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Timo van Esch

@fibonaccieu.bsky.social

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J.F. Kennedy: "The world cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor." Seems like the USA [still] has got a lot to learn...

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Timo van Esch @fibonaccieu.bsky.social · 25d

I want to post a new term.

Collective Cognitive Decline.
CCD.

Due to severe lack of investment in education, a society can collapse, simply because of CCD.

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Timo van Esch @fibonaccieu.bsky.social · 3m

WTF else do you expect from a fascist government?
USA used to call us, Europeans "ancient", but your democratic system is ancient. Plainly stupid. Unless you favor slavery.

Timo van Esch @fibonaccieu.bsky.social · 5m

I didn't buy my first album.
I asked for it as a Christmas present.
My family was blown away.
I turned out not to be gay, but their songs were SO compelling!

Bronski Beat - The Age of Consent

Timo van Esch @fibonaccieu.bsky.social · 9m

USA, seriously.

You think you are a democracy, while ALL of your representatives spend most of their time fundraising?

You call that democracy?

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Kevin Salazar @nomoretyranny.bsky.social · 4h

Big business bought the US government.

Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 10h

NEW: A Third Way fellow claimed in the Wall Street Journal's editorial pages that Democrats “alienated” Big Business into allying with Trump, and that our organization deserves some of the blame.

Our full response in today’s newsletter:

Big Business Will Not Save Us

Scrutinizing the “ideological warfare” a business community mouthpiece says drove Corporate America into the arms of a fascist.

open.substack.com

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Jonathan Ladd @jonmladd.bsky.social · 8h

Only in the Federalist Society academic bubble could you say that the government going in and splitting up geographically contiguous communities of Black voters in order to prevent them from ever being a majority in any House district is "government not taking race into account."

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Gemma @gemslawrence.bsky.social · 1d

DO NOT FOLLOW ME if you don’t think Antifa is good.

I am proudly Antifa - If it was an organisation, I’d probably be the President of a Chapter.

Antifa is AntiFascism. Fascism is evil. End of story. Not open for discussion.

If you are not anti fascism you’re on the wrong side of history.

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Timo van Esch @fibonaccieu.bsky.social · 11m

How does it feel to keep normalizing fascism?
Not good, now does it?

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SaveDemocracy123 @savedemocracy123.bsky.social · 13m

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Timo van Esch @fibonaccieu.bsky.social · 13m

ps. World: I can guarantee the abuse of #TACO #TITS is coming.

He will start to play us against each other, since we've been boosting his diarrhea ass, instead of taking this threat seriously.

World, wake up, before #TACO does.
He's an idiot. Easy to fight.

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Timo van Esch @fibonaccieu.bsky.social · 16m

AI:
Imagine losing the propaganda game, so you have to rely on heavy investments in data centers.

So you can wreck society even more.
AI: bad choice.

Timo van Esch @fibonaccieu.bsky.social · 18m

USA: You seriously lost your game.
If soldiers are using AI, it means life is no longer sustainable.

AI doesn't give a shit about life, since it's not alive.
Please read that sentence again.

Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 1h

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Timo van Esch @fibonaccieu.bsky.social · 20m

I still don't know if I should feel ashamed or proud
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💀Necromancer Bear💀 🇵🇱🇪🇺✊️↙️↙️↙️ @thecraftybear.bsky.social · 1h

I'm adding "recomprehensible" to my dictionary, right next to "repugnicans".

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Timo van Esch @fibonaccieu.bsky.social · 22m

I've been on this planet for 53 years.
And I've come to the conclusion that over all, people are stupid.
They prefer collective lies over individual truths.

Men, are we stupid.

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bmcarthur17 @bmcarthur17.bsky.social · 2h

It feels rich John Bolton has been indicted on charges of mishandling classified information.

Just saying.

#Resist

Image of Mar-a-Lago bathroom with classified documents in boxes.

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Timo van Esch @fibonaccieu.bsky.social · 24m

I disagree.
Maduro is a dicktator.
Just one #TACO #TITS doesn't like, since oil companies are excluded.

Seriously. Venezuela has become a shithole, under dicktatorship. But #TACO #TITS will not solve it.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 33m

Andrew Cuomo: taxpayers should pay for $60 million in legal bills for my sexual harassment allegations

Also Andrew Cuomo: $60 million is too much money to spend on a pilot program to deliver cheaper groceries

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 27m

MEANS TV
Teenage Stepdad

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Timo van Esch @fibonaccieu.bsky.social · 28m

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Freya 💙 @freyalux.bsky.social · 13h

Do share♻️
#EpsteinTrumpFiles

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Anti-Fascist Collective… @wtafc.bsky.social · 14h

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Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 4h

One reason behind Western decline is that US capital gave up on investing in productive forces long ago.

The current system is all about looting / grifting through financial engineering, rent extraction, and speculative bubbles.

When the system rewards that, reversing it is near impossible.