St. Foucault | they/them

Good quote, but Douglass was a brainwashed classical “liberal” who supported the fascist Constitution, an instrument that has kept our democracy down since its inception.

I voted for Claudia de la Cruz, but in anti-Trump solidarity, happy belated Super Bowl Sunday to you.

Ted Lieu is one of the sanest and bravest voices in Congress. Impeach and prosecute Trump!

So are all Republicans and most Democrats, including the Clintons. We don't need a ruling class. We need leaders who will work for the people, like Zohran Mamdani and AOC.

The pardons are likely not invalid. The Constitution places no limits on the President’s pardon power.

And this tells us what the real problem is: the Constitution itself. It has to go.

The real solution here is pretty obvious, isn't it? Outlaw paywalls. Outlaw ads. Media should be a public service run directly by the people.

Correct. Abolish the police. Abolish ICE. Open the borders. Abolish the Constitution, which obstructs democracy at every turn.

I’m not saying we shouldn’t have order. We need something to keep the fascists down, but we need to hit the reset button and try something new.

Kid Rock belongs in prison, not on a stage.

They can’t “do their job” because of the Constitution, which must be abolished. It obstructs wise policy at every turn. In a just society the fascists would be barred from holding office, barred from even speaking.

Clinton wouldn’t have lifted up anything. She’s a hardcore neoliberal toady. Better than a Nazi like Trump, but not much.

What needs to go is the Constitution itself. It failed, but that's because it sucked from the very beginning. Billionaires exist because of it. So does white supremacy. So does homelessness.

We need a new dispensation that gets out of the way of our democracy.

The First Amendment must go, by any means necessary. Trump's racist post about the Obamas and the very existence of Fox News make that clear.

In a sane society, Trump's post would be a punishable offense. And Fox News would be banned.

Read Marcuse's essay "Repressive Tolerance".

No one should be able to have more than one house until the unhoused are all housed. Any "idle" housing (and that includes AirBnB especially) should be used for unhoused families.

Uncle Fester

The real problem is bigger than Trump. White people, or at a minimum white cishet men, need to step back from politics for at least a couple of centuries. Trump is just a symptom of white supremacy. We need to cure the disease.

Restore? No, that piece of shit should be abolished. We need a new constitution founded on justice, one which lets our democracy work instead of getting in its way.

The problem here is the First Amendment. It has to go. Posts like Trump's aren't just vile, they should be illegal, with real consequences including prison time.

A former Republican Congressman is a fascist by definition. I guess that's better than being a Nazi like Trump. (I'll give you "fatso pants" though. Spot on! 🤣 I guess even fascists can be funny sometimes.)

Sure. Use a dynamically typed language full of shared state and side effects.

Seems "secure" to me. 🤣

Doesn't matter. Whites shouldn't serve in politics for at least the next couple of centuries.

The solution in the US is obvious, politically difficult, but well understood. Look at Germany. They did it.

Abolish the First Amendment. Good idea, terrible outcome, just like color blindness. Outlaw fascism. Hell, outlaw the right entirely.

The problem here is with the word "business" and its artificial constraints. Get rid of that and the problem goes away.

Once this is over and justice restored, there needs to be a de-Nazification process. ICE agents need to be re-educated, to understand that morality's arrow doesn't point to them, but to the oppressed.

In general I think whites should not serve in politics. They should take a back seat for a couple of centuries. But in lieu of that, Ossoff is just the kind of sober justice-oriented thinker we need.

In a sane society, Trump's racist post wouldn't just be "problematic", it would get him a prison term.

"Facts" and "truth" are sometimes important, but they are best left to experts. This is why the focus of online moderation should be on harm-reduction, which is real and immediate, and not on statistics.

The work of Kate Starbird is critical here. www.hcde.washington.edu/starbird

Reminder that disagreement can still cause harm. Intent doesn't erase impact. Please be mindful in replies. 🌱