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Parker J. Reed

@parkerjreed.bsky.social
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Classical liberal focused on first-principles political reasoning under stress, societal stabilization, epistemic rigor, and good-faith dialectic.

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Parker J. Reed @parkerjreed.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Which side does Bluesky emote for?
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Parker J. Reed @parkerjreed.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
For anyone on this site who can still feel pity.
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Parker J. Reed @parkerjreed.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
This is for the people on very few Bluesky who don't dehumanize Iranians and Israelis.
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Parker J. Reed @parkerjreed.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
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Parker J. Reed @parkerjreed.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
This won't mean anything to the Bluesky crowd
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Parker J. Reed @parkerjreed.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
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Parker J. Reed @parkerjreed.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Zelenskyy supports the people of Iran
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Parker J. Reed @parkerjreed.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Leftists are fully human and American and have the same rights I do. They are part of my moral sphere. And they are evil. My job is to live among evil without letting it either soften my morals or harden my heart. They do not make it easy.
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Parker J. Reed @parkerjreed.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Pretend they're burning an American city if it helps you feel solidarity with them.
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Parker J. Reed @parkerjreed.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
There's also the matter of Trump and Israel not exclusively caring about Persians freedom. Motives are mixed. Because motives are impure, supporting Persian freedom is hypocritical. Therefore, the Ayatollahs must stay in power. We need to focus on lives that matter: US citizens and US illegals
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Parker J. Reed @parkerjreed.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
When they supported the Iranian regime because they oppose anything that Trump or Israel supports. That's when I knew they were evil. They are human and when conditions improve and fashions change, they will be satisfied again. And that is good. Because they are human like me.
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Parker J. Reed @parkerjreed.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
"The people of Iran are being slaughtered. Let your love for them be greater than your hatred for any individual in the opposition and let us focus on ending this theocracy! I beg you."
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Parker J. Reed @parkerjreed.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
...a guy says girls are keeping pace with us, laughing as he says, “Didn’t girls used to be scared of cockroaches and not have the strength to open a pickle jar lid? So why are they standing in the front lines, facing the bullets... Where had they been hiding this strength, this courage?”
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Parker J. Reed @parkerjreed.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
From protests in Iran
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Parker J. Reed @parkerjreed.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
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Parker J. Reed @parkerjreed.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
If Trump is evil and every dictator who opposes him is good, well....it's time to be a little bad... 😈🦹🏻‍♀️😈🦹🏻‍♀️😈🦹🏻‍♀️😈🦹🏻‍♀️
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Parker J. Reed @parkerjreed.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
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Parker J. Reed @parkerjreed.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Use your words to help people stay off this terrible path. wtmj.com/news/2026/01...
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Waukesha teen accused of killing parents pleads guilty
WAUKESHA, Wis. -- The teen accused of killing his parents and stealing their money to plan an assassination attempt on President Trump pled guilty to two
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Parker J. Reed @parkerjreed.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Don’t listen to people trying to get you hurt. Think it through. Here's a guy saying "learn from my fail":
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Parker J. Reed @parkerjreed.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
BlueSky, you need to update your Iranian flag!
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Parker J. Reed @parkerjreed.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
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Parker J. Reed @parkerjreed.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Iranians opposing the dictatorship are fighting for: -- Rule of law rather than clerical rule -- Personal liberty (speech, dress, association) -- Political accountability -- National dignity without ideological theocracy
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Parker J. Reed @parkerjreed.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Iranians resisting theocratic collapse are aligned with the same civilizational lineage that produced modern liberal democracies. That is something to support. Please repost.
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Parker J. Reed @parkerjreed.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Something funny, for once
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Parker J. Reed @parkerjreed.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Is there no pity on Bluesky?
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Parker J. Reed @parkerjreed.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
If your mental model is that “X is just people cheering death,” it might be incomplete. If we suspend disbelief for a moment and view the replies through their own doctrinaire moral lenses, they can read less like caricature and more as something messier, sadder, and unexpectedly human.
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Parker J. Reed @parkerjreed.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
What explains the silence in response to this kind of courage?
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Parker J. Reed @parkerjreed.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
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Parker J. Reed @parkerjreed.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Additional context. Neutral background included to study claims opposing the prevailing Bluesky view, on their own terms.
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Parker J. Reed @parkerjreed.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
It's okay to feel joy for them. It's never disloyal to have empathy.
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Parker J. Reed @parkerjreed.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
I FINALLY understand what Trump was talking about when he said the agent was lucky to be alive. I now eagerly await how he's going to use his words to quash any tiny bits of compassion this might have inspired.
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Parker J. Reed @parkerjreed.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
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the Conservative TAKE @tct-usa.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Jan 6 Why did old Twitter delete these on Jan 6? Trump called for peace. "We have to have PEACE." "Remain peaceful. No violence!" "Peacefully and patriotically." "Stay peaceful." Media, Dems & RINOs lied to stop questioning a stolen election. Operation. ht - C3
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Parker J. Reed @parkerjreed.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
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Frostbitten Flamingo @flemtheparrot.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Morning.
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Parker J. Reed @parkerjreed.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Why isn't this being discussed in the news? It is horrifying. So this is why Greenland's population is tiny. And the Danes only got around to apologizing last year, after Trump made noises about Greenland. I want Trump to make every Greenlander, with their consent, a millionaire and an American.
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Parker J. Reed @parkerjreed.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Democratic leadership has offered nothing to the people of Venezuela and Iran this week. Silence isn’t neutral. It signals whose lives are legible and whose can be set aside. Trump cannot be the only moral reference point. The lives of humans seeking freedom mean more than one orange man.
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the Conservative TAKE @tct-usa.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
We got receipts. 2020. Chuck Schumer criticizes Trump for not bringing an end to the Maduro regime. Schumer: "The President brags about his Venezuela policy? Give us a break. He hasn't brought an end to the Maduro regime." - h/t MAZE
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Parker J. Reed @parkerjreed.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Lots of progressive voices on X at the moment and the algorithm is giving them visibility for once. If you ever want to experience discourse on X, right now is about as productive as it ever gets and it's remarkably civil, by X standards. Respect to the people standing up to the crowd.
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Parker J. Reed @parkerjreed.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Does this sum up a coherent representative view of Trump here on Bluesky? Trump’s politics are fundamentally incompatible with justice, equity, and democracy. There is no morally coherent way to support or excuse any aspect of his actions.
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