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Leo Smith

@leosmith.bsky.social
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Life long Michigander in SW Michigan. Retired social services worker. Politically; Slightly to the left of Bernie Sanders. Looking for serious conversations with serious people. But also like a good joke. or even a bad pun..

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Leo Smith @leosmith.bsky.social · 11h
Love these rich politicians telling everyday working Americans to "suck it up"?
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Leo Smith @leosmith.bsky.social · 12h
Hell, I would call it Trump Intelligence, I would love to call it Trump Intelligence
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Leo Smith @leosmith.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Soooooo, you hate pancakes.
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Leo Smith @leosmith.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Doesn't seem like a glowing endorsement of the pick-up artist or the life style when the author of 'The Pickup Artist: The New and Improved Art of Seduction' ends up believing his AI gf is real and is waiting for the tech to allow them to "have sex." Come to think about it - seems about right.
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Leo Smith @leosmith.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Posting this here after being blocked by @amp01.bsky.social for correcting his mis-information bsky.app/profile/leos...
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Leo Smith @leosmith.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"capitalism can work as long as we have checks and balances" no where in that video is this point being made. Abdul is mearly stateing his policy positions, he is not engaging with the questrion. Abdul's only stated reason for supporting captialism is his Islamic faith.
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Leo Smith @leosmith.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Also - if you consider his post an insult - you need to get off the internet. But of course you don't . That is just an excuse.
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Leo Smith @leosmith.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
WTF is wrong with you. I didn't say so, The DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST's of AMERICA and Wikipedia said so. And your "evidence" is a unsourced meme. Yes, checks and balances, that's Classical Liberal Ideology, constructed over 250 years ago by capitalist for capitalist. Is it working yet? Read some Marx
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Leo Smith @leosmith.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This is literally just classical liberalism. In reality that restraining only happens when the capitalist fear the working class and decide to "be restrained" instead to enabling fascism - i.e. The New Deal in response to The Great Depression in the US. versus post WW1 in Italy and Germany.
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Leo Smith @leosmith.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Guess what, this is the internet- and anyone gets to reply. Also, your video post in no way contradicts my points, your meme is mis-information BS . Abdul nor Fox News is claiming that schools and roads are socialism. Are you getting your information from Indivisible or some other Liberals?
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Leo Smith @leosmith.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Also from Wikipedia. "Democratic socialists argue that capitalism is inherently incompatible with the values of freedom, equality, and solidarity and that these ideals can only be achieved through the realization of a SOCIALIST society" Caps Mine
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Leo Smith @leosmith.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"We want to win “radical” reforms like single-payer Medicare for All, defunding the police/refunding communities, the Green New Deal, and more AS A TRANSTION to a freer, more just life." Capitalizations Mine. I am neither a Marxist nor a Communist - but am definitely not a Capitalist.
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Leo Smith @leosmith.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
From the largest Democratic Socialist Organization in the US. "Capitalism is a system designed by the owning class..... We must replace it with democratic socialism," Why would you replace something with the thing you say you want to replace? ....More
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Leo Smith @leosmith.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The man is simply incapable of thinking of anyone but himself.
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Leo Smith @leosmith.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Crushing the competition through the most important benchmark in the tech industry - "model number" - they should just turn it up to 11.
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Leo Smith @leosmith.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Crushing the competition through the most important benchmark in the tech industry - "model number" - they should just turn it up to 11.
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Leo Smith @leosmith.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Seems like a attempt to manufacture panic over certain races having fun at college football games. The main argument for the panic is they are doing it while attending the same school and sitting in the same section as your lily white daughter.
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Angela Collier @acollierastro.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I just think women should be able to get educations without a constant threat of sexual violence.
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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Leo Smith @leosmith.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
You don't want them to write that it raises questions whether police are a bunch of racists, misogynic chuds do you?
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Leo Smith @leosmith.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
More needs to be made out of the fact the Maga, from it's leaders right down its supporters, absolutely does not believe in the fundamental principles of Classical Liberal democracy. The actual principles the country was founded on.
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Leo Smith @leosmith.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
While I have not seen that framing, and while it is just one guy in one interview, I think Peter Thiel's hesitation in affirming that he wants the human species to endure makes the framing easy to make.
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 27/09/2026
Enjoying the “illegal demonstration” call against the commanders, which makes it sound like they’re on the field campaigning for civil rights
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Leo Smith @leosmith.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I think it was like Civ IV that I encountered those talking head leaders and could not stand looking at them talk for the 30 seconds they were on screen, I cannot imagine looking then them for an entire lesson.
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Leo Smith @leosmith.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
They also don't want women's sports to exists.
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Leo Smith @leosmith.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
My guess is that those mistaken ICE detentions of US citizens are all facial recognition technology failures.
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Leo Smith @leosmith.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is the same bubble he has lived in most of his life, and is now curated by the minions of the billionaire oligarchs who got Trump where he is.
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Leo Smith @leosmith.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The techno feudalists will not tolerate any hindrances to their planned destruction of western civilization.
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Leo Smith @leosmith.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I guess in many cases this is not a consequence of AI as much as a feature.
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Leo Smith @leosmith.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
There was no tariff or budget cut that was going to pay the trillion dollar cost of sending every five grand. I guess the real difference is creditability, it seems the GOP believes that Socialists have more creditability than Trump.
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Leo Smith @leosmith.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Speaking of 13 year old fantasies, It's slightly updated "Atlas Shrugged"
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Leo Smith @leosmith.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The only people with choices will be the techno billionaire elite. Everyone else will be effectively peasants. That is why its called techno "feudalism." The problem is, the reason governments "listen to the people" isn't benign adherence to democracy, it's because there is more of us than them.
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Leo Smith @leosmith.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I wonder if AI heard beeswax then altered the rest of the sentence to turn into something that fit better with the AI data set. Voice recognition just puts in a word it thinks it hears and doesn't care of it makes sense, but AI, who knows.
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🎃 scarecrowcialism 👻 @swolecialism.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Is... that not the default kind of bathroom
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Leo Smith @leosmith.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This are fake posts for stupid people who think any words written on an image posted on the internet must be true. Unfortunately, it works all to often. Fortunately, most of the people it works on, were not going to vote of Abdul anyway.
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Leo Smith @leosmith.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It's two years to gather evidence so the prosecutions property seizures can start in 2029. Starlink and Palantir needs to be nationalized for national security.
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Leo Smith @leosmith.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
So, no change to from the last 75 years, but Trump will claim "total victory." Well, this outcome is better than how Iran is going.
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Leo Smith @leosmith.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
ICE agents should take notice.
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Leo Smith @leosmith.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The Famous Bill of Rights provision you learned about in grade school, Congress will make no law... abridging the Freedom of Speech.... or the right of the people peaceably to assemble ---- in Expressive Activity Areas.
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Leo Smith @leosmith.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
It's like the candidates with the most support and the things listed that Dem voters want are from two different worlds.
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John Robinson @jrobin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Old, white male writer bemoans a book award nominees that reflect the world’s diversity. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/o...
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Opinion | The National Book Awards Are No Longer National (Gift Article)
The National Book Awards longlists are a study in tedious political orthodoxy.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Just the most boring bores who ever bored.
Bedbug Stephens

The Literary World's DEI Checklist
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Leo Smith @leosmith.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Have a very knowledgeable socialist friend, same take.
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Leo Smith @leosmith.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This is Trump, and Trumpism in a nutshell, until it's likely to have an immediate impact on me personally, it is of no concern to me.
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Leo Smith @leosmith.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This is long over due, should have been done in 2017.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The fact that very few highly educated people support Donald Trump shows just how biased our educational system has become.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
if you doubt a ruling class could possibly be this world historically wrong I'll note that "We have nothing to fear on the part of the Negroes; they are tranquil and obedient” and “We sleep with doors and windows wide open. Freedom for Negroes is a chimera” are quotes of a slaveowner in 1790, Haiti
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Never stops hitting me the way everyone in mainstream discourse agrees that if we want to help people, we first have to convince Republicans, while everyone in mainstream discourse also agrees that Republicans do not have to convince any of us before they hurt people.
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