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Paragone@lemmy.worldto
politics @lemmy.world•'That's a problem': MSNBC's Mika warns Trump new data shows his popularity at record lowEnglish
2·10 months agoHe has already demonstrated that he de-registers non-Republican voters, in order to swing election-victories, from what I’ve read, & somebody was investigating a few thousand deregistrations at 1 single riding, in the Harris-got-beat election…
He can declare the Democratic party a “terrorist organization”, & denaturalize all Democrat party members.
Popularity is no-longer required, to win elections, in the US of A.
Soft-dictatorship is what’s happening, now, but as soon as he can, it’ll turn HARD.
Every possible escalation, his hidden-brain people will engineer for him.
You are seeing the gradual snuffing of the US of A, by its president.
There won’t be any constitution, once he finally unmasks the real-truth.
It all comes down to how much balls he’s got, to be aggressive with his inevitable design, now.
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Paragone@lemmy.worldto
politics @lemmy.world•Trump says 'it's pretty clear' he can't run for 3rd termEnglish
1·10 months agoRemember he promised his followers, they “wouldn’t have to vote anymore”…?
There isn’t going to BE any 2028 election.
He’d rather machine-gun millions of US citizens down, than tolerate to lose his dream.
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Paragone@lemmy.worldto
politics @lemmy.world•Citing Trump Order on “Biological Truth,” VA Makes It Harder for Male Veterans With Breast Cancer to Get CoverageEnglish
1·10 months agoMom, a former-nurse, who ended-up working in Canada’s federal-disability program as its chief file-fixer,
told me that breast-cancer gets both women & men,
but because in men it’s got sooo little distance to critical-organs, it is much less survivable, for men, on average.
By the time you discover it, … usually it’s too-late, & you’re a goner.
Typical sadism, by the ideologues’ part, it is…
This is going to get FAR worse, & it isn’t going to “get better”.
Humankind’s running-away-from responsibility is an addiction, & it’ll just keep fighting for its totalitarian-dominion.
Ever seen a addict fighting against their unconscious-mind’s junk-addiction, when their unconscious-mind’s addiction’s committed to breaking their life, to “prove who’s BOSS”, & they … just get destroyed, & dead?
Humankind’s doing that, globally…
it isn’t quite obvious-enough, yet, but in a few more years, there won’t be any more “time for thinking”, because it’ll all be reacting-time, to the rampaging ideologies that are highjacking everything…
People who reject evidence, gaslighting about “biological truth”…
Typical…
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Paragone@lemmy.worldto
politics @lemmy.world•Republicans Know How Vulnerable Trump Is. The Attacks on No Kings Prove It.English
1013·11 months agoHis NOT invoking the Insurrection-Act on them, … bodes ill.
He’s working on something MUCH worse.
Time is running out, for civil-rights, in the US of A, fast.
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Paragone@lemmy.worldto
politics @lemmy.world•Billionaire Marc Benioff apologizes for saying troops should be deployed to San FranciscoEnglish
13·11 months agoWhy should that have ANY bearing on his actual commitment, which he honestly expressed, before?
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Paragone@lemmy.worldto
politics @lemmy.world•Maga is painting Saturday’s protests as violent treason. Prove them wrongEnglish
71·11 months agoBodycams “don’t work” in all such cases.
The Breona Taylor case had the officers claim that there weren’t any bodycams present, but 1 of the pieces of evidence collected was the camera-head of a bodycam.
The ACLU has published on this, after a case where FIVE bodycams were claimed by police to not-work, in an incident where they were accused of crime.
Accountability never is allowed by authority, unless authority is coerced into accountability,
& that goes throughout ALL civilization, not just state-authority ( business bosses, institutions which mutilate rights from the lives subject to them, family-abuse even! it’s fundamental to abuse’s leveraging-more-authority-for-itself, & police-services simply happens to be 1 place where people committed to it gain extra-advantage from doing-so. )
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Paragone@lemmy.worldto
politics @lemmy.world•Maga is painting Saturday’s protests as violent treason. Prove them wrongEnglish
95·11 months agoYou CAN’T “prove wrong” ideology/prejudice/“religion”,
aka any AXIOM-BASED rejecting-of-falsification, belief.
It isn’t possible because axioms aren’t subject-to-objectivity.
They will either force violence, enforce violence, XOR/AND have false-flag actors in-place to “prove” their “fact”.
It is a trap.
Civil-rights are going to get at-least-partially rug-pulled as a result of Saturday’s protests.
IF Trump can permanently-remove any threat of accountability, & permanently-deactivate the petition to get the Epstien-files released, HE IS GOING TO.
Social-assertion isn’t fundamental-enough, or powerful-enough to do what the left is assuming it must do!
( the left obeys social-pressure: that’s left-culture!
Which means that the left can’t understand when others don’t.
That is why Naomi Klien had to publish “Saying No Isn’t Enough” … or whatever her book was called … because the left wasn’t GETTING it.
Courts, sousveillance, private-investigating-and-prosecuting-right-crime, THAT could apply the kind of pressure required, but social-pressure’s the wrong too to produce the required-results.
It’s a 1-way tool: it only works against the consensus-motivated left, not against the authority-and-conforming-enforcing right. )
sigh
Expect the left to find the “ground” they’re “standing on” to have been gutted, by next week.
& the escalations will only continue progressing: this isn’t the BIG tipping-point, this is just one of the buildup ones.
( this was all built on the shit-quality “education” that the US’s the-rich-get-good-education-the-poor-don’t paradigm enforced, through the last … century+.
It isn’t possible to save a country’s life if its population is “educated” into the lower-forebrain’s imprint->reaction paradigm, instead of the upper-forebrain’s objectivity + considered-reasoning paradigm:
the only question left is which ideology will gain supremacism,
not can-ideology-the-system-be-prevented-from-ruling-us. )
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Paragone@lemmy.worldto
politics @lemmy.world•US cities to resist Trump’s crackdown on dissent with No Kings protests: ‘We will not be bullied’English
87·11 months agoThey will not be having any legal civil-rights, shortly.
They’re “fighting the wrong war”.
shrug
Paragone@lemmy.worldto
politics @lemmy.world•Greer, Bessent blast China's rare earths curbs, urge Beijing not to implement themEnglish
3·11 months agoChina announced their intent to cease exports of rare-earths at least a decade before they began implimenting it, from what I’ve read…
The West refuses to govern responsibly in the context it exists/lives, & wants crybaby-ing to fix things when China does exactly what it TOLD US it would do, decades-ago??
The US has rare-earth mineral-resources, they just refused to develop them, until too-late.
Mismanagement deserves consequences.
I’ve ZERO sympathy for pretend-responsibility authorities.
May they reap what they have sown, to use the Christian phrase.
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Paragone@lemmy.worldto
politics @lemmy.world•'White House is hiding something': Speaker fans 'deepening suspicions' about TrumpEnglish
2·11 months agoSo, either “The Insurrection Act”, or martial-law, or SOME escalation of the rug-pull of civil-rights from the US of A is going to happen this Saturday, I believe.
& I bet the left’s protesters will be emotionally/psychologically totally blindsided by how deep/cutting/effective it is, since they presume entitlement to status-quo’s protection ( unconsciously: we all do this, but by forcing one’s awareness onto the actual-enemy-action, getting outside one’s filter-bubble/awareness-bubble/perspective-bubble, can mitigate that default-ignorance. It takes work, it is kinda toxic, but being repeatedly-blindsided isn’t competent. )
Nobody claim, if it happens, that “it was unforseeable”.
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Paragone@lemmy.worldto
politics @lemmy.world•Supreme Court weighs whether to gut key provision of landmark Voting Rights ActEnglish
4·11 months agoTHIS is why you DON’T permit the politically-motivated to make districting decisions.
The absurd district-shapes in the US … it should be forced to use mathematically-smallest-periphery, or something, to break all that shit.
ANY system which consistently worked better than endless gerrymandering, would be better than this shit.
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Paragone@lemmy.worldto
politics @lemmy.world•Air traffic controllers who duck unpaid work during the gov't shutdown could be fired, Duffy warnsEnglish
2·11 months agoThat’s what I can’t understand:
Isn’t there a law that slavery isn’t legal, in the US of A?
Isn’t mandatory unpaid job-work … slavery?
WTF’s wrong with the idiotic laws they’ve had all these years?
You HAVE TO have a law prohibiting slavery, in any guise!
This doesn’t compute, for me…
The anti-integrity of a legal-regime which protects such abuse … can’t compute.
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Paragone@lemmy.worldto
politics @lemmy.world•Air traffic controllers who duck unpaid work during the gov't shutdown could be fired, Duffy warnsEnglish
1·11 months agoYou hit it spot-on.
You saw-through the appearances, to see the underlying strategy, why the Kremlin Papers actually exist.
https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Atheguardian.com+"kremlin+papers
( TheGuardian is now actively-blocking DuckDuckGo, so it isn’t possible to get any search-results from other search-engines, now, it seems )
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Paragone@lemmy.worldto
politics @lemmy.world•Air traffic controllers who duck unpaid work during the gov't shutdown could be fired, Duffy warnsEnglish
1·11 months agoThere was a “Yes, Minister!” episode on this principle:
The new minister was having a driver, driving him to wherever, so he could use the time as office-time, in the back…
They shamed him into quitting that, & he became significantly less-effective, which was what the attack had intended.
IF the people are being productive in the air, then I’d put them in a set of gov’t-owned aircraft, secret-clearance all the way through, so they could do real work, while on the job.
However, I’d also force them to use normal-airlines when going 'round for their vacations, so they get actual commercial-airline experience, so they know what they’re representees are experiencing.
Sometimes the right answer is to convert travel-time into work-time, & if you can’t do that on a public flight, then yes, private-aircraft are the means, but it ought be gov’t owned, not personally-owned or chartered.
It must serve the country, not the privileged, see?
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Paragone@lemmy.worldto
politics @lemmy.world•Air traffic controllers who duck unpaid work during the gov't shutdown could be fired, Duffy warnsEnglish
1·11 months agoIt’s been proven to work for robo-fighters ( air-superiority fighters ), in simulations ( they had a competition between fighter-AI’s, & 1 of them did win, & the fights were proper, the way human fighter-pilots would have done them ).
Narrow-context AI works: it’s the deep-vast context AI that doesn’t work…
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Paragone@lemmy.worldto
politics @lemmy.world•Air traffic controllers who duck unpaid work during the gov't shutdown could be fired, Duffy warnsEnglish
2·11 months agoThe most-important 2 books on understanding US politics, is Woodard’s “American Nations”, on the 11 nations inhabiting North America, & how they are stable, once instantiated,
& Thom Hartmann’s “Screwed”, on what real national-prosperity is ( I’ve only read the beginning of that, & it’s the 1st-time I’ve understood what’s wrong with normal “economics”, as presented by everybody else ).
IF one looks carefully, as Woodard did, one can see that the votes follow specific counties that are culturally-aligned, in these 11 nations.
It isn’t “all boomers”, rather, it is in the Tidewater region, votes went this-way, in the New York region, votes went that way, in Yankeedom, they went this other way, etc…
The book “The Big Sort” is on how polarization is self-creating the ultimate only-political-monocultures US of A.
That, of course, is going to make the US’s Civil War Part2 be … more territorial in its ideological-basis, … ( & that has implications, too ), but … it’s still down to regional-cultures defining/controlling the US’s fate.
Woodard’s book is sooo important, that I wouldn’t consider moving anywhere in North America without seeing which culture was ruling that county, now.
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Paragone@lemmy.worldto
politics @lemmy.world•Air traffic controllers who duck unpaid work during the gov't shutdown could be fired, Duffy warnsEnglish
1·11 months agoFrom what I saw, through the stuff on the internet, the White-supremacists were solidly Trump, the male-supremacists were solidly Trump, AND Trump used a voter-deregistration law, through some local Republicans, to remove Democrats from voting-rolls, in key swing-states.
AND many Democrats refused to vote.
When all 4 of those come together, then you have the real basis for the result that happened.
sigh … yet-again, journalism got disappeared off the internet, in order to prevent any accountability or leverage-causing-necessary-change…
Neither DuckDuckGo nor Google can find the journalism I’d read about that voter-deregistration having already been used as a partisan weapon, with the obvious consequence that it can be used again to immense effect, in 2026 & 2028.
Welcome to the for-profit-only “reality” we live-in…
( I’m going to be saving offline-copies of all such journalism, from now on, because of this bullshit.
Without knowing history, it isn’t possible to be competent to avoid re-enacting it!
This ISN’T it, but it gives some similar information: https://newrepublic.com/article/199247/transcript-trump-lets-slip-dark-truth-plot-rig-midterms )
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Paragone@lemmy.worldto
politics @lemmy.world•How a Trump Judge Exposed the Trump ConEnglish
1·11 months agoPeople can downvote this all they want, but this is actually true, and maybe you remember Trump’s former-lawyer, Cohen, saying that he likes to do things the way mafia-bosses do, so his saying something like “it would be good if < someone > were to get permanently harmed” … & then have his lackies/flunkies ( don’t know which is which ) just do it, so that he never can be made-accountable for anything…
Yes, I expect a wave of murders to happen to opponents-of-Trump, within months or weeks…
The tipping-point is going to be crossed.
Yes, that kind of “dealing with” opponents is on the table.
People are too naive about what’s going-on, making-believing that status-quo will continue forever, & they’ve got forever to undo what Project2025’s doing…
It isn’t about ruling the US of A for a 4-year term, it is about DESTROYING anybody’s ability to interfere with Republican dictatorship, until everbody’s dead.
Different “game”, different rules.
As a ninja explained, in the book “Kenjutsu”, IF you’re trained to presume that your opponent will protect their life,
& they make a cut at you,
THEN you automatically make a cut at them, knowing that they’re going to divert their cut, to block yours, to save their life.
BUT … if they don’t care if they die, then … they don’t divert their cut, to block: then you die, right then ( they do too, but they took you out, because you were relying-on leverage that you didn’t actually have )
Countries make the same mistake.
The US is making that mistake, now.
Fatally.
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Paragone@lemmy.worldto
politics @lemmy.world•American politics has devolved into shitposting and aura farmingEnglish
1·11 months agoSince nobody here explained what TF “aura farming” is, here’s what DuckDuckGo’s AI told me:
“Aura farming is a social media trend where individuals intentionally project a cool or impressive persona to gain admiration, often without appearing to try too hard. It involves curating one’s image and behavior to enhance their “cool factor” while avoiding overt displays of effort.”
So, the image & perception comment was on-target, then.
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It’s worse than that:
He can legally remove-citizenship from anybody, now, & no court-injunction has any power on him, or his appointees I read ( that was bundled-into his big “beautiful” bill, apparently )
All he has to do is create “justification” for declaring the Democratic party to be terrorists, denaturalize all of 'em, & then there ARE no non-Republican judges left, legal, in the country…
Nobody to appeal to: your accuser is the Republicans, & your judge will also be Republican.
Dig-in, people, hire private-investigators ( or get books on it, & books on journalism, & books on building a legal case, & get competent, pronto, if you can’t afford to hire help ) to get the evidence required against the electorate who’ve been breaking the law ( insider-trading, e.g. ), & GET leverage, before there’s none left…
The assuming victory habit that the Dems have used to “protect” themselves, thus-far ( like how their assuming protected Harris’s victory, while they sat at home, smug ), has cost too-much leverage, thus-far.
Just recently it gave Trump’s buddy Millei another term, in Argentina…
Get pragmatic, dig-in, unearth & earn owning-of, all remaining available leverage, & use it while you can…
They’re literally replicating nazi Germany’s ever-escalating progression, & the nazis using legalism to dismantle rule-of-constitution, & the US’s “night of long knives” will come, sooner-or-later…
it’s only a matter of when, now…
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