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Cake day: June 4th, 2025

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  • It is addiction just like any other. I felt like I can’t quit it, I feel like I will lose connection with the friends and family that is still using it. That it keeps me informed and other BS.

    After deleting it on 2nd try (after navigating the maze to delete, they gave 30 days to change mind, hoping I won’t be able to resist and will log in. And of course I couldn’t resist the first time and logged back in) I realized that I haven’t lost anything of value and the people that I still matter I have other ways to contact.

    It was just an illusion.

    Edit: fixed





  • To be fair her thinking was that if she just give him that hunk of metal and he overthrows the government it would be absolutely worth it.

    And to me that doesn’t make me look in a bad way on her.

    But unfortunately the joke is on her, he has no intention of doing it (he is fine with regime, he just wanted to get the oil). And he already is showing this by forgetting her name.



  • Don’t overextend yourself, concentrate on things that you actually can have impact on, and maybe even among them pick most important issue to you and act on it.

    ICE turning into gestapo is immediate issue that we can do something about.

    Greenland for example, what can we do about it? I personally think he is using Iceland as a distraction from Epstein (of course Denmark and rest of Europe should take this seriously).

    After he removed Maduro noticed that they threw names of several countries, Iceland produced highest outrage, so they went with it.

    I am actually thinking that the main goal is turning US into dictatorship, but to keep power they need an army inside of the country (gestapo). ICE is being used for that. But to keep them loyal he needs money. The problem is that traditionally Congress controls money and can cut it. This is where tariffs and Venezuela comes from. Notice that this revenue is outside if control of the Congress.

    Epstein might have been a distraction from this, but actually was hurting him. He was struggling to change narrative, and finally with Greenland everyone stopped talking about it.






  • I disagree. The attention is put on that to explain extracting material but keeping the regime.

    I think everyone is missing that the whole idea behind it is to get a revenue that bypasses Congress’ control of the purse.

    First thing were tariffs, that go directly to executive branch, now he tries to do the same with Venezuelan oil.

    Why does he need it? He is using immigrants as an excuse to turn ICE into the equivalent of military police in Russia a.k.a his own gestapo.

    But he needs money to keep ICE and military loyal. This doesn’t work if Congress can stop the money flow.

    The whole peace prize is Machado thinking that she could convince him to help overthrow the regime. He didn’t give damn about people if Venezuela he wants his own dictatorship and for that he needs source of money.




  • The first pass the post mathematically produces a two party system (not voting won’t change it, support ranked choice voting).

    Republican party was essentially taken over by MAGA.

    Democrats are basically everyone else. They have different views and that’s why they are not as effective.

    Among Democrats there are so-called corporate democrats which normally would be Republicans, some of them might even be fine with trump.

    The solution here isn’t being apathetic and so voting because “both parties are the same”.

    The solution here is the opposite and being involved much more. Replacing those corporate Democrats with progressives in primaries and during general election voting for Democrats as every Republican that wins seat will be much worse than even those corporate democrats.

    We got here because public apathy, and taking democracy for granted. People still don’t understand how fragile democracy is and how easy it is to lose it despite trump and Republicans being in the middle of destroying it.