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Another bearded librarian with cats. Not an authoritative source. UCW-CWA Local 3865/3821.
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The new Senate bill doesn’t just gut renewables. It includes massive giveaways to the fossil fuel industry.
It exempts oil and gas drillers from paying corporate taxes. It gives coal companies a tax credit for burning more coal.
It uses your tax dollars to subsidize climate destruction.
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If people don't think an entrenched occupation of three countries at once, mass killing every single day in an enclave which is besieged by air land and sea, bombardment of two other countries at once, and racial discrimination in both its de jure and de facto territory takes a toll, they're stupid.
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Defenders of Israel, and those sympathetic to Israel, are going to have to seriously grapple with this sooner or later. Israel's public relations crisis is the byproduct of Israel's actions.
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It's not some grand conspiracy. It's not Russian disinformation. It's not endemic antisemitism. Younger Jews have a more critical view of Israel. Younger Blacks have a more critical view of Israel. Younger whites. Younger high-ed, younger low-ed, younger gay, younger straight. Why is that?
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As Israeli behavior gets worse, more erratic, more right-wing, more expansionist, more Kahanist, more genocidal, the public perception of Israel goes down. I think this is a pretty straightforward thing. There are compounding factors but this is the number one reason.
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That's good, but it should be paired with impeaching and removing the majority for violating their oaths of office
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We need systems that make debate constructive, that help people evaluate competing claims, and that prevent the most manipulative actors from hijacking public discourse. Not to impose a single truth, but to defend the process by which free societies function.
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We don’t live in a neutral marketplace of ideas. We live in an attention economy shaped by algorithms, tribal identity, outrage incentives, and profit models that reward engagement over accuracy.
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And when debate collapses, power doesn’t disappear, it just becomes unaccountable. Truth becomes tribal. Institutions become hollow. People are left shouting across a void, each group certain the others are insane or evil. That’s not freedom, it’s fragmentation.
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The danger isn’t just that people believe lies. It’s that entire communities become locked into belief systems that can’t be challenged, where loyalty replaces evidence, and disagreement feels like betrayal. That doesn’t just distort truth, it breaks trust.