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Dave Abbitt

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I am and am not ✌️ non-dualism 🤔 film & tv producer/exec 🎬 Councilman-elect, LA Mid-City West 🗳️ Unsolicited DMs must include dinner reservations. #TheRookie on ABC/Hulu

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Dave Abbitt @thedaveabbitt.bsky.social · Nov 23

Watching ‘Our Oceans’ series on Netflix. Stunning photography and, of course, educative.

I’ve learned whale milk is about 50% fat, has a texture like butter or cottage cheese, and has the strong taste/smell of fish, castor oil, and milk of magnesium.

Just like Rudy Giuliani.

Goodnight, y’all. 😉

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Dave Abbitt @thedaveabbitt.bsky.social · 23d

From Shared Pages to Splintered Realities - How Media Polarization Divides Us, and What We Can Do About It
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From Shared Pages to Splintered Realities - How Media Polarization Divides Us, and What We Can Do About It

The other day, my sister and I were talking in the car.

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Dave Abbitt @thedaveabbitt.bsky.social · 22d

Thank you!! 💙

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Dave Abbitt @thedaveabbitt.bsky.social · 23d

Thanks Pesci!!

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Thank you, Liz. 💙

Dave Abbitt @thedaveabbitt.bsky.social · 23d

From Shared Pages to Splintered Realities - How Media Polarization Divides Us, and What We Can Do About It
open.substack.com/pub/thedavea...

From Shared Pages to Splintered Realities - How Media Polarization Divides Us, and What We Can Do About It

The other day, my sister and I were talking in the car.

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Dave Abbitt @thedaveabbitt.bsky.social · Jul 5

The Dems attacked Zohran Mamdani harder than they fought Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill,” which guts social programs, militarizes ICE and DHS, extends tax breaks to the wealthiest class, and adds $4T to the debt. Punching left while the right burns it all down isn’t strategy - it’s complicity.

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Dave Abbitt @thedaveabbitt.bsky.social · Jun 27

Nazis and other fascists are inhumane. They do monstrous, irredeemable things. And they are still human beings. Saying otherwise reduces us to their level of thinking - that “the other” is inhuman. Show humanity, even to those who don’t deserve it.

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Dave Abbitt @thedaveabbitt.bsky.social · Jun 27

Fair to call out fascism where it exists. But even facts can be weaponized to divide, rather than repair. The point isn’t to avoid accountability. It’s to stay human while we hold the line.

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Dave Abbitt @thedaveabbitt.bsky.social · Jun 27

That’s part of the challenge, isn’t it? When we label others as irredeemable, we risk becoming what we claim to oppose. I’m not saying don’t confront harm, just that healing won’t come from dehumanizing, even when we feel justified.

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Dave Abbitt @thedaveabbitt.bsky.social · Jun 27

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It begins by remembering we’re all of us still human, and that beneath the noise and cynicism, most of us want the same things: safety, meaning, connection, and the right to live without being ground down.

So let’s start there.
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Dave Abbitt @thedaveabbitt.bsky.social · Jun 27

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The wound is real. It runs deep. But the healing doesn’t begin by demanding perfection. It begins by demanding accountability regardless of bias.

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Dave Abbitt @thedaveabbitt.bsky.social · Jun 27

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One that centers dignity, care, and accountability not just for the powerful, but for ourselves.

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Dave Abbitt @thedaveabbitt.bsky.social · Jun 27

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We need a new story. One that sees through the illusion of Left vs. Right and focuses on Human vs. Machine.

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Dave Abbitt @thedaveabbitt.bsky.social · Jun 27

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That’s hard. It takes time. It doesn’t go viral. But it’s the only thing that’s ever worked.

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Dave Abbitt @thedaveabbitt.bsky.social · Jun 27

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Change doesn’t come from blaming. It comes from building. From listening. From waking up to the stories we’ve been fed, and writing new ones.

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Dave Abbitt @thedaveabbitt.bsky.social · Jun 27

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We need to stop dehumanizing people outside the system who don’t think like we do - whether they come from across a border, a red state, a blue state, wear a colored hat, or pray in a mosque, church, or synagogue.

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Dave Abbitt @thedaveabbitt.bsky.social · Jun 27

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We need to stop dehumanizing the people inside the system, even when we rage against what the system does.

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Dave Abbitt @thedaveabbitt.bsky.social · Jun 27

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So what now?

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Dave Abbitt @thedaveabbitt.bsky.social · Jun 27

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We vote based on fear. We consume based on dopamine. We ignore nuance for outrage. We want simple answers in a complex world. And the machine gives us the simple answers we ask for because that’s what it runs on.

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Dave Abbitt @thedaveabbitt.bsky.social · Jun 27

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But here’s the part we often forget: We are not just victims. We are participants.

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Dave Abbitt @thedaveabbitt.bsky.social · Jun 27

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We lose due process. We militarize our streets. And call it order. It’s not order. It’s control.

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Dave Abbitt @thedaveabbitt.bsky.social · Jun 27

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Meanwhile, the machinery behind every President drops bombs in our name, claims it’s keeping us safe, and erodes civil liberties at home.

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Dave Abbitt @thedaveabbitt.bsky.social · Jun 27

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We’re caught in a trap of distraction: Right vs. Left, Red vs. Blue, Identity vs. Identity. Each side throws accusations: predator, puppet, traitor, tyrant.

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Dave Abbitt @thedaveabbitt.bsky.social · Jun 27

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This is the wound.

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