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shep @shepherdone.bsky.social · 2h

This is what has set ruling class hair on fire and ignited a frenzy of profit-taking and fascism.

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shep @shepherdone.bsky.social · 3h

System build of, by, and for capitalists and capitalism.

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shep @shepherdone.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It's fair to say the country is at the brink largely because of unchecked Republican lies. Trump didn't invent the game, which goes back at least to tax cuts which pay for themselves, but he may have perfected it. In the end, millions of voters can no longer tell truth from lies. shorturl.at/zCvb9

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shep @shepherdone.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This isn't just red meat for the MAGA base, Our Betters do understand that this is end-stage capitalism and are trying to delay the final implosion and cashing in their chips before the house closes. It's obvious the GOP brand is shot and that Americans will not tolerate fascism or be long subdued.

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shep @shepherdone.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

List of things the corporate press cannot do and still fulfill its role as protector of corporate power and oligarchy: margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/how-you-ca...?

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shep @shepherdone.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This cycle's, "they're eating the cats and dogs," literally something which doesn't exist used to frighten know-nothing authoritarian followers into voting for Republicans to stop it. This is a twofer for anti-Roe Republicans who get pretend they give a shit about women's right's. shorturl.at/AKTqR

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shep @shepherdone.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Of course. "The notion that third-rate right-leaning opinion content will actually bring new readers to the Post is pure fantasy. Bezos’s goal here has nothing to do with expanding the Post’s readership. It is to protect his wealth and suck up to Trump. It’s obvious and pathetic." shorturl.at/3nrJZ

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shep @shepherdone.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

If you don't know social psychology, you don't know politics.

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shep @shepherdone.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Eat the rich...before they eat you.

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shep @shepherdone.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The root of much evil: "...authoritarian parenting takes a harsh, “my way or the highway” approach to discipline. Instead of guiding kids towards positive choices...the emphasis is on asserting dominance. Caregivers enforce strict rules under threat of punishment... shorturl.at/sOBJs

parentingscience.com

The authoritarian parenting style: What does it look like?

The authoritarian parenting style isn't the best. So why do some parents practice it, and how can you tell if you're one of them?

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shep @shepherdone.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The fact that Republican campaign consultants are recommending candidates ditch Trump is a positive sign the electorate wants to move on. This time they won't be able to blame Democrats or distance themselves from Trump malfeasance and catastrophes, past, present, and future, which they enabled.

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shep @shepherdone.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

In truth, the US has had corporate oligarchy since cotton and railroads made most of the money. What's happened under Republicans government over recent decades is that money has become so powerful and protected that our GenX oligarchs see little need to hide their foul designs against US democracy.

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shep @shepherdone.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

At a certain point Trump corruption stories become tedious and normalizing, which is part of the plan. But Trump is a textbook psychopath who was convicted of raping women, fraud, and impeached for hatching a multi-prong attack on the government of the United States, i.e., treason, more than plenty.

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shep @shepherdone.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Pols pay between $2,000-3,000 per person per year for healthcare. In the US, we spend more than $15,000 per year just to live as long. If fact, there is no area of public health or safety where Americans don't pay several times more than others countries to serve the profit interests of capitalists.

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shep @shepherdone.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This is oligarchy making us poorer, sicker, and more dead.

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shep @shepherdone.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The new Masters of the Universe have upended the entire order of things, complex, interdependent systems built and adapted over generations by scientists and engineers. This is why we should expect things to get much worse, perhaps in ways we can't foresee, before they get any better. Buckle-up.

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shep @shepherdone.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The small hope some of us cling to is that oligarchy has finally pushed workers too far and that the deliberate Republican demolition of American democracy on its behalf finally awakens average voters to the game and who rigs it. They already know who's winning and who's losing. shorturl.at/QkAwq

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shep @shepherdone.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Private equity is really the poster-child for laissez-faire capitalism. A late 20th-Century-developed economic instrument which adds no value to companies, fires their workers, enshitifies their products, and strips their cash value leaving them saddled with enormous debt.

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shep @shepherdone.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Pretty much every response from Republicans when you asked them about anything is a lie. It's the fundamental weapon of their political strategy, which has been wildly successful in the absence of a press which tells the truth about their lying. It's what drove us to the abyss.

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shep @shepherdone.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Regardless of the ratio of human vs AI responsibility here, we shouldn't imagine this is coming out of nowhere. Computer-aided targeting is not new, captured imagery analyzed and potential targets identified in real time by machine. Humans are needed for the final analysis. shorturl.at/lOYjy

theguardian.com

AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is far more worrying

LLMs-gone-rogue dominated coverage, but had nothing to do with the targeting. Instead, it was choices made by human beings, over many years, that gave us this atrocity

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shep @shepherdone.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

People confused why the mainstream press doesn't tell Trump to gfy need to keep in mind: 1) Trump is the only game in town, there's no alternative to Trump, 2) they're profit-seeking corporations making a short-term cost/benefit calculation and 3), the smart money is still bet on the billionaires.

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shep @shepherdone.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Gee, I don't know, maybe congenitally bankrupt real estate developer and reality TV celebrity wasn't the right CV to run the most powerful nation in history.

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shep @shepherdone.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It's critical at this moment for the third of voters who believe who runs government doesn't matter and another third who believe Republican government is the answer, to experience a bucket of cold water to awaken them from their political stupor. It may already be too late but it's still needed.

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shep @shepherdone.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Always thought the fact that it took more than 2,000 years from when ancient Greeks determined the Earth was round to the time (nearly) everyone believed it, one the most telling examples of the weakness of the rational mind, the persistence of bad faith actors, and the durability of false belief.

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shep @shepherdone.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Inevitably, as it comes crashing down, everyone will ask how we could be so stupid and depraved. The fault can lie only with voters and the people paid to inform them about political leaders and government and polling illustrates the gross disparity in voters' understanding of what's even happening.

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shep @shepherdone.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The mainstream press did not destroy the body politic by failing to provide the facts, they did it by failing to explain their meaning.

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shep @shepherdone.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Legacy media is 100% responsible for normalizing Republican sociopathy and criminality, to this day. Ask yourself why the word "treason" never entered the mainstream conversation when talking about sedition, insurrection, and otherwise trying to overthrow the government of the United States.

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shep @shepherdone.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Regular folks wonder why the greedy and self-dealing seem so miserable. They often have everything you could imagine and mastery of their domains. It's because humans are social animals and the self is a lonely place, without empathy and concern for others, you are truly alone. Bertrand Russell:

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shep @shepherdone.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

“The inward eye is the bliss of solitude.” ~William Wordsworth sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/i-wandered...?

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shep @shepherdone.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Tensions between police and small-d democrats are high but it's important be careful when talking to authorities. Angry tirades (no matter how justified) can and will be used against you, in the worst case provide a pretext for assault. Cops are allowed scream sentences of expletives, you're not.

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shep @shepherdone.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Because it's all about themselves.

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shep @shepherdone.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The one looming catastrophe that wasn't Trump's fault. 🤷‍♂️ shorturl.at/M0RX3

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shep @shepherdone.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The crimes by Reagan – a secret arms deal with foreign enemies to keep Americans hostage – and G.W.Bush – a fabricated case for a disastrous war of choice – both make Nixon look like a petty criminal. Trump, of course, has taken it to a new lever. What changed?

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shep @shepherdone.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

"Treating this as an unstoppable race, and accepting the "endgame" of runaway warming, is a reckless gamble that should never be decided in a boardroom alone." Added to the list of things which should not be decided in a boardroom, like people's healthcare, which are now deciding there for profit.

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