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That young man is extremely unfortunate. Imagine how hard it would be to disentangle yourself from that mother's implanted dendrites when all you have ever learned to do in your life is seek her approval. That is multi-generational the curse of antisocial personality disorder on a family. No escape
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You really have to be stupid, like brain damaged stupid, to buy notions like this. Luckily for Trump, as high as 30% are. This is not to take a big dump on those, but just to be real about the challenge. You have to take that handicap into account in devising effective, non-evil counterstrategies.
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#themoretheysquishthemoreitclimbstheirleg www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWht...
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#johnokadalikesthis
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First anger, then acceptance (meaning acknowledgment, not capitulation), then resolve.
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If we want to have the rights we like now, that make us proud to be Americans (as opposed to "speak against the party, get dead or to a gulag") we have to recognize that it demands a lot more work than the autocracy, and a lot more literate/informed citizenry.
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It helps to recognize that China is the cat, now, and he is the mouse. It also helps to recognize that possibly this is why tech "moguls" see authoritarianism as inevitable or desirable (it is very difficult to be the cat as a democracy, when an adversary is a bigger autocracy/totalitarian state).
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The thing about a narcissistic sociopath is, they can be on any side of an issue or of belief systems. They just go with whatever offers the most expedient and gratifying rewards. That's the nature of not actually having a conscience. Remember that Brand was once a very visible humanitarian guy.
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It is a mistake to put too much schadenfreude on this, without an awareness that it's only a strategy of mockery. The stock market runs on fiction. Tesla can bounce back and flourish, any stock can, independent of whether it causes damage or does good. Not a critique, just a reminder.
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It really needs to be spread as widely and repeatedly as possible that Rupert Murdoch is not actually "on their side." TIMES RADIO, a UK-organ with remarkable and growing reach, is vociferously anti-Trump with at least the same force as Fox puts into creatingthe MAGA bubble. It is owned by Murdoch.
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An interesting corollary: that such a figure, who can bankrupt casinos, can be in the position he is now, brings home how big a deal inheritance and privilege are. He is denial itself, personified, walking, and continually being reborn to cause destruction to himself and others, over and over again
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Don't we puzzle over this all the time, how so many seemingly can't see through him when the veil is so obviously thin? I think he plugs into a culture of abuse that is 100s of years old, specifically families formed in sociopathic inheritance, where all the dysfunction is normal, thus invisible.
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Recognizing the problem is the first step to avoiding an outcome! Nothing can be produced without workers. This battle is age old. We have just become complacent because things were so easy and convenient for so long! The main thing is to seek practical (real world) solutions, and seeing is step 1✊
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(Had the funding just been taken away, Harvard would suffer, persevere, find the way to emerge, and bounce back stronger and less vulnerable to manipulations like this. Instead they are faced with the convenient choice: capitulate, shed credibility built over nearly 400 years.)
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There is also 2b) if you can't find it, create it. This is more prevalent than generally recognized, because it is the stock and trade of gaslighting, whose audience is already primed to accept it.
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It's the diaper bulge. Impossible to resist.
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If you have loved ones (some do, I understand others cannot imagine it) who have DJT stock, they might want to start getting rid of it. It was holding artificially steady during the first crash(es). It may have begun its descent to zero (which *will* happen when the Trump fam starts selling off).
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Consider the difference between just taking away the funding, and holding it ransom. That shows what is at stake for the universities. They are being extorted. They can be extorted, or suffer whatever the consequences are of having the funding taken away. They would've been luckier being defunded
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...materially. Show us materially, and if you don't have ways for citizens to exercise agency now, other than donations, please find some that make sense, and you will find the population willing to work for something better. There has to be some practical wedge driving and material inroads. Lead.
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Please show us what you're doing, other than posting on social media, like he does.
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This is both a call to arms and an observation I've not seen made much: Trump is targeting Ivy League schools in particular. They are full, down to the last student, of people smarter than him: political scientists, legal scholars, you name it. What does it say that some bend their knees so readily?
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Tone really matters, if you want to change people's minds instead of making them dig in - I am not criticizing, here, just making an obvious point. Dropping this here, in case others can use it to help change people in their own circles: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vK6f...
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Your post points straight at a question probably most people of goodwill have today: how do you influence the cult-dominated people, who think they have found freedom? When I saw this, this eve, I thought it has a lot of power to change people with the right timing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vK6f...
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Internet life is rewiring people's brains, as is screen addiction and the experience of never really experiencing corrections, or knowing how to make self-corrections when so much of life is lived virtually, where the algorithm's goal is not to correct or interact, but ensnare and exploit.
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Hang in there! If we all do, in 4 years, rebuilding can begin. I think (hope, but also believe) the Project 2025ers etc. are miscalculating what will happen in the Supreme Court. When the democracy holds, as happens most of the time in the wake of a sociopath, goodness applies itself to resurrection
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Absolutely. In the same model, employees having any rights or comfort beyond the absolute minimum necessary is, in the zero sum board-defined (not human) "only profit matters" model, is lost profit. Obviously, anything reducing profits is bad, so worker well-being is bad. These are the big issues
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Interestingly, I think if anybody up and just punched him in the mouth, the reality that an obese old man who is probably wearing diapers can't fight - even the ones who once could - might instantaneously break the spell he has over the fooled, deluded followers.
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It isn't mystifying if you understand his primary motivation: ego, its grandioseness. Putin just showed him what a really powerful person does, to demonstrate his impunity, and superiority (superior, because beyond control by anybody, the person who has no accountability). He wants to be Putin.
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Hi Dr. Ho - I just want to say thanks for standing up / sticking out. I appreciate expertise and credibility making mindful (meaning aware of everything involved, not foolish) decisions where others might not. 🤙🤙
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This is right and accurate beyond the sense in which you say it. The "tech"/new/China business model is one of master/slave. The goal is to capture market share, drive competitors out of business, then degrade service to make a profit. This reduces the consumer to a slave, having no actual choices.
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We are living in an age of exaggerated boom for snake oil salesmen (one of the world's oldest professions). It will pass, but we have to make it so. Nobody who actually knows anything about science disbelieves in it. It is extremely doubtful that Kennedy actually disbelieves. He sees suckers.
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Please fight and be effective, show us that the work is being done. People are paying close attention that does not show up in day to day donation reports, etc.. Please know this about those who want a cooperative world, ruled by consideration and care of others instead of sadism and exploitation.
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You're mistaken. It's probably not your fault, but you can change that. The research teams have been crippled. That means you and your snow reports, which it's very likely are important to you, are going to suffer. A search string for you: what is the current situation with budget cuts to noaa?
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People who are truly crazy do not know they are crazy. Some part of them does - the unconscious mind that ironically isn't, can't be - but the crazy has that part bound, gagged, and locked in a closet.
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You know, when I imagine (like I just did because of that pic), a whole world made up only of that person, except for me, it's obvious what would happen to me (I would turn cocoa for cocoa puffs, so would anybody). This explains quite a lot, really.
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This fella's explication of Vance is sprawling but has great explanatory power (usually things that do have a lot of truth value). His take also has great explanatory power for Loomer, and a long line of similar figures, weird monsters normalized by Trump. www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0Zb...
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It all matters. No resistance is futile. But there are a lot of people who are not aware of how serious many people are in bureaucratic jobs. The video is worth a watch if you haven't watched it, because Lewis knows what he is talking about. Mid-level bureaucrats are what uphold the Constitution.
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To reach people who have never been devoted readers (of fiction, because real elegance is invisible in non-fiction, mostly, or it won't reach print), more talent and effort are inevitably required. It's a worthwhile challenge to all, to seduce with a benevolent deliberateness.
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Today I started building a Youtube channel. As I started, as I wrote some words for a video, I found myself choosing the dumbed down word, where a better word existed, because I knew without reflecting that better language would alienate the majority of 'tubers. I'll try not to do that next time.
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Your post made me realize a major change in society during my lifetime (which you're underlining). All the way into the 2000s, books were everybody's primary escape from reality AND arbiter of reality. The entire world population seemed to stretch to meet written language. Not much the case, now.
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A "yuge" part of his base does not have retirement plans, but of course the catastrophic tragedy is that the "undecideds" who voted The Guy Who is Trying to End Voting Because He Needs All The Grift into office are not in the 30%.
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This is going to intensify the pressure on Trump admins to destroy federal infrastructure, because they cannot go to another election, because they cannot win. Too many people will have been disillusioned. People may have wrong ideas about who "bureaucrats" are. www.youtube.com/watch?v=79_n...
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Ugh. I wish they would hire competent techs to create algorithms that could market effectively to different kinds of people. They need to up their tech game. A lot. The money question is tough. If we're not funding progress, there will be more corporate funding.That does not serve The People.
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(When the market is doing well, that does not mean times are good. When it does poorly, that does not mean the Big Fish are doing poorly, although surely some will make bad bets - losing to other big fish. When the market is bad schadenfreude could be premature. For sure, Trump did this. Celebrate?)
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One thing people not in the stock market (not you) have to understand: the market is a story. People put money where they think other people will want to put money. People can and do make BAHHHJILLIONS in the market when it crashes. And, the market can and may thrive while real economies suffer.
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If they knew Rupert Murdoch also owns and runs TIMES RADIO, an ***anti-Trump*** news/propaganda Youtube channel with massive reach, it might open some people's eyes. Fox News is not on their "side." It is a purely exploitative exercise, creating and isolating an audience (from reality) for $$$$.
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OH LORD! I thought you were the DNC's account! 😂 I will delete my posts. I keep getting an absurd number of random texts from all kinds of DNC personalities, but they're all actually Act Blue. Effin sickuvit