We’re in the middle of a cognitive war and “serious” commenters like Yglesias are out there advocating for unilateral cease fire. What the actual fuck. If you’re not actively pushing your message and trying to persuade, someone else will fill the space.

And CORPORATE - return anti-trust to break up billion dollar fortunes and companies as a good in itself.

Re-establish deterrence. And that applies not just to GOP governance but also the billionaires funding it.

Wealthy Political Consultant that has only a vague notion of where you can buy milk: “Hmmm maybe we can triangulate a position in between where both are partly true! I’ll bet that will make everyone happy!”

The most essential thing is to prevent oligarchic fiefdoms, something all systems are vulnerable to. Free markets and capitalism work pretty well as long as anti-trust is strictly enforced as its own good. Break up companies and fortunes just because.

From 2023: "There are a lot of ways to blackmail a government. Not all of it has to do with individuals and their personal secrets. You could expose horrific prior actions a government did against its own people, for example.

Unspeakable things."
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Cognitive war.

Can’t sell it, got dig it up to find the bodies and return them to their families.

He cheated and then wanted to non-consensually dose her with antibiotics. Everyone makes mistakes, but drugging someone without their consent is fucking gross.

Tancredi Marchiolo is the key principal at an “alternative investments” firm - www.dnb.com/business-dir...

I wish they would turn the issue into “fix immigration by arresting rich assholes exploiting immigrant labor” vs “fix immigration by executing Americans in the streets”. I’m a dummy but I think Americans hate elites more than they’re racist.

Treat the US government and ICE claims like you'd treat a Russian government claim after they've shot down an airliner or bombed a hospital. America 2026.

Exactly and this is all on the job training in brutality for them. They’re going to get better and more efficient at it. Trump’s very own Rosvgardia.

One thing Walz and national dems could do is announce a vision of harsh punishment for billionaires and businesses that profit from cheap illegal immigration. And direct state police to start arresting the rich fucks who drew immigrants here with promises of jobs. Alter paradigm, seize initiative.

Spot on

What air defense doing?

Doesn’t this fit the description of a lot of the NJ drones? I’m pretty sure I saw some photos that could definitely have been this kind of winged quad copter drone. Can hover or fly faster…. Man. So wtf were they doing so secretly? Both admins super sketch about it.

Fundamentally, legitimate governance is about consent. A people consent to existing under a framework of shared laws. Trump has no respect for consent at any level.