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A Squawking Grackle

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Houston, born and raised. Diagnosed sluggish schizophrenic since 2022 possessed with delusions of reform from within the system. Meta-modernist account. Global outlook at https://x.com/Graham12633625 (there're more international media on Twitter)

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A Squawking Grackle @graham12633625.bsky.social · Jun 23

See it's shit like this that got me labeled a communist and then the circumstances engineered to have me institutionalized and diagnosed as schizophrenic in the manner in which this happened to people like me in the Soviet Union

This shit is not a joke and it is not a game

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A Squawking Grackle @graham12633625.bsky.social · 4h

Yeah, and, I mean, I don't know what to say, but if abortion was the big sticking point, in a crooked country where corruption is rampant, then illegal abortions will likely be commonplace

The official legality of it will likely not matter

A Squawking Grackle @graham12633625.bsky.social · 4h

And, yeah, Christian persecution is probably going to happen too

They won't call it that, but talk too much about helping the poor and redistributing the wealth? Talk about holding politicians accountable for misdeeds and transgressions?

I don't know...sounds awfully communist to me...~

A Squawking Grackle @graham12633625.bsky.social · 4h

So, I don't know, when Greg Abbott, Ken Paxton, Don Quixote, etc, turn to attacking people with unauthorized political opinions in Texas, don't be surprised when the state turns to shit right fucking fast

A Squawking Grackle @graham12633625.bsky.social · 5h

So, yes, MAGA people are the threat. YOU ARE THE CANCEL CULTURE PEOPLE

GET OVER YOURSELVES. YOU ARE YOUR OWN OPPRESSORS

A Squawking Grackle @graham12633625.bsky.social · 5h

I don't know. It's just always been ironic to me.

I grow up in Houston believing that I had relatively milquetoast center-left political opinions, then move to North Carolina and all of the sudden I have far-left communistic beliefs according to people around me who found this inexcusable

A Squawking Grackle @graham12633625.bsky.social · 5h

CPUSA was maybe there too. I know they're around, but I've heard most leftists don't take them severely

So, I don't know, Houston's filled with left-wingers and terrorism virtually never occurs here. I don't know what to say, making me scared of socialism is unlikely

A Squawking Grackle @graham12633625.bsky.social · 5h

I've also seen stickers indicating that the Maoist Revolutionary Communists of America are active in Houston

Were they there? Maybe, but I've heard they like to fuck around with DSA for being too right-wing, so the No Kings march was probably also too right-wing for them too

A Squawking Grackle @graham12633625.bsky.social · 5h

Some other radicals were in attendance

The Marxist-Leninist Party of Socialism and Liberation and the Trotskyist Socialist Alternative were there

No violence. Nothing to fear. This is democracy, diversity of thought, and freedom in action

Don't like it? Move to another country

A Squawking Grackle @graham12633625.bsky.social · 6h

Some scenes from the No Kings protest in Houston, Texas 10/18

All in all, a peaceful protest. Houston Strong remains true

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A Squawking Grackle @graham12633625.bsky.social · 6h

Some scenes from the No Kings protest in Houston, Texas 10/18

Some antifas crashed the party in their horrifying animal costumes

Some of Mother Anarachy's children were also on display. Be careful around these people; they might try to give you free food

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A Squawking Grackle @graham12633625.bsky.social · 6h

Some scenes from the No Kings protest in Houston, Texas 10/18

Thank you to HPD and Houston's other first responders for keeping us safe

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A Squawking Grackle @graham12633625.bsky.social · 6h

Some scenes from the No Kings protest in Houston, Texas 10/18

"NASA makes America Great"

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A Squawking Grackle @graham12633625.bsky.social · 1d

www.texastribune.org/2025/10/16/t...

If you go to a No Kings protest today (technically), be safe and don't riot

Gov. Abbott to send National Guard to “No Kings” protest

Austin's mayor clarified in a statement later Thursday that the troops would not be on the streets unless there was “emergency need.”

www.texastribune.org

A Squawking Grackle @graham12633625.bsky.social · 1d

I don't know. It's just like Trump got Kyiv to agree to giving away 50% of Ukraine's mineral wealth in exchange for what the Budapest Memorandum already promised them, and he's still just both sidesing this conflict

The Kremlin scheme to get America to destroy her own reputation seems to be working

A Squawking Grackle @graham12633625.bsky.social · 1d

Like, I mean, unfortunately, this is just kind of looking at the "both sides bad" argument, but geopolitically

Like take a step back and see what the two sides are fighting over for a minute

Fortunately, Ukraine and Europe's current leadership truthfully seem to understand the art of diplomacy

A Squawking Grackle @graham12633625.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, I mean, see, like case in point, just look at this shit

A Squawking Grackle @graham12633625.bsky.social · 1d

Falling in love with religious leadership is probably fairly normal too, and can produce evil results

However, with separation of church and state, religious leaders command no secular authority, so adherence to their messages is voluntary to the members of the congregation

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A Squawking Grackle @graham12633625.bsky.social · 1d

I guess the larger problem is that nationalism doesn't truthfully have any substance to it as a belief system

"We're better than other groups just by virtue of us being us and not them"

So, nationalism just kind of produces stupefyingly evil results

A Squawking Grackle @graham12633625.bsky.social · 1d

The NazBol Manifesto actually described the process in an interesting fashion

People grow up as the "We" but develop consciousness into the "I". Political consciousness causes us to affiliate with a group based on our beliefs, and we dissolve back into the "We"

A Squawking Grackle @graham12633625.bsky.social · 1d

Perhaps the Christian voter should have asked if God is happy with Trump as president rather than expecting God to favor us in spite of anything we do

God will maybe help Trump punish us all for our hubris

A Squawking Grackle @graham12633625.bsky.social · 1d

I have a fundamentalist aunt who was pretty committed to accepting Trump in spite of his absence of Christian behavior. The reason she provided me was that "God can work through anyone"

I agree!

However, this was just as true of Clinton as Trump

A Squawking Grackle @graham12633625.bsky.social · 1d

I've kind of considered why organizations such as the Free Masons required belief in a higher power

If you're in love with God and no mortal on Earth, then you will always question whether the leader is doing as God commands. And you will always serve, even at the top

A Squawking Grackle @graham12633625.bsky.social · 1d

When someone commands the love of the people it just seems to become very dangerous. They can simply do no wrong in the peoples' eyes

A Squawking Grackle @graham12633625.bsky.social · 1d

Orwell posited that a constitutional monarchy may be the best form of government as the monarch can serve as a heatsink for people's fascistic love of the nation

Many contemporary republics have a ceremonial president likely for similar purposes

A Squawking Grackle @graham12633625.bsky.social · 1d

When you criticize the fascistic leader, it seems you may as well be criticizing the nation as a whole, and thus the individual in question who loves the leader