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I'm all for Cascadia federating with the new York Republic.

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Is there actually still a dem-soc or actual labor party left over there, or is it now just center-right, far-right, and some fringe like here?

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"but did you die?" Yes I did. this isn't living, it's waiting to no longer exist. I did die and belittling my attempt to live again shows your lack of character.

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There's help, and there's advice, support, and sympathy. There's a place for the latter three, but only putting yourself directly to another's problems is help, and confusing help for the others is an ill misdirection and will not protect you in the long run.

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By individualism, the enlightenment meant opposition to the kings of the time thinking of themselves as the only real person and every human under them as nothing but their appendages. Without egality and fraternity, Liberty becomes chaos and chaos is a ladder for demagogues.

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Groups and tribes and identities are collages, not monoliths. There is absolutely no descriptor that encompasses any group.

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I know who the people and their behavior at DOGE remind me of - I read interviews with neo-Wahabbists such as ISIS. They don't know their own faith, just fanatical hate and fear and a need to burn everything they don't understand.

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Eight.

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If we have elections in 2028 and aren't a dictatorship, "managed democracy", in a civil war, or a nuked failed state, I'd like to see Tim Walz run for president out of the Democratic Party's shadow and without their handlers.

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Conquerors don't aim for bring lords in hell over servants in heaven, they sin for being the center of everything in hell over being no one in particular in heaven. Conquest and supremacy are not ambition, they are anxious attachment disorders.

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Count how much time you've gone inconveniently out of your way to keep up with or help your neighbors or local area. That's the measure of why things are the way they are.

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The fact that Trump's forces are using administrative shock and awe to break their enemies' spirits is a clear demonstration that this isn't a change of administration, it's a declaration of war.

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Reminder: having everything come at us this fast is a shocking on military tactic meant to dispirit people. If you are feeling the spirited, that's what they're trying to accomplish. Survive the first wave and then push back.

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Now the Dept of agriculture is being forced to remove all references to climate change or of every document, code, and website and make a list of those who put them there& are working on agci. Glad the answer to egg prices is censorship.

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Thinking you have to agree with someone or be similar or related to them or even like them in order to care about them and seeing caring as some magnanimous mark of nobility is one of the things making everything crumble. Caring is a social chore that keeps everything knitted together.

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The key to understanding anacyclosis is that when things get tense or hard, people tend to fold away from the social fabric that knits civilization together and "see to their own". The fabric frays, things get harder people turn inward more, and the cycle splits the fabric.

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Always worth returning to Mark Fisher on this subject. He discusses how a movie like WALL-E peforms our political action for us and therefore has a pacifying effect. Feeling self-satisfied that we have played our part by agreeing with the message, we are no longer compelled to take further action

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Another consequence of Donald Trump, Department of Labor to stop all enforcement actions under Equal Employment Opportunity Act

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