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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 · 20h

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

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

Mussolini described fascism as the nation becoming manifest in the leader

I don't understand how this works, but it seems like people are able to fall in love with someone and just perceive them as the embodiment of the collective. It seems like the core of fascistic ideology

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

Also bonus points for the "Democrat Party" drop

Johnson is winking and nudging at who he works for

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

I have so many thoughts with respect to this. There is so much to untether

However, at its core, calling a protest against tyrannical monarchism "hate for America" is something

"I am the state" - Louis XIV

And to oppose Trump is to oppose America is what I'm expected to believe

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Mike Johnson on No Kings: "We refer to it by its more accurate description -- the Hate America Rally. You're gonna bring together the Marxists, the socialists, the antifa advocates, the anarchists, and the pro-Hamas wing of the far left Democrat Party. That is the modern Democratic Party."

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

www.cnn.com/politics/liv...

John Bolton is far more hawkish than I am, but I've always had an affection for how sincerely he seems to hate authoritarianism

It's no shock he's one of the first they're coming for

Oct. 17, 2025 - John Bolton pleads not guilty to charges in classified information case | CNN Politics

John Bolton, President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, pleaded not guilty to eight counts of transmission of national defense information and 10 counts of retention of national defens...

www.cnn.com

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

Vladimir Putin is not interested in your stupid, shitty deal making

This is something I kind of wish centrist voters would begin to understand too. You cannot get an unreasonable person to become more reasonable just because you concede more and more to them over time. You just capitulate slowly

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

I guess hypothetically, Trump could just try to be a war profiteer and sell arms to both sides, but that's not really trying to "play" people

Plus Russia has their own military-industrial complex and Europe would probably rather just buy guns from each other rather than depend on foreign arms

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

This is why this joke was made in the first place. People that do this are supposed to be considered stupid on top of evil

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

This is like honestly a masterclass on how NOT to conduct diplomacy

Play both sides and they both end up hating you

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

Ukrainians are not terrifyingly impressed with our leadership at this point

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

I guess Putin just wanted to fly to Alaska to power-move Trump and remind him who he's supposed to be working under

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

www.msn.com/en-us/news/w...

lol, Putin apparently outright rejected Trump's proposition for a deal in Ukraine, and then launched into a tirade about 17th century Russian history

He just expected Trump to sit there and listen to his megalomaniacal ranting

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