lowprodfed.bsky.social
Apparatus of the dreaded Deep State. Went from Republican to independent to Democrat to some kind of Socialist (not yours) between 2012 and 2022, but always, ALWAYS hated a fascist.
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I remember once in Portland going to a place that claimed to serve "Carolina BBQ." The first words in the description were "slow-roasted beef."
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A pretty basic knowledge of history would make a massive change once you found someone who would listen. You don't need a PhD to know the broad outline of Napoleon's career, which would be plenty.
For science stuff, you could get penicillin going. Would take trial and error.
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... And which has engineered massive cons (ethanol) to boost their sales at everyone's expense. A government which buys farm goods to feed hungry people overseas and hungry school kids here. And I'll bet you everything in my wallet against everything in yours this farmer hates USAID and school lunch
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Additionally, they are the beneficiaries of massive amounts of support from "big government" - subsidies, price supports, technical assistance, marketing help - but want to gut that same government. One in which their interests are massively overrepresented...
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Also Robert Smalls is more deserving of being depicted on screen than virtually any American in our history and the fact that he has not been so is a disgrace.
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They'll fill the roles - they won't just sit empty - but it's going to be different people filling them. Possibly less talented, certainly less dedicated. Unless there are major reforms to prevent this happening again, talent retention and institutional memory will not return.
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Early Nazi proposal for what to do with Europe's Jews - ship them to Madagascar
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FedNews reported they'll be housed in the USDA building and a GSA warehouse on 7th.
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Kakistocracy: government by the least suitable or competent citizens of a state.
About as close as I've heard.
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Nigeria, man. Lagos is a mess but it's where stuff is happening, whereas Abuja is certainly a place that exists.
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My father generally taught by example, but on rare and important occasions he would give us direct life lessons. Chief among these was, "MBAs are ruining this country."
My daughter will receive the same lesson, with one slight modification: now it's in the past tense.
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... And blame it on big city Dems. Never mind that he's on more gov't aid than any "welfare queen" or that the farm is going under because he can't find enough undocumented workers and buys a new Ford F-250 every year. The suburbanite sees the "banker coming to take the farm" scene from old movies.
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Democrats know that they're not going to get votes from farmers. The problem is suburban American voters with no connection to ag, clinging to bucolic delusions of what it entails and feel compelled to defend that myth at the ballot box. Fox trots out a nice Aryan farmer getting foreclosed on...
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O people, know you have committed great sins...if you ask for proof, I say it is because I am the punishment of God. If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you.
-Governor JB Pritzker
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"This burning of widows is your custom; prepare the funeral pile. But my nation has also a custom. When men burn women alive we hang them... My carpenters shall therefore erect gibbets on which to hang all concerned when the widow is consumed. Let us all act according to national customs."
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Model the whole thing off Nuremberg, right down to the charges levied (plus treason) and the manner of execution. Hold the trials in Mar a Lago and give them that name so it is forever associated with justice.
Some prominent news outlets with plenty of Streicher wannabes, too.
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I will be satisfied with nothing less than Mar a Lago trials with the same charges as Nuremberg, plus treason.
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She seems to be pretty savvy and I doubt she's going to take the plunge this year. Schumer's seat? Maybe. Hopefully. That keeps her in Congress, gives her new experience, and shows undeniably that people want a change in the direction of the party.
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It is perfectly reasonable to have disagreements about the precise technical meaning of fascism and also to say you want to strangle your spouse. Admittedly the second part comes with a lot of caveats, but still.
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America fetishizes it's constitution and refuses to make meaningful changes to it, so no cleanse. We're politically constipated. Most problems could be fixed with a 1-2 years of a Woke Terror followed by a technocratic transitional government. Then go to a democracy that works fine for 3 generations
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Liberal democracy every so often needs a cleanse that can only be achieved by temporarily suspending "liberal democracy." The French have more or less figured this out, which is why they're on republic #5. The problem is that what happens during the cleanses rarely gets remembered fondly.
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A notion which will doubtless comfort the kids getting black bagged and deported for speech protected by the same
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Quentin Tarantino is not a brilliant political philosopher, but he was cooking with, "Nazi ain't got no humanity."
Excising the bigots from American society would be an undeniable net good, except insofar as the precedent would be used to justify less laudable excisions later on. Pity.
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MAGA delenda est.
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A story I used to love telling but which, alas, is untrue:
www.marshallfoundation.org/articles-and...
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I'm not sure what page you're looking at. The link I sent includes a data table where the first ten entries are from the last week. You could also try this one.
www.aphis.usda.gov/livestock-po...
This administration is a million kinds of fucked up but they're not hiding bird flu from you.
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Nah. It's seasonal, and some previously cleared out farms have restocked and gotten back online. Takes about 20 weeks for a layer to start producing.
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It's not foreign trade accounting for that. It takes egg layers about 20 weeks to start producing, so there's been some lag but places are getting back online. Bird flu is also seasonal, which may be giving them a break. But it won't stay low.
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This is... Not accurate. Both USDA and CDC have publicly available reporting on bird flu.
www.cdc.gov/bird-flu/sit...
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Hope is cheap when there is abundant promise of good things in the future. It is never more dear than when all looks bleak. Treasure what meager hope you have to help your loved ones and spite the enemy who wants you hopeless. Give them nothing. And remember sometimes decades happen in weeks.
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It's this, and it's because this has all happened within two months. It's early, hard as that is to believe. The stuff we're talking about here, if it's going to be led by any kind of elite, it takes time. Hell, I think it's only just dawning on people how bad this can get.
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Public transit in Sydney is great. Clean, on time, and sometimes there's a crack old man with a full-grown macaw in his shoulder sitting next to you.
Recommend the meat pies if you haven't already had one. But above all the fish market. If there's a guy grilling octopus, hand him all your money.
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I was tangentially involved in the pharmaceutical thing and it is the coolest thing that has ever happened to me at work.
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I've written both my Democratic Senators thanking them for holding the line and asking them to denounce your betrayal and move to have you replaced as minority leader, you feckless, spineless worm in a suit. Better legislators than you stuck their necks out on this and you left them hanging.
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I want some combination of Walz and Pritzker with Cooper either in the Senate or AG spot with a mandate to unleash hell. Buttigeig for an empowered DNC chair and Shapiro staying the fuck in Pennsylvania where he belongs.
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We're already budgeting for routine drives to Canada for this sort of thing, and we do not live near Canada. But I trust them to have good vaccines and let us have some if we denounce our leaders and swear to root for the Blue Jays.
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A maximalist Ukrainian victory probably couldn't be achieved short of direct engagement by forces from other countries, which really is WWIII. But a sufficiently costly stalemate can lead to victory through destabilization of the Putin regime. May be overly optimistic, but not incoherent.
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Is it that their issue with taxes isn't so much the money, it's the power dynamic. Same as with regulation. They cannot stand that some bureaucrat making at most low six figure gets to complete them to do things. They hate it. They are lords and should not accept orders from serfs or burghers.
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Don't forget that agriculture is just about the only thing most countries can target with retaliatory tariffs. Last time, Trump tried to paper over that by just handing cash to farmers.
But the seed oil thing won't go anywhere. That interest is too powerful. They'll Sirhan his ass if he tries.
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You forgot South Africa.
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Some kind of camp, anyway.
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I respect what you're doing and I respect having receipts. Donation made. Thank you for bringing it to our attention.
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What book are these excerpts from?
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I just envision a new form of corruption - people running for one term to score the pension. And besides, there's always sweetheart deals for family members.
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I know that insurance companies aren't the only bad actors and there are plenty of providers who contribute to the loathsomeness. But there are good providers, and there are, I would argue, NO good insurance co.s - they are definitionally parasitic
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I'm satisfied with my health insurance - relative to my available alternatives. It hasn't screwed my family yet, but we're young and healthy and haven't given them much opportunity to do so. I still detest it as a parasitic middleman and part of a component of a loathsome system.