takeda @ takeda @lemm.ee Posts 0Comments 640Joined 5 mo. ago
Our problem is apathy. It is much more of us than them.
If we succeed and still have democracy the laws can be reverted, but as I mentioned the apathy is the biggest problem and the reason how we got where we are.
This is not end of the world, history is full of bad moments and we got out of them.
We need people to join protests to help change things, not kill themselves. If we accept that we have no power, we will have no power.
The Largest Upward Transfer of Wealth in American History
House Republicans voted to advance a bill that would offer lavish tax cuts for the rich while slashing benefits for the poor. By Jonathan Chait House Speaker Mike Johnson Kevin Dietsch / Getty May 22, 2025, 9:21 AM ET
House Republicans worked through the night to advance a massive piece of legislation that might, if enacted, carry out the largest upward transfer of wealth in American history.
That is not a side effect of the legislation, but its central purpose. The “big, beautiful bill” would pair huge cuts to food assistance and health insurance for low-income Americans with even larger tax cuts for affluent ones.
Hakeem Jeffries, the House minority leader, warned that the bill’s passage, by a 215–214 margin, would mark the moment the Republicans ensured the loss of their majority in the midterm elections. That may be so. But the Republicans have not pursued this bill for political reasons. They are employing a majority that they suspect is temporary to enact deep changes to the social compact.
The minority party always complains that the majority is “jamming through” major legislation, however deliberate the process may be. (During the year-long debate over the Affordable Care Act, Republicans farcically bemoaned the “rushed” process that consumed months of public hearings.) In this case, however, the indictment is undeniable. The House cemented the bill’s majority support with a series of last-minute changes whose effects have not been digested. The Congressional Budget Office has not even had time to calculate how many millions of Americans would lose health insurance, nor by how many trillions of dollars the deficit would increase.
The heedlessness of the process is an indication of its underlying fanaticism. The members of the Republican majority are behaving not like traditional conservatives but like revolutionaries who, having seized power, believe they must smash up the old order as quickly as possible before the country recognizes what is happening.
House Republicans are fully aware of the political and economic risks of this endeavor. Cutting taxes for the affluent is unpopular, and cutting Medicaid is even more so. That is why, instead of proudly proclaiming what the bill will accomplish, they are pretending it will do neither. House Republicans spent months warning of the political dangers of cutting Medicaid, a program that many of their own constituents rely on. The party’s response is to fall back on wordplay, pretending that their scheme of imposing complex work requirements, which are designed to cull eligible recipients who cannot navigate the paperwork burden, will not throw people off the program—when that is precisely the effect they are counting on to produce the necessary savings.
The less predictable dangers of their plan are macroeconomic. The bill spikes the deficit, largely because it devotes more money to lining the pockets of lawyers and CEOs than it saves by immiserating fast-food employees and ride-share drivers. Massive deficit spending is not always bad, and in some circumstances (emergencies, or recessions) it can be smart and responsible. In the middle of an economic expansion, with a large structural deficit already built into the budget, it is deeply irresponsible.
In recent years, deficit spending has been a political free ride. With interest rates high and rising, the situation has changed. Higher deficits oblige Washington to borrow more money, which can force it to pay investors higher interest rates to take on its debt, which in turn increases the deficit even more, as interest payments (now approaching $1 trillion a year) swell. The market could absorb a new equilibrium with a higher deficit, but that resolution is hardly assured. The compounding effect of higher debt leading to higher interest rates leading to higher debt can spin out of control.
House Republicans have made clear they are aware of both the political and the economic dangers of their plan, because in the recent past, they have repeatedly warned about both. Their willingness to take them on is a measure of their profound commitment.
And while the content of their beliefs can be questioned, the seriousness of their purpose cannot. Congressional Republicans are willing to endanger their hold on power to enact policy changes they believe in. And what they believe—what has been the party’s core moral foundation for decades—is that the government takes too much from the rich, and gives too much to the poor.
From some videos of him, it looks like he is either constantly high or his brain is already breaking.
Looks like Diaz guy purposely moved down to fuck the guy behind him.
Musk saying he is stepping down when week earlier was saying he will be there for a year (yes, I know he is behind the scenes, but was forced to not be public).
The narrative about Ukraine, Canada, Greenland softened.
Politicians who went to El Salvador.
The problem is that when this admin softened so did the protests and that's bad.
It is much harder to get a buy in from general population that arrests and natural law was necessary if the protests are peaceful.
Escalation caused by the government motivates more people to join the protest. While of protest was violent from the start more people will be against it and will avoid being part of it.
Another example, Ukrainian orange revolution and Euromaidan. It was started by students (BTW this is why trump attacks students) and as the government started being violent, made other Ukrainians join.
This.
musk went into hiding, the administration toned down, we need to continue and encourage others to do, otherwise all that effort was wasted.
The protests are happening all the time, especially on weekends. I unfortunately see mostly older folks there, and this affects us much more is than them as we will have to live with this for decades of we don't do anything. One time me that he lived here for 76 years and this is unprecedented. Please continue to show up https://mobilize.us/indivisible
Continue protests at Tesla, he is in hiding but still involved.
Also please join the training https://www.pramilaforcongress.com/the-resistance-lab
Peaceful protests actually work better, but requires actual action not just sitting at home and upvoting shit.
Poland was able to overthrow authoritarian regime via peaceful protests, general strikes. Yes, at moments they turned violent, but it is because the government escalated it.
We don't want this administration to use protest's violence to be used to consolidate their power, instead we want the violence caused by the government to encourage more people to join protests. It is more of us than them, we actually have more power and it is a matter of everyone realizing this.
I encourage everyone to take Resistance Lab training: https://www.pramilaforcongress.com/the-resistance-lab
He is, this is from interview 3 days ago: https://youtu.be/K_z7nDgblCU
Well, it is certain that the Twitter guy didn't do it, as despite the image he promotes of himself, he is not an engineer. He asked of someone to do it.
But this fiasco is highlighting something very important.
Since his bot has mechanism to inject opinions on specific topics, it means the technology is likely being trained to replace normal users with bots that will try to influence opinions of regular people.
It should be signal to drop social media especially Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and TikTok.
Related article: https://www.npr.org/2025/05/07/nx-s1-5387701/a-controversial-experiment-on-reddit-reveals-the-persuasive-powers-of-ai
There is some evidence that tabulating machines were tempered with. I was wondering if calling a bomb threat wasn't part of it.
When alarm was called and everyone left the building someone could get in and switched software.
Trump taking about Taylor Swift, congeess passing ridiculous bills, they are trying to distract that SCOTUS ruled that trump can't use Aliens Enemies Act to deport people.
They actually waved to get to him, as he was not loyal. He started investigation about Russia involvement in 2016 election and after Trump fired him, her got special counsel, Mueller.
This is just something they finally found on him, even though 86 means to remove.
Reposting, up upvoting does shit. We should protest. There are refuse fascism protests organized on May 17: https://refusefascism.org/2025/05/04/trumpmust-go-now-may-actions/
You can also use https://mobilize.us/ to find a nearby protests near you.
This is not because of Comey (as others pointed he is a piece of shit), but if they will go after him, they will go after us too.
This actually shows that they're is work being done to use LLM on social media to pretend to be ordinary users and trying to sway opinion of the population.
This is currently the biggest danger of LLM, and the bill to prevent states from regulating it is to ensure they can continue using it
Reality has a "left bias".
This is why all conservative subreddits have to curate who can post there because it easily shows that they are really a fringe group that don't reflect the general population.
Oh, under oath he knows this. This shows that those people know exactly what they are doing, and only play dumb to get away with responsibility.
To be fair, that single letter has very special meaning to him. On every vertex add a perpendicular line going clockwise and you get his favorite symbol.
If you look X in ASCII table you get 88, which represents his favorite phrase often said with the "my heart goes to you all" gesture.