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Bezos rolling over on the Post endorsement.
Zuckerberg visiting Mar a Lago to bend the knee.
Musk joining the administration.
The tech folks and much of our media are obeying in advance and Trump, the luckiest man alive!, has never faced so little media and social media scrutiny.
🤷🏽♂️
Zuckerberg visiting Mar a Lago to bend the knee.
Musk joining the administration.
The tech folks and much of our media are obeying in advance and Trump, the luckiest man alive!, has never faced so little media and social media scrutiny.
🤷🏽♂️
like i said we're in the capitulation phase and everyone is falling in line (publicly, pretty sure they were always crypto in line)
I have not enjoyed being able to see this coming but not figuring out how to stop it 😢
Glad to see you on this platform. I specifically have my x account open to search for you and a few others who I respect their opinions! Also you have been spot on BTW 🎯
March 25, 2025 at 4:46 AM
I have not enjoyed being able to see this coming but not figuring out how to stop it 😢
it’s not a strategy, they’re just rolling over for trump and they say stuff like this to trick people into thinking it’s some sort of plan. I’m genuinely embarrassed for America that there are still people taking them at face value
literally every day is going to provide more evidence that the "let's provide some votes for the least bad trump nominees out of respect for the presidency" was a boneheaded strategy. any idiot could have told senate democrats that any vote for any of these people was going to make them look bad.
March 25, 2025 at 4:45 AM
it’s not a strategy, they’re just rolling over for trump and they say stuff like this to trick people into thinking it’s some sort of plan. I’m genuinely embarrassed for America that there are still people taking them at face value
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No one person will ever meet this moment.
March 23, 2025 at 11:25 PM
No one person will ever meet this moment.
One of the only good things that came out of the entire political crisis was the chance to meet even indirectly other people that gave a damn.
March 23, 2025 at 2:46 AM
One of the only good things that came out of the entire political crisis was the chance to meet even indirectly other people that gave a damn.
More people are paying attention but not enough. I believe we are getting some sort of intentional economic crash combining destruction of long held govt benefits, spending, with forced contraction in business activity due to uncertainty. They’re cutting social security and also food banks.
March 23, 2025 at 2:42 AM
More people are paying attention but not enough. I believe we are getting some sort of intentional economic crash combining destruction of long held govt benefits, spending, with forced contraction in business activity due to uncertainty. They’re cutting social security and also food banks.
I don’t know if you can go underground these days with all the technology. It’s an interesting hypothetical.
It’s nice to see you Ben. I searched for you just yesterday b/c it’s been so long since I’ve seen you, but your name didn’t come up—I was afraid you’d gone underground.
Hope you’re doing OK, all things considered.
Hope you’re doing OK, all things considered.
March 23, 2025 at 2:40 AM
I don’t know if you can go underground these days with all the technology. It’s an interesting hypothetical.
Excerpt from pages 166-73 of They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45 by Milton Mayer (interview with German citizen) who lived through Nazi regime
March 22, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Excerpt from pages 166-73 of They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45 by Milton Mayer (interview with German citizen) who lived through Nazi regime
You can tell a real life person that we’re at the point where there are multiple CPAC nazi salutes but it doesn’t register as, like, a problem.
February 24, 2025 at 2:56 AM
You can tell a real life person that we’re at the point where there are multiple CPAC nazi salutes but it doesn’t register as, like, a problem.
This is how it feels right now
February 20, 2025 at 4:32 AM
This is how it feels right now
People keep asking why no one is raising the alarm or why no emergency measures are happening or why people in power are letting this happen, but I’ve realized over time that they do not actually want the answer.
like i said we're in the capitulation phase and everyone is falling in line (publicly, pretty sure they were always crypto in line)
Bezos rolling over on the Post endorsement.
Zuckerberg visiting Mar a Lago to bend the knee.
Musk joining the administration.
The tech folks and much of our media are obeying in advance and Trump, the luckiest man alive!, has never faced so little media and social media scrutiny.
🤷🏽♂️
Zuckerberg visiting Mar a Lago to bend the knee.
Musk joining the administration.
The tech folks and much of our media are obeying in advance and Trump, the luckiest man alive!, has never faced so little media and social media scrutiny.
🤷🏽♂️
February 20, 2025 at 3:46 AM
People keep asking why no one is raising the alarm or why no emergency measures are happening or why people in power are letting this happen, but I’ve realized over time that they do not actually want the answer.
There is still an opening for a good list person, maybe more than one. It’s journalism and people would pay for it.
Seriously who is keeping track of what the #Trusk regime is doing?
Because we need an exact timeline.
Easily publicly accessible.
I'm thinking a wiki even.
And only trusted, vetted people can have access.
@sarahkendzior.bsky.social
@benfranklin2018.bsky.social
Because we need an exact timeline.
Easily publicly accessible.
I'm thinking a wiki even.
And only trusted, vetted people can have access.
@sarahkendzior.bsky.social
@benfranklin2018.bsky.social
February 19, 2025 at 6:40 PM
There is still an opening for a good list person, maybe more than one. It’s journalism and people would pay for it.
Received family members social security card replacement- took a week to get. Got dogs microchip info updated. Tomorrow we tackle “what to do if they ban ssri’s” and “rat proof storage containers”
February 19, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Received family members social security card replacement- took a week to get. Got dogs microchip info updated. Tomorrow we tackle “what to do if they ban ssri’s” and “rat proof storage containers”
Recognize any of the guests
February 19, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Recognize any of the guests
If anyone has any good plans on how to stop the relentless march of dystopia in America and globally that they can immediately operationalize don’t hold back for dramatic effect
February 12, 2025 at 11:56 PM
If anyone has any good plans on how to stop the relentless march of dystopia in America and globally that they can immediately operationalize don’t hold back for dramatic effect
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‘You Can’t Let This Happen,’ Says Fundraising Email From Sitting U.S. Congressperson
February 12, 2025 at 5:00 PM
‘You Can’t Let This Happen,’ Says Fundraising Email From Sitting U.S. Congressperson
It would take bringing the entire country to a screeching halt to stop this. I think Twitter might be deboosting content of people protesting, it feels kind of hidden.
February 11, 2025 at 3:51 AM
It would take bringing the entire country to a screeching halt to stop this. I think Twitter might be deboosting content of people protesting, it feels kind of hidden.
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Microsoft's own research confirms something that was already pretty obvious: relying on a text generating machine to come up with answers erodes critical thinking, and is a method favoured by those who never liked doing critical thinking in the first place
advait.org/files/lee_20...
advait.org/files/lee_20...
advait.org
February 9, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Microsoft's own research confirms something that was already pretty obvious: relying on a text generating machine to come up with answers erodes critical thinking, and is a method favoured by those who never liked doing critical thinking in the first place
advait.org/files/lee_20...
advait.org/files/lee_20...
Tesla is on the downtrend right now, their last earnings showed that the core business is declining and they were only saved by a bullshit accounting trick. You just gotta make it totally toxic to own a Tesla or Tesla stock. Like undateable toxic.
I also want to emphasize: the informal tools we have at our disposal to address the threat Musk presents to this country are extremely viable. Musk's power derives almost entirely from Tesla, which is highly vulnerable to boycott, divestment, and sanctions of all kinds. We have to embrace that power
February 11, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Tesla is on the downtrend right now, their last earnings showed that the core business is declining and they were only saved by a bullshit accounting trick. You just gotta make it totally toxic to own a Tesla or Tesla stock. Like undateable toxic.
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Not to get too intense about everything going on but it is really an ideology of death run by evil skeleton people who drink from a dread altar of blood
February 8, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Not to get too intense about everything going on but it is really an ideology of death run by evil skeleton people who drink from a dread altar of blood
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This is going to sound like shade at first but please hear me out:
Liberals understanding the machinations of US government often make them think they are more qualified to discuss politics than we are. But even if that was true at some point, it no longer applies. The old rules have been torched.
Liberals understanding the machinations of US government often make them think they are more qualified to discuss politics than we are. But even if that was true at some point, it no longer applies. The old rules have been torched.
February 5, 2025 at 9:59 PM
This is going to sound like shade at first but please hear me out:
Liberals understanding the machinations of US government often make them think they are more qualified to discuss politics than we are. But even if that was true at some point, it no longer applies. The old rules have been torched.
Liberals understanding the machinations of US government often make them think they are more qualified to discuss politics than we are. But even if that was true at some point, it no longer applies. The old rules have been torched.
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"it's time we purged the woke CIA" is one of those things that your brain just sort of sputters and stalls out when thinking about it. it's so incomprehensibly fucking stupid in literally every direction you can think about it.
February 5, 2025 at 4:12 AM
"it's time we purged the woke CIA" is one of those things that your brain just sort of sputters and stalls out when thinking about it. it's so incomprehensibly fucking stupid in literally every direction you can think about it.
This time they came not to conquer but to destroy.
February 5, 2025 at 3:15 AM
This time they came not to conquer but to destroy.
The fact that the Elon commandos went straight for the federal payment systems tells me that they intend to short circuit the whole thing to modify, destroy or control it outside of extralegal channels. Maybe dramatically. Maybe they’re just integrating bitcoin.
February 5, 2025 at 3:11 AM
The fact that the Elon commandos went straight for the federal payment systems tells me that they intend to short circuit the whole thing to modify, destroy or control it outside of extralegal channels. Maybe dramatically. Maybe they’re just integrating bitcoin.
Get your social security card if you don’t have it.
February 5, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Get your social security card if you don’t have it.
January was personally the roughest month I’ve had in awhile there was a major catastrophe like a flood or an emergency repair or a car crisis every 2-4 days for about three weeks straight but the bad luck tapered off right as we entered full collapse
February 5, 2025 at 3:03 AM
January was personally the roughest month I’ve had in awhile there was a major catastrophe like a flood or an emergency repair or a car crisis every 2-4 days for about three weeks straight but the bad luck tapered off right as we entered full collapse