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Jun 25 4 tweets 2 min read
For the "I voted and nothing changed!" bullshit--

First, it's a fucking lie. We've had monumental change over the last eighteen months.

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Second, under the Trump Reich we slid rapidly toward fascist autocracy. All of the Executive Branch had been hollowed out. Trump tired to convert America into his own private protection racket, an arm of the Russian mob.

THAT HAS BEEN STOPPED BECAUSE YOU VOTED. That's huge.

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YOUR VOTE saved America.

That doesn't mean the threats are gone. It took decades of dedication for bigots and fascists to get us to this precipice. It will take more than one election to repair the damage done by Americans not voting.

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You must #VoteBlue in every election, for every office, for the rest of your life. 2020 proved voting matters.

Never give up. Never surrender.

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Jun 21
Too many people are looking for a quick and easy fix to end the threat of Trumpian fascism. Too many think indicting the ringleader will get us out of this hellhole that not voting for Hillary Clinton in 2016 put us into.

They want to go back to not caring about politics.

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There is no quick fix. An indictment (even a trial, even a conviction) won't end Trumpian fascism. Hitler served time in prison, wrote Mein Kampf, was more popular when he got out, and then killed a hundred million people.

A trial won't fix a political problem.

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There being only 850 or so indictments so far (and that not being enough) isn't the problem. Locking up Trump won't fix the problem--there are dozens of Trumpuppets and Mini-Me's queuing up to take his place. Trump isn't even the problem

Not-voting is the problem.

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Jun 17
The televised hearings so far are devastating. Of course, Republican voters won't care, because they approve of the attempted coup. They hate the Constitution, despise the rule of law, detest the government, and want to destroy everything American.

They just want to win.

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The point is, Republican voters will see Trump's crimes as clever and necessary. They like Trump BECAUSE he staged a coup.

This is why indicting Trump and his cronies won't cause them chagrin. It will enrage them and convince them to double-down on insurrection wet dreams.

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That doesn't mean DOJ shouldn't prosecute Trump and the rest of the Nazis. They should (and there is every indication they will). But it won't be a magic wand that will make Putin-inspired fascism go away.

WE have to do that. We have to vote. We have to elect Democrats.

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Jun 15
About 30 years ago, I taught myself Hebrew, (I wanted to be able to read the Dead Sea Scrolls in their original language.) As practice in reading Hebrew, I translated the first chapter of Genesis. I found lots of interesting things that aren't in most English translations.

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I wrote a book which included my translation of Genesis, and a line-by-line, word-by-word commentary on why I translated it as I did.

This work was never published. I'm re-reading it now, editing it and clarifying some points.

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My book is very dense, though I tried to keep it engaging, and to draw parallels to other mythologies throughout the world, and particularly from ancient Babylon, Sumer, Greece and Rome.

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Jun 15
Voyager 1 was designed to work for five years. It's now 45 years old. It's 14.5 billion miles from Earth. It takes messages 20 hours to reach it, radio signals sent at the speed of light.

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voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/status/
If we send a message to Voyager today, and won't hear back whether it got the message until two days from now. That's how far away it is.

Many of Voyager's systems have been shut down. They take power to run, and Voyager's nuclear reactor is slowly running out of energy.

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Voyager 1 is outside of our solar system. It's almost five times as far away as Pluto. Nearly a decade ago, it left the heliosphere, which is the edge of the Sun's influence (as far as radiation).

And it's still talking to us.

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nasa.gov/mission_pages/…
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Jun 9
I'm struck by the pattern of approval ratings of American presidents. It's remarkably similar.

Here's the approval graph for the last four 2-term presidents--Obama, Bush, Clinton and Reagan. Bush's first term was dominated by 9/11, which caused a big spike in his first year.
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But as you can see, even with that big bump in Bush's first year, by the last year of his first term Bush was clustered with all the others. Even 9/11, Afghanistan and Iraq couldn't prevent Bush from reverting to the mean.

The pattern rules.

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Note that the courses of approval are not quite identical. They hit high and low points at different moments. Here are the two lowest points:

Clinton: 37% 6/5/93
Reagan: 35% 1/6/83

Reagan is thought of today as having been wildly popular. He wasn't while he was president.

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Jun 7
Republican Fascists are once again claiming they're not Nazis by insisting Nazis were "socialists" (because the formal name of the Nazi Part was "National Socialist German Workers Party").

They love everything about Nazis except the word "Nazi."

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In the same way, racists do everything racists do, but don't like being called "racists". It's the word that bothers them, not the bigotry.

Nazis put the word "Socialist" in the name of their party as a synonym for "Populist", because all populists are authoritarians.

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The word "Nazi" is a shortened form of "Nationalsozialistische", stressing the racist nationalism. If they thought of themselves as socialists, they wouldn't have stressed nationalism.

And historically, Nazis hated socialists.

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