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James M Vickers

@paladinofpluralism.bsky.social
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Retired, after a hapless career of job-hopping. I played Trombone, was in some bands early--that was nice. I play chess at a high level, or did. I used to play golf, tennis, and I made it through two years of college. I just turned 69. I'm very lefty.

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James M Vickers @paladinofpluralism.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
"What did you think? (of priestess comments) Trump asks? Journalists should never waste an opportunity to answer Trump with witty repartees. "Well, I thought it was pretty cool. She was conveying to you that you need to find your lost or perhaps never-existing empathy, Mr. President."
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James M Vickers @paladinofpluralism.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Posted this on Facebook today and they removed it. "No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people."( often attributed to H.L. Mencken)
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James M Vickers @paladinofpluralism.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Hey, I'm wondering if any of you have tried out one of those itty-bitty computers? I don't need one but for some reason I'm "hankering" (southern word) to try one.
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James M Vickers @paladinofpluralism.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Picture paints a thousand words about anxi-vax crowd.
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James M Vickers @paladinofpluralism.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
I listened to this last night as I drifted off in slumber. www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4vt...
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Jon Stewart & Bernie Sanders on Rebuilding Trust & Efficacy in the Government | The Weekly Show
YouTube video by The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
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bunlene.bsky.social @bunlene.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
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James M Vickers @paladinofpluralism.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
I'm amazed by how many low-income Americans are convinced that they don't deserve good healthcare.You are, no matter what the TV says.
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James M Vickers @paladinofpluralism.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/blinken-is... Watching all this I keep finding myself thinking of that JFK quote “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable.”
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Blinken Is Pushing For Ukrainian Teens To Die For US Hegemony
Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
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Trisha KansasGal @kansasgal71.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
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James M Vickers @paladinofpluralism.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
robertreich.substack.com/p/musks-dang...
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Musk’s dangerous bullying
Friends,
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James M Vickers @paladinofpluralism.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Multiplying the inflation rate from when Bernie ran on $15 an hour in 2016 year by year, and guess what it would be now if we had a provision to add the inflation rate each year? It'd be $19.35/hour. This goes to show you have much inflation has eaten up the minimum wage since 2006, from $7.25.
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James M Vickers @paladinofpluralism.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
robertreich.substack.com/p/gm-corpora... What will it take to get Congress to actually do something to better distribute the spoils of this country? Because it isn't happening now. The top ten percent has gone from 89% to 92% of all market stocks in just a decade or so. And half of us have none.
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GM, corporate greed, and the reason the Democrats lost the election
Dems must condemn GM and other big corporations that are laying off workers despite record profits — and make loud and dramatic moves to stop them
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James M Vickers @paladinofpluralism.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
www.pcmag.com/explainers/b... Some ideas for how to use this platform.
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Getting Started on Bluesky? 5 Unique Features to Check Out Right Away
Bluesky is riding a wave of popularity as people defect from X, but it's more than just a Twitter dupe. Here's how to follow custom algorithms, create a starter pack, and more.
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James M Vickers @paladinofpluralism.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
So true. I wish the US had peace as a goal like China.
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James M Vickers @paladinofpluralism.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAd4... They don't care why they lose, which is why they keep losing in the same ways, with the same issues people aren't passionate about.
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DNC Insider EXPOSES Greedy Consultant GRIFT, Why Trump Won
YouTube video by Status Coup News
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James M Vickers @paladinofpluralism.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Colbert has Bill Clinton as a guest. He's a primary figure in taking Democrats in the wrong direction, globalizing away jobs, demonizing the working class, hiring more cops to lock up blacks, who vote 9/10 for Democrats, and doing several other right-wing things with Republican Newt Gingrich.
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James M Vickers @paladinofpluralism.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
I know I do my best and welcome the help, and pay for it when I can.
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NaLa @naanla.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
This is inexcusable ... and it just keeps happening. www.commondreams.org/news/pentago...
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Pentagon Fails Seventh Straight Audit as Annual US Military Budget Nears $1 Trillion | Common Dreams
The Pentagon announced late last week that it failed its seventh consecutive audit as the sprawling, profiteering-ridden department wasn't able to fully account for its trillions of dollars in assets.
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James M Vickers @paladinofpluralism.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
hartmannreport.com/p/the-transi... Yup. Excerpt
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The Transitional Oligarchy: Democracy’s Last Stand?
The road ahead could lead to dictatorship or renewed liberty, as the American people confront the corrosive power of wealth in politics…
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James M Vickers @paladinofpluralism.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASNV... Haven't been able to get a YouTube video to play on BlueSky. Tips?
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Trump is Stocking the Swamp
YouTube video by Useful Idiots
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James M Vickers @paladinofpluralism.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Think about finding some pundits whose ideas you like on YouTube. MSNBCCNN and FOX are giant, faceless corporations with corporate goals. They're owned by the rich, run by the rich, and staffed by the rich to push ideas that help the rich, which is probably not you. Actual lefties, YouTube.
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James M Vickers @paladinofpluralism.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
The reason we've got a 35 trillion dollar debt--top marginal tax rate. Notice who took over when we started building debt.
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James M Vickers @paladinofpluralism.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
This is about right. Hey centi-millionaires and billionaires, want to prove you´re not bad guys? Start spending your money to do good things, to elected good candidates, not people who give you more money and making everyone else poor.
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James M Vickers @paladinofpluralism.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
James M Vickers on Facebook. Follow me if you wish. I'll hit you back. I'm in the left half of the Democratic Party, more or less a 1970s Democrat, with more of an inclination toward peace, and not so much a believer in the "Red Scare."
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