Karoline Leavitt is taking leave to have a little baby who will:

a) like her, be a Nazi propagandist, or
b) hate her guts with a passion.

What a beautiful moment.

“When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.”
― Frédéric Bastiat

#quotes

What if Russia's real tragedy isn't Putin, but what Russians could have become without him? Please share widely. Especially if you have contacts living in Russia on Telegram or elsewhere, this analysis needs to cross the border.

https://novafuture.org/opinion-piece/why-do-russians-keep-missing-their-date-with-freedom/

#russia #russianinvasion #ukraine #history

To any foreigners confused about what is going on:

Any time you get a first Black person elected to a given office, the next person to be elected will be the white candidate who is perceived to be the most racist. After Harold Washington became the first Black mayor of Chicago, we then elected Richard Daly.

Daly did not have a multi-billion dollar propaganda machine brainwashing everyone on his behalf, so the racists around here were able to immediately admit that Daly was worse than Washington. If nothing else, he bungled the finances badly.

But Barack Obama was president, not just mayor. Worse, he was respected. This fundamentally violates the ideas of white supremacists, who must believe that the worst white man is better than the best Black man. This is why ⅓ of the USA will never turn on Trump. In their minds, Trump is the one who “saved” them from the “humiliation” of living under a Black president. They desperately need you to tell them that Trump is smarter, more physically fit, more competent, more moral, more respected, and less corrupt than Obama.

If you say otherwise (and you should as often as often as possible), you are attacking their most deeply held beliefs about themselves and their place in this world.

#Trump

"Software brain: the idea that we can force the real world to act like a computer and then have AI issue that computer instructions. [...]
But: not everything is a business. Not everything is a loop! The entire human experience cannot be captured in a database. That’s the limit of software brain. That’s why people hate AI. It flattens them."

https://www.theverge.com/podcast/917029/software-brain-ai-backlash-databases-automation

We need to: 'stop talking about economic growth as something businesses do & start realising that growth is something people do. And when the “care economy” (the 'nonprofit sector') is undervalued by you, me, government…we will not grow. Economic growth & productivity do not happen when people are distracted by & worried about the gaps they & their families face in healthcare, education, etc.'!

Armine Yalnizyan paraphrased by Kelli Stevens (LinkedIn) - Non-Profit Chamber.

#politics #economics