Nothing quite illustrates the desperate need for proper civics education than a man with a policy platform of โstopping imaginary transgender immigrants eating your catsโ being neck and neck to be US president.
These billionaires are funding malign influence campaigns that support Putin, Xi, and #PrinceBonesaw
Including coups, political violence & riots.
Including stochastic terrorism
Including voter suppression, election interference, & a judiciary to overturn elections
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@Npars01 I take issue only with the word "permanently". I reckon the instant they got the Treasonous Orange Fuckgibbon 'elected', they'd declare him mentally incompetent and put their own patsy in place using the bits of your constitution that's useful to them.
@Npars01 With Citizens United justice John Roberts & his accomplices paved the way for political prostitution, corruption & money laundering of new shocking dimensions in political businesses, tailormade for purchasable figures like Trump.
@Npars01 Those oligarchs are *some people*, not ***the people***.
They know very well, that for big money Trump's anytime for sale, whatever their wishes may be, disregarding right & wrong.
Those few people shouldn't be able to override the will of the people & the Constitution's implications, regulations & intended order, holding that the sovereign of all governmental power is the people, not a couple of super-rich egomaniacal wannabe-aristocrats longing to be free from the "burden" of commonly accepted laws, rules, norms & values (not valuables).
My mobile gameplay channel (Tekkan Plays): @TekkanPlays It's crazy how good phone games look these days. I mean, who would have thought we'd be playing game...
Now smartphones are mature products weโre into the annual โthis is an incremental upgrade over last year. Iโm so mad replacing my 2 thousand quid perfectly functional phone with one thatโs almost the same for another 2 thousand quidโ cycle.
My brother in Christ; have you considered just โฆ not?
Iโm upgrading this year. My phone is 3 years old and the camera stuff is worth it for me. My step daughter is getting my old one, which she is thrilled with.
@christineburns i was thinking of getting a new iphone this year, as it would be replacing an iphone 11 (five years old). I still might, but unless i decide i'm going to really try to make use of that camera... it's just a nice-to-have, not compelling.
possibly thinking of a watch 10, as that would be upgrading from... no watch at all. but then i remember i've never even liked wearing watches. you forget that while the keynote's playingโฆ ๐
@Colman I totally agree! No harm in investing to get the best tool to work for you long-term. The reference to two-year cycles was from the original post: people who buy the ยฃ2k phone and then complain that they "need" to buy a new one after two years
My iPhone 12 from a relative going strong and works just fine. I could get a new one but I donโt care that much. Looking to get the battery replaced (Apple will do this for you and keep / reseal it) which wonโt cost too much and will keep it going for many years to come. Iโll probably upgrade in a few years when itโs actually slowing down
are you actually going to spend ยฃ2000 on a new phone? I'm a bit chary of upgrading my 2 year old ยฃ400 Android phone as camera wise the newer versions have gone from 3 to 2 lenses and probably added even more AI trickery to the imaging. They have also added a more powerful processor which simply means the battery would be dead more quickly: this one is fast enough for my needs and currently runs for up to 5 days. And it has both phone socket and SD drawer. And phones have now become phablets - they no longer fit it anyone's pockets or handbags so people end up hanging them round their necks. As it is my previous, now 7 year old, phone, which I keep in a drawer, does still work but the OS no longer gets updates and it wont 'see' 5G towers.
@christineburns itโs incremental but to me thatโs a good thing. Phones are good now, weโre making small improvements (like over the past year or four theyโve gradually gotten way more shatter resistant), they last long. You upgrade every 3-5 years and you get the sum of all the incremental changes. Much better than the days of FOMO when you skipped a year.
i've previously upgraded because the battery became too weak to hold a charge; although getting five years daily usage out of a somewhat fragile device is pretty decent in my books.
I did concider upgrading before hardware failure forced my hand in order to obtain a better camera until I remembered I have a compac camera that's still better than phone cameras which I have since bought a new battery for and use instead.
OK, so I basically have undiagnosed ADHD, and my life is organised to accommodate that, so I have no real interest in a diagnosis.
But I found myself wondering about this weird hypocritical thing that a lot of neurotypical people do, and that's regarding conversations. Neurotypical people will talk over each other constantly and interrupt, and so if you, as a neurodiverse person, have something useful to contribute, you too have to interrupt because if you wait for a gap, it will never come.
But while they allow interruptions from each other, they don't allow them from us. They'll stop for each other, bit for us they'll keep going too, until we shut up.
So I tried searching online for insight about why this happens, and I kept finding articles written by neurotypical people that were all along the lines of, "Hey ADHD people, here's how to stop interrupting us!"
And my response was, "you absolute, totally self-unaware, fucking hypocrites!"
And then I finally found something that explained it.
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OK, so I basically have undiagnosed ADHD, and my life is organised to accommodate that, so I have no real interest in a diagnosis.
But I found myself wondering about this weird hypocritical thing that a lot of neurotypical people do, and that's regarding conversations. Neurotypical people will talk over each other constantly and interrupt, and so if you, as a neurodiverse person, have something useful to contribute, you too have to interrupt because if you wait for a gap, it will never come.
But while they allow interruptions from each other, they don't allow them from us. They'll stop for each other, bit for us they'll keep going too, until we shut up.
So I tried searching online for insight about why this happens, and I kept finding articles written by neurotypical people that were all along the lines of, "Hey ADHD people, here's how to stop interrupting us!"
And my response was, "you absolute, totally self-unaware, fucking hypocrites!"
And then I finally found something that explained it.
When neurodiverse people talk to each other, we generally have two goals:
Information exchange
Mutual enjoyment
Turns out that when neuro "typical" people talk to each other, information exchange is usually not actually that important, and they're doing something that we basically don't in these situations: they're setting and reinforcing social status.
We, of course, simply do not play this game, largely because IT'S COMPLETELY FUCKING STUPID AND PATHETIC, which means we are automatically awarded a "game" score of zero, and therefore do not get to speak.
And if we try to speak, we are "interrupting" and "being rude", even if we supply information which is relevant to the alleged topic, and even if we're literally the most qualified person in the room on it.
This explains why we can have conversations with other neurodiverse people just fine. We aren't playing the stupid rutting game.
I am honestly shocked by this revelation. Like, it's barely one step removed from picking ticks off of each other and eating them. I'm also massively fucking depressed, because this utter obsession that the neurotypical world seems to have with comparative status is a massive reason why we can't have nice things. They treat the world like it's pie, and they have to have a bigger piece than everyone else, even if that means their piece is far smaller than if they'd just cooperated to bake a bigger pie, and share it fairly.
Anyway, bit of a revelation to me. Shit one, but there we are.
The whole ranking thing is in some sense illogical - if I have a nice meal, why should it bother me that someone else have the same but with champagne?
I still think it makes sense from the perspective of evolution: People don't look for an 'adequate' partner, they look for the best/strongest/richest one available. I think that explains a lot of the dominance assertion, it's simply a way of shouting 'Pick me!'
As another suspected ADHDer I found this fascinating. I know I like to chat for connection too, sharing mutual experiences, demonstrating where we relate, like a dance of shared personal info that makes you feel closer to each other. Which again doesn't fit in with your NT examples. Also *hugs* and I have spent some happy times in your company listening to you.
Additional info: I have an "Update contact" job in the worker queue that has been stuck for 6 days. The contact is: hexbear.net/u/Florn
As I've noticed previously, this is a contact with an animated GIF as an avatar. Every time this happened, blocking the contact, and deleting the job from the worker queue, fixes the problem.
Recently, Google announced a security issue in Google Chrome, titled "Heap buffer overflow in WebP in Google Chrome." Initially, it seemed like just another bug in the popular web browser.
@FeralRobots I doubt it. The common factor is apparently genuine accounts with animated avatars, and it's now happened several times. I think the Friendica worker has some sort of size limit for avatars, and when one exceeds it, it's not failing gracefully, but instead bunging up the system.
PSA, guys, yes, your animated GIF avatars are lovely. Also, the Fediverse consists of thousands of servers, many of which are self hosted. Consider whether your avatar which goes on for megabyte upon megabyte is maybe a little bit antisocial?
So my suspicion was right: it's animated GIF avatars which are causing this. However, rather than fail gracefully, I'm left with a zombie worker job which seems to persist forever.
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Have taken the plunge and changed the physical SIM on my iPhone 13 To an eSIM. I was previously dual SIMming with one physical and one eSIM, but now Iโm dual eSIM and the SIM tray is empty.
@SoโCalled Vaughn Oh, thatโs a hydrocolloid bandage. There was an unfortunate percussive issue and I lost some skin. There may have been screaming.
!Friendica Support Hey all. Just upgraded to 2024.08 and the list of forums/groups from the column in the left has disappeared. Is there an easy way to get this back?
Just travelled with โTransaviaโ, which I found out afterwards is basically KLM/Air France (which is an airline I try to avoid) trying to do a Ryanair impression, and getting pretty much nothing right.
Welcome to this French marina. Thank you for paying us silly money to let your boat stay here for a bit while doing your hobby that will get terminally online people calling you a plutocrat who deserves to be killed by a giant murder dolphin over. Hereโs what your money gets you.
they were always so terrible. I remember going to French marina bogs in the 80s with my dad that were literally just holes in the ground with a pervasive toilet/cigar smoke smell that still haunts me! On the plus side, how lovely to be in a French marina for all the other reasons, however much they are fleecing you ๐
The press seems to have switched from โTrumpโs brand of irreverent fascism is so sexy, we love itโ to โTrump is a pathetic loser, and we can smell his fearโ.
It's like many in the press required the DNC to call Trump out on his BS before they would do it. Guess it always has been about the papers sold, the headlines that got clicks, the ad spots sold, the controversy generated more than anything else for them. Especially since our news is controlled by fewer and fewer companies and not journalists.
ultimately they want to be seen to back the winner and give the impression they were why the winner won. We see this in the UK media when the Murdoch press switch to backing labour when itโs obvious theyโre going to win anyway so they can say โit was the Sun wot won itโ. Leadership as the art of spotting which way everyone is running and getting out in front.
I do some TV work on the side and deep refection is not exactly something we excel at. Most stuff is rather shallow. But I get to play with neat gear and get into really cool places.
The story is whatever fascinates the media, who then become the story and feed the cycle.
It's great that the Harris team has managed to give them a new narrative to be fascinated by. This "happy warrior" story is working to feed the endless loop.
This is the first time the media's fascination with Trump's hold on what used to be considered normal people (which then amplifies the effect) hasn't been the focus of attention since 2019.
We do this to English words with the German past-tense prefix ge-. Today have I already gebreaded (German grammar optional). For bagotten it sounds more like an irregular one using be-, like benutzt.
@Chris Packham @Rebeca To fit is. I think itโs actually two: one irregular - to fit (inside something) and to fit (a person for clothes) which is regular.
Apropos of a conversation on Reddit, the British etiquette of offering tea/coffee three times, and refusing on the first two, thus:
Can I get you a tea or coffee?
Oh, no thank you.
You sure?
Yes, I'm good.
I'm making one anyway.
Oh go on then.
Now here's the thing: most of my social circle are geeks with some type of neurodiversity going on, and one thing we value is a straight bloody answer.
So it will go something like this:
Can I get you a tea or coffee?
Oh, no thank you.
OK.
I wonder how many thirsty tradespeople I've annoyed in my life?
I don't really believe the "three times" etiquette is real. If it was, you'd notice a lot more people offering it to you three times before they accept the answer.
@Tathar is dragons! (public) My wifeโs grandparents were like this when they were alive. Persuading them you really meant โnoโ to anything was like trench-sodding-warfare.
@Tathar when presented with the "must offer something 3 times to make sure" thing I occasionally after the third time just say "etiquette handshake protocol complete." Much to some annoyance ๐
@Bad Gardener Actually, yeah. If they refuse the first time Iโll generally assume that this is a contractor who just wants to keep interaction to a minimum and leave them alone.
I like repeat tradesmen, then I know whether to have kettle/coffee pot on for arrival, whether to get milk in or not... new tradespeople are *terrifying*
@Heather As I understand it, without a prescription itโs legal to buy them from abroad but not from the UK. Itโs legal to possess them and illegal to supply them.
There are uk sites where you can have an โonline consultationโ with a doctor who will rubber stamp your purchase.
Finally some HRT is now available over the counter without a prescription at Boots
I've been torturing myself for decades. But a big glass of milk isn't a great deterrent to heat overload. Something with milk fat coupled with citric acid helps the most. Like plain whole yogurt with lime or lemon juice squeezed into it. Citric acid breaks up the capsaicin oils bonded to your mouth and throat, milk fat coats and sooths a bit. But just pounding milk puts a big strain on your digestive system, which makes Act 2 & 3 a lot worse than they have to be.
Network Rail invited me to take a tour of signalling through the decades, starting with the Littlehampton Signal Box - still operating semaphore signals - th...
There's a few semaphore signals left on the Hexham line. There's no significant junctions the whole length of the line, but there used to be, and it's double track, so I imagine under normal operation it doesn't need much attention.
A lot of the infrastructure has been reduced to short sidings and the like for engineering work. There's also crossing points between the tracks which spend 99% of their time normal. I suppose if you're at a possession to work, there's no real need to electronic signals.
Wasn't there something about an accident at a Thetford level crossing because that line was on a special, completely different computer system at Cambridge Power Signal box, which everyone hated using and was confused by? Or am I misremembering?
@Sion [main] NSTR. Basically as you say but the driver needs permission from the signaller to get the token. Level crossings seem to be either user worked, open, or automatic.
@Sarah Brown When I was up along the Cumbrian coast with @Ben Harris we got chatting with a signaller somewhere around Drigg. Apparently moves to upgrade the signalling along that route got nixed because it was felt having people on the ground monitoring train movements was better for the security of flask trains. (Both the low level repository and Sellafield are up there.)
@Sion [main] Thereโs a delay attribution code EXT ANIMAL for attributing a delay to โanimals not under the control of Network Railโ. This begs a question, obviously.
Regrettably, there are people out there who seem to find a complaint in every activity. It is not that the glass is half-empty, it is that the glass it the wrong temperature, wrong colour, badly designed, and probably made in a country that they disapprove of. So grit the teeth and don't get wound up when these people come into your life (just hope they move on soon).
Saw someone elsewhere assert that Britain is “one of the least corrupt countries in the world”, and couldn’t let that go unchallenged, so here’s what I said:
Only because of this one weird loophole, which I will explain below:
For the last decade, the previous government has been awarding public contracts for infrastructure, etc, to what are essentially shell companies run by their mates. These companies then do the bare minimum for as long as possible, which if you drive round the UK, is why you see all those road “improvement” works which do nothing and take forever and never seem to have anyone working. It took two years to replace a roundabout with a set of traffic lights near my apartment, for example. Other examples: large amounts of “PPE equipment” during Covid which turned out to be useless junk.
Obviously they aren’t actually spending anything but a trivial amount going through the motions, so what happens to the rest of the money, which let’s remember, was raised by taxes.
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Saw someone elsewhere assert that Britain is โone of the least corrupt countries in the worldโ, and couldnโt let that go unchallenged, so hereโs what I said:
Only because of this one weird loophole, which I will explain below:
For the last decade, the previous government has been awarding public contracts for infrastructure, etc, to what are essentially shell companies run by their mates. These companies then do the bare minimum for as long as possible, which if you drive round the UK, is why you see all those road โimprovementโ works which do nothing and take forever and never seem to have anyone working. It took two years to replace a roundabout with a set of traffic lights near my apartment, for example. Other examples: large amounts of โPPE equipmentโ during Covid which turned out to be useless junk.
Obviously they arenโt actually spending anything but a trivial amount going through the motions, so what happens to the rest of the money, which letโs remember, was raised by taxes.
Well, it gets donated back to the ruling party as โpolitical donationsโ, and then if the pretend contractor does a good enough job of this, they get an knighthood, or even a seat in the House of Lords for โservices renderedโ.
Now you might think that this sounds corrupt, and you would be right. It sounds deeply corrupt, but apparently itโs not because a lot of the global agencies which work out corruption indices are based in, checks notes, London, and are probably in on the scam, and get to define what โcorruptionโ means, and define it to mean, โnot thisโ.
Et voila! You have a country with one of the biggest wealth gaps in Europe funnelling vast amounts of public money to populist spaffers in government, all legal, laundered and sanitised.
The whole of UK society is like this. Itโs how it works, and once you see it you either join in, or walk away in disgust.
@Captain_Jack_Sparrow @partnumber2 If you can't see that the fanboy comment was a joke based on your own statement then you're either not paying or not being a good faith actor.
@Captain_Jack_Sparrow @partnumber2 Passive aggressive much? Yes I probably should get a life but it's pretty difficult being physically disabled & autistic & traumatized but thanks for highlighting that.
@Captain_Jack_Sparrow @partnumber2 This is what you responded to. Where I'm very clearly not making a generalisation. You replied to this. This is what you've been basing your whole tirade on.
'People don't realise how corrupt the UK is because the British (let's be honest mainly English) know how to spin, minimise, evade & manipulate like no others. Even the British public has zero clue just how corrupt it is."
You engaged with me. You started insulting me. You wouldn't drop it. But please tell everyone how I'm the bully.
Remember when we thought that the internet was going to be a wonderful thing for the advancement of human knowledge instead of the Library of Babel, with Hitler as the librarian?
I do sadly. And, in quiet moments, I interrogate my part, as a Principal Consultant for a very large international IT services company in the mid nineties, cheerleading for the fabulous future we were going to have with the sum of human knowledge freely on tap. I made the gross error of assuming people were good and kind and honest, like me.
@christineburns I see it like anything a tool, which reflects those that use it. Currently we have rich fascists who control parts of it. But they donโt control it all. Basically capitalism ruined a lot of it so I avoid those bits.
@SteveClough I think it depends on how you use it and who you depend on for the archiving of the knowledge / footage / art.
If all The Internet someone sees is Twitter and Instagram, then yeah, I can see why you would call it the Library of Babel with Hitler as the librarian.
But for those who are publishing their own blogs and sharing files so that art made for human entertainment remains preserved it can be a slightly different experience.
The western democracies have never taken fascism seriously. The story that Britain and America tell themselves is that they led a great crusade against it in World War II. This is bollocks. They were dragged into WWII through the way military alliances fell and not out of any kind of principled opposition to what Germany, Japan and Italy were doing politically. That's just a story they tell themselves to soothe national egos.
Indeed, afterwards they did almost nothing to prevent it taking root in their own societies, beyond trying to construct welfare states. As carrot and stick approaches go, this was the carrot. There was no stick, and fascism needs a stick to keep it down.
The welfare state model held it at bay for a few decades, until the kids of the people who built it grew up and realised they could vote in the people who would dismantle it for cash and hand enough of it over to them to drive a Faustian bargain that fucked their own children.
There was never any systemic attempt to build political resilience against fascism in those societies because, frank
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The western democracies have never taken fascism seriously. The story that Britain and America tell themselves is that they led a great crusade against it in World War II. This is bollocks. They were dragged into WWII through the way military alliances fell and not out of any kind of principled opposition to what Germany, Japan and Italy were doing politically. That's just a story they tell themselves to soothe national egos.
Indeed, afterwards they did almost nothing to prevent it taking root in their own societies, beyond trying to construct welfare states. As carrot and stick approaches go, this was the carrot. There was no stick, and fascism needs a stick to keep it down.
The welfare state model held it at bay for a few decades, until the kids of the people who built it grew up and realised they could vote in the people who would dismantle it for cash and hand enough of it over to them to drive a Faustian bargain that fucked their own children.
There was never any systemic attempt to build political resilience against fascism in those societies because, frankly, fascist sympathies are too heavily embedded within the ruling classes and security services of those countries, and removing them would involve a level of pain and commitment to principle that those in a position to actually do so are not willing to entertain.
What should be, at a bare minimum, in place is a commitment to uncovering and removing fascism from all levels of public life, backed by robust and mandatory civics education.
Western democracies are utterly incapable of doing this, and instead think that they can accommodate their own fascist undercurrents without them becoming overwhelming.
But with the dismantling of their own welfare states, they have nothing to fall back on, and so when economic shocks hit, the shit they have been hiding rapidly bubbles to the surface.
We live in societies of rulers causally throwing lit matches at pools of petrol surrounding their ankles, and relying on the fact that there's enough breeze to blow them out before they land.
โWe live in societies of rulers causally throwing lit matches at pools of petrol surrounding their ankles, and relying on the fact that there's enough breeze to blow them out before they land.
@Idealistic Pragmatist :mstdn: It's somewhat notable that while the allies DID remove some of the most egregious fascists from what was left of German civil society after the war, I'm not sure how much the Soviet Union did, and the support for AfD is strongest by far in former East Germany.
It really blows my mind when a country explicit forbids fascist organizations in their constitution and then the constitutional court keeps approving the existence of multiple fascist parties, one of them very successful.
@Llwynog It has to be a continuous process, because if there's one thing that these bastards can do, it's play the long game.
But first, they need to root them out of their own parties.
Second, they need to fucking condemn shit which is currently being normalised or presented as "legitimate concerns".
Third, they need to divert significant resources into proper civics education to create a populace that is politically literate and able to spot and critically analyse their rhetoric and dog whistles.
And fourthly, there needs to be an understanding that it is an utterly illegitimate political stance, that is not to be tolerated in a society that values human rights. There need to be laws that proscribe fascist organisations. They need to be enforced, and the courts overseeing them need to kept free of the sort of creeping political influence that has caused institutional capture in the US.
the "western democracies" haven't taken fascism seriously because they were instrumental in its creation. they didn't try to lessen the influence of fascism after the second world war because they created it in the first place. they won't try to reduce it because fascism is essential to "western democracy".
John A. MacDonald, the first prime minister of canada, inspired Hitler with his white supremacist screeds about "Aryan race".
the nation states who pretend to be a bolster against fascism did absolutely nothing to stop it when they had the chance. canada and USA gave no official support to the revolutionaries of the Spanish civil war. the Stalinists in Spain worked to prevent revolution, which fed dead antifascist bodies to Franco, who had Hitler's military support. the Mackenzie-Papineau Brigade, which came from canada, an anti-fascist volunteer brigade which went to Spain to fight Franco, received no support. most of them didn't come back.
canada turned away thousands of Jewish refugees trying to escape Germany. canada had also put thousands of Japanese immigrants into concentration camps. nevermind the "residential schools" and what the reserve system for Indigenous people used to be. (guess who Hitler learned to use concentration camps from
the "welfare state" has always been a fascist idea. it was social democrats, read: reformers of capitalism, not socialists, who created things like welfare and universal healthcare which, while they seem like good ideas on their face, just look at what's happening now when the capitalists decide to dismantle these systems, which was bound to happen.
if you want to learn a quick history of "social democracy", find out who the Bolsheviks really were, and who had no problem with letting the NSDAP march in Germany.
it's not an accident that the ruling class is fascist. they invented this shit. it serves no purpose other than to uphold a white supremacist ruling status quo.
if you hate fascism, ask your doctor if tyrranicide is right for you!! โโโโโโ
I think most "communities" are like this, tbh, even the fluffy ones, once you get under their skin. The more I see of society, the more I like plants. It all seems to be fine, until there starts being a *thing* independent of the individual pairs of relationships. Then it falls apart.
TERFs having a normal one, destroying womenโs sports because some of the cis competitors maybe remind them a bit of trans woman, none of whom ever qualify for anything anyway, even when allowed to compete.
@KateKarnage I always forget who said "my feminism will be intersectional or it will be bullshit", but it seems really applicable here. (I know it from Flavia Dzodan but IIRC she's quoting someone else).
Its a fudging device with a couple of buttons, a wheel and an optical sensor, why would you need updatable software when current os drivers can take care of the task fine! FFS! Down with capitalism and greedy bastards.
Cass deserves to go down alongside Wakefield in my opinion. This is a wholly biased piece of work, produced to order, and to suit an agenda, and that agenda is profoundly hostile to trans people. erininthemorning.com/p/britishโฆ
The British Medical Association, the professional organization representing doctors in the United Kingdom, has called for a public critique of the review and to bar its implementation.
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These billionaires are funding malign influence campaigns that support Putin, Xi, and #PrinceBonesaw
Including coups, political violence & riots.
Including stochastic terrorism
Including voter suppression, election interference, & a judiciary to overturn elections
Marc Andreessen
Ben Horowitz
Timothy Mellon
Kelly Loeffler
Robert & Rebekah Mercer
Jeff Sprecher
Robert Bigelow
Josรฉ "Pepe" Fanjul
Tilman Fertitta
Jeffery Hildebrand
Andrew Beal
Jimmy John Liautaud
Bernard Marcus
Bill Ackman
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Trump's name is already on ballots in some states.
Michigan is a key swing state.
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in reply to Sarah Brown • • •Life is complicated and difficult. People are always going to give an ear to someone who promises to make it simple and fix their problems.
For that reason, fascism is never out of style.
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Unknown parent • • •@Npars01 With Citizens United justice John Roberts & his accomplices paved the way for political prostitution, corruption & money laundering of new shocking dimensions in political businesses, tailormade for purchasable figures like Trump.
#RuleOfLaw #CleanSCOTUS #RevokeCitizensUnited #Corruption #Bribery #TermLimits #CodeOfConduct #SCOTUS_OIG
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Unknown parent • • •@Npars01 Those oligarchs are *some people*, not ***the people***.
They know very well, that for big money Trump's anytime for sale, whatever their wishes may be, disregarding right & wrong.
Those few people shouldn't be able to override the will of the people & the Constitution's implications, regulations & intended order, holding that the sovereign of all governmental power is the people, not a couple of super-rich egomaniacal wannabe-aristocrats longing to be free from the "burden" of commonly accepted laws, rules, norms & values (not valuables).
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