"If they can punish him, they can punish any of us" has been a procedural directive for elected leaders, rather than a corrective nightmare.
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I'm not sure any of this is a good idea.
Propagation They cut me from home certain I would wither there— instead, I took root. Funny what survives when given a little dirt of its own. ~ cmj #mpprompt #poetryprompt #writingcommunity
It is my greatest pleasure in life to work on becoming my own exceptionally capable personal agent that understands me, my goals, and everything I care about.
So you're running for office? If you don't see your mission as establishing democratic norms, furthering a common civic abundance, and upholding a system of laws based on fundamental respect for every single human, then god, Jed. I don't even want to know you.
Why would anyone think that bloodyhirsty liars would honor any agreement?
Let's make it normal to have people over when the house isn't perfectly clean. Dust on some of the furniture, cooking smells, cat hair in the baseboard corners. Let's coin a word for the friends who don't care about your perfect cleaning and never report on it to others. Let's be that friend.
reading and thinking about the sacred web of abundance as defined by folks from Stop Cop City and the connections between hero worship and colonization
Defending Abundance Everywhere
Weelaunee Web Collective Defending Abundance Everywhere A Call to Every Community from the Weelaunee Forest March 2, 2023
theanarchistlibrary.org
If you crave bombing and killing, the target is only a matter of what you can get away with. Hatred must always seek a target.
What happens when a country that hates us to our marrow and thinks in thousand year time frames gets AI and any set of leaked, consolidated personal data? Hm.
Stupidity and incompetence are national security vulnerabilities.
Sara Morgan: "For the Union Man" youtu.be/IjFJQuppqVQ?...
"For the Union Man"
YouTube video by Sara Morgan
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Hey kids! Want an act of resistance? Increase the volume of personal mail.
When people wrongly detained are freed, we must not only bear but without bureaucratic obstacles exceed the payment of their housing, employment, education, and medical and therapy needs. Convince me these are not meant to be death camps.
Systemic control has been for decades in the hands of people who accepted child rape as normal, and participated as a badge of coolness. Who's running supply for them now?
It is an experience of child abuse to live with someone who uses hate to manage a fear of weakness. It is child abuse to teach a child to hate the weak. Better a millstone be hung around your neck than to cause one of these little ones to stumble.
The first thing a person might do with voter data is make a detailed map. Many other pieces of information might be cross-referenced to make other maps, very useful in planning, erm, let's call them personally customized marketing initiatives.
I read aloud the Bill of Rights today, for the second year. Next year I intend to invite friends to join for this and share a meal. We'll read these Rights, the preamble to the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, and the Emancipation Proclamation.
Chaos serves the hidden swirls of power. Plant the garden, feed the hungry, attend or play live music, gather with our friends, play games, and laugh: They may strip our security in law, but be damned if they make us forget our lives were meant light hearted. Not one penny of that to tyrant power.
For some, gaining power causes the brain to switch off human sympathy and tolerance for considering diverging opinions. Others' brain's malfunction causes them to seek power. Both sets lust for proximity to power, to gain it by association or to prove dominance.
I've never questioned my father's love, that giraffe, with its deep, pleading eyes and slow, leafy agenda, though no one, not even my mother, could tell me what was going on in its head.
Malachy Moran@malformed-poetry.bsky.social · 9mo agoToday’s #poetryprompt: I want you to zoomorphize a concept (Imagine it as an animal). An emotion, a memory, a state of being. For example, I have imagined silence as a dog. #MPPrompt I repost replies. Follow for daily prompts
I don't want a health care system. I want a health care culture. Where we want to take care of each other; where we want each other cared for. Shareholder profits are incompatible with this idea.
Not: "Fed up Dems put heat on..." Instead say: "Fed up people." Screw the badges. E pluribus unum. Muddy those waters.
Our culture could benefit from formal "emeritus" structures in any and all halls of power, from the smallest local charity board to the U.S. Senate.
What's the point of deterrence against Russia if one is bent on transformation into what looks just like the Russian police state? Remove the wall of personal liberties, and Alaska becomes a door.