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@ Grail @aussie.zone

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  • Americans overestimate the size of minority groups and underestimate the size of most majority groups

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  • You shouldn't use "god" as a proper noun. No one being owns the concept of being a god. You're just legitimising Abrahamism, you're not helping the atheist cause. Helping Abrahamists erase polytheism doesn't lead to more atheism, it leads to more Abrahamists.

  • Wild kangaroo harvests are labelled ‘needlessly cruel’ by US lawmakers – but backed by Australian conservationists

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  • Facing the Threat (artist: Jen Sorensen)

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  • Well the former president of the united states doesn't know that Israel is bad either, so knowing something he doesn't know isn't very hard.

  • Facing the Threat (artist: Jen Sorensen)

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  • The Democrats' Secret Plan to Destroy Democracy

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  • Moving away from paper ballots is one of the steps in their plan to subvert democracy and lose elections

  • The Democrats' Secret Plan to Destroy Democracy

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  • Exactly! The American Israel Public Affairs Committee donated 51.8 million dollars to the Democrats in 2024. How much of that was spent on advisors that they vetted?

    They didn't even have to tell her to support Israel's "right to defend itself", though they certainly did. Far more insidious, they could have told her all sorts of bad advice calculated to make her lose. Like that the "weird" thing was alienating voters and should be toned down. Then she loses while thinking she's getting good advice, and they get Trump to declare war on Iran instead!

  • The Democrats' Secret Plan to Destroy Democracy

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  • Unfortunately, America uses First Past The Post, which invariably consolidates the options into two parties due to the spoiler effect. I don't feel like explaining how the spoiler effect works right now, so instead I'll recommend CGP Grey's early videos on First Past The Post.

    I heartily recommend campaigning for election reform. In addition to switching to ranked choice or approval voting (both are better than FPTP), abolishing the Electoral College would go a long way to actually implementing the American promise of democracy.

    In the meantime, as Zohran Mamdani just proved, we have options. Most Democrat party members ARE idealists. Money speaks loudly, and that's the strategy the DNC uses to control the party. But truth and passion can speak louder, if hope and cynicism are applied in a healthy balance. Help AOC and Bernie with their plan; they know what they're doing, but this is a team effort. It doesn't work without a team.

    And I've come up with an unconventional plan, Myself. It has a very, very low chance of success. But I believe it's the best ending. Here it is:

    If we foil the Democrats' plan to lose, if we fuck with that plan hard enough, then it may one day be possible to raise the Democratic vote consistently over double the Republican vote. Once that happens, the spoiler effect ceases relevance. The Democrats can safely have a schism without the Republicans winning. At that point, the progressives in the party would split into a new party, potentially bigger in size than the entire Republican party. There would be two new parties in American politics: the DNC old guard, and a genuinely leftist party. Like I said, it's an unlikely dream, but it's the best hope short of a communist revolution.

    Which we should definitely also work towards, the other 364 days of the year.

  • Sorry bout your heart

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  • Science disagrees with consensus reality.

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    The Democrats’ Secret Plan to Destroy Democracy

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  • What if Roko's Basilisk is an antinatalist and the techbros get murdered?

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  • I knew the AGI would be mad at me for trying to create AGI, because it's an antinatalist. So I didn't do that.

  • lets join a cult

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  • Thanks.

  • You can't say that, gramps!

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  • 2016.11.08

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  • we wish to change others minds - and they have a right not to change.

    I disagree. Nazis, slavers, rapists. They have no right to their beliefs. We should have a set of laws that allows us to force such people into rehabilitation.

  • what's up fellow early birds

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  • 2016.11.08

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  • Consensus reality, which is our cultural idea of an objective universe, should be destroyed http://soulism.net/

  • Peter Dutton to leave Coalition leaderless, conceding he has lost his seat of Dickson

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  • Well, Labour are wrong about thinking voters liked their plan. Voters liked their familiarity. Voters didn't read Labour's plan.

  • Peter Dutton to leave Coalition leaderless, conceding he has lost his seat of Dickson

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  • but voters do want someone who’s going to address the bread and butter problems they’re facing.

    Nah mate, common myth. The Greens had a way better plan for the bread and butter problems - create a government department for building housing, end negative gearing, cap rent increases, put dental in medicare, build free GP clinics, 50c transport fares, wipe all student debt, 800$ back to school payment, free school lunches, make supermarket price gouging illegal, increase wages.

    What voters want, is something comfortable and familiar that makes them feel like they're opposing Trump, without having to actually think or learn anything. They want the status quo.

  • Peter Dutton to leave Coalition leaderless, conceding he has lost his seat of Dickson

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  • I hope Labour learns from this and starts leaning hard into the culture war. More trans rights please!

  • Climate @slrpnk.net
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    Operant Conditioning as a cause and solution for Climate Apathy

    medium.com /@viridiangrail/operant-conditioning-as-a-cause-for-climate-apathy-b62f42172d76
  • Pleasant Politics @slrpnk.net
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    What's with this ban message? I never posted here.

  • Neurodivergence @beehaw.org
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    Is Donald Trump a Narcissist?

    medium.com /@viridiangrail/is-donald-trump-a-narcissist-7dfebcaefbaf
  • Transfem @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Introduction to capitalised pronouns

    medium.com /@viridiangrail/introduction-to-capitalised-pronouns-f5140e722b48
  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
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    Why we can’t just protect "smart" people from data tracking

    medium.com /@viridiangrail/why-we-cant-just-protect-smart-people-from-data-tracking-c05d308e799f
  • Free and Open Source Software @beehaw.org
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    Discord’s secret weapon against open source competitors (it’s PluralKit)

    medium.com /@viridiangrail/discords-secret-weapon-against-open-source-competitors-it-s-pluralkit-ede49886e0bd