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Maritime historian—The Sea and Civilization: A Maritime History of the World, among other things. LincolnPaine.com
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Dupes for Bezos.
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Good questions. The number of times people have thought Trump was out over the past decade is beyond counting. Optimism is fine, but magical thinking is enervating.
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According to the Cleveland Clinic, side effects of ketamine use include “hallucinations” and “loss of contact with reality.”
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J6 Redux.
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And here’s the copy. Please disseminate these images widely. Who needs to place ads in a newspaper that few people actually read anymore?
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For fuck’s sake.
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Nothing will placate a fascist’s desire to inflict suffering. No amount of people thrown to the wolves will do anything to halt their goals. All it does is make show how cowardly and selfish you are. You’d abandon all morality for the shallow reassurance that maybe they won’t come for you too
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I am available on Signal at 213-270-4334 if any govt employees on this app would like to discuss what is unfolding
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They still are. It’s just that polite society is shrinking. It shall return.
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First class commercial flight from Portland Maine to Guatemala:
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Ice Queen.
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Delete Google maps.
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But to be effective, we have to focus on what matters to us.
Burning out is not an option.
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There are 75 million people who voted for someone other than the current president, and almost 90 million eligible voters didn’t bother to vote. So, the makings of an effective resistance to policies that are anathema to our principles, our livelihoods, and our very existence are there.>
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Rather, we need to lean into that issue or those issues that are most important to us or for which we already have the greatest affinity: birth control, civil rights, education, gun control, freedom of the press, freedom of religion, homelessness, healthcare…. >
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They write well about what they know because they are deeply educated and experienced in their fields. Most of us have other strengths, even as we have our passions.
To effectively resist, we cannot succumb to the rage of the moment. >
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What many of these writers have in common is that they are specialists with particular areas of expertise: the law, reproductive rights, the environment, the economy, totalitarianism, Christian nationalism, US history…. >
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It already is, and we’re barely five hours into this presidency.
There are many on this and other sites noting that we have to pay attention and not let ourselves be overwhelmed. This is easier said than done.>
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But it comes to a thunderous conclusion with an account of Dorothy "Cassandra" Thompson's 1940 article "Who Goes Nazi?" in which Thompson suggests a "macabre parlor game to speculate who in a showdown would go Nazi."
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But Churchwell is fiercely optimistic:
"It is one thing to have lofty principles, quite another to live by them; but it is also true that humanity's perennial failure to live up to its ideals does not make the ideals less worthwhile."
She quotes extensively from newspapers nationwide.>
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But in the first place is the suffering and there is so much of it.
Like I said, we are grateful. Our neighbors are grateful, but this thing is so big.
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The environmental implications and the push by developers to make fortunes from this disaster will lead to a lot of repetition of the behavior that got us here in the first place (vast over-development, little or no environmental regulation, greed trumping common sense at every opportunity).
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The suffering across the county is immense, a lot of the folks in Altadena are immigrants who live in apartments and are uninsured and will be homeless and without means. There will be a lot more deaths reported. The environmental damage is vast.
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We're past 40 friends who have experienced complete loss of home, each experiencing the deepest trauma in their own ways. There will be thousands. The devastation is complete.