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Melissa Nadia Viviana

@resistrebelrevolt.net

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Resist Rebel Revolt! Anti-Fascist. Author. Philosopher. Dog-Mom. Existential Activist. Democrat. https://melissanadiaviviana.com/ Organized 3 Abortion Rights Marches Past President of Women's Non-Profit Past Secretary of LGBTQIA Org

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Melissa Nadia Viviana @resistrebelrevolt.net · 8d

Strongmen can't control large amounts of people. They only condition them to believe they have fewer options.

Condition them against their own freedom.

Propaganda makes you complicit in your own imprisonment.

A participant in your own oppression.

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Trump's dictatorship is failing. An essay full of realistic optimism.

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Melissa Nadia Viviana @resistrebelrevolt.net · 2h

What happened to the rest of the economy?

I think that's why some articles say we're already in a recession and AI exuberance is masking it.

Melissa Nadia Viviana @resistrebelrevolt.net · 2h

The smartest response to fear of immigration you'll ever see.

"The elite need to inflame tension on immigration cause they need someone to blame for the problems THEY'RE causing our socities."

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Melissa Nadia Viviana @resistrebelrevolt.net · 15h

I think what makes General Mark Milley's 2023 farewell speech so iconic & timeless isn't just that he says we don't take an oath to a dictator...

It's that he added "or a wannabe dictator" to show that we should have no allegiance to sloppy, Reality-TV fascists like Trump.

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Melissa Nadia Viviana @resistrebelrevolt.net · 15h

You know, the kind of Reality-TV fascists who clearly want to have Habeas Corpus taken away... but have to be explained what it is first. 🫩

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Melissa Nadia Viviana @resistrebelrevolt.net · 16h

Wish I knew!

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Melissa Nadia Viviana @resistrebelrevolt.net · 22h

Portland police warning someone (maybe someone who works for ICE) if they drive into the crowd of protestors they will be arrested.

Person says "I'll take care of it."

What does that mean? They think they abide by a lawlessness higher than the law?

Kudos to this cop for protecting protestors. 🔥

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Melissa Nadia Viviana @resistrebelrevolt.net · 17h

I don't know but this one is particularly scathing: saying it's 17x worse than the dot com bubble & 4x worse than subprime bubble.

www.commondreams.org/news/artific...

Another article says that 42% of companies who tried AI pilot program abandoned the projects.

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Melissa Nadia Viviana @resistrebelrevolt.net · 21h

I'm putting an anti-ICE furry protest on my 2025 BINGO card... just in case.

We KNOW you already have the costumes. 😍

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Melissa Nadia Viviana @resistrebelrevolt.net · 18h

P.S. apnews.com/article/ai-b...

Is there an AI bubble? Financial institutions sound a warning

Financial institutions are raising concerns about a potential AI investment bubble. The Bank of England on Wednesday warned that tech stock prices, inflated by AI optimism, could face a sharp correcti...

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Melissa Nadia Viviana @resistrebelrevolt.net · 20h

Ad Hominem!

Which in a twist of fate is the satirical name of my memoir collection.

Mostly because people use it wrong so often I wanted to play around with the irony.

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Melissa Nadia Viviana @resistrebelrevolt.net · 21h

Some of these narcissist deflections were transparently thin and flimsy.

Her innocence doesn't depend on whether the senator hates his state or not.

Total change of topic.

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Melissa Nadia Viviana @resistrebelrevolt.net · 21h

I'm putting an anti-ICE furry protest on my 2025 BINGO card... just in case.

We KNOW you already have the costumes. 😍

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Melissa Nadia Viviana @resistrebelrevolt.net · 21h

She's grandma wolf: The better to NOT hear you with, my dear.

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Melissa Nadia Viviana @resistrebelrevolt.net · 21h

I've ruffled a few feathers. They're all over 60 and I'm the only millennial.

60 year olds always try to get along and compliment each other even when they're assholes. I find this frustrating.

So I just say what I really think of them.

Melissa Nadia Viviana @resistrebelrevolt.net · 21h

That's what they're telling Comey.

Melissa Nadia Viviana @resistrebelrevolt.net · 21h

Propaganda Barbie came well-prepared to humiliate & attack the senators questioning her.

To me it made her look much guiltier.

If you're on trial - you don't need to attack the lawyer's character to prove you're innocent.

She's doing illegal things & she tried DESPERATELY to deflect from them.

Melissa Nadia Viviana @resistrebelrevolt.net · 22h

Who corrupts them?

Melissa Nadia Viviana @resistrebelrevolt.net · 22h

a group of people sitting in a church with the words " ain 't that the truth " written on the bottom

ALT: a group of people sitting in a church with the words " ain 't that the truth " written on the bottom

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Melissa Nadia Viviana @resistrebelrevolt.net · 22h

P.S. I accused my HOA president of also not being loved by her mother and taking out that longterm wound on the HOA.

People with unhealed wounds spend their lives trying to solve their problems in completely unrelated situations.

And they simply should have chosen therapy.

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Melissa Nadia Viviana @resistrebelrevolt.net · 22h

The truth is: All the money in the world can't buy psychological freedom from trauma.

You have to earn it with hard fucking work.

Trump was too lazy to heal himself. He threw money at every wound. It didn't make it better.

Now he's a volatile hurricane leaving a trail of destruction in his wake.

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Melissa Nadia Viviana @resistrebelrevolt.net · 22h

This is why I constantly compare Trump to my mom. Not because she's as bad as he is: but because the psychological principle is the same.

It's a behavior that is scaled to a national level. But truly originates from the same principle.

Trump hates that people have the freedom to hurt him.

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Melissa Nadia Viviana @resistrebelrevolt.net · 22h

The disdain for freedom. The disdain for choices. The disdain for the ability to hurt them.

They will do anything to stop it.

And I see that malignant narcissism as the basic principle in Christian Nationalism.

"We must weaponize Christianity to thwart others freedoms."

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Melissa Nadia Viviana @resistrebelrevolt.net · 22h

But what it reminds me is that narcissism really begins with the hatred of being hurt.

They believe if people are free - they will be free to hurt them.

So all narcissists begin by small acts of manipulation to protect themselves.

And that beast grows into authoritarianism at a systemic level.

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Melissa Nadia Viviana @resistrebelrevolt.net · 22h

Same. A grandmother who did a number on my mom. So she was crazy.

I believe my mom was afraid of free will. She was threatened by people being free.

I was the most free of all the siblings and she was terrified of what I might do.

Turns out what I did was break generational trauma.

a little girl in a tutu is dancing and saying `` that 's right '' .

ALT: a little girl in a tutu is dancing and saying `` that 's right '' .

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