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Category: politics

  • What to do pt. 2

    https://community.citizensclimate.org/tools/protect-noaa# Citizens Climate Lobby is a great organization lobbying for climate issues. Here’s a simple way to mail your representatives a constructive note about NOAA.

  • You know what to do

    https://action.aclu.org/send-message/keep-doge-out-our-data

  • Führerprinzip: “He who saves his Country does not violate any law”

    I won’t link to his post on his (very own) social network, but this article on Salmon should show you how to find it. President Trump just claimed he can do no wrong, a strange concept that like other strange concepts has a German word describing it: Führerprinzip: was the basis of executive authority in…

  • Fascism: pt 1

    There’s a lot of talk about fascism recently, it’s hard to know how seriously to take it. This is a pretty good signal of how serious: The White House bans the AP indefinitely over the use of ‘Gulf of Mexico Here’s a well written list of fascist take over characteristics. Maybe make a bingo card?

  • What’s wrong with eliminating  government waste, pt. 2

    Tl;Dr: Corruption. The New York Times spells it out. This shows how the agencies being targeted by Musk effect his business. Reducing governance means they have fewer rules to follow (the rules that protect you, me & the rest of the whole world).

  • Government Waste & the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

    Tl;Dr: The administration has shut down a government program that protects citizens from bad businesses because it’s wasteful? Really? The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau CFPB) is an independent agency of the United States government responsible for consumer protection in the financial sector. CFPB’s jurisdiction includes banks, credit unions, securities firms, payday lenders, mortgage-servicing operations, foreclosure relief services, debt collectors, for-profit colleges, and other financial companies operating…

  • Broken Promises: part 1

    Tl;Dr: Shout out where Trump’s actions violate campaign promises There’s not much that will be more effective than showing Trump supporters how their support is being used in ways they didn’t vote for. Here’s a great example: Trump’s Political Platform promises “Make America the dominant energy producer in the world, by far!”. The theory goes…

  • What’s wrong with eliminating government waste?

    Tl;Dr: Who decides what’s waste? A: the program needs to be legitimate, fair, and governed or it’s just fraud. Trump campaigned on a promise of reducing governmental wasteful spending and fraud. The appeal is obvious and universal: we pay taxes,  we want those dollars to be spent well. This is called “Motherhood and Apple Pie”…

  • Networked States and the Fediverse

    Tl;Dr: If the problem is centralized governance, why isn’t de-centralized ‘federated’ options the answer – like Lemmy? One wing of the Trump coalition is working towards Dark Enlightenment, and wants to create Networked States: de-centralized micro-nations that allow authoritarian rule and ‘easy Exit’. Who ever ‘owns’ the Networked State sets the rules, anybody who joins…

  • Confederacy of Dunces, Snowcrash & MadMax

    This post is about Dark Enlightenment, one of the ideologies in Trump’s coalition of crazys. Note: this is a work in progress… Not very polished. Tl;Dr: In Snowcrash Neal Stephenson wrote about neighborhood City/States with different laws. Dark Enlightenment wants to crash the U. S. to make this real, so they can live in Ayn…