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Not only are they dead Adebayo they were also dead wrong in word and action. Repercussions are still being felt to this day. 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More than anyone else, his racialist ideas reigned supreme in the years which followed the Indian mutiny.\n\nIn John Locke's head, the notion of natural rights didn't apply to the native Americans as it did to the pilgrims and this was at the heart of the theft and many other crimes committed by the colonists.\n\nNiccolò Machiavelli wrote a handbook for all would be dictators, when he declared that ruthless pragmatism was the means through which power would be exercised over multitudes.\n\nPol Pot, General Suharto, Lee Kwan Yew, Joseph Stalin, Richard Nixon, Mobutu Sese-seko, Winston Churchill, Mao Zedong, Saddam Hussein were committed disciples of the former Italian diplomat.\n\nVoltaire thought that Haiti was an infinitely more attractive asset than Canada, because of the surplus value which was generated by the Africans who were working for free.\n\nVast numbers of Wall Street and City of London financiers often attribute supply-side theory or trickle-down economics to the author of An Inquiry into The Nature and Causes of The Wealth of Nations -Adam Smith.\n\nThe notion that the butcher acts mainly on self-interest has taken on a life of its own and allowed the likes of Friedman and Hayek to create an right wing ideology which brought the world to the very brink of destruction in 2008.\n\nHegel's views on race did influence future generations and his ideas on inequality found its greatest expression in Karl Marx's theoretical framework.\n\nAnd Marxism became the conduit through which a number of former Russian exiles seized power from the degenerate aristocracy and in purging their rivals within the Bolshevik party and in killing tens of millions of their own people.\n\nHenry Kissinger single-handedly bent the entire world to his will by advancing ideas which have empowered Zionists in Washington, London and Tel-Aviv to commit crimes without ever being held accountable.\n\nAnd by this I am referring to Iran-Iraq war, the gulf wars, the removal of Muammar Gaddafi, Mohammed Morsi, the complete destabilization of an entire region to ensure that the State of Israel continues to land grab and exterminate Palestinian women and babies.\n\nIf you're still reading this, you must be wondering what exactly is the point of this piece?\n\nThe point is that these dead white men are responsible for every problem with which we are grappling as a collective.\n\nClimate change emergencies, religious fundamentalism, social Darwinism extreme capitalism, neoliberalism, totalitarian communism and genocidal fascism all flow from the same source of the dead white men listed at the start of this piece.\n\nTheir ideas were never meant to uplift humanity; 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Wow some crazy laws! Hey at a 99 percent literacy rate, I think America needs to see what they are doing right over there in Australia. | {"counts": {"id": "23ccb66c9d8d", "title": "Wow some crazy laws!", "subtitle": "", "author": "7aa473229139", "publication_id": "*Self-Published*", "published_at": "2022-06-14 13:08:42", "last_modified_at": "2022-06-14 13:08:42", "boosted_at": "", "tags": [], "topics": [], "claps": 1, "voters": 1, "reads": 12, "views": 13, "word_count": 26, "responses_count": 0, "reading_time": 0.09811320754716982, "url": "https://medium.com/@123abck/wow-some-crazy-laws-23ccb66c9d8d", "unique_slug": "wow-some-crazy-laws-23ccb66c9d8d", "image_url": "", "lang": "en", "is_series": false, "is_locked": false, "is_shortform": true, "top_highlight": ""}, "assets": {"other_embeds": {}}, "fans": {"id": "23ccb66c9d8d", "voters": ["c53f83cff180"], "count": 1}, "responses": {"id": "23ccb66c9d8d", "responses": [], "count": 0}, "user_metadata": {"user": {"id": "b58b4ec186bd928e", "username": "2a6690a270236d71", "fullname": "80f828b8ce1a27dd", "bio": "", "followers_count": 560, "following_count": 521, "publication_following_count": 2, "image_url": "0c7a5e3c51b6cdcd", "twitter_username": "", "is_writer_program_enrolled": true, "allow_notes": true, "medium_member_at": "2023-01-23 21:19:42", "friend_since": "", "is_suspended": false, "top_writer_in": [], "has_list": true, "is_book_author": false, "tipping_link": null, "bg_image_url": "", "logo_image_url": "", "tier": "MEMBER"}, "interests": {"id": "7aa473229139", "tags_followed": ["beauty", "remote-work", "equality", "lifestyle", "neuroscience", "biotech", "religion", "coronavirus", "culture", "fitness", "self", "humor", "language", "relationships", "books", "race", "spirituality", "fiction", "basic-income", "science", "education", "work", "family"], "count": 23}}} | {"demographics": {"age group": "NA", "gender": "Female (contextual evidence from responding to article 'What is Freedom to a Black Woman' and family structure references)", "location": "Georgia area (mentions driving between Georgia and South Carolina)", "occupation": "Elementary school teacher, specifically first grade", "nationality": "American", "other": "Black/African American, married with at least one daughter (age 13 as of 2022), previously had Kaiser Permanente health insurance"}, "interests": ["Education policy and teaching methodologies, particularly Social Emotional Learning (SEL) in elementary education", "Child development and age-appropriate responsibilities ('the world we live in have children growing up way before they are ready')", "School safety and gun violence prevention, especially regarding mass shootings", "Racial justice issues and systemic racism affecting Black Americans", "Parenting concerns related to technology, privacy, and children's rights ('When she turned 13 Google notified me that because she had turned 13 I could no longer have access to her phone location')", "Healthcare access and affordability, particularly Obama's ACA policies", "Historical truth-telling about slavery and plantations", "Police reform and community safety discussions", "Student communication skills and classroom environment ('middle grades and high school students no longer have good communication skills')", "Political issues affecting education and civil rights", "Youth mental health and identifying warning signs in troubled students", "Confederate symbolism and its impact on Black communities"], "values": ["Creating safe, non-judgmental learning environments where 'students do not ridicule or laugh at anyone if they are wrong'", "Teaching empathy and respect through modeling ('This has to be taught and modeled for students')", "Building student confidence and ownership of learning ('My students usually become very confident in their learning and take ownership')", "Defending progressive policies that help working families, citing personal benefits from 'Obama Care' for healthcare and childcare assistance", "Protecting children from premature adult responsibilities and maintaining parental oversight", "Preserving historical truth about slavery ('If we don't have places to remind us of what happened, the narrative will change to slavery never was a thing')", "Concern for Black safety in predominantly white areas ('I do get afraid for him many times' regarding husband working in towns with no Black people)", "Opposing racial injustice and Confederate symbolism ('They were celebrating early all kinds of boats and people waving the Confederate flag. It was eerie and sickening')", "Recognizing systemic issues in how violence is attributed ('there was a white woman who set a building on fire, but they then \"found\" a black person saying he was her accomplice')", "Advocating for appropriate gun control measures and understanding root causes of violence", "Valuing collaborative learning and peer teaching among students", "Believing education should foster less emphasis on winners/losers and more on supportive learning communities"], "communication": ["Conversational and personal tone, frequently beginning with 'I am a teacher' or sharing classroom anecdotes", "Uses informal contractions and colloquialisms ('Bec' for because, 'for sure' as 'for sure')", "Employs emoji reactions for brief responses (\ud83d\ude02\ud83d\ude02\ud83d\ude02)", "Asks genuine questions to engage in dialogue ('I am interested in your take on the matter,' 'What do you think about the issue')", "Shares detailed personal experiences from both professional teaching and family life", "Shows intellectual humility ('Maybe I am wrong,' 'May be I'm getting tired and read the article wrong')", "Uses emphatic punctuation for strong emotions ('OMG,' multiple exclamation marks, 'what the...')", "Provides specific examples to support arguments rather than abstract statements", "Writes in paragraph form for longer responses, organizing thoughts thematically", "Expresses appreciation for new perspectives ('Thanks for the interesting article!' 'Hmmm never even thought about it')", "Uses rhetorical questions to emphasize points ('what kind of people would give rights to buy guns and do other adults things at such a young age?')", "Occasionally has minor grammatical errors suggesting rapid, authentic writing ('work from their to help them' instead of 'there')"], "statistics": ["Response length ranges from 1 word (emoji reactions) to approximately 200 words for detailed explanations", "Average response length approximately 80-100 words", "Most frequent phrases include 'I am a teacher,' 'my students,' 'first grade,' 'my daughter,' 'my husband,' 'classroom environment'", "Frequently uses first-person perspective with 'I' appearing multiple times per response", "Uses possessive pronouns extensively ('my classroom,' 'my students,' 'my daughter') indicating personal investment", "Sentence structure varies from simple declarative statements to complex multi-clause explanations", "Employs both short reactive responses and longer narrative-style explanations depending on topic engagement", "Uses questions frequently, both rhetorical and genuine inquiries for clarification", "Incorporates specific examples and anecdotes in approximately 70% of substantive responses", "Shows consistent engagement with education-related topics with longer, more detailed responses on teaching methodology"]} | 50d64be78919 | [{"content":"5 Absurd Rules In Australia That Make Absolutely No Sense To Follow\n\nStupid rules that still exist in the country with 99% literacy rate.\n\nYou might know Australia is one of the largest countries in the world, yet the smallest continent on Earth.\n\nInterestingly, it is also the flattest and driest continent, located in the Southern Hemisphere between the Indian and Pacific oceans.\n\nAustralia is known for its fantastic barbecues, beaches, and outbacks, but you didn't tap the title for knowing this wing, so let's get juicy.\n\nWith a literacy rate of 99 percent, Australia still has some of the most absurd laws in this world. Let's dive:\n\n1. Do Not Carry More Than 50kg Of Potatoes In Western Australia\n\nYes! You read that right - it is not only illegal, but the members of the Potato Marketing Authority of PMA have the right to stop your car and search if they suspect you have more than 50kgs of potatoes with you.\n\nThese members of PMA also have the right to demand an address and the name of anyone who is caught. Interestingly, the authorities seize the potatoes as evidence.\n\nThe fine can be anywhere from 2,000 AUD to 5,000 AUD for the first offense and 5,000 AUD to 10,000 AUD if caught breaking this law.\n\nThis law came into existence in 1946, and even after 76 years, it is still unclear why the Aussies felt the need for it. No reason seems sensible enough— even if it's for the protection of country's commercial activities.\n\nAll I can say is, if you are craving a feast full of french chippies with your mates, it would be better to cross the border into South Australia.\n\n2. Only Urinate On Left Rear Tire\n\nWe all have been in the situation where we have to urinate, but there seem no urinal or a restroom nearby.\n\nHowever, when you are in Australia, there is no need to wander around searching for a washroom with your legs clenched together.\n\nThe law in Australia clearly states that anyone in this kind of situation where the individual has to take a pee, one can legally urinate on the rear left tire of their vehicle.\n\nHowever, make sure you are on the correct side of the car because there could be some severe consequences if found on the wrong side. Anyway, bless the car!\n\n3. Absurd Law For Minors\n\nThis law falls more on a stupid side rather than weird one. The Aussie legislators were too busy doing something else while writing this one down, leaving it incomplete.\n\nThe law, which has been enforced since the later part of the 1900's states that kids under the age of 18 are not allowed to buy any alcohol, smoking goods, or condoms.\n\nAll seem right here? However, they are allowed to consume and use all of these products.\n\nAnyone who sells these items to a minor shall be punished according to a law that often includes hefty fines. Still, yeah, parents beware. Better keep your cigarettes and alcohol hidden.\n\n4. Hefty Fines For Using Your Vacuum Cleaner\n\nIf you live in Victoria, Melbourne, you better think twice before turning on that loud vacuum cleaner of yours.\n\nTiming is everything here, and the law clearly states that it is illegal to cause excessive noise, even from a vacuum cleaner.\n\nAn individual can only use a vacuum cleaner to clean their house during certain time limits.\n\nVacuum cleaners can only be used between 7 am and 10 pm, Monday to Friday.\n\nAs for the weekends or any public holiday, a person needs to wait till 9 am before starting cleaning with their noisy machines.\n\nIf anyone is caught using vacuum cleaners during the prohibited hours, this noisy cleaner will have to cope with an on-the-spot fine of 205 AUD, which if not paid on time can be raised to 1000 AUD.\n\nIf the person keeps violating the law and fails to comply then the fine could reach whopping 18,000 AUD. Insane amount!\n\nUnder the Environment Protection Law of Residential Noise, you need to be worried about vacuum cleaners. This law applies to any other appliances that may cause crazy noise.\n\nThese absurd laws are rarely found anywhere in the world, but in some parts of Switzerland, after 10 pm, you can't even flush your toilet. How on Earth one does the outstanding performance then!\n\n5. Drinking In Public Is Prohibited But There Is A Catch\n\nWell, this one is simple as long as you don't dig into it - things do get crazy.\n\nMost of the public places across Australia are alcohol-free zones, and this includes pubs too, so technically, it is illegal to be drunk in a pub too.\n\nMoving on, if a person who is under the age of 18 is caught with any alcohol in a public place, they would be slapped with a fine of 20 AUD, and the alcohol will be confiscated.\n\nHowever, if someone is above the legal age, the penalty would be of 400 AUD. All alcohol-free are monitored 24/7 by law enforcement officials, and it is made sure no such activity takes place on the premises.\n\nFinal Words\n\nThese kinds of absurd laws exist in many places around the world. Whether it be the USA, Singapore, or in this case, Australia, these ridiculous laws are still in the books of law.\n\nWhy? 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"Domestic supply of infants" is just going to be the new slogan I attach to these people. It's also why they're going after gender affirming care for trans youth, why they're going to go after same sex marriage. | {"counts": {"id": "5515437d732d", "title": "Hence why they are going after contraception access next.", "subtitle": "\"Domestic supply of infants\" is just going to be the new slogan I attach to these people. 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The title of the study was even stranger, \"Car Seats as Contraception\". The summary of the study tells us of a trend that started 45 years ago:\n\nSince 1977, U.S. states have passed laws steadily raising the age for which a child must ride in a car safety seat. These laws significantly raise the cost of having a third child, as many regular-sized cars cannot fit three child seats in the back. Using census data and state-year variation in laws, we estimate that when women have two children of ages requiring mandated car seats, they have a lower annual probability of giving birth by 0.73 percentage points. Consistent with a causal channel, this effect is limited to third child births, is concentrated in households with access to a car, and is larger when a male is present (when both front seats are likely to be occupied). We estimate that these laws prevented only 57 car crash fatalities of children nationwide in 2017. Simultaneously, they led to a permanent reduction of approximately 8,000 births in the same year, and 145,000 fewer births since 1980, with 90% of this decline being since 2000.\n\nThis is the strangest form of contraception I have ever seen or heard of. It's a subtle force that works against parents in consideration of having a third child. I can distinctly recall my wife suggested that we stop at two since it would be hard to fit a third child. But that opening sentence...\n\nOur experience has shown that sitting in the front passenger seat can be fatal for kids. The airbags are designed to pop with greater force to accommodate idiots who refuse to wear a seatbelt. Why does anyone refuse to wear a seatbelt? Mostly, \"I feel really uncomfortable wearing a seatbelt.\" Is that so?\n\nWhat convinced me to wear a seatbelt is something called inertia. If the car comes to a sudden stop, the seatbelt stops me with the car. That means as a driver I have much better control of the car because the seatbelt makes my body move with the car.\n\nThere was a brief time when one of my daughters would not wear her seatbelt. I tried to convince her, but she was \"unmoved\". Then one day, she was not wearing her seatbelt when I had to make a sudden stop. I could feel her go \"thud\" against the back of my seat. She was OK, but after that, she always wore her seatbelt. That's how important child safety is.\n\nWhat that study shows us is that birth rates are sensitive to the cost of having a third child due to the inherent design limitations in the cars we buy. They just don't make the 2nd row big enough to handle three child seats. I guess that's a very subtle upsell. Even if there is a seatbelt for the middle seat in the back.\n\nThe cost of a vehicle with a 3rd row is significantly higher than a typical 4-seat family car. That means an upgrade from a car to a minivan. And the usual listing price for a new minivan these days starts at $30,000. That's a good 30% bump from an economical family car and a payment north of $4-500 a month for most people. And that doesn't include the cost of the third seat and the gear to go with it.\n\nChild safety seat laws are one subtle force that can work against child-rearing decisions. Now we're starting to consider a lack of healthcare assistance for poor mothers in red states despite their incipient abortion bans. As the New York Times reported, the state of Mississippi is unwilling to expand Medicaid for poor mothers so as to give them a year of healthcare after birth. That means that poor women will not find much support for having kids. From, \"In Mississippi, a Post-Roe Question: What Will Republicans Do to Help New Mothers?\", 8/18/22:\n\nThe United States has the highest rate of maternal deaths in the industrialized world; Black women are three times as likely as white women to die of pregnancy-related complications. A third of those deaths happen weeks or months after delivery, when a significant share of women lose coverage. Researchers at the University of Colorado have estimated that rates of maternal deaths will rise now that Roe has been overturned.\n\n\"Coverage\" is Medicaid coverage, and in this case, state-financed healthcare for poor women. Some mothers are dying after birth because legislators in most red states care more about the fetus than the mother. And that attitude can discourage potential mothers from considering motherhood. Especially poor mothers of color.\n\nNotice that both outcomes are due to legislative mandates. The age that children must sit in child safety seats in cars has been rising since 1977. But that's to save lives. Whatever the Republicans are doing, it doesn't seem to be saving lives as much as their rhetoric suggests.\n\nWrite on.","role":"37aebe2dcc1e","metadata":"{\"counts\": {\"id\": \"694bf3276bee\", \"title\": \"Who Knew That Laws Can Be Great Contraceptives?\", \"subtitle\": \"Scratch a male who is a Mississippi Republican and he\\u2019ll tell you it\\u2019s not a big deal.\", \"author\": \"37aebe2dcc1e\", \"publication_id\": \"*Self-Published*\", \"published_at\": \"2022-08-18 13:05:30\", \"last_modified_at\": \"2022-08-18 13:05:30\", \"boosted_at\": \"\", \"tags\": [\"politics\", \"cars\", \"abortion\", \"contraception\", \"irony\"], \"topics\": [\"design\", \"society\", \"justice\"], \"claps\": 625, \"voters\": 54, \"reads\": 439, \"views\": 913, \"word_count\": 894, \"responses_count\": 6, \"reading_time\": 3.5735849056603777, \"url\": \"https://scottcdunn.medium.com/who-knew-that-laws-can-be-great-contraceptives-694bf3276bee\", \"unique_slug\": \"who-knew-that-laws-can-be-great-contraceptives-694bf3276bee\", \"image_url\": \"https://miro.medium.com/1*uGuxpiGcHiM_Y7iajDc8Rw.jpeg\", \"lang\": \"en\", \"is_series\": false, \"is_locked\": true, \"is_shortform\": false, \"top_highlight\": \"\"}, \"assets\": {\"other_embeds\": {\"scottcdunn.medium.com\": [{\"title\": \"Join Medium with my referral link - ScottCDunn\", \"href\": \"https://scottcdunn.medium.com/membership\"}]}, \"images\": [\"https://miro.medium.com/1*uGuxpiGcHiM_Y7iajDc8Rw.jpeg\"], \"anchors\": [{\"href\": \"https://unsplash.com/@rhsupplies?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText\", \"text\": \"Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition\"}, {\"href\": \"https://unsplash.com/s/photos/contraception?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText\", \"text\": \"Unsplash\"}, {\"href\": \"https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3665046\", \"text\": \"Car Seats as Contraception\"}, {\"href\": \"https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/18/us/politics/mississippi-abortion-medicaid-roe.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage§ion=US%20News\", \"text\": \"In Mississippi, a Post-Roe Question: What Will Republicans Do to Help New Mothers?\"}, {\"href\": \"https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hestat/maternal-mortality/2020/maternal-mortality-rates-2020.htm\", \"text\": \"the highest rate\"}, {\"href\": \"https://www.cdc.gov/vitalsigns/maternal-deaths/index.html\", \"text\": \"third of those deaths happen weeks or months after delivery\"}, {\"href\": \"https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/7g29k\", \"text\": \"University of Colorado\"}]}, \"fans\": {\"id\": \"694bf3276bee\", \"voters\": [\"4b5113771931\", \"de35f8b24e4a\", \"dbfbc8789a88\", \"e13577882625\", \"c23da3df1af6\", \"c60d56c5750d\", \"8055829dafc2\", \"906cb1be1b90\", \"e97d0f1c8720\", \"4621f7120cbb\", \"362ce57b20a1\", \"57ea387434bb\", \"e0259790984b\", \"c80e27b3b992\", \"6708e3331388\", \"57ce30414fc1\", \"3c8b293f4f23\", \"87b7861d956a\", \"ff649a0e793c\", \"a86e63b37172\", \"d0890a2bd299\", \"de9a3159467d\", \"1ac2beabc66b\", \"3c627d9b6a43\", \"3b937b64a7fd\", \"ada445b57af\", \"d83de94b4c3a\", \"a85a2b49ad17\", \"e196599b5cd0\", \"da35cf45fa27\", \"727994b0b33f\", \"ebc954c66252\", \"19691cc69181\", \"c38d56bf7804\", \"71c57ba913df\", \"f67d35cda69d\", \"87dedaddc0ef\", \"779a1966dfd6\", \"17197048c334\", \"527cc7f6d9fe\", \"4d9e6881f0ca\", \"b304c504ebd2\", \"e892d7ee0408\", \"bb8c8de7d48a\", \"4b6bca3d5ea4\", \"9b7882d3a779\", \"5c2e87999e75\", \"94a897dc22aa\", \"6963e72f9a9a\", \"694f2246b1c8\", \"58e8046513a3\", \"24398bfb3a64\", \"7bf91aa5c0b9\", \"349e5e06e70c\"], \"count\": 54}, \"responses\": {\"id\": \"694bf3276bee\", \"responses\": [\"5515437d732d\", \"cd56653db5e0\", \"7313c9082d37\", \"a5e347bcddc2\", \"c6006934eba3\", \"aad5c8cb06f3\"], \"count\": 6}}"}] | 1,661,521,624 | 1 | 8d30f5ceb70ead7f |
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Since then, most of my (scary) predictions and extrapolations have come true, although one or two did not. With less than five months - 146 days, to be exact - until the dreaded 2024 election, it's quite appropriate to again review what's been happening in these Dis-united States.\n\nUnfortunately, we're facing a true nightmare scenario - and I mean this quite literally. What's happening in today's America IS the stuff of nightmares - and our worst, craziest nightmares are all 'coming to life' and inundating our society like a vast tsunami of lunacy.\n\nHere are some things I predicted/imagined that have already happened, or keep happening, in the run-up to the election: Trump is inciting people constantly with his claims that he's being 'persecuted' (not prosecuted) by a weaponized DOJ intent on destroying his campaign. His followers are seething with paranoid rage - as intended... while Trump keeps goading them into hate and sedition, and reveling in his intense desire for 'retribution' against all his 'enemies.'\n\nAnd in a pathetic display of blind fealty and opportunism, the GOP has totally capitulated to Trump, and is willing and eager to do his bidding.\n\nMeanwhile, the Democratic side is in turmoil because Biden's poll numbers continue to be terrible, plus many Dems still do NOT want Biden running again due to his age, supposed mental 'decline,' unpopularity, etc.\n\nBut Biden has a lock on the Democratic nomination, nonetheless - as Trump does on the GOP nomination.\n\nIt's a goddamn nightmare.\n\nAll along, Trump effortlessly dominated the GOP field - again. He easily dispatched all his opponents despite his status as a violence-inciting, quadrupley-indicted former president facing a staggering 91 criminal counts against him - not to mention losing 'bigly' in several high-profile court battles and being fined over a half-billion dollars. (His recent 34-count conviction hadn't happened yet, at that point.)\n\nThis utterly unprecedented political scenario is truly astounding - and horrifying - in comparison to any prior nomination process.\n\nGOP hypocrisy and seditious idiocy reach a new low\n\nHere's the latest super-dangerous escalation of our American nightmare: in the wake of Trump's 34-count conviction in his so-called 'hush money' trial (which was really about intentional election subversion), his MAGA supporters and most of the GOP reacted with total fury; verbally attacked the trial, the judge, and the jury; and relentlessly attacked and undermined our judicial system.\n\nThat's right, the former 'law and order party' is doing its best to undermine the rule of law, destroy trust in our justice system, and ensure that Trump's (long-delayed) trials and the upcoming election are incendiary, violence-prone horror shows. That's how far the politicized insanity has progressed in this country; that's how utterly nightmarish this is all becoming.\n\nThink about it: we're talking about the GOP, the supposed 'law and order' party - tearing down our entire federal justice system and trying hard to destroy our functioning as a 'nation of laws'! Not only are the GOP's current actions and attitudes totally unheard of politically, they are edging ever closer to outright sedition and open incitement of political violence.\n\nWe're in extremely dangerous territory here, folks - and the damn election is still five months away.\n\n— News flash: Hunter Biden, long a target of the GOP, was just convicted on all three counts in his drugs-and-gun-ownership court case. You can bet the GOP is celebrating their 'victory' - and won't say a thing about it being 'politicized' or 'unjust.'\n\nSuddenly, this verdict - unlike Trump's - is seen as 'righteous' and fair... and as for our venerable justice system, now it's suddenly respectable and trustworthy. (But these paranoid morons are also insisting, now, that this trial was just a 'cover-up' or ruse to deflect from the horrendous crimes of the 'Biden Crime Family.' Go figure.)\n\nHow's that for total hypocrisy?!\n\nA society-wide downward spiral\n\nThe thing that alarms me most, though, is that in today's U.S. there are parallel arcs of rapid decline on ALL levels - psychological, emotional, social, political - which are all combining into a pervasive, society-wide downward spiral.\n\nAnd once such a potent downward spiral takes off and starts accelerating - it's very hard to stop or even slow down. People often (naively) wonder how horrendous events like the Nazi takeover in Germany, or the Rwandan genocide, or Pol Pot's murderous rampage in Cambodia can even happen.\n\nWell, I think we're seeing the answer unfolding in front of us right now: it's a form of socially-sanctioned mass hysteria and murderous hypocrisy... a kind of mass social blindness and surging collective rage.\n\nIn both form and content, it's very much like a really bad nightmare come to life. The horribly inhumane attitudes and actions behind spreading social atrocities gradually come to be accepted or even embraced by many people... and then the madness and atrocities just keep growing and intensifying.\n\nWelcome to our dark American 'Twilight Zone'\n\nAnd yes, 'it' - fascism - certainly can happen here, even in the supposed 'land of the free.' Not only can it happen here, it clearly IS happening here - and still accelerating.\n\nFor almost three years, I've been writing about how easy it is to undermine and bring down a society - and we're witnessing this very thing happening all across the U.S. Trump and the GOP, in particular, have been working relentlessly for the past nine years to undermine and destroy today's multi-cultural, multi-racial, more equitable America, and bring that entire 'liberal' enterprise crashing down.\n\nYet their sleazy, seditious efforts are all couched in the proud language of 'patriotism,' 'freedom,' and 'restoring America's greatness.'\n\nThe nightmarish, (bad) dreamlike elements of all this - which I've often referred to as America's wacko 'Twilight Zone' reality - cannot be overemphasized. The exact same types of moral, emotional, and social hysteria that underlie Nazism and various tyrannical or genocidal regimes have been spreading and accelerating fast throughout the U.S. - and nothing and no one seems able to slow or stop them.\n\nThis is not just worrisome - it's terrifying. If you're an American and you're not deeply worried and terrified by what's happening here... well, you're either in big-time denial, or you haven't been paying close attention.\n\nSix realistic (horrific) scenarios\n\n(If you read this section in the original article, you can skip most of it and go straight to Scenario #7.)\n\nHere are some examples of our fast-worsening societal situation - focusing on the upcoming election. The problem is, the emotional, social, and political components of our American nightmare-come-to-life are already out of control, and their negative effects are spreading like a voracious late-stage cancer.\n\nSo, here are six realistic (horrific) scenarios I've been imagining for the 2024 election and its aftermath. [Note: almost all of these scenarios are still the same as when I first wrote them up, six months ago. The 7th scenario disintegrated with Nikki Haley's loss to Trump.]\n\nScenario #1: The race is between Biden and Trump, and Biden wins a very close election - barely winning both the popular vote and the Electoral College. For many months, Trump has endlessly repeated that the election would be rigged against him - so any result other than him winning is 'fraudulent' and totally unacceptable. Trump being Trump, he refuses to concede, insists he 'really' won (of course!) - and his supporters go bonkers, keep screaming about 'another stolen election,' and chaos and violence erupt ... and keep erupting, more and more.\n\nAttacks on election officials, courthouses, judges, and 'liberals' mount quickly. The U.S. reacts way too slowly - too little, and far too late - and life in society starts to grind to a bloody standstill. The period between Biden's 'win' and his hoped-for inauguration on Jan. 20, 2025 devolves into ongoing mass protests on both sides, and mass right-wing violence as well. Chaos reigns, and the police, FBI, and National Guard are all totally overwhelmed.\n\nScenario #2: It's a very close election in which Biden wins the popular vote (barely) but Trump wins in the Electoral College - and thus wins the presidency. Democrats and liberals are outraged and disgusted, and massive protests erupt - both here and around the world. Trump's MAGA devotees react with rage and fury, and violent attacks on 'liberal' demonstrators start spreading. Meanwhile, Trump gloats, and starts detailing all the ways he's going to exact revenge and take down the 'elites' and the 'deep state' - and anyone who ever opposed him. He informs America that on Day One, 1/21/25, he WILL consolidate more power into the executive branch - by executive order, if needed - and thus assume semi-dictatorial powers. The Dems and liberals are in total despair, and some start making plans to leave the country. The nation is hopelessly divided and dysfunctional. Anger and chaos reign.\n\nScenario #3: It's a close election in which Trump wins the popular vote (barely), but Biden wins in the Electoral College - and thus wins the presidency. Republicans and MAGA types are furious, and violent protests erupt. Trump starts yelling about 'massive fraud' and 'another stolen election,' and insists he 'really won' since he won the popular vote (never mind our actual election rules). Then Trump/MAGA supporters start filing hundreds of lawsuits designed to challenge and overturn the election results. Violent clashes start intensifying, and electors' lives and families are threatened across the country. Biden's team and the Department of Justice try to contain the violence, but it keeps spreading - and their efforts fail. Trump keeps inciting more and more seditious violence, and the U.S. teeters on the edge of total chaos and anarchy. Anger and violence reign - and it's very unclear if Biden will ever truly be inaugurated and resume his presidency.\n\nScenario #4: It's a close election in which Trump wins both the popular vote and the Electoral College (perish the thought!). If Trump wins both, he'll believe he has a powerful mandate from the American people - and his narcissism and dictatorial ambitions will know no bounds. The death of our semi-democracy and a rapid descent into full-on autocracy are almost assured, then - so the Dems and liberals are in total despair, and many start making plans to leave the country. Huge protests and demonstrations erupt and keep happening, all across the nation - and the entire world - and MAGA types start ruthlessly attacking the protesters. Violence escalates, and anger, chaos, and darkness reign.\n\nScenario #5: Trump's trial dates keep getting delayed, so almost all his criminal cases are in limbo, still, as the election nears. Only one case has been decided - and that case ended in 34 guilty verdicts against Trump, as noted, causing a tremendous right-wing and GOP backlash. Meanwhile, Trump keeps using his ongoing legal jeopardy to rile up his supporters against the U.S. and the Department of Justice. (Can anyone say: sedition?)\n\nHis MAGA devotees, predictably, are enraged that their 'dear leader' is still being persecuted (not lawfully prosecuted); his poll numbers keep going up; and due to severe oversights in our Constitution, Trump remains the leading GOP candidate. [Note: there is nothing at all in our Constitution that prohibits an indicted person or even a convicted felon from running for or even being our president!] Any Democrat-led efforts to have Trump disqualified from running are soundly rejected by our Supreme Court, so despite his many active indictments Trump keeps running - with continuing, strong GOP support. Next comes ... (see #1–4 above).\n\nScenario #6: Prior to the actual election, the GOP nominee - Trump - is tried and convicted of serious crimes and seditious actions against the U.S... as we all recently witnessed. A few Republicans finally have had enough, and they try - unsuccessfully - to have Trump disqualified or replaced as a candidate. (See above note.) Then Trump and his MAGA devotees go apeshit, and viciously attack all these 'traitorous' Republicans as 'RINOs.' Some are forced to resign, while others go into hiding. Trump's poll numbers go up, and due to a severe lack of guidelines in our Constitution, and despite many Democrats' ongoing (futile) efforts to have him disqualified, Trump continues as the GOP nominee - and his followers are even more fired up and enraged. Next ... (see #1–4 above).\n\nScenario #7: [Note: this scenario was already proven impossible.] In an unlikely turn of events, Nikki Haley or one of the other (dismal) GOP 'contenders' challenging Trump actually gets close in the polls, and ends up vying with Trump for the GOP nomination... uh, NO. Not even close.\n\nTrump triumphed, yet again.\n\nFrom 'possible' to highly likely: the danger mounts\n\nI could keep spinning out likely scenarios - but the point is, ALL of them are both quite possible and horrendous. ALL of them would be disastrous for our society and our nation.\n\nAnd over the past six months, they have rapidly moved from 'possible' to highly likely.\n\nEvery single scenario is really bad - and very ominous concerning the survival of the United States as a functional semi-democracy. I keep thinking that at some point more Americans will wake up and 'get' what's really going on here... but over the past nine long, terrible years it's never, ever happened.\n\nI've persisted in thinking (silly me!) that many Republicans will finally wake up, smell the coffee, and firmly reject Trump and his dangerous MAGA movement - but over and over again, they don't.\n\nAnd the servile, seditious way the GOP is reacting to Trump's 34-count conviction makes it crystal clear: they will back him all the way no matter what he says or does, and no matter what transpires legally.\n\nAn endless parade of lunacy\n\nGiven this apparently endless lunacy, I'd have to be a total fool to think that it's somehow going to change in the near future. All the signs point to the exact opposite: the continuation and intensification of all this nightmarish insanity.\n\nHow did the Nazis come to power and enact so many ruinous, genocidal policies? How did the Rwandans collapse into furious 'ethnic cleansing' and murderous chaos? How do tyrants like Putin and Kim Jong Un maintain their iron grip on power?\n\nNow we know - or are starting to glimpse - the answers to these vital questions. Now we know - because we're seeing the exact same nightmare tendencies, beliefs, and heavily amoral actions spreading and multiplying, right here at home.\n\nThe big question is: What will it take for us to wake up from this nightmare - if we ever DO wake up?\n\nWill it take tens of thousands of people dying in murderous rampages and riots? Will it take a total collapse of our political and judicial systems? 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Social media are not governments. They are private companies and will always place the needs of shareholders above all else. In fact, most laws require it. Who gets to decide? We do, by deciding whether we engage with it or not. The problem is, capitalist interests have made it seem like we just couldn't possibly get along without this intrusive shite all up in our business and this is the result. What happened to credulity? Critical thinking? That's the real tragedy - not that the often-toxic wastelands of social media exist, but that people care enough about anything posted by your aunt's second cousin's dog to make any difference. But we live in a world where people don't vaccinate their babies because Cheryl swears it gave Timmy autism, and Billy is out there burning a 5g tower because he saw a post saying it spreads covid.
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Solve for x.\n\nIt's a mixed-ability group, so the answers vary. \"Three!\" shouts one student, insisting that any other answer is white supremacy. \"It's one,\" yells another with inexplicable certainty. \"No, it's six,\" says a third, assuring everyone it's a trick question.\n\nAnd you, a lone voice in the wilderness, say, \"Two.\"\n\nWhen the other students challenge you, you happily explain your reasoning. You demonstrate the answer by subtracting two from both sides, you generalise the result by plotting it on a graph, you even help them visualise the solution using little coloured blocks.\n\nThey're still not convinced.\n\n\"Two just doesn't feel right to me,\" says one. \"Whatever, sheep. Two is what 'they' want you to think,\" sneers another. \"Well, what the hell do you mean by 'two'?!\" demands an elderly gentleman in an elaborate suit. \"And 'solve'! And 'x'!\"\n\nThe teacher listens carefully to everyone's input but shows no interest in weighing in. \"There's only one way to settle this,\" she says, finally, \"we need to hear more answers.\"\n\n\"But what good will more answers do?!\" you ask, \"shouldn't we be more interested in the correct answer?\"\n\nThe teacher smiles patiently, she's seen this mistake a thousand times before. She leans in close, her bourbon-soaked breath stinging your eyes.\n\n\"Ahh yes,\" she whispers, shuddering at the profundity of her insight, \"but tell me, who gets to decide?\"\n\nA couple of weeks ago, Mark Zuckerberg announced that the fact-checkers at Meta (the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and Threads) will no longer get to decide if posts are factual. A drum that fellow billionaires like Elon Musk have been beating for a while now.\n\nAnd I, for one, can foresee no downsides to this decision.\n\nI mean, who gets to decide if, as one Facebook post recently claimed, Mark Zuckerberg is the recipient of \"the world's first rat penis transplant\"? Who gets to decide if he once tried to sell a baby on Facebook Marketplace? Who gets to decide if he \"killed Jeffrey Epstein but still misses him every day\"?\n\nZuckerberg also announced that Meta is updating its hateful content policies to remove restrictions on hate speech. And again, thank God!\n\nImagine the secrets we'll unlock now that Facebook users are allowed to call women \"household appliances.\" What truths might have remained unknown without the freedom to call black people \"farm equipment\"? I don't even want to imagine a world where calling someone a \"Jew rat\" and signing off with a swastika violates Twitter's terms of service.\n\nFrankly, I think they should go further!\n\nAccording to a 2019 report, Facebook's content moderators are being driven to despair as they sift through the hours of child abuse and beheadings their users upload. But why do these \"censors\" get to decide what pedophiles and psychopaths can post, right?\n\nWhy not leave decisions like these to a \"community notes\" style system that can take up to 70 hours to appear on posts, by which time misinformation has already been spread to millions of users? Why not embrace a world where the signal-to-noise ratio is so low that voters have abandoned facts and evidence to follow party lines? Why not let CEOs abdicate responsibility for the lies on their platforms instead of forcing them to make their systems better and more transparent?\n\nFor all the things we can't know for sure, we know this: none of these billionaires trying to rebrand themselves as free speech crusaders care about free speech. They care about profits.\n\nThey care about the fact that offloading responsibility for fact-checking onto users is far cheaper than employing a team of professionals. So even though community notes are slower and less effective than the current system, they make more money.\n\nThey care about the fact that divisive, rage-inducing lies are more likely to go viral than honest, nuanced analysis. And more viral content, you guessed it, makes them more money.\n\nThey care about the fact that lying about stolen elections and cat-eating Haitians (notice that these pressing concerns have gone conspicuously quiet since the election) helps distract voters from real issues like wealth inequality and health insurance and price-gouging, issues they'd rather we didn't think about because fixing them would cost them (or their billionaire friends) money.\n\nThe erosion of public discourse doesn't hurt billionaires, it hurts us. Being told that it makes us freer only adds insult to the injury.\n\nFreedom, as George Orwell put it, is the freedom to say that two plus two make four.\n\nIt is the freedom to notice, without fear of torture or imprisonment, that the Earth revolves around the Sun.\n\nIt is the freedom to tell the truth, even if it's unpopular. These freedoms are essential to a free and functioning society.\n\nBut contrary to what our tech overlords would have us believe, we are not better off because we can no longer hold them responsible for the disinformation on their platforms.\n\nOur society doesn't function better when our discourse is dominated by morons and sycophants.\n\nWe are not freer now that Russia-funded trolls and fragile egomaniacs can operate with impunity.\n\nBecause all the angst around \"who gets to decide,\" overlooks the fact that there are plenty of things we've already decided.\n\nWe've already decided that swastikas and Nazi salutes were a bad idea the first time around.\n\nWe've already decided that if you think you're being \"silenced\" because you can't call LGBT people \"freaks\" on Facebook you probably have nothing of worth to say.\n\nWe've already decided, through years of hard-won progress, that facts are more useful than vibes.\n\nAll that's left is to decide which we prefer.\n\nRead more at The Commentary. 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Here's a question, did you tell yourself the same thing back in 2017? Joe Biden was an anomaly, nothing more. Your country has permanently gone straight to hell, the beginning of a slow decline that won't end well. Sure, there are good people like you and your readers who HOPE that this will end, but there are many more who will ensure that it perpetuates. This current backslide is the logical path for a country that worships money, violence and stupidity. 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Actually, I was in my teens, do even longer ago.\n\nBecause in America's 533 year history of fucking over black and brown people, it finally fucked over it self and I saw this coming.\n\nAmerica is everything you said, but in order to achieve all those things, it used black and brown people as the catalyst to fuck over everyone who wasn't the rich and a landowner.\n\nAnd so here we are. 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Far away from the jails they built for all that stepped in.
Sometimes I wonder what is the real price we pay for comfort and stability.
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And so, I wished to escape the tropical sun and sands. What they never told me was that they viewed my kind as subhuman; therefore, this was not a welcoming land. 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Absolutely. | {"counts": {"id": "83f122f6e43", "title": "Absolutely.", "subtitle": "", "author": "4229f274cb19", "publication_id": "*Self-Published*", "published_at": "2022-10-12 03:01:37", "last_modified_at": "2022-10-12 03:01:37", "boosted_at": "", "tags": [], "topics": [], "claps": 32, "voters": 2, "reads": 5, "views": 6, "word_count": 1, "responses_count": 0, "reading_time": 0.0037735849056603774, "url": "https://alexziperovich.com/absolutely-83f122f6e43", "unique_slug": "absolutely-83f122f6e43", "image_url": "", "lang": "en", "is_series": false, "is_locked": false, "is_shortform": true, "top_highlight": ""}, "assets": {"other_embeds": {}}, "fans": {"id": "83f122f6e43", "voters": ["92d4c70c7716", "787bb9cd4ce3"], "count": 2}, "responses": {"id": "83f122f6e43", "responses": [], "count": 0}, "user_metadata": {"user": {"id": "86acbce7e4cc7b8d", "username": "25c022575ff8443b", "fullname": "6e2d1258f3299db1", "bio": "Essayist, opinion columnist, dyspeptic political analyst, historian. 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With the war spiraling out of the Kremlin's control, amidst shrinking territory and a badly depleted and barely functional military, there's a sense of the dark possibilities at hand, right at the junction between savagery and stupidity, cunning and crazy.\n\nWhat is Vladimir Putin capable of? Anything.\n\nIn the last week, those possibilities have crystalized into an American president openly dreading the \"prospect of nuclear armageddon,\" amid a sense in the West that Vladimir Putin has backed himself into such a tight corner that he might lash out with the unthinkable to escape the confines of the debacle he unleashed. 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While it was a brutal response, it was also a telling one; the Kremlin was openly and deliberately slaughtering civilians, after seven months of dismissing mass graves and murdered civilians as merely manufactured provocations, and Western inventions.\n\nThere were no denials this time around. Why? Vladimir Putin was anxious to make a point, written in the blood of innocents. Ultimately, however, he came out looking worse for it. Like nearly everything else Putin has done since he invaded Ukraine, his latest outrage produced fatally counterproductive results.\n\nHawks\n\nIndeed, Monday's so-called mass attack seemed to be aimed as much at Putin's hawkish and increasingly vocal critics in Russia as it was at the Ukrainians it targeted. With Russia's mounting failures on the battlefield, and a botched mobilization stirring unrest at home, Putin has begun taking lacerating flak, in the form of vicious critiques of the Ministry of Defense from some of his closest cronies.\n\nThis was politically unsustainable for the strongman in the Kremlin.\n\nThus, the volleys of cruise missiles lobbed into cities were Putin's bloody retort, a way to silence his critics at home, at least until the Russian military suffers its next major debacle. Of course, the bombings won't make a single bit of difference on the battlefield, which is increasingly being vacated by a spent Russian army, as it retreats nearly across the board. Rather, it was an empty salve for Putin's damaged ego, an escalation insofar as it proved the Russian military could still kill at will, even if it can't destroy the opposing army facing it across the battlefield.\n\nIt was a gesture of impotence, and frustrated desperation. It demonstrated Russian weakness more than anything else. With the Russian military falling off its back feet, it was Putin's effort to reclaim respect, inspire fear, and recapture the broken narrative. It's unlikely to pay dividends, however, as Ukraine's military presses its advantage against battered Russian battalions, outfitted with rusted Kalashnikov's and poorly trained conscripts, felons, and mercenaries.\n\nIt seems killing civilians is a poor substitute for victory on the battlefield, a lesson Putin should've learned long ago.\n\nResistance\n\nIndeed, the entire Ukrainian nation has been utterly united in hatred of Russia's imperial ambitions, foisted on them so savagely, amid a profound and deepening loathing of Vladimir Putin personally. Putin's slaughter of civilians has cohered the Ukrainian nation and assisted in its defense, and thus inspired deep resistance to even the idea of becoming satraps of the Kremlin.\n\nLike the Nazi \"blitz\" bombing of London during World War II, Russia's campaign torturing and killing Ukraine's civilians has backfired spectacularly, resulting in a determined national desire to beat back the Russians, whatever the cost.\n\nThe psychological impact of Russia's brutality has been immense, in Ukraine and the world at large, a decisive factor in this conflict.\n\nAlready, President Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine's stalwart wartime leader, is seeking to capitalize on Putin's latest miscalculation; he declared that Russia's war is \"failing,\" while pleading with G7/NATO countries for advanced air defense systems to thwart more bombings of Kyiv.\n\nAnd Zelensky just might get them.\n\nAs Russia's war machine falters, and looks increasingly ineffective on the battlefield, Ukraine's army continues to receive training, critical weapon systems, and sophisticated military technology from the West, aghast at Putin's aggression. Britain's electronic intelligence agency recently said that Russia's war materiel is lacking, supplies and weapons \"are running out,\" even as Ukraine masters the art of drone warfare, and other advanced technologies to defend itself.\n\nPutin's bombing of civilians won't change the equation of this conflict, which continues to tilt heavily toward Kyiv, changing the balance of power on the battlefield frightfully quickly. In reality, Russia's forces seem to be reaching the limits of what they can accomplish with conventional arms, again raising the prospect of the use of nuclear weapons.\n\nStrategic imperatives\n\nCertainly, the government in Kyiv shows zero inclination to negotiate, and these bombings have only stiffened their resolve to fight. With Russia's worsening weakness and poor morale readily apparent, the threat of political instability is in Moscow, rather than Kyiv, as Putin had hoped.\n\nThus, Vladimir Putin's made yet another grave miscalculation. His actions in Ukraine have been detached from reality from the outset, when he launched a war of aggression based on restoring the \"historical unity\" of Russia and Ukraine, only to be unable to conquer Kyiv, unable to conquer the Donbas, and unable to coerce the government in Kyiv into capitulation or negotiation.\n\nRather, Putin's brutal war has done more to unify the Ukrainian people than anything a political leader in Kyiv might've accomplished, while uniting the global West in absolute opposition to his vicious war, strengthening the NATO alliance he so loathes. Even China and India, Russia's erstwhile allies, recently called for deescalation following Putin's strikes on Kyiv, a notable setback.\n\nThus, Putin remains trapped in a tightening vise of his own creation, incapable of dominating the battlefield, and quickly losing control of the political narrative at home. His strikes may have briefly mollified critics inside Russia, at least temporarily, but they won't reverse Russia's inexorable slide toward defeat in this war.\n\nRather, they've merely reminded Ukraine and the world that Vladimir Putin is a caged lion, wounded and dangerous, vainly searching for a way to win what is an unwinnable war. As Putin watches his military and political outlook deteriorate, it's likely we will see more blind lashing out from the Kremlin, more incredible violence visited on the Ukrainian people.\n\nWhat we won't see is a Russian victory.\n\nIndeed, when Putin realizes his strikes have failed to produce the results he so desperately craves, Russia's massive arsenal of nuclear weapons will continue to beckon him, even as they threaten humanity writ large. It's a move the world prays he doesn't make, even while acknowledging there is a distinct possibility he might, in what would be his most dire escalation yet.\n\nBeginning a nuclear war would be a suicidal miscalculation, but that doesn't mean he won't roll the iron dice, a last desperate gamble for all the chips on the table.\n\nGod forbid.\n\nAlso, check me out at https://alexziperovich.substack.com/","role":"4229f274cb19","metadata":"{\"counts\": {\"id\": \"b584fca30d31\", \"title\": \"Vladimir Putin Strikes Back\", \"subtitle\": \"Ukraine and Russia trade escalating blows\", \"author\": \"4229f274cb19\", \"publication_id\": \"*Self-Published*\", \"published_at\": \"2022-10-11 19:15:16\", \"last_modified_at\": \"2022-10-11 19:31:48\", \"boosted_at\": \"\", \"tags\": [\"politics\", \"ukraine\", \"russia\", \"putin\", \"news\"], \"topics\": [\"world\"], \"claps\": 600, \"voters\": 48, \"reads\": 281, \"views\": 934, \"word_count\": 1312, \"responses_count\": 12, \"reading_time\": 5.150943396226415, \"url\": \"https://alexziperovich.com/vladimir-putin-strikes-back-b584fca30d31\", \"unique_slug\": \"vladimir-putin-strikes-back-b584fca30d31\", \"image_url\": \"https://miro.medium.com/1*kJZQTcJcmGeK4t5Ffbu7Sg.jpeg\", \"lang\": \"en\", \"is_series\": false, \"is_locked\": true, \"is_shortform\": false, \"top_highlight\": \"\"}, \"assets\": {\"other_embeds\": {\"medium.com\": [{\"title\": \"Join Medium with my referral link - Alexander Ziperovich\", \"href\": \"https://medium.com/membership/@alexziperovich\"}]}, \"images\": [\"https://miro.medium.com/1*kJZQTcJcmGeK4t5Ffbu7Sg.jpeg\"], \"anchors\": [{\"href\": \"https://www.flickr.com/photos/13476480@N07/51977856642/in/album-72177720297365579/\", \"text\": \"Flickr\"}, {\"href\": \"https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/11/world/europe/russia-ukraine-kyiv-bombing.html\", \"text\": \"Nazi \\u201cblitz\\u201d bombing\"}, {\"href\": \"https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/10/11/world/russia-ukraine-war-news\", \"text\": \"advanced air defense systems\"}, {\"href\": \"https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/10/world/europe/india-china-russia-strikes-ukraine.html\", \"text\": \"called for deescalation\"}, {\"href\": \"https://alexziperovich.substack.com/\", \"text\": \"https://alexziperovich.substack.com/\"}], \"youtube\": [{\"href\": \"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxgWCsampJg\", \"title\": \"Kerch bridge explosion: CCTV appears to show Crimea bridge blast\", \"description\": \"\"}]}, \"fans\": {\"id\": \"b584fca30d31\", \"voters\": [\"5a517325f7d1\", \"a06c27f71ced\", \"99420b22ab53\", \"274f27137bca\", \"9fab936fab5d\", \"2e3a3f490e4d\", \"f10dcc22a675\", \"f2c54ec05e99\", \"b8ef523177dc\", \"1a1227e369d\", \"2f28166b213f\", \"397ef8533c59\", \"604891678f20\", \"bf617e98d0\", \"d0814372816b\", \"9b269c8c013d\", \"23c58467b63f\", \"f102e7990386\", \"79c89879b1e9\", \"e47c3ce5d546\", \"4ede153ea5c4\", \"f3386c3d1acd\", \"4e472c8db598\", \"1cba2bc81337\", \"39d68c653e79\", \"3610a342032d\", \"2f6a41cda2fb\", \"e2bb0eb7394b\", \"cc2d3da4cfde\", \"949e3627f03a\", \"92d4c70c7716\", \"4fc2a0f2d990\", \"787bb9cd4ce3\", \"f485c89311ba\", \"5217558e9812\", \"847a3d70c337\", \"19691cc69181\", \"dc266813aac2\", \"c2329a5e813e\", \"61cb1d6fa057\", \"7a404194d545\", \"40b49f1fac94\", \"86cb28440741\", \"6bcfcbddd685\", \"1df3947002fd\", \"8243add07d99\", \"84f271fb4168\"], \"count\": 47}, \"responses\": {\"id\": \"b584fca30d31\", \"responses\": [\"842f4dae8853\", \"6572894ba12d\", \"59ff8f9049aa\", \"2fa0179f765\", \"7b30b1ad3bd9\", \"ae657754d6a0\", \"82cbd978d248\", \"5a876a1b8aed\", \"189189d1d733\", \"e599f73ba80c\", \"d762058d3eee\", \"e9d830e2d319\"], \"count\": 12}}"},{"content":"At this point Putin is just blindly following the advice of his hardliners and they're pressuring him to use more aggressive measures. 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readers, that the world is a mess right now:\n\nWages have been systematically suppressed for 50 years.\n\nPurchasing power is tanking thanks to corporate-created inflation.\n\nThe end of private ownership is upon us as billionaire elites execute the great reset to serfdom.\n\nAll the land and materials are privately-owned (AKA monopolized)\n\nPeople are $300+ trillion in debt.\n\nShelter costs are skyrocketing and are only getting started.\n\nStates are now encouraging working families to live in their cars.\n\nThe military is encouraging service members to try homeless charities.\n\nEntire nations are experiencing a mental breakdown.\n\nOh, and then there's the annoying little fact that we're entering Act 2 of the climate catastrophe:\n\nThe majority of the ancient forests are gone.\n\n85% of our soil nutrition is gone.\n\n80% of the world's fish are gone.\n\nOur water and air are poisoned.\n\nThe planet is heating up like a sauna on fire.\n\nMicro-plastics have been discovered in babies, placentas, and 9,000 feet up the French Pyrenees.\n\nWe're facing imminent resource collapse.\n\nThe corporate \"solutions?\"\n\nPlanet-killing health-destroying venture capital veganism.\n\nReal estate pyramid schemes.\n\nCrypto pyramid schemes.\n\nGreen-shaming the masses.\n\nMake the plebs eat bugs.\n\nCorporate reliance for everyone.\n\nBut it doesn't have to be this way.\n\nWhat is superabundance?\n\nSuperabundance is the natural result of pursuing socioenviroeconomic sustainability in order to achieve widest-spread longest-term well-being.\n\nSocio: That which sustains our society instead of tearing it apart.\n\nEnviro: That which sustains our ecosystem instead of destroying it.\n\nEconomic: That which shares the most wealth with the most people.\n\nSuperabundance - the flourishing of all living things - is what the Post Growth Institute calls \"a good life for all within ecological limits.\"\n\nWhat would superabundance look like?\n\nWhat would longest-term widest-spread flourishing look like? It would certainly include the following:\n\nNo interest and minimal debt\n\nA reliable currency with zero inflation\n\nWages that actually meet the cost of living\n\nEasily affordable homeownership for all\n\nEasily affordable not-for-profit rentership for those who can't own\n\nFar more wildlife and wildland\n\n100% renewable energy\n\nThis is not an exhaustive list, but you get the idea. Wouldn't you love to live in a world where you were paid triple or more than what you currently get paid, where you can own a home for half of what you're currently wasting on rent, where you're not giving a cent of your wealth to democracy-smashing elites, and where you can rest assured that your great-great-great-grandchildren will enjoy this same abundance without destroying the planet?\n\nAll of this is completely possible.\n\nThe question is: How do we get there?\n\nLuckily, there is a formula for superabundance:\n\nThe formula for superabundance\n\nAre you ready for it?\n\nSuperabundance = nature + democratized technology + democratized investment - economic exploitation - population\n\nLet's break it down.\n\n+ Nature\n\nDespite what the Bitboys and Silicon Valley technologists would have us smoke, nature is still the source of all wealth on planet Earth.\n\nEven Bitcoin and NFTs can't exist without natural elements to create processors and servers and generate the energy to run them.\n\nWe are a biological species. The fundamental source of all wealth is the host ecosystem in which we find ourselves, and we should act accordingly. The Earth is not ours to own, but to steward in a way that is verifiably, biologically sustainable. In doing so, we can actually leave the planet in better shape than we found it. This is the first and fundamental step toward superabundance.\n\n+ Democratized technology\n\nScience and tech are awesome.\n\nSometimes.\n\nScience tech has increased human life expectancy, decreased infant mortality, and saved countless lives from infection and horrific plagues.\n\nBut society is also riddled with cancer and heart disease and dementia, half the nation is popping pills, no one is sleeping, everyone is stressed, and the next generation is entirely addicted to p0rn and social media.\n\nPlus, hundreds of millions of jobs are disappearing to robots and automation, with billions slated for major disruption.\n\nThat's why we need to ensure all technology is pro-human and pro-Earth.\n\nIt's also why we're going to need to either nationalize autonomous monopolies or charge a massive robot tax.\n\nBecause if the net benefits of technology only benefit a handful of trillionaires while billions of jobless people suffer, we might as well reset to 1971.\n\n+ Democratized investment\n\nNaturally, anti-commons hyper-individualist libertarians and corporatists balk at the idea of being forced to not hoard wealth - even though it's the workers who create 100% of the wealth in society - but it's worth noting that governments do an equally wretched job of delivering real value to citizens.\n\nLuckily, it is entirely possible to build \"utopia\" without taxation, public debt, or corrupt corporate involvement:\n\nBy using the revolutionary Daman Model, communities, cities, states, and nations can bring tens of trillions of dollars worth of value to real people, without their gains being looted by governments or corporations.\n\n- Economic exploitation\n\nDemocratic self-government essentially has one core function - to protect all citizens from threats foreign, domestic, and overwhelmingly, corporate.\n\nThis is where Via Negativa comes in - the art of adding by subtracting.\n\nFor Michelangelo to carve his statue of David, he had to chip away everything that wasn't David. In the same way, we have to chip away everything that won't create superabundance.\n\nAt present, the human ship is covered in barnacles - heavy leeches that are not only rotting into and eating through the hull itself, but also creating so much drag and weight on our ship that it's grinding us to a standstill despite strong tailwinds in our favor.\n\nTo achieve superabundance, we have to get rid of the exploiters.\n\nIn other words, we need to re-design our society and economy to incentivize contribution, not extraction. It essentially boils down to one thing:\n\nBan rent-seeking\n\nHere's the Wikipedia definition:\n\n\"Rent-seeking is the effort to increase one's share of existing wealth without creating new wealth. Rent-seeking results in reduced economic efficiency through misallocation of resources, reduced wealth creation, lost government revenue, heightened income inequality, and potential national decline.\"\n\nWouldn't it be lovely to live in a world without rent-seeking?\n\nWithout banksters extracting interest?\n\nWithout for-profit land-lorders flaying rent for life?\n\nWithout corporations monopolizing products?\n\nA world without economic exploitation absolutely terrifies the extraction class, but it will be a boon for contributors. Eliminating all non-contributing parasitic activities will be like cutting a lead parachute off the working class.\n\nSo how does one ban all forms of rent-seeking?\n\nThere are three main options:\n\nGo the French Revolution/Russia Peasant's Revolt route and just let the poor deal with it in a matter of days.\n\nCriminalize rent-seeking and give people jail time and massive fines.\n\nTax rent-seeking out of existence so profiteers skitter off elsewhere.\n\nIt should be noted that when governments fail to implement #2 or #3, the people will inevitably execute option #1.\n\n- Population\n\nSorry overpopulators, but we've got to face the hard facts:\n\nWithout the highly-toxic Haber Bosch process, the earth can only naturally and sustainably feed less than 3 billion humans, to say nothing of our mining, forestry, and energy needs.\n\nPlanet Earth is super tiny - just 3.7 acres per person to supply all our oxygen, air filtration, soil, food, water, clothing, shelter, mining, transportation, iPhones, Pelotons, and still leave room for the 1.74+ million other species with whom we share the planet and with whom we are deeply interconnected to ensure our mutual long-term survival. It's not nearly enough to live naturally and sustainably at 8 billion, 11 billion, or even a third as many people.\n\nIf you're truly pro-baby, the goal isn't to stuff as many of them on the planet right now so they can all suffer - you want the highest quality life for the most amount of babies over the longest possible term.\n\nGet excited\n\nIn a world with pro-human democratized technology, rid of all economic exploitation, and with a far smaller population, literally everyone on earth will be able to live like a millionaire.\n\nIt's so easy to get depressed about the world, but it's actually a wonderful time to be alive.\n\nThink about it:\n\nCandles aren't that impressive when you light them outside on a sunny day.\n\nBut when it's pitch black in a cave, a little fire adds a lot of light and warmth that attracts others.\n\nThere's no doubt that we're in a very bleak and darkening time right now - but never before in history has there been such a massive opportunity for the average person to make a significant impact on the common good.\n\nWe need to re-kindle a global vision for a brighter tomorrow.\n\nSo let your little light shine.\n\nSuperabundance is absolutely achievable, my friends.\n\nBut it starts with believing that tomorrow is worth saving.\n\nJared A. Brock is an award-winning biographer, PBS documentarian, and the cell-free founder of the popular futurist blog Surviving Tomorrow, where he provides thoughtful people with contrarian perspectives on the corporatist anti-culture. His writing has appeared in Esquire, The Guardian, Smithsonian, and TIME Magazine, and he has traveled to more than forty countries including North Korea. 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Humanual-Politics
Medium users responding to blog posts on political topics, featuring diverse political stances from users spanning different cultural backgrounds. This dataset is part of the HumanLM benchmark for training user simulators that accurately reflect real user behavior.
Source: RapidAPI Medium endpoint · Domain: Long-form Content & Politics · Date Range: 2022-04-01 to 2025-11-04
The dataset contains 47,905 comments from 5,300 users across 14,724 posts, with an average of 1.73 turns per conversation. Each example includes the user's persona, conversation context, and ground-truth response.
Splits: train (45,429) · val (489) · test (1,987)
| Column | Description |
|---|---|
prompt |
Medium article content as a list of messages with role and content fields |
completion |
The ground-truth user comment to generate |
persona |
User's commenting history and political stances on Medium |
post_id |
Medium article ID |
user_id |
SHA-256 hashed Medium user ID (for privacy) |
timestamp |
Unix timestamp of when the comment was posted |
turn_id |
Position in the comment thread |
metadata |
Article metadata as JSON (title, claps, author, tags, etc.) |
Quick Start
from datasets import load_dataset
dataset = load_dataset("snap-stanford/humanual-politics")
sample = dataset["train"][0]
print(sample["persona"]) # User persona
print(sample["prompt"]) # Conversation context
print(sample["completion"]) # Ground-truth response
Citation
@article{wu2026humanlm,
title={HUMANLM: Simulating Users with State Alignment Beats Response Imitation},
url={https://humanlm.stanford.edu/},
author={Wu, Shirley and Choi, Evelyn and Khatua, Arpandeep and Wang, Zhanghan and He-Yueya, Joy and Weerasooriya, Tharindu Cyril and Wei, Wei and Yang, Diyi and Leskovec, Jure and Zou, James},
year={2026}
}
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