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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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Strandjunker, to random
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Democrats want to give fourth graders free lunches, while Republicans want to force them to give birth. In a sane world, that fact alone should guarantee a Democratic landslide victory. — In a sane world.

cjpaloma,
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@xs4me2 @Strandjunker serious answer: systems built on full on colonizer mentalities based in patriarchy and racism, fueled and controlled by the ultra wealthy that obliviously call themselves democratic (at worst) are always gonna skewed towards the basis that created them (and create white centered, class based, androcentricity -at best- which then regress at times of stress). It's not "woke virus, but colonizer virus that sickens societies

Sorry for the "downer" answer.

cjpaloma, to random
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An example of an authoritarian form of "power over" is the incredibly regressive abortion ban based on 1864 law.

It "proves" those in power have power OVER others.

Many institutional paths to power still allow absolutely unfit, stunted, and depraved people ways to rule OVER people.

Collectively having more knowledge about the many forms of power ..is important.

But before you listen to social scientists promoted by corporately owned media, consider WHY they might promote the person. 1/2

cjpaloma,
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Our cultures tell us in a million different ways that "power corrupts".

And authoritarian forms of power -are- coercive, and corrupt.

OTOH: Truly shared forms of "power with" (aka collaborative decision making- involving -compassion based- ethical decision making) don't seem to do that.

That's WHY decision making processes get co-opted by those who aim for "power over"

People who study these kinds of differences: won't. get. promoted. by. those who like (consolidated) "power over" 2/2

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Looking for that meme that says "Your government based education will not provide you with the education you need to overthrow that government."

Can't find it. But the sword does cut both ways: those who like to consolidate power over are often really DRIVEN to try to "prove" they belong at the tops of the dung heaps they create,

While the rest of us are more than content to share power with others, they are thinking really hard, and often about ways to gain and remain in power.

cjpaloma, to random
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https://www.teenvogue.com/story/what-is-solidarity

Check out who knocks it out of the park, again: Teen Vogue. Not the Atlantic.

The future is wearing solidarity as a timeless fashion choice. You can't go wrong with it.

StillIRise1963, to random
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cjpaloma,
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@StillIRise1963 I wish we could teleport a few people back to that time and leave them there.

cjpaloma,
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@CindyS @StillIRise1963 right with you both. Permanent exile, but without harm to others or the planet.

w7voa, to random
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I am seeing a lot of discussion about this piece today on my social media feeds from former NPR staffers: https://www.thefp.com/p/npr-editor-how-npr-lost-americas-trust

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@peterbutler @w7voa yeah, and the entire site ("free bullshit calling itself press" or what-ever it's called) is run by Bari Weiss, enough said.

cjpaloma, to random
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Interesting, I hadn't thought much about _______ since leaving the dead bird site, but reading the signatories on a pro peace letter by Jewish creatives, I am struck by how the person's PEACE stance is probably truly negatively affecting their livelihood- which is truly horrible.

The person used to spout typical liberal platitudes from time to time that everyone sane agrees with. Good for them, but not difficult.

So ironic that standing for peace takes a lot more integrity. Good for them.

StillIRise1963, to random
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I’d like to see a photographic essay of the plastic surgery of those that frequent Mar a Lago.

cjpaloma,
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@StillIRise1963 I didn't know you were into horror? <shudders> no thanks, I'll pass on that.

cjpaloma, to random
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Karl fuckhead Rove was a HUGE homophobe y'all. He was one of the biggest "masterminds" behind same sex marriage BANS being passed in over 30 fucking states in in the early 2000s..

This…pig... knew EXACTLY what the fuck he was doing 20 years ago. He used hate and lies his whole career - he designed -this- fucking dystopia.

And now I see some attempts to try to rehab this pig?

IDGAF if he's "Anti MAGA" -now. So are literally hundreds of million other people. Amplify them.

cjpaloma, to random
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Ok: how is it helpful to keep pointing out how bad Trump is? OF COURSE he is! But it seems like most people already either know this, or are complicit with/brainwashed by his kind of corruption….

Interesting that some people w/ large audiences never explore: WHY he's gotten away with his -criminal level- bs for decades -no delving into previous failings in law enforcement, the justice system(s) or media realms

or discuss much about the many heavily pushed norms that enable authoritarianism

cjpaloma,
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@darwinwoodka @Eka_FOOF_A I appreciate what you're both saying AND agree…

My fuzzily put observation/ question is more about how corrupt types-still- end up gaining power/thriving in the larger culture, AND how millions of us hate it, yet "folks in charge" haven't stopped this from happening.

IOW: why do so many big accounts on social media repeatedly say "this is a bad person!"

but don't seem to explore: "why is this system still full of failures that it allows bad people to thrive".

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@darwinwoodka @Eka_FOOF_A I mean -some- accounts do, but many just report on here's the latest outrage, and he's terrible.

It's an open secret that half the GOP is Russian owned, but they are still in positions of power.

How is this NOT what MOST people focus on?

This is obvious corruption. I want them in jail. Now.

Why do we not -keep focused -on that simple point?

I also want the people supposedly keeping us safe -from- corruption to be held accountable for their dismal failures

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Tell me a silly/funny childhood story!

I'll start:

One time in Sunday School, the teacher was talking about the difference between humans and animals, and mentioned that Animals had Tails and humans didn't. I let her know this was not true, because my Dad had a tail, just in the front, instead of the back. The teacher was silent for several seconds, and tried to correct me in a church appropriate way, but I doubled down, and insisted that my little brothers also had front tails too. This got so heated that the teacher had to go get my parents to take me out of Sunday School.

cjpaloma,
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@WhiteCatTamer @RickiTarr Oh…I did something similar. I hoped to "dig a hole to China". From a California suburb, using a trowel. I think I hoped to learn Chinese when I got there. The parental units made me stop eventually…possibly because the hole did get big, and part of it was near a foundation of an out building.😂

falcennial, to random
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absolute power corrupts absolutely but even the moderate power of a parliamentarian corrupts some of them absolutely.

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@falcennial FWIW:almost all early theories about power were authored by privileged males IOW: they may have missed a few things.

Later humanist theories (usually filed as feminist or anti colonialism critiques) note that -authoritarian -modes of power (domination based) -are- corrupting.

BUT since most of us come from colonizer histories rife w/ "power OVER", we often don't -even see- healthy forms of power, or we diminish them by calling them "soft power".

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@falcennial obviously the world is full of authoritarian notions of power. So much so that for many people: it's like we had diets consisting almost entirely of canned stale food or fast food as kids growing up, so we still think that is the whole world of food.

"Power with" is what most of us are stumbling towards, but we still don't have adequate ways of describing it or even thinking about different ways to wield power.

cjpaloma, to random
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ICYMI: AIPAC contributes to plenty of people in the large "good party" in the US

And in that party (Dem), they quietly support often popular, but corporately and MIC friendly folks who run against *progressives …and they often win. See the recent Senate primary in CA for example.

*progs are generally -much- more aligned with what US majorities want on tons of topics, but are still successfully characterized as "extreme" by corp. media outlets and other politicians of all stripes.

cjpaloma, to random
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It is NOT "us fiddling while Rome burns".

Our collective efforts to organize and make changes have been sabotaged in MANY ways:
from billionaires buying up mass media/judges/politicians etc,
to the criminalization of peaceful protest,
to shoving shitty candidates down our throats,
to bots and paid assholes following/liking horrific stuff/people so it seems "legit",
to internal strife created or egged on by saboteurs,

there's been tons of intentional sabotage.

cjpaloma, to random
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No, I do not think it outlandish that at Bohemian Grove (and/or related) -some- folks had convos like this:

"Geeeez, this <insert any healthier way of life> movement is a threat us. How can we stop it?" and then spent considerable time and effort developing -numerous- ways to thwart collective engagement in forward thinking, truly democratizing endeavors.

I mean after all, US "intelligence" certainly did this in far off smaller countries. And at home by destroying social justice movements.

cjpaloma,
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A typical play is to act like that threats to your authority just don't exist. Learning from 'Nam protests, during the first gulf war, 100s of thousands of people protested in the streets, but you certainly wouldn't know it from corporate news coverage, or even many historical accounts relying on that media. Having been there myself, and having seen the -obscene- undercounts of opposition to the war, it is what radicalized me around media.

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In the past few years, it's climate change itself: majorities of people all over the world -have wanted- immediate action for years. Yet narratives of "we're selfish" (I admit, I've done this on occasion) or "they are fringe activists" are WAY over represented.

Currently something like 80% of humans on this planet want immediate actions around climate change. And yet, that's not happening at anywhere near the scale needed. Yet…."we" can't seem to organize??? Because we're being sabotaged.

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It's not "a collective failure to act"

it's that -a bunch- of strategies have been deployed to prevent collective action

External sabotage like: "don't report on it", "plant misinformation", "fund RWNJs" are obvious, but

Internal sabotage: loud "democracy defenders" who chastise and then block people w/ critiques of their simplistic messages.

People who pose as "progressives", but quote folks like Mitt Romney, and never mention Bernie or AOC?? That's internal sabotage, baby.

cjpaloma,
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Look, there are bonkers conspiracies out there, AND there are real ones.

I don't understand the specifics of the "xz backdoor" in Linux, but I DO understand that sophisticated acts of -internal sabotage- happen in MANY other realms as well.

One of the main points of Klein's Doppelgänger is that there ARE real conspiracies out there. And saboteurs can and DO unleash bonkers conspiracies as distractions, in efforts to discredit reality based observations.

tl;dr: Be careful who you trust.

cjpaloma, to random
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My data's out there. I've gotten more than a half dozen letters including more than one from financial institutions, and one from my main medical organization, informing me of data breeches in the past few years…yet I have to do 2 factor bullshit every time I go to look up the amount of my gas bill?

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