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Cake day: July 10th, 2024

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  • Wait until the $200 billion they put into ICE starts paying off. This shit is just testing the waters. By the midterms, they’ll be talking about “illegals” voting in elections and turning the ICE-enforced police state loose on the polls to intimidate voters.

    In Nazi Germany, the “legal” enforcers stood over you while you either checked voting for the Nazi party or not. Russia’s elections are similar. America’s elections have had problems over the centuries, but they’ve never been that. Not on a national level across the board. It’s the KKK burning crosses everywhere all at once.



  • The great need for anything good to happen policy-wise is that death grip on controlled information and shaping opinion be broken. The Luigi Mangione story showed it was possible. The Epstein Files are refusing to be buried.

    There’s still a chance. The surrender of public discourse to tech can start reaching levels of inauthenticity and distrust that can become critical. The AI hype is proof of that. Regular people who interact with it realize it’s shit, while the parasite class keeps doubling down on bad investments.

    If people can start looking around them and seeing how badly government needs to support working people over elite Nazi pedophiles hiding their list, that’s when labels like “socialist” stop being campaign killers.






  • The American experiment has well and truly failed in the Information Age. Emotional ties to national politics guide most voters far more than self-interest or even oblivious interests of the local community. Gerrymandering has silenced local communities but has also become a weapon yielded that cannot be ignored. “When they go low, we go high” was naive back then. It’s suicidal now.

    Gerrymandering is just a symptom of the monolithic fascism that is designed to funnel tax breaks to and end corruption investigations of the oligarchs who run everything. They steal our money and rape children right in front of our eyes, and they get away with it.

    It would be nice to think Texas will do the right thing and provide representation, but they won’t. Blue state governors and legislatures need to adjust accordingly.


  • The beauty of the 300-year-old American federalist system is that states enjoy a wide range of special rights to be ultimately determined by the current makeup of the Supreme Court with absolutely no checks on their power. Supreme Court Justices are lifetime appointees who can be bribed publicly and are free to lie about it, and there is no mechanism to question their ethics or remove them from their positions outside of a full impeachment like with Trump.

    The state supreme courts have a good deal of power, but only to the extent that the federal Supreme Court doesn’t take it away. I can’t imagine a more fertile ground for fascism to be experimented upon legally if people of conscience do nothing.