#freedumb — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #freedumb, aggregated by home.social.
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Here in the US we have a problem with distinguishing between freedom to think, speak and worship and freedumb to make a mess for everybody else.
It would have been better if the founders had exactly specified what they meant by freedom, which surely was not "you should be free to end your septic sewer at your property line" (if it were otherwise we'd be smart enough to ignore their advice, yes?).
"This Conceptual Analysis traces who pays for environmental footprints, focusing on the current US economic system and environmental regulatory regime. With some important exceptions, carbon, water, and material footprints, and consequent waste generation, are largely uncompensated negative externalities. This leads to natural resources being underpriced and overconsumed, resulting in natural capital being depreciated, the ecosystem services it generates being underprovided, and the inclusive wealth of future generations being undermined. Through trade, atmospheric and hydrologic processes, nearly all footprints are geographically displaced at a regional to global scale. While inevitable and necessary, environmental load displacement is unequal to the extent that footprints are uncompensated externalities. The transfer through trade of unpriced or underpriced environmental footprints thus lies at the heart of challenges of environmental unsustainability and injustice."
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/environmental-science/articles/10.3389/fenvs.2026.1822582/full
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Here in the US we have a problem with distinguishing between freedom to think, speak and worship and freedumb to make a mess for everybody else.
It would have been better if the founders had exactly specified what they meant by freedom, which surely was not "you should be free to end your septic sewer at your property line" (if it were otherwise we'd be smart enough to ignore their advice, yes?).
"This Conceptual Analysis traces who pays for environmental footprints, focusing on the current US economic system and environmental regulatory regime. With some important exceptions, carbon, water, and material footprints, and consequent waste generation, are largely uncompensated negative externalities. This leads to natural resources being underpriced and overconsumed, resulting in natural capital being depreciated, the ecosystem services it generates being underprovided, and the inclusive wealth of future generations being undermined. Through trade, atmospheric and hydrologic processes, nearly all footprints are geographically displaced at a regional to global scale. While inevitable and necessary, environmental load displacement is unequal to the extent that footprints are uncompensated externalities. The transfer through trade of unpriced or underpriced environmental footprints thus lies at the heart of challenges of environmental unsustainability and injustice."
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/environmental-science/articles/10.3389/fenvs.2026.1822582/full
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Ah, #freedumb in #neoliberalparadise. Verrrry familiar
Australians less satisfied with life than during pandemic as financial pressures mount https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-09/happiness-index-shows-we-were-more-satisfied-in-covid-pandemic/106764966
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‘It’s literally going to break me.’ Commuting is now unaffordable for some American workers https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/10/economy/us-work-commute-gas-prices
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‘It’s literally going to break me.’ Commuting is now unaffordable for some American workers https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/10/economy/us-work-commute-gas-prices
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"Drivers are being urged to slow down and watch for volunteers along Alberta highways Saturday as the province marks 50 years of its annual highway cleanup initiative."
Actually, the provincial government is urging drivers to SPEED UP (120 km/h trial), so that's completely incoherent, #FreeDumb style.
More than 12,000 volunteers set to hit Alberta highways as RCMP urges caution https://discoverairdrie.com/articles/more-than-12000-volunteers-set-to-hit-alberta-highways-as-rcmp-urges-caution
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"Drivers are being urged to slow down and watch for volunteers along Alberta highways Saturday as the province marks 50 years of its annual highway cleanup initiative."
Actually, the provincial government is urging drivers to SPEED UP (120 km/h trial), so that's completely incoherent, #FreeDumb style.
More than 12,000 volunteers set to hit Alberta highways as RCMP urges caution https://discoverairdrie.com/articles/more-than-12000-volunteers-set-to-hit-alberta-highways-as-rcmp-urges-caution
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Ah, the real crypto #FreeDumb
Iran is demanding tankers in the Strait of Hormuz pay tolls in crypto: What we know so far | Fortune
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Ah, the real crypto #FreeDumb
Iran is demanding tankers in the Strait of Hormuz pay tolls in crypto: What we know so far | Fortune
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"Alberta’s government, however, has signalled its plan to amend the Municipal Government Act this spring to limit municipalities’ ability to tax second homeowners whose primary residence is in Alberta, significantly reducing the amount the Town of Canmore can collect through the tax to address its housing shortage and fund affordable housing initiatives."
Number of homes facing Canmore's vacancy tax narrows https://www.rmoutlook.com/canmore/number-of-homes-facing-canmores-vacancy-tax-narrows-12047137
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"Alberta’s government, however, has signalled its plan to amend the Municipal Government Act this spring to limit municipalities’ ability to tax second homeowners whose primary residence is in Alberta, significantly reducing the amount the Town of Canmore can collect through the tax to address its housing shortage and fund affordable housing initiatives."
Number of homes facing Canmore's vacancy tax narrows https://www.rmoutlook.com/canmore/number-of-homes-facing-canmores-vacancy-tax-narrows-12047137
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Lede: President Donald Trump has cut programs helping lower-income households while advancing policies benefiting the wealthy and corporations.
And? #FreeDumb #FairyTalesRuleUs
How Trump’s economic policies are widening America’s wealth gap https://www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/trump-economy-wealth-gap-americans-affordability-inflation-prices-rcna264112
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Lede: President Donald Trump has cut programs helping lower-income households while advancing policies benefiting the wealthy and corporations.
And? #FreeDumb #FairyTalesRuleUs
How Trump’s economic policies are widening America’s wealth gap https://www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/trump-economy-wealth-gap-americans-affordability-inflation-prices-rcna264112
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RE: https://kamloops.social/@local/116182464786654351
Good.
“A Princeton man who attacked a doctor over COVID-19 mask regulations had his jail sentence upheld after an appeal.”
This asshole attacked a doctor after being asked to wear a mask during the peak of the pandemic, causing the doctor to be seriously injured and eventually leave the community over fears for their safety, which deprived the community of their ER doc.
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RE: https://kamloops.social/@local/116182464786654351
Good.
“A Princeton man who attacked a doctor over COVID-19 mask regulations had his jail sentence upheld after an appeal.”
This asshole attacked a doctor after being asked to wear a mask during the peak of the pandemic, causing the doctor to be seriously injured and eventually leave the community over fears for their safety, which deprived the community of their ER doc.
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Trust is a two-way street:
http://www.ConservaTibbs.com/p/trust-is-a-two-way-street
Caution was necessary, but some of the policies did more harm than good.
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#Libertarians Took Control of This Small Town in #NewHampshire. It Didn’t End Well.
A new book shows the troubling consequences of #GraftonNH’s anti-government experiment.
"Today, we are all living in Grafton. Armies of rabid bears are wandering through our streets, clawing at our window screens, and gnashing their teeth at our children while the phone rings unanswered at the state department of fish and game. The old village church is erupting in flames, but someone has slashed the tires on our town’s lone fire truck, and the fire hydrants—unmaintained for a decade—have all run dry. Terrified, we beg our neighbors for help, only to be told that the Lord will protect us, or that the cataclysm in the streets is just punishment for our moral failures or our political misdeeds."
by Elizabeth Austin
August 30, 2020Excerpt: "Certainly, the author is not alone in finding cause for amusement in Grafton’s funny little basket of deplorables. For years now, reporters and pundits have chosen to focus on the style, rather than the policy substance, of the growing #LibertarianRight. Again and again, we read stories of rural rubes clad head to toe in #MAGA swag, hunched over chipped cutlery in dingy diners, wielding biscuits to wipe the last of the sausage gravy from their oversized plates while vociferously proclaiming that taxation is theft and inveighing against the nanny state. In choosing to shoot these red, white, and blue fish in a barrel, Hongoltz-Hetling is in very good company.
"But had the author not chosen snark over substance, his book could have served as a peculiarly timely cautionary tale, because the conflicting philosophical principles that drive this story are central to understanding American politics today. The differences between the libertarian stumblebums who moved to Grafton and the staff of the #Koch-funded #CatoInstitute are mostly sartorial. And the sad outcomes of Grafton’s wacky social experiment are now being repeated in American communities every single day. "
#NHPol #FreeTownProject #Stupidity #Selfishness #FreeDumb #MAGACult #MAGASucks #SexOffenders #FreeStaters #GOP #Republicans
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#Libertarians Took Control of This Small Town in #NewHampshire. It Didn’t End Well.
A new book shows the troubling consequences of #GraftonNH’s anti-government experiment.
"Today, we are all living in Grafton. Armies of rabid bears are wandering through our streets, clawing at our window screens, and gnashing their teeth at our children while the phone rings unanswered at the state department of fish and game. The old village church is erupting in flames, but someone has slashed the tires on our town’s lone fire truck, and the fire hydrants—unmaintained for a decade—have all run dry. Terrified, we beg our neighbors for help, only to be told that the Lord will protect us, or that the cataclysm in the streets is just punishment for our moral failures or our political misdeeds."
by Elizabeth Austin
August 30, 2020Excerpt: "Certainly, the author is not alone in finding cause for amusement in Grafton’s funny little basket of deplorables. For years now, reporters and pundits have chosen to focus on the style, rather than the policy substance, of the growing #LibertarianRight. Again and again, we read stories of rural rubes clad head to toe in #MAGA swag, hunched over chipped cutlery in dingy diners, wielding biscuits to wipe the last of the sausage gravy from their oversized plates while vociferously proclaiming that taxation is theft and inveighing against the nanny state. In choosing to shoot these red, white, and blue fish in a barrel, Hongoltz-Hetling is in very good company.
"But had the author not chosen snark over substance, his book could have served as a peculiarly timely cautionary tale, because the conflicting philosophical principles that drive this story are central to understanding American politics today. The differences between the libertarian stumblebums who moved to Grafton and the staff of the #Koch-funded #CatoInstitute are mostly sartorial. And the sad outcomes of Grafton’s wacky social experiment are now being repeated in American communities every single day. "
#NHPol #FreeTownProject #Stupidity #Selfishness #FreeDumb #MAGACult #MAGASucks #SexOffenders #FreeStaters #GOP #Republicans
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#Libertarians Took Control of This Small Town in #NewHampshire. It Didn’t End Well.
A new book shows the troubling consequences of #GraftonNH’s anti-government experiment.
"Today, we are all living in Grafton. Armies of rabid bears are wandering through our streets, clawing at our window screens, and gnashing their teeth at our children while the phone rings unanswered at the state department of fish and game. The old village church is erupting in flames, but someone has slashed the tires on our town’s lone fire truck, and the fire hydrants—unmaintained for a decade—have all run dry. Terrified, we beg our neighbors for help, only to be told that the Lord will protect us, or that the cataclysm in the streets is just punishment for our moral failures or our political misdeeds."
by Elizabeth Austin
August 30, 2020Excerpt: "Certainly, the author is not alone in finding cause for amusement in Grafton’s funny little basket of deplorables. For years now, reporters and pundits have chosen to focus on the style, rather than the policy substance, of the growing #LibertarianRight. Again and again, we read stories of rural rubes clad head to toe in #MAGA swag, hunched over chipped cutlery in dingy diners, wielding biscuits to wipe the last of the sausage gravy from their oversized plates while vociferously proclaiming that taxation is theft and inveighing against the nanny state. In choosing to shoot these red, white, and blue fish in a barrel, Hongoltz-Hetling is in very good company.
"But had the author not chosen snark over substance, his book could have served as a peculiarly timely cautionary tale, because the conflicting philosophical principles that drive this story are central to understanding American politics today. The differences between the libertarian stumblebums who moved to Grafton and the staff of the #Koch-funded #CatoInstitute are mostly sartorial. And the sad outcomes of Grafton’s wacky social experiment are now being repeated in American communities every single day. "
#NHPol #FreeTownProject #Stupidity #Selfishness #FreeDumb #MAGACult #MAGASucks #SexOffenders #FreeStaters #GOP #Republicans
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#Libertarians Took Control of This Small Town in #NewHampshire. It Didn’t End Well.
A new book shows the troubling consequences of #GraftonNH’s anti-government experiment.
"Today, we are all living in Grafton. Armies of rabid bears are wandering through our streets, clawing at our window screens, and gnashing their teeth at our children while the phone rings unanswered at the state department of fish and game. The old village church is erupting in flames, but someone has slashed the tires on our town’s lone fire truck, and the fire hydrants—unmaintained for a decade—have all run dry. Terrified, we beg our neighbors for help, only to be told that the Lord will protect us, or that the cataclysm in the streets is just punishment for our moral failures or our political misdeeds."
by Elizabeth Austin
August 30, 2020Excerpt: "Certainly, the author is not alone in finding cause for amusement in Grafton’s funny little basket of deplorables. For years now, reporters and pundits have chosen to focus on the style, rather than the policy substance, of the growing #LibertarianRight. Again and again, we read stories of rural rubes clad head to toe in #MAGA swag, hunched over chipped cutlery in dingy diners, wielding biscuits to wipe the last of the sausage gravy from their oversized plates while vociferously proclaiming that taxation is theft and inveighing against the nanny state. In choosing to shoot these red, white, and blue fish in a barrel, Hongoltz-Hetling is in very good company.
"But had the author not chosen snark over substance, his book could have served as a peculiarly timely cautionary tale, because the conflicting philosophical principles that drive this story are central to understanding American politics today. The differences between the libertarian stumblebums who moved to Grafton and the staff of the #Koch-funded #CatoInstitute are mostly sartorial. And the sad outcomes of Grafton’s wacky social experiment are now being repeated in American communities every single day. "
#NHPol #FreeTownProject #Stupidity #Selfishness #FreeDumb #MAGACult #MAGASucks #SexOffenders #FreeStaters #GOP #Republicans
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#Libertarians Took Control of This Small Town in #NewHampshire. It Didn’t End Well.
A new book shows the troubling consequences of #GraftonNH’s anti-government experiment.
"Today, we are all living in Grafton. Armies of rabid bears are wandering through our streets, clawing at our window screens, and gnashing their teeth at our children while the phone rings unanswered at the state department of fish and game. The old village church is erupting in flames, but someone has slashed the tires on our town’s lone fire truck, and the fire hydrants—unmaintained for a decade—have all run dry. Terrified, we beg our neighbors for help, only to be told that the Lord will protect us, or that the cataclysm in the streets is just punishment for our moral failures or our political misdeeds."
by Elizabeth Austin
August 30, 2020Excerpt: "Certainly, the author is not alone in finding cause for amusement in Grafton’s funny little basket of deplorables. For years now, reporters and pundits have chosen to focus on the style, rather than the policy substance, of the growing #LibertarianRight. Again and again, we read stories of rural rubes clad head to toe in #MAGA swag, hunched over chipped cutlery in dingy diners, wielding biscuits to wipe the last of the sausage gravy from their oversized plates while vociferously proclaiming that taxation is theft and inveighing against the nanny state. In choosing to shoot these red, white, and blue fish in a barrel, Hongoltz-Hetling is in very good company.
"But had the author not chosen snark over substance, his book could have served as a peculiarly timely cautionary tale, because the conflicting philosophical principles that drive this story are central to understanding American politics today. The differences between the libertarian stumblebums who moved to Grafton and the staff of the #Koch-funded #CatoInstitute are mostly sartorial. And the sad outcomes of Grafton’s wacky social experiment are now being repeated in American communities every single day. "
#NHPol #FreeTownProject #Stupidity #Selfishness #FreeDumb #MAGACult #MAGASucks #SexOffenders #FreeStaters #GOP #Republicans
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There are reasons why #NewHampshire is NOT like the rest of #NewEngland (and why they are not part of #District13 in my version of the #Panem map).
#NewHampshire - Lawmakers hope to lure data center construction
By Molly Rains, Sep 24, 2025
"Some see an ‘emerging market.’ Others, an environmental threat."
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/sggZV#NHPol #HungerGames #WelcomeDatacenters? #LiveFreeOrDie? More like #FreeDumb!
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There are reasons why #NewHampshire is NOT like the rest of #NewEngland (and why they are not part of #District13 in my version of the #Panem map).
#NewHampshire - Lawmakers hope to lure data center construction
By Molly Rains, Sep 24, 2025
"Some see an ‘emerging market.’ Others, an environmental threat."
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/sggZV#NHPol #HungerGames #WelcomeDatacenters? #LiveFreeOrDie? More like #FreeDumb!
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There are reasons why #NewHampshire is NOT like the rest of #NewEngland (and why they are not part of #District13 in my version of the #Panem map).
#NewHampshire - Lawmakers hope to lure data center construction
By Molly Rains, Sep 24, 2025
"Some see an ‘emerging market.’ Others, an environmental threat."
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/sggZV#NHPol #HungerGames #WelcomeDatacenters? #LiveFreeOrDie? More like #FreeDumb!
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There are reasons why #NewHampshire is NOT like the rest of #NewEngland (and why they are not part of #District13 in my version of the #Panem map).
#NewHampshire - Lawmakers hope to lure data center construction
By Molly Rains, Sep 24, 2025
"Some see an ‘emerging market.’ Others, an environmental threat."
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/sggZV#NHPol #HungerGames #WelcomeDatacenters? #LiveFreeOrDie? More like #FreeDumb!
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There are reasons why #NewHampshire is NOT like the rest of #NewEngland (and why they are not part of #District13 in my version of the #Panem map).
#NewHampshire - Lawmakers hope to lure data center construction
By Molly Rains, Sep 24, 2025
"Some see an ‘emerging market.’ Others, an environmental threat."
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/sggZV#NHPol #HungerGames #WelcomeDatacenters? #LiveFreeOrDie? More like #FreeDumb!
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RE: https://flipboard.com/@cbcnews/canada-1akomc2pz/-/a-8mKsj1N9QA6O3lQg5YafSA%3Aa%3A107108217-%2F0
Riiiight, because the stupid dumbfucks that ignored the advice to get vaccinated in the first place will definitely listen to the suggestion that they might have to inconvenience themselves for the sake of theirs or other’s safety.
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RE: https://kamloops.social/@local/115979167846511410
Because they’re idiots who would rather take up cause against imaginary bullshit than face the real problems we face as a society? 🤷♂️
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The update is expected to contain phrases like: “COVID isn’t real”, “I trust my immune system” and “it’s just a flu”.
/s
#ABPoli #AntiVax #FreeDumb
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Form a fibre coop with neighbours
Edit, red states may have laws that force you to "choose" which oligarch to pay and prevent personal, coop and/or municipal coops. Because oligarchs need freedom, and Americans need frightened obedience.
#coup #oligarchs #freedumb #fibre #monopsony #monopoly #coerce
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Form a fibre coop with neighbours
Edit, red states may have laws that force you to "choose" which oligarch to pay and prevent personal, coop and/or municipal coops. Because oligarchs need freedom, and Americans need frightened obedience.
#coup #oligarchs #freedumb #fibre #monopsony #monopoly #coerce
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Some good news today:
“Man convicted in Coutts border protest loses appeal over parole decision”
#Coutts #CouttsAB #FreedomConvoy #Freedumb
https://www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/article/man-convicted-in-coutts-border-protest-loses-appeal-over-parole-decision/ -
This old hippie wears a mask to work & other public places every day. It's not about a generation, it's about a mindset
#FREEDUMB IS THE #AmeriKKKan WAY!! -
This old hippie wears a mask to work & other public places every day. It's not about a generation, it's about a mindset
#FREEDUMB IS THE #AmeriKKKan WAY!! -
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The federal Secretary of Transportation, Sean Duffy, accompanied by the Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., today held a press conference at which they announced a new federal regulation that purports to pre-empt all federal and state law that make use of seatbelts mandatory on trains, planes, buses, and private vehicles, on the grounds of YOU'RE NOT MY REAL MOM! Spokespersons for the two agencies hid under their desks while yelling "No obbla inglays!".
#USPol #USA #USAnian #freedumb #idiot #BobbyBrainworm #JFK #SeanDuffy #Trump #moron #regulation #law #YoureNotMyRealMom
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WASHINGTON, D.C. - The federal Secretary of Transportation, Sean Duffy, accompanied by the Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., today held a press conference at which they announced a new federal regulation that purports to pre-empt all federal and state law that make use of seatbelts mandatory on trains, planes, buses, and private vehicles, on the grounds of YOU'RE NOT MY REAL MOM! Spokespersons for the two agencies hid under their desks while yelling "No obbla inglays!".
#USPol #USA #USAnian #freedumb #idiot #BobbyBrainworm #JFK #SeanDuffy #Trump #moron #regulation #law #YoureNotMyRealMom
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Too bad we let a noisy ~30% of the population dictate our public health policies.
#Antivax #FreeDumb
https://mastodon.online/@cfjc_today/115355663034071923
