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Dr. Marina Archer

@drmarinaarcher.bsky.social

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Social psychologist. Survivor extraordinaire. Made in Italy. Notable quotes: "Once in dystopia there are no limits." "An autocracy, if they can keep it."

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Dr. Marina Archer @drmarinaarcher.bsky.social · Mar 28

🧵 Let me post this here from Italian history - the history of my own family, from the 1920s to the 1940s:

Rise of the Fascist Movement:

-The Blackshirts, initially known as the Squadristi, emerged in the aftermath of World War I, fueled by widespread social unrest and economic hardship. 1/1

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Dr. Marina Archer @drmarinaarcher.bsky.social · 10m

If Americans had it in them to do what the French did, they would have done it long ago.
Instead they are indoctrinated to believe affordable healthcare, childcare, medical/family leave are "radical left ideas."
They are regular common policies even in "far-right" governments in EU.

Dr. Marina Archer @drmarinaarcher.bsky.social · 15h

Not new. Did you forget McConnell keeping a Scotus seat open for ONE year?
This is not the first time bad actors abuse their gatekeeping positions and the power granted to them. We should have mechanisms in place that foresee and BYPASS all this because it is ABSURD.

Dr. Marina Archer @drmarinaarcher.bsky.social · 15h

We need to delete these senseless NORMS that can be abused by bad actors. Once someone is elected any CLERK can get the person situated in an office and set up with mail.
We need to eliminate ALL GATEKEEPING positions that lend themselves to ABUSE by bad actors.
We are in the 21st century.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19h

SEN. @schatz.bsky.social : "This is not about money. There is enough💰to bail out Argentina with ($40 BILLION). Enough to purchase a brand new aircraft for $173 MILLION for Noem. Enough to renovate the ballroom. What there isn't enough💰for under this Republican government is YOU."

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Dr. Marina Archer @drmarinaarcher.bsky.social · 15h

We need to stop these senseless NORMS that can be abused by bad actors. Once someone is elected any CLERK can get the person situated in an office and set up with mail.
We need to eliminate ALL GATEKEEPING positions that lend themselves to ABUSE by bad actors.
We are in the 21st century.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

Adelita Grijalva: "There is so much that cannot be done until I'm sworn in. So every moment that passes that I'm not able to provide constituent services or be a voice for Arizona, I cannot bring the issues forward that they send me here to do."

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 15h

To recap:
•$100M on golf
•$172M for jets for ICE Barbie
•$230M in DOJ payments to Trump
•$250M for a vanity ballroom
•$40B to Argentina while our farmers suffer
•$117B in annual tax cuts to the super wealthy 1%
•$170B ICE budget to round up Americans like Gestapo

Meanwhile—no money for food stamps

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Dr. Marina Archer @drmarinaarcher.bsky.social · 17h

Obama couldn't and wouldn't do this.
1) he was not going to be there more than 8 years
2) this would have had to be approved by congress and many other agencies
3) he was not a cult leader and grifter and was not surrounded by sociopaths and grifters.

Dr. Marina Archer @drmarinaarcher.bsky.social · 19h

Scotus ruled he is not accountable for ANY crimes in office.

Dr. Marina Archer @drmarinaarcher.bsky.social · 19h

Once in dystopia there are NO limits.

It will get worse.

Dr. Marina Archer @drmarinaarcher.bsky.social · 19h

Like "swearing in" - she WON the election! Some clerk in the Capitol can take care of office and mail assignment.

Dr. Marina Archer @drmarinaarcher.bsky.social · 19h

So the "greatest country in the world" has NO mechanism to bypass BAD ACTORS who use the power of their position to violate the rights of the people?
There should have been laws to automatically BYPASS bad actors abusing NORMS for nefarious purposes. The absence of those speaks volumes.

Dr. Marina Archer @drmarinaarcher.bsky.social · 21h

He plans to NEVER leave the White House.
Under what scenario could anyone REMOVE him and his lieutenants, and HOW? Some understand but they are few.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSRY...

🚨 Trump caught in INSANE scheme to RIG next election

YouTube video by Brian Tyler Cohen

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Dr. Marina Archer @drmarinaarcher.bsky.social · 1d

The process of ENTROPY is ongoing. It will not stop.

Dr. Marina Archer @drmarinaarcher.bsky.social · 1d

It is a visual metaphor of what is being done to the entire country.

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Dr. Marina Archer @drmarinaarcher.bsky.social · 1d

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUlm...

Matteo Renzi INGLESE (Shish)

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Dr. Marina Archer @drmarinaarcher.bsky.social · 1d

Anthony Scaramucci is more competent than Halligan.

Not in the same league. Scaramucci did not do pageants either.

Dr. Marina Archer @drmarinaarcher.bsky.social · 1d

People in Naples, in the deep South of Italy, have known first hand many DOMINATIONS, and have a saying:

"A cumanna' e' meglie c'a' fottere."

Literally, to rule is better than f***ing. 2/2 end

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Dr. Marina Archer @drmarinaarcher.bsky.social · 1d

POWER - the wielding of it, the perception of it, the adjacency to it, is an APHRODISIAC for some. We should talk more about power dynamics.
So people can get drunk on power, and go on joyrides with it. History often shows what that leads to, and how the joyride ends. 1/1

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Dr. Marina Archer @drmarinaarcher.bsky.social · 1d

Just as with everything ELSE, who's gonna STOP that?

Dr. Marina Archer @drmarinaarcher.bsky.social · 1d

From the tone of the exchange we could infer Halligan is used to contact influencers who comply with whatever just to have access and feel "adjacent to power."

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Dr. Marina Archer @drmarinaarcher.bsky.social · 1d

Now you know what dystopia is, and how mass psychosis takes place.

Dr. Marina Archer @drmarinaarcher.bsky.social · 1d

This is a visual METAPHOR for what is being done to the country as a whole.

How very Louis the XIV of them all.

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Dr. Marina Archer @drmarinaarcher.bsky.social · 1d

Throw in Bill Barr, too.

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Dr. Marina Archer @drmarinaarcher.bsky.social · 2d

They don't look very MAHA. Maybe practice what you preach?

Dr. Marina Archer @drmarinaarcher.bsky.social · 2d

Notice he shakes his head NO while saying "will administer the oath."

Good for Karl. Wish all reporters did this.