decentreputation.bsky.social
@decentreputation.bsky.social
You forgot to thank the red counties.
How are those stats for Hennepin and Ramsey counties?
December 11, 2025 at 2:40 AM
tds
December 11, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Die Geschichte wiederholt sich
14 July 1933
Gesetz gegen die Neubildung von Parteien
December 10, 2025 at 11:08 PM
As you have chosen to let yourselves become vassal states of the US, it behooves you to accept President Trump's beneficent offer of the universal right to Freedom of Speech.
December 10, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Where is it headed?

What cruelties and injustices are being inflicted?

Should the media stifle news of interest to the right wing?

It seems that in the old days, people had more brain cells. More common sense
Does this deficit we have also contribute to the steepness of slope we are faced with?
December 10, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Slow down there Timo.

Do you have approval from
your Apparatchik, Mohamed,
to post something so STRONGLY worded?
December 10, 2025 at 10:25 PM
It is a threat to the already thin public support for the DSA.
December 10, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Good.
I see
Trump has a personality that rubs people the wrong way, and jeez, what about Miller and Homan!?
Creepy AF!

What rights and freedoms have you lost?

It's a rhetorical question

You're probably tiring of me

Best wishes
December 10, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Welsh is cut from the same cloth as MTG

Narcissist
Provocateur
Trying to replace attention lost due to rapidly fading good looks
with hate filled rage bait

I have not empathy for her, but would offer sympathies for her family.
December 10, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Maybe the same plot is in the works for AOC.
December 10, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Both Democrats and Republicans cut, and raised taxes.
Extended periods of high taxes results in economic stagnation.
Extended periods of low taxes builds the oligarchy and the socialists get all whipped up.
December 10, 2025 at 5:30 PM
It's good that you're skeptical of politicians
Reserve some of that skepticism for factions and the charismatics in your own party

Respect Democracy
Keep elections fair

Then, when a party finds the right message, excesses of the other party will be reined in

Loving your country isn't nationalism
December 10, 2025 at 5:23 PM
It STARTED with socialist ideals
Playbook: start by telling the disenfranchised that you're going to give them power by nationalizing industry
Seize wealth from the rich
Empower unions
All socialism
THEN, expand your tent:
Die Heimat!
Demonize the other
EMPIRE!
Just be skeptical of socialism
December 10, 2025 at 5:19 PM
...mostly correct
you're missing the origin story:

Start by telling the disenfranchised that you're going to give them power by nationalizing industry, seize wealth from the rich, empower unions
All socialism

THEN, build your tent: Die Heimat! Demonize the other. EMPIRE!

Be skeptical of socialism
December 10, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Yep.

It turned out pretty bad for the actual socialists.

....similar situation in Iran after the 1979 revolution.

The young Persian socialists didn't fare well in the face of severe Islamism. 1000's were executed.

Be careful about how much you trust your politicians.
December 10, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Good

Exactly

Maybe we can agree that it's important to remain vigilant and skeptical of politicians, and their promises, on both sides of the aisle ???
December 10, 2025 at 12:47 AM
The initial appeal was socialism.

It was a trap.

By 1934, it was indeed something else!
December 10, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Feb 1920, The National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nazi) was formed
"Socialist” to appeal to a population disillusioned with capitalist and classist structures of the Weimar
Party platform included: nationalization of industries, social welfare programs, land seizures and wealth redistribution
December 10, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Like, kinda

you're smart

Years ago I was a small time landlord for a couple of years
'didn't have what it takes to not be taken advantage of by lay-abouts and dodgers

I got out of the business
but I learned from it:

“The burned hand teaches best. After that advice about fire goes to the heart.”
December 9, 2025 at 5:47 PM
'Brian' doesn't live here any more Mrs. Torrance.

and by the way,

maybe you should lay off of the so called
Maple Syrup
for a while.
December 9, 2025 at 5:10 PM
"That's on them"
...but "We" are smarter than "them"

"We" will have income redistribution and the Haves will freely give up their wealth
so
"We" won't need the heavy handed tactics of Fascism

"We" won't need to demonize the "the other" for unity

"We" just want to level the playing field
December 9, 2025 at 4:56 PM
I didn't mention the term Conservatism
Please re-read my post

To YOUR point
Conservatism fades, undermined by its hubris
The same is true of Liberalism
They both rebound

They check and balance each other

United, (or competitively) they must remove the economic conditions that cultivate Fascism
December 9, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Please re-read what I wrote.
I didn't mention the term "liberal"

Please look into the early history of fascism in Italy and Germany.

The appeal of Socialism and forced income redistribution blinds the disadvantaged to the motives its purveyors

Nasty tactics emerge to consolidate and retain power
December 9, 2025 at 4:17 PM
March 1919: Mussolini, a socialist journalist founded the Italian Fascist party
Original members included futurists, ex-socialists, nationalists, syndicalists
The party won zero seats in the 1919 election, so they turned against socialism
Violence against the socialist establishment followed
December 9, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Feb 1920, The National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nazi) was formed
"Socialist” to appeal to a population disillusioned with capitalist and classist structures of the Weimar
Party platform included: nationalization of industries, social welfare programs, land seizures and wealth redistribution
December 9, 2025 at 3:52 PM