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   Korawich Kavee (kkavee@urbanists.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Mar-2026 09:04:12 JST Korawich Kavee

   The power grid isn't fully restored yet but at least this place is still operating fine. Feel bad for many other cafe & restaurants still unavailable to get power.

   It's weird to me still to think that you know which place relies on electricity from what company. Privatization even electricity... The US being US

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   Keith Hoodlet :verified: :donor: (securingdev@infosec.exchange)'s status on Sunday, 08-Mar-2026 00:38:08 JST Keith Hoodlet :verified: :donor:

   One thought that I can’t seem to shake lately is that there’s an absence of “accounting for evil”.

   There’s a lot of discussion around what people propose we need to do in order to address $CRISIS (take your pick—there’s plenty of them to go around). These proposals usually incude reasonable and altogether positive steps that involve people working together.

   And then I remember that there’s a small percentage of the population who classify as either sociopaths or psychopaths. And, somehow, those people end up in positions of power—or control vast sums of wealth, and thus influence those in power.

   It makes me wonder how the proposals would change if they accounted for the fact that evil people exist, and that evil people will act (or are acting) to counter their proposal(s).

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   TC Won't Give In To Lies (tcatinreality@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Aug-2025 09:12:33 JST TC Won't Give In To Lies

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   @Okanogen @StillIRise1963

   OK, I'll try.

   Since the founding of the nation, the structure of Congress has been driven primarily by accommodations to the wealthy oligarchs of the day.

   Originally enslavers, they got more seats in the House. As states were added, they were typically admitted in pairs to allow the oligarchs in the south to maintain their power.

   It was never convenient for the large black populace of DC to get even minimal representation in the Senate, so here we are.

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   William Pietri (williampietri@sfba.social)'s status on Sunday, 20-Jul-2025 23:12:39 JST William Pietri

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   @bodhipaksa
   Agreed, and I would go a bit further. I think Trump has vigorously exploited tendencies toward civility as he seized ever more power.

   It's been more than 10 years now that his firehose of awfulness has been met by Democrats mostly with the quiet decorum of the previous era. At the same time the media has both-sides and filtered and sanewashed to appear fair.

   I firmly believe that if we had all followed Godley's example (in October 2016!) the world would be much better off.

   @llanciawn @Wen

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   Carolyn Barber, MD (cbarbermd@med-mastodon.com)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Jun-2025 02:29:31 JST Carolyn Barber, MD

   This isn’t immigration policy — it’s a blueprint for authoritarianism.
   Whip up fear. Unleash ICE in Democratic states. Militarize our cities. Criminalize dissent. Exploit chaos to seize power.

   It’s dangerous. It’s illegal. Stand strong, America.🇺🇸

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   Artemis (artemis@dice.camp)'s status on Saturday, 03-May-2025 02:14:36 JST Artemis

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   We can learn how to structure our social interactions in ways that favor collaboration and mutual aid. We can move away from centralized authorities. We can do better than "authority", hierarchy, and concentrated power.

   It isn't easy. You can't turn on a dime to shift paradigms. You can't unlearn things overnight. You won't immediately know how to problem solve and work together.

   But that doesn't mean it isn't worth it.