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Am I missing something? I assume anyone who isn't direly opposed to the regime and on board with the resistance, is, in fact, 100% good with the gutting of government programs, the loss of benefits and the massive purges, including eventually themselves.

I just assumed that a trillion-dollar far right propaganda machine is more than enough to convince most of the US public they want fascist autocracy, and eventually monarchy. They're on board with Joffrey Baratheon just killing whoever he feels like.

I was answering the where was I question.

The Right Honorable Ms. Thatcher is the one lacking brainpower.

I do care, in that I feel we should pursue a future with fewer Thatcher-like officials.

We need to be thinking about how 77 million Americans voted for Trump and thought that was a good idea.

And we need to work out how to prevent it from happening again.

One thing is clear, billionaires and politicians are unwilling to relinquish power or wealth, even when their holdings are obscene or they are incapable of governing.

We will have to threaten either their lives or the structures on which their holdings depend, and can't bluff. And they will likely choose death over surrender.

Nonexistent. Having not even the brain power for an infinitesimal fraction of a fuck to give.

Ultimately, where we all will end up, compressed dust in the geological layer.

The missing just desserts and the resulting dissatisfied feelings are an impetus for us survivors to work towards a society in which Maggie Thatchers (and Adolph Hitlers and Donald Trumps) do not find their way into leadership positions where they can cause great harm.

Ever since the 21st century, voting Democrat (voting against Republicans) has been compulsory to stop the degradation of our institutions to corruption and towards autocratic rule.

But a lot of people didn't get the memo.

And to be fair a lot of Democrat candidates didn't offer anything themselves, but to not be the destructive Republican guy.

The memo part has a lot to do with the massive far-right propaganda machine that is literally controlling minds (just not instantly or with a wavy beam)

The latter part has to do with the mass precarity that neoliberalism allows to persist. If you're going to be in danger under King Log, why not vote for King Heron. And this is an issue across many nations with principle parties being neoliberal and far-right.

Yet, they have huge followings. There are plenty of dudes who happen to be men who serve better examples, but they just happen to identify as men or are assumed to be by default. The models they offer have little to do with their manhood.

As we quickly learned during the George W Bush era, no news media agency can be trusted. To counter this, check reporting of the same incident from multiple news agencies and find the consistent facts. Everything else is suspect.

In a hurry, see if Reuters or AP has covered it, but verify when you have the time.

Done this way AJ is perfectly viable as a source for news, in that the bias can be filtered out.

FOX and OANN are known to lie or misrepresent facts entirely, but that gets filtered through cross-checking.

Trust, but verify.

I used to be in the confident in my masculinity category. Then I realized it eas actually the gives no fucks about my masculinity category.

Then I noticed everything that was once manly is now just adult, Also our public officials and law enforcement don't do any of it throwing their power about willy nilly.

(I grew up in the cold war. It was uncouth to throw power about willy nilly. ☢️)

Now our masculine examples are Ben Shapiro, Matt Walsh, Joe Rogan...

Donald Trump...

A few years back I turned in my man card. I am no man. (Which may mean I could kill the Witch King of Angmar, or maybe MacBeth.)

I relinquish power as toxic. I've long deliberated my way to marxism, to naturalist philosophy, to community centered society, to liberty, and to grieving the imminent end of civilization, possibly of our species, due to our hubris.

Obama campaigned on getting past it. ( Hope amd Change ) but then he didn't. Corporations got their bailouts. OWS was cleared violently with the cameras off. BLM notice law enforcement kill a lot of people. The disposition matrix was a thing. The IWOT went on and on. The mass surveillance state was a thing. The economy was better but 88% of households were in precarity, and a lot of people were homeless.

And then Trump won by the EC.

So Ive been waiting for things to get better for a long, long time. I've just stopped expecting the suck to ever reverse, or even ebb.

The Democratic Party are not friends to the people. They get rich being the opposition party and will only do the bare minimum necessary to get you to not vote the monsters back in, which is one of the reasons far-right parties are getting a draw world-wide when the alternative is neoliberalism.

We have to force radical change (the no brainer stuff like social safety nets, massive justice reform, and massive election reform).

The Sword of Damocles is twofold: the revolution of the people, and the wrath of rival dictators. And it's not to be blunted, but to keep our officials serving the public rather than their own private interests.

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I just use LGBT+ since it was LGBT for a long time (it was GLBT but the Ls earned their place at the front during the AIDS crisis) then it became LGBTQ, then a bunch of other letters were added while the community was recognizing is profound variety before it turned into LGBTQ+

Q+ has a nice ring to it, but since I'm an unusual form of NB, I fit squarely into the catch-all variety of Q.

Welsh?