David Esdale

Devotees of "violence providing redemption", it is so stupid and getting stupider..

I am in El Paso now, one of the safest places in the US as it has been for years. Danger is from MAGA gunners shooting up our stores..

Echoed in "Omnivores Deceptions".. both need to be abandoned...

" A double helix of destruction: Speciesism and Capitalism"

Well said!... Dignity....

It's so clear that there's a huge number of professionals in the US who carry with them traumatic memories of being excluded, laughed at, or looked down up on by the Smart Kids and who have basically made hostility to Smart Kids their entire personality, ideology, & worldview.

They think only some people are worthy of dignity, those like themselves. That is not a wise or mature mindset.

Kirk did not get into West Point.....

Donate them to the Humane Society thrift shop, did the same a short while ago!

open.substack.com/pub/georgets...

It’s not just Trump the entirety of the fascist governmental infrastructure down to the state level is starting to turn up the volume on their Stochastic violence and attempts to target opposition voices with overt threats of death.

America is spiraling faster into the abyss now.

Thank you , Sarah..

Thoughtful discussion of something i don't like to thinl about.

This is insane, if true. Monumental lying from this administration and law inforcement.

This is a mature and needed discussion...goes to the core of morals... from mores, customs.

How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.

"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply."

me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually

www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

A poster on this site mentioned that if Lincoln had better Generals early on he would not have had to pick A Johnson as vp who gave clemency to the Confederates.

We need to get rid of the nukes or they will get rid of us.

A credit card worth of plastic in our brains is making the education direction less likely, tragically.

The US is so far off the spectrum on many issues. Dissolution may be the the best way forward after defunding the Department of War

In Greg Grandin's "america, america" the rest of the hemisphere got earlier pushback on the indigenous genocide resulting in a bit of humility.

Our Humanity Is Not up for Debate “The proper way to respond” to white supremacist fascism “is to have a backbone,” says Tariq Khan, a historian and lecturer at Yale University, in

www.counterpunch.org/2025/09/22/o...

"... let's debate anything other than the dehumanization of people."...

YouTube video by Katie Phang Trump THROWS Himself UNDER THE BUS With INCRIMINATING Posts

This is a true, break the glass moment.

Convicted Felon, Donald Trump, has ordered his DOJ to criminally prosecute his political enemies, but his comments will bite him in the ass.

I discuss this existential threat to democracy and why it’s a REAL emergency.

youtu.be/crRmS5_Us-o?...

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I get the political take but it's also an unethical take given the anti-abortion legislation kills pregnant people.

We've gotten to a point where we've forgotten that the role of politics is to actually make society better.

Just like the role of economics is to help socially allocate resources

The firing of Inspector Generals throughout the government allows the criminality to spread, also.

This is the scale necessary for an energy transition, intead we have Trump stopping what has been in the works. Our political and economic is pushing us all over the cliff. And we spend more on military than the next 9 countries combined.

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In the Disunited States, Conflict and Uncertainty Rule - Time to Come Home - CounterPunch.org www.counterpunch.org/2025/09/18/i...

Yes, it does matter.

We are so far off the spectrum of rational policy discussion. Reagan's treasury sec met with industry people to move manufacturing offshore!