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Cake day: June 22nd, 2023

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  • No, start taking all these things seriously. Why wouldn’t Greenland/Denmark put some resources into it? What other superpower is making threats against their sovereign land?

    Figure out what media channels, what sort of disinformation avenues will be used, what major political parties would be corrupted… Assess, implement whatever policies can help combat these vectors, and worst case, if Trump wasn’t serious, you’ve strengthened your country against foreign influence campaigns.

    Best case, Trump is serious, but you make it just difficult enough that he fucks off to do some other bullshit instead.

    And if it’s all a distraction for something else, then address that something else in parallel.

    It’s like how the media wouldn’t call Trump out on lies just because he does it so much. No. Fucking call him out every time. Do not pass go, do not collect $200, you just blatantly lied, here’s the receipts, here’s the clip, stop fucking talking about other shit until you explain this. Instead we just get bedazzled by his torrent of bullshit and just start hoping for the best, which clearly is not working in our favor.















  • We did have a 90% tax bracket… and Roe v. Wade, and Presidents who were presumably accountable to the justice system, and elections that people generally accepted the outcome, and much less toxic disconnect between political parties, and media that wasn’t all owned by a handful of billionaires, and we had the Fairness Doctrine, and Citizens United.

    So yah getting back to that basic level of functionality would be nice actually.

    Whenever I think of “MAGA” I think of the strong middle class that characterized post-war America and wonder wtf these people are actually doing.