D. Stephen Long @dstephenlong.bsky.social · 02/12/2024A Modest Proposal for Resistance: For the foreseeable future, do not stand, say, or sing the pledge of allegiance or national anthem. The MAGA crowd who attacked the capital on January 6 now rule America. To pledge allegiance to it is to pledge allegiance to them. There is no alternative. 060
D. Stephen Long @dstephenlong.bsky.social · 24/11/2024How do you read comments on bluesky? All I get is my own possibility of replying. 380
D. Stephen Long @dstephenlong.bsky.social · 22/11/2024Musk and Ramaswamy's anarcho-techno-capitalist fantasy in their DOGE plan: AI meets austerity through executive actions with the help of SCOTUS No one elected Musk and Ramaswamy to implement their anarcho-techno-capitalist fantasy, but they will try. 190
D. Stephen Long @dstephenlong.bsky.social · 17/11/2024Bill Cavanaugh, brilliant as always www.commonwealmagazine.org/bread-circus...commonwealmagazine.orgBread & CircusesOne is obliged to hope for wise and prudent governance from the next administration, but that’s not why people voted for Trump. 0155
D. Stephen Long @dstephenlong.bsky.social · 14/11/2024Making random posts to see how bluesky works. 3100
D. Stephen Long @dstephenlong.bsky.social · 14/11/2024America: Markets are self-regulating. The government has no power over them. Why didn't the government fix the economy; eggs cost too much. 071
D. Stephen Long @dstephenlong.bsky.social · 14/11/2024Trump's Competence: Create a new bureaucracy "Government Efficiency" to eliminate bureaucarcies. Maybe, just maybe, incompetence will save us. 040
D. Stephen Long @dstephenlong.bsky.social · 14/11/2024Still relevant, unfortunately: www.gbhem.org/publishing/p...gbhem.orgTruth Telling in a Post-Truth World - General Board of Higher Education and MinistryIn recent years, truth has become a relative term. How can we recognize the truth when everyone does “what is right in their own eyes”? When we accept and expect lies, how is civil society possible? I... 021