Deva Woodly

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Paz Pardo

I’m sorry this happened to you but this is absolutely hilarious 🤣

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This is particularly important to understand because Trumpist authoritarianism is the descendent of Jim Crow far more than say Hitler or Pinochet or Orban, and it's going to look a lot more like 1930s Mississippi than 1930s Berlin.

For most of its history, America hasn’t been a democracy, by any meaningful definition of the term! This isn’t some It Can’t Happen Here shit, in a way, it’s already happened. It just may not have directly affected you.

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Nothing is stopping every single Democratic elected official and apparatchik from taking the airwaves every single day to articulately and decisively repeat a set of cogent talking points about Trump (ie 45). Nothing. Dem PACs could be slamming him with ads now. Stop whining and do that.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

This is such an apt comparison 😂

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Taniel

Congratulations to the UK!

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There is no model in which these products become profitable. The overhead is astronomically high and will require defying the laws of physics to overcome. Meanwhile, they’re fleecing gullible businesses and governments blind on false promises of an everything tech that in fact does very little.

Remember how the "retail theft crime wave" disappeared as soon as companies had to do their annual reports? That's because it's illegal to lie to shareholders. AI is booming (if you're a pleb) but if you have money - Goldman Sachs will be honest with you instead web.archive.org/web/20240629...

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“Parents need to stay off the internet. It’s too dangerous for them. Causes them to yell into an empty room about politics. Scary stuff.”

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They have to gently guide us through. It’s not our fault we were born in the 1900s 😂

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Dr. Nope

It is difficult raising parents but what can you do 🤷🏾‍♀️😂

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Dr. Nope

I am sure they complain about the internet parent panics on their group chats!

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Elizabeth Sacha Baroness Cohen

I know! I was shocked. And then, I was impressed. And then it was obvious that misinfo is a multi way highway. It’s not just boomers and babies getting duped out in these internet streets!

I came to my 14 year old with a concern about social media. He literally took his glasses off, rubbed his temples, and asked: “what have the moms on the internet said now?” 😯🫤😆

Moral of the story: your teens are also concerned about what misinformation YOU have encountered on the World Wide Web.

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Mississippi is the poorest state in the US. Even though the state gets federal welfare funds, it is difficult to get welfare. The money was all getting stolen, and they got away with it. Now the journalists who exposed the story are facing a lawsuit and jail. www.nbcnews.com/investigatio...

She exposed how the nation's poorest state spent federal welfare money. Now she might go to jail.www.nbcnews.com "The rabbit's got the gun now," said a lawyer for former Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant, who is trying to force reporter Anna Wolfe to reveal her sources.

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We don't have a crisis of attendance. We have a society-wide mental health crisis. We have a crisis of mass disablement. We have a cost of living crisis. Attendance is a symptom. Individual-level positive & negative incentives to get students to class solve nothing on their own.

Yep. Another world is inevitable. What will it be?

Or as I sometimes like to put it: "Another world is *inevitable*. Choose carefully." The world we have is unsustainable and unstable. It's going away. If we don't want to live in an even worse world, we have to build a better one and - as you say - build it together.

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A Democrat: someone who is too committed to the institutions to take their own side in a knife fight.

I personally think we should unsubscribe unless and until the institution can be made less partisan & less powerful.

Probably natural to make comparisons to the Dred Scott Court as the standard bearer for awfulness. But also important to remember Dred Scott was ignored by several states in 1857, & then by the Republican Congress during the Civil War. Most 19th c Americans did not subscribe to judicial supremacy 2/

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Brent J. Arnold

Well, true. 😆 Been a bit smug about not being a constitutional monarchy but given the rouge court y’all seem to have solved for x on this one. 😐

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Kaitlin Has Had Enough

Hell Nah, even.

And what do we call someone against whom there is NO RECOURSE or appeal to alternative authority?

Can't be impeached because presidential impeachment has been a dead letter since parties came into existence. Can't be disqualified from office. And can't be prosecuted for crimes committed under color of office.

You do not have to be a lawyer, a historian, or a political scientist or even like the U.S. very much to understand the very basic fact that the U.S. was made to be king-less & this court-who swore an oath to uphold the constitution-just gave us kings. They should be sacked. Full stop. No nuance.

America can accept this Supreme Court as legitimate and its rulings as the final word - or it can have true democracy and a functioning state. But not both. Wrote this a year ago - and things have only gotten worse: The Rogue Court vs Modern Democracy 1/ thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/the-rogue-...

The Rogue Court vs Modern Democracythomaszimmer.substack.com America can accept this Supreme Court as legitimate and its rulings as the final word - or it can have true democracy and a functioning state. But not both.

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According to my originalist reading of the plain text of the constitution, what the founders really fuckin loved was kings

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Daniel Drezner

I see what you did there. 😆

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Instead of panicking or yet another postmortem (forgive me I've been Black this whole time so not much of this is breaking for me), link up with like minded folk for practical solidarity. Shield those more vulnerable than you and figure out how you can soften structural abandonment.

A republic, if you can keep it.