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Timothy Taubes @timothytaubes.bsky.social · 26m

I never thought I could have a lower opinion of Kennedy until I heard him question Jack Smith.

Timothy Taubes @timothytaubes.bsky.social · 33m

Every time Trump says, "Iran will never have a nuclear weapon" I hear myself say, "how long will it be before Iran announces it has tested a nuclear device?" Because Trump is wrong about everything.

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Timothy Taubes @timothytaubes.bsky.social · 40m

#BreakingKindSongs #MusicChallenge Day 6️⃣ - Song with a crime, criminal or villain in title/lyrics. Well, I been spending all my money on weed 'n' pills Trying to write a song that'll pay the bills But it ain't came yet so I guess I'll have to rob a bank www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNV1...

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Sturgill Simpson - "You Can Have The Crown / Some Days" (Live at Sun King Brewery)

YouTube video by mokbpresents

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Timothy Taubes @timothytaubes.bsky.social · 16h

#MusicChallenge #TeztunesMonthOfMusic Day 6 - Title or lyrics mention a planet’s name in our solar system. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mA1...

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Frankie Avalon - Venus HQ

YouTube video by TheGrayCat

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Timothy Taubes @timothytaubes.bsky.social · 21h

#BreakingKindSongs #MusicChallenge Day 5️⃣ - Song about family or a specific family member in title/lyrics. My old man says I'm just a stoned little punk But he keeps himself a pistol and he's always drunk www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNtV...

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Heavy Metal Kids (Live - August 1975)

YouTube video by Todd Rundgren - Topic

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Timothy Taubes @timothytaubes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Every time they blame something on Biden it's an admission that they are incompetent.

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Timothy Taubes @timothytaubes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Trump and his family are destined to be the most hated family on the face of the earth all for the love of a buck. The amount of suffering they are causing is unconscionable. The lack of humanity and self-awareness is unfathomable.

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Timothy Taubes @timothytaubes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I was at this concert which also featured Elvin Bishop, Johnny Winter and Rick Derringer. I saw them several months earlier open for Delaney & Bonnie at which time I had never even heard of the Allman Bros. I saw them once again with Duane in 71 also at the Fillmore www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWy3...

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The Allman Brothers Band - Statesboro Blues ( At Fillmore East, 1971 )

YouTube video by skywalker1389

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Timothy Taubes @timothytaubes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

#LookAndSee 532 #MusicChallenge #MusicSky This is just for fun! No rules. I will post a pic often for your music association… 🎧 #LookAndSee (Day 532) www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eDM...

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The Kinks - Skin and Bone (Official Audio)

YouTube video by The Kinks

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Timothy Taubes @timothytaubes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It will be brought about when the conditions for our very survival necessitate it. A return to a condition of necessity will be commensurate with the Third Transformation of Human Consciousness. [2020]

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Timothy Taubes @timothytaubes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A perpetually escalating war to end all wars. What will it take for the Social Issue to be finally resolved? Will it require an apocalypse the likes of which the planet has never seen? Will we have to reach rock bottom until there is no longer any lower to go?

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Timothy Taubes @timothytaubes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The Social Issue- the harder it is pursued, the more elusive it remains. With each successive revolution intended to delivery liberty to the underprivileged the more dire the consequences.

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Timothy Taubes @timothytaubes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

the commodification of labor, has allowed a handful of well-connected members of the government and their families to become billionaires while a billion of its population live a life of repression, squalor, and drug addiction. What price freedom?

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Timothy Taubes @timothytaubes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Since then things haven’t gotten much better for the Chinese people. It remains the most entrenched and brutal dictatorship on earth since Genghis Khan. China’s one redeemable feature in light of its condition,

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Timothy Taubes @timothytaubes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

At war’s end, Mao swept down out of the mountains to attack the war weary Nationalists. When victory came in 1949, the real killing began. During the decade of the 1950’s an estimated 50 to 60 million Chinese were executed by their liberator.

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Timothy Taubes @timothytaubes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

China is the last revolution on the list. No one knows for sure how many lives it cost. It began before the Second World War, when Mao took refuge in the mountains to wait out the onslaught of the Japanese. Perhaps the only act of extreme cowardice that ended in victory.

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Timothy Taubes @timothytaubes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

its colonial possessions. The wars in Algeria and Vietnam are blights on its reputation, the latter of which the Americans were convinced to dirty their own hands. Most of the brutality exercised by all colonial administrations remains cloaked behind a thick veneer of whitewash.

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Timothy Taubes @timothytaubes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

There was also the legacy of western colonialism to be addressed. Gandhi, through the sheer force of his indomitable moral spirit forced the mighty British empire out of India. The United States gave the Philippines back to the Filipino people. France was more reluctant to relinquish

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Timothy Taubes @timothytaubes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The revelation would spark the modern civil rights movement, a struggle that continues to haunt the American psyche with the rise of a virulent white supremacist movement and the reverberating chant that, “black lives matter.”

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Timothy Taubes @timothytaubes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Black soldiers who had fought bravely in Europe and the Pacific all in the name of freedom returned to the same racist America they had left, where their basic human rights were denied, and where justice was found at the end of the lynch mob’s rope.

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Timothy Taubes @timothytaubes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

World War Two was meant to nip it in the bud, and it nearly did. Hitler brought ruin to the German people for his monstrous resolution, but there was still work to be done at home.

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Timothy Taubes @timothytaubes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The result was a war that killed 50 million lives. The Social Issue had taken a giant step backward.

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Timothy Taubes @timothytaubes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The German failure at parliamentary government made the French pale in comparison. In 1933, the Nazis, with a 33% plurality in the Reichstag, took control of Germany, based on a doctrine of the superiority of the Aryan race, and the persecution of the Jews.

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Timothy Taubes @timothytaubes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Socialists, Communists, Anarchists, moderates, religious fanatics, and right-wing extremists, including the National Socialists, later known as Nazis. The result was the ineffectual Weimar Republic, a hodge-podge weak coalition government.

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Timothy Taubes @timothytaubes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The devastating consequences of the First World War brought revolution to German. It was barely a blip on the radar but would determine the course of events to the present day. In 1919, every morning the streets of Berlin and Munich were strewn with the bodies of the contending factions;

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Timothy Taubes @timothytaubes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The elitist plutocratic system of Putin is a sham reinvention of Russia under the czars. Putin builds billion dollar villas for himself while one quarter of the Russian population still live without interior plumbing.

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Timothy Taubes @timothytaubes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Needless to say, the Social Issue was never addressed once Stalin took charge, and his repressive legacy has continued under the icy Neo-Stalinist and ex KGB officer named Vladimir Putin.

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Timothy Taubes @timothytaubes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

“Socialism in one country,” became the program, a system of collectivization enforced by a good dose of terror on a population of peasants who had tended their own fields for centuries. When Lenin suddenly died in 1924, power fell into the hands of Stalin, a brutal authoritarian of the first order.

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Timothy Taubes @timothytaubes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Drastic measures were in order. “All power to the soviets,” (meaning the local people’s councils,) quickly devolved to, “all power to the party,” (meaning Lenin himself.) The theory of an elite, “vanguard,” as the thinking organ of the party came into play.

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Timothy Taubes @timothytaubes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Lenin was in exile in Zurich during the First World War, and almost didn’t make it home in time for the Russian revolution. When he arrived, he realized that the situation was untenable. The conditions for a transition to communism did not exist; industrialism was just struggling to take hold.

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Timothy Taubes @timothytaubes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Marx always believed that his utopian vision of society would take place in the industrialized countries of Europe and would spread as a worldwide movement, not in a Russia that was still enveloped in a bucolic feudalism.

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Timothy Taubes @timothytaubes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

of production. More often than not, this demand was met by impositions on labor. The fundamental truth in Marx’s theory of capital is that economies must produce increased value or they will wither and die, dragging the wage earner down with it.

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Timothy Taubes @timothytaubes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Marx revealed the flaws in Adam Smith’s closed economic system in which supply and demand were balance by, “the invisible hand,” of god. Marx showed with mathematical precision that economies were not closed but expanded and contracted according to the demands imposed by the unfixed variables

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Timothy Taubes @timothytaubes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The Marxist communist state never came to pass. The self-proclaimed communist states that have cropped up have all been variations on state control of production enforced by terror. However, Marx’s contribution to economics is undeniable, even if unacknowledged by western scholars.

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Timothy Taubes @timothytaubes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

and the rise of the Second Republic when he lamented, “History repeats itself: the first time as a tragedy, the second time as a farce.” That same year Marx wrote, The Communist Manifesto. “Workers of the world unite!” It rings farcical.

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Timothy Taubes @timothytaubes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Dialectic materialism does not stand the test of historical analysis. Marx himself made a halfhearted acknowledgement of the indeterminate nature of history after the disastrous events of 1848, the February Revolution,

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Timothy Taubes @timothytaubes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Proudhon would add anarchy to the mix, best remembered for his declaration, “property is theft.” Marx decided to enlist the help of Hegelian dialectics, which would prove to be his undoing. Marx was an astute historian and economist, but as a prognosticator he was a complete failure.

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Timothy Taubes @timothytaubes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

During the years following the Napoleonic Wars, the distinction between the, “state,” and, “society,” began to crystalize. Saint-Simon and Fourier were the first to formulate what would come to be known as, “Socialism.”

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Timothy Taubes @timothytaubes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Personal ambition got the better of his efforts and after a dazzling career as one of the greatest generals of all time, he died in 1821 a broken man exiled on the tiny island of St Helena. The Social Issue in France was put on the back burner.

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Timothy Taubes @timothytaubes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

France’s first swing at representational government ended with the Committee of Public Safety and the reign of terror. The Seine ran red with blood. After 10 years of trial-and-error Napoleon took hold of power and set out to spread liberty near and far.

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Timothy Taubes @timothytaubes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

the attitude of the monarchy was summed up by a sentiment questionably attributed to Marie Antoinette, “Let them eat cake.” The French peasants stormed the Bastille with a vengeance. What followed would make even the most ardent revolutionary’s blood curdle.

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