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This is a "contract with America" style idea. The Republican party used the contract with America when they were a minority party to re-energize their base and define who they were (eg. horrible, but some people like that?)
The thing about a Contract or Party Pledge is you get EVERY (or almost every) member to pledge to do something significant that people care about:
* No more stock trading * Contribution Limits eg. end to special interests
This shouldn't be a big ask but I know that it is. The stock thing is just not worth it. It makes every single person involved look ugly. YES the public cares.
The "no more special interests" might raise the worry "but how do you win an election without big money?"
They seem to be able to lose them with big money. Let's try something new. Also, send any donors off to fund alternative media instead.
What do you do about the fact that Democrats don't have any credibility at all? That's the problem I can't find a solution for.
When a Democrat promises something good around policy, I literally sneer. It's like watching Trump call himself a "mega genius" or something: so transparently false that there isn't even a breath of time when I think "maybe they actually will-!"
Multiply me by 100 million voters, and that's your problem right there
That's a good point: if they're able to actually do something conscientiously it could make an impact on the total lack of trust they face from most of their voters after 6 months of collaboration.
I have significant doubts they'd be able to actually fulfill that promise, and if they screwed up and were caught trying to hide dark money it would be 10x bad.
Trouble is, that category includes ALL of their planetwrecking corporate sugar daddies-- oh, and the Founding Fathers, for that matter. So I'm not gonna hold my breath.
Listening to people criticize Trump who never once criticized Biden triggers me. If you did not speak out against lockdowns, masks, forced-coerced shots, Ukraine, Gaza, laptop, corruption in the D party, Russiagate, Biden's cognitive decline, legal action against Trump etc etc you do not get to piss and moan about Trump's authoritarian streaks. We will do it. So it sounds reasonable and not unhinged. Just clean your own house up.
my brother in law is this person. Claims to be more libertarian. On day 1 of second trump term, the negative facebook posts came back. However, not a single Facebook comment the previous 4 years.
"On August 5, Savely Frolov celebrates his birthday. He turns 24. Savely is an anti-fascist and anti-war activist from Moscow. He used to be a fencing coach and in the summer he traveled to Altai, where he worked as a pararafting and parakayaking instructor at a charity camp for children with cerebral palsy. Savely took part in the 2021 protests, and after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine
The Guardian has identified the self-described “national socialist” behind an openly extremist YouTube channel which – rife with neo-Nazi ideology, antisemitism and racism – garnered 50k subscribers, 2.3m views and likely thousands of dollars from YouTube’s revenue-sharing monetization program in just over two months theguardian.com/us-news/2025/a…
Chris Booth’s channel – rife with neo-Nazi ideology, antisemitism and racism – garnered 2.3m views and likely thousands of dollars from YouTube in about two months
"... the rate of interest … is not a function of the quantity of money. It is a function of “time preference,” of the rate at which people prefer satisfactions in the present to the same satisfactions in the future. … … time preference is deeply rooted in human nature and the nature of man; it is not in the least a monetary phenomenon but would be just as true in a world of barter." — Murray N. Rothbard. #economics #rothdard #capitalism #austrianeconomics
I think this is the challenge to market systems: the myth of the informed consumer is a myth not because of a lack of information, but a lack of mental circuits for longer time preference, complexity, and so on.
People like easy answers. This is why free markets lead right to communism. That is not to say that free markets are wrong, just that they have their limitations and cannot be a system in themselves.
@monarchist @freepatriot Monaco and Liechtenstein for lessons, the key to stable monarchies/principalities/libertarian societies is the wealth of the people.
If people are wealthier than the surrounding people, there's no space for envy to get a hold. If there is no space for envy, then socialism cannot grow, and the society will continue to prosper.
Add state of the art schools to this, to build firewalls in the minds of the children to keep socialism out.
AI Parody Music Video poking fun at the online hysteria surrounding Sydney Sweeney's American Eagle jeans campaign.✅ Blue jeans✅ Blonde panic✅ DEI gone wild✅...
AI Parody Music Video poking fun at the online hysteria surrounding Sydney Sweeney's American Eagle jeans campaign.✅ Blue jeans✅ Blonde panic✅ DEI gone wild✅...
Behavioral Scientists Now Believe Feminists Are Always Angry Because They Don't Have A Man To Tell Them To Calm Down
At publishing time, fashion experts had released a theory that hypothesizes that feminists all dress so stupidly because they don't have a man around to tell them that dresses look nice.
Welcome to Forgotten History where the stories they don’t want you to remember finally come to light. Hosted by Colin Heaton and Michael Droberg, we expose the hidden truth behind some of the most shocking, forgotten, or intentionally buried events i…
Tonight a number of us were at an anti-fascist counter protest, off the back of the GB national strike protests, this was was at a refugee hotel in Aberdeen.
There was about 120 fash, 30 anti-fash and only 25 police. but they didn't get near the hotel.
So to any Aberdonians here, you need to pay attention, a lot of this stuff is being spread on other social media networks. This is what the first embers of fascism looks like, imagine what we could do if we outnumber them.
"Michael Seidel, the FOIA division‘s chief who vehemently opposed Patel’s orders and whom Patel blamed for Attorney General Pam Bondi not receiving all Epstein-related documents, retired after being threatened with termination, Leopold reported." msn.com/en-us/news/politics/fb… #Trump&Epstein #Epstein&Trump #Trump&Epstein #Epstein&Trump #Trump&Epstein #Epstein&Trump
من مشهد الإذلال الجوي للمساعدات الإسبانية التي أُسقطت على قطاع غزة اليوم
لقطات قصيرة تختصر جانبًا صغيرًا فقط من حجم الدمار الهائل الذي يلفّ كل زاوية في القطاع المنكوب.
On this particular, and particularly, fruitless Saturday evening I'm going to watch another episode of Shifty and pretend that bad things only happen in the past for a while.
Our princess of the day 💎 is soooooo SWEET and I know you want to see her without those shorts on. I'll post a BONUS pic of her... later on after today's purge.
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Andy Jassy's description of an AI-generated ad that Alexa+ delivers in a multistep conversation, which could help users find new products, is uncharted territory for Amazon and the broader tech industry.
"Anarchy is what happens wherever order is not imposed by force. It is freedom: the process of continually reinventing ourselves and our relationships.
Any freely occurring process or phenomenon—a rainforest, a circle of friends, your own body—is an anarchic harmony that persists through constant change. Top-down control, on the other hand, can only be maintained by constraint or coercion: the precarious discipline of the high-school detention room, the factory farm in which pesticides and herbicides defend sterile rows of genetically modified corn, the fragile hegemony of a superpower.
Anarchism is the idea that everyone is entitled to complete self-determination. No law, government, or decision-making process is more important than the needs and desires of actual human beings. People should be free to shape their relations to their mutual satisfaction, and to stand up for themselves as they see fit.
Anarchism is not a dogma or a blueprint. It is not a system that would supposedly work if only it were applied right, like democracy, nor a goal to be realized in some far-off future, like communism. It is a way of acting and relating that we can put into practice right now. In reference to any value system or course of action, we can begin by asking: How does it distribute power?
Anarchists oppose all forms of hierarchy—every currency that concentrates power into the hands of a few, every mechanism that puts us at a distance from our potential. Against closed systems, we relish the unknown before us, the chaos within us by virtue of which we are able to be free."
She lost her three children in the genocide war on Gaza, and this was the last of them waiting for aid after being targeted by the Israeli army in northern Zikim, Gaza Strip
Please follow them, and educate yourself via their first-hand accounts on what people are enduring in Gaza.
If you take offense at them and others asking for donations, to feed and save their own and other families, consider what you'd do yourself if you had to pay $60 / 50€ for a single kilogram of flour.
Or, alternatively, again and again, had to fear for the life of a family member that's away, walking miles and miles to queue up at an "aid distribution" site where soldiers have killed more than a thousand desperate people already, merely for trying to get hold of something to eat.
Yes, there are many fraudulent people trying to exploit your sympathy, on the back of the #Palestinians in Gaza. No, its not impossible to find at least one trustworthy human being in need, and to help them survive.
[Update 4: Digging deeper, and having had conversations with several others, I have come to the conclusion that I need to remove another account, due to serious doubts, when looking at the whole picture. I will leave this post up, for transparency.]
[Update 3: Added a reply to this post, concerning donations and scams]
[Update 2: Upon further interaction, the removed account proved to be fraudulent, it'll stay removed]
[Update: temporarily removed one of the accounts mentioned, since it needs further verification]
There have been numerous reports about #Gaza-related scams hitting social media. Take them with caution, and seek for evidence. Leaving a scammer account up is as bad as taking a legit account down, by reporting, just because you think it "might be" a scam.
I do not donate larger amounts to campaigns of individuals. Larger amounts go to long-standing aid organizations with a positive reputation.
I may be scammed by individual scammers for smaller amounts, sometimes without even learning about it, afterwards. I'm taking the loss, reporting both the accounts on the respective social media server, and their campaigns on the respective fundraising platforms.
I'm reminding you of my recommendation, above: Taking offense at somebody merely for asking for donations is not ok. It erodes any form of mutual aid. Looking for verification, and stopping to promote somebody's posts when you see evidence of fraud, is the thing to do.
The one thing I hated about Bluesky was the number of TERFs and other far right types there. No real human moderation, lots of impersonation, and block lists can't keep up as Bluesky allows you to create other names too to easier to spoof and get round blocks and mutes. It's a hell-hole almost as bad as the dead bird site. Glad we have a decent group here with almost no TERFs.
In a double win for Judicial Watch and clean elections, federal courts in California and Illinois separately ruled this week that our lawsuits may proceed against those states to force them to clean up their dirty voter rolls.
I want to rework the TFF guest submission form, but I don't want to rebuild it in Google. Can anyone recommend something GNU/Forms that isn't going to take 900 hours?
Pars Today – While the Zionist regime and the United States have shifted to a cognitive and narrative war against Iran following the 12-day war, some Europ...
there's no reason to pay for streaming services or games ever, don't, please don't, take that money and give it to people who need it, never throw money away on shit you can get for free, that is the definition of irrational
I don't think diversity per se does damage. Enforced social engineering does damage, and calling it diversity when in fact it is uniformity does great damage
Islamic Center pleads for leniency for convicted child rapist over 'this situation' An Islamic Center in Minnesota has written to a judge handling the case of a man convicted of child rape seeking leniency for him over "this situation," when he "abducted the 12-year-old girl from her backyard, bashed her over the head, and transported her in his car, where he raped her before she was able to escape." wnd.com/2025/08/islamic-center…
Gaza Government Media Office: Only 73 trucks entered Gaza yesterday, the majority of which were subjected to looting due to the security chaos perpetuated by the occupation.
Gaza needs at least 500 trucks per day as minimum requirement to feed the starving population
street robbers are more honest and have more integrity than socialists. they are willing to do their plundering themselves and dont hide behind government and false morality
Parents watch children waste away as deliberate aid restrictions from Israel mean hunger is becoming a killer, as experts confirm famine is currently playing out
Aaron Regunberg writes a letter to his Jewish American mother, who refuses to oppose Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza:
"Dear Mom,
It’s time for us to talk about Israel. …
I need to express what it’s doing to my heart to see you—and much of your generation—fail to grapple with Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza. Because that is what we’re talking about here."
"Gaza now has the highest number of amputee children per capita in the world, Gazan children are being purposely targeted by IDF snipers, all civilian infrastructure across the region is being systematically leveled, Gazans are being regularly massacred at Israeli-run food distribution sites, and mass starvation is underway. This isn’t a war Israel is prosecuting, and hasn’t been for a long time, if it ever was."
"What Israel is pursuing, in the words of former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, is 'indiscriminate, limitless, cruel and criminal killing of civilians,' not from 'some disproportionate outburst by some soldiers in some unit' but through 'government policy—knowingly, evilly, irresponsibly dictated.'
Growing up, every aspect of my Jewish identity was connected to the Holocaust…."
And to the insistence that Jews could not let this happen to anyone...
"The debate over whether or not Gaza is a genocide is, effectively, over. So can we now also stop pretending that we are mere bystanders to this genocide? That our sin is one only of omission rather than commission? Because the inconvenient truth is that the US has not just looked the other way, as tens of thousands of Palestinians have been besieged and bombed, starved and slaughtered, but helped Israel pull the trigger."
To realize you are just a cog in the machine is to recognize your power, because in that moment you know two other things: one, you are inside the machine, and two, there is at least one place you can jam a shoe in to sabotage the machine’s operation.
myrmepropagandist
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This shouldn't be a big ask but I know that it is. The stock thing is just not worth it. It makes every single person involved look ugly. YES the public cares.
The "no more special interests" might raise the worry "but how do you win an election without big money?"
They seem to be able to lose them with big money. Let's try something new. Also, send any donors off to fund alternative media instead.
Keep your little hands clean if your dare.
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John
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What do you do about the fact that Democrats don't have any credibility at all? That's the problem I can't find a solution for.
When a Democrat promises something good around policy, I literally sneer. It's like watching Trump call himself a "mega genius" or something: so transparently false that there isn't even a breath of time when I think "maybe they actually will-!"
Multiply me by 100 million voters, and that's your problem right there
myrmepropagandist
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@johnzajac
They can show that they have done these things.
Donations are reported and that's how we know how many of them take dubious funds.
I don't know as much about how to do transparency with the stocks.
This isn't an "I'm gonna" this is a "we just did, and the Republicans won't."
John
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That's a good point: if they're able to actually do something conscientiously it could make an impact on the total lack of trust they face from most of their voters after 6 months of collaboration.
I have significant doubts they'd be able to actually fulfill that promise, and if they screwed up and were caught trying to hide dark money it would be 10x bad.
Violet Madder
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@johnzajac
I only want one thing from Democrats:
Stop collaborating with fascists. Period.
Trouble is, that category includes ALL of their planetwrecking corporate sugar daddies-- oh, and the Founding Fathers, for that matter. So I'm not gonna hold my breath.
myrmepropagandist
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I have other much more radical suggestions but I was tying to think of things you could ... maybe get everyone on board with.
And things that can be acted on in real time.