Fosto
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There is nothing thoughtful about both-sideism. It's the easiest ideology in the world. The exhausting part is finding new ways to say "both sides are bad" regardless of the evidence in front of you.
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There is nothing thoughtful about both-sideism. It's the easiest ideology in the world. The exhausting part is finding new ways to say "both sides are bad" regardless of the evidence in front of you.
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The fact that all you can see is "both-sideism" shows how deep in your self-righteous ideology you are. You have lost the ability to discern nuance and you swallow the propaganda like it's gospel. I'd hate for my politics to be my defacto religion. You have my pity sir.
Fosto
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This is so vapid and childish I'm just going to step out. Enjoy your crusade against "extremism on all sides" lol
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You compared me to PJF. You know that’s absurd. I’m not going to let you move on without addressing that. You don’t get to do a drive by hit and run like that dude. If you don’t have the character to apologize for that, then here, I’ll spell it out for you:
Go **** yourself. Go **** yourself from Miami to Seattle buddy.
Sardines
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You are like PJF in your approach to political dialogue. You are as blind to your own bias as they are.
I am never going to apologize to you.
Fosto
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Some good news.
lawandcrime.com
'Null and void': Judge forcefully rejects Trump's executive order targeting Perkins Coie
"Settling personal vendettas by targeting a disliked business or individual for punitive government action is not a legitimate use of the powers of the U.S. government or an American President."
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Interesting analysis:
“his useful graph from Bobby Kogan of the Center for American Progress, which shows how the Trump budget proposal dramatically cuts spending on domestic discretionary spending, a broad category that includes education, science research, environmental protection, child care, national parks, housing and regulation. It illustrates an almost halving of support from the historic benchmark, a huge walk-back from some of the key policies that support a modern society...
Trump’s budget echoes Mao’s Cultural Revolution, which used propaganda to justify an attack on higher education, fueling a lost decade for Chinese research and a much longer period of damage to state capacity and innovation. America is now pressing the self-destruct button on science just in time for China’s careful decades-long reinvestment to allow it to take the lead from us. Imagine a Sputnik moment, but where an American President leads a propaganda campaign to not compete with Russia.
There is a broader pattern here: the embrace of propaganda has become the default tone of an administration no longer hiding its authoritarian impulses. Government press releases sound like unhinged Truth Social posts, likely because many of those writing the press releases were social media posters. White House Cabinet meetings and press events increasingly sound like something out of North Korea.”
donmoynihan.substack.com
“his useful graph from Bobby Kogan of the Center for American Progress, which shows how the Trump budget proposal dramatically cuts spending on domestic discretionary spending, a broad category that includes education, science research, environmental protection, child care, national parks, housing and regulation. It illustrates an almost halving of support from the historic benchmark, a huge walk-back from some of the key policies that support a modern society...
Trump’s budget echoes Mao’s Cultural Revolution, which used propaganda to justify an attack on higher education, fueling a lost decade for Chinese research and a much longer period of damage to state capacity and innovation. America is now pressing the self-destruct button on science just in time for China’s careful decades-long reinvestment to allow it to take the lead from us. Imagine a Sputnik moment, but where an American President leads a propaganda campaign to not compete with Russia.
There is a broader pattern here: the embrace of propaganda has become the default tone of an administration no longer hiding its authoritarian impulses. Government press releases sound like unhinged Truth Social posts, likely because many of those writing the press releases were social media posters. White House Cabinet meetings and press events increasingly sound like something out of North Korea.”
Budgets as Propaganda
Trump's budget proposal formalizes the paranoid style as government policy
donmoynihan.substack.com
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Enjoy your blinders. They are clearly all you can see.
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Nice to see.Some good news.
'Null and void': Judge forcefully rejects Trump's executive order targeting Perkins Coie
"Settling personal vendettas by targeting a disliked business or individual for punitive government action is not a legitimate use of the powers of the U.S. government or an American President."
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Hopefully Congress pulls their heads out of their asses and starts attempting stronger ways to push back instead of just writing "strongly worded" letters. We need actual action at some point. Severely disappointing how entrenched the Republicans are in their cult.Some good news.
'Null and void': Judge forcefully rejects Trump's executive order targeting Perkins Coie
"Settling personal vendettas by targeting a disliked business or individual for punitive government action is not a legitimate use of the powers of the U.S. government or an American President."
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Elections have consequences.
I hope producers feel it good and hard.
View: https://bsky.app/profile/ianbremmer.com/post/3lo4uqdgr522z
View: https://bsky.app/profile/ianbremmer.com/post/3lo4uqeg5zc2z
I hope producers feel it good and hard.
View: https://bsky.app/profile/ianbremmer.com/post/3lo4uqdgr522z
View: https://bsky.app/profile/ianbremmer.com/post/3lo4uqeg5zc2z
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Did you see this?
www.kptv.com
A white woman in MN was filmed shouting racial slurs to a 5 year old black boy in a playground, so she started a fund raiser to "protect her family" and has raised 600k+ so far from supportive Magats. These are the kinds of people we're dealing with here.
Woman accused of using racial slurs against young boy in viral video sparking controversy
A viral video reportedly showing a woman using racial slurs at a Rochester park is now part of a police investigation.
www.kptv.com
A white woman in MN was filmed shouting racial slurs to a 5 year old black boy in a playground, so she started a fund raiser to "protect her family" and has raised 600k+ so far from supportive Magats. These are the kinds of people we're dealing with here.
Did you see this?
Woman accused of using racial slurs against young boy in viral video sparking controversy
A viral video reportedly showing a woman using racial slurs at a Rochester park is now part of a police investigation.
A white woman in MN was filmed shouting racial slurs to a 5 year old black boy in a playground, so she started a fund raiser to "protect her family" and has raised 600k+ so far from supportive Magats. These are the kinds of people we're dealing with here.
Honestly that's impressive, the presence of mind to monetise it and grift money off dickheads is inspired.
Fosto
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Right wingers are the easiest people to grift on the face of the planet. Just look at Trump's crypto coin. Before the election, I heard a bunch of coworkers excitedly discuss which of them owns the most Trump memorabilia...
Perfectly normal behaviour, I used to work with a bloke who collected SS memorabilia...
Fosto
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Oh will you look at that, an ICE prosecutor turns out to be running a white supremacist Twitter account. I'm shocked I tell ya, absolutely shocked!
www.yahoo.com
ICE Prosecutor Revealed to Be Behind White Supremacist Account on X
The owner of a white supremacist account on X has reportedly been unmasked as a Dallas-area prosecutor who represents Immigrations and Customs Enforcement at court. James “Jim” Joseph Rodden, 44, an assistant chief counsel for ICE who represents the agency in immigration hearings in the Dallas...
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Their economic anxiety is so obvious! And you see major influencers on the right saying that they’re going to keep pledging money to make her a millionaire. And we all know who’s responsible, the left. The left insists on asking people to be better. **** that. I should be able to do and say whatever horrible racist thing I want without any negative consequences! And the left must be careful to not scare away the middle by even hinting that racism still exists in this country. /sDid you see this?
Woman accused of using racial slurs against young boy in viral video sparking controversy
A viral video reportedly showing a woman using racial slurs at a Rochester park is now part of a police investigation.
A white woman in MN was filmed shouting racial slurs to a 5 year old black boy in a playground, so she started a fund raiser to "protect her family" and has raised 600k+ so far from supportive Magats. These are the kinds of people we're dealing with here.
The right has no free agency.
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