JEM Hall aka Ruraldogs
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JEM Hall aka Ruraldogs
@ruraldogs.bsky.social
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Borderline GenX/Boomer. Flash frozen in the Grunge era. Retired Art & Journalism teacher. Coined the phrase "Dog Rescue Facilitation." 🎯Freedom & Democracy Now > Faction Later 2028🎯 ⛔🚫Autocracy Oligarchy Timocracy Plutocracy🚫⛔
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#SelectiveMourning is very much part of an #autocrat's manipulative #PoliticalPlaybook. It strives to define and amplify which #death we're supposed to grieve for as well as any non-loyalist death we should ignore due to lack of worth.

Have a read about this #autocratic #indoctrination tactic ⏬
Sorry for the sentence structure typos.
That's why, despite the fact they voted for him and are now destitute and or struggling, I won't say F the farmers. Absent a domestic food supply. The government is indeed, going to determine what food we have access to. Too many voters never thought this through.
Well that's going to be a long freaking wait because the latter seems to be coming out of the woodwork with this administration.
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Measles was eliminated in the US in 2000. Gone, with the exception of international travelers bringing it back in and causing small outbreaks. But now it's roaring back — it's incredibly contagious — thanks to guess who. Guess who!

Yup. Anti-vaxxers.
More than 120 people have contracted measles in a community along the Arizona and Utah border, officials say. NBC News’ Erika Edwards details why the area is seeing a surge in cases — and how it’s spreading to touristy spots.
I heard it's in North Carolina too. There is simply no excuse for this. US citizens have literally destroyed herd immunity. Getting vaccinated still protects you but not with the totality that it would if everyone did their part. As long as int'l travel is still permitted here, we are a global risk.
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VIDEO: Germany’s nuclear phase-out just delivered some industrial-strength ASMR. 2 massive cooling towers in Gundremmingen, offline for 4 years, get demolished in a satisfyingly controlled boom. 1980s-era landmarks folds into spectacular clouds of dust, proving even energy policy can be Rad.
Watch: Moment nuclear plant towers collapse during demolition
Two nuclear cooling towers in the town of Gundremmingen, Germany, collapse into large swirls of thick, white dust during demolition.
www.bbc.com
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NEW WARS: White House dubs it counternarcotics mission, but the USS Ford carrier group isn't sailing to the Caribbean to bust small fishing boats. Experts say carriers are for attacking land. Trump confirms the quiet part, vowing “and action in Venezuela soon. Without consulting Congress? Yes.
The U.S. Is Preparing for War in Venezuela
More U.S. military firepower is headed to the Caribbean as Trump escalates his anti-Maduro rhetoric.
www.theatlantic.com
By chance do you have a gift link on this? Asking because my El library does not carry The Atlantic because the subscription is so expensive.
Look at the number of pregnant women with complications that have suffered in parking lots after being sent away by ER docs, instructed not to return until their condition qualified as life-threatening. Some died during the wait because hospitals and staff are terrified of the legal consequences.
It's far more than nonsense. It's treacherously & inhumanely dangerous. Banning abortion to preserve "God's gift" is a barbaric blow to a woman's reproductive health care. The consequences of this extend far beyond the right to choose & the human being it conception argument.
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For a very good reason… governing by myths is just superstitious nonsense and precludes people from actually finding real empirical answers to difficult circumstances and instead rely on imaginary beings to solve their problems! Nonsense! Just preposterous nonsense!
Fascism runs on terror as a core component of its existence. Its very existence requires human victims to feed on. It is never satiated. Eventually, it comes for all of us.

Highly recommend Hannah Arendt's Origins of Totalitarianism as a detailed foundation for understanding.
As an aside, the neighborhoods in these videos are 5 miles away from my childhood home. These are my old stomping grounds. My friends and I used to take the bus to these neighborhoods to visit people and shop. In my heart, although no longer a Chi resident, it hits close to home.
Absolutely. I was about to use the same phrase, literally. All of the tenets and tactics founding the banality of evil weighed heavily on me in college decades ago. I never dreamed how relevant they would be until 2016.
You are spot on in observing the consequences of an autocratic approach to terrorism as a means of silencing the human spirit. We are here.

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Fascism runs on terror as a core component of its existence. Its very existence requires human victims to feed on. It is never satiated. Eventually, it comes for all of us.

Highly recommend Hannah Arendt's Origins of Totalitarianism as a detailed foundation for understanding.
I'd say it verges on terrorism.
EXACTLY. Our dear leader is a hateful, violent fascist. He wants to see suffering and violence. This is a sick, sick individual. People voted for this.
No legitimate law enforcement authority or agent EVER hides behind a mask or attempts to conceal identity

Brownshirts/Nazis would do this. Those who want to hide a (past) criminal identity want to do this.

No upstanding LEO ever wants OR SHOULD BE ALLOWED BY LAW to conceal identity...
Trump on ICE agents: "Now I understand why they should wear masks. I think it's very dangerous for them not to wear masks. They can do whatever they want."
Clarifying a syntax error. I meant to say that I cannot NOT think about it if I wanted to.
Roberts' needs the protection too. Biggest mistake that Biden made was trusting the report about Scotus and doing nothing.
That's it. That's the story. The only problem he will contend with is that nothing he does or dark money he accrues is going to buy him the health based longevity he needs to make this happen in the way he thinks it will. But it still may take years & cronies will keep it a closely guarded secret.
It's beyond worse. I cannot stop shaking my head daily while involuntarily pondering this. It's ingrained in me. I cannot think about it. This was all about hate & greed voting. It was also about not contesting the vote and investigating the election day shenanigans while we could. Here we are.
i will never understand how 77 million Americans thought empowering this was a good idea. our country was so lucky to survive his first term and he's much worse now.