The biggest enemy of the progressive movement is itself and it’s infatuation with retributive justice. I am so fucking tired of people fighting each other more then fighting for true transformative and restorative justice.
What little we have of democracy is already in grave danger- we do not have the time to waist focused on petty drama and bullshit when future generations are count on us and in many ways we are counting on us.
Counting
How do can we ever expect the movement to grow if we can not have the room to educate people and change minds if we ourselves are already so focused on some fucking mirage of perfection?

All the while the other side literally attempted coup less than a year ago.
Yes people need accountability, but we need to focus on the actual victim who is often a second thought and changing the systems that enable people.

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15 Sep
I’m testing something-

Second amendment
I’m trying to figure out what triggers the IRA accounts- like if it’s just a word or phrase/phrases that triggers a response or if they have like some more sophisticated system with AI similar to GTP-3 or actual people
I meant GPT -3
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13 Sep
If you think vaccines are tyranny just wait until you hear about the thousands of in prison for selling a plant that’s now legal in some form in most states and also lose their voting rights as a result
Or the kids and adults that die because our government would rather protect guns than kids.
Or the patriot act
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7 Sep
The 21st century will be largely defined by massive disinformation campaigns and information warfare at a scale never seen before enabled by social media.

If the Democratic system is to survive such campaigns it must develop a major apparatus to protect itself.
Who needs to go to war when you can make a country destroy itself by electing strong men populists, convince people vaccines don’t work and their government leaders are a bunch of child eating pedophiles?

We have only seen the tip of the iceberg.
There’s a lot of ways “protecting itself” could go horribly wrong and certainly people way more qualified then myself should work on it to avoid that.
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5 Sep
I’m excited to be helping out @MaxwellFrostFL to become the first Gen Z member of Congress.

Having worked at the ACLU, on the Amendment four campaign and as March for our lives first field Director Max has extensive experience in advocacy.

Donate here:
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Read the story of how Maxwell became involved and advocacy and why he’s running for office here:

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Again this is a people funded campaign that needs your support to make possible because Maxwell is not taking any money from big sugar, or corporations so please consider donating:

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4 Sep
We need leaders that acknowledge the challenges we face now and must confront in our future but reject the notion that they can only lead through fear and hate.

The same fear and hate that has brought us here will not get us out.

We need leaders that lead with hope & empathy
Anyone can make a difference even if small when we work together for a better future everyone benefits.
It's hard but necessary work if we ever want to see the change we would like to see and it's worth it. In the absence of many of the leaders we need, we must lead ourselves.
It's important to remember even if you aren't seeing the immediate impact of the work you are doing it doesn't mean what you are doing is not working- it just takes time, hard work and hope. The systems we find ourselves working against are massive and take massive effort.
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1 Sep
I’m linking resources below to how you can help combat the war on abortion rights:
Here’s a link for helping secure abortion funds found in the tweet below.
Here’s a link to help with the legal defense by the aclu.
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