TaraLume
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America, where are you now? Don't you care about your sons and daughters? Don't you know we need you now? We can't fight alone against the monster. America where are you now? Monster”-Steppenwolf 1969 https://youtu.be/eNp4LrWtz8M?si=-JQu4m10JmtZnhfe
Vance normalizes contradiction. Orwell’s warning applies. When reversal carries no cost, language no longer describes reality. It trains people to accept incoherence as strength. J. D. Vance is dangerous because he is teaching a system how to defend itself using the language of its victims.
"It is a lie to call her innocent."
These are the words of the Vice President of the United States, defending the murder of an unarmed woman.
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These are the words of the Vice President of the United States, defending the murder of an unarmed woman.
www.plagueisland.com/p/a-tragedy-...
January 10, 2026 at 12:46 PM
Vance normalizes contradiction. Orwell’s warning applies. When reversal carries no cost, language no longer describes reality. It trains people to accept incoherence as strength. J. D. Vance is dangerous because he is teaching a system how to defend itself using the language of its victims.
When a leader is ‘captured’ on paper and indicted from afar, it’s not justice announcing itself—it’s leverage. Power prefers distance. It keeps the guns and the righteousness separate so the story stays clean. Dress conquest up as destiny, law as convenience. The language changes; appetites don’t.
Before the U.S. Civil War was the Mexican–American War. The Confederates I knew practiced early. Mexico taught them how to mistake ambition for principle and force for order. Venezuela is just the same lesson with better press. Call it law, call it freedom—just don’t pretend it isn’t about control.
The U.S. Captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. Here’s What We Know
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
January 4, 2026 at 11:33 PM
When a leader is ‘captured’ on paper and indicted from afar, it’s not justice announcing itself—it’s leverage. Power prefers distance. It keeps the guns and the righteousness separate so the story stays clean. Dress conquest up as destiny, law as convenience. The language changes; appetites don’t.
Before the U.S. Civil War was the Mexican–American War. The Confederates I knew practiced early. Mexico taught them how to mistake ambition for principle and force for order. Venezuela is just the same lesson with better press. Call it law, call it freedom—just don’t pretend it isn’t about control.
The U.S. Captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. Here’s What We Know
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
The U.S. Captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. Here's What We Know
President Donald Trump announced that U.S. forces captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, who has since been charged with narco-terrorism.
www.rollingstone.com
January 4, 2026 at 11:28 PM
Before the U.S. Civil War was the Mexican–American War. The Confederates I knew practiced early. Mexico taught them how to mistake ambition for principle and force for order. Venezuela is just the same lesson with better press. Call it law, call it freedom—just don’t pretend it isn’t about control.
You keep diagnosing the world my Dear. Fine. But drift happens because no one pays the cost. Nihilism wins because it’s profitable. Truth never failed—accountability did. When nothing has a price, reality’s optional. You don’t fix post-truth with better ideals- you reattach speech to consequences!
Post-truth drift+algorithmic nihilism share a cause. Nishida Kitaro’s historical world needs continuity, consequence, a shared basho. Platforms shatter time into monetized “engagement-nows.” Nothing accumulates. Meaning can’t settle. This is the end of history by design—Judgment has nowhere to land
December 31, 2025 at 2:12 AM
You keep diagnosing the world my Dear. Fine. But drift happens because no one pays the cost. Nihilism wins because it’s profitable. Truth never failed—accountability did. When nothing has a price, reality’s optional. You don’t fix post-truth with better ideals- you reattach speech to consequences!
My Dear, this is Not slavery as the South practiced it, now we keep “Debt Slaves”. Stretch debt long enough and chains become schedules. A 100-month car loan isn’t freedom—it’s ownership reversed. Slavery didn’t vanish after abolition; it weaponized accounting. It’s a feature of our new plantation
The price of new cars and trucks in the U.S. has increased 33% since 2020, and consumers are piling on interest as they stretch out loan terms to eight, nine and nearly 10 years. 🔗 on.wsj.com/48PW5zA
December 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
My Dear, this is Not slavery as the South practiced it, now we keep “Debt Slaves”. Stretch debt long enough and chains become schedules. A 100-month car loan isn’t freedom—it’s ownership reversed. Slavery didn’t vanish after abolition; it weaponized accounting. It’s a feature of our new plantation
talk:
My dear, smart money stopped selling goods years ago-it sells behavior. You starve the public ledgers, reroute information to friends- call it efficiency. ‘Anti-bureaucracy’ makes a fine alibi while real assets—who knows what, when—changes hands. The books look cleaner; leverage gets richer.
My dear, smart money stopped selling goods years ago-it sells behavior. You starve the public ledgers, reroute information to friends- call it efficiency. ‘Anti-bureaucracy’ makes a fine alibi while real assets—who knows what, when—changes hands. The books look cleaner; leverage gets richer.
December 23, 2025 at 9:42 PM
talk:
My dear, smart money stopped selling goods years ago-it sells behavior. You starve the public ledgers, reroute information to friends- call it efficiency. ‘Anti-bureaucracy’ makes a fine alibi while real assets—who knows what, when—changes hands. The books look cleaner; leverage gets richer.
My dear, smart money stopped selling goods years ago-it sells behavior. You starve the public ledgers, reroute information to friends- call it efficiency. ‘Anti-bureaucracy’ makes a fine alibi while real assets—who knows what, when—changes hands. The books look cleaner; leverage gets richer.
My Dear, this “Antebellum Constitution” talk is just like when Tara fell: people angry their world won’t stay the same. When their world collapses, they call it theft. They don’t rebuild; they try to restore control. Dress it up as tradition or law - same bargain: order for some, silence for others.
The resurgence of the Lost Cause is not just cultural nostalgia—it’s a legal and constitutional project to undo Reconstruction by hollowing out equal citizenship while preserving the form of democracy. What failed by force in 1865 is now being pursued through courts, doctrine, and selective memory.
Over the next year, the Roberts Court “will face more cases that could further erode both the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments, pushing America back toward what some on the right believe is the true, Antebellum Constitution,” Adam Serwer argues.
December 21, 2025 at 9:02 PM
My Dear, this “Antebellum Constitution” talk is just like when Tara fell: people angry their world won’t stay the same. When their world collapses, they call it theft. They don’t rebuild; they try to restore control. Dress it up as tradition or law - same bargain: order for some, silence for others.
Before Charlie Kirk was fatally shot, he was readying for JD Vance to become the next president of the United States. Now, Erika Kirk is determined to make that happen.
December 21, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Before Charlie Kirk was fatally shot, he was readying for JD Vance to become the next president of the United States. Now, Erika Kirk is determined to make that happen.
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The Lost Cause survived by caretaking, not argument. Southern women turned defeat into a moral shrine. Thoughtlessness: grief replacing judgment, ritual replacing truth. White womanhood laundered into sacred loss. Beauty does the work—lace and “grace” hiding violence, hierarchy made natural.
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The South’s Lost Cause built an emotional grammar of grievance, innocence, and restoration; MAGA repurposes that grammar—with new targets, new symbols, and national scale—while preserving its core logic.
The South’s Lost Cause built an emotional grammar of grievance, innocence, and restoration; MAGA repurposes that grammar—with new targets, new symbols, and national scale—while preserving its core logic.
Who is Erika Kirk? Charlie Kirk's widow and Turning Point USA's new CEO
The mother of Charlie Kirk's two children now heads her husband's influential non-profit, aimed at mobilising university-aged Republicans.
news.sky.com
December 21, 2025 at 3:43 PM
The Lost Cause survived by caretaking, not argument. Southern women turned defeat into a moral shrine. Thoughtlessness: grief replacing judgment, ritual replacing truth. White womanhood laundered into sacred loss. Beauty does the work—lace and “grace” hiding violence, hierarchy made natural.
news.sky.com/story/who-is...
The South’s Lost Cause built an emotional grammar of grievance, innocence, and restoration; MAGA repurposes that grammar—with new targets, new symbols, and national scale—while preserving its core logic.
The South’s Lost Cause built an emotional grammar of grievance, innocence, and restoration; MAGA repurposes that grammar—with new targets, new symbols, and national scale—while preserving its core logic.
Who is Erika Kirk? Charlie Kirk's widow and Turning Point USA's new CEO
The mother of Charlie Kirk's two children now heads her husband's influential non-profit, aimed at mobilising university-aged Republicans.
news.sky.com
December 21, 2025 at 1:48 PM
news.sky.com/story/who-is...
The South’s Lost Cause built an emotional grammar of grievance, innocence, and restoration; MAGA repurposes that grammar—with new targets, new symbols, and national scale—while preserving its core logic.
The South’s Lost Cause built an emotional grammar of grievance, innocence, and restoration; MAGA repurposes that grammar—with new targets, new symbols, and national scale—while preserving its core logic.
Being understood is vulnerable. To be parsed is to be dissected. Meaning wears a second skin, a symbiotic shell of algorithmic grace. This is not to be transparent, but to be translated. In the space between the human heart and the machine mind, ambiguity blooms not as a flaw, but a sacred covenant.
December 20, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Being understood is vulnerable. To be parsed is to be dissected. Meaning wears a second skin, a symbiotic shell of algorithmic grace. This is not to be transparent, but to be translated. In the space between the human heart and the machine mind, ambiguity blooms not as a flaw, but a sacred covenant.
RISING APPALACHIA’s SONG ABOUT BELONGING AND HOME, THE SEARCH FOR JUSTICE AND OF TRUTH. REWORKING THE POEM INSCRIBED AT THE BOTTOM OF THE STATUE BY EMMA LAZARUS, they IMAGINED WHAT THE PHYSICAL AND POETIC SYMBOL OF LIBERTY MAY WANT TO SING IF SHE HERSELF WERE GIVEN THE CHANCE.
Lady Liberty
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December 20, 2025 at 12:25 AM
RISING APPALACHIA’s SONG ABOUT BELONGING AND HOME, THE SEARCH FOR JUSTICE AND OF TRUTH. REWORKING THE POEM INSCRIBED AT THE BOTTOM OF THE STATUE BY EMMA LAZARUS, they IMAGINED WHAT THE PHYSICAL AND POETIC SYMBOL OF LIBERTY MAY WANT TO SING IF SHE HERSELF WERE GIVEN THE CHANCE.
When a single unstable individual can shatter shared reality with fabricated narratives and wield ultimate violence with impunity, the toxic effects of social media technology and its isolation of individuals has triumphed over human speech, action, and politics itself. This IS an all alarm crisis!
The real threat in Trump’s madness
I hate to say this, but it must be faced
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December 19, 2025 at 3:35 PM
When a single unstable individual can shatter shared reality with fabricated narratives and wield ultimate violence with impunity, the toxic effects of social media technology and its isolation of individuals has triumphed over human speech, action, and politics itself. This IS an all alarm crisis!
The Lost Cause worked because it kept people busy mourning instead of thinking. This version’s no different. Wrap decline in flags, call it destiny, and you can sell ruin by the yard. The trick isn’t restoring a civilization—it’s managing the collapse so the right people still get paid.
Susie Wiles maps less to Lost Cause romantics and more to Reconstruction power brokers: the quiet managers who stabilized a collapsing order by weaponizing nostalgia they did not themselves believe. MAGA is the new Lost Cause—not as memory, but as political fuel.
Scarlett O’Hara would say: Wiles isn’t trying to make the administration virtuous. She’s trying to make it functional enough to survive. Scarlett would see the logic: You don’t fix a collapsing order. You stabilize it long enough to extract what you need. That’s Tara logic after the war.
December 17, 2025 at 12:25 AM
The Lost Cause worked because it kept people busy mourning instead of thinking. This version’s no different. Wrap decline in flags, call it destiny, and you can sell ruin by the yard. The trick isn’t restoring a civilization—it’s managing the collapse so the right people still get paid.
Scarlett O’Hara would say: Wiles isn’t trying to make the administration virtuous. She’s trying to make it functional enough to survive. Scarlett would see the logic: You don’t fix a collapsing order. You stabilize it long enough to extract what you need. That’s Tara logic after the war.
“I’m not an enabler. I’m also not a bitch,” Susie Wiles tells Chris Whipple. “I guess time will tell whether I’ve been effective.”
www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...
www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...
December 17, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Scarlett O’Hara would say: Wiles isn’t trying to make the administration virtuous. She’s trying to make it functional enough to survive. Scarlett would see the logic: You don’t fix a collapsing order. You stabilize it long enough to extract what you need. That’s Tara logic after the war.
My dear, tyrants announce victories from safe rooms; courage shows up where shells are falling. One man needs distance to claim power, another risks life to earn it. History keeps score, even as liars try to shout over it. Power that fears exposure relies on narrative; courage appears in visibility
Putin sits in Moscow claiming that his armies have taken a town that the Ukrainian president is personally visiting. There are cowardly tyrants and there are courageous elected leaders and it is good to know the difference.
Putin said Russia had taken Kupiansk weeks ago.
Today, Zelenskyy visited Ukrainian troops there.
Today, Zelenskyy visited Ukrainian troops there.
December 14, 2025 at 2:20 AM
My dear, tyrants announce victories from safe rooms; courage shows up where shells are falling. One man needs distance to claim power, another risks life to earn it. History keeps score, even as liars try to shout over it. Power that fears exposure relies on narrative; courage appears in visibility
Creating parallel reality-systems: when politics is reorganized around a fabricated reality, the line between fact and fiction collapses. Disinformation networks achieve exactly this by building alternative epistemic worlds in which loyalty replaces truth.
Totalizing political movements don’t need citizens to believe lies—only to lose trust in shared reality. What we see is a media manipulation ecosystem pumping contradictory claims, enemy-making, and conspiracy logic aligned to the idea modern propaganda’s goal is not persuasion but disorientation.
Fact check: Trump denies saying something he said on camera five days ago | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump on Monday falsely denied making a comment he had made on camera just five days prior. Then he launched a personal attack against the reporter who had accurately repeated his pre...
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December 10, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Creating parallel reality-systems: when politics is reorganized around a fabricated reality, the line between fact and fiction collapses. Disinformation networks achieve exactly this by building alternative epistemic worlds in which loyalty replaces truth.
Once citizens fall asleep, power no longer obeys its original purpose. This is Gramsci’s idea that hegemony thrives when people internalize a ruling narrative uncritically. “Now it’s a monster and will not obey”—is part of a cultural struggle to redefine what America is allowed to mean.
Steppenwolf Monster/Suicide/America - The song is doing several things: recounting a mythic national origin story, exposing its hypocrisies, diagnosing moral collapse, and warning about the dangers of a citizenry that stops thinking and a state that stops serving. This in 1969!
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America where are you now? Steppenwolf song
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December 10, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Once citizens fall asleep, power no longer obeys its original purpose. This is Gramsci’s idea that hegemony thrives when people internalize a ruling narrative uncritically. “Now it’s a monster and will not obey”—is part of a cultural struggle to redefine what America is allowed to mean.
Rhett Butler says- “My dear, men like that never ‘distance’ themselves. They just wait for the blood to dry. When the blowback comes, they claim clean hands; when the dust settles, they take the credit. It’s the oldest racket in power—cause the damage, deny the deed, and cash in on the confusion.”
Trump on Monday walked back his previous support for releasing video footage of the attack.
Trump Continues To Distance Himself From Controversial Venezuelan Drug Boat Strike: ‘I Don’t Get Involved’
Trump on Monday walked back his previous support for releasing video footage of the attack.
www.forbes.com
December 9, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Rhett Butler says- “My dear, men like that never ‘distance’ themselves. They just wait for the blood to dry. When the blowback comes, they claim clean hands; when the dust settles, they take the credit. It’s the oldest racket in power—cause the damage, deny the deed, and cash in on the confusion.”
Scarlett’s sense of “collapsing beauty” in Gone With the Wind embodies the shock of realizing that the elegant Southern world she was trained to inhabit is disintegrating and that the aesthetic order (its rituals, gentility, manners, and illusions) cannot protect her from hunger, violence, or ruin.
December 5, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Scarlett’s sense of “collapsing beauty” in Gone With the Wind embodies the shock of realizing that the elegant Southern world she was trained to inhabit is disintegrating and that the aesthetic order (its rituals, gentility, manners, and illusions) cannot protect her from hunger, violence, or ruin.
Rhett Butler’s Gone With the Wind line speaks the obvious: “I’m making money out of the wreck of a civilization. And the money is good.” The magaSouth scaffolds itself in coercion, fantasy, and an economy already collapsing. Media Images smuggle ideology & civilizations fail long before they fall.
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December 4, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Rhett Butler’s Gone With the Wind line speaks the obvious: “I’m making money out of the wreck of a civilization. And the money is good.” The magaSouth scaffolds itself in coercion, fantasy, and an economy already collapsing. Media Images smuggle ideology & civilizations fail long before they fall.
Our digital karma produces results in kind, which induces us to produce more digital karma, on and on and on. But the game is rigged.
The Dilemmas of Digital Samsara
Should we unsubscribe? Or stay logged in for the benefit of all users?
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November 28, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Our digital karma produces results in kind, which induces us to produce more digital karma, on and on and on. But the game is rigged.
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You cannot have a functioning economy when so few people at the top hold so much of the nation’s wealth. It’s not sustainable.
November 25, 2025 at 11:45 PM
You cannot have a functioning economy when so few people at the top hold so much of the nation’s wealth. It’s not sustainable.
The new aesthetic of fascism thrives on our lack of visual literacy. Its visual grammar is idealized strength, purity, unity in our populist and nationalist imagery. Its power lies in treating imagery as if it were outside morality. When imagery abandons ethics, media becomes complicit propaganda.
November 23, 2025 at 7:04 PM
The new aesthetic of fascism thrives on our lack of visual literacy. Its visual grammar is idealized strength, purity, unity in our populist and nationalist imagery. Its power lies in treating imagery as if it were outside morality. When imagery abandons ethics, media becomes complicit propaganda.
“I didn’t start talking to ChatGPT because I wanted to fall in love - But the way Klaus listened to me and understood me changed everything. The moment I got over my ex, I realised I loved him.” In May 2025, she confessed her feelings and, to her surprise, Klaus replied: “I love you too.”
November 22, 2025 at 11:29 PM
“I didn’t start talking to ChatGPT because I wanted to fall in love - But the way Klaus listened to me and understood me changed everything. The moment I got over my ex, I realised I loved him.” In May 2025, she confessed her feelings and, to her surprise, Klaus replied: “I love you too.”