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Retired Intelligence Analysts. Cold War era US Army Vet. Fairly familiar with System Dynamics and History. Personal eccentricities: Scadian KSCA, USCF NM&LM. Details and periodic commentary at http://mefletcher.blogspot.com/
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Democrats who insist on going chasing the mythical center and swing with every opinion poll aren't going to convince the American people. The narrative around a more egalitarian and compassionate government that promoting the public good for all will. Zero sum politics must be destroyed.

submitted 3 hours ago • 0 comments

We have right-wing paramilitaries abducting people while law enforcement looks on approvingly. Fill in another indicator oval in with red on the dictatorship warning chart. Dr. Snyder warns that when that happens we are pulling into the dictatorship station. This is not a drill people.

submitted 14 hours ago • 1 comment

Scratch a GOP policy, and you will find a grift under it. For them, cruelty should be fun and profitable at the same time.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Can confirm. 😎

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

It doesn't matter if a former Israeli PM said this. The fact that the truth may be unpopular or bring out inconvenient truths that others do not want to hear does not in any way limit your obligation to speak it.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Corruption may allow a few to profit mightily off of crony capitalism, bribery, and self-dealing, but the larger economy, sickened and sapped by a criminal parasitic elite, always suffers. Russia has an economy roughly the size of that of Texas.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Prescient. There were many who saw Trump for what he was and wanted to become.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Translated further: Russia's list of demands for Ukrainian surrender.

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This is what fascist state capture looks like in practice—a pervasive blurring of the boundary between state & vigilante violence under the aegis of the law.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Trump being critical of Putin is almost unprecedented. Perhaps Trump, in his dementia, simply forgot that Putin totally owns him.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Systems Axiom, "System behavior is determined by its structure." And by system, we mean more than just its physical structure. Behavior is also linked to its information structure, as well as the assumptions and goals that operate in the system. /1

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

We have a sickness and payment system, not a healthcare system. Repeat after me, universal health care is a public good, and ultimately leads to far better outcomes for society in all measures - including expense.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

As the saying goes, "If you want a new idea, read an old book."

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Trump Honors Those Who Helped Others Avoid Service at Tomb of the Unknown Podiatrist open.substack.com/pub/borowitz...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Now do Senator Scott.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Democrat Governor = denied. Remember, folks, Republican controlled government exists not to help the many but to enrich the few.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

As I was just saying.....

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

One thing is clear about our current descent into dictatorship: too many powers have been ceded to the presidency by Congress. All Trump had to do was whispers the magic word "emergency" and bingo, he is the Sun King.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

These supposedly smart CEOs haven't learned the one important lesson of dealing with the RICO case waiting to happen, Mob (aka Trump Administration). I am forced to repeat myself....

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

There is a problem with Senator Fetterman.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

This explains much. www.theguardian.com/wellness/ng-...

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Go to your church. Believe whatever you want to believe. You can believe that Fairies fly around on Gold dust and sprinkle Trump with it. We just don’t care. We most definitely don’t want to hear about it. And we will not have our lives dictated by your fantasy world.

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

As I have been saying.... Putin was never negotiating. He was listing his term for a Ukrainian surrender. Trump was ever a Putin appendage. He was used by Putin to create the illusion of legitimacy. Now that even the blockhead in the press have wised up, Trump is no longer useful to Putin. /1

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Translation: The grifters and sucker's market that trades in imaginary friends shouldn't be controlled by one corrupt politician. It should be regulated by a grifting political class and congress who have been grifting off of stock sales for decades.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Headline: Trump shrinks NSC staff because it would cut into his golf time finding the required number of Yes-men. apnews.com/article/trum...

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Biking is extremely energy efficient. The street fighting math guesstimate I arrived at a few years ago was I got around 300mpg (of fat) riding at 15mph.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments