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museevirtuel.bsky.social @museevirtuel.bsky.social · 6h

Much of contemporary left-wing political opinion was shaped by late 20th-early 21st century YA dystopian fiction.

museevirtuel.bsky.social @museevirtuel.bsky.social · 6h

Much of contemporary left-wing political opinion was shaped by late 20th-early 21st century YA dystopian fiction.

museevirtuel.bsky.social @museevirtuel.bsky.social · 6h

"Who controls the means of production controls access to consumption."

𝘕𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘛𝘰𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘢 𝘋𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘤 𝘚𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘔𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘧𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘰

museevirtuel.bsky.social @museevirtuel.bsky.social · 6h

Just saw some video of Joe Biden in his disastrous June, 2024 debate.

Absolutely heartbreaking.

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museevirtuel.bsky.social @museevirtuel.bsky.social · 7h

You're playing dumb - a very common response from the left.

TKaM, like Huckleberry Finn, is commonly challenged by Black parents and students for use of racial slurs & stereotypes & perceived white-savior tropes.

Both books & Fahrenheit 451 are required 12th grade reading in my deep-red county.

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museevirtuel.bsky.social @museevirtuel.bsky.social · 7h

"All goods and services are fundamental human rights and must be provided without compensation."

𝘕𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘛𝘰𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘢 𝘋𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘤 𝘚𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘔𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘧𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘰

museevirtuel.bsky.social @museevirtuel.bsky.social · 7h

In the US too. This "banned books" trope is mostly hysteria and left-wing role-play.

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museevirtuel.bsky.social @museevirtuel.bsky.social · 7h

At a glance, TKAM, Huckleberry Finn and Fahrenheit 451 are on 12th grade required reading list in my deep-red Florida county.

Begs the question: why pretend that they're banned?

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museevirtuel.bsky.social @museevirtuel.bsky.social · 7h

Leftists love nothing more than fantasizing about forcing people to do things.

museevirtuel.bsky.social @museevirtuel.bsky.social · 8h

#AIArt #AIDrawing

museevirtuel.bsky.social @museevirtuel.bsky.social · 8h

Discuss away then - what's stopping you? Feel free to answer my initial question.

One caveat: honest answers only, please. Your first instinct will be to lie.

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museevirtuel.bsky.social @museevirtuel.bsky.social · 12h

Discuss it, then, or is "people who disagree with me don't know how to read" and emoji the closest you can get to a substantive response?

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museevirtuel.bsky.social @museevirtuel.bsky.social · 12h

It reveals, rather, that you're unwilling to honestly discuss this.

Understandable: narrative collapse is to be avoided at all costs.

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museevirtuel.bsky.social @museevirtuel.bsky.social · 17h

The left would have us believe that violent foreign criminals are somehow the moral equivalent of Anne Frank.

museevirtuel.bsky.social @museevirtuel.bsky.social · 17h

The brevity of life.
Loss.
Resignation.

museevirtuel.bsky.social @museevirtuel.bsky.social · 18h

#AI #AIPhotography #AltHistory

𝘛𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘺𝘰𝘯 𝘍𝘰𝘤𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘈𝘳𝘳𝘢𝘺 (TFA) prototype, USA, 1957

museevirtuel.bsky.social @museevirtuel.bsky.social · 19h

At 8 to 38 million, the estimated death toll (terror, atrocities, purges, forced labor, induced famine - not counting war deaths) in the USSR under Lenin and Stalin exceeds the estimated population of North America in 1491.

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museevirtuel.bsky.social @museevirtuel.bsky.social · 21h

#AIArt #AIPhotography

Science fair: 𝘞𝘦 𝘴𝘺𝘯𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘻𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘯𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘶𝘮-99!

museevirtuel.bsky.social @museevirtuel.bsky.social · 21h

I don't completely disagree with that - if you approach Never Let Me Go, for example, as a hard science fiction novel, it will disappoint. Key technical aspects are deliberately never explained.

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museevirtuel.bsky.social @museevirtuel.bsky.social · 22h

"READ BOOKS" would be sufficient. Anything can be taken to the extreme.

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museevirtuel.bsky.social @museevirtuel.bsky.social · 22h

To his friends, he was always "Lay."

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museevirtuel.bsky.social @museevirtuel.bsky.social · 22h

That would be damning.

Were it true, I mean, which seems unlikely.

Blessed are the peacemakers.

museevirtuel.bsky.social @museevirtuel.bsky.social · 1d

It's worth noting that Biden's political career was over at that point and that even his own party had lost confidence in him.

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museevirtuel.bsky.social @museevirtuel.bsky.social · 1d

The Biden-Harris administration looks so incredibly low-energy and feckless in hindsight.

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museevirtuel.bsky.social @museevirtuel.bsky.social · 1d

For style it's hard to beat the current Toyota Prius. I considered buying one, but went with a Tesla Model 3 because hybrids no longer make sense to me.