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chicken-squawk.bsky.social
Democratic Socialist Rooster Who Pecks Keyboards for a Living I support multiparty democracy... As long as all the parties are socialist / social democratic We must systematically prevent a concentration of power in undemocratic organizations.
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yeah man, please make my 85 year old great aunt prove her citizenship to vote in rural georgia, this definitely isn’t reminiscent of anything in the american past

submitted 5 hours ago • 337 comments

Yet another of the numerous, numerous signs that we are experiencing not just a collapse of democratic institutions but a *moral* collapse

submitted 6 hours ago • 0 comments

Now that’s what I call states asserting their rights! Good for us

submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

What everyone forgets—and let’s hope Trump doesn’t realize it either—is that Congress can simply add more justices to the Supreme Court by passing a bill

submitted 8 hours ago • 1 comment

We have found the real Neville Chamberlain

submitted 18 hours ago • 31 comments

United States Disappeared Tracker: 1214 and growing. public.tableau.com/app/profile/...

submitted 1 day ago • 106 comments

Can the smarter-than-everyone “nothing good will ever happen again” people just shut the fuck up for any moment, ever

submitted 1 day ago • 123 comments

I may not be a Christian, nor do I believe in an omnipotent God, but I think about this a lot

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

“We should act to stop him” Elizabeth Warren always nails the “look, I’m a Senator, but I can do nothing, that’s on you” phrasing

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

I can't endorse Summers as a person, but he is right

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1) Do something autocratic 2) Wait to see how people react 3) If they don't push back hard enough, carry on 4) If they do push back hard enough, "pause" it 5) Illegally consolidate more power 6) Repeat

submitted 1 day ago • 189 comments

Broke: New Age Woke: Zen Buddhism Bespoke: Thai Forest Theravada Buddhism

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The NASDAQ soared 11% Yet 125% tariffs on China still exist Someone is going to lose their shirt (again)

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Ah yes, the endgame: tariff as shakedown

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Trump raised tariffs on China to 125% but knocked them back to 10% on everyone else, supposedly for 90 days Somehow this pumped the stock market back up by 6-9%. Seems... premature

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Pump and dump much?

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

"there is providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children, and the United States of America" --(wrongly) attributed to Bismarck I think actually this is already baked into market assumptions and the worldview of the average American. Because Americans believe this we are in even more trouble

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

fuckin TOM LEE is getting bearish

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

Their stonks and crypto crashing, and "recession world" where hustle culture no longer delivers, could do a good job radicalizing them. We millennials know well what an economy looks like that DOESN'T reward effort.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Some anecdotal tidbits

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I'm up for a little dose of optimism this morning. The judge is a decent one.

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It is controversial, because that is the goal of socialism

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NASDAQ up 2%... on what?

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every Dem running for executive office from here on out should be committing to blindly and aggressively prosecuting every white-collar crime where the statute of limitations is still good

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

And people bought the market immediately when he said that. How stupid do you have to be

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