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by aisenik 2y ago
I think a clearly ideological actor leaving by choice after being ostracized for representing blatantly false and unscientific ideological claims is good, actually, and that providing this as an example is shifting your goalposts. For con
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by aisenik 2y ago
Could you please cite some examples? This reads like a bunch of strawmen set up by someone aggrieved by trans rights and racial equality.
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A supporter of the party of summarily executing housepets is going to have wildly different ideas about compassion than I do. If you can support Kristi Noem shooting her dog and disappearing people to foreign torture prisons, you can't
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by aisenik 2y ago
It's very clear that the system of Constitutional governance has been intentionally broken. It is very common for authoritarian regimes to have compliant judiciaries and broad legislative control. Effective restoration and reconstructi
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by aisenik 2y ago
These guys just wiped 14,000 tapes to put the government's backups and record keeping in the cloud. To "save" $1m. And bragged about it. They aren't competent, they are malicious. Musk scraped some racist blackhat Kiwifa
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by aisenik 2y ago
It's mostly just "Golden Dome," Trump's plan to give Musk a global constellation of (potentially nuclear-armed) "anti-ballistic missile" weaponized satellites. I'm sure there's other facets of orbital
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by aisenik 2y ago
The rhetorical point of reflecting the grandparent's use of language is to highlight that it's a meaningless argument, in reality. It's just fallacy to appeal to a limp as right to shut down an appeal to modern civility over
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by aisenik 2y ago
Please don't try to speak for everyone who's impacted by the regressive trends in social practices. I have a slight limp and am a member of a scapegoated minority who uses slurs in-community, I'm not easily offended (I'm
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by aisenik 2y ago
This implies significant deflation, $7.25/hr locks you out of traditional rental market and property ownership and access to foods beyond the cheapest staples. You'd be looking at >60hr weeks doing physical labor and living han
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by aisenik 2y ago
From another perspective, because you drive a symbol of the new authoritarian state armed state enforcers essentially offered to target people at your discretion and it reinforced your acceptance of state propaganda. I'm not sure you r
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by aisenik 2y ago
It is difficult to read this as anything but an attempt to absolve yourself of accepting confirmation bias. You feel like, your gut tells you. And you land exactly where your beliefs are confirmed and where any response/call to action
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by aisenik 2y ago
Unless he's resigned again in recent weeks and I've missed it, Elez was brought back within days of his resignation after a short campaign to manufacture consent by JD Vance and Musk.
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They control their markets, exhibit broad capture of regulatory and standards bodies, and have established authoritarian control of the American state. Sure, it's a conspiracist's "they," but society and freedom have bec
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by aisenik 2y ago
It will be a comparable situation once antifascists liberate the USA, political and capital reconstruction with strong de-neonazification removes the ideology from influence and power, and after a couple generations of global veterans and v
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by aisenik 2y ago
American Fascism is quite antisemitic, in spite of its successes with a certain subset of Jewish people. Contemporary American fascism's support of Israel is rooted in a religious belief that the Jewish people have to be in control of
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by aisenik 2y ago
"Large gender drop downs" is a canard, three is a large number for the purposes of their argument. It's not about gender dropdowns of any size other than exactly two as it's about strict enforcement of a rigid, patriarch
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by aisenik 2y ago
Capturing and controlling a market is preferable to competitive markets under our political-economic system. It's been the model for Silicon Valley since Bezos sold his plan to lose money until Amazon had a controlling stake of the ret
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by aisenik 2y ago
Evangelical American Zionism hates Jewish people with a thin facade of support. A disturbingly large amount of Americans believe that it's prophecy and God's will that the Middle East be "cleansed in fire" and that Israe
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by aisenik 2y ago
My fellow Americans need to stop inventing wish-fulfillment fantasies that everything's going to be ok and fine. It's a coup by the worst elements of American society (eugenicists! Christian nationalists! white supremacists!) in c
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by aisenik 2y ago
Project 2025 has been an open plan for years and the level of coordination between political elites aligned with the Heritage Foundation and tech industry radicals is obvious on its face. If the goal was reducing fraud and waste, accurate a
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by aisenik 2y ago
That's not what that says. "Given" means that because "political and religious discourse about transgenderism [sic] and homosexuality" exists it's okay to dehumanize trans people. This is alarming because the U
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by aisenik 2y ago
Another way of stating this straw-man argument might be "what if we tried to do anything meaningful at all about wealth inequality and the market distortions it causes and people liked it? "
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by aisenik 2y ago
Project 2025 is a radical plan organized by The Heritage Foundation, an extremist political organization in the United States that has gained immense power through subversion of constitutional governance. Trump repeatedly disavowed any know
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by aisenik 2y ago
I'm referring to the widespread meme (that predates this use of the word meme) that is prevalent in the USA. It is so frequently repeated in some form, it is practically an article of faith. Notably, it is a major component of Donald T
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by aisenik 2y ago
"The mainstream media is (far) left" is misinformation. You've been successfully inoculated against critical analysis of your media environment.
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It's analogous to "working toward the führer" and, like most historical content about the rise of the Nazis, the parallels with today's USA are haunting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Kershaw#%22
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by aisenik 2y ago
This started as admonishment: that diversity, equity, and inclusion is an existing and important aspect of our education system that is being actively and unconstitutionally destroyed. It became something more, because the crisis we face if
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They voted for people that are working to reinstitute Jim Crow apartheid, are pushing for ethnic cleansing in Gaza and the hostile annexation of Canada, canceled federal celebrations of MLK Jr. Day, put tattooed white supremacists in charge
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>2. The USA will likely avoid war. The USA is currently experiencing an autocoup prosecuted by an unholy alliance of tech industry elites and dominionist christian white supremacists. Its president, who presided over an attempted violent
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by aisenik 2y ago
Trump is a neonazi, openly aligned with American white supremacist militias, attempted a violent coup in 2021, and "the American people" who shrugged "OK" are neonazis. It is the inescapable reality of our present moment

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