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New research shows Musk biased X /Twitter the day he endorsed Trump to prioritize visibility of republican content and his own page .  https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/elon-musk-trump-x-algorithm-bias-b2640976.html Our ideas are algorithmically silenced online . People are being brainwashed into right wing ideas . Media /Social Media is bought and sold buy the billionaire class — to push RW ideas into people’s face. This is because R epublican ideology is fundamentally rooted in free market liberalism , limited government interference with markets , deregulation to allow Capitalism to freely exploit for profit . . .is against advancing public education to create free /independently thinking minds . . . is against social welfare programs that benefit the majority not the 1 % . . . is rooted in Capitalist trickle down tax cuts for the wealthy . . . . rooted in denial of science and climate change so Capitalists can freely profit without interruption . . . and rooted in divisive cul
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Staying Engaged With Existing Systems, However Corrupt

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We are in the decisive decade NOW, to answer the crisis of global warming soon to make the Earth unlivable for many countless lifeforms. Say what you will about the system being rigged, but we have no choice but to engage it, to stop the machine of Capitalism, before it's too late. We don't have the luxury of cynically checking out from existing systems/institituons, not voting, and not strategically trying to build In-System power legislatively, to place hard caps on emissions as soon as possible, with the most severe punishment enforced upon polluting companies which do not meet a lawfully set benchmark.  If we target corrupting mechanisms of "money in politics", we can build that political power, to pass needed radical Sustainability legislation in this way. Doesn't mean because we engage politically that we endorse the system to continue it as is whatsoever. It's simply about understanding the levers of power, to dismantle the mechanisms OF power and the
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We Are Not Improving

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Time to celebrate the mindless right wing cult that is MAGAaaa, weee... soaring on the wings of fake populism, covert/overt racism, intolerance, and fabrication of reality wherever necessary to keep their hype train goingggg. Yayy! This goes out to you, and also to all those voters lazy enough to fall for Trump's "fake populist, fix the economy, anti incumbent" bs. Trump is literally gonna make America great again you don’t even know. Their policy? Oh that would be deregulating Capitalism to create even MORE Capitalism. Gonna be great. It would also include kicking out all the criminal evil immigrants, even tho native citizens commit more crimes statistically than documented/undocumented immigrants combined, are the foundation of the labor system, and the U.S. literally being built by generations of immigrants). It would include tax cuts for the wealthy. It would be anti-abortion, outlawing pornography, and banning books, how representative of everyday people. And would a
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Anthropocene Extinction

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(Watch Video: "The Tipping Points of Climate Change — and Where We Stand | Johan Rockström | TED"   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vl6VhCAeEfQ We're nearly halfway through the 2020s, dubbed the most decisive decade for action on climate change. Where exactly do things stand? Climate impact scholar Johan Rockström offers the most up-to-date scientific assessment of the state of the planet and explains what must be done to preserve Earth's resilience to human pressure.) Everything else is meaningless if the planet is uninhabitable. We have 5 years— we are halfway through the "decisive decade" to answer this existential breakdown of our planet.  The political horse races for who the next president will be don't matter, our little Movement echo chambers don't matter, we need all hands on deck, visceral grass roots action to put the brakes on Carbon NOW.  Probably time to get disruptive...  Meaning bodies on the gears of industry, mass civil disobedience
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Look Up!

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Just the two hottest days on Earth in over 100,000 years this week that's all, as the globe heats up and becomes unlivable.  Our sauntering collective “path to zero emissions by 2050” is nonsense and harmful. So too is simply escaping to remote communes, planting trees, growing food in our backyards, or any other matter of escapism and "personal responsibility" as any kind of complete solution to this existential threat. We can't live in a fantasy, we need to start taking environmental sustainability seriously. Society needs Industrial level change at this critical point - hard caps on emissions, with binding pass/fail laws that are enforceable and severely punishable. To do this we need to target systemic change at the political structure of human decision making itself; gutting money from politics to fundamentally delink Capitalist control over society, to be able to accrue necessary political power, in order to pass Sustainability laws as soon as possible. We have
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Human Rights Debauch at U.S. Congress

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An utter human rights debauch yesterday as Netanyahu Genocidal War Criminal wanted by the International Criminal Court and by the entire world for atrocities against Palestinians and Humanity preached to U.S. congress about good and evil, a congress full of AIPAC funded U.S. politician sell outs, while Netanyahu turns around and receives 10X more funding in a disgusting, genocidal Capitalistic racket. Protests rained down hard where Netanyahu stayed at a nearby hotel, attempting to block his path to the U.S. Capitol where he would give his "speech" of absurd fabrications of reality and condemnations of American Jews and citizens. Meanwhile you have the global right wing cult protecting and siding with Israel, crying about the defacing of D.C. property, as protests erupted all over D.C., an American flag was burned and Palestinian flag raised in its place (perfectly legal btw under free speech), with pro Palestine anti-Israeli genocide messages tagged all over statues, monumen
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Gaza: A Week In Genocide

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Israel is invading Rafah, the last remaining city in Gaza where over 100,000 have been ordered to flee… many being displaced for the 5th/6th time now. Over 2 million in Gaza have been utterly displaced. There is no where left to go. Gaza has been wiped off the map. The border crossing from Egypt to Rafa where some fraction of critical aid/supplies were able to get through, was taken over and shut down by Israeli forces earlier this week on Sunday. 7 days later and still no aid, and no fuel has come through to power Rafah's medical systems, leaving hundreds of injured and sick people for dead. This, in addition to the already many thousands with non-combat related medical needs like heart problems, cancers, and pregnancies. (Weaponized) Famine sets in across Gaza, as innocent Palestinian civilians begin STARVING TO DEATH. There is no food, no water, no fuel, no electricity; all essential infrastructure has been destroyed; people are living on top of one another; and with rising temp
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Simply Doing "Something/Anything" Isn't Enough

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To add to da Vinci's wisdom here— and to simply “do anything” is not enough either... We need to discriminate between priorities of action; given the combined severity and urgency of problems we face and fact that time and energy is always in short supply. We also have to be clear on "why" we're doing things, and the true intent behind our actions.  A lot of activism becomes just about “feeling better” and “being social”, or to serve some aspect of identity as an "activist" that’s "doing something/anything”. It becomes more about meeting our psychological needs, than about genuinely, intellectually and strategically wanting to solve the problems of society. Alternatively, we also can't cerebrally live in “theoretical land” forever either, with our proposed visionary models we think society should adopt, perfecting where every nut and bolt will go in an idealized system. We have to be pragmatic too, in facing the here and now cultural and institutio
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War System

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When Palestinians cry “Where is the World?” they’re met with the dark reality that there is no sane, functioning collective “system” in place on Earth. The world is a "war system" which devalues everything in terms of profitability, run by financially captured superpowers who answer to no one. Historically people will look back and say WHAT WERE YOU DOING during that historic genocide and those last decades of an inhabitable Earth?  What’s required is that we put aside our differences to organize on a large enough scale to change the system. We need to recapture power of political decision making processes from the hands of private corporations and political lobbies, so we can change the core functions of the system, so WE can make the rules, and redesign society based on scientific principles and cooperation to meet human need. 
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Commodification of Value

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Everything has been commodified under Market Society, devaluing all we hold dear. People have become denatured because we don’t “value” anything. Everything is bought and paid for, nothing is inherently sacred or important; we are losing all true, tangible value. For millennia labor has been intimately linked to one's reward/survival, in effect "commodifying" ourselves and our labor for economic resources. As market capitalism has evolved over the past century, with the complete privatization and financialization of society, there exists today virtually zero constraints on what we'll make into sellable, marketable product in the pursuit of profit and survival in the system—  the planet's  natural resources...   our healthcare and medicine... our educational institutions...   our creative ingenuity  in the form of copyright protection and patents... our activism as mere occupational paths... the spreading of ideas and information in and of itself in the form of &qu
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Becoming Human: "Smiling Is The Most Basic Kind Of Peace Work"

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Small gestures of kindness are a form of daily activism. Just showing concern for a fellow human can them. If everyone practiced this daily, the world would come together. If we ever get to the next higher form of society, they will look back on the "social media arc" of human history and say "small gestures of kindness and smiles are meaningful"... "remember when hate was magnified algorithmically, and we scoffed and sneered at each other on the street; full of mistrust and fear"... in many ways the "fake it til you make it" is real... in other words, what you practice becoming, you will become. When we’re young, and everything is black and white, it’s easy to think all the "good vibes" stuff is just nonsense and that people just are or aren’t "good"... But we need to realize that "good" is what we practice, not a thing we are. And, if a creepy uncomfortable smile is all you got, it’s better than nothing ;) *W
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Religious Capture of Society

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At the core of Israel’s vicious and ongoing Genocide of the Palestinian people —is Religion. It fits perfectly with Biblical prophecies... that Jews are to reclaim “their” land, and ethnically cleanse the area of "enemies of Israel" before Endtimes. Christian/Zionist extremists are actively welcoming in "Armageddon", World War III scenarios, with "nations against nations", "famine", and total mayhem on Earth as the situation in the middle east teeters on the brink of wider world conflict, in order to self-fulfill their insane religious prophecies of Rapture and Jesus’s return. Many of our U.S. politicians are in fact devout evangelical Christians who back Israel's every move in this regard, all in the name of God. For to s upport Israel is to obtain "God’s blessing", as "God blesses the world through Israel".  This is all one big “religion is f**kng up everything” scenario… Proof that religion is not benign and neutral as
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Women's History Month

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March is Women's History month. It's a reminder that fundamental changes can and HAVE been made to society throughout history, when we come together and organize to do so. Our systems are not immutable laws of the cosmos, they are made by us, and we can unmake them, reshape them. Activists like to say that changing the system isn’t possible, that attempting change within a broken system is futile… but what happens after successful protests, LAW gets made...and that is the enduring part. Conversely, progress is by no means “inevitable”, it must be fought for. And achievements gained are always susceptible to erosion without our active engagement, as demonstrated by recent undoings of reproductive rights in the US. Radical change begins and ends with “talking” and the exchange of ideas… another action commonly dismissed as futile and “doing nothing”. But, words are powerful, they are the very means to "meaning", they give shape to ideas, which come to shape the world w
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