Ok. Everyone give 1x fighter jet, 1x ATACMS, 1x Tank, 1x air defense system, etc… Pretty soon you have the makings of a significant Army. https://twitter.com/maxboot/status/1616400607668994049
Ok. Everyone give 1x fighter jet, 1x ATACMS, 1x Tank, 1x air defense system, etc… Pretty soon you have the makings of a significant Army. https://twitter.com/maxboot/status/1616400607668994049
The sobering thing about voter suppression is that it is self reinforcing. The more votes are suppressed, the more undemocratically elected politicians are there to suppress the vote even more. So we cannot give up.
I keep seeing articles, about people trying to violently overturn election results, that use phrases like “motivated by election lies”.
They aren’t motivated by lies, they are motivated by not liking the result. Repeating the lies just makes them feel powerful because it makes them part of the grift. They think they’re fooling people.
Blaming the lies lulls us into thinking that this is an education/disinformation problem which, if addressed, will eliminate the violence.
These folks aren’t deluded. They’ve learned from their leaders that violence and lying are the route to power.
For most of my life I thought these problems could be solved by education. I no longer do. As far as I can tell, about 30% of the population believes that getting away with grifts and bullying people is proof of power and leadership that should be respected, worshiped, and emulated.
We can’t educate these folks. We can only build a society that ensures that they cannot gain control. Unfortunately, the entire human race has largely failed to do so, and we’re suffering the consequences on a planetary scale.
Every day we act as though they don’t *know* that the elections were valid, is a day we risk losing the fight for democracy, equality, and a stable environment.
🇫🇮 Finland.
Winter landscape. Sunset.
Water is warmer than air. The surface of the water evaporates.
Complete silence.
#finland #visitfinland #sunset #suomi #scandinavia #nature #reflect
Twitter Inc has restored a feature that promotes suicide prevention hotlines and other safety resources to users looking up certain content, after coming under pressure from some users and consumer safety groups over its removal.
Analysis: Internal documents show how a small group of executives molded online discourse. Under Musk, that’s more of a problem than ever. https://wapo.st/3FwrzuF
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1603751819699683330