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2025-06-15 13:33:13 UTC

So, millions of Americans are now getting the experience of having witnessed something big with their own eyes and ears that the mainstream press is too complicit and fearful to report truthfully.
We need to call out the minimizing, the wildly off crowd size estimates, and the attribution of motivations .
And we need to spotlight the processes within media that render certain viewpoints impossible to represent honestly.

2025-02-19 16:46:53 UTC

As an American I am finding it difficult to criticize anyone else 's politicians; but I have to ask the Brits on here if this Starmer fellow is dense or evil?
Humoring the Donald on Ukraine is pretty much playing the role Neville Chamberlain played in the last go-round with the fascists.

2025-02-14 06:25:04 UTC

Been rewatching Avatar:The Last Airbender (my comfort media) and just got to the episode of "The Library".
So I got to see Wan Shi Tong who knows ten thousand things.
I appreciate his vibe as the most aggro of librarians.

2025-02-03 18:52:00 UTC

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John Brunner -
Stand On Zanzibar
The Sheep Look Up
Shockwave Rider
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These are not escapist literature in 2025 unfortunately. He writes about ecological and social collapse.
Shockwave Rider has a hopeful bit at the ending in Disasterville USA
But the other two very much do not.

2025-01-28 06:26:13 UTC

Look, at this point in history if you are whining about Content Warnings for US politics; you are an enabler.
Unfollow. log off and go touch grass or yourself; I really don't give a shit.

2025-01-24 09:26:54 UTC

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I hold a similar attitude, and have not been on an airplane since 2015.
I just wanted to let you know that some of the myths about America are real. People do get shot over the most stupid shit here. It's not uncommon for traffic annoyance to lead to gunplay here; and I occasionally need to remind myself that we are deeply disturbed as a country.

2025-01-24 09:16:21 UTC

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as an american; I must caution you.
Do not try that here; you could quite literally get shot.

2025-01-21 12:52:56 UTC

Since the "awkward gesture" seems to be today's lightning rod.
Consider that it may have been planned to create an opportunity for gaslighting and as a litmus test for reactive news organizations causing them to reveal their willingness to adopt the regime's narrative.
What is a greater mark of power than making someone disavow something they just experienced?

2025-01-06 06:48:56 UTC

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take out the battery.

2024-11-28 09:04:42 UTC

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if only we had figured out some way to thwart him beforehand.
Alas woe is us. Now we will have to wait for him to be brought low by his hubris.

2024-11-19 02:46:55 UTC

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that's interesting.
Good to know that it is possible for the US to punish private participants in genocide even as they are enabling the government actors implicated in the same actions.

2024-11-19 01:00:25 UTC

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OFAC == Office of Foreign Asset Control
they manage tracking sanctioned entities and put out blacklists of sanctioned entities used by banks and other financial institutions.
This is basically saying that if you got your aid provisioning blessed by OFAC you are in the clear.

2024-11-06 04:06:30 UTC

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all of it.

2024-09-09 17:51:40 UTC

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part of why capitalism does what it does is that it is out of balance, there is no such thing as too much profit; so the overall system concentrates as many resources as possible to the goal of profit at the expense of stability.
And coupled with profit as an imbalance is the ability to deny costs as externalities.
So what mechanisms are needed to bring this system into a homeostatic relationship with itself; where there are no destructive externalities and where profit is not concentrated to damaging levels ?