Happy anniversary to The B-52s EP, ‘Mesopotamia’. Released this week in 1982. #theb52s #theb52sofficial #mesopotamia #deepsleep #nipitinthebud #cake #loveland
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I started noting the subtle but unmistakable creep in the #Project2025 rhetoric in this pinned thread ➡️ https://mastodon.social/@rameshgupta/112751032011681146
I stopped after a while because the #ZeroDenom pattern is visible early on — Inductive reasoning alone is enough to prove what utter garbage the whole document is, with no need to do an exhaustive read.
I’ve seen very high quality discussions on the lack of merits of proposals in Project 2025, but I’ve not seen a single one that tries to #NipItInTheBud.
This style of rhetoric is pervasive in #Project2025
It starts with seemingly simple ideas which resonate with conservatives but are controversial with liberals and progressives.
Then it QUICKLY builds up on that and introduces even more controversial ideas.
The creep is gradual, but unmistakable. Most people look at the end result and start debating the merits of that end result.
Meanwhile, a #divideByZero has already happened in earlier paragraphs and pages. #NipItInTheBud.
Why do people protest #Vance’s idea that parents should have votes proportionate to number of their children as a horrible idea?
It is horrible, but by discussing its merits or lack thereof, they’ve let something else slide.
We need to #NipItInTheBud as unconstitutional. There is no such provision in the US Constitution.
That should be the first line of attack before the idea even starts to take hold. By skipping to a discussion of how bad it is, we forget it’s unconstitutional
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