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Daily Alchemy: a question to think on together
14d ago“Should Governor Gavin Newsom have labeled the DOJ investigation into Donald Trump 'weaponized'?”
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I realize that especially as an American the juicy examples of shitty aristrocrats spring quickly to mind, but remember that monarchy was a stable form of government for literally thousands of years.... The transformation of marginalized people—specifically LGBTQ+ individuals, feminists, and racial minorities—from human communities into abstract "political ideologies" and "cultural issues" was a deliberate, highly orchestrated strategy.... Where is the line between accountability and mob rule?: Emergent norms
The pattern has a skeleton On June 9, 1954, Joseph Welch asked Senator McCarthy: "Have you no sense of decency, sir?" Within seven months, the Senate censured him. Within three years, he was dead. We have studied this cycle across centuries.... I personally think the shamelessness and sheer volume of lies is new, and alarming. I also think the vehemence people have on both sides of Trump, both idolization and demonization, is not good. Trump may be uniquely high in textbook narcissism....