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Like Sartre points out in the quote, anti-Semites don't want to persuade as much as they want "to intimate and disconcert."

Jewish indigeneity to the Levant is like. The one fact on Earth that is universally supported by all relevant scientific and religious evidence. It’s proven by historical records and archaeology and genetic studies, and it’s detailed in the Torah, the Christian Bible and the Quran.

I tend to agree with people who believe scientific evidence over religious texts, and I can understand why some people agree with religious texts over scientific evidence. But if you outright dismiss both in favor of propaganda you found online then I really don’t know how you help you

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We Went To The Town Elon Musk Took Hostage

Did you know the accident rate at Space X is six times higher than the space industry average?

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"You Know What Elon Musk DOESN'T Seem To Be Looking Into?"

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Elon and Zuck are INSECURE Men

This new Adam Conover video is one of the best on toxic masculinity, too. An excellent review and analysis of why the world's richest men keep appearing so pathetic in public.

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Wanna say young musician I knew was murdered on the street in the Over the Rhine section of Cincinnati. He was in his 50s. That's young to me. He was just walking down the street in the morning, and a 17 year old robbed him at gun point and shot him in the back. I don't like to say it, but I think things are really phucked up. I'm trying to get there myself, but I can't drink, and cannabis isn't enough to take the terrible, horrible stink of mankind out of my little gray cells.

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Historian Heather Cox Richardson: 'We're already in a coup'

The public and public opinion is important...

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How to Know You Are In A Cult (1953)

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"We have nothing to fear, but fear itself." - FDR, 1933

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Elizabeth Warren SMACKS DOWN Elon Musk

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"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness."

John Kenneth Galbraith

No one could’ve seen this coming.

Except maybe everyone who has ever heard anything at all about Trump & Republicans. Or ever spoken to a conservative. Or maybe read the news one time.

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As democracies have enlarged the voter franchise, the wealthiest have come to understand and fear that a fully enfranchised citizenry will use their political power to democratize the economy. In a democratized economy, everyone would gain in wealth, but the wealthiest's share of the whole would be decreased, and along with it, their political power. Therefore, the politics of division piting one segment of the electorate against another to keep them in disunity and from focusing on the economic inequality and the political inequality it helps maintains.

Elon Musk’s global influence.

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Republicans want you to tune out of the tax fight in Congress.

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Your Congressional Representative's office phone number and address can be obtained from the U. S. House of Representatives switchboard and the Clerk of the House at:

(202) 224-3121

If not now, when?

Historically, I have been an institutionalist. I opposed government shutdowns, because they hurt both public employees and everyone who relies on government services. I consider the debt ceiling unconstitutional, and failing to honor US financial commitments would be economically disastrous.

However.

You may have noticed that public employees and those dependent on public services are already being severely harmed by Elon Musk's illegal rampage through US institutions, and our ability to make credible commitments to the outside world has also already been severely compromised by the assertion that the executive can unilaterally decline to pay individual recipients that it objects to.

The deadline to fund the government is 14 March. The debt ceiling is likely to be breached again sometime in 2025.

If you have a Democratic representative in the House, I encourage you to call their office and tell them not to support any budget or debt proposal that does not include the funding for an Independent Counsel -- that cannot be fired by Trump or the Attorney General -- to investigate DOGE's illegal activities.

And if you happen to have a GOP Freedom Caucus representative, I encourage you to call them while pretending to be a right-winger and ask them to stick to their (insane) principles, which will force GOP majority to rely on Democratic votes to pass anything.

You can find your representative here: https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative

Generally, a couple of dozen phone calls on a specific issue is considered a lot of pressure by congressional staffers. You will make a difference by participating. Please be polite but firm (maybe a little less polite if you are doing the pretend right-winger part).

Please reblog this widely; this is one of the few remaining points of leverage a free citizenry still has before much uglier and more dangerous approaches become unavoidable.

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Musk is causing a world of misery

Elon Musk is causing an unprecedented amount of misery in the US and the world.

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TCM Star of the Month: W.C. Fields

W. C. Fields was a uniquely American entertainer on stage, screen, and radio.

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Neo-Nazi Group FLEES In Panic After Residents Give Them What They Deserve

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Ella Fitzgerald - I Thought About You

A complete Jazz performer, Ella improvised on melody and lyrics better than anyone, including Lady Day and Frank.