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Thank you for explaining. I appreciate you taking the time to provide that clarity.
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… now they’re throwing their muscle around demanding peace between two nations from whom they want to extract rare minerals for their own economic advantage, never mind that they don’t care about Gaza or Sudan or Ukraine?!
They can’t even maintain peace domestically.
Economic colonialism
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Never mind the hash they made of things in 1994 ignoring the genocide for weeks, literally putting in writing that it would take “over 1,000,000 Rwandan lives to justify putting one American life at risk” before finally going in for a shock and awe assault that was too little too late,
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The law is only relevant to them if or when it furthers their objectives.
They’re tearing down the firewalls. It’s deliberate.
They’re not going to stop doing so anytime soon.
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It’s already been overturned.
Predictably.
His current administration has shown nothing but disregard and a determination to undermine, if not outright threaten any judges or judgements that do not align with their agenda.
They want to and will find a way to implement martial law.
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There was never any question that it would be. Either it would be overturned, or they would simply continue to ignore or integrate any judgement that limits their power.
They’re trying to force the situation that they figure will give them a leg to stand on so that they can impose martial law.
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These days it feels like it by the minute, and I think that’s intentional. It’s a delivered strategy to keep people overwhelmed.
I keep trying to pull back from social media for my own well-being. But if I go 24 hours or 36 hours without looking, and then I come back, whoa, too much I missed!
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… became direct to the consumer from whoever had a message to send out, and once we had that armed distance from our communities in the physical world, their capacity to manipulate people’s emotional reactivity increased substantially.
People who want to keep control have to keep people fearful.
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So we created a system where we kept letting people take a pass because we bought into the notion that being rich and powerful to such an obscene degree is the ultimate goal of existence.
It is not and has never been a sustainable structure.
And once communication and media
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They keep trying to get more and more and more and more. More money, more territory, more resources, more land, more information, more power.
And it is literally never enough. The things that they really need are not being addressed so no amount of consumption will ever satisfy.
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… it’s predictable that the degree of greed and ruthlessness will continue to increase.
The thing is with people like that they don’t realize how much they’re being driven by fear, fear of their own inadequacies, fear of losing what they have, fear of not being what they portray themselves as.
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There was still an acknowledgement that corruption was corrupt. It was wrong. And therefore it needed to be hidden.
But when you keep letting it happen, literally over decades, and even centuries, and when you keep praising people who abuse systems for their own gain, calling them successful,
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This is where my snarky Genex comes out - it was set up to be wrong from the beginning.
The biggest difference isn’t the fact that there’s corruption happening.
I once read a description that a good government was one in which the corruption was kept to a reasonable level.
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Again, I’ll hope for the best, but prepare for the worst. The current administration has been consistently and clearly demonstrating contempt for any judge and any ruling that doesn’t suit them. This could be the opportunity to officially declare martial law. Despite the fact it’s 💯% unwarranted.
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Now, we in the millennials need to punt to Gen Z and Gen Alpha.
I think that’s been the case for as long as humans have been making more humans. Do your best with what you know and what you have, except the fact that when humans are involved, there’s gonna be a 💩 show, and prepare the next gen.
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Now that I’m an adult, it’s my job to figure out what was missing and do the work on myself.
I think a lot of people out there have just perpetuated cycles of what we are told is the “normal“ life of someone living in modern North America. A checklist.
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Part of the reason I became a teacher, but didn’t have kids.
It turned out I couldn’t have them myself, but the more thought I gave to it the more I realized I had enough to deal with re-raising myself.
My parents did the best they could for me with the tools and the understanding that they had.
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To keep doing the things that they are doing, they need to maintain distractions, and it’s not sufficient to distract people with things that are entertaining or enjoyable. Fear is a powerful motivator. Sometimes I wonder if it is the most powerful motivator because it’s behind violence, greed, etc.
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It’s part of the reason this current administration wants to keep people elevated and reactive. They don’t want people calming down, listening to each other, working collaboratively. “We the people“ outnumber them exponentially, in every country where we’re seeing this.
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I was born six weeks early because at the time I was born, it wasn’t illegal if it happened in marriage.
And here we are 50 years later with people trying to make that the law again.
You make an important point: anger is almost always rooted in fear, especially violent anger.
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… and the big differences were usually about how to achieve the circumstances that would support the underlying values.
The cycle of empire building and empire collapse repeatedly shows that eventually, systems that are vulnerable to exploitation are commandeered by the ruthless and greedy.
Then 💥
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Most of my friends share some more views to me, but obviously not all of them. I’m certainly the weirdo in my family.
The thing is that I don’t think that political parties are quite the same as they used to be.
They used to be more common ground in terms of values,
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… ET where we got to watch a beloved alien nearly die, and then leave behind a sobbing child who had already been abandoned by the family’s father figure.
In a lot of ways, I feel like Gen X is the generation of hope for the best, but expect the worst. And if the worst happens, figure it out, kid.
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… and time spent watching television and films. Often without supervision.🤪
And the stories that we learned from as kids were an interesting mix of educational, hopeful, kinda traumatic, and snarky as hell.
We had Mr. Rogers, but VC Andrews. We had Bob Ross and family movies like
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… would still be taking on the bulk of household tasks and childcare on top of holding down a full-time job.
Which is where all the jokes about us being the feral generation come from.
But there was this mix, then of being outside and playing to get out of the hair of the adult who were tired af
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I was talking to someone about this today. And I think it was sort of the perfect storm for Gen X. We were latch key kids a lot of of us because our parents had been coming into the arrow when they were being told that women could have it all.
The implication, of course, being that women
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P.S. That was supposed to say feed with a D not feet with a T.
Whatever is happening with your feet, you do you!
Come to think of it, that’s also true for your social media feed.
But I genuinely met no judgement about anyone’s lower appendages. 🤪
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I suspect that external journalism and citizen journalism is going to, for the foreseeable future, play a pivotal role in effectively resisting and increasingly abusive regime, and similarly minded regimes/politicians elsewhere.
When we let them divide us, we do their work for them.
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It’s extremely telling that several journalists have been targeted for physical harm and/or detention.
The current powers that be do not want the world to see that California has not descended into abject chaos, and they don’t want want documentation of the degree of overreach.
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The biggest misdirection that’s happening is authorities, suggesting that these protests are, first of all, rampaging wildly throughout all of Los Angeles city, as well as Los Angeles County, and secondly, thus posing an existential threat to the safety of all people.
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It’s an upsetting time.
But one of the things that fascist, tyrannical, and/or totalitarian regime count on is generating enough fear that people will start being fearful of, and then angry at each other, other rather than directing that towards the abusers of power.
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How deeply seated does your fear need to be, how deeply do you need to have bought in to the lies that everyone is a danger, that it takes a whole gaggle of guys all yelling at one unarmed individual to deal with the “perceived threat to their safety”, until they shoot with a “less lethal” weapon?
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True. But I appreciate the fact that at least now she’s able to make fun of it (having done parodies of the song) and laugh with people about her mistake.
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One majestic mop and one dynamic fluffer-pouff (for post-mop buffing).
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If you think you’re seeing too much of something, ask yourself what you keep interacting with. Because if you keep interacting with it, you will keep seeing more of it.
If it’s overwhelming your feed that badly, that speaks more to who you are following and what you are choosing to respond to.
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They are documenting what is happening and making sure that the rest of the world is aware, not just other world leaders, but other citizens of the world, who can then protest in solidarity, or work to activate their own civic participation to pressure their leaders to pressure 47.
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… that the efforts of Americans working to resist what’s happening there are not being hidden, ignored, or deliberately misconstrued.
International journalists are not there to steal the thunder of Americans who are trying to respond to increasing violence and totalitarianism.
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Certainly, the American mainstream media has not been diligent about holding the current administration to account effectively. Not during their last administration, and not now.
Having outside media presence in the United States to document what is happening ensures
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The US is currently demonstrating extremely strong symptoms of a large scale problem that’s happening around the world.
The rest of the world is going to be interested in what’s happening in the States because of the potential economic impact around the globe.
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I’m not sure what’s happening on your feet or how you’ve curated it, but I live in another country and this is not the only thing I’m seeing.
Although right now this is happening in the United States, that is not the only place in the world where this is happening.
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International reporters are there to cover American people standing up to an increasingly violent and fascist regime.
According to international agreements, the press is not to be targeted.
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That was before the external paramilitary showed up.
The rules have changed now, apparently.
Feels like this is less surprising than their statement a couple of days ago. But at least that one is on record.
And now, so is this video and the relative lack of response from Aussie authorities.
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She’s apparently asked once, by a stranger in the bathroom, if the point of the irony was the fact that the song was ironic, because nothing she talked about was actually an example of irony.
By that point, she already had known she missed the mark. But apparently she got a good laugh out of that.
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What’s her face, the perpetually angry blonde, cold out the post is being unhinged and unacceptable, and challenged ABC to discipline journalist Terry Moran.
ABC chose, for what I am sure are a multitude of reasons, to follow this directive from the Whitehouse press secretary, and suspended Moran.
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Hope is not the plan, it’s not the work that needs to be done - it’s the reason that the work is worthwhile, it’s the reason we keep fighting.
Frankly, I prefer spending time with dogs than I do reading bots spew vile faux entitled rage online.
So, yeah, dogs. Or whatever reason keeps you going.
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I agree. The fundamental understanding isn’t a lack of vocabulary. At least not on her part.
Whether some of the people she’s appealing are continuing to suspend their disbelief, to ignore what they know to keep feeding their fear and hate or if they just don’t know the words - sadly uncertain 🤨
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I’m not from the United States. So you’re barking at the wrong tree there
Yes, we are outside of the United States are watching at crumble, and we cannot afford to be self congratulatory or complacent, because it can also happen anywhere else.
Th there still remain reasons to smile. Like dogs.
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No one saying it’s all the news.
It’s a single image that may bring a smile to some people‘s faces or a moment of respite in a deluge of sociopolitical insanity.
If we forget what brings our hearts joy, we’ll forget why we’re fighting.
We’ve got to be fighting for good for not just against bad.
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MAID must not be permitted to become a socioeconomic tool for managing the cost and effort of ensuring that all members of society are able to consistently access the healthcare that most effectively and most quickly meets their needs and alleviates mental, physical, and emotional suffering.