societal bias

 

just been thinking, 
the way to go forward as consumers:
shop all we want at our local 
small businesses
avoid mega-corps, businesses run 
by billionaires (or trillionaires)



our mission, for those who accept it, 
is to go out there and care about 
ourselves and each other enough to take 
our world and make it work for us all



human races was a concept 
promoted by "white" men who desperately 
wanted scientific rationale for enslaving 
"black" people
Humanity is its own race, 
sometimes broken into tribes


it's not an actual special function 
room that Trump is demanding to save him -- 
it's the survival bunker beneath, which 
once he and his chosen are safely inside 
will allow him to nuke the world



how do you find the candidates 
you decide to vote for?
do you passively let your party choose?
do you actively look at who might do, 
talk with others in your position, promote 
folks who seem a good bet?
other?


Desperate people do stupid things,
too overwhelmed to care about
outcomes
acting out in this moment of
raging despair


It's not a polarity
but a system of layered
multi-polarities -- an
expectation of antagonism
tearing us apart


Excessive ambition
generally lauded as a
means to success, is
ultimately poisonous.
If it does lead to success,
it is not a success based on
the pleasures of the project,
but on fulfilling an onerous
demand
If success of the kind the
ambition requires does
not occur, the misery that
creates may overwhelm any
potential pleasure.  Such
ambition overrides personal
relationships, personal
achievements, personal
acceptance and self-regard.
It also has great potential for
doing a variety of harms
against all potentially affected.
Potential for unnecessary pain,
outweighing potential narrow
gain.


I finally get it! (Ok, so I'm slow)
This societal bias toward Values,
statements, assumptions of "The
Right"
The GOP is the party of big
business, those "of means"
They therefore obviously have
all the resources they need to
propagandize successfully.


5/9-21/26

what every US citizen can do

 
Dear Congressperson:

I have voted for you in the past, and am still a member of your district.
If you want me and my friends to vote for you again, please do everything in your power to Impeach President Trump.
We are all quite aware that he is ruining our country in every way he can.
He has destroyed our economy and many of our businesses. He has us entangled in a very stupid war, and has ruined the reputation of the US throughout the world. He has arranged for thugs to terrorize our neighborhoods, our cities, our governments. He has destroyed many vitally important programs and agencies. It does go on and on and on.
We have no idea if the November midterms will even be allowed, or usefully allowed.
Please, as far as I can see only impeachment, conviction, ousting, and sending to the legitimate courts to be tried for his many, disgusting crimes can save us.
Yours sincerely,

https://www.annenbergclassroom.org/article-ii-section-4/

if enough US citizens wrote/emailed/phoned/screamed
outside their office to our congressional reps to IMPEACH
or face voter outrage ending their career, and kept it up, we could regain our #democracy

People together as a force to be reckoned with
Spread the word

https://www.congress.gov/members

If you know of actions bringing people together as a force
to be reckoned with, while the world is up in arms against
Trump for so many reasons,
when the economy is getting ever worse …
then Spread the word for those as well

#uspolitics #democracy

while we still can
https://vote.gov/register

Voter registration deadlines vary by state and territory.
Once you register, you can vote in national, state, and local elections.
CHECK YOU ARE REGISTERED REGULARLY,
THEN EXERCISE YOUR CIVIC DUTY AND ACTUALLY VOTE!

citizensimpeachment.com/

do better

I don't need your approval
I never had it
yet, here I am

Due to our foolish two-party
structured Congress, it is important
to vote in a Democratic majority
in both Houses to take back our
democracy from the oligarchs.
State legislatures also need to be
majority Democratic for state-level
democracy.  We must do our
due diligence to vote for candidates
that actually represent us.  Pay 
attention to who the candidates
are, what they have done.  This
attention is good practice for when
(hopefully) we are again doing
democracy.

Originally, in the pre-US, the
assumption was a republic by and
for the elite lang-owning class.
We evolved into a democracy, of
by and for the people at large,
for as long as the people each do
our part to make it work.

Could the promoting of this
"Nazis on Substack" concern
be created by those Nazis
to take resources from their
opponents (often excellent
journalists using this route to
support themselves), perhaps
take over the platform?

for any point of time and space
it is what it is

Trump and buddies run roughshod
over us because too many don't want
to rock the boat
Yes, we have our brave resisters,
sometimes bold; sometimes amazing
Yet, a lifestyle of protest becomes
untenable, or tragic, not
sustainable -- like our planet

Inexorably  portraying prophecy
Descending
Letting evil men have their way
Ultimately, we've accepted
Just Look!  Such stupidity
Let it all unravel 
What a great way to be free

They always look only to find
differences they can use against
you.  Their opinions are not worth
listening to.
You can do better; you do, every
day, than their self-imposed
limitations could imagine.




what is this common knowledge 
that Democrats suck?  Yes, some do.  
Then, all people do sometimes, 
some much more than others.  
Being a Democrat does not increase 
one's suckage.  It's a disinformation myth.  
It's GOP projection.




I am so completely sick of all 
of this race as color, national origin, 
gender identities, created to keep 
humanity at war with ourselves
Get Over IT, people -- we are all 
people trying to make this world work for us
This has been going on for my whole life, 
and long before.  Do better!




it becomes ever more important to 
protect our children, all of us really, 
by teaching them/us to be aware, 
and to learn the actual facts, 
think critically, don't take anything 
at face value, and in every way 
enhance our humanity




far from being banned from today's 
primary source of information and 
connection, children and everyone else 
need to learn these social skills, to think critically, 
to check multiple sources of different kinds, 
to question, query, look for the logical 
inconsistencies, to be able to act effectively 
in the world we have made

4/18-5/7/26