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It is now Shabbat in Jerusalem.

As far as I am aware, Ben-Gvir is still in the Cabinet.

You’re absolutely right that we’re not building enough housing. The construction rate collapsed in 2006 and never recovered. This is why rents are so high.

Today is #WorldMentalHealthDay. Step outside and take a moment for yourself. Feel the air, notice the colours, listen to the world around you 🍂

Lot of people confidently missing the point in the replies to this: if every cent of Elon musks net wealth was liquid, which it isn’t, that’s not even enough money to run the govt for two weeks. The problem less that they have money, and more how they use that money in destabilizing ways.

As a businessman, Rockefeller was a ruthless competitor, but he also feared God and took from that an obligation to help others. Carnegie wasn't religious, but felt a philosophical obligation to give away his wealth.

The Musk types think they're creating the God that ordains them to rule the peons.

This. I *think* it’s true that wealth concentration is not a problem in classical micro models.

The pressing we need a wealth tax is political power and incompetence. Musk, Thiel and the like want to end democracy.

This is the correct take, by the way. Why I have come around to some form of a wealth tax is not because I fantasise that it can pay for the government programs I want (it won’t) or moral disgust at wealth (don’t care), but because of very rich people using their money to warp the body politic

Aren't we all?

I feel very close to a unified theory of neuro degeneration and politics.

And getting closer all the time.

Because if there's ever a book to read literally its Revelations

i promise these people are doing more to defeat fascism by showing up every single day to counter the administration's narrative than people like this guy talking shit about them

There's people who are always saying "that's not how you do it!", those people are never the people who are doing anything, and they are often the people who got hornswoggled and outmanuvered by the fascists in the first place, so it's well past time for people like Dallas to shut up.

remember kids: fascists don’t mind being portrayed as evil but they do really mind being portrayed as silly and not scary at all

I swear some people forget that “messaging“ exists. Convincing the masses that fascists are stupid is not a useless action

Our PDX Frog and Chicken have been putting g in work and this is a fascist flattening narrative ! No Kings 18th PDX is going be off charts counter narrative - getting my inflatable today !!!

Another reason I love the Portland character is that actually yes this exact type of use of spectacle & history has been embedded into anti-fascist & anti-authority movements throughout history across multiple cultures to the point that we learn about it in performance studies.

I can’t speak about this guy specifically, but there are a lot of people online who hate the frogs, or hate other tactics like this, because these tactics are meant to prevent the escalation of violence instead of accelerate it

Providing a counterpoint to undercut the lies about how Portland is on fire and a lawless hellhole *is in fact doing something*

it's doing a lot more than posting on social media, for that matter, Dallas

Also, come on: it ruins, or at least makes it a lot harder, for Noem to gin up scary looking photos of protesters when every picture might include someone in a ridiculous inflatable costume.

people like this are so much more cringe than guys dancing in inflatable costumes or white grandmas with kitschy anti-trump memes on protest signs

Right now, we are at Phase 1 of a mass movement. This means building strength, winning hearts and minds, and making room for people that have never been active to wander in and participate.

The optics matter! Friendly protests are good!

the serbian otpor! movement is an excellent example of humor/satire being an extremely potent tool to out message fascism

One great tactic against fascists is to do something in protest that’s dumb and silly, but something that they still have to respond to or they’ll look dumb and silly, and then when they do respond they REALLY look dumb and silly.

Stay strong, Antifa amphibians.

It's ruining any "badass" propaganda videos Kristi Noem is trying to make. Makes perfect sense to me.

There is no better way to break the illusions of the fearmongers than benign absurdity and overtly peaceful protests.

Getting very strong "Fire B0mb a Walmart" vibes from that. Ridicule definitely cuts to these people's core of wanting to be feared.

An Interview With the Portland Chicken Jack Dickinson, 26, says “we’re winning this.”

Also this fella has been putting in the work ! on an excellent counter narrative

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

mocking authoritarians is the thing that drives them the most crazy, just ask john heartfield

Portland Frog gets it

Authoritarians believe the only way to make anyone do something is by force, they completely overlook persuasion: it's one of their biggest weaknesses and it pains me to see people on "my side" making the same mistake