thomas-gt.bsky.social
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😂😂
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Lol, damn! "Leadership" is correct. Be the bee that reads books, not the bear that watches Fox News.
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That's what happens when you're the toughest guy in Call of Duty, but afraid to talk to girls.
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Our idea of readership is a relic from the age of kings - democracy has shown us that true power lies in the scattered masses.
Be the bee, not the bear.
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Why? This is basically what the banality of evil is all about.
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But is it actually part of a master takeover plan, or just the whims of a mentally challenged president surrounded by dumbasses all too eager to do as he says?
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We need more news like this, and less on Trump's attention grabs. Thanks!
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And people seem to be overwhelmed by the performative power bravado from a bunch of incompetent do-nothings in the administration. Every comparison between Trump and your dictator of choice fails to acknowledge that the people supposedly leading this coup are really bad at everything they do.
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A loyalist army in the capital during a coup. What could possibly go wrong?
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Cops acting on behalf of the oligarchy. Making rich people less rich will make law enforcement less forceful.
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The only thing happening here is a white guy interrupting a woman to spew whatever warped delusions his hive mind overlords tell him to spew.
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I suspect it's all a smokescreen and they'll be singing Islands in the stream when the bill is passed.
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Tacogate!
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So your master plan is just to roll over. Got it!
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We actually need to remind people now that a guy doing the nazi salute is "not a good guy". How the eff did we get here?
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Klein er en suggererende forfatter, og hver side en skattekiste av overlegne analyser og sylskarpe innsikter. Jeg ble skikkelig starstruck da hun var i Oslo og skulle signerte boka mi - jeg håpet å lire av meg noe intelligent da jeg sto foran henne, men det ble mest et "eehhhee...tænkjutænkju".
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This is in the pipeline in Scandinavian countries as well, and not as some scheme to prevent youths from accessing information, but rather to prevent their exposure to malign online content and reduce screen dependency. It can go both ways.
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Det er vel en berettiget frykt for at FrP har posisjonert seg slik på høyresiden at alt som ikke er til venstre løper risiko for å hjelpe FrP. Det er kanskje en grunn til at Ap har dundret fremover: fløyelsmyk nyliberalisme for fondssparerne med et anstrøk av roseduft for proseccososialister.
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Mye på venstresida har sklidd ut, ja, men det løses ikke ved å styrke høyresida. En stemme til venstresida er *også* en stemme til å styrke offentlige sektor, mindre ulikhet og utenforskap, og mer rettferdig fordeling av fellesgoder. Venstresida er mer enn kun radikal identitetspolitikk.
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To be fair: the EU is also a neoliberalist juggernaught that overruns national gouvernments and local interests. I too am disappointed with the Polish election, but parties that opposes the EU are popular for more reasons than far right nationalism.
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Do you want to win or take the moral high ground? You'll either lose your dignity or dominance, so it's up to you what you want most.
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Yes. Harassing those people because "they should've seen it coming" or "yes, you voted for this to happen, only not to yourself" is counterproductive if you want to win them over. People make mistakes - accept their regrets and get them into the fold.
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Also that a crowd of snowflakes makes an avalanche.
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If it's tagged with an antivax sticker, it says that the bloodline should never have started.
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Jeg har sett flere Teslaer i der siste hvor logoen - den derre T-en på panseret - er fjernet. Noen som hva dét hander om?
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The split among Democrat voters that transactivism caused was instrumental in Trump's victory, and right wingers will pose as transactivists to keep that split open. If anyone calls you a terf or transphobe, chances are they're MAGAs in disguise. Keep focused and don't let it trigger you.
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Fascism prevailed in the Chicago school of the 50s and its ideas on unregulated competition, dominance of the strong and subjugation of the weak. Neoliberalism was nazism applied to economics, and embraced by US political elites during the 80s, eventually paving the way for today's authoritarianism.
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Why can't local police interfere, or is this some special US thing that wouldn't happen anywhere in a civilized country?
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Seems like those kidnappings were done purely on the basis of skin colour, given that most of them don't have a criminal record and hence no data that a surveillance system could use to single them out. The presumed superiority of computer assisted security is a fraud to cover for sheer power abuse.
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They all are. Computer tech is 90% sales pitch and 10% content. It's a fantasy in the basement of an incel.
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To be fair - all around the Western world women are being told to birth more babies while immigrants are being thrown out or denied access. Elon Musk is unfortunately not alone in saying "more babies" while actually meaning "more white folk".
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The oligarchy is winning because they keep us fighting culture wars to beat us in the class war.
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Capitalism lied.
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It's also a tug-of-war between economic power and knowledge power: the new cold war isn't between planned economy and market economy, but between the latter's strongest successes: brawls and brains.
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The "whatever happened" was neoliberalist capitalism. It taught us to ruthlessly compete for dominance, scorn those who don't make it in that competition, and reduce everything into a sales pitch.
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I know, but the issue shouldn't be the amount of taxes people pay, but how they're used. If the general population buys into the narrative that taxes are bad because they're used badly, then the oligarchy wins.
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But this is how they want us to think. If we don't see the value of taxes, it'll be easier to make the argument for cutting them. Instead, demand that taxes be used for public goods: hospitals, schools, transport, welfare services. Only by paying taxes we can take ownership to how they're used.
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I'm very disappointed in the lluminatii these days.
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Fascismen fortsatte jo å leve videre i den nyliberale økonomiens lære om uregulert konkurranse, den sterkestes rett til å lede og de svakes plikt til underkastelse. Så lenge vi lar ideologiske avleggere fra nazismen understøtte det dominerende økonomiske systemet, vil fascismen alltid ligge på lur.
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If you need a bigger population, then maybe sending the people you've already got to foreign prison camps are not very smart.
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They keep us fighting in identity wars so they'll beat us in the class war.
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By attacking higher ed, they undermine the very heart of the knowledge econony that's vital for future progress and growth. It's the longing for an imagined past that kills very real prospects for the future.
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Lindsey Graham as in Lindsey "make Trump the next pope" Graham? Suuuure.
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It was founded on the humanist principles of global rights to freedom from tyranny, equality before the law, and brotherhood of all mankind, hence red, white and blue. It's opposite was a king whose absolute power reflected an omnipotent God. This is kindergarden level knowledge.
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Don't be surprised if the purity brigades increase their presence on social media as the midterms approaches. I suspect this to be deliberate attempts from right wing groups to split the left ahead of big elections.
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So you were suggesting Scandinavian style insurance system. People actually blocked you for suggesting the best system known to mankind. Wonder why guys like Trump comes to power.
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At least Reagan saw the fall of the Soviet union - Trump would like to see it rise again.
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On the bright side: despite the billions poured into "4th gen AI powered invasive surveillance and intelligence technology" and Patriot Act protocols over the last 20 years, Noem still had to send a letter to request for this info. So much for tech bro superiority.
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Once the Reps lose majority, laws should be changed in favour of bolstering and expanding the power of federal judges. Those have proven themselves to be the true protectors of democracy.
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So the Dems need to push hard for Roosevelt style tax policies: tax the most wealthy between 90% - 100%. This will both rally people against the culprits of the Trump policies, while also fund the reestablishment of public services for the middle and lower classes.