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sometimes i wonder how many versions of myself i’ve outgrown without even noticing. i look back at old photos and remember the thoughts i used to carry, the dreams i thought would save me. it’s strange how you can live inside yourself every day and still not realize you’re evolving. it’s only when you look back that you realize how far you’ve come, how many lives you’ve already lived in the same skin.
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The next president has to do two things: 1) right the wrongs of Trump and go after those who broke the law and were corrupt. 2). Then spend time divesting power from the presidency and building real guardrails and passing laws like, “the president is not immune” etc.
Oh and get the money out of politics
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Sometimes I fantasize about disappearing.
Not dying.
Just logging off.
Getting a job no one cares about.
Growing tomatoes.
Writing poems in the margins of a notebook no one reads.
Not as a failure.
But as a kind of freedom.
AMAZING! A 90 year old Holocaust survivor confronted Trump's ICE director.
What a legend.
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i think the hardest part about healing is realizing there’s no finish line. no big dramatic moment where everything feels suddenly better. it’s slower than that. it’s quieter. it’s choosing not to text them back. it’s making your bed on a heavy day. it’s being kind to yourself when your mind is cruel. healing is a thousand tiny victories no one else sees.
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We live in a time that people are more inclined to obey an unlawful executive order than they are to follow a court order 🤦🏾♀️.
Dictators are created due to cruelty, cowardice, & compliance! IF THEIR ASSES will ignore the Supreme Court, we can definitely IGNORE HIM!
Interesting piece. I subscribe to Utobian, so I am familiar with his style and approach to ideas. There are a few historically doubtful assertions here, about the civil war and WWll. The civil war ended slavery but that wasn’t the root cause of the union war effort, it was more broadly economic which is consistent with Toby’s accurate identification of the contradictions of capitalism which he refers to here as liberalism. Marx was the most astute observer of these contradictions, of course.
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I appreciate the gentle approach taken by you in critiquing this minefield of red flags. I was about to respond to it a great deal less gently when I read your diplomatically stated comment, which in these divisive times is probably the most constructive approach, certainly as evidenced by Dr Malone's "like". "Quibbles notwithstanding", indeed; and "reductionism that contains the seeds of yet another tyranny" is beautifully stated and points to the difficulties encountered in generating a coherent philosophy. Coherence is a heavy constraint on degrees of freedom, in physics and in human culture, as reflected in your last sentence and in Larry's reply to you here, though I think he missed your call for "more than a coherent philosophy". Not quite sure where Erl was going with his reply, but I admire his brave bio profile.
Charles, great points, and I agree on the red flags. The most important mechanism missing in the article is sound money. If we had sound money, while adhering to the other mechanisms mentioned in the article, we wouldn’t be where we are today, and we certainly couldn’t have communism. Great points.
Thanks for your comment, I appreciate it.
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Here’s what Trump team has to do with these deportations:
Flood the system
Don’t give media enough time to latch onto 1 illegal and romanticize their situation
Move fast and deport many others in a public fashion
Keep them disoriented and unable to focus on 1 more than a day
Just like media couldn’t keep up with the flurry of his executive orders, do the same with deportations
People will get information overload and stop caring as much
We’ll call it “mass deportations”
Zelensky will never willingly end this war because 1 of 2 things are guaranteed to happen:
1. He’ll be “suicided” - dead men tell no tales
Or
2. He’ll call off martial law, lose the next election, and be imprisoned for money laundering by his opponent
Zelensky must be forced to create peace and Trump is doing this