Sadly, step 3 is often: Donors' favorite people to hate and discriminate against get oppression.
It blows way past just self-interest these days. Model legislation is constantly used to tear down whole populations. The LGBTQ+ communities face this tragic reality, as well as many black/brown folks
Sounds like a campaign slogan . . . :)
A subscriber to ChatGPT for 3+ years, I became the biggest fanboy early on...
But let's be real: OpenAI betrays all humanity with its recent move to partner with a Fascist government.
Its powerful technology will now be misused to identify enemies, target, and kill — a threat to our very survival.
I don't want to set off any alarm bells but Armageddon may have just started.
#IranWar
Scary times.
Hahaha - yup!
For what it's worth, I hope it's true that a child's life was saved. Sadly, it's just as likely that ICE caused a near-drowning trying to kidnap the child or worse. (Or they removed the child's guardian.) Even more likely is that it's altogether exaggerated / fabricated. Where's the corroboration?
ICE claims to have saved the life of a 4-year-old Minnesota child.
The problem is the only reporting sources don't cite any material other than the claims of Homeland Security.
Nothing says "propaganda" like the stock image of a warm-looking outdoor pool purporting to be Minnesota in February.
Mental health is declining globally.
People with the "lowest per capita income in the world scored far better than those in the US, Canada, Europe, India, Japan, and Australia."
While the article names factors like smartphones, it misses the core cause: neoliberal Capitalism's rise, 1980s to now.
Only a broken society could have put Trump in power. Only people wholly blinded by hate, greed, and selfishness could imagine placing such a horrible example of the human condition in a position to harm.
This is not all of us. I know more people of love and compassion than not. Yet, this. Now.
Trumpism is but one permutation of this deadly affront to our common survival and good. His self-interest reveals the brokenness of our society, at least the parts willing to hate and exploit anybody for their own selfish ends.
He rapes. Sends people to kill. Destroys. Denigrates. Trump is evil.
American self-interest is a disease, and it's destroying all of us.
The battle we see in our streets exists between the self-interested who see their role as preserving this deadly status quo ... and people who live with a sense of community and compassion, who see their neighbors as beautiful.
We are targeted because we successfully demonstrate another way of organizing public life than hateful Capitalist authoritarianism.
States that welcome immigrants, protect trans folks, and build generous social programs aren't targeted by coincidence.
And Minnesota voted against Trump three times.
I'm trying to interpret this art, and have a few ideas. Why is an ICE agent wearing Liam Ramos' hat?
What is this meant to speak and symbolize? The best I can figure is that it juxtaposes the innocence and joy of the hat with the cold institutional form of the agents.
It shows good vs. evil.
No criminal in Minnesota would dare drive an SUV with no plates and wear a ski mask anymore. Whole neighborhoods would chase them down, record, and blow whistles.
Bank Robber: "Stop! Stop! I’m a bank robber!"
Minnesotans: "Oh, sorry, thought you were ICE. Here, let me pick up your gun for you!"
Now this is good politics. Get a Teddy Roosevelt!
When all this is over, what do we do with all the companies that betrayed America to the Fascists and racists?
Tech companies. Media companies. Companies that bribed their way into influence.
And, then, there are special cases like Palantir which literally turned against us through surveillance.
In the end, the self-defeating nature of Fascism will be its downfall. It is too cruel and self-serving to last.
People banding together in love, unity, and true moral existence will always have stronger support to rebuild their ideal world.
A rogue, unconstitutional Federal incursion is still kidnapping children. And our Governor is left in the dark.
Bleghhhh!
This is obviously not targeted enforcement. And we still don’t know how many children they’ve taken.
www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-arr...
A moment of intention:
From many places we pray, meditate, and share a focus on imagining a better world for people targeted by an evil government.
We remember people disappearing. May all in hiding, unable to work, pay rent, attend school, or find food be lifted up in light.
Stop cruel leaders.
The main problem with the structure of an agency like ICE is that the majority of those who would want to work for it hate immigrants. Which is why there’s no repairing it. Abolishment is the only cure.
Surprise! The Fascists are still doing what they did before.
... is anyone surprised?
"So everything you're hearing in headlines, they are lies . . . On the ground nothing is changing."
I’d love to hear your six-word story for this moment — something that lands like:
"For sale: Baby shoes, never worn" — the famous six-word short story by Ernest Hemingway.
This Minnesota piece about people's furry family members, who suddenly have no owner, carries a similar impact for me.
I wonder if they're using the kind of targeted information Cambridge Analytica had to shift the outcome of elections by their actions in certain areas. (i.e. Taking enough people county by county, district by district...)
This would take election tampering and manipulation to a whole new level.
What a message! "Work more" so the corrupt regime murdering and kidnapping our neighbors can pay off irresponsible debts incurred by unleashing a racist paramilitary on our streets and bombing other people's neighbors overseas!
No thanks.
Landru.
This is ghastly. And I believe it when she said she survived five bullets ripping through her body to tell her story.
There is a reason.
In this, there's hope. May the new journalists with less corporate control set the bar high.
It feels like the billionaire class is systematically stripping America of democracy from every direction.
Now one of the most important sources of critical, democratic investigative journalism of the past century is being hollowed out.
Concentrated wealth and a free press were never meant to mix.
