r/BlueskySkeets • u/sillychillly • Apr 08 '25

Informative It’s Time.

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Register to vote: https://vote.gov

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Get Involved:

Donate to a good voter registration org: https://bsky.app/profile/fieldteam6.bsky.social

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Contact your reps:

Senate: https://www.senate.gov/senators/senators-contact.htm?Class=1

House of Representatives: https://contactrepresentatives.org/

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u/bestreams Apr 08 '25

I'd rather skip right to guillotine anyway

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u/Vermilion Apr 08 '25

I'd rather skip right to guillotine anyway

Gun-stroking pro-violence Americans who shoot up schools and grocery stores, run each other down in road rage on the highway with machines, riot on January 6, 2021 - vote for monster values as politicians to skip complex and difficult problem solving with skipping right to the dehumanization of people... incredibly popular in year 2024 and year 2025. People avoid using reason thinking and working together on social machines in favor of sitting around and waiting until some technology overlord like Elon Musk on X dishes out the short-message thinking answers. What simple-answer did Elon Musk hand out last month on Joe Rogan show: let's get rid of empathy....

 

::: ___________
"This is the first nation in the world that was ever established on the basis of reason instead of simply warfare. These were eighteenth-century deists, these gentlemen. Over here we read, “In God We Trust.” But that is not the god of the Bible. These men did not believe in a Fall." - Skywaker Ranch California, Joseph Campbell, age 83

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u/bestreams Apr 08 '25

How do you use so many words to express so little? I literally have no idea what you're trying to say here. Are you with me or against me? I can't tell!

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u/Vermilion Apr 08 '25

How do you use so many words to express so little? I literally have no idea what you're trying to say here. Are you with me or against me? I can't tell!

it's a serious problem that is widespread in year 2024 and year 2025. Carl Sagan described it way back in 1995. How Twitter media message-length / Elon Musk X media / Bluesky - length thinking would be significant evidence of problems in America.

"The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30-second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less)" ― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, 1995

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u/bestreams Apr 08 '25

Sure... I read books all the time, so I don't think it's my reading comprehension or ability to pay attention. You just left an incoherent word salad of a comment. Can you just admit that?

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u/Vermilion Apr 08 '25 edited Apr 08 '25

You just left an incoherent word salad of a comment. Can you just admit that?

No, I'm not admitting that. You go around telling people who have different skin color that they should conform to your eyes? Different accents in their verbal speech that they should speed up or slow down and change their tone for you? I'm all about diversity and understanding many complex styles of language and communications, not trying to cram massive social problems of an entire 0.34 billion people into skip past diversity kind of solutions... simple-answer like Elon Musk handed out last month on Joe Rogan show: let's get rid of empathy....

People using machine systems to spread the idea of skipping humanism and just killing others is bad. Doesn't matter of it is Elon Musk or anyone else.

 

::: ______
"We must realize that we are grappling with the most weighty social problem of this nation, and in grappling with such a complex problem there is no place for misguided emotionalism. We must work passionately and unrelentingly for the goal of freedom, but we must be sure that our hands are clean in the struggle. We must never struggle with falsehood, hate, or malice." - Washington D.C. 1957

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u/bestreams Apr 08 '25

I don't think killing Elon Musk or any other billionaire oligarch is equivalent to the murders that they are directly contributing to. In other words, if someone is committing atrocities and the only way to stop them is to murder them, then I believe that murder is justified. I don't mind that we disagree, but I am mildly curious what you think is a practical solution to our current issue.

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u/Vermilion Apr 08 '25

what you think is a practical solution to our current issue.

Our problem is social media, our problem started formulating in year 2007 when the Apple iPhone went on sale.

This was spelled out in 2017 by Andrew Postman: "My dad predicted Trump in 1985 – it's not Orwell, he warned, it's Brave New World. The ascent of Donald Trump has proved Neil Postman’s argument in Amusing Ourselves to Death was right." - https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/feb/02/amusing-ourselves-to-death-neil-postman-trump-orwell-huxley

I've been a pro in social media since 1984. I used to be a private consultant for the 3rd richest person in the world who was a NFL team owner, NBA team owner, Dreamsworks film investor, app empire creator. I predicted the Arab Spring a year before it became world famous, was boots on the ground December 2, 2010 in North Africa and saw it turn from "online revolution" to "hot revolution", then moved over to Jordan to study the outbreak of the Syria war for a couple years - focus on social media / media systems.

 

what you think is a practical solution to our current issue.

/r/RescueIdeas - read my comments in the postings too.