@MillardPhillmore

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RFK Jr. doesn’t like that a study of every child born in Denmark from 1997-2018 showed no link between aluminum in vaccines and 50 adverse health outcomes. This study included more than a million kids. RFK Jr. wants the study retracted. The journal, which is a very prestigious one, refused.

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#Math #MathArt

"Violent crime is up in Washington, DC" says man who pardoned the largest group in history that committed violent crimes in Washington, DC.
Reminder: Americans who didn't vote for Harris voted for all of this.

America has always conceived of itself as a democracy.

This has obscured the fact that a variety of different regimes,
of competing social and political orders,
of incompatible visions of what the country should be,
have existed side by side throughout the nation’s history.

A hierarchical ethno-state dominated by white Christians or a pluralistic democracy with sincere egalitarian aspirations?

That conflict was not resolved in 1776.

It wasn’t settled in 1865.

And unfortunately, contrary to the dominant mainstream narrative, the passing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 didn’t usher in democratic consensus either.

Instead, the forces who fear and disdain the vision of egalitarian pluralism have been engaged in a comprehensive counter-mobilization
spearheaded by movement conservatism.

On January 20, those who explicitly reject the creedal or civic national identity came to power.

Their overarching goal is to restore white male domination in all spheres of life
and recenter the social and political order around strict hierarchies of race, gender, religion and wealth
- as opposed to equality and egalitarian principles.

The Trumpists didn’t depart from a previously stable democratic consensus. -- They represent the radical wing of a rightwing coalition that was never on board with egalitarian principles and democratic pluralism.

They believe any measure
– regardless of how extreme
– is now justified to defend “real America.”

https://thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/what-is-america-and-for-whom

What Is America, and for Whom?

A white Christian ethno-state with strict hierarchies or a pluralistic democracy with egalitarian aspirations? American society has always been divided over what this country should strive to be

Democracy Americana

Most of all, I want to remember what it feels like to hope for something without immediately calculating the probability of disappointment.

The world has enough people explaining why things won't work. What it needs are people willing to be wrong about the possibility that they might.

15/16

I want to get back to building things instead of just critiquing them. I want to be surprised by success instead of satisfied by failure. I want to care about the outcome more than I care about being right.

14/16

Rest is irresponsible.

You have to monetize every hobby.

You have to professionalize every hobby.

The only time you allow yourself to rest is if you collapse.

And if you collapsed you start doomscrolling because not being informed feels unproductive.

Your purpose is to grind.
To grind yourself to death.

@freedomcompost7676 yes, Lake Michigan stretches as far as you can see

@GottaLaff

Many people say they couldn't understand why the Italians and the Germans didn't stand up to their respective fascist leaders in the 1930s.

Modern America, IMO, is showing us EXACTLY how it happened then, and how it's happening again.

I don't even want to CONSIDER/PONDER how all this is going to end