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Steven Tyndall
@culturalinsecurity.bsky.social
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California, USA
Liberal
Technology and social and cultural anthropology background
Cornell University Alumni
Liberal, humanitarian, we're all in this together
Hatred, discrimination, power hunger and greed suck!
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Sunday Funnies: Everything Is Fine www.thecoffmanchroni...

A picture of a big billboard with numbers counting the national debt as it goes up, titled: "The Donald J Trump National Debt Clock." The person showing Trump the billboard is saying: "Since you like to put your name on things."
August 30, 2026 at 8:29 PM
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August 20, 2026 at 9:30 PM
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Eyes wide open!

"Capitalism emerged in England...and there was nothing ...voluntary about its birth.
Before capitalism could offer workers the wonderful 'freedom' to sell their labor...people first had to be separated from the land and resources that allowed them to survive."
Karl J Martin "Capitalism emerged in England centuries ago, and there was nothing particularly voluntary about its birth. Before capitalism could offer workers the wonderful 'freedom' to sell their labor, enormous numbers of people first had to be separated from the land and resources that allowed them to survive without selling it. Enclosure converted land rural communities had traditionally used in common into exclusive private property. Peasants lost customary access to land, grazing, fuel, and other means of subsistence. Poverty and vagrancy laws helped discipline the population that followed. And 'discipline' isn't a metaphor. England criminalized poverty and vagrancy with extraordinary brutality. Under Tudor vagrancy laws, people classified as vagabonds could be whipped, mutilated, branded with hot irons, subjected to forced servitude and, under some statutes, executed for repeat offenses. The 1547 Vagrancy Act prescribed branding a person with a V and forcing them into servitude Commons gave ordinary people access to grazing, fuel, food, and other resources. That didn't make peasants wealthy, but it could provide a degree of independence from wage labor. And that independence became a fucking problem. First take away people's commons. Then call them idle for being poor. Criminalize them when they wander looking for survival. Whip and brand the 'vagrant.' Bind poor children into labor. Then write political philosophy explaining that the resulting property order represents liberty, improvement, and consent. Capitalism's defenders love pretending the state arrived later and ruined their beautiful voluntary marketplace. Historically, the state was standing there at capitalism's birth with a fucking club, enforcing the property relations that made the marketplace possible. People weren't all marched into factories at gunpoint. Something considerably more efficient happened: the economic conditions that allowed many people to survive independently were destroyed. Th Nobody needs to excuse Stalin, Mao, political repression, or catastrophic economic policies to notice the enormous historical double standard. Deaths under governments calling themselves communist are routinely attributed to communism itself. Famines become ideological body counts. Repression becomes proof that the entire philosophy is murderous. Capitalism gets a completely different accounting system. Slavery? Just history. Colonial famine? Bad policy. Imperial conquest? Geopolitics. Workers massacred for organizing? Labor unrest. Children in factories? Different times. Millions living without necessities amid extraordinary wealth? Market outcomes. Apparently capitalism is responsible for absolutely nothing that happens under capitalism. That's one hell of a magic fucking trick. Apply the same historical standard to every system. If communism must answer for its prisons, famines, repression, and dead, then capitalism doesn't get to stroll into history wearing a clean white suit while
August 20, 2026 at 9:21 PM
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They're trying to convince us that we have no hope and that we should just give up. DON'T!!! The forces stacked against us are pathetic! Greedy, power-hungry, narcissitic, dark triad/tetrad, pitiful excuses for humans. We can't surrender to that!!

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"...Many of us find ourselves lost — afraid of where the nation is heading and desperately wanting to flip the proverbial switch but overwhelmed by the fact that there isn’t just one switch to flip. There are concerns at the state and local levels. At the Supreme Court. In Congress. And, in the White House. People are angry at the daily incursions on their rights, at the layers upon layers of corruption as a president and his allies enrich themselves while millions struggle to make ends meet. They have witnessed innocent people, including American citizens, be killed at the hands of their own government. They are scared by the deportations, disappearances, and detentions. They have woken up to masked agents on the streets and community members afraid or, worse, gone. They are bewildered and enraged by overreach and lawlessness, by the blatant disregard for our rights. They are angered by the Supreme Court’s decimation of voting rights, and by the historic numbers of unexplained decisio
August 20, 2026 at 9:01 PM
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Sunday Funnies: The Absurdity Is Coming From Inside the House www.thecoffmanchroni...
August 17, 2026 at 12:35 AM
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Trump and his family are organized criminals. Money laundering is the tip of the iceberg with them. Their air of invincibility is fading fast!!

Capital One says it closed Trump Organization’s accounts after anti-money-laundering review www.theguardian.com/...

But Friday’s filing argues that “documents and Plaintiffs’ own ‌allegations make clear that Capital One closed ‌Plaintiffs’ accounts for anti-money laundering (‘AML’) reasons. “The closures were the result of months of analysis and a careful review by ‌Capital One’s AML team in accordance with bank policies and regulatory guidance.” Capital One gave notice of its plans to close more than 300 Trump-affiliated bank accounts in March 2021. The Trump Organization and Eric Trump, the president’s son, filed a lawsuit in March 2025 in a Florida federal court, alleging the accounts were closed because of Capital One’s “woke” beliefs and its desire to benefit from the political mood after the 6 January 2021 riot at the US Capitol. Capital One said in Friday’s filing that the Trump Organization’s allegations of political pretext were “misguided” and “based on cherry-picked quotations unsupported by the full context” of documents submitted to the court. “The transaction patterns identified b
August 2, 2026 at 8:33 PM
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So, in 2020, when you were the sitting President, your OWN hand picked people withheld information from you that proved you won the election. Is that right, Sir?
July 19, 2026 at 9:39 PM
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If you have a trillion dollars in a world where children are starving, you're not a visionary, you're just a c*nt
June 14, 2026 at 11:47 PM
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Tweet from Bernie: Not content to controlling our economy and our political system, the Oligarchs are now consolidating control over the media. Trump's ally David Ellison is poised to control both CBS and CNN. Not acceptable. This merger must be opposed.
June 14, 2026 at 5:52 PM
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Sunday Funnies: We Couldn't Improve On The News www.thecoffmanchroni...
MAGA idiot, sitting in front of a TV watching Fox News, headlines on the side read: Breaking: Election is stolen, Warning: Immigrants Bad, Up Next: vaccines cause autism. He's thinking: Yup! That's the Truth! He is being spoonfed by the TV something from a can labeled "BullShit"
June 8, 2026 at 11:10 PM
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"The Republican party has been de-funding public education since Reagan... We now have a generation of voters who believe what an entertainer tells them, rather than the nation's experts on given subjects."
Trump with a fishing pole holding banners for DEI, Woke, Gay flag, transathletes, "They're eating the dogs" waving it at his MAGA supporters, while health care, housing, good jobs and education are being hidden behind a curtain and he is saying; "I love the poorly educated."
June 5, 2026 at 9:14 PM
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Sunday Funnies: Democracy on the Discount Rack www.thecoffmanchroni...
June 2, 2026 at 12:12 AM
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Snarkitorial: The Looting Phase of America www.thecoffmanchroni...

May 29, 2026 at 9:44 PM
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Russia, in coordination with oligarchs and right-wing leaders/movements, is trying to destroy democracy and free societies. Brexit and Trump's campaigns are examples.

Kremlin's hybrid campaigns...: confidential documents -
https://fip.am/en/48768
May 26, 2026 at 5:07 PM
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Bernie spells it out so well, yet again!

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May 26, 2026 at 4:54 PM
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Needing more money than they can spend, clothes than they can wear, food than they can eat, and power over everyone, and dedicating their lives to that pursuit, as all Billionaires must, is antisocial and symptomatic of the dark triad/tetrad condition.

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May 26, 2026 at 4:26 PM
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The Country Is Being Run By Facebook Comment Sections: Sunday Funnies www.thecoffmanchroni...
May 24, 2026 at 9:46 PM
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Trump and MAGA are directly responsible for the high gas prices and the likely recession that will hit us. Swagger and treating allies like jokes seem smart to idiots, but they don't work in the real world when you need help.

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Donald Trump spent years teaching his supporters to sneer at NATO, mock America’s allies, and treat longstanding partnerships like a global protection racket. He told Americans that allies were freeloaders, that Europe was weak, and that the United States was being played for a fool. He turned alliance politics into grievance politics, reducing decades of diplomacy, trust, and shared sacrifice into a crude shakedown: pay up, praise me, or get lost. Now the Strait of Hormuz has turned that swagger into a test. After years of publicly degrading allies, Trump is demanding that those same governments help secure one of the most dangerous and economically vital waterways on earth. Reuters reported on March 16 that Trump warned NATO of a “very bad” future if allies failed to help the United States reopen the strait. That is more than hypocrisy. It is a case study in how performative strongman politics collapses when the world demands actual leadership. Alliances are not vending machines. Y
March 17, 2026 at 11:44 PM
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The obscenely wealthy buying up media to control the narrative/our thinking is becoming blatant! They only get one vote, but with the media, they can manipulate and disinform millions to vote the way they want. That's one reason our country doesn't serve the people any longer

March 16, 2026 at 11:36 PM
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The Obscenely Wealthy/Greedy and the GOP, have raped, pillaged and decimated the working class in this country! MAGA/Conservative, they used you!!!

The Big Money in Today’s Economy Is Going to Capital, Not Labor www.wsj.com/economy/...
(Note, this is behind a paywall)

The Wall Street Journal—the standard-bearer for "greed is good"—is now forced to admit what we’ve been saying for decades: the grand experiment of trickle-down has been a complete failure for workers and their families. For over 50 years, the neoliberal consensus promised that if we just deregulated the powerful, cut taxes for wealthy "job creators," and kept wages low, prosperity would magically rain down from the top. Instead, the top 1% extracted $79 trillion in income from the bottom 90%. They called it "sound economics." I call it policy malpractice. WSJ is finally noticing that when you hollow out the middle class, you don't get growth—you get stagnation, fragility, consolidation, and the joint nightmare of falling wages and increasing costs for the vast majority of Americans. As someone who’s done very well in this economy, let me be clear: People in my tax bracket don’t create widely shared prosperity by hoarding wealth. We need an economy built for humans—one that recognizes
February 15, 2026 at 11:17 PM
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@ The white House Happy Valentine's Day . @AntiTrumpCanada Happy Va|entine’s Day to the guy who cheated on the mother of his first three kids with the mother of his fourth, cheated on her with the mother of his fifth & then cheated on her with a porn star he paid to shut the fuck up about it.
February 15, 2026 at 10:58 PM
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There are other, viable platforms for hosting good, progressive content. Hard to justify continuing to use substack...

Substack Still Has A Nazi Problem (And Doesn't Care) karlbode.com/substac...

Thank you to Rebecca Solnit for posting this on Facebook
While I'm recommending discriminating consumption, there's this--it makes me sad that a bunch of brilliant progressives are on Substack, because this problem has been known for years. Karl Bode writes (on Ghost, where my newsletter is also hosted): Because the U.S. corporate press is dying (quite intentionally), many journalists and writers are increasingly shifting to newsletters, one of the last ways they can actually make a living by reaching out directly to a receptive audience. When it comes to newsletter hosting, there's a growing number of current options, including Ghost (the platform this website is run on), Beehiiv, Kit, and WordPress. Arguably the biggest and most well known of these options is Substack, which currently has around 50 million users worldwide. Most of the newsletters you currently read are likely hosted at Substack. The problem: Substack's executive leadership have repeatedly proven to be craven opportunists who openly embrace extremist content from the likes
February 15, 2026 at 10:29 PM
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The twisted plot thickens! Trump blackmailed by Putin while he blackmails others! Yech! Sick Dark Triad/Tetrad drama.

"Trump is now using Epstein's secret recordings to blackmail the most powerful people in the world so they remain loyal to him."

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Tweet from Jake Broe "Trump's Justice Department is in possession of thousands of videos of children being graped by wealthy and powerful men. Those men WERE being blackmailed by Epstein. But by not releasing their names, these men must now be loyal to Trump to protect their identities."
February 8, 2026 at 8:17 PM
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In the end, he will have: - stolen years of our lives . poisoned our families, friendships, and communities, destroyed our instituions--couirts, justice, elections, and the rule of law - turned Americans against Americans . humiliated us on the world stage - weakened our alliances while our enemies celebrate - and taken a 250-year democracy and treated it like his personal property . And that’s why you NEVER hand power - _ to a malignant narcissist-- not in politics, not at work, not in your home, not anywhere Hold hlm accountable. No excuses. __ . LOCK HIM UP.
February 4, 2026 at 10:31 PM
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David Frum 0 , @davidfrum Don't say, "The most corrupt administration in American history." There is no comparison between Trump, on the one hand, and eg Grant, Harding, or Nixon on the other. Nixon's worst day in office was 100x better than Trump's best day. The relevant comparisons are to non—American presidents in authoritarian societies with unfree media. Trump's scale of stealing and bribe—taking has never been remotely paralleled in any democratic country ever before.
February 3, 2026 at 2:01 AM