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cjpaloma

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New instance, same opinionated human

Pro democracy, pro compassion, pro peace, anti social hierarchies based in false assumptions

putting pressure on people to do the right things more than half a year before an election is not traitorous

Profile pic: photo of a bunch of different animal tracks in mud

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Most people who aspire to being "rugged individuals" have been told in tons of ways that it is not cool to be vulnerable. Ever. In any way.

Unfortunately avoidance of vulnerability ALSO keeps tons of people in really stunted levels of emotional awareness.

Why? Because allowing a little bit of vulnerability is necessary for us to truly experience all kinds of good emotions: compassion, trust, love, generosity, etc.

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This has been known in different ways and in probably almost all cultures for thousands of years.

AND ALSO throughout history: the -MOST unaware folks in those cultures (the people pushing for wars and domination and CREATING needless suffering) don't -ever- listen this.

People socialized to be compassionate just do not do as many shitty things. They don't knowingly oppress, or harm for power or profits. They just don't. This has been the real struggle for centuries.

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grrrr, just saw someone say "I'm not criticizing the engineers for going along with the Microsoft project. Getting laid off is a valid concern."

I will criticize them. Far too many people tend to just shrug off what they KNOW are REALLY ethically problematic aspects of their work.

You're just following orders?

Fuck you.

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Each non nazi white person needs to convert 5 white nazis.

cjpaloma,
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@philip_cardella @StillIRise1963

honestly, I think there's a huge and under recognized difference between people reactively reeling from and then acting out fear/insecurity (and creating rationalizations from it)

and people having enough emotional sensitivity to accurately identify and use their emotions (capacities for compassion, ability to identify suffering, etc) sensibly.

There are a bunch of reasons why patriarchy sneers at people (especially men) developing emotional sensitivity.

StillIRise1963, to random
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It speaks volumes that all American “journalists” are on X basking in the attention of nazis and themselves.

cjpaloma,
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@StillIRise1963 yeah, that's one I got wrong. I really thought Twitter would totally collapse within a half a year of when Elon began actively poisoning it.

It's kind of like Kissinger though- so unfair it is still living on.

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if I were biden, I’d whip every single willing rep and senator into a full action plan to bring integrity to the supreme court, starting with the demand that judges whose households have documented partisan or ethics issues involving politicians must be recused from all decisions involving those leaders

https://www.theguardian.com/law/article/2024/may/18/samuel-alito-flag-supreme-court-ethics-election?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

cjpaloma,
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@xgranade @seachanger I love this. Angry much? Yes, yes, I most certainly am.

StillIRise1963, to random
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What I find most disgusting is all the people who knew Diddy was abusing Cassie and others and kept their mouths shut because of money. I have no respect for that shit. It’s INDEFENSIBLE.

cjpaloma,
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@StillIRise1963 variations on it are also very very common.

So much of what ails us about modern life is far too many people chasing money/security who pretend they "can't know for sure" what's going on.

It's a variation on that same "moderate" denial that keeps all the "isms" in place.

The white moderate who still isn't sure police are routinely brutal to POC, the male who isn't sure sexism still exists.

It's utter cowardice disguised as being polite.

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earlier boosted news of a R congress guy with 7 kids, filing for divorce after cheating on his wife with another R congress gal

now we have new details about the moms for liberty exec…who obviously needs -decades- of therapy in addition to being held accountable for harms done to LGBTQ community….the source is the local NPR station. Details are …sad (and gross) due to the obvious level of self hatred seen soooo often in authoritarians.

https://www.wusf.org/courts-law/2024-05-16/christian-bridget-ziegler-pubs-threesome-partners-sarasota-police-report

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authoritarians are cowards. every damned last one of them.

When you have folks who are so emotionally out of touch with themselves they can't handle their own desires due to fear of being rejected…you end up with self loathing people who don't have any tools for dealing with real emotions..

They hate themselves but they can't face it, so they (say it with me) PROJECT their self loathing outwards.

if they just harmed themselves, it would only be sad. But they HARM OTHERS

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a popular news aggregator active on this site (ahem) is lamenting how many chain restaurants there are and urging people to follow their foodie accounts for metro areas

…using Eater, which is mostly owned by Vox. (Vox is owned by Comcast)

They also urge us to get "local news" from their accounts for local metro areas… great, will they use local papers, and columnists????

Nah…get local news through…axios... which is mostly owned by Cox Enterprises, a multi $bn company

no hypocrisy here!

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I'm going to ramble a bit, but it will hopefully come around to something. When I was growing up, I read a lot of older historical book series, a big one would be the Little House On The Prairie series. While I really enjoyed it, there are some very obviously negative portrayals of Native Americans and African Americans. I remember being angry about it as a kid, and my Dad telling me, that part of learning about history is that we have to acknowledge the people we were, and still are. But because Little House on the Prairie is only semi-autobiographical, I still have mixed feelings about this. I do think they are well written books by a female author, an interesting perspective on early American life, and as an adult I can see and acknowledge the issues with the text. If we try to get rid of every author with racist ideas there wouldn't be much left to read from the 20th Century, and it also feels like being dishonest about who we are. So, I'm very mixed, how do you all feel about it? Do you think children can handle books with racial issues like this if it's explained to them? What is our responsibility here?

cjpaloma,
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@RickiTarr Kids (like the young of many species) are designed to be -mostly- sponges, they learn from what they are exposed to. If animals learn the wrong stuff, they don't survive.

The saying "garbage in, garbage out" while overly simplified, applies.

Far too many of us are already not spending enough time unlearning the garbage we were fed about racism, sexism, assumptions about how to live with others, peace, economics, how to treat the environment, etc. around us.

cjpaloma, to random
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take a planetary paradise and

  1. Socialize a group to believe that to be "superior" in the world they need to amass as many little pieces of paper as possible.

  2. get them to believe that emotional sensitivity is "not important", that logic (and violence applied as necessary) will work fine, instead.

Watch them invade and oppress and create social hierarchies based on physical size and ability to overpower others

In a few generations, a few true believers WILL crash the entire planet.

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Judge Cannon has postponed Trump's classified documents trial and didn't set a new start date.

The Supreme Court is slow walking Trump's classified documents case, which has delayed his Jan 6 trial.

The federal judiciary is effectively acting like a MAGA campaign arm.

cjpaloma,
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@rbreich

Hate to point this out, but when you post things like this you make so much extra work for the punditutes STILL swearing justice is right around the corner...

cjpaloma, to random
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I seriously have hardly ever seen -any- posts/replies telling people to "not bother" with voting.

But I often see larger liberal accounts blasting supposed lefties/progressives with "So many lefties telling people not to vote!!!" (and then in THOSE threads I'll maybe see a troll or two replying with saying "yeah, why bother??")

So my question is: have the trolls figured out how to just target the liberals? Or are the liberals more taking pot shots at the lefties? I really can't tell. Or both?

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just as science based study of gun violence was OUTLAWED in the US by Congress for 20 years, it certainly seems likely that authoritarianism was -also- highly discouraged as a thing to study, due to how damaging the findings would be to those who get and stay on executive tracks.

Folks who scramble for power (in any field) OFTEN tend towards authoritarianism. These are the exact -wrong- folks you want in charge. Authoritarians will kill off democracy due to it threatening their own success.

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might be worth it to reevaluate who you follow for "good analysis" if your list of people has included folks who have repeatedly told you the justice system is working just fine

Same goes for those defending the FBI, (and for that matter, the the entire "intelligence" community)... who were apparently unable to see any criminality or any security threat in Trump in 2015- when millions of normal people did see it.

Seriously- look behind the curtain at some of these larger accounts.

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@Eka_FOOF_A I was referring to decades of pretty blatantly criminal conduct in several areas (including financial crimes as well as physical and sexual assaults) -before- he announced his presidential run in 2015.

cjpaloma, to random
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cannon has been corrupt from the word go, and yet so many people have let this farce continue to play out.

Much like the rottenenhouse judge (sic) who put ridiculous evidentiary rules in place so a 17 year old white regressive boy could get away with murder.

Stop being outraged by corruption and insist these assholes who. really. are. corrupt. end up really disempowered, instead.

It's broke, people, no matter what your favorite lawyer punditutes keep telling you.

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Seems to me most of the things that need to be pointed out and said have already been said. Plenty of times. By POC, women, and tree hugging pinkos.

Unfortunately, far too many folks have been socialized to not listen to those demographics, and instead listen to "men of wealth and taste", as the song goes.

These pigs lie with well paid gigs, and genteel words, sounding oh so reasonable as they rob and bomb Others.

They are the real evils in the world. The well spoken apologists.

cjpaloma, to random
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The sign is a little messy, but more people NEED to keep tapping it:

THE aim of authoritarian power is to get, expand -and keep- power consolidated among "the in group".

Authoritarian assumptions are rooted in force, not reason.

And -using coercive means- (aka: force, unjust laws (ahem), by sick cultural norms, etc) are the accepted means.

Unfortunately, it's been hugely successful for ALL colonizing cultures…so it's still pervasive

but often only really shows its teeth when threatened

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Groups who already have consolidated power...like their reach and power. So large corporately owned groups like the NYT WaPo, MSNBC or any number of other groups are simply NOT going to mention this often enough. Universities "leaders" like their statuses as well, so they aren't gonna be eager to deconstruct their own authoritarian assumptions.

Same with demographics with certain privileges due to social hierarchies created by colonizing cultures.

Compassion based people will though.

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Post: they're all elites and all in cahoots-
Me: not arguing

Post goes on: so voting might matter to them, but doesn't necessarily matter for you

Me: uhhh... the fact that voicing my displeasure about the policies of despicable oligarchs will still be technically legal if I vote one way, vs being rounded up and sent to some concentration camp because I'm LGBT… doesn't matter?

Maybe in the minds of folks with multiple privileges, but dude, it matters for hundreds of millions of reasons.

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How do most people learn about power?

What do they learn?

Who do people think of when they think about people who study power? (interested in names, not whether you agree with them)

I learned informally about power via those "top of the food chain" posters from late grade school or middle school, you know the ones with a man at the top of a pyramid?

In college, Foucault was the only person I recall being specifically -called- a "power theorist"

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@Eka_FOOF_A

It's been so increasingly interesting to me how power dynamics do permeate culture, as you say, they are everywhere and yet we really don't have formal science that studies them on their own…

In contrast, language is everywhere, air is everywhere, economic systems are everywhere, and so on, they all have robust sciences that study them.

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@Eka_FOOF_A yeah I suppose I overstated the issue in that comment. I was more trying to say that for the amount of influence it has on the quality of life, the amount of study isn't terribly robust.

And the -general- popular understanding of power isn't very sophisticated either. Some people -even some activists- will still say straight faced: Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely, that's all you really need to know about power"

No, it's not.

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