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Black Void

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My back cat is a void with eyes and occasionally a pink tongue. Please don’t give up on critical thinking. What do you know, what can you see, what can you prove?

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Black Void @blackvoid72.bsky.social · 3h

I think Johnson would asphyxiate if he didn’t keep lying.

Black Void @blackvoid72.bsky.social · 3h

Side note: I just read about how Centrists in the EU talking about how the far right views immigration has had the effect of making the topic more normal. It kind of backfires.

Black Void @blackvoid72.bsky.social · 8h

Shocks experts? Well, I guess he is a rare psychological specimen. An 80 year old super narcissist sociopath compulsive liar pedophile convict with advancing cognitive decline, all while being POTUS.

Black Void @blackvoid72.bsky.social · 8h

Two of the last three presidential elections were successfully hacked. In 2020 we overwhelmed that with our numbers. They will have fine tuned their methods by 2026.

Black Void @blackvoid72.bsky.social · 8h

He cheated in 2016. The PEOPLE overwhelmed his cheating in 2020 and thus ‘stole’ the election back. He cheated in 2024. If they could, they would cheat a lot more in the Congress and have a super majority.

This is why Germany only does paper ballots.

Black Void @blackvoid72.bsky.social · 8h

In Austin, the protest walked from the capital to the river where 50+ organizations were sighting people up to get in action.

Black Void @blackvoid72.bsky.social · 8h

I was against a presidential library for Trump, but now I am reconsidering it. Nobody in the future is going to fucking believe the shit he posts unless it’s preserved in some official way.

Black Void @blackvoid72.bsky.social · 18h

I’m waiting for the suffering to become more widespread.

Read The Fourth Turning to learn more about the silver lining of all this shit. This is always the worst time (Revolutionary War, Civil War, WWII, and now). It is always followed by the most progressive change.

Black Void @blackvoid72.bsky.social · 18h

Any thoughts about brining back ski ballet?

Black Void @blackvoid72.bsky.social · 18h

Yes, the poop dumping jet with Trump wearing a pilot’s mask like a MAGAt moron.

Trolling us? He’s so stupid that he is trolling himself. He’s almost as bad as Eric.

Black Void @blackvoid72.bsky.social · 18h

And like every other MAGAt, he doesn’t know how to wear a mask to save his life.

Black Void @blackvoid72.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, Fox could be a conservative news channel but there don’t seem to be any real conservatives anymore. Where are the followers of Eisenhower, of even first Bush? Fiscally conservative and before the culture wars BS. I’m not a conservative but the US was better with real people across the isle.

Black Void @blackvoid72.bsky.social · 1d

That’s a lot of brain shrinkage for her age.

Black Void @blackvoid72.bsky.social · 1d

$13,700? At 7% a German would have to earn $200,000 but the maximum contribution cap sets in lower than that.

Black Void @blackvoid72.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, and the public healthcare option means that only one earner covers the family! No wonder 90% of Germans choose the public healthcare option.

Black Void @blackvoid72.bsky.social · 1d

Wow! Insane! Germany has healthcare for all that is 7% of your paycheck with a cap for high earners. Your employer pays 7% too.

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CajunBlue 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 2d

🚨 Driving drunk with your kids in the car and thinking that is okay because you are an ICE agent answers all the unasked questions.

Black Void @blackvoid72.bsky.social · 3d

Maybe for the same that the GOP isn’t passing the CR with a rule change like they did for 100 judges appointed: optics. They want to blame the other side and keep your attention.

Black Void @blackvoid72.bsky.social · 3d

After the ‘shrinkflation’ and price gouging of a few years ago, maybe some businesses are able to eat the tariffs. It won’t last.

Black Void @blackvoid72.bsky.social · 4d

I hope they spend money to build Trump Gaza only for it to burn to the ground.

Actually, there is a reasonable chance of that. And the schadenfreude will be delicious.

Israel will get their government back in about 10 years, just like us. Worldwide backlash against authoritarian rule.

Black Void @blackvoid72.bsky.social · 4d

That’s a rhetorical question, right?

Black Void @blackvoid72.bsky.social · 4d

In Germany, the tax rate is 14% below 66k Euro and 42% for all earnings past the first 66k. After 277k it is 45% and another 5.5% is added to ‘high incomes’

The price of living in a functional society. All are insured. University is €350 a semester of less. Democracy is still alive.

Black Void @blackvoid72.bsky.social · 4d

Interesting that $1.3 Trillion is only a fraction bigger than the net worth gain of the richest 400 Americans….

Black Void @blackvoid72.bsky.social · 4d

16% of the world’s prisoners are in the US, despite the US being only 5% of the world population.

1,800,000 US prisoners.
500,000 EU prisoners.

The EU is 5.8% of the world population.

Do the math. The US sucks.

Black Void @blackvoid72.bsky.social · 6d

The US should have joined the ICC again. but like so many important issues, our government is impotent. Regardless of who’s in office, in the end, little gets done.