Notices by Madeleine Morris (remittancegirl@mstdn.social)

Beware of people who spend too much money preparing for the apocalypse. Having blown a fortune on kitting themselves out to survive it, they get impatient waiting for their investment to be justified, and tend to try to trigger them just so they won’t feel like fools when it doesn’t happen. Remember these are the same people who can never admit they’re wrong about anything.

https://archive.is/ZxfJc

I always knew this, vaguely - that the myth of Republican fiscal responsibility and restraint was a lie, but this graphic really brings it home:

@MikeImBack

While I am a huge proponent of Universal Basic Income, I think we are dancing around the edges of a reality we need to face head on: the concept that your job gives your life meaning.

This is a curiously protestant thing. We really need to diversify what, in our lives, gives it meaning, and start valorizing others instead of just employment.

Excuse me while I have a little meltdown here. I usually get it together just fine.

But every so often, the tsunami of incoherence and criminality just get to me.

@jaykuo @StillIRise1963

Except that he might snap those saggy lids back open tomorrow and reimpose them at the end of the week.

There’s just no knowing. The rest of the world is going to be making ‘other arrangements’ for the sake of their own stability and their forward planning - which is absolutely impossible with the US until they impeach that fucker.

@todymotmot
"There isn't a point where the control over others is enough to make them feel better.”

This is such a profound statement. And so important to truly, truly comprehend. Because it teaches us why appeasement is such a terrible response.

All appeasement does is feed the appetite for more. It literally makes your problem - whatever it is - much, much worse.

@apriloq @paezha @jaykuo @StillIRise1963

And indeed, this is not Nazi Germany. They won’t put you in a train and send you off to a place where they’ll gas you.

They’ll try to force your country of origin to take you back (while you sit in a detention centre somewhere) and if that doesn’t work, they’ll send you to a 3rd country they pay to house you in a jail.

Oh wait… you’re innocent of any crime? Doesn’t matter. And SCOTUS confirmed it.

I apologize if I sound alarmist. If you are not a US citizen living in the US, this must be a very frightening time for you.

But I want you to know which Jews survived Nazi Germany.

The ones who left.

And this is as good as an arm-band requirement. Actually, it’s even more arbitrary, because it’s vaguer.

Now… this is very interesting because ‘deemed to be here illegally’ is a completely arbitrary state now - they’ve rounded up and deported people with green cards, legal immigrants awaiting status designation, the American born children of illegal immigrants, etc.

So… this is a tool for arbitrary arrest.

https://apnews.com/article/illegal-immigration-immigrant-registry-trump-homeland-security-329d9b1523792aaf5940f72948d8b48b

How does this tool of the state work?

First, I want you completely divest yourself of any illusion that if you’ve followed the rules you’re safe. This ‘law’ is not about getting people to follow the rules. It is about enabling the state to kidnap you, hold you in detention and deport you at their whim.

AT THEIR WHIM.

And the precedent set by SCOTUS gives them the legal cover to do this.

If you are not a US citizen, and you can get the fuck out, I’d do it very soon.

That man’s life is gone. He has been ‘disappeared’ into a hellhole. And the court of last resort in the US has given their blessing to the LEGAL DESTRUCTION OF AN ABSOLUTELY INNOCENT LIFE. Do you think this couldn’t happen to you? Why? That man didn’t believe it could happen to him either. #Trump #SCOTUS

It frightens me a lot when intelligent, thoughtful people say “oh, #Trump can’t do that (some awful illegal thing) because ____ won’t allow it”.

Wake the fuck up please. There is no one to stop him. #SCOTUS just allowed this administration to wash their hands of a completely innocent legal immigrant who they mistakenly sent to a foreign concentration facility.

The guardrails are GONE.

Understanding this landscape is crucial to our battle.

Wouldn’t it be important for the media to report on how many regular people lost thousands on the 401Ks while Trump enjoyed his economic arson?

Because it was the announcement of the #tariffs that made the markets plunge. He did that. There was no other trigger.

How many millions of people has #Trump impoverished in a week?

That is the news. Why isn’t anyone reporting it?

So one minute #Trump says he paused the tariffs because that was his plan all along.

And then he says that he paused them because “I thought that people were jumping a little bit out of line. They were getting yippy … a little bit afraid.”

Is he going to say he flipped a coin in 5 minutes?

Here’s the thing. Anyone who believes this 90 day crap is smoking good shit, because he could change his fucking mind tomorrow.

I guess it just depends which of his pals are shorting the market. #USPol

One enormous difference between the US and China is that China manufactures practically everything, and affordably enough that much of their own population can purchase their goods.

Americans don’t manufacture all that much, and what they do manufacture is far more expensive and a lot of Americans can’t afford them. Which is why they buy stuff from China.

Other than the madness of King Trump, what has lost America its position in the world is how shittily they pay their workers.

If you live in states or countries where the education system whitewashes history, you do not have to go to the extreme of homeschooling your children to make sure they get a broader, more complete education. You just have to accept that there’s a need for you, as a parent, to supplement that education.

Framing it as an all or nothing issue may be rhetorically satisfying, but it doesn’t address the deficit.

Be angry. But also, be an educator.

Luckily, there are a mountain of resources online to help you teach your kids about history, about racial justice, about non-White heroes and heroines.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/classroom/posts/2025/01/black-history-month-resources-for-the-classroom

https://centerracialjustice.org/resources/resources-for-talking-about-race-racism-and-racialized-violence-with-kids/

@cstross

"He's not trying to build a loyal base any more. He's walking on quicksand.”

Exactly this is why I think he’s going to go down ignominiously. There is simply no payoff the the complicity for regular MAGA voters.

@trurl @logomancer @jzillw

@EmptySet

Look, there have always been a stable population of really unpleasant, racist, brutal people. In every society.

And if you are a civilized society, you can’t kill them all. Or you basically become them.

The only option is to offer a better narrative that shames them back into their bitter obscure little lives, - which they have mostly created for themselves anyway.

@cstross @trurl @logomancer @jzillw

@EmptySet

What are you actually saying?

Are you advocating their extermination?

The US had to live with each other after the Civil war. After the Vietnam war. After the Civil Rights Era. And you’ll have to do it again.

Or become them.

There’s no final solution to your problem. And only Nazis crave them.

@cstross @trurl @logomancer @jzillw