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Bored of peace.

A real strawperson argument.

Many Americans died to defend a “multicultural economic zone”. It was called the American Revolution.

1850.

None More Wonderful Than Man: Art, Artists, and MAGA’s Hollow View of Humanity MAGA sees art as nothing more than a tool of self-aggrandizement, and artists as less than human.

“What they fear most is the plain truth of being human.”

Whamo.

Propaganda in cinemas, newsrooms slashed: this is the US media under Trump and his tech barons | Nesrine Malik The president and his supporters joining forces to decide what audiences read and see seems straight from a fascism playbook, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

“Everywhere you look in this age of tech-mogul-owned media, decisions follow these fascistic tastes.”

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Would dem leaders talk differently if they were TRYING to sound clueless and ineffectual? House is on fire and they want to mow the lawn.

Ms Riefenstahl was unable to attend due to ill health.

Stop calling this political group “conservatives”. They don’t deserve the little dignity the name confers. They are followers of an insane tyrant. Just call them Trumpists.

Fleeing the United States I quickly left behind most of my possessions, my friends, community, and my country to start my life over in the city where my grandmother fled Nazis.

Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day. I fled the place my grandparents settled to the place they fled Nazis. Every thing done during those dark times to help others mattered immensely and are celebrated. Resistance, empathy and humanity matter.

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Imagine what he could do with a bathroom full of nuclear secrets.

Also: they want it back. That’s their idea of greatness.

They’re bored of peace.

America vs. the World President Trump wants to return to the 19th century’s international order. He will leave America less prosperous—and the whole world less secure.

This really is the article to read.

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

Opinion | One Year of Trump. The Time to Act Is Now, While We Still Can.

“The only way to keep the space from imploding is to fill it, to prop up the walls: to claim all the room there still is for speaking, writing, publishing, protesting, voting.”

🔥 JUST NOW — Rep. @ilhanmn.bsky.social lights up complicit Republicans: “Those of us who escaped places like that, the one place we thought we would never experience this is the united Goddamn states… I am ashamed. And we must do all we can to bring back the 🇺🇸 we all escaped into.

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Here are some more ("Nazi-Style") posts from the U.S. Department of Labor . . .

... they no longer try to hide it.

🖕 Trump and his fascist regime !!
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U.S. Attacked Boat With Aircraft That Looked Like a Civilian Plane

“…the laws of armed conflict forbid combatants from feigning civilian status to fool adversaries into dropping their guard, then attacking and killing them. That is a war crime called ‘perfidy.’”

I can't believe I'm posting this video - but we actually have to have a conversation about the real world implications of America going to war over Greenland.

Let me walk you through it. It doesn't turn out well for us.

“Except” might be more accurate atm.

Oh wow sad news. Bobby & the Midnites and JGB at New Haven Coliseum 1982 was an intro to another world. RIP.

What a bunch of horseshit.

Trump Lays Out a Vision of Power Restrained Only by ‘My Own Morality’

In other words: nothing.

Impeach or shut up.

They speak of justice while ruling through fear. They speak of sovereignty while stealing the vote. They speak of dignity while condemning their own people. I learned that those who insist the most on calling themselves "the good ones" are often the ones most afraid to face themselves. The Maduro regime wraps itself in flags, in anti-imperialist rhetoric, in a false epic where any criticism is labeled as betrayal. They claim to defend Venezuela, yet they stole the people's voice when they refused to respect the elections. That act alone strips away any moral authority. But do not be mistaken. The fact that a tyrant is real does not automatically turn an external aggressor into a savior. The United States does not act out of love for democracy. It acts out of interest. It always has. The language changes, the enemy changes, but the method remains the same: pressure, punishment, displays of power. And as always, the blow is not absorbed by those in power, but by ordinary people.

The Venezuelan people are trapped between two narratives that do not represent them. One that oppresses them from within, and another that exploits them from outside. One that claims legitimacy without real elections. Another that claims justice without taking responsibility for the human consequences of its actions. I do not defend Maduro. I point at him. But I also refuse to accept that a global power can appoint itself as a moral judge while its history is written in interventions, sanctions, and broken countries. Pain does not need propaganda. Hunger does not understand geopolitics. Dignity is not imposed with missiles, nor with dictatorships. While some sell themselves as the good ones to justify repression, and others sell themselves as the good ones to justify aggression, the result is always the same: more suffering, more rage, more generations learning that force replaces justice. And once again, pain is inherited.

Another post from a Venezuelan friend:

The word “Afghanistan” is not mentioned once in this piece, which is very telling. The invasion of Iraq is when the US took its eye off Afghanistan, thinking it had “won”. There were still 10-15k US troops there, prob as many mercs or more, and large diplo presence. The arrogance proved fatal.

Frank Zappa knew exactly what he was talking about back in 1986 when he was being interviewed with three Conservatives! 👇👇👇👇

Wait — what cat? Where is it? If it’s a MAGA cat, it must be a white cat… or maybe a calico cat trying to pass as a white cat. If it’s a black cat, it’s only there because of some childless cat lady DEI conspiracy. Wait — WTAF is this knob talking about?