The key to creating a formidable 3rd party is to build it on immovable pillars.

Once Dems started comprising on healthcare, minimum wage, defense budget, opioids, assault weapons, $ in elections etc they gave away EVERYTHING
& 100’s of thousands died & continue to die.
1/ Nothing can happen without a Constitutional Amendment declaring Corps are not people and that executives can be charged with major crimes.

It needs to be a non stop campaign 24/7 of calling out the dirty opponents, rallying working people, & calling out corrupt media.
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Remember during the campaign when a lot of centrist liberals wanted to talk about the future threat of fascism rather pressuring their candidate not to run a campaign guaranteed to lose?

Well NOW is the time to look at fascism & Dictators & what they historically have done.
1/ Dictator move 101: mass arrests/deportations as a front for purging enemies, org labor, lefties, disloyal military, real journalists etc.

Thanks to our fake opposition party there is no real resistance to this. Dems have swung hard to the right on immigrants for 2 yrs.
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Ever wonder why Dems & legacy news media constantly refer to climate change as an “existential threat?”
It’s carefully crafted language aimed at the professional class to let them feel smart/good while limiting the possibility more plain spoken language might rile up the…
1/ … a larger portion of the country.

Can you imagine if every time an elected official said “existential threat” instead they said “climate change will destroy your home, access to food, water, & kill millions maybe even billions of ppl.”

By saying “existential threat”…
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The last two debates with Trump, Biden and then Harris have exposed how little either political party cares about actually representing the people with a clarity I didn’t think possible.

The whole red v blue franchise has become so shabby it’s more like…
1/ …a third tier pro wrestling show behind a strip mall. Sloppy, fake punches missing by a mile, cheap implausible villains eating cats or spying for China.

The only thing holding it together is a news media so servile to big Capital they make…
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I remember in the 2000’s when exchanges with Repub family & friends went from “The rich need tax breaks” to “Will you relax about the U.S. torture program. It’s fraternity hazing.”

It was a jump from a hard disagree to abominable.
I truly couldn’t believe it at the time.
1/ Now Dems have made the same jump.
It’s gone from “The DNC has to take dark money to beat Repubs” to “Will you get over the mass slaughter of women & children, naked corruption & extreme right wing border policies.”

From a hard disagree to “what the hell have you become?”
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I somewhat understand how certain people downplay or ignore climate breakdown, mass corruption & genocide in the U.S.
Our economic system & resulting culture rewards lack of curiosity & cowardice in the face of entrenched power.
But I will never, ever understand mask bans.
1/ Why possibly would someone care if someone else wears a mask?
Is it a subconscious “you must be willing to get sick and maybe die for the economy” loyalty test?
A thousand people died last week in the States from Covid.
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A lot of ppl on here defending Bill Clinton as a “successful President.”
Personal definition of successful aside here’s a review of Bill Clinton’s record.
1/ Clinton signing the crime bill that resulted in the mass incarceration of millions of people of color.

aclu.org/news/smart-jus…

I've noticed a lot of capital D, Dems responding to honest expressions of anger & horror over ethnic cleansing in Gaza, escalating climate warming, corrupt Gov, predatory economy etc. with words like "nihilism" "doom saying" “not serious”
1/ But these feelings r exactly what drive mass movements like the rise of org labor, civil rights, Indian independence, AIDs action.

We need anger, fear, frustration now more than ever.

There are 2 kinds of populism. The bad kind (fascism) & the good kind …
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One of the dissonant things about having a news media refusing to keep a daily drumbeat of coverage about the climate crisis (literally the biggest story in human history) is there r these moments literally affecting billions of lives most have no idea about.

For instance…
1/ … we r coming of an El Niño that explains some of the 1.63c warming we’ve seen the past 12 mos but not all. Reduction of dirty shipping fuel plays a significant part too.

But past July with a La Niña approaching how much will global temps cool?

If they just go to 1.5C…
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In the yrs I've been saying climate is much more urgent
than we think I've been met with 100’s of eye rolls from establishment liberals but not once, except a few interviews, has anyone asked "Why do you say that?"

So here is an answer to the question almost no one asked…
1/ We all know once we started burning oil, gas & coal at the start of the Industrial revolution the gases produced started trapping tremendous amounts of heat in our planet.
We went from 180ppm of CO2 to 426ppm today which in terms of heat created looks like this:
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