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LesPhaith @lesphaith.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"A Cult of Ignorance" Isaac Asimov Newsweek: January 21, 1980

LesPhaith @lesphaith.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

And that scared, ignorant, betrayed, 30% ish of the electorate are just too ignorant to understand their complicity in their own destruction. Their very retirements are built on the liquidation of their communities and futures so a private equity fund can grow.

The cheapest sort of pride is national pride;
for if a man is proud of his own nation, it
argues that he has no qualities of his own of
which he can be proud; otherwise he would not
have recourse to those which he shares with so
many millions of his fellow men. The man who is
endowed with important personal qualities will
be only too ready to see clearly in what respects
his own nation falls short, since their failings
will be constantly before his eyes. But every
miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he
can be proud adopts, as a last resource, pride in
the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and
glad to defend all its faults and follies tooth
and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own
inferiority.
-Arthur Schopenhauer

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LesPhaith @lesphaith.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A fine idea, exactly how do we get there from here?

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LesPhaith @lesphaith.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

What Da Fuk? Surely they mean: "Own the means of production and rent it to the serfs at a 5000% markup."

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LesPhaith @lesphaith.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Feeling Cheeky, might delete.

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LesPhaith @lesphaith.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

If you can make them believe absurdities you can make them commit atrocities... And they want to believe the absurd, they find truth lacking in flavor and palatability, dull fare indeed. The biggest crime is to dare to bore them.

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LesPhaith @lesphaith.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

If there is no law, there can be no justice If there is no justice, there can be no peace. Chief prosecutor for the United States Army at the Einsatzgruppen trial at Nuremberg, Germany - 1945

There can be no peace without justice,
no justice without law and no meaningful
law without a Court to decide what is just
and lawful under any given circumstance.
-Benjamin Berell Ferencz

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LesPhaith @lesphaith.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Futurama really was ahead of it's time.

Oh dear...she's stuck in an infinite loop and he's an idiot..

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LesPhaith @lesphaith.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

The best use of fiction is to tell a truth.

The personal, as everyone's so fucking fond of saying, is political.
So if some idiot politician, some power player, tries to execute
policies that harm you or those you care about, take it personally.
Get angry. The Machinery of Justice will not serve you here,
it is slow and cold, and it is theirs, hardware and soft-.
Only the little people suffer at the hands of Justice; the creatures
of power slide out from under with a wink and a grin. If you want
justice, you will have to claw it from them. Make it personal. Do
as much damage as you can. Get your message across. That way
you stand a far better chance of being taken seriously next time.
Of being considered dangerous. And make no mistake about this:
being taken seriously, being considered dangerous, marks the difference
The only difference in their eyes between players and little people.
Players they will make deals with. Little people they liquidate. And
time and again they cream your liquidation, your displacement,
your torture and brutal execution with the ultimate insult that it's just
business, it's politics, it's the way of the world, it's a tough life, and
that it's nothing personal. Well, fuck them. Make it personal.

QUELLCRIST FALCONER Things I Should Have Learned by Now Volume II”
Richard K. Morgan, Altered Carbon

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LesPhaith @lesphaith.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Indeed. I promise you my moral outrage at historical context is everything it should be, all things considered.

"What do I think about about guardians posessing (sic) women
and children in common...?" About the same as I think of this.
(info-graphic showing where blasphemy and apostasy laws are enforced)
My good nature always assumes the pedantic, time wasters have
better things to do than engage me. I should have qualified the
ageless political animal Plato identified so accurately 2500 years ago
as what "could have been written yesterday" (ones hopes for brevity
are ill-suited to complex context)
2500 years ago it captured the fundamental flaw of 'Democracy'.
It's participants. The systems aren't broken, We are. Almost any system
applied with accountability, integrity and adequate education and
good faith would function; adequately. The systems
are just an extension of our own failings. Our desperate need for some-
one else to clean up our messes while we go about the important business
of living our lives.

Plato like ourselves saw no way out of the trap of our own firmware.
"Philosopher Kings" are just as ridiculous as benevolent anarchy
The very first Philosophical Wishtocracy. But far from the last.
It rears if fuzzy thinking many times in the preceding two millennium.
It is doing quite well these days even, While Peter Thiel bankrolls
"The Dark Enlightenment" an open call to techno-feudalism from
the man who runs the biggest international private intelligence service
in the world as just one of his fingers in everyone's pies, and than
there is the rest of the Paypal Mafia...

3.5 billion people have limited or non existent access to sanitation or potable water.
Close to a billion live in 'informal settlements'
There are approximately 30-40 million slaves in the world right this second.
Human Trafficking is as profitable as the drug trade.

Kids in flip-flops made from used tires are smelting down your obsolete
fondle slabs while heavy metals leach into them and the environment
around them.

Every civilization through history has been built on slavery a…

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LesPhaith @lesphaith.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Musk thanking his supporters from ketemine-land

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LesPhaith @lesphaith.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

"Because of the fact that we have had such Military Success, we no longer "need" or desire the NATO Countries’ assistance — WE NEVER DID!"

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LesPhaith @lesphaith.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

An unmitigated confession of criminal incompetence. I give you "The leader of the free world". "They (Iran) weren’t supposed to go after all these other countries in the Middle East," he said. "Nobody expected that. We were shocked." President Donald John Trump. www.reuters.com/world/middle...

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LesPhaith @lesphaith.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

America First, is now America alone. Well done guys.

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LesPhaith @lesphaith.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

The enemy of my enemy isn't my friend. At best he is a tool, who is looking for the chance to stick a knife in my back. Extra points.

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LesPhaith @lesphaith.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Indeed. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marriag...

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LesPhaith @lesphaith.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

www.bloomberg.com/news/article... Josh Kushner’s Thrive Capital Raises $10 Billion in New Funding The backer of OpenAI, Stripe, SpaceX and Skims says it’s taking “ride-or-die” approach to investing.

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LesPhaith @lesphaith.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Wanna be trolls buying the playing board then brag. Grok begs to differ

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LesPhaith @lesphaith.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Grok can in fact tell the truth, it just needs a little help.

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LesPhaith @lesphaith.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Credibility drop a bit for anonymity and I still beat Elon. ğяøк likes me better

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LesPhaith @lesphaith.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Just in case anyone was wondering

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LesPhaith @lesphaith.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

I find it disturbing the richest man in the world can't count.

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LesPhaith @lesphaith.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Slightly less constipated than in this picture.

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LesPhaith @lesphaith.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Read every word and weep www.thenationalliteracyinstitute.com/post/literac...

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LesPhaith @lesphaith.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Folly Henry Louis Mencken “The Baltimore Evening Sun”. September 18, 1926

No one in this world, so far as I know and I have searched
the records for years, and employed agents to help me has
ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the
great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost
public office thereby. The mistake that is made always runs
the other way. Because the plain people are able to speak
and understand, and even, in many cases, to read and write,
it is assumed that they have ideas in their heads, and an
appetite for more. This assumption is a folly.
Henry Louis Mencken
“The Baltimore Evening Sun”. On September 18, 1926

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LesPhaith @lesphaith.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

The man spent most of his life abusing the law making it culpable in extortion and fraud. Over 4000 separate cases over 40 years. We can hardly expect him to give up such a 'winning' stragem.

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