A lot of people are bemoaning Trump’s election as a failure of democracy. I think the reactions of the losing party reveal a bigger failure (which both parties are guilty of):

“Hillary failed to motivate the Democratic base.” (I hate the term “base”. It means “the extremists”.)

“Clinton got only 88% of the black vote. Obama got 93%.” (Should have run someone who would have been the first black president again instead.)

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That's an interesting as hell headline so let's take a read shall we?

https://nypost.com/2021/03/31/no-prison-for-transgender-neo-nazi-after-threatening-black-jewish-journalists/

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Link here. Content warning: Discussion of pretty awful stuff, photographs of violence.

My favourite articles tend to be the ones that tear into my old, or even recent, beliefs. There's probably something Catholic penance-y about the whole thing.

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Nationalism has had it's way once more...

So. Yesterday a referendum took place where the British peeps voted on whether we should leave the EU. This arose after the strong opinion within the population that we could operate outside the EU. Lemme' go over a few things.

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well, I was reluctant to put this link here, because I dislike some anti-Marx sentiment at end of it (lets not ignore what Marx discovered, and even probably more importantly _why_ he discovered it ... while realizing a lot of history happened since 1870 ...) but starting passage actually good/important enough:

http://themisescircle.org/blog/2013/03/24/the-glorious-triumph-of-anarchy-in-my-little-pony-friendship-is-magic/

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Putin is trying to threaten Nordic countries. For those who don't know, Scandinavia has arguably the highest concentration of black metal fans on the planet. Just imagine a bunch of angry satanists running after Putin with nail bats, battle axes, and torches. He's making enemies of some of the most take no shit people in the world. Now I really wanna see a metal band gang up on him and beat the shit out of him. Make an example out of all would-be imperialist dictators.

Some heavy philosophy!
Symptomatic Commentary

Not sure if any of this will be useful for anyone, but I still think reading a tiny bit better than drinking alcohol.

Additionally there was post from same person who shared link to blog above:

Political predictions

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I used to be a good progressive liberal. If 3 years ago you'd told me that there was a conspiracy to overthrow Western civilization's commitment to progress, humanism, equality, and freedom, and that an army of changelings had set up a beachhead in many Western universities by taking over English departments--kicking out or muzzling the professors who were interested in English or literature, and redefining words to disguise the fact that they weren’t studying literature anymore--I'd have

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Or read this angry rant here, instead.

So a mass shooting in New Zealand occurs. 49 dead, 20 seriously wounded by right wing mass shooters specifically citing the 'great replacement' racial science theory. This becomes an Australian story, because the shooter was an Australian emigrant.

So of course a senator from my state is making the news with their official statement.

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INCOMING POLITICS! and also cursing.

But I can't. because I'm absolutely livid. If you didn't know, today was the day of the biggest demo worldwide in mankinds history, advocating for stopping climate change. I was in Stuttgart, with 30.000 other people. Berlin had 270.000. 500 demos in Germany alone.

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SRC

Autotransaltion

Thursday, February 4, 2021
Never again a dolphinarium in Belgium!

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Repost!

I Acknowledge Psychedelic Class Warfare Exists
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Any significant political change at this point will be built on solidarity or not at all.

In the US and probably elsewhere, Electoralism can't save us for a host of structural reasons.

Which means the only way we're going to navigate the next 10 or 20 years of troubles is to organize with each other. It doesn't matter what form that will take, it'll need to grow out of established trust relationships.

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/savingandinvesting/here-s-why-companies-are-willing-to-blow-up-their-brands-and-watch-their-profits-plunge/ar-AA1bVOrB?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=25600b661f7e4723afd83749e77dc243&ei=24

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For a left-leaning UK resident, this was not the happiest of weeks. After spending hours over-analysing polling data, speculating on what flavour of Labour/SNP/Green/LibDem parliament we would get, and the end result of the general election is the most unexpected and least cool scenario of a majority Conservative government. Intent on further cuts to public spending, abolishing the Human Rights Act, and taking a road which could lead to British exit from the European Union. Not cool.

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[EDIT: See Murcushio's comment explaining why I'm wrong. He's right.]

IMHO, the only thing the Democrats have to do to win the 2024 American Presidential election and not have a civil war is to stop pushing on gun control.

IMHO, the only thing the Republicans have to do to win that election is to run anyone other than Trump.

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"Ted Cruz introduced a term limit bill that would end his own career in the Senate" from Business Insider:

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Wouldn't be surprised if both Kemp wins reelection and Warnock somehow comes out on top.

Raise a glass to freedom...

What a fine evening to impeach a selfish, evil loser for a historic second time. What a great day for the House to cast the most bipartisan impeachment in history. What a gorgeous night for that jackass narcissist to finally, finally face some consequences for everything he's wrought on the world.

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