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Cake day: June 4th, 2025

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  • Step 1 - raise awareness.

    Step 2 - gather active participants

    Step 3 - collectively do legal things that make life harder for anyone with the power to enact this, yet does not.

    Step 4 - repeat Step 3, making it clear why this is happening.

    Step 5 - make memes of the affair to further drive engagement.

    Step 5.1 (potentially American/Russian/etc Exclusive) - get declared a terrorist for doing a perfectly legal thing.

    Step 6 - build support structures and tools to mitigate consequences.

    Step 7 - keep going anyway, in spite of what consequences can be brought.

    Step 8 - profit build incremental victories to bolster the movement.




  • Is Obama better than Trump? Yes.

    Do we need to keep claiming he is perfect? No, let’s quit deluding ourselves.

    https://youtube.com/shorts/4xaT7Qr7hA8 a short video that cites a couple sources.

    So much of what Trump can do is built upon what Obama accomplished in the name of “National Security”. Even ICE.

    He caved. He was an effective, brilliant, and charismatic community organizer. But when he took office in the White House, he balanced all of those things we love about him? With his party’s pathological need to please both his opposition and their shared donors.

    And he was so much more effective at doing what Republicans wanted, even when he adds some “humane restrictions” to it, these policies and precedents set us on an even more dangerous path. Just like with every previous presidency in my lifetime.

    I don’t say this to be mean, I wish it wasn’t true. But we need to be honest with ourselves. If Democracy is supposed to work, we cannot afford to trust our representatives to be surrounded by lobbyists without our active voices demanding some share of their time.

    And yet, we have allowed our politics to be “vote every 2-4 years along party lines, and trust that it will be fine.” We’re not doing just fine.



  • There is not a single quantifiable mark you can place that Republicans aren’t exceedingly worse on, in every respect

    And Democrats rush to accept their terms without considering the voters, any principles, or even practicality.

    They haven’t had a real primary for the Presidential candidate since 2008. Here is your one Mark. I’m begrudged to give the Red Team that much, but your Blue Team is what it is.

    Its not a false equivalence to say the following: yes, your shit team is better than literal Nazis, but that’s still not calling anyone good.

    What are your thoughts on Mamdani? Are you a “Blue No Matter Who” voter in this context, or only without him? If Democrats want to win, he’s got a model that works. I’m scared that the party insiders demand Ezra Klein’s Reaganism repackaged in New Age “law of attraction”-pretending-to-be-Economics.


  • Yeah, Obama ran cover for his predecessor’s war crimes too. Adopted his policies. Made them his own, accelerated them.

    Before Biden, Obama had the record of most deportations per term. Biden actually built Trump’s border wall, and beat Obama’s deportation record.

    I’m tired of pretending the centrist, corporate Democrats are “left” of anything but Nazis.