2025-02-22T18:25:25Z https://nostr.ae Philip Cardella https://nostr.ae/npub12p62rmauznc2pfgvs54n3a6tdv2yahpyv4sld5hhsn5449ntkmkqydgpnr https://media.historians.social/accounts/avatars/109/447/627/368/929/822/original/8b419110d30de920.jpg https://media.historians.social/accounts/avatars/109/447/627/368/929/822/original/8b419110d30de920.jpg https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsgdhejkyt20d2hx0nw9x9jfzaa9ezjwdng7ltx95v56udkxrszcjszypg8fg00hs20pg99pjzjkw8hfd43gnkuy3jkrakj77zwjk5kdwmwcdcuuc3 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs2vl0pwl66e84dtc0lx9dur73q022n3s7t56kjqzl5tk4cgpkp4ncmqhs7s'>nevent1q…hs7s</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Not shown, the four or more cops monitoring us. Two from her office, one from the bank parking lot behind us. Eventually one in the left hand turn lane half a block up from the protest. <br/><br/>Now, this is mostly old ladies, right? About 20 of us. Holding up signs like &#34;protect the poor&#34;. We got FOUR cops monitoring us. <br/><br/>The pro Trump rallies that started this small two years ago then swelled to perhaps 30 to 40 people EVERY Saturday at Tropical Park? I never saw ONE cop. Just saying. 2025-02-13T19:42:28Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs2vl0pwl66e84dtc0lx9dur73q022n3s7t56kjqzl5tk4cgpkp4nczypg8fg00hs20pg99pjzjkw8hfd43gnkuy3jkrakj77zwjk5kdwmwcq9udj8 #Protest today in front of Rep Maria Salazar&#39;s office. US FL 27th Congressional. It was small, but loud. And here&#39;s the deal, this is a particularly red section of Miami Dade County and for every finger, or thumbs down or &#34;You hate America&#34; we got we got at least SIX favorable communications from drivers. <br/><br/>So, at noon, when it was hot, during a work day, about 20 people (some not in photo) showed up to tell our rep to stand up to Trump. <br/><br/>#Miami #Florida<br/> <img src="https://media.historians.social/media_attachments/files/113/998/262/926/216/122/original/29d2ff6652af23bc.jpg"> <br/> <img src="https://media.historians.social/media_attachments/files/113/998/262/926/394/854/original/3b5dbb286399736d.jpg"> <br/> <img src="https://media.historians.social/media_attachments/files/113/998/262/928/843/612/original/fc1eafe45731a02f.jpg"> <br/> 2025-02-13T19:40:01Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsz7ecr6nhqzpyvqygrpd8z9snn78m5flmmjcnl8hxjeqhdtn4lktqzypg8fg00hs20pg99pjzjkw8hfd43gnkuy3jkrakj77zwjk5kdwmwcluqps8 As much chaos, hate and self serving are driving #Trump #Musk and #Project2025 we need to talk more about the institutions they&#39;re targeting hardest.<br/><br/>USAID, NIH and NSF are all basically Cold War devices to stop China and Russia from their imperialistic expansion.<br/><br/>They continue to serve that purpose and the entities that stand to gain the most from their demise are not American billionaires or Evangelicals but Beijing and Moscow. 2025-02-09T14:00:25Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsvekt9drpjsj7uk8fch4pzpdw9duvsnmcd0dcc0sv05y8uqqqu6pczypg8fg00hs20pg99pjzjkw8hfd43gnkuy3jkrakj77zwjk5kdwmwcye2hfw In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs0rf73kcx33smtksjvg89je52tyu2yc7327l3hue25m6lx9x4kqyg8d43ql'>nevent1q…43ql</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1ez8h33rhuagau9w99lcsykhqq6m8ru5fftps7xdjucmkx0etwuvsfjl0zl" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Catherynne M. Valente</span> (<span class="italic">npub1ez8…l0zl</span>)</a></span> &#39;s Space Oepra and Space Oddity are fun. <a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/space-opera-catherynne-m-valente/16610451?ean=9781481497503&amp;next=t&amp;next=t">https://bookshop.org/p/books/space-opera-catherynne-m-valente/16610451?ean=9781481497503&amp;next=t&amp;next=t</a> 2025-02-08T22:00:39Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsrszjrx420fuwehgehy82vz6e2me24a5w6kazraxzjwcy6uxe8ptgzypg8fg00hs20pg99pjzjkw8hfd43gnkuy3jkrakj77zwjk5kdwmwc0yklq0 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqswt742khzekp9txfunjt3cyqnlu40vlmqn5s4fvavsrwttgxhnfpscr8h3k'>nevent1q…8h3k</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>that&#39;s the thing, there&#39;s ALWAYS been far right people in every major public entity from our schools to our state governments to the federal government. <br/><br/>No matter how much power these people wield, no matter if they&#39;re in the minority or the majority of the agency, if they&#39;ve ever been told &#39;No&#39; one time they see themselves as victims of liberals who need to be purged. 2025-02-01T13:17:46Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsrfgsr2kgz3224cymk96rgmwly4m3nl57y4cy2pjkay364m4xckpszypg8fg00hs20pg99pjzjkw8hfd43gnkuy3jkrakj77zwjk5kdwmwc8e9z6s In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs82ugxr7m70wvqh6c2r7aw97dza97pk59w4mqp07q24rm343s5q5c733ue0'>nevent1q…3ue0</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I posted a couple of days ago a white male friend who while in college applied for an internship at NASA. He didn&#39;t get it. He asked them why. They responded they were so glad he reached out. He tied for first place with 11 other people. There were ten spots. But all 11 were of the other people were people of color and many were women.<br/><br/>He told them he understood.<br/><br/>They said keep in touch. He did.<br/><br/>He got a job right out of college. At NASA.<br/><br/>He&#39;s happy as a clam. 2025-01-26T00:50:20Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsycvjjhenu7kfmae29t0q0vnmncm39t0yywwz2vmkn6n50fy07vdqzypg8fg00hs20pg99pjzjkw8hfd43gnkuy3jkrakj77zwjk5kdwmwc6hpu3n In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsfm0a3ak4shmwe5q4d7fk7qt0wjckfgvspfqjljumqte0kv84ns4g6e3c58'>nevent1q…3c58</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I hear you, I feel where you&#39;re coming from but Hitler took a constitutional democracy, used its own constitution to end democracy and usher in fascism in a little under two months. <br/><br/>This isn&#39;t a &#39;well actually.&#39; This is the plan. We&#39;re not there yet. But the Administration hopes we will be. <br/><br/><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/01/hitler-germany-constitution-authoritarianism/681233/">https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/01/hitler-germany-constitution-authoritarianism/681233/</a> 2025-01-25T03:36:53Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqstnehsm2xjz2hnwx5nl7z6p008hjtf2t670chnw3wk9dahnl95xkqzypg8fg00hs20pg99pjzjkw8hfd43gnkuy3jkrakj77zwjk5kdwmwcyfw85s In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsq49fgkk7j7lz47ugr607yv0sdlcmwm704ch844hr22adzlu272xqluggtc'>nevent1q…ggtc</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>it&#39;ll crater the economy and cause a lot of people to lose their jobs and then their houses. Literally.<br/><br/>At which point billionaires and corporations will swoop in to buy the houses (and businesses) for pennies on the dollar exasperating the existing housing crisis further and enriching the billionaires and corporations even more.<br/><br/>It&#39;s not an accident. This is the plan. 2025-01-19T16:00:54Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs89n0f24k258zrvr9qsfjt7q9e5rywuwkcm7ujmmqrmnetk2pmzjczypg8fg00hs20pg99pjzjkw8hfd43gnkuy3jkrakj77zwjk5kdwmwcawuj4v In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsfasuceg095ry2qzmva87n2h2ujprlhtzz5zmjzqz8h8xjx5wtqfsty4wvd'>nevent1q…4wvd</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I don&#39;t know if this is open to everyone but I&#39;d be game to give it a try. 2025-01-14T00:05:24Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs97g53y289dg2v5qz0g6jkxnhq3assvu4wkj6ldv6jyvug6a8rpqgzypg8fg00hs20pg99pjzjkw8hfd43gnkuy3jkrakj77zwjk5kdwmwcere8pk In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsxr92rfzeylcq2elt5hzczw5uj455svqkx6acz4kdsdv2ymjnct2s9c4cs2'>nevent1q…4cs2</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I&#39;m sure I&#39;m an idiot for bothering to point out the obvious but capitalism isn&#39;t the issue. It&#39;s greedy people at the top of a constructed hierarchy.<br/><br/>This hierarchy can and does exist in every previous economic system.<br/><br/>It&#39;s the assholes using a corruptible system but given every other system that&#39;s been tried at scale it&#39;s clear the assholes are the problem more than the system.<br/><br/>If we yeet the system and keep the assholes we&#39;ll be no better off. 2024-12-27T17:23:15Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsgpllf7qt0slsfdakn7gafvqyt49hj93zvj5l4w79w07h4qpxffhszypg8fg00hs20pg99pjzjkw8hfd43gnkuy3jkrakj77zwjk5kdwmwc9d0pjn In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsrtsv0axvgkrapny2hxn3zhwu9z7n2kdemzpgrsguvvmp3xds9mnclvy9vr'>nevent1q…y9vr</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>it is what workers want. It is NOT what the non working class wants.<br/><br/>They want to golf or go out in their yachts and &#39;make&#39; more money while doing so than working class people make and keep in a year. 2024-12-27T16:36:54Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsfnv389m62qx9424h0ll86df7jzsmwedkp20aal0u0kvyyvkrp76szypg8fg00hs20pg99pjzjkw8hfd43gnkuy3jkrakj77zwjk5kdwmwcznyt9x In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsg8ecxra5jweqwmcdk7gfemhgxvhshgpv838qafs8u08daeupn3wguemh74'>nevent1q…mh74</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>multiple...this is clearly a hate crime.<br/><br/>People love to ask me what we&#39;d do without the police.<br/><br/>Live without getting beaten? <br/><br/>Obviously, we&#39;d need something.<br/><br/>I propose human rights enforcement rather than law enforcement. 2024-12-26T15:19:01Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsgq0fz943t974kcckzv8wezyv00fx9wgcjql043nyyaqq6392f2qczypg8fg00hs20pg99pjzjkw8hfd43gnkuy3jkrakj77zwjk5kdwmwcmnanxa Some of you forget #JoeBiden told Anita Hill to sit her ass down, only not that politely, that boys will be boys and we&#39;re confirming Clarence Thomas no matter what rules he&#39;s broken or how he treats women. <br/><br/>And while people change he&#39;s never really apologized to her or to the nation for letting that man get to the bench. <br/><br/>I know you know that. <br/><br/>And that alone disqualifies him from hagiography. <br/><br/>And YES, the Republicans are WAY worse. That&#39;s a very big problem. 2024-12-21T23:53:24Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsglhklv907ccmrh5ck9ym2grc8453vc06vjt44phyrx8dhvvrcufszypg8fg00hs20pg99pjzjkw8hfd43gnkuy3jkrakj77zwjk5kdwmwccxrz3j In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs0z3aaacwaqzkgqgaaljdt4a783pl830cyfrsmvavcq3vk5n4pdksskk3eg'>nevent1q…k3eg</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>And Jeff Bezos has 200 x that. <br/><br/>Jeff Bezos would need to spend $360,000 A DAY for 60 years to spend his hoard in his life. <br/><br/>And he&#39;s worth about 2/3 of what Musk is. <br/><br/>Apparently, Putin is up there too. How about that? 2024-12-12T15:57:49Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs0z3aaacwaqzkgqgaaljdt4a783pl830cyfrsmvavcq3vk5n4pdkszypg8fg00hs20pg99pjzjkw8hfd43gnkuy3jkrakj77zwjk5kdwmwcjfku0t In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsyh0ekw6f5nw4lpvu2phpft2qq2709wq45m6elzsemmvtxh9x3jjc684lln'>nevent1q…4lln</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Or how about this?<br/><br/>I&#39;m going to give you $1,000,000,000 today. <br/><br/>What you don&#39;t spend you can&#39;t keep, baby! <br/><br/>So how much do you have to spend per day to spend it all before you die 60 years from now?<br/><br/>$45,662.10. <br/><br/>A day. You need to spend that every day for 60 years to get to one little old billion dollars. <br/><br/>$1902 an hour. About $32 per minute of EVERY hour. 2024-12-12T15:55:21Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsyh0ekw6f5nw4lpvu2phpft2qq2709wq45m6elzsemmvtxh9x3jjczypg8fg00hs20pg99pjzjkw8hfd43gnkuy3jkrakj77zwjk5kdwmwcgvfhwh Congratulations. You just hit the<br/>Mega millions jackpot and will receive $10,000 a day for the rest of your life. <br/><br/>Isn&#39;t that great? <br/><br/>Is it enough?<br/><br/>Over a year you&#39;ll get $3.65m<br/><br/>If you&#39;re 21 today and you live to 81 you&#39;ll receive $219m. <br/><br/>And if you live 1000 lifetimes at $10,000 A DAY you&#39;ll only be $100,000,000,000 poorer than Elon Musk today (est $364b) 2024-12-12T15:44:05Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsqy6mamt9tywgqzkjzzrw0khshxm77g683rcvad9rwfl5uc6t40yczypg8fg00hs20pg99pjzjkw8hfd43gnkuy3jkrakj77zwjk5kdwmwc8z0xfk In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsthncgd250upuymjy0t94yy7m5vw73nrl7sz5cldmlpefp4kx9p0g7sw3jg'>nevent1q…w3jg</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Maybe that information belongs in the post promoting it. 2024-12-10T00:48:44Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsdzqwdagdr6xwm2kj6ka5ncp28d62fl0m0n3z6t3nncae2hwj4shczypg8fg00hs20pg99pjzjkw8hfd43gnkuy3jkrakj77zwjk5kdwmwcx46f7c In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs8cj7pqpk3qmp6mmnflwn4nrh4d0s07lxrpz4mzyt8n4jjec6s6tca6wp8p'>nevent1q…wp8p</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>and a lot of those voters are also extremely racist and transphobic. How do I know? By looking at Trump&#39;s transphobic, racist and anti immigrant ads. He wouldn&#39;t run them if they didn&#39;t work. <br/><br/>So, this link to me looks like another finger pointing at liberals while carrying Putin&#39;s water white liberal racist horse shit think piece. <br/><br/>But I&#39;ll never know, I guess. 2024-12-09T23:03:19Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs8cj7pqpk3qmp6mmnflwn4nrh4d0s07lxrpz4mzyt8n4jjec6s6tczypg8fg00hs20pg99pjzjkw8hfd43gnkuy3jkrakj77zwjk5kdwmwc2thgfs In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs2zm8znuj6nuav4wn5tzn3gdf5383m747ju9gjm2ntv9hfpk4k23cn9gse5'>nevent1q…gse5</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>here&#39;s why I&#39;m not clicking. Yes, conservative voters who vote against self interest often think liberal elites look down on them and this makes them angry. <br/><br/>That&#39;s a thing.<br/><br/>But conservative elites don&#39;t even try to hide that they look down on them. Sure, the lie to their faces, but they don&#39;t go out of their way when those voters aren&#39;t present to say nice things about them. In fact, Trump talks terrible about his voters. Often. <br/><br/>With no acknowledgement of that I&#39;m not clicking 2024-12-09T23:01:00Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqspdcvwphpjlpcrw5xhm6kdkjpwf0n2tauwrlc85a8thsm8a5kkhmczypg8fg00hs20pg99pjzjkw8hfd43gnkuy3jkrakj77zwjk5kdwmwcvfr9z8 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqszvrafqpqwafy32twn2ud4dxes6qvv8vhl0zpzm7npd7823w8lheq875tlr'>nevent1q…5tlr</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>totally agree. But I do think we need to make sure we recognize the Administration is the threat. Not Trump. It&#39;s the Millers, Bannons, Musks, Gabbards, etc that are the threat, not Trump. <br/><br/>That said, when Trump goes over the flaming bridge to the deepest bowels of McDonalds&#39; underworld they&#39;ll be faceless and weaker.<br/><br/>We&#39;ve got to make sure everyone sees the Millers and Bannons pulling the strings.<br/><br/>Gabbard will be a tougher out because she&#39;s &#34;pretty,&#34; a woman &amp; Putin&#39;s. Maga 🥰 Putin 2024-12-09T16:02:10Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsz74mhlzq0s2fg4ykyjdjyp8s89s8qcjz3t0ttqvt22qfuzmu5vggzypg8fg00hs20pg99pjzjkw8hfd43gnkuy3jkrakj77zwjk5kdwmwchxfh6x In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqszegna6fqwp4yxtqs9ps9tyjzm6lcpwml44c03ls7fjata7gd4zkg795a3m'>nevent1q…5a3m</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>for those paying attention, Spain was run by a dictator with an iron fist from his fascist takeover of Spain during a horrendous bloody civil war through his death in 1975, as a no longer fascist but just run of the mill dictator. <br/><br/>I was born a year later. My wife two years later. <br/><br/>And women and the gay community have more rights in that recent dictatorship than in the United States. 2024-12-07T16:42:48Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs9az4nl600uxudpljvnhyls3l3q7j6pc6xtrcudwlllecgsxv7gkgzypg8fg00hs20pg99pjzjkw8hfd43gnkuy3jkrakj77zwjk5kdwmwc4fsaxc In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsfwc5p72y78la44mp8w98mcmzc7h9p9z4txwzv09frqurzzspyfagfqdy8y'>nevent1q…dy8y</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I&#39;m not going to celebrate his murder on the street for many reasons, almost none of them have to do with him. <br/><br/>The biggest thing is murder is bad, whomever does it (including him), and murder tends to beget murder, as he apparently found out.<br/><br/>On the other hand I&#39;m not going to shed a solitary tear and if people want to be happy he entered the &#34;found out&#34; phase that&#39;s none of my business.<br/><br/>I do kinda hope his next of kin get a big ass bill for medical treatment his insurance declined. 2024-12-04T21:37:00Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs08lakzhadsy3u4cnqycztlp0amkvsjlwglaz4408r0593608pahqzypg8fg00hs20pg99pjzjkw8hfd43gnkuy3jkrakj77zwjk5kdwmwcx8zym6 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsdfhsxyhhrqdej75ftsz5pz0et9hzw5qf44dqnkdwx6d8exr2wxwc9psgl0'>nevent1q…sgl0</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>make no mistake, folks, the Le Pen family aren&#39;t just right wingers. <br/><br/>They are descended from Nazi fascists. <br/><br/>Like, the real authentic Nazi folks from World War II. <br/><br/>And what&#39;s probably driving Le Pen right now? The upcoming verdict in her corruption trial. 2024-12-02T16:41:11Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsf8wdfk5dedgcwhdw0z0nhgs4692yg2k3s2k5mwc9s20a9zkhe3vqzypg8fg00hs20pg99pjzjkw8hfd43gnkuy3jkrakj77zwjk5kdwmwc4fhej9 I&#39;m just going to say it. <br/><br/>#Mastodon has a racism problem and we need to do something about it. <br/><br/>I&#39;m not going to #BlueSky no matter how much better the experience is for anyone right now because Bluesky is a honeypot trap run by crypto nuts who are notoriously white supremacist as a whole. <br/><br/>I&#39;m not going to #Threads or any #Meta product for similar reasons. <br/><br/>I&#39;m not going down the #Xitter<br/><br/>This is it. This is my last social media spot and I&#39;m getting tired. 2024-12-02T10:47:25Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqstf4xxsay82ep7h8zeerw5msz4ysh9qaexteakd3jl8u3ptp99n6qzypg8fg00hs20pg99pjzjkw8hfd43gnkuy3jkrakj77zwjk5kdwmwcds5qh2 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsqe8f2e6u0gya5wehdtznm0k2ffuvseu6xcswz4pxp70m5785e7jsdgpuvq'>nevent1q…puvq</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>it rose as one after Stalin. It can again. <br/><br/>Russia has a plutocrat infestation running an oligarchy. <br/><br/>In other words, Russia is suffering from a virus born cancer called billionaires and their post democracy tool, fascism. <br/><br/>Billionaires are an existential threat to all life on Earth and should be treated as such. 2024-11-30T12:44:00Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs8l0830wxr9e3vp4vze3pgnrx2wt4h69zy5yl0m6926ewgf3xt6jczypg8fg00hs20pg99pjzjkw8hfd43gnkuy3jkrakj77zwjk5kdwmwcza6y9x Today is #SmallBusinessSaturday or as I like to think of it, the first day in the rest of a life of #SmallBusiness love and support. <br/><br/>I love #books. No surprise to people who follow me. <br/><br/>I support small businesses when I buy books. <br/><br/>For used books I go to <a href="https://www.biblio.com/">https://www.biblio.com/</a> the owner used to be an employee at <a href="https://www.malaprops.com/">https://www.malaprops.com/</a> one place I buy new books (my SIL owns it) along with <a href="https://www.booksandbooks.com/">https://www.booksandbooks.com/</a><br/><br/>Want to find an independent bookstore near you? <a href="https://www.indiebound.org/">https://www.indiebound.org/</a> 2024-11-30T12:40:31Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs83c0epqqcrc6nzaa0lklwts3emvw2tuv06ksdamg2da9yw8s6dugzypg8fg00hs20pg99pjzjkw8hfd43gnkuy3jkrakj77zwjk5kdwmwcu9q8lg In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqstlf0yq0nqscudvza4l30m6vu6tz6yk3uut7h3skp8wnac28lrk2s9y5zkv'>nevent1q…5zkv</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>who bought Garland? Obama appointed him to SCOTUS because Obama was certain even McConnell would approve of him. <br/><br/>Obama was wrong. <br/><br/>But Obama&#39;s thinking was &#34;if I appoint a conservative we can live with so they get confirmed then that&#39;ll be better than anybody a Republican nominated&#34;. <br/><br/>Obama was right about this. <br/><br/>But it didn&#39;t work. <br/><br/>Point is, Garland is, was and ever will be a Republican and a conservative in the Reagan mold. 2024-11-29T14:07:03Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqspx9ad9dfz9ptysxjzqakl4zjyqew07rqplcmxax0wneg5qqpa38szypg8fg00hs20pg99pjzjkw8hfd43gnkuy3jkrakj77zwjk5kdwmwcr034sg Hey #mutals I talk to. I&#39;m thankful for you. Seriously. #mastodon 2024-11-28T17:56:40Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs9wdn7vhp5sdgdvrmt5mh8sreatxscv0mx8exf0zhgr35tna23yhqzypg8fg00hs20pg99pjzjkw8hfd43gnkuy3jkrakj77zwjk5kdwmwcvjcn7k In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsfwny2maadjvl88929jmre3yywwzkz0pdd88krjj9mpyas990kfvqck46cg'>nevent1q…46cg</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I get that. And that&#39;s valid. <br/><br/>I&#39;d personally ask them. I&#39;m not saying what you should do. I have no idea. But for me asking because:<br/><br/>1) it&#39;d eat at me until I knew <br/>2) (more important) if I was an American on your team I&#39;d have voted against fascism and be utterly terrified and need a friend<br/><br/>But, again. That&#39;s me. There&#39;s no easy or obvious paths for people any more. <br/><br/>Me? I&#39;m terrified. 2024-11-26T12:53:41Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsz5z8l5g5ahrqjrw70dpqp7mjdd6ysl2e4dcgq7ytscj8emmqeqsczypg8fg00hs20pg99pjzjkw8hfd43gnkuy3jkrakj77zwjk5kdwmwczj656e In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs8xg5gx8sd65k27u00u8wpkm02rw3ux4je7ghfxwhmz4udvhlz5tgksdh8r'>nevent1q…dh8r</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>it shouldn&#39;t be that way but obviously it is. It&#39;s simply vile that the horrors of racism continue to chew away at our species&#39; very existence. 2024-11-25T16:56:52Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsdzvlswvj8qj5e39pfcryrgawrl07vajc7w68ygfrtyme9pe0lkzqzypg8fg00hs20pg99pjzjkw8hfd43gnkuy3jkrakj77zwjk5kdwmwcwpwzt3 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs2e6hx3v639kxra3mfsapz9nr4tej996g28ac9wpl3ya7uvny9vwqd0tpsq'>nevent1q…tpsq</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>terrifying 2024-11-25T16:47:44Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsr8dq4a5k8sxju43fxg0mplr37pgvsj8yu43y7z2uyj5vxhauhteqzypg8fg00hs20pg99pjzjkw8hfd43gnkuy3jkrakj77zwjk5kdwmwchfntpw In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsy7wa8v6hqr2290jpy03k8ae0tdskyuyz09lmp25afdrpms2xuhmqnsddt0'>nevent1q…ddt0</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>are they describing the proposed cuts or billionaires in this quote? 2024-11-23T10:23:47Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsd2yy07pl3j3vp7qc9673pggjn7mqpdal9vrsh8d3jgp4wkkd36rszypg8fg00hs20pg99pjzjkw8hfd43gnkuy3jkrakj77zwjk5kdwmwcmr6y6t In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs08fax3l5xes588xymukaqavfvnhfdfj75xehq7zlqjnj9zeffu8sp7k8mx'>nevent1q…k8mx</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Musk and Bezos (I know Bezos isn&#39;t part of doge) are trying to eliminate the right to unionize. <br/><br/>The last Americans to get the right to unionize were Federal employees, police, firefighters and teachers because previously they were deemed too important to allow to go on strike and they needed to follow orders anyway. <br/><br/>The union is going to need to be ready for the fight of its very existence. 2024-11-23T10:23:12Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsfwq4vkawx547un63cqtngdxswmha4e0nuputqsrsfq4g9nfn7kwczypg8fg00hs20pg99pjzjkw8hfd43gnkuy3jkrakj77zwjk5kdwmwcnjftf7 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqst35nw7pcd3psrn4p8rp2d3y5y0qadzny7puz0mzf2rz9555na9jssuh86p'>nevent1q…h86p</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>the crazy thing is, these recalls are likely going to become rare or non existent while the limited oversight the FDA does will be more needed than ever. <br/><br/>😓 2024-11-21T14:48:50Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsra88vk0vxxnfyfsnyz03cngwyvkma6arkjv7ez2wjm90x63745gqzypg8fg00hs20pg99pjzjkw8hfd43gnkuy3jkrakj77zwjk5kdwmwcjsu4c0 Hey folks, I&#39;ve opened up a pixelfed photography account at <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1wc7vtu94q4xlrrhvg7jl5mshs73swau2g7856ekg7fw9knfwv7useyvnxz" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Philip Cardella</span> (<span class="italic">npub1wc7…vnxz</span>)</a></span> please check it out!<br/><br/>Not that I know how it works. Anyway, there should be 10 pictures of #birds on it. But I can&#39;t see it from here.<br/><br/>#photography #noob 2024-11-20T23:11:22Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsgwstxwvh48hw7vnd3hvecysmsdteauudruq6ya48nrhesrd6vkvczypg8fg00hs20pg99pjzjkw8hfd43gnkuy3jkrakj77zwjk5kdwmwc0sdeu0 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs229vf74ens7cyh94j9sc69eux4y8pzlzclu8jcta4vn7prnnwexgz8ludm'>nevent1q…ludm</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>When we point and scream &#34;don&#39;t obey in advance&#34; at this group or another that is doing fascism we close off the possibility that the person or group WANTS fascism and its benefits. <br/><br/>At any given time 10-20% of citizens in a liberal democracy WANT FASCISM. That&#39;s 1 out of 5 people at Target, your school, your work, your place of worship. Obviously, the number varies by location, but seriously. <br/><br/>Don&#39;t #obeyinadvance but don&#39;t forget #somepeoplewantfascism<br/><video controls width="100%" class="max-h-[90vh] bg-neutral-300 dark:bg-zinc-700"><source src="https://media.historians.social/media_attachments/files/113/515/151/552/888/987/original/435d2ec35740e26c.mp4"></video><br/> 2024-11-20T11:56:24Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs229vf74ens7cyh94j9sc69eux4y8pzlzclu8jcta4vn7prnnwexgzypg8fg00hs20pg99pjzjkw8hfd43gnkuy3jkrakj77zwjk5kdwmwc7xdvfn Timothy #Snyder has made some important contributions to the study of illiberalism and interwar #fascism. I&#39;ve read two of his books and while they weren&#39;t awful, I&#39;d recommend neither.<br/><br/>Why? He gets locked into his own ideas so much he doesn&#39;t take an honest look at any evidence that doesn&#39;t support his big idea. Not the worst sin, I promise, but, honestly, not great for quality research.<br/><br/>Take his #obeyindavance thing for example. There&#39;s a MASSIVE hole in the middle of it. 2024-11-20T11:52:56Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsd7kxhflrrgk3gkeru22t5x6eyapullz33zr8y4dfedrjrcf8r7aszypg8fg00hs20pg99pjzjkw8hfd43gnkuy3jkrakj77zwjk5kdwmwcdys9hg I&#39;m going to go out on a limb and piss some people off. <br/><br/>A) white supremacy won this election. White supremacy includes patriarchy and misogyny. White supremacy is the common ground with Russia, Hungary and MAGA. Without it the Dems win in a landslide. <br/><br/>B) disinformation also won this election. Without blatant attempts to game the system through immoral lies the Democrats still win.<br/><br/>C) voter suppression and outright lawbreaking won the election--those 200,000 votes in three states? There. 2024-11-18T23:07:06Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqszkcgtse73gerx9jndvt4ec9vlxtkl0jtc0p7mfdgf9d9drwsezyqzypg8fg00hs20pg99pjzjkw8hfd43gnkuy3jkrakj77zwjk5kdwmwcdhmwr3 Ok folks, what are the best #instances on here? What instances are active and have good moderators? <br/><br/>Where do I send new recruits from the normies and low techs?<br/><br/>#mastodon 2024-11-18T12:21:01Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsx9lzqpsy5nuxqskl8s8s8j0c4xk7eaj2fpjfy36eq8tdcxfkv3vgzypg8fg00hs20pg99pjzjkw8hfd43gnkuy3jkrakj77zwjk5kdwmwctndq4g In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs0czguvu3agspe2gx599larqthzfl3zkezvehs9m6p5m6uhxv90hg49jx8z'>nevent1q…jx8z</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I&#39;m a no time Republican voter (even down ballot, every election since 1994) and I do believe in prophecies and I&#39;m certain Trump is the anti Christ. <br/><br/>Or the asteroid of the sixth mass extinction. Whatever. 2024-11-14T01:46:02Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsp83ph3e4cejcc9hs7d5fckj5sh8rgl062zmvzmetttkjg8eq83ugzypg8fg00hs20pg99pjzjkw8hfd43gnkuy3jkrakj77zwjk5kdwmwcqp2wr6 Ok, so I&#39;ve loved #Firefox since it was in Beta testing but it&#39;s decided it needs to sell its soul to AI loving VCs. Yuck.<br/><br/>I like #Vivaldi for the most part but the #chromium base makes me suspicious. <br/><br/>A lot of websites recommend #Brave but--I mean, WTAF? It&#39;s a crypto scam run by a TERF. JFC.<br/><br/>What are folks using? 2024-11-11T17:45:44Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsgw7p293dehzmrqsjz0xzfjthty855zrshp2rhyh074vwlh85qtwgzypg8fg00hs20pg99pjzjkw8hfd43gnkuy3jkrakj77zwjk5kdwmwc2dfvrr In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsqsxyxx2r7xzna24zjdd9tdj779dde7hqatc0syexp625rtxdpkngkv794v'>nevent1q…794v</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>oh. He&#39;s one of those. <br/><br/>The track record of primary attempts on incumbent presidents is a disaster. It doesn&#39;t happen often, but it has happened in 1968 (sort of, LBJ stepped out first, result: Nixon), in 1980 (Ted Kennedy, result Reagan) and essentially 2024 (result, Trump). <br/><br/>Americans don&#39;t understand their own political system. At all. Presidential campaigns are insanely hard, expensive, complex and usually take YEARS to plan a successful one. 2024-11-11T01:02:06Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsqxydqrrc8nc2u4gqzveup8fp7a8320vd73dmavttem8wt0x76gmqzypg8fg00hs20pg99pjzjkw8hfd43gnkuy3jkrakj77zwjk5kdwmwc8s53qp In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsv8zukf69l6pvx208068jz3c4hkfrx40et3ree2nrgxs2lccsggvc3yksmt'>nevent1q…ksmt</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>right? What&#39;s his goal? Sucking up to Republicans? Or is he just mad they lost and lashing out? <br/><br/>I mean, I&#39;ve never heard of him before so he&#39;s got that going for now. <br/><br/>I guess. <br/><br/>I mean, I&#39;d have to exit out of this post and look again at what his name is. 2024-11-11T00:48:29Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsr7h48lttzp6cp3hug9tvtu5nafd2dx4qux3vvjgxjkwjs50cxf6qzypg8fg00hs20pg99pjzjkw8hfd43gnkuy3jkrakj77zwjk5kdwmwc85ej6z In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsxpxnxsht5evm8mal9wtlzmuv9yrksrfgc2dhqxxxk99udu9udadcx5mcz9'>nevent1q…mcz9</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>paprika! So many deviled eggs don&#39;t have paprika and I just don&#39;t get it. <br/><br/>Do yours also have dill? I love dill in a deviled egg. 2024-11-10T20:18:09Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs8q58ad6t78svsgrq0tkkrpxa7x2wd3326ahknn3mfk49zqrgtk4qzypg8fg00hs20pg99pjzjkw8hfd43gnkuy3jkrakj77zwjk5kdwmwcxfr5uw In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs069hmvpmnazarhua5yuu64vhpv2e9n8y39fgzygjpv8a0vupf4dqz3e6yf'>nevent1q…e6yf</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I have a *slightly* less pessimistic perspective (and there&#39;s nothing wrong with being pessimistic!). I&#39;d say the main stream media as the Fourth Estate is dead. <br/><br/>They&#39;re corporations anyway. <br/><br/>Time to rebuild the Fourth Estate with independent journalism outfits like <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1qmg7r9rlrufykzudrhrza5fkcaq64w6xdzqh4uqtpxf80mxhx4gqvqs6k5" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>ProPublica</span> (<span class="italic">npub1qmg…s6k5</span>)</a></span> [@motherjones](<a href="https://instinctd.com/users/motherjones">https://instinctd.com/users/motherjones</a> ) <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1xf8m9rch7tvjjv3wlj9x6q95rnhlavh3e8fjxga6lx5prnqgc77q2k0uw6" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Texas Observer</span> (<span class="italic">npub1xf8…0uw6</span>)</a></span> and even <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub10tx6prmxnf0zux2e0k4v9nedxgxaprp4ld4uru8909f46pmn6rfq3c6fzv" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Aaron Rupar</span> (<span class="italic">npub10tx…6fzv</span>)</a></span>&#39;s Public Notice and <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub13nk0yna3rc4ue6yd727wme8nzj52069lej69aj575v388zu0f8xshpzpuw" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Tim Mak</span> (<span class="italic">npub13nk…zpuw</span>)</a></span>&#39;s team. 2024-11-10T15:15:24Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs9z3x5j2xv29dzw5hx6etsc5q5d0gtfzc3x7cm3cg6lrqxr4u4ptqzypg8fg00hs20pg99pjzjkw8hfd43gnkuy3jkrakj77zwjk5kdwmwcdlkqsw In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsdxss24pv0asj9de4acrlr2ep48r3keky4dsdp7fcflnryrc3vr2cr8v5p0'>nevent1q…v5p0</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>by the way, France beating back Le Pen DID in fact give me hope for the US. The fact that anyone even knows who she is is terrifying and should be embarrassing to France. But, look, we&#39;re on the same side here. I am not trying to insult anybody. <br/><br/>Maybe later today. LOL 2024-11-09T12:10:47Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs230vdwgynwpf7e2xy9urcf8ww445gt78pmc2yn7dczcmw384vnaszypg8fg00hs20pg99pjzjkw8hfd43gnkuy3jkrakj77zwjk5kdwmwc3t22tu In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsd3wsu0aqlukgu402u5frax79karetng5h7wz2j38xexve0vvss8qd3xgtu'>nevent1q…xgtu</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>There was no insult so whatever. 2024-11-09T11:59:12Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsqze2nvdgcs4wna9hz5uwgtc4xtkzkunesswxeajmxx3e897p9acqzypg8fg00hs20pg99pjzjkw8hfd43gnkuy3jkrakj77zwjk5kdwmwcp43ywl In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqspj9zmjpek9zk8k9da2tq2yu7fh5tr2lsftg4mjyn0ktv0w4uw6xsfj27vj'>nevent1q…27vj</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Yes. It&#39;d take hours I don&#39;t have today. Just read up on Europe in general. France is an obvious example of flirtation with an outright fascist in Le Pen (no, not him, her). The Netherlands is basically gone full righty. Brexit was an example of right-wing propaganda that led to a corporatist reign in the UK. <br/><br/>So, yes. And that&#39;s off the tip of my head in one post. Please don&#39;t act offended. There was no insult. Only facts. 2024-11-09T11:58:48Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqst4pjfsp87t80f6xq3qw77yyl6zh83kq6fwea979r8yjcqjlpzxfczypg8fg00hs20pg99pjzjkw8hfd43gnkuy3jkrakj77zwjk5kdwmwc5hg9n6 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsruf50jxkrw759gnmlgmn38gx4xcdzm7dwpyxmwn0kqk5t2fjun3s54q405'>nevent1q…q405</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>fair 2024-11-09T11:56:34Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqswst6zyypyw6rn53gwqnrekt63vg664xkgzjp4jglrww2n9lf2nzszypg8fg00hs20pg99pjzjkw8hfd43gnkuy3jkrakj77zwjk5kdwmwcv0d9lz In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsrrr3ya4d4h022gsljpuzt75z2wxxt56slnzth9qh705vdtpfl7gsfh4cj8'>nevent1q…4cj8</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>most of you in Europe failed the authoritarian right wing test already with Brexit being the most notable thing to English speakers but there&#39;s prime examples in many if not most countries in Europe right now, so I guess it&#39;s easy to understand why you don&#39;t get it. 2024-11-09T11:54:04Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqspsj24n8jnrv8ljhyeek8zelp2e8uu7hhwhrssylwac56yd6uradqzypg8fg00hs20pg99pjzjkw8hfd43gnkuy3jkrakj77zwjk5kdwmwcp3e76q In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsp0a806xd0v7z35xtjsxsqgxkd43u2td5avd27d902zcepx74szxgaghzq7'>nevent1q…hzq7</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>there&#39;s a difficult reality we need to accept. <br/><br/>Millions of Americans want fascism. <br/><br/>Millions of others are fine with a benign dictatorship, if such a thing exists. <br/><br/>Millions of Americans made decisions based on faulty information, Russian lies and outright Republican lies. <br/><br/>The major media companies were complicit in this. <br/><br/>Billionaires either want fascism or don&#39;t mind it and enabled this. <br/><br/>These are the deciding ones. But there&#39;s one more. 2024-11-08T11:18:42Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsp0a806xd0v7z35xtjsxsqgxkd43u2td5avd27d902zcepx74szxgzypg8fg00hs20pg99pjzjkw8hfd43gnkuy3jkrakj77zwjk5kdwmwcv9ue7a In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsf2gcp87n59z2hhuxmv5fn8u2lf3l74w6fa76awk2edd40mfh0xqgxfqpml'>nevent1q…qpml</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>if this chart is accurate voter turnout was at it&#39;s second highest level in my life (I was born in 1976), second only to literally the easiest presidential election to vote in in American history (due to COVID increasing mail in access). <br/><br/>True, millions didn&#39;t vote and their vote could have turned the tide. But it was a huge turnout compared to the norm.<br/> <img src="https://media.historians.social/media_attachments/files/113/447/019/303/414/682/original/d2cd23cf3f47472b.png"> <br/> 2024-11-08T11:11:46Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs2a7sdukcgfquevp0x89nczq67xgy36360q4vjh4me473wpqzs8fszypg8fg00hs20pg99pjzjkw8hfd43gnkuy3jkrakj77zwjk5kdwmwcesp84z In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs8q4pr8ev35q9tpcvuscua3vqenmgaknkfhpe7yxfly55jcr08hcq5ffluq'>nevent1q…fluq</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I just bought a copy from an Indy bookstore. 2024-11-06T13:37:48Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsg3dxvxh5dw5zate7adgq4cazp83htzz99v7c08u6vup4njz93auczypg8fg00hs20pg99pjzjkw8hfd43gnkuy3jkrakj77zwjk5kdwmwcd4t89s Folks. It&#39;s time to get serious about security. <br/><br/>Nothing digital is foolproof. <br/><br/>But I&#39;m going to require my family and friends to use #Signal to text me and maybe even call me. <br/><br/>Probably going to require something like #ProtonMail for emails. <br/><br/>And even then I&#39;m going to be careful. <br/><br/>Remember, your phone and mic&#39;d Internet connected devices are ALWAYS listening. Is it presently being used to see if you&#39;re breaking some law? Probably not. Can they be used that way next spring? Probably yes. 2024-11-06T13:29:12Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs97uv03vf8eqq76hlcem8vqctupzry9yd4hw5ey2gxgcuakvd9fkczypg8fg00hs20pg99pjzjkw8hfd43gnkuy3jkrakj77zwjk5kdwmwca3hjs5 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs02z0zg0dzpgdu98t0ecusqewdarautwam82cl6jw2psx393kut0qfduta4'>nevent1q…uta4</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>yeah. This is underplayed here. <br/><br/>The Soviet Union was, arguably, defeated by a technology advance the US and allies developed and the Soviets chose to ignore: personal computers and eventually the Internet (post Soviet before it went mainstream).<br/><br/>Putin only has one skill: psychological warfare. That&#39;s what he was trained to do. <br/><br/>He knows the PC and Internet finished off the USSR and he&#39;s been trying for over a decade to use that technology and his one skill against us. <br/><br/>It worked. 2024-11-06T13:06:35Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqszr6u6sxw8ly6vtssunfr7d57jrmpxp8cseshdy5xdwutrh4l7kmczypg8fg00hs20pg99pjzjkw8hfd43gnkuy3jkrakj77zwjk5kdwmwcr5v4yx I don&#39;t buy that there&#39;s basically anyone paying attention who is undecided about who to vote for. Sure, there&#39;s statistical outliers but really not a large group.<br/><br/>The group I do think is out there is the &#34;I don&#39;t like either party&#34; lot who is &#34;voting&#34; by staying home. Martin Niemöller wrote a famous poem you&#39;ve probably read or heard. <br/><br/>I want you to understand it&#39;s for you, person thinking about staying home. He wrote &#34;First they came for&#34; about YOU. 1/2<br/><br/>#USPol #Politics #Election2024 2024-11-04T12:13:32Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsqlg8udx8qw4fl2lsrrz6f3hvcq8rre5qg2pder9aeyp8klzs9tvqzypg8fg00hs20pg99pjzjkw8hfd43gnkuy3jkrakj77zwjk5kdwmwc3w9025 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqst6fvnnqvym8zd3cy25gpg4tsthfe8clsf3lt2x4jwaqgen57nhvsg8qlpr'>nevent1q…qlpr</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>and if you&#39;re trying to say there are elements of genocide in the US you&#39;ve come to the right place because you&#39;re damn right there is. <br/><br/>Note how my timeline is almost constantly about the illiberal fascist realities in American policing, which I have repeatedly called for abolishing. 2024-11-03T14:13:32Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqst6fvnnqvym8zd3cy25gpg4tsthfe8clsf3lt2x4jwaqgen57nhvszypg8fg00hs20pg99pjzjkw8hfd43gnkuy3jkrakj77zwjk5kdwmwcksvsc6 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs26f96npjpmwtythvp7c9t8vse64jfejmdchxepdjryx7yn8hcqjse2hpa0'>nevent1q…hpa0</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>funny how I explicitly mentioned Sudan, then, isn&#39;t. Look at my timeline, I&#39;m also pretty upset about the genocide against the Uyghers in China, a genocide we are absolutely enabling through normalized trade relations with China. <br/><br/>Interesting? It&#39;s the legal definition and if you want to debate the merits of it, that&#39;s fine, but I don&#39;t see how other definitions are legally relevant. <br/><br/>Also, as for me, I explicitly said, &#34;Netanyahu,&#34; not Israel. 2024-11-03T14:12:08Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs0na79ycvhhugr7apr3dy5wleu4v5sjr55t9hr72s9kyxm6rud20czypg8fg00hs20pg99pjzjkw8hfd43gnkuy3jkrakj77zwjk5kdwmwcqwz92n In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsxvpr7xuu0jurrnthrfx7x3uur4dlxzj4wt3qwtrrkaylvjlmgdxs6xa0vx'>nevent1q…a0vx</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I don&#39;t know why you tagged me but I don&#39;t have a personal definition of genocide. <br/><br/>The UN, however, does have one and that&#39;s the one I use. <br/><br/><a href="https://www.un.org/en/genocide-prevention/definition">https://www.un.org/en/genocide-prevention/definition</a> 2024-11-03T14:06:36Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsxsju3ltv9lg0efagpw306wp7l6q253p0qwfl9n5rvc42k402mctszypg8fg00hs20pg99pjzjkw8hfd43gnkuy3jkrakj77zwjk5kdwmwcxrpw5s In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsy5ne0sqym4m8t6nl477lcwrk8dfzrg8k3y0xmtf5ppqsyn05l5ngk5ygcm'>nevent1q…ygcm</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>and I hope people do feel deeply about it! What Netanyahu is doing is an abomination. I beg people to be mad about that and mad that we&#39;re collectively for the most part ignoring what&#39;s going on in Sudan.<br/><br/>And Palestine should be its own nation!<br/><br/>But Trump would make it so much worse. I just can&#39;t understand why this is a difficult calculation. 2024-11-03T13:55:37Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsxu57qf05y8m488spt35gyd7fcl5pw6zj0xkasmfv8n06qdg4pz5gzypg8fg00hs20pg99pjzjkw8hfd43gnkuy3jkrakj77zwjk5kdwmwcfrvkl3 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs0w97dfxmr8pfm5zweq5njfsalweuc5fxqct3gv7fmh54c0zhzepsaghrt9'>nevent1q…hrt9</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>right? <br/><br/>If a prominent citizen is accused or charged with a crime they should be treated exactly the same way as some high schooler with a bong. Or is the criminal justice system different depending on who people decide you are? (Obviously, it is). <br/><br/>And for offices subject to impeachment we should normalize impeachment trials and removal as appropriate. FFS impeachment and removal is literally just getting fired with maximum due process. <br/><br/>Rule of law and Justice for all. 2024-11-02T13:04:38Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsr2s85wuy5hpgxjf5a7m4ykake2lvp53y9wx83400zcl4l5xjna9czypg8fg00hs20pg99pjzjkw8hfd43gnkuy3jkrakj77zwjk5kdwmwcp5fgg0 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsg5y0z7ant77rmkl4um0qfcg6efdgxsnqj6ruwm008crxvz5f8apcwdeayp'>nevent1q…eayp</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Yeah, I had some bro yell at me that this sort of shenanigans wasn&#39;t possible and I didn&#39;t understand the Constitution. <br/><br/>But I figured up until Jan 3 there&#39;s no telling what will happen. <br/><br/>The goal is surely to get this to SCOTUS and let them pick the President.<br/><br/>Which is LITERALLY what happened in 2000. It is absolutely with precedent and more of the current SCOTUS members helped with that than just the ones sitting in 2000. 2024-10-30T16:55:06Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsfn0ghdaa4y4pn5mvmquzdcq0nfufumm5zqntv5ne7pw93mt73nwgzypg8fg00hs20pg99pjzjkw8hfd43gnkuy3jkrakj77zwjk5kdwmwc967qry In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsx050f8qzaqljrlwj6lawv9a7p27evmm7xkr5lpwne7laxt40ufvcw8ume0'>nevent1q…ume0</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>agreed. They&#39;ll find some way to delay certification and try to force the Democrats to ask the Supreme Court to intervene. <br/><br/>If Johnson has the gavel this is a likely attempt, though it&#39;ll be hard to pull off. <br/><br/>If he doesn&#39;t I&#39;m guessing he&#39;ll try to delay seating the House on January 3 or at least refuse to to seat enough Dems to create chaos. 2024-10-28T21:29:57Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsq2e4m57jzlqqx3htjd759h3dpnhjpgfeh9g0jwp5ajgc8gcek42gzypg8fg00hs20pg99pjzjkw8hfd43gnkuy3jkrakj77zwjk5kdwmwc68vehr In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsrk0x93u3eyethl594dg7qj5ytm66q9sw323djnkqwlwe3888w7jsvqngg5'>nevent1q…ngg5</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>not even close--it&#39;s only about 5%. But if it wasn&#39;t important to them they&#39;d eliminate the division. <br/><br/>Also, they want to get back to &#34;traditional&#34; values or whatever. <br/><br/>Anyway, I just think it&#39;s interesting. <br/><br/>200,000 is an astonishing number. The reality is I was looking to see what major dailies don&#39;t even have 200,000 subscribers to lose over any medium but I could only find print circulation on a quick look. 2024-10-28T21:17:13Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsrcu0rus9gy5zneadcywm0npku772ec7gyamh2maz9ckpt0gzpszgzypg8fg00hs20pg99pjzjkw8hfd43gnkuy3jkrakj77zwjk5kdwmwchj0pr4 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqszvvptshd7yptgjlh7p3su0m4paq24s4dvzekdz3hu0r4rgucp75g6cdpsg'>nevent1q…dpsg</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>and they have a *print* circulation of 127,700 <a href="https://www.statista.com/statistics/272790/circulation-of-the-biggest-daily-newspapers-in-the-us/">https://www.statista.com/statistics/272790/circulation-of-the-biggest-daily-newspapers-in-the-us/</a><br/><br/>Print isn&#39;t by any means total subscribers but still. <br/><br/>This is enormous. <br/><br/>I&#39;ll admit I was glad he &#34;saved&#34; the paper a decade ago but now? I&#39;d rather it ceased operations than go fascist. 2024-10-28T21:07:49Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsxwqd2zr49rjk5txh7203yrx27r3h6kzc9s0ezwrs2qzg0a7rma8gzypg8fg00hs20pg99pjzjkw8hfd43gnkuy3jkrakj77zwjk5kdwmwcjwekkz In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsw5ewd6nujv9jh2nns87tekf944fjwce4d9j4f0hj2hrf5d8r4udqjvczr7'>nevent1q…czr7</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>somebody wants one of those editor openings at the Washington Post. Good grief. 2024-10-28T02:18:37Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsvfd7swdzxz6gaqz64c0mcm5v6e643pfc9r3r8ac5jd4z5353afhczypg8fg00hs20pg99pjzjkw8hfd43gnkuy3jkrakj77zwjk5kdwmwcqyy7hw In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsgk3cjkv0qmt9gk9dd2yv57pl7hjgvs5axna8m9wcyzzs897xu8acaupln7'>nevent1q…pln7</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>or something like <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1qmg7r9rlrufykzudrhrza5fkcaq64w6xdzqh4uqtpxf80mxhx4gqvqs6k5" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>ProPublica</span> (<span class="italic">npub1qmg…s6k5</span>)</a></span> or <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1fr780wtgm8pfvrhz0wt7ugcz2wfax6xpem6a6fjk54t3q2rrdulsy6dssu" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Mother Jones :press:</span> (<span class="italic">npub1fr7…dssu</span>)</a></span> <br/><br/>I am not in Texas but I like giving to <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1xf8m9rch7tvjjv3wlj9x6q95rnhlavh3e8fjxga6lx5prnqgc77q2k0uw6" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Texas Observer</span> (<span class="italic">npub1xf8…0uw6</span>)</a></span> <br/><br/>And I like supporting independent reporters like <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub10tx6prmxnf0zux2e0k4v9nedxgxaprp4ld4uru8909f46pmn6rfq3c6fzv" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Aaron Rupar</span> (<span class="italic">npub10tx…6fzv</span>)</a></span> and <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub13nk0yna3rc4ue6yd727wme8nzj52069lej69aj575v388zu0f8xshpzpuw" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Tim Mak</span> (<span class="italic">npub13nk…zpuw</span>)</a></span> 2024-10-27T02:19:02Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsrkwlm3e9zmctxd5xptmxn6kzdffxmqtcasgln3w4pmmea2vx9r8czypg8fg00hs20pg99pjzjkw8hfd43gnkuy3jkrakj77zwjk5kdwmwcx50wm8 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsvy70ra3acscka6skaxlnm0dw4y3le7c7qcv3clqpjvs0kpfnwdrgqhe37k'>nevent1q…e37k</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>some of the best journalists I follow left msm, started their own thing and are doing alright. <br/><br/>This &#34;too big to fail mentality&#34; is in and of itself illiberal. 2024-10-27T01:50:38Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsg9n56weqkdzeguz9raah0khn8w34f54z3dyzd04eyh9c440627hczypg8fg00hs20pg99pjzjkw8hfd43gnkuy3jkrakj77zwjk5kdwmwczn5za0 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqspxxjlmswlnvcpw987tt9gw3skw5h4ys7fsk780y2nkqwguklk89sqertr3'>nevent1q…rtr3</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>something else indeed. Lol. 2024-10-26T13:17:51Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsdv8qaz4ym5vt80y0dp4ryg3tsasw2alyhxu7u0cjxhc53u8wmdlczypg8fg00hs20pg99pjzjkw8hfd43gnkuy3jkrakj77zwjk5kdwmwcjtgwah In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsvlhcqfulcc3sk332a9x8mu2fknm0fz8ufx9wkslhz9gyvrfer6lcus4v8h'>nevent1q…4v8h</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>What does Trump micro manage beyond his McDonald&#39;s order? <br/><br/>When did he tell MAGA Karen the name of the person she must marry? <br/><br/>It&#39;s just not a cult. It&#39;s cultlike and it&#39;s a cult of personality, which is different, but neither of those things add the crucial thing about MAGA--the violence. 2024-10-23T01:01:04Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsvlhcqfulcc3sk332a9x8mu2fknm0fz8ufx9wkslhz9gyvrfer6lczypg8fg00hs20pg99pjzjkw8hfd43gnkuy3jkrakj77zwjk5kdwmwc92zlzz In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsg5vcrwq3nx78xu0slq0hl6wsz68kw64ag32uehemtgz3xh57tr5gwd5k4h'>nevent1q…5k4h</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Oh but Philip, &#34;call them a collective of hierarchy-obsessed illiberals who prefer violence over politics and willfully submit their individuality for the larger group in subservience to Dear Leader,&#34; just means cult.<br/><br/>SOME of it applies. But when did it become that cult MUST be violent? That&#39;s a pretty BFD. And what about the cult tendency to micro manage lives? I mean, granted, that&#39;s a little deeper than &#34;any group I don&#39;t like,&#34; but isn&#39;t it what people mean when they say &#34;it&#39;s a cult?&#34; 2024-10-23T00:59:20Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsg5vcrwq3nx78xu0slq0hl6wsz68kw64ag32uehemtgz3xh57tr5gzypg8fg00hs20pg99pjzjkw8hfd43gnkuy3jkrakj77zwjk5kdwmwcpd2w00 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsynduf2dpgqa2p90yqvhnxk3mevdpcqyrse8c2rxzwpj8h5vs93pc5ksxtm'>nevent1q…sxtm</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Or did y&#39;all forget about the KHive you were mad about when you didn&#39;t vote for her in 2020?<br/><br/>(I don&#39;t need KHivers telling me they&#39;ve always liked her, I see you, you&#39;re good).<br/><br/>MAGA is fascist. If you don&#39;t like the term because SOME people use it to mean &#34;any group I don&#39;t like,&#34; fine, call them a collective of hierarchy-obsessed illiberals who prefer violence over politics and willfully submit their individuality for the larger group in subservience to Dear Leader. I think fascist is easier. 2024-10-23T00:53:33Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsynduf2dpgqa2p90yqvhnxk3mevdpcqyrse8c2rxzwpj8h5vs93pczypg8fg00hs20pg99pjzjkw8hfd43gnkuy3jkrakj77zwjk5kdwmwcjhz488 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsq6quv2k2aqnjxv2gp8a7x4pqf8dp68nk08jjwh2a8l6al49qx5hsxd9av4'>nevent1q…9av4</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>If people on here want to use the word cult, whatever. I don&#39;t really care. It&#39;s the media using it as if the word has some significance that bugs the hell out of me. I mean, MAGA Cult but basically any popular definition of cult is a redundant statement. <br/><br/>And if the MAGA people can turn and say, well, by this standard Harris fans are a cult too *and they&#39;re right* the term is worse than meaningless, it&#39;s actually misleading. 2024-10-23T00:50:38Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsq6quv2k2aqnjxv2gp8a7x4pqf8dp68nk08jjwh2a8l6al49qx5hszypg8fg00hs20pg99pjzjkw8hfd43gnkuy3jkrakj77zwjk5kdwmwcgn45yp In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsdhl30837wwacrpmyy2czghdh73u5dmgs4h4kznmy8tmzj0ayjwpgx3yg80'>nevent1q…yg80</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I mean, &#34;Cult. An organized group of people, religious or not, with whom you disagree. [Hugh Rawson, &#34;Wicked Words,&#34; 1993]&#34; <a href="https://www.etymonline.com/word/cult">https://www.etymonline.com/word/cult</a><br/><br/>Exactly. So, Yankees fans! A cult. Lakers fans! A cult. Google users! A cult. People who think parking backward is safer! A cult. Seafood lovers! A cult. People who like Aaron Rodgers! A, wait, that&#39;s a myth not a cult. 2024-10-23T00:48:03Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsdhl30837wwacrpmyy2czghdh73u5dmgs4h4kznmy8tmzj0ayjwpgzypg8fg00hs20pg99pjzjkw8hfd43gnkuy3jkrakj77zwjk5kdwmwcafa3nx We need to talk about how #Marvel misused the term #Endgame and now everybody thinks they know what it means but in actuality have no clue what it means. <br/><br/>Le sigh. <br/><br/>I understand word meanings evolve. And at least in the case of &#34;endgame&#34; it still has meaning with its new definition, unlike, say, &#34;cult,&#34; which presently means &#34;group of people I don&#39;t like and want to talk shit about without sounding like I&#39;m just talking shit&#34; instead of anything remotely useful. 2024-10-23T00:44:20Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsyj79vt5lgfr5mmgaz0q50xpg8ffr8c5jqdwxksh8qnhk5q8q36pgzypg8fg00hs20pg99pjzjkw8hfd43gnkuy3jkrakj77zwjk5kdwmwc0u970e In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsqjjsr67cqzz6yeyahvmpzy2290nlr6hrp8jyaz97mzdv43kdum5gspm4s2'>nevent1q…m4s2</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I mean, I grew up with Mr. Rogers and given how you phrased that, I&#39;d wager you did too. <br/><br/>It&#39;ll never cease to amaze me that Fox called Roger an &#34;evil evil man,&#34; because he told kids they were special. <br/><br/>WTAF??? 2024-10-22T14:50:12Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqstrsfx2wka5xzj5h7qupf8ul0tzyuzdmx4pmsum4xj2pyk9ntvhtgzypg8fg00hs20pg99pjzjkw8hfd43gnkuy3jkrakj77zwjk5kdwmwcmfcnyr In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsdqwal35rczae78c8y78nkc2nj94t0e3wejnz30x8kuadqds6kencf3ec0h'>nevent1q…ec0h</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I&#39;ll admit I was taken in by Gladwell for a while. I&#39;m humiliated to admit it. <br/><br/>Brooks, at least, I don&#39;t remember having a kind thought about. He&#39;s the sort of gu I read and was/am like, why aren&#39;t I making six digits writing? <br/><br/>Oh, because I have integrity. Brooks&#39; game is based on not having any. 2024-10-22T14:43:54Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsz7gy0verh2x5nl8g8hgkxuhw46us592ykxmcztgzr4hh9ugyx92szypg8fg00hs20pg99pjzjkw8hfd43gnkuy3jkrakj77zwjk5kdwmwcgwjp8h #silentsunday<br/> <img src="https://media.historians.social/media_attachments/files/113/341/579/969/749/447/original/88bf2aea954662fa.jpg"> <br/> 2024-10-20T20:14:53Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsyfqeg98ye0n5qgt999xs0mscfs5pacxtkpyf64clgyzs76fm8engzypg8fg00hs20pg99pjzjkw8hfd43gnkuy3jkrakj77zwjk5kdwmwczjy5ce In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsqxjgcesvxmyqp8cu7gzgesm8krz28ryuqfk6ngprcxe46ygayg8qay35kx'>nevent1q…35kx</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>this is what fascists want. A terrified population. And no one thinks &#34;leftists&#34; are a threat for violence. The fascist threat of violence has forced a heavy police state like presence, and that&#39;s the goal. They want to depress Democratic turn out. 2024-10-20T17:17:31Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs26gvczn6qkf5jeuytac20dc4lps0lrkxa5t88s43a3k3gs6dye8gzypg8fg00hs20pg99pjzjkw8hfd43gnkuy3jkrakj77zwjk5kdwmwch6649w Ok. I refuse to accept it&#39;s part of a grand strategy of ten dimensional chess, but the reality is, pretty much everybody seems to be talking about what Donald #Trump was doing in the shower at golf tournaments and not what #Harris and #Walz are doing on the campaign trail. <br/><br/>She had taken the media narrative back by going into the the heart of the beast #Fox #FNC and now we&#39;re talking about a penis. <br/><br/>Literally. <br/><br/>I&#39;m guilty of it too.<br/><br/>I say it&#39;s time to move on and back to #her 2024-10-20T14:48:00Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsduq7vq6kedxw4lw9l6k4qq4hywt23ff6mfj0g5hs26syg4ua7duqzypg8fg00hs20pg99pjzjkw8hfd43gnkuy3jkrakj77zwjk5kdwmwc95pk00 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsdkk3yrn407np8f0khem9wqqdeadcfsculcyn9v2ywrl6y6s72h7sj2zhp7'>nevent1q…zhp7</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>beautiful! 2024-10-16T23:02:42Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsxedg0zszza8gpqg9rk5cy9nldql9ckng34r5r6t4xn3g0ugqlzvczypg8fg00hs20pg99pjzjkw8hfd43gnkuy3jkrakj77zwjk5kdwmwcsgqs6r In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsqhs0fym7hg40jw3l7xl39t4eex2lxelwk7amjqfnd3alugsfr6ac62ecaj'>nevent1q…ecaj</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>true. <br/><br/>Climate change denial or dismissal should be automatically disqualifying. Period. 2024-10-12T14:04:25Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs09mf6ggl7k862zge7j30n2ggy46kvau8qecck2vvw32me7phmz7qzypg8fg00hs20pg99pjzjkw8hfd43gnkuy3jkrakj77zwjk5kdwmwcn75fxs In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs8lpqk5rda4wstlw0039zxrvrcsuwlddmj3597dy8ve08amrx0ymc9hyjfp'>nevent1q…yjfp</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>as I recall Orwell didn&#39;t explain how Big Brother came into the home. Bradbury on the other hand basically predicted today--people welcomed that shit into their homes so they could be entertained with flat wall TVs and &#34;seashells&#34; pumping entertainment into their ears. 2024-10-12T12:53:46Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs8lpqk5rda4wstlw0039zxrvrcsuwlddmj3597dy8ve08amrx0ymczypg8fg00hs20pg99pjzjkw8hfd43gnkuy3jkrakj77zwjk5kdwmwc2zedkh In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsfsdmdv4ltrvmmgcltdvfqvxfqf6lvfdxduryc2u0jnanm6c4g2jcyks5dj'>nevent1q…s5dj</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>right? But the streaming is more than controlling rents, of course. It&#39;s also about spying on customers. <br/><br/>Even if you go around that scam you&#39;ve got TVs, including the highest end LGs, that are monitoring your *screen* so even if you plugged in a VCR it could analyze what you&#39;re watching. Try finding a non &#34;smart&#34; TV anymore. They exist but are rare. <br/><br/>And BluRay players usually want Internet access too -- to report usage. <br/><br/>We&#39;re inviting Big Brother in. 2024-10-12T12:52:03Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsrtua9tjsswykl8vl3d6jc3s8tqzaa95tmxa63rvtdqs7fctl4x8czypg8fg00hs20pg99pjzjkw8hfd43gnkuy3jkrakj77zwjk5kdwmwct2lm7x In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsx3fry77pzn24r3ckdftlk2tqzsks9s7rc0whunhfme6fpxd3gywgqy5fpk'>nevent1q…5fpk</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>there&#39;s someone on here that does a great job of explaining this. <br/><br/>Modern corpratists are trying to move everyone from buying things to *renting* things. People think this is capitalism. It&#39;s actually not capitalism--it&#39;s feudalism. <br/><br/>Capitalism is based on owning, selling and trading capital where everyone theoretically can own at least some capital. <br/><br/>Feudalism is where only a few can own things and they rent it, controlling the prices, the capital and revenue. 2024-10-12T12:34:17Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsvvrylr66th5ltsk5rc4mal22s3aj8e3s63z6tck9hw9j49tch8egzypg8fg00hs20pg99pjzjkw8hfd43gnkuy3jkrakj77zwjk5kdwmwcz98zqs In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsvlet5fzz0nenx878w9t4ges9msfsfvdfavpf2t7mvaxhmrtaec8qrzuyjj'>nevent1q…uyjj</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>totally. And I think, unlike President Obama, who I believe went in optimistic he could work with Republicans (and Biden who went in convinced he could) she&#39;ll have no illusion they&#39;re willing to work with her. <br/><br/>That doesn&#39;t mean she can&#39;t work with them to get some things done, it just means I believe she&#39;ll go in expecting them all to be hostile at all times. 2024-10-11T13:36:24Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs0r7vqs40hwyv4wmwc4sy8ealugn6rr3mk0p7tkqmtza908hgds2szypg8fg00hs20pg99pjzjkw8hfd43gnkuy3jkrakj77zwjk5kdwmwc7qnrug In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs0d0dth0eflgerjqn358gw58ere8hf70g2qettgnttfwekm07309q2x2vz2'>nevent1q…2vz2</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I&#39;ve been told that constitutionally in Florida it&#39;s easier to extend the actual election than move this deadline. <br/><br/>That isn&#39;t to defend anything. DeSantis is an anti freedom tyrant who cheats constantly and a direct personal threat to my family and our livelihood. <br/><br/>I&#39;m just saying I&#39;ve heard people who should know suggest this thing is particularly hard to move. <br/><br/>I can&#39;t remember if he extended registration deadline in 2022 or not though ... 2024-10-09T21:20:31Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsx72sz6m2t3ez9wcxamce6a5y50lyry0ks5ps04s7ylv7shx7zu5czypg8fg00hs20pg99pjzjkw8hfd43gnkuy3jkrakj77zwjk5kdwmwctas9ny In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqspy0s34nydwnalwyjateyxhk8xv4h0ek9p43ylkf7ykuac78eq0mqep3890'>nevent1q…3890</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>It&#39;s the whole framework for &#34;Gangs of New York.&#34; The movie is literally about gangs of firefighters killing each other when they should be putting out fires! 2024-10-07T17:34:35Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqstsvfwv47s56f3pv2jdy3yqulxx5h9qqjp89nnc7yzfy0p27xud3szypg8fg00hs20pg99pjzjkw8hfd43gnkuy3jkrakj77zwjk5kdwmwc459ykf In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsf5ws2xgzmqmajv9ddl3ar0yfw6ezxagau6r7xaw0da4g7wddkttg27taz8'>nevent1q…taz8</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>there&#39;s a TON of stuff I&#39;d move over to the public sector. It used to be fire departments were private companies that competed--VERY BAD IDEA. Internet access should be public. <br/><br/>Want to build an unlicensed power facility to suck up water for your AI? Please step into this rocket headed for the sun. Bye. I kid about the last. But, I mean, that should be ten years in the clink with all of your communication monitored. 2024-10-07T17:19:53Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsznjzph972r0dze9ck9eld02ezkwcjusvy7cvlfqnhcezm39tffxqzypg8fg00hs20pg99pjzjkw8hfd43gnkuy3jkrakj77zwjk5kdwmwcqljjl5 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs0xv299gf0s2aan0zap5hrksj24mapdgejwl0y8prpctm2v0ynhlsx0ppz6'>nevent1q…ppz6</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I was unfamiliar with this model but I think it makes lots of sense. Thanks for bringing it up!<br/><br/><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doughnut_(economic_model)">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doughnut_(economic_model)</a> 2024-10-07T12:32:55Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsdc2eap2dyrc8y6vx3y44f0nwe8v6v7wv4cwqrfpdccg2euxu89aqzypg8fg00hs20pg99pjzjkw8hfd43gnkuy3jkrakj77zwjk5kdwmwc9ed25c In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs0weqq42gy8h8ppl83rc29vua97t787gmf7jvl4d0cvqf44naucpgaxyxsy'>nevent1q…yxsy</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I mean, let&#39;s say all of the Fortune 500 signs a document saying they agree they have no right to make a profit. <br/><br/>They&#39;ll giggle while doing so and then hide behind the *law* saying they&#39;re *required to make a profit*. <br/><br/>&#34;They don&#39;t have a right to make a profit&#34; is a moral position from which we can act on the legal statutes that must be changed if our moral position is going to have any weight. 2024-10-07T11:44:21Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs0weqq42gy8h8ppl83rc29vua97t787gmf7jvl4d0cvqf44naucpgzypg8fg00hs20pg99pjzjkw8hfd43gnkuy3jkrakj77zwjk5kdwmwcqnashq In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsvz3d9r4neesdhe9ckmzzy6x9w67qsy6lxr7sfyylqxwus7qhdg3su0rytn'>nevent1q…rytn</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>ok. We agree they don&#39;t have a right to a profit. <br/><br/>I&#39;m saying they have a legal requirement to make one. A corrupt and horrible requirement, but a requirement nevertheless. <br/><br/>And a vague one at that that allows corporations to argue they&#39;re not really driven by it. <br/><br/>If we&#39;re going to tackle this we absolutely need the public to agree corporations have no right to a profit but at that point the present hurdle of *their legal requirement to make a profit* presents itself. 2024-10-07T11:41:36Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsxvtwhnma26l6vuvgd83h6s6k83su0lshv3g45n5qsspy2hjlercszypg8fg00hs20pg99pjzjkw8hfd43gnkuy3jkrakj77zwjk5kdwmwc2mgcf4 #Florida #SoFLa today is your last day to register to vote. <br/><br/>Check your registration status before deciding you don&#39;t need to register to vote! Check your status at the link below. <br/><br/>I know you&#39;re busy worrying and preparing for #Milton while so many of you are still cleaning up from #helene <br/><br/>I&#39;m in #Miami. I am too. Please take two minutes to check your registration or to register. Our Republican governor removed ALL references to climate change. We must stop the GOP.<br/><br/><a href="https://registration.elections.myflorida.com/checkvoterstatus">https://registration.elections.myflorida.com/checkvoterstatus</a> 2024-10-07T11:35:36Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsr6t9q3k3am4r899hq3arm647xde8k79s8n3k0h8tfve0hqk0xphgzypg8fg00hs20pg99pjzjkw8hfd43gnkuy3jkrakj77zwjk5kdwmwchuazda In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsqn6dtey909j9kp4dkvf7pma0qqjkry9w4n90lfqwk228v2qcjl9ck5mcll'>nevent1q…mcll</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>every system of economics and indeed society breaks down without fair and sensible regulation of some form. <br/><br/>There&#39;s just too much potential greed in every person and collectively in any large group of people to be otherwise. <br/><br/>While our ultimate enemies are corporations and their greed the battle must include the US Congress, Courts and Executive Branch because companies don&#39;t have a right to a profit they have a legal mandate to it and that&#39;s literally killing us. 2024-10-07T11:28:28Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsqn6dtey909j9kp4dkvf7pma0qqjkry9w4n90lfqwk228v2qcjl9czypg8fg00hs20pg99pjzjkw8hfd43gnkuy3jkrakj77zwjk5kdwmwc8jtfkp In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsrjaqsjwe8u2zq77qf94v0y09nlnnu7kp84r2nf3r0ud4fdzunnpcqnjpnr'>nevent1q…jpnr</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Al Franken said: “[In the US] it is literally malfeasance for a corporation not to do everything it legally can to maximize its profits.” and, while this is somewhat debated, at least some legal experts agree. <br/><br/>It&#39;s not that they have a right to a profit, it&#39;s that there&#39;s a legal mandate to maximize profits. &#34;Maximize profits, or else,&#34; as the link below says. <br/><br/>This should NOT be the law. But we need to recognize the USG is facilitating this.<br/><br/><a href="https://www.litigationandtrial.com/2010/09/articles/series/special-comment/ebay-v-newmark-al-franken-was-right-corporations-are-legally-required-to-maximize-profits/">https://www.litigationandtrial.com/2010/09/articles/series/special-comment/ebay-v-newmark-al-franken-was-right-corporations-are-legally-required-to-maximize-profits/</a> 2024-10-07T11:25:52Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs9trpza5ght9xr7pmm67phpean2twqaslqrdmn8kkfwh7sz8yjq9czypg8fg00hs20pg99pjzjkw8hfd43gnkuy3jkrakj77zwjk5kdwmwc5wmsur In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsyry3dm5e20hun8vaj2vlj3cgmk68khuma4sld2sgg6knmv58dlhq9zhuqm'>nevent1q…huqm</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>dear world. There&#39;s no such thing as a tech genius. <br/><br/>They simply don&#39;t exist. <br/><br/>The second one these so called geniuses picks up a mic to tell you about his vision you need to understand you&#39;re gonna be sold snake oil. <br/><br/>There are many talented tech people. Thousands if not millions. <br/><br/>But stop buying the Great Man Con. It&#39;s old. It&#39;s tired. It&#39;s dangerous. 2024-10-06T22:50:30Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsq70pyarykdvqsfkgsmxq9hgua5yy2zmlhqsl7gzgt83rc20r5clqzypg8fg00hs20pg99pjzjkw8hfd43gnkuy3jkrakj77zwjk5kdwmwcwgdz7w In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsyvyzj5altw4d3t8dnpj07qr3nugkmdj4aghx8l0ltvp48hmvuedceafkp7'>nevent1q…fkp7</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I genuinely agree with you and have thought similar for years. <br/><br/>I think it was the soccer team in Thailand that got stock in a cavern and Musk tried to mansplain to a literal professional caver why this cocaine fueled submarine he mocked up on a napkin was the best solution for saving the kids and the expert told him to hush and he accused the expert of being a pedophile in response when I realized Musk was a total and complete fraud. 2024-10-05T23:26:56Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs9rutjqkymygtyk765w7ng62k3d9wrukzcaah5z5n0na2mfm5ju3gzypg8fg00hs20pg99pjzjkw8hfd43gnkuy3jkrakj77zwjk5kdwmwcgzjzsv In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsv2e0hw3ynvf4n3jcx4rqn0pejrqz7qnswrltz235u068epqqegyqxzkuzy'>nevent1q…kuzy</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>many of these athletes genuinely are. I don&#39;t know if Kareem was like that to the public but I really value his political writing now. <br/><br/>I&#39;ve been to some events at a masjid (mosque) that had it&#39;s air-conditionwr (in Miami!) donated by Mohammed Ali--people there and elsewhere say he was very approachable. <br/><br/>I love the stories of these folks being real. 2024-10-04T22:41:03Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs2lyqhkg2nkuh2463k2zzygumv59gtwnpwqdtyppmjapuclmn670qzypg8fg00hs20pg99pjzjkw8hfd43gnkuy3jkrakj77zwjk5kdwmwck7ufq5 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs8xa3n6xjaulmzlcnpufnt2wpz30s6pgx9j6srvg6cu2d8x58ukhqmj3vpv'>nevent1q…3vpv</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Biden had their back despite their leader being MAGA. <br/><br/>I&#39;ve got issues with Biden but union busting isn&#39;t one of them. <br/><br/>The most pro union president in history! <br/><br/>Yay for the union! 2024-10-03T23:16:50Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs0n4yewvsjeunfpde3gh8mur9shj2rhex5svez20wlgtq92yk93eqzypg8fg00hs20pg99pjzjkw8hfd43gnkuy3jkrakj77zwjk5kdwmwc2t23fu In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsxwy5csj7t9vcnp5arhy3sajy9f9fga3cht0l3g9n6hcmsj59yt2qlkpv5t'>nevent1q…pv5t</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>🧐 &#34;a woman&#39;s massager&#34; 2024-10-02T20:03:35Z