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  • ETERNAL TORMENT

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  • Teach a man to fish and you'll have one new fisherman. Teach a man to teach a man to fish, and you'll start a new fishery education pyramid scheme.

  • Trump unveiling 2028 campaign hats: ‘Soft launching a fascist dictatorship is insane’

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  • Well, if you ever get the opportunity to punch Trump in the nose, I hope you take it and more.

  • Trump unveiling 2028 campaign hats: ‘Soft launching a fascist dictatorship is insane’

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  • Well, it matters for us if there's enough people to punish everyone. It's like speeding - there aren't enough traffic cops to catch every speeder, so while my mom would've gotten plenty of tickets if there were, in reality she rarely ever got one. If we organize, we can overwhelm the criminal justice system. It's not a fun prospect, and I'd really hoped we could pull ourselves out of this situation by other means, but our current president is actively advertising his plans to become a dictator - working within the system is no longer an option.

  • Trump unveiling 2028 campaign hats: ‘Soft launching a fascist dictatorship is insane’

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  • My mom used to always speed like crazy, and when people would complain, pointing to the speed limit signs, she'd always respond with something along the lines of "signs can't limit speed, let me know if you see a cop instead." Some people just don't give a shit about the forms of soft power meant to keep people in line without taking real action against them. My mom was one, and our current president is another. The funny thing is that we're going to have to ignore them as well to stop him.

  • The Project 2025 Presidency: The blueprint for Trump 2.0 predicted much of what we’ve seen so far—and much of what’s to come.

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  • The vast majority of the people who would actually fight on the right side of history have been thoroughly pacified by the rhetoric that using a weapon would be unacceptably barbaric, and that if you can't make the change you want with words, you're just not finding the right words. We'll be holding quippy signs and chanting about justice even as the country literally crumbles around us.

  • Judge orders Trump administration to restore Voice of America

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  • They're wryly saying that when Trump inevitably ignores this latest of judicial orders, there will continue to be no consequences save for more angry reminders that he's not supposed to do that.

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  • They don't just want to choose not to think, because then they might have pangs of regret from making that choice. They want others to tell them that women aren't allowed to think, so that it's no longer their decision, and so it can't be their fault if it's a bad one.

  • Harvard sues the Trump administration, taking the fight over federal funding and academic freedom to court

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  • Oh boy! Soon there'll be a new court ruling for Trump to ignore without consequence!

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    Show Us You're Not A Puppet - We Double Dog Dare You

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  • I've said it before and I'll say it again: they don't support Trump because they agree with him, they agree with him because he's Trump. It doesn't matter if he flip flops on topics every couple of weeks, it doesn't matter if he directly screws over his own followers, it doesn't matter if he spits in the face of all things America has ever claimed to stand for; if Trump says or does something, his followers will support it. Every time.

  • i thought it was a negotiation tactic

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  • The same people who were convinced Mexico would pay for the wall. At least until it became undeniable that we were paying for it, at which point they instead claimed that they always believed we'd be the ones to pay, and that it was a necessary sacrifice. The same thing they're starting to do for this.

    That's the thing - his supporters have no idea what's going on, but they don't want to lose face by admitting it, so they're constantly just pretending that whatever is happening is part of the plan, and make up whatever reasoning they have to in order to justify it. We're a country of naked emperors pretending we're wearing clothes.

  • Judge won’t take further steps to enforce his order in AP case against Trump administration

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  • And I'm sure at Easter dinner my whole family will still be saying "Thank god Trump's second term will be over in 4 years and things will go back to normal!" as if anyone in the government will actually be willing and able to prevent him from simply continuing on with his dictatorship. This cinches it for me - I'm convinced that we're not getting out of this without American Revolution 2.0.

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    Regarding the US and The Orange Man

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  • Exactly. We can't treat this like a schoolyard bully who just wants to make himself feel big, no matter how much the big man acts like it - the government has real power over us, and is already putting legal citizens in foreign prisons to die. This isn't pulling our beards and flicking our faces, this is putting a gun to all of our heads, and pulling the trigger for some.

  • Four Democrats Pass Bill Making It Harder for Married Women to Vote

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  • Everyone already knows all the republicans supported it; anything under their jurisdiction is already a lost cause. What I want to know is how many people from the "left" party can't even keep their own votes on the right side of history. It's not news when villains are villains - it's news when the people who say they're here to fight back against the villains are caught supporting them, and it's important not to drown out that important detail among a bunch of already-known regressives. People need to see that the current democratic party isn't a viable defense against conservativism, and that we need to do something more to get things moving in the right direction again than simply trusting democrats to fix everything.

  • also the climate, war, natural disaster and dictatorships but still

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  • Anyone that would stop would've done so well before they got to the point of obscene wealth. Billionaires can only stop hypothetically - the only way to get them to actually stop is through force.

  • Bernie Sanders says U.S. under Trump is facing "unprecedented level of danger"

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  • If by "we" you're referring to the American people as a whole, then no, no we don't. So many people I talk to are treating this like just another 4 years of republican shenanigans; I rarely find someone in real life who understands just how close we are to all-out war.

  • North Carolina judges side with Republican colleague in close Supreme Court election

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  • They're in a country full of angry people with guns who have been trained over generations to think that there's no need to use them - that protests will be enough because the only next logical step after that would be violence, and nobody wants that. But really, I don't have a lot of faith that most will actually use them - I know in my heart of hearts that I won't. I think we've been trained to have such faith in our loud bark that we're left completely unable to bite. There are a few individuals who have worked up the courage to take real action, but we'd need a lot more than that to scare the wealthy into playing fair. I hope I'm wrong, but every time I think about taking that next logical step as a result of all the inconsequential protests, I fail to even come close to having the courage to do so, and I don't think I the only one.

  • Embrace this Truth and enjoy life

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  • It's true that we evolved in response to an environment, but the actual genetic changes that allowed for that were not developed with purpose. They happened randomly, and the ones that happened to provide a benefit made those individuals more likely to have more kids that those with less beneficial random changes.

  • Chuck Schumer clung to belief Republicans would ‘expel’ Trump, book says

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  • Remember, there are 2 reasons why someone might say something. Either it's the truth, which makes no sense as you pointed out, or it's a convenient lie, which makes perfect sense for someone who benefits from maintaining the status quo while pretending to fight against it. It's well past the time to assume people are telling the truth until proven otherwise. It's time to just straight-up call a politician's lie a lie from the smell alone.

  • Trust your training

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  • It was ruined for me when I was getting my masters in genetics and learned that "mitochondria" is plural, and the singular is "mitochondrion." So, it's either "the mitochondria are the powerhouse of the cell" or "the mitochondrion is the powerhouse of the cell," and neither feel right.