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  • Hard-fought New Jersey election too close to call, as Democrats debate over the party's future

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  • If the Democrats want to have any future at all, they need to become a majoritarian party, not a party of elites or special interests. And, just to be clear, they need to be a party of the majority of PEOPLE, not a party of the people who have a majority of the MONEY. People, not dollars.

  • Trump says he will only accept the midterm results ‘if the elections are honest’ and again pushes to ‘nationalize’ voting

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  • The results will be "honest" if they are good for him.

  • Democrats’ 10 demands to ‘rein in’ ICE – the full list of proposed reforms

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  • It all seems so obvious, but I suppose that's where we are as a country in 2026.

  • Melinda French Gates on Bill Gates in Epstein files - 'Painful times in my marriage'

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  • Billionaires become billionaires because they want all of the power and privileges that come along with it. If having the total freedom and liberty to do whatever you want is your goal, there doesn't seem to be any better way to accomplish that than to become obscenely rich. And I think that's why so many people tolerate this cultural, social arrangement: because their goals are aligned with the super wealthy. The difference between the rich and the poor isn't their values, it's their net worth. That's why everyone is hustling so hard every day to try and get as rich as possible, so that one day, maybe, they might be the one laying out on the deck of a yacht, drinking expensive champagne, snorting coke and getting a hand job from a beautiful, young girl.

  • Trump goes public with plan to "take over" elections

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  • I guess I just think you're holding onto the idea of a world (or the USA) that no longer exists.

    Not necessarily. I think we are in the early days of the unwinding of US hegemony. I really don't think anything is going to stop that, at this point, and I think that's a good thing for the world, and even the US, in the long run. But I think a weakening US is at least potentially a dangerous thing, in the near term. I hope leveler heads will prevail but I'm not sure there are enough of those around in this country right now. I definitely hope I'm wrong, though.

    I think the US might even collapse. Not necessarily in the very near future, but at some point. And by collapse I mean the Federation dissolves and the Federal government ceases to exist. Some states might try to become independent nations, some might try to form a new federation or union. I'm not saying I think that's going to happen, or even that I think it's likely, but I think it's a possibility, albeit perhaps a remote one.

    There are a lot of future possibilities for the US, some better than others, but I don't know which future will happen nor which future "should" happen, necessarily. I just don't know. But I assure you, I'm not under any delusion that we can return to some mythical, stable past where everything was sunshine and roses. No, the past ain't coming back, nor should it. But that's the extent of what I'm confident about. Beyond that the future is a dense fog of possibility, and I certainly don't have the clarity to see which we are headed for.

    It's why it's so difficult for you to state any concrete plan

    I haven't stated a concrete plan because I don't have one. I have a general idea of what I want the US to be, but I have no idea how to bring that about. But even my general idea is not static. I constantly go back and forth on what I even want for this country. Do I want the US to even continue existing? Should we "balkanize?" Should the Federation remain in place, but perhaps with a significantly "weakened" Federal government? Or, should the opposite happen, with more centralization and nationalisation? I just don't know. I suppose there are advantages and disadvantages to all.

    I think a majority of Americans want the US to remain one nation, but I also think there's confusion about what the even means. A nation is more than a legal or civic arrangement. A nation is a group of people who share a common culture, language, traditions, beliefs, etc. I suppose we do share a lot of those things, but not necessarily all. And so when any American talks about America as a nation, I think they're talking about their own conception of it, their own experience of it, and our own conceptions and experiences of being "American" differ. I think that's part of what's happening right now: different Americans competing for the power to define what it means to be American, for all.

    But, ultimately, it's not up to me, anyway. I don't have the power to determine America's future. I'm just along for the ride.

  • Trump goes public with plan to "take over" elections

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  • You're right, I'm too scared. I'm clearly not cut out for this resistance stuff. But I'm sure you've got what it takes, so I'm pulling for you. Go get those fascists!

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  • Do you have a line?

    What's yours? If your line has been crossed, you go do something about it. Go ahead. I'm rooting for you.

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  • Look, go play soldier then. Go ahead. Go on, March to war. Good luck, I hope you win.

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  • They already ARE escalating

    If you think this is the maximum extent of how far they could escalate things, you are delusional.

    There's a reason why they wear masks, why they lie, manipulate and spread propaganda: because they can't yet act with total impunity. If they could they wouldn't bother with the masks or the secrecy, they'd just roll their tanks down every main street in the nation, capturing and/or killing anyone they felt like. They want that, but they can't possibly get away with that. Yet. There are too many citizens and social, cultural, and political institutions preventing them from the full, violent takeover that they want.

    However, if they can convince enough Americans that the "violent, traitorous left" is a serious enough threat, that they need to be given the powers to really take forceful control, then maybe. That's why they want us to commit violent acts against them, so they can portray us as violent socialists hell bent on destroying America. THEY WANT US TO ACT OUT VIOLENTLY AGAINST THEM. They're hoping for it.

    You know who knew this? Martin Luther King. He didn't advocate so strongly for nonviolent resistance just because he wanted to be a nice, peaceful guy. He did it because he knew the white supremacists desperately wanted to goat black civil rights activists into acting out violently, so that they could then go before a mostly ignorant, white populace and say, "See! See how violent these blacks can be?! We need to respond with force!"

    I'm telling you, trying to fight violence with violence is a very poor strategy. Maybe it will eventually come to that. Maybe a full out, knock down, drag out fight is inevitable, but we're not there yet. Don't be so quick to go to war. Not when it can still be prevented.

  • Minneapolis is showing a new kind of anti-Trump resistance

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  • There are about 235 million people in the US who identify as Christian. They are far from a monolith. There is considerable variability of values between all of those different denominations and congregations.

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  • But you are essentially arguing for doing nothing

    No, that's not true. I am arguing that we must be smart about what we do. Nonviolence is not the same as doing nothing.

  • China to ban hidden car door handles made popular by Tesla in world first

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  • The plug they came up with, that eventually became the NAC standard. Technology Connections did a video about it, and he is no Tesla fan, I assure you of that.

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  • No. That's exactly what they want. They want us to give them a reason to escalate. If they escalate anyway, then they expose themselves as the violent fascists that they are. That's important. Public perception does matter.

  • China to ban hidden car door handles made popular by Tesla in world first

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  • This is why Tesla has been a mixed bag. They have made some smart choices and they have made some not so smart choices. Unfortunately, because they essentially are the EV market in America, all other companies looking to bring EVs to the market have copied Tesla in many ways, both the good and the bad. I think that's at least part of the reason why the EV market is suffering right now.

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  • A unified and state armed multi state coalition.

    That's what they want. The fascists want us to give them a reason to escalate, because escalation will ensure that people stay away from the polls. We need to be organized, we need to be unified and we need to form a real resistance, but we also need to be smart, and that means NOT giving the fascists exactly what they're hoping for.

    ICE will not leave because we brought signs.

    Signs don't threaten them, that's true, and that's exactly the point. They want us to threaten them, because then they can escalate. We need to be smart. That doesn't mean we need to be ineffectual or passive, it means we need to be very careful about how we proceed.

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  • They won't need to do anything but put ICE outside the polls

    Then we show up and put ourselves between the polls and ICE.

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  • President Trump called on Republicans “to take over the voting in at least 15 places” in advance of the next election

    Yeah, that can't happen. We're going to have to stop them. Volunteer to be a poll worker, especially if you happen to live in any of these "15 places." This article doesn't say specifically which places these are, but I think it's safe to assume they are important swing districts.

  • Senate tells Mayes to resign; Hobbs calls AG's comments 'inappropriate'

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  • I don't know who you are and I don't care. Your opinion of me means absolutely nothing to me. Think whatever the hell you want about me, I don't care.

  • As US influence wanes, the Chinese trade surplus strangles manufacturing across the globe

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  • It's almost like capitalism is failing.

    Yeah, and it's taking forever. It's like watching an ultra show motion train wreck. It's maddening.

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