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That would be good.

Haven’t listened to the pod yet but didn’t Tate come down hard against the Iran war? If you criticize Trump like that he’ll be done with you. It’s mob boss all the way. He’s making an example of them. And yes of course the moment Trump dumps them MAGA follows suit.

Wow,Didn't Realize Mild Mannered Travel Writer Rick Steves Was So Outspoken On Trump.......👏🏻 (Huffpost)

One of the stupidest most hideous things MAGA has ever done is to demonize a dedicated public servant with a long career of helping save American lives. Why? Because he once disagreed with Trump? They need a scapegoat for COVID, and it can’t just be a challenge for humanity that we’ve worked thru?

We might have a chance to shame these things out of existence except that “Meta” will keep making them more and more indistinguishable from regular glasses. How will we reliably know someone’s wearing them going forward?

now, this is the coolest the planet will be. It’s going to get a lot worse. We need to act now to prevent it from getting completely catastrophic in our lifetimes and to not leave hell on earth to our children. /2

The Paris Agreement is a good start. Whatever he’s doing / we’re doing, we need more, from everybody. And of course the actions of our current government in the US are hideous - climate change denial and actually working to *accelerate* it. People need to understand that as bad as it is right /1

I’m not making a value judgment about the level of his current focus on climate change. I’m imploring him to step it up. At least he acknowledges it as a problem and does not call it a “hoax” and actually work to *accelerate it*, which is what the current American administration is doing.

To wit, the RW has Fox News and other cable news, RW captured Sinclair media, RW captured social media (Twitter, now TikTok, etc.), RW talk radio all over the country, foreign influence ops, complicit mainstream media & now mainstream media takeovers (CBS, CNN oncoming). It's not remotely close.

The thing is that Dem pols can't fix it themselves. The media doesn't pick up what the Dem's say and make a story out of it. No amount of yelling will fix that. We need media that is not beholden to RW interests in order to get that. It's about building media bandwidth that can compete with the RW.

But why did Trump shun her? It goes back to what I was saying. He saw that Delcy Rodriguez was ready to be corrupt with us, and he was good with that. Trying to force elections or something like that - why bother when you've already got your corrupt scheme going with the remains of the Maduro govt.

It was one of the least egregious things those 2 have done in years. The Maduro government is corrupt.

measurement, recalibration, strategy, etc. It’s a huge undertaking. That’s why I call it a moonshot, but we either do it or this country’s toast. The RW oligarchs are buying up all our media. We are sleepwalking into fascism. /2

Nothing can get fixed in terms of the fact that this country is pickled in propaganda until we build the infrastructure to compete. What this means is building *pipes*. Indie media can be part of the solution but we also need networks committed to democracy, grassroots efforts, innovation, /1

Those are not the best athletes, nor the bravest.

Yes, & it drives me nuts. People keep blaming the D's for not having the right Message™. It's not a message *content* problem. It's an info bandwidth problem. The left / Dems do not have the bandwidth to get their msg out there to compete with the RW propaganda machine. & it's getting worse daily.

sociopaths. aeon.co/essays/why-l...

Otherwise we are committing acts of violence against *prospective* interplanetary humans 3,000 years down the road. We are reducing their chance to flourish & reducing the chance that "the light of consciousness" will be "extended". Seriously, this is how these guys think & talk. They are /3

humanity would of course require the "best" human gene pool, right? If you're a white supremacist you know what that means. And why would we spend resources helping underprivileged black people to survive? What does that have to do with colonizing Mars? We should be spending it on rocket research!/2

If you dig down to Elon's fundamental philosophy, Longtermism, where all decisions should be made with the ultra-long term future of humanity prioritized, he can make a sort of very twisted argument that he's doing what's best for humanity. The best chance for the ultra-longterm survival of /1