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Always in a sweat. Also, sorry, I never use that chat key. I'm not a good recipient for hot tips, or hotness of any type. Also, should say, if you support the Gaza genocide, don't reply to me. I'll block you. .
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Yeah. Gone are the days when we were a secret oligarchy where we just did things like awarding Carlyle Group founders metals of freedom and made sure that powerful people who tried to overthrow the government by invading Congress wtih the intent to kill weren't punished. I miss that sweet heaven.
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Ygelsias out Yglesiases himself every time he gets near some adorable racist or Nazi. He's drawn by their careless swagger, their delight in non-Wokeness, their cute faschitude. Alas, somehow, somehow, this guy is listened to by the Dem elders. Why?
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I think it is a sad way to make money, bad for your soul, but on the other hand, I think there are not a lot of options in Augusta, Georgia, where the poverty rate is 21 percent. But a NYT writer who really cared about the human environment that created such madness would not be a NYT writer.
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So many facets to get horrified by. But for me, the idea that making 55,000 dollars per year is chump change was the real reveal in that story - unitl you make 550,000, you are nothing to NYT folks. We knew it - but did they have to upfront it?
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On the Origins of the Influencing Machine in Schizophrenia. limitedinc.blogspot.com/2025/06/the-...
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Yes!
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There's a new rhetorical move that Guardian columnists are creating: terfsplaining. I'm sure young people are all so interested. Fuck these peeps.
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Her argument is the usual nonsense pumped out by the British media. I don't really understand why Britain, of all places, has jumped on the Terf wagon, but with media like this, it is no wonder people in the younger cohort just don't read the Guardian anymore. Hope the owners are fine with that.
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They were stupid from the getgo. The Know Nothing party, the election of Andrew Jackson, genocidaire, or the roll call of slavers and military people that were presidents up to Lincoln, excluding a few - JQ Adams, for instance. Taylor, Tyler, Van Buren - nonentities.
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Good! Dems joining Reps in torturing trans people is a dealbreaker for me. I know a few trans people, so yeah, there is that. But even if I didn't, I strongly think trans folks can make their own decisions. And torturing them shows the lowest level of bullying. A Newsom level. Fuck the bullies
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Wow. Like vampires having to be invited inside. The ICE-vampire continuum bodes ill for the continued health of America.
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Perhaps the dumbest poll question in the history of dumb poll questions. It could as easily be, do you support the federal income tax to grow manufacturing and production in the U.S., since that is part of what the income tax does. Tariffs are simply a consumer tax. That is all they do.
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limitedinc.blogspot.com/2025/06/the-... #buridan #choice
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Lets use Trump's logic against Trump's tax cuts for the wealthy. Let the wealthy eat our deficits! Tax the fuck out of them. Bring money back to America from all those off shore havens. If we tax billionaires heavily, no American household up to the 100 thou level needs to pay income taxes.
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And this isn't mere specuilation. The kind of social democracy that brought us social security, unemployment insurance, housing and medicare grew up in a world where the worker was moved by Upton Sinclair novels, not by neoliberalling op-ed-ers. The great organizers of the past imagined alternatives
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It is a double bind. How are we to remake the system that produces abundance and then reserves it for a very few, while letting the rest scramble, unless we have the imagination to see that this world is alterable? That's the imagination that comes from cultivating the narrative intelligence.
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The only reason that they can pass it on is that government ostensibly does not "regulate" prices. But that is bullshit. They do all the time. In the energy sector, for instance. Eat the tax - a good slogan for a Dem party wanting to "learn" from Trump. Watch them not.
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The GOP side has never been this openly and radically progressive since ... 1910 about. Although I imagine, put in rational terms, the GOP would refuse to recognize Trump's remarks. But no reason Dems can't say: yes, the corporations should swallow their tax burden, not pass it on.
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The most useful is Trump's remark that Walmart should "eat" the tariff. Translated into policy terms: tax the investor class and make it very hard to pass that cost to consumers. This is exactly what Dems should do. And it is exactly what Dem conservatives, rentseekers all, want to avoid.
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"For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in:
Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me." By JC's standard, Ernst fails. However, as a worshipper of Trump, she's doing fine.
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I don't know the philosophy of the TOOTH Fairy. But Jesus was pretty clear: Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:
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That has been her style forever. And I doubt that it will lose her any votes. Her voters will laugh at the tooth fairy remark. But they maybe won't laugh at the bankruptcy ensuing from cutting medicare, so we will see.
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The two state cause, the end of the occupation of the West bank, the return to the boundaries of 1967, the end of genocide in Gaza, and massive funding development in the Palestine state are all parts of one whole. This is what peace would look like.
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And yet, here I sit, safe in Paris. I understand the way in which a vile calculus can be forced upon an oppressed people. But Israel at present is not in that position at all. The habit of the vile calculus, the policies of the Israeli right, are provoking a global resurgence of anti-semitism.
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This is not wholly unheard of in the history of rightwing Zionism, which in the interwar period often made gestures to fascist countries in the believe that the explusion of Jews from Germany and Italy, etc., would benefit the cause of settlement in Israel. A vile calculus.
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What that anti-semitic logic fastens on to is the identification of all Jewish culture with the far right exterminationists in Israel. This both, slyly, identifies Jews with their traditional place in the anti-semitic geneology - shedders of blood - and then claims this is supporting Jews.
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It is a sad and logical result of the discourse of a pro-Israel segment of the population that seeks to identify being jewish with support for genocide in Gaza. It is no accident that Netanyahu's besties among the world leaders are all anti-semites. This is unleashing the beast.
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Trusting? The DOJ was carrying out what Biden wanted. Biden never, ever signalled that he wanted Trump prosecuted for treason - he wanted to turn the page. Cause it would be political. From the Clarence Thomas hearings to Trump immunity, Biden has been bad for the justice system.
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Because this is a challenge that takes the guise of a jeer. And that jeering tone is, I’d say, the glory and the downfall of scepticism. See here: limitedinc.blogspot.com/2025/05/how-...
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Yet to ignore its tone is to abandon too much that is philosophically pertinent to simple “literature”, as though this were all a naturally different field than philosophy, poetry and not proposition. Poetry, too, is proposition. Obliquely, by hide and seek.
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If we actually take that latter choice as the choice of scepticism, the philosophical thing to do is to ignore its tone and attend simply to its substance – the challenge to certainty. And all respect to that!
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Why not at the same time? The mental derangement and senility of the ruling class on both sides should really be focused on. We are dying under the decaying weight of the old age boomers sitting on us.
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In consequence, the D. party is run by people who would have been Republicans in the 1960s. And the Republican party is run by people who would have been Democrats in the 1860s. It is a mess.
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I think that the two party organization of American politics is way obsolete. When Southern Republicans took over the GOP - a process that went on from Goldwater to Bush - they drove out moderate Rs, who went into the Dem party.
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You know, a person who finds it a nearly impossible standard for parenthood includes things like sexually abusing the child is... not somebody I want to be a parent, ever. But it is sorta good that NYT's natalist mania is showing us what maniacs these peeps are. Country club fail.
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I was hoping for that in 2021. Then came the Biden DOJ, and that dream of justice was flushed down the toilet. America doesn't punish the powerful - we are definitely not equal before the law.
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That's one causal story. Another would finger Biden's decision not to prosecute Trump for and terrorism in 2021. Which gave Trump immunity - the last thing that this country needed.
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The effort made to guard Biden from appearing too much in public, or being put under stress on TV, etc., withdrew Biden from the sphere in which he had to appear a lot if the Dems were going to confront their weakness. And they had poll support: people didn't want Biden or Trump to run.
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And so they turned to re-electing Biden instead of setting up a normal primary for a retiring president. In the period between 2023 and 2024, as Biden became even more senile, the cost of living factor was undervalued in the way the D's set out to campaign.
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I think it is absurd to single out as a cause factors that are so interrelated that every one of them is a compound. The Dems did not do bad in the midterms in 2022, yet inflation in 2022 was much worse than it was in 2024. That, I think, was perceived by Biden's peeps as a green light.
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Someone can do "them self"? We don't need Ai, we just need "edit".
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See the post here: limitedinc.blogspot.com/2025/05/two-...
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He dreamed that they were just taking the bread out of the oven in the barracks and he climbed into the stove and had a steam bath in it, lashing himself with a bunch of birch twigs. He slept for two days, and at midday on the third two sailors came down and carried him out.”