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My new favorite drug is Republican members of Congress getting yelled at in their districts by constituents who hate Musk.

“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.

The tyranny during COVID was not the precautionary measures to mitigate loss of life. The tyranny during COVID was the trillions of dollars injected into the market and distributed to the wealthy in the form of PPP handouts.

James Bond is a franchise about the government sending an experienced, tenacious regulator to interfere with the affairs of private-sector billionaires, so this all tracks with the cultural moment

The GOP's recent push to have 'sugary' items barred from being spent on food stamps is the perfect encapsulation of manufactured consent. Here's how: To start, the whole point of this has nothing to do with what it claims, the actual desire is to justifying *cutting* SNAP, that is where this leads.

"Civility" when it comes to issues with society, is the language of the abuser. The second you speak out and people say "You should be more civil" is the second you know they are purely trying to get you to unilaterally surrender to the establishment, because they hate what you're saying/doing.