Contrariwise
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Democratic Socialist. I block for adding me to bitcoin lists.
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“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist.”
― Hannah Arendt
― Hannah Arendt
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The Epstein emails should really end the debate over whether society should have billionaires. "Do you want there to be a class of people so powerful they can fuck your kids and no one will even try to do anything" seems like an easy sell if everyone in politics wasn't trying to get on their payroll
January 30, 2026 at 11:21 PM
The Epstein emails should really end the debate over whether society should have billionaires. "Do you want there to be a class of people so powerful they can fuck your kids and no one will even try to do anything" seems like an easy sell if everyone in politics wasn't trying to get on their payroll
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Epstein is the most garish and harrowing manifestation of this but oligarchy makes life miserable in a thousand other ways. A core point of democracy is that no one should have so much power that they can make themselves everybody's problem. We should have a political party that believes that
The Epstein emails should really end the debate over whether society should have billionaires. "Do you want there to be a class of people so powerful they can fuck your kids and no one will even try to do anything" seems like an easy sell if everyone in politics wasn't trying to get on their payroll
January 31, 2026 at 9:55 PM
Epstein is the most garish and harrowing manifestation of this but oligarchy makes life miserable in a thousand other ways. A core point of democracy is that no one should have so much power that they can make themselves everybody's problem. We should have a political party that believes that
I know the kind of people he's talking about, and I can't for the life of me grok what goes on in their heads.
February 3, 2026 at 11:18 AM
I know the kind of people he's talking about, and I can't for the life of me grok what goes on in their heads.
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February 3, 2026 at 11:04 AM
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I kept hoping that only the 30% or so with the hardcore MAGA pathology are as described here. The trouble is that a lot of people who I have been friends with for 40+ years apparently also have that pathology, leading me to think that it's more widespread than I had feared.
February 3, 2026 at 12:37 AM
I kept hoping that only the 30% or so with the hardcore MAGA pathology are as described here. The trouble is that a lot of people who I have been friends with for 40+ years apparently also have that pathology, leading me to think that it's more widespread than I had feared.
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February 2, 2026 at 3:42 PM
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“Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless.
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face— forever. ”
—George Orwell, 1984
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face— forever. ”
—George Orwell, 1984
February 2, 2026 at 6:29 AM
“Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless.
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face— forever. ”
—George Orwell, 1984
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face— forever. ”
—George Orwell, 1984
Yep, it's nothing to do with training. It's because they feel invulnerable. They know they have carte blanche to abuse and murder people without consequences.
NEW: This isn't about "training." The two agents who murdered Alex Pretti - Jesus Ochoa and Raymundo Gutierrez - have been with Border Patrol for 8 and 12 years respectively. You can't reform CBP. Abolish ICE/CBP. www.propublica.org/article/alex...
Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting
The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raym...
www.propublica.org
February 2, 2026 at 5:45 AM
Yep, it's nothing to do with training. It's because they feel invulnerable. They know they have carte blanche to abuse and murder people without consequences.
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Open letter to our Senators:
Gentlemen, Ladies, we don't really care about ICE not getting even more funding. We don't care about more "training" and more rules they won't follow.
We want ICE de-funded. Dismantled. Gone. Driven out of our cities.
Gentlemen, Ladies, we don't really care about ICE not getting even more funding. We don't care about more "training" and more rules they won't follow.
We want ICE de-funded. Dismantled. Gone. Driven out of our cities.
January 30, 2026 at 2:23 AM
Open letter to our Senators:
Gentlemen, Ladies, we don't really care about ICE not getting even more funding. We don't care about more "training" and more rules they won't follow.
We want ICE de-funded. Dismantled. Gone. Driven out of our cities.
Gentlemen, Ladies, we don't really care about ICE not getting even more funding. We don't care about more "training" and more rules they won't follow.
We want ICE de-funded. Dismantled. Gone. Driven out of our cities.
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ICE is upset that ICE isn't welcome in restaurants after ICE ordered food at a restaurant, ate it, then arrested restaurant employees, and ICE believes this is someone else's fault, do I have that right?
January 29, 2026 at 4:45 PM
ICE is upset that ICE isn't welcome in restaurants after ICE ordered food at a restaurant, ate it, then arrested restaurant employees, and ICE believes this is someone else's fault, do I have that right?
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I said this last time but their real position is “if you disagree with us we can kill you.”
January 24, 2026 at 11:56 PM
I said this last time but their real position is “if you disagree with us we can kill you.”
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“No one man can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.”
-Edward R. Murrow
-Edward R. Murrow
January 23, 2026 at 8:01 PM
“No one man can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.”
-Edward R. Murrow
-Edward R. Murrow
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We have been told for nearly 30 years that America needed to tolerate mass shootings because the broad availability of guns would help us defend ourselves from an overreaching federal government. That day has come. The people who said this are supporting the federal agents. Many have joined them.
January 24, 2026 at 6:02 PM
We have been told for nearly 30 years that America needed to tolerate mass shootings because the broad availability of guns would help us defend ourselves from an overreaching federal government. That day has come. The people who said this are supporting the federal agents. Many have joined them.
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This isn't a shooting, it's a fucking execution. Straight up empties a clip into a man already subdued
January 24, 2026 at 6:28 PM
This isn't a shooting, it's a fucking execution. Straight up empties a clip into a man already subdued
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Reread this post, and then read the Department of Homeland Security statements being issued right now about the Minneapolis shooting. Make your own judgment.
The goal of authoritarian regimes when telling obvious lies is to normalize unreality. What they want isn’t genuine belief but public obedience. If they can make the public cheer nonsense as brilliance, they’ve already bent reality inside the political arena.
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January 24, 2026 at 5:55 PM
Reread this post, and then read the Department of Homeland Security statements being issued right now about the Minneapolis shooting. Make your own judgment.
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in case you're curious about how angry Minnesota is about ICE, it was -20 today
January 24, 2026 at 12:38 AM
in case you're curious about how angry Minnesota is about ICE, it was -20 today
"the freedom of individuals verbally to oppose or challenge police action without thereby risking arrest is one of the principal characteristics by which we distinguish a free nation from a police state."
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City of Houston v. Hill, 482 U.S. 451 (1987)
City of Houston v. Hill
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January 23, 2026 at 7:32 PM
"the freedom of individuals verbally to oppose or challenge police action without thereby risking arrest is one of the principal characteristics by which we distinguish a free nation from a police state."
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Duffel Blog remains undefeated
NEW: President Donald Trump on Wednesday used his recently-acquired Nobel Peace Prize to bludgeon the prime minister of Denmark to death, sources confirmed today. www.duffelblog.com/trump-beats-...
Trump beats Danish prime minister to death with Nobel Peace Prize
White House says incident reflects ‘evolving interpretation of peace’
www.duffelblog.com
January 23, 2026 at 6:32 PM
Duffel Blog remains undefeated
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1/ Emperor Trump’s Board of Peace appears as an attempt to build a personalized one‑world government around his lifetime chairmanship with unchecked veto, and sweeping interpretive authority.
www.reuters.com/world/europe...
www.reuters.com/world/europe...
Trump launches Board of Peace that some fear rivals UN
U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday launched his Board of Peace, initially designed to cement Gaza's rocky ceasefire but which he foresees taking a wider role worrying to other global powers, alth...
www.reuters.com
January 23, 2026 at 3:47 PM
1/ Emperor Trump’s Board of Peace appears as an attempt to build a personalized one‑world government around his lifetime chairmanship with unchecked veto, and sweeping interpretive authority.
www.reuters.com/world/europe...
www.reuters.com/world/europe...
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"The world is not abandoning the United States. It is adapting to an America that no longer has a plan beyond the fantasies of a wannabe dictator. And once countries learn to live without American leadership, they may not feel compelled to invite it back."
"The world is not abandoning the United States. It is adapting to an America that no longer has a plan beyond the fantasies of a wannabe dictator. And once countries learn to live without American leadership, they may not feel compelled to invite it back."
America Last: Trump’s Trade Tantrums are Weakening U.S. Influence, and the World is Moving on Without Us
The Steady State | by Bruce G. Berton
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January 22, 2026 at 11:23 PM
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"The world is not abandoning the United States. It is adapting to an America that no longer has a plan beyond the fantasies of a wannabe dictator. And once countries learn to live without American leadership, they may not feel compelled to invite it back."
"The world is not abandoning the United States. It is adapting to an America that no longer has a plan beyond the fantasies of a wannabe dictator. And once countries learn to live without American leadership, they may not feel compelled to invite it back."
Yeah, it appears that the pedophiles have won. What a world.
they just stopped their slow crawl of the epstein files days after they were legally compelled to release everything at once and that was that
January 22, 2026 at 5:45 PM
Yeah, it appears that the pedophiles have won. What a world.