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Rod Mesa

@roddio.bsky.social

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Sex: Yes. Religion: Skeptic. Politics: Dissident. Philosophy: Egalitarian. Votes: Always. #BLM - No Justice, No Peace. "Free to be you and me." Seek equality in freedom, not equality in oppression Punch all Nazis

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Rod Mesa @roddio.bsky.social · Dec 17

Not all (fill in the blank), but the ones that (do, don't, are, aren't, whatever,) sure screw it up for the rest of us.
Don't @ me.

Rod Mesa @roddio.bsky.social · 1h

American politics has devolved into shitposting and aura farming
The Verve
www.theverge.com/policy/79849...

American politics has devolved into shitposting and aura farming

The Frog is owning the president.

www.theverge.com

Rod Mesa @roddio.bsky.social · 1h

Dude.
More of this.
You Have to See This Mamdani Ad
www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

You Have to See This Mamdani Ad

I wasn't planning to post anything today. I dislike working and writing on weekends in general, but this was too important to ignore. You have to see this Zohran Mamdani campaign ad that came out this...

www.burnsnotice.com

Rod Mesa @roddio.bsky.social · 2h

A word of thanks to whoever recommended this book, which I thoroughly enjoyed reading.

The Adventures of Mary Darling by Pat Murphy

Rod Mesa @roddio.bsky.social · 2h

And those two issues alone are what mystifies me about the level of Newsom's support among Democrats while someone like Mamdani is vilified by the party.
But that shouldn't surprise me as the US was never meant for some of us.

Rod Mesa @roddio.bsky.social · 2h

Me, I see the problem as a straight white male through line from the Founders to like 15 seconds ago.
The system that oppresses will never offer the method of liberation.

Rod Mesa @roddio.bsky.social · 2h

Oh, you mean like the ones that support the rancid vat of Nazified cheese whiz in the white house? Do tell.

Rod Mesa @roddio.bsky.social · 7h

I'll bet.
Sounds similar to my experience as a minority activist and volunteer in the recovery community.
I burned out after a while.
Now I just fix bikes to donate to unhoused people. It might not be much, but it's one thing I can do that can really make a difference in a single person's life.

Rod Mesa @roddio.bsky.social · 8h

Why This “Anti-Car Labyrinth” Is Actually Brilliant
Oh The Urbanity!
youtu.be/WAhlfWt25sA

Why This “Anti-Car Labyrinth” Is Actually Brilliant

YouTube video by Oh The Urbanity!

Rod Mesa @roddio.bsky.social · 8h

The Calico Store
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calico-store.co.kr

Rod Mesa @roddio.bsky.social · 8h

Feel free to order a shirt for me in XL, any color. A matching hat would be nice.
Good friends, beautiful bikes and single origin flat whites
Probably Riding
youtu.be/7g_JJJZs_YY

Good friends, beautiful bikes and single origin flat whites

YouTube video by Probably Riding

Rod Mesa @roddio.bsky.social · 8h

Really? Good for him.
As I've often asserted, the nation has drifted so far to the right that the traditional progressive Republicans are all Democrats now.

Rod Mesa @roddio.bsky.social · 8h

Religious minorities, too.

Rod Mesa @roddio.bsky.social · 8h

This, right here.

American Fascism has always oppressed racial, ethnic, and gender minorities, and should have been stopped long before now.

Rod Mesa @roddio.bsky.social · 9h

The Laziest Excuse for Bad Cities
Not Just Bikes
youtu.be/BXDP9WQe0io

The Laziest Excuse for Bad Cities

YouTube video by Not Just Bikes

Rod Mesa @roddio.bsky.social · 9h

Oh yeah, right.
As if the DNC supports their more progressive candidates.
Bernie Sanders anyone?
I'd argue that single issue voting got us to where we are, but where we are is where we are regardless, and no establishment Democrat is going to save us.
It's up to us to save ourselves.

Rod Mesa @roddio.bsky.social · 9h

Neither am I.
A lot of allyship is stymied by exactly your sort of snitch-tagging.
You clearly misread why I'd never vote for Newsom due to his policies against the unhoused alone.
Putting you on mute.

Rod Mesa @roddio.bsky.social · 9h

He won't get mine.

Rod Mesa @roddio.bsky.social · 10h

That's when he lost me, and his subsequent actions have done nothing to change this.

Rod Mesa @roddio.bsky.social · 10h

Newsom's policies cleared unhoused encampments, seizing and disposing of their only personal property. Not only is this a clear violation of the property rights laid out in the 14th Amendment, but such cruelty alone is disqualifying AFAIC.
He's wrong on many things, and this issue is but one.

Rod Mesa @roddio.bsky.social · 10h

Name ONE pro-Trans Republican. I'll wait.

Rod Mesa @roddio.bsky.social · 11h

Truth:

THEY BLAME IMMIGRANTS SO YOU WONT BLAME BILLIONAIRES

Rod Mesa @roddio.bsky.social · 11h

Okay, how about a bicycle pic?

Old Schwinn 10-speed

Rod Mesa @roddio.bsky.social · 11h

Time for a cat picture.

Rod Mesa @roddio.bsky.social · 12h

Fascists gonna fasc, or, as we used to say, "Whitey gonna White" 'cause this shit is all about Whiteness.

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 15h

The deportation order is based on Vedam’s conviction for murder—a crime he did not actually commit and for which he’s now been wholly exonerated. He entered the US at 9 months old and was a legal permanent resident before his conviction. We are so, so, so far from the light of justice.

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 1d

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 12h

I wrote about a new Nazi party that seeks to criminalize all human virtue, and how that means that human virtue is the greatest weapon against the new Nazi project.

www.the-reframe.com/the-crime-of...

The Crime of Human Virtue

Sometimes it really is as simple as good vs. evil. This is one of those times. Human virtue is our great crime against the fascist project; it's also our great weapon against it.

www.the-reframe.com