; we look for evidence to confirm it.
It's this bias that makes us especially vulnerable to gaslighting.
It's this bias that makes us especially vulnerable to gaslighting.
Ok, show us your proof you are not a felon.
November 11, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Ok, show us your proof you are not a felon.
It's up to us, individually and collectively, to not make it easy, or forgiving, for them to try.
psychcentral.com/blog/narciss...
psychcentral.com/blog/narciss...
12 Classic Propaganda Techniques Narcissists Use to Manipulate You
Propaganda is powerful. It can start wars and end governments. Strikingly, in their personal lives narcissists routinely use classic propaganda techniques to confuse and manipulate others.
psychcentral.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:14 AM
It's up to us, individually and collectively, to not make it easy, or forgiving, for them to try.
psychcentral.com/blog/narciss...
psychcentral.com/blog/narciss...
"Hunter" explained to you already, registration rolls do exactly that.
What you are asking for is the power to look at people's papers and refuse them their right to vote because of their maiden name or they lost weight or different lighting in their photo. It's called JIM CROW.
What you are asking for is the power to look at people's papers and refuse them their right to vote because of their maiden name or they lost weight or different lighting in their photo. It's called JIM CROW.
November 11, 2025 at 2:59 AM
"Hunter" explained to you already, registration rolls do exactly that.
What you are asking for is the power to look at people's papers and refuse them their right to vote because of their maiden name or they lost weight or different lighting in their photo. It's called JIM CROW.
What you are asking for is the power to look at people's papers and refuse them their right to vote because of their maiden name or they lost weight or different lighting in their photo. It's called JIM CROW.
Voting is a privilege? Who tells you that?
Not in the B.O.R.? So you've bought the lie that 9A was just a meaningless mistake our founders put there for "no reason?"
Not in the B.O.R.? So you've bought the lie that 9A was just a meaningless mistake our founders put there for "no reason?"
November 11, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Voting is a privilege? Who tells you that?
Not in the B.O.R.? So you've bought the lie that 9A was just a meaningless mistake our founders put there for "no reason?"
Not in the B.O.R.? So you've bought the lie that 9A was just a meaningless mistake our founders put there for "no reason?"
Are you for defending the sanctity of voting or defending those who create false presidential elector documents?
Everyone has to prove first they are a criminal unless it's billionaires behind really really big crimes, and then THEIR RIGHTS come first?
Everyone has to prove first they are a criminal unless it's billionaires behind really really big crimes, and then THEIR RIGHTS come first?
November 11, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Are you for defending the sanctity of voting or defending those who create false presidential elector documents?
Everyone has to prove first they are a criminal unless it's billionaires behind really really big crimes, and then THEIR RIGHTS come first?
Everyone has to prove first they are a criminal unless it's billionaires behind really really big crimes, and then THEIR RIGHTS come first?
Knowing our own weaknesses can help us better defend and detect when others are attempting to intentionally attack them.
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November 11, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Knowing our own weaknesses can help us better defend and detect when others are attempting to intentionally attack them.
www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
www.laprogressive.com/election-and...
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/word...
psychcentral.com/blog/narciss...
bsky.app/profile/bill...
www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
www.laprogressive.com/election-and...
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psychcentral.com/blog/narciss...
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It's called communism. And communist implement it by telling you the other guys are communist and only they can "protect" you.
November 11, 2025 at 2:31 AM
It's called communism. And communist implement it by telling you the other guys are communist and only they can "protect" you.
Those same folks who love their 5A protections are moving us in a direction where you have to show your drivers license before you get into your car to drive, and have to carry your papers to walk down the street and hope you won't be detained by federal agents.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
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November 11, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Those same folks who love their 5A protections are moving us in a direction where you have to show your drivers license before you get into your car to drive, and have to carry your papers to walk down the street and hope you won't be detained by federal agents.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
I can explain it to you, but you'd have to read the entire 2A and not ignore half of it.
Better you tell me why Trump and his people get to exercise their 5A rights without first proving they weren't using it to cover up crimes.
www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...
Better you tell me why Trump and his people get to exercise their 5A rights without first proving they weren't using it to cover up crimes.
www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...
Trump invokes Fifth Amendment nearly 450 times in N.Y. AG’s civil probe of his business practices
An attorney for Trump said the former president answered only one question, about his name, during the four-hour deposition.
www.nbcnews.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:31 AM
I can explain it to you, but you'd have to read the entire 2A and not ignore half of it.
Better you tell me why Trump and his people get to exercise their 5A rights without first proving they weren't using it to cover up crimes.
www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...
Better you tell me why Trump and his people get to exercise their 5A rights without first proving they weren't using it to cover up crimes.
www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...
So you want us to prove we aren't committing a crime before we can exercise our rights?
So what do we do about a guy who tried to pass off and just now pardoned dozens of fake presidential electors? Many of whom 5A'd.
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www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...
So what do we do about a guy who tried to pass off and just now pardoned dozens of fake presidential electors? Many of whom 5A'd.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...
Trump pardons Rudy Giuliani and over 75 others involved in fake elector scheme
Rudy Giuliani, Trump’s disbarred and disgraced former attorney, joins other Trumpworld loyalists in receiving an unconditional pardon
www.independent.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 1:27 AM
So you want us to prove we aren't committing a crime before we can exercise our rights?
So what do we do about a guy who tried to pass off and just now pardoned dozens of fake presidential electors? Many of whom 5A'd.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...
So what do we do about a guy who tried to pass off and just now pardoned dozens of fake presidential electors? Many of whom 5A'd.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...
Voting is a RIGHT. And you should be able to exercise your right to vote without having to prove you aren't committing a crime by doing so. Presumed innocent, and all.
November 10, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Voting is a RIGHT. And you should be able to exercise your right to vote without having to prove you aren't committing a crime by doing so. Presumed innocent, and all.
I'd rather tax all the billionaires than consume the generosity of the few generous ones.
November 10, 2025 at 11:38 PM
I'd rather tax all the billionaires than consume the generosity of the few generous ones.
Agree 100%. Capitalism rests on self-interest, not goodwill.
Yet whenever self-interest transgresses into selfish exploitation, that is inherently market-corrupting — it replaces voluntary exchange with coercion. That is anti-capitalism itself, and it MUST be prohibited for capitalism to function.
Yet whenever self-interest transgresses into selfish exploitation, that is inherently market-corrupting — it replaces voluntary exchange with coercion. That is anti-capitalism itself, and it MUST be prohibited for capitalism to function.
Limited Liability Is Causing Unlimited Harm
Katharina Pistor thinks airtight legal protection for corporate shareholders has led to a widespread market failure.
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November 10, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Agree 100%. Capitalism rests on self-interest, not goodwill.
Yet whenever self-interest transgresses into selfish exploitation, that is inherently market-corrupting — it replaces voluntary exchange with coercion. That is anti-capitalism itself, and it MUST be prohibited for capitalism to function.
Yet whenever self-interest transgresses into selfish exploitation, that is inherently market-corrupting — it replaces voluntary exchange with coercion. That is anti-capitalism itself, and it MUST be prohibited for capitalism to function.
#RFKjr
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Steve Bannon spent
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has filed to run against Biden in the 2024 Democratic presidential primary.
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November 10, 2025 at 11:01 PM
If we still had decent capitalism, full time workers wouldn't be lining up a food banks.
It's the oligarchs who don't want us to understand that THIS ISN'T CAPITALISM - IT'S OLIGARCHY.
www.businessinsider.com/monopolies-r...
It's the oligarchs who don't want us to understand that THIS ISN'T CAPITALISM - IT'S OLIGARCHY.
www.businessinsider.com/monopolies-r...
November 10, 2025 at 10:59 PM
If we still had decent capitalism, full time workers wouldn't be lining up a food banks.
It's the oligarchs who don't want us to understand that THIS ISN'T CAPITALISM - IT'S OLIGARCHY.
www.businessinsider.com/monopolies-r...
It's the oligarchs who don't want us to understand that THIS ISN'T CAPITALISM - IT'S OLIGARCHY.
www.businessinsider.com/monopolies-r...
Don't stop until we have a level playing field.
Gerrymandering handed the GOP majorities in the House in 2022 and 2024.
November 10, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Don't stop until we have a level playing field.
"The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them." - Patrick Henry
November 10, 2025 at 10:06 PM
"The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them." - Patrick Henry