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John Able Curtis

@j-able.bsky.social
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I read and collect books. Anti-fascist.

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John Able Curtis @j-able.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Here on social media and some non-Legacy media outlets like Meidas Touch people have been saying what would happen if Trump became President again. Just every day people like me and most of you. But big media, corporate media, never did. 
The two main things so far that Trump voters already are getting wind of is how tariffs and mass deportation will destroy our economy if they come to pass. Musk even said a couple days before the election that there will be "hardship" before things get better. 
Did Trump voters not know how tariffs on imports and deportation of part of our workforce would have disastrous effects? Did anyone tell them about the hardship part? 
No. They didn't. No one told told them except us lying libtards. 
Maybe, just maybe, Trump won't go through with tariffs and deportation. 
But if he does...we will be in a world of hurt. 
Guess what: who you vote for matters. It might not in the future, but up until now it has.
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John Able Curtis @j-able.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Truth from the President of Mexico:
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John Able Curtis @j-able.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Bigfoot attacking the Puritans.
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John Able Curtis @j-able.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
I can't live without coffee. I may have to move to Columbia. From a Vox article about how tariffs will impact us.
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John Able Curtis @j-able.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
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John Able Curtis @j-able.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Conservatives used to be afraid of a New World Order. But I think they just voted for it.
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John Able Curtis @j-able.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Read the image alt text, friends! Mike Mignola art.
I know some of us are depressed, discouraged, and dismayed by the election results. It's hard to believe that so many people are fooled and can't think their way around confusing disinformation and emotional rhetoric. It's also hard to believe so many people lack empathy for other human beings. 
But don't be down. If you lose spirit you lose energy. If you hate you only hurt yourself. Negative emotions only hurt the person feeling them. 
Turn those feelings to outrage. Turn the outrage into rage. Rage is our strongest emotion. Convert it, like a chemical reaction. Turn the rage into positive energy. Smile. Be a happy warrior. 
Then whenever you see injustice or bigotry stand up. Speak. Don't let it pass.
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John Able Curtis @j-able.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Grant me a good sword and no need for it.
Old Polish Proverb
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John Able Curtis @j-able.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. Marcus Aurelius
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John Able Curtis @j-able.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
James Bond's Aston Martin.
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John Able Curtis @j-able.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
I'm watching the Watchmen. It's good but I'm not sure why they bothered doing it again. Without Alan Moore's name on it.
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John Able Curtis @j-able.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
When Trump voters realize what happened MAGA politicians will be running like Josh Hawley on January 6.
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John Able Curtis @j-able.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
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John Able Curtis @j-able.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
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John Able Curtis @j-able.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
If the idea of tariffs is to buy goods made here over ones made overseas then the same products would need to be made here, in the same quantities, price range, etc... First off, Conservatives and libertarian types are supposed to believe in international free markets and competition (alt text)
If the idea of tariffs is to buy goods made here over ones made overseas then the same products would need to be made here, in the same quantities, price range, etc...
First off, Conservatives and libertarian types are supposed to believe in international free markets and competition.
But mainly, does Trump expect our manufacturing base, which took 40 years to move overseas, to magically reappear here instantaneously? 
Most likely, I think he won't get his tariff wish if he listens to advisors (?) and economists. Cars. Phones. Clothes. Shoes. It would take years to return these factories to the US, and we don't even have the people to work in them, particularly if we deport immigrants. Maybe this is why they want to make abortion illegal: more poor people to work in factories.
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John Able Curtis @j-able.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Old French cartoon of a woman bopping a dude in a single stick competition
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John Able Curtis @j-able.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Our house.
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John Able Curtis @j-able.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
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John Able Curtis @j-able.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Resist MAGA. Call out hate wherever you see it. These people want a fascist oligarchy backed by a religious organization and a Russian dictator. They want to burn America down and build it back their way. Don't let them.
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John Able Curtis @j-able.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Sometimes antisocial
Always antifascist
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John Able Curtis @j-able.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
On to book II of Ian Ross' Twilight of Empire. This copy had once belonged to the Dublin library.
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John Able Curtis @j-able.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
If our President is a criminal, and he has cabinet members who are guilty of bad conduct as well how does that impact the rule of law in this country? Is it right out the window? Why respect our government with an insurrectionist in charge? He didn't. Why respect law and order at all?
If our President is a criminal, and he has cabinet members who are guilty of bad conduct as well how does that impact the rule of law in this country? Is it right out the window? 
Why respect our government with an insurrectionist in charge? He didn't. 
Why respect law and order at all? 
It all falls apart. 
Honesty. Integrity. Merit. Decency. 

QAnon conspiracies usually revolved around people guilty of pedophilia and sexual assault in positions of power. Remember Pizzagate? Now we got Gaetz and Trump. And who knows who else. 
Trump was Epstein's bro, and was on his flight log to the island many times. Again, they accuse people of what they are doing themselves. Gaslighting.
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John Able Curtis @j-able.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Superman was an undocumented immigrant who worked as a journalist, exposing crime and corruption. 
He was 'woke'.
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John Able Curtis @j-able.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Today's books!
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John Able Curtis @j-able.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
As soon as Trump's policies take effect their will be a lot of regret by his supporters, and a swing away from the MAGA Reich. Even if Trump is removed or dies within 4 years, the Reich will try to stay in power.
The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
Simone de Beauvoir Quote

The MAGA Reich will try to prevent a 2028 presidential election.
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John Able Curtis @j-able.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
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John Able Curtis @j-able.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
No mercy for fascism. 
Whenever you see fascism, racism, bigotry, xenophobia, transphobia, homophobia, or misogyny call it out. Stand up, resist.
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John Able Curtis @j-able.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
So, you can use 300 spaces for your post but 2000 for alt text for images? Hmmm...so we could put bigger posts in images?
See what I mean? 
James Coburn, who looked like my dad, in a movie poster for Duck, You Sucker, Sergio Leone's final western.
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John Able Curtis @j-able.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Good morning. I'm currently avoiding the news and Facebook. Reading books, listening to podcasts while recovering from hernia surgery for a couple days.
Viva la Resistance 
Slogan used by French citizens opposed to Nazis in World War 2, now applied to Anti-Trump movement in the USA. Stamp out Fascism. Call out racism/bigotry.
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John Able Curtis @j-able.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
One people: the Human Beings. No borders. The earth belongs to all of us, and we belong to it.
World map without bordersWe're not Indians and we're not Native Americans. We're older than both concepts. We're the people, we're the human beings. Quote from John T
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John Able Curtis @j-able.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Pure open corruption. Political power should not be for sale.
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John Able Curtis @j-able.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
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John Able Curtis @j-able.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Democracy demands an educated, informed, and ethical group of voters. We do not have that in the USA. The mass can not vote away my essence, my values, or my observations.
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John Able Curtis @j-able.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Remember, Remember The 5th of November
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John Able Curtis @j-able.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
My first blue sky post.
Never betray yourself for someone else's comfort. 
Pictured: a raven
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