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Daily Alchemy: a question to think on together
3h ago“When a leader uses a national celebration to push their own story, what are we actually celebrating and who gets to decide?”
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Reminds me there’s a Michael Meade quote I found recently, "Abuse is the wrong thing done to the wrong person by the wrong person at the wrong time. Regardless how wrong it is, the soul experiences abuse as an initiatory experience.... Gun violence in the USA schools
This weekend Stephanie got onto an instagram rabbithole which took her into some dark, near-conspiracy places about gun violence. The sad bit was of course the increase in polarization, rather than an increase in compassion, or even solutions focus.... - Philip...
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I mean he did kind of claim to have this super power in advance back in 2016: "I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and wouldn’t lose any voters, okay?" Trump said, mimicking firing a gun with his fingers.... - Wirvine...
I think there has been a steady increase in executive power, since at least FDR, but likely stemming from the wartime powers Lincoln used and the subsequent reconcstruction presidents who were the first to deal with a lot of issues that would reoccur after them (Industrial... What's good about Trump?
I don't follow (American national) politics a ton, but I know Trump is an incredibly divisive figure who just got convicted of 34 felony counts, while still being favored as the Republican candidate for the next presidential race.... INTRODUCTION Neither King Nor Mob I first encountered American politics as an argument, not a spectacle. At fifteen, I read The Federalist Papers and the Anti-Federalist responses.... Neither King Nor Mob
INTRODUCTION Neither King Nor Mob I first encountered American politics as an argument, not a spectacle. At fifteen, I read The Federalist Papers and the Anti-Federalist responses.... - abluevoice...
When you have a lot of uninformed, and many Maga low IQ voters as Trump has attracted you can see the personification and power of radical right wing propaganda which is controlling any political debate now in America.... - pacjac...
🔥 “When Freedom Taxes Its Own” They call themselves conservative Americans, freedom‑loving patriots, defenders of the American Dream. But out here in the Plains States — Nebraska, South Dakota, Kansas, Iowa — those same “freedom‑loving” leaders are taxing homeowners for... - ScottNeuman...
I’m one of these crazy people who believe there’s 12 amendments in the Bill of Rights and not 10 and I run Boldtruth.com to prove it and right now there’s a congressman in California that believes it also but he’s putting out a bill to kill one of them off before anybody else... What actually happened on January 6th?: Symptom readers
The groundwater In 1964, 77 percent of Americans told Gallup they trusted the federal government to do the right thing most of the time. By 2019, that number was 17 percent. The decline was not sudden.... What actually happened on January 6th?: The Story
The ceremony Here is a ritual almost nobody thinks about until it breaks. Every four years, on January 6, the Vice President opens envelopes at the front of a joint session of Congress. Each envelope contains a certificate from a state, listing the electors and their votes....