Metamodern Democracy

YouTube video by Taylor Lorenz This Could End Billionaire Money in Politics

"SuperPACs don't benefit one party over another. However, they have allowed oligarchs to control the government and its policies. They have made it so that nearly every race is a choice between a shitty candidate and an insane one, both of whom work for the oligarchs."

YouTube video by US National Archives Don't Be a Sucker

Banger old American #antifascist propaganda film from WW2 era

YouTube video by Art of the Problem The Profit Paradox

Very insightful analogy through nature and energy!
Distinction between the narrow "profit" of zero-sum games - where one entity's profit is another's loss, and the kind of wholesome profit that benefits the larger system as well.

A.k.a trying to compassionately help them deepen their understanding. That is atleast if they are actually a good faith actor... If not, then I guess you're more talking to everyone else witnessing that conversation, and trying to help anyone who holds a similar view, develop a better understanding.

Great question! Imo a good way is to relate to their POV, understand (or remember, as you have likely been through the same stage too) why they think as they do, and then weave their concern/insight (there's a seed of truth, even if it's distorted) into the bigger picture seen from higher stages.

This Is Fascism

YouTube video by Naomi Brockwell TV How Surveillance Turns You Into a Puppet of the Internet

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xr9l...

Orpo, Orpo you cannot hide!
You're supporting genocide!

‘They roll right over’: Many Democrats call their party weak and ineffective, AP-NORC poll finds A poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds that many Democrats see their political party as “weak” or “ineffective.”

This shouldn’t be surprising. The only way to fight back is to… actually fight back.

If Democrats want to improve their approval rating (or far more importantly, make actual change), we need real leadership to put up real resistance to authoritarianism.
apnews.com/article/ap-p...

A person without a sufficiently developed psychological operating system will equate 'what he is told by authority' with 'what is right'.

Netanyahu moves to fire attorney general prosecuting him for corruption Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government unanimously voted Monday to fire Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara, who is currently prosecuting him for corruption.

Seems legit 😅
ground.news/article/neta...

#TrumpTrainWreck
"This is what anyone who loves the United States of America should be saying. I for one am tired of my government trying to manipulate me with falsehoods."

Not to mention helping all of your followers get more than just an unconfirmed rumor from your posts. Win - Win!

Please link sources! It would give u so much more legitimacy.

INSANE 😬🤯

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From left to right to left again: S. Korea’s political pendulum swings again Since South Korea’s democratization in 1987, power has swung back and forth between conservative and progressive forces with a certain rhythm — roughly every de

This could be absolutely Enormous news for the #BasicIncome movement, as Korea elects a new President with a proven track record of advocating for a Korean UBI
👀 Eyes on 👀
zurl.co/OewAW

Sorry the truth is ugly around this mess :/

He definitely had a big enough impact that without Elon, Trump would've lost.

Yea and if u wanna dig into the creepy background philosophy that Thiel and many other of the tech broligarchs are influenced by, go ahead and check out Curtis Yarvin 😬
Afaik, also JD Vance has somewhat close ties to Curtis...

Spoiler: "the poor should be made into biodiesel" -type shit

Probably the most based thing the man ever said.

I know right... No offense to actual cockroaches 💜

Ah ye too few characters available to mention in the original post, but only EU citizens can vote, since it's initiative for EU legistlation.

Thank you very much for trying to sign still! Appreciate it! 🥰

Good news is that it already passed the required 1 million signs!! :)

TYVM everyone who help

European Citizens' Initiative Give your support !

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Sign EU initiative to ban conversion "therapies"! It still needs 222k signs! There's time until TOMORROW, may 17th!

Conversion therapy (unsuccessfully) attempts to force #LGBTQ folks to become cis and heterosexual! UN considers it TORTURE btw.

Sign at eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/ + SHARE TYVM!🙏💙

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Thanks for the suggestions! Gonna have to look into those when the time is right 🙏 Noted.

European Citizens' Initiative Give your support !

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Sign the EU petition to ban conversion therapies, pls! It still needs 239k signs! There's time until may 17th aka very little!

Conversion therapy (unsuccessfully) attempts to force #LGBTQ folks cis and heterosexual! UN considers it TORTURE. Based UN 🔥
Sign at eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/ TYVM! 🙏