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Occam’s Battleaxe @occamsbattleaxe.bsky.social · 17h

I’m pretty liberal, but I think I can see why liberals tend to make poor leaders. If you’re already thinking up exceptions, loopholes and excuses, how can we trust you with establishing or upholding high standards and expectations? That’s worth considering for anyone seeking authority.

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Occam’s Battleaxe @occamsbattleaxe.bsky.social · 21h

We might have a bit more trust in government if the Do Not Call List didn’t immediately have thousands of exceptions.

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Occam’s Battleaxe @occamsbattleaxe.bsky.social · 22h

I often see arguments online about “privilege”. Not having access to privilege sucks, of course. But, what of those who DO have blessings and advantages and purposefully choose to reject them? We’d probably think they were crazy or stupid for NOT leveraging whatever advantages they had.

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Occam’s Battleaxe @occamsbattleaxe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Trump hasn’t been calling the shots for a long time. He’s trotted out for a pantomime show because 1/3 of the people still respond to him as their leader. This has been the (brilliantly executed) 50-year plan from the Religious Right and these midterms will be the culmination.

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Occam’s Battleaxe @occamsbattleaxe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Hot take: All roughness is necessary in football. Make Players Hit Again.

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Occam’s Battleaxe @occamsbattleaxe.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If you believe the world owes you respect, love, a living, obedience, just for existing, you’re going to be an angry, miserable person. If, (like us oldies) you were raised to understand that the world doesn’t owe you jack shit, then you are probably a calmer, more well-adjusted and skillful adult.

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Occam’s Battleaxe @occamsbattleaxe.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Bring back the concepts of shame and embarrassment. The biggest problem in both the Left and Right is that nobody cares anymore if people think they are regarded as absolute idiots and not taken seriously. We need to CARE about our impressions and reputations again.

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Occam’s Battleaxe @occamsbattleaxe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I understand that times are tough, and things are expensive. Still not an excuse to be cheap, conniving and grabby. Treat the waitstaff and customer service people with respect, pay the damn bills as asked, and quit trying to scam free shit for being an “influencer”.

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Occam’s Battleaxe @occamsbattleaxe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Every so often, I forget and have to learn my lesson at work again. Customers are too stupid and literal to understand kidding or being sarcastic. They do not understand analogies or even examples. What I think is an obvious, playful joke is taken at face value and will FOCUS on offhand comments.

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Occam’s Battleaxe @occamsbattleaxe.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

People will reframe an event, or action depending on WHO did it, and it drives me insane. If your character, your moral lines, your standards depend on whether you are a fan of the persons at issue, that’s not something I can respect.

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Occam’s Battleaxe @occamsbattleaxe.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

And they love to make this big show about how fierce, independent and alpha they are the whole time they’re pathetically bootlicking their masters.

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Occam’s Battleaxe @occamsbattleaxe.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Never going to understand grown-ass people going apeshit over catching a used, $8 baseball. Just go buy one. Embarrassing.

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Occam’s Battleaxe @occamsbattleaxe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I don’t want to believe Trump and MAGA stole any elections. Because I think that relieves us of the responsibility to be honest about how Dems tend to run shitty elections, with uninspiring candidates. We need to ACT like it was absolutely all our own fault we lost, and that should light a fire.

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Occam’s Battleaxe @occamsbattleaxe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Be sure that what injustice you are arguing passionately about is actually a policy, a statute or an enforceable law and not just people being assholes.

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Occam’s Battleaxe @occamsbattleaxe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It’s puzzling hearing Christians express concern about Flock cameras, privacy intrusions and unaccountable drone surveillance of citizens from eyes in the skies.

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Occam’s Battleaxe @occamsbattleaxe.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It’s rather amusing when my younger customers begin to realize what us GenXers have always known: that the IRS, the power company and corporations like Amazon and Google DON’T CARE about whatever drama you have going on, or that you’re stressed out, or lost your phone, etc.

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Occam’s Battleaxe @occamsbattleaxe.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

If i’m wrong, so be it, but all these people getting in trouble for criticizing Islam or Judaism and it always gets conflated with racism, making such a mess. Religions, cultures, values and behaviors are CHOSEN, MALLEABLE OPINIONS, not innate, biological racial traits.

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Occam’s Battleaxe @occamsbattleaxe.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This whole news story about Ed Sheeran and Gaza and anti-Semitism and tours being cancelled by Robert Kraft has me completely confused and maybe someone can straighten me out. Is it Mackle-more, or Mack Lemore?

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Occam’s Battleaxe @occamsbattleaxe.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

AI was developed because Americans have a loathsome relationship with facts, logic and education. We have consistently undermined and denigrated intelligence to the point where we are now willing to hand over all our thinking to computers.

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Occam’s Battleaxe @occamsbattleaxe.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

You’re only upset because you expected better from them. I’ve realized that the people we’re all angry about are completely unconcerned with our feelings, and have no particular desire to change a damn thing.

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Occam’s Battleaxe @occamsbattleaxe.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I hear wild things about how the GOP is going to get crushed this election. But every race I see is within 5 points, very much within cheating distance. Not sure what the truth is, but I have an uneasy feeling that the Left is AGAIN going to consider it a Sure Thing and sit out, just like 2016.

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Occam’s Battleaxe @occamsbattleaxe.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

America has systematically undermined its own education system and lowered standards in the pursuit of ego. AI is simply an admission that Americans can no longer reliably achieve invention, knowledge and success on their own, nor do we desire that as a societal goal anymore.

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Occam’s Battleaxe @occamsbattleaxe.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

My annual plea to have GWAR and Infant Annihilator as the Super Bowl Halftime Show.

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Occam’s Battleaxe @occamsbattleaxe.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

You can’t tell people, for 20-30 years, that everything they think, do and say, every whim is wonderful and validated and that they are inherently valuable and unaccountable to anything, as a Main Character in the world… And then wonder why people are such psychopathic shitheels.

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Occam’s Battleaxe @occamsbattleaxe.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

In my direct observational experience of 54 years, people will spend FAR more energy and effort into denial, deflection, excuses, whining, therapy, protesting and pouting than into actually fixing the damn problem. The defensive ego is more important to people than success, I don’t understand it.

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Occam’s Battleaxe @occamsbattleaxe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

GenX gets a lot of crap for being tough and unbothered. We don’t understand why anyone WOULDN’T want to be indestructible.

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Occam’s Battleaxe @occamsbattleaxe.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

What I find fascinating is that, from the national scale down to business practices and personal behavior, examples of excellence, innovation and success ABOUND in the world…yet so many societies, companies and individuals INSIST on ignoring those templates and stubbornly keep failing proudly.

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Occam’s Battleaxe @occamsbattleaxe.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

There are a couple of generations now who have never experienced a world with any sense of optimism or normality.

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Occam’s Battleaxe @occamsbattleaxe.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

“Work” is a pretty generous stretch to describe reading summaries and occasionally saying “aye”.

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Occam’s Battleaxe @occamsbattleaxe.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

You all know this Lindsay Clancy case is testing how society views/handles mental incapacity issues ahead of Trump’s eventual reckoning, right? Who is on what side of it, and who’s on record saying opinions? This is a probe, and all our arguments are GOING to be used.

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Occam’s Battleaxe @occamsbattleaxe.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

So, adult schoolteachers and admin would have a fire drill and march 1,000 kids OUT of a glass, concrete, steel and brick building onto a field of dry, dead, Arizona winter grass to burn to death. I think the school district hated kids.

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Occam’s Battleaxe @occamsbattleaxe.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

“They have billions, so why shouldn’t they just give billions away to other people, and just stop making money? How much do they really need?” Despite being humans themselves, I hear so many people who clearly don’t understand human psychology at all.

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Occam’s Battleaxe @occamsbattleaxe.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Given the news, the amount of people I encounter daily who do not have valid, accurate ID on them, and a super-casual attitude about their identity and location is astonishing to me.

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Occam’s Battleaxe @occamsbattleaxe.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I know it would shock the world, but what if a media outlet decided to simply, ruthlessly tell the truth with little fanfare or opinionated exposition? Do you think that would be welcomed or excoriated by the public? Would we even recognize what neutral, quality news media was?

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Occam’s Battleaxe @occamsbattleaxe.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

These “hypocrisy” posts are frequent. The Left still doesn’t understand that there IS no equality of ethics or expectations between Dems and GOP. Dems will kill off promising candidates because of an exuberant scream, or a comedy photo. Trump still dominates the country with absolute immunity.

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Occam’s Battleaxe @occamsbattleaxe.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I get lots of agreement when I say the most effective cure for our society’s ills is massively raising the educational bar and academic integrity. Then people get pissed off when they realize their precious little sprog would assuredly fail HARD under my plan, and the torrent of excuses begins.

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Occam’s Battleaxe @occamsbattleaxe.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Every day, hour, I get another story about some crime by TrumpCo, and it’s always presented as if there’s some sort of irony. They said this but did that and isn’t that inconsistent and two-faced? They are so beyond shame and self awareness that THAT sort of “reporting” doesn’t make sense anymore.

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Occam’s Battleaxe @occamsbattleaxe.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Oh, you’re a anti-vaxxer, yeah? You do realize you’re playing right into Big Pharma’s hands and giving them more money by keeping diseases alive, right? Not vaxxing is what they want you to want them to think you want.

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Occam’s Battleaxe @occamsbattleaxe.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I’m fascinated by how and why society suddenly decides that something is going to be a phenomenon. Taylor Swift and Billie Eilish aren’t particularly talented or unique. Why Beanie Babies or Lladro figurines as opposed to thousands of other tchotchke crap out there? Why Rubik’s Cube and MtG?

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Occam’s Battleaxe @occamsbattleaxe.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

It’s the total lack of loyalty, vision, unity and purpose of the Dems that just kills us, bit by bit. It’s such a mystery why voters don’t trust us to get things done.

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Occam’s Battleaxe @occamsbattleaxe.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

If you take out a 30-year home loan for $150k at 6% interest, you’ll end up paying “back” $323k, not $159k. And we all just shrug and meekly accept “that’s just how it works”. Years ago, if you loaned me $10, and then demanded I repay you $20 for it later, I’d beat your ass after school so hard…

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Occam’s Battleaxe @occamsbattleaxe.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

If we are going to save this society, we need to value and reassert common sense, expertise and intelligence again. I know social media works against us, but there’s too much juvenile theatricality and attention seeking blithering going on. We need to finally grow up and get serious.

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Occam’s Battleaxe @occamsbattleaxe.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

All my life I have sought to be taken seriously, as an adult who matters. Definitely one of the life lessons my father always stressed: be mature, be sharp, be organized, be someone others see as having his act together. It doesn’t seem that younger generations feel the same goal.

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Damian Lynch 🟧 🇦🇺 Rebellion is Mandatory during times of Tyranny @dpsl.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

To many brainwashed fuckwits out there

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Occam’s Battleaxe @occamsbattleaxe.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

The GOP just constantly bitches about everything being the Dems fault, when they have been in (effective) control of the nation for 50 years. The few Dem Presidents were always stymied by a stubborn GOP Congress. So, now in TOTAL control, show us how it’s DONE, then! Where are your results?

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Occam’s Battleaxe @occamsbattleaxe.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

People who can’t meet high standards get very angry at the standards.

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Occam’s Battleaxe @occamsbattleaxe.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

If the election were held today, I believe Trump would still win. I’ve made peace with how America just is, now.

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