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  • Folks, here's what's happening: fiefdoms and minor lords are the final goal of the GOP. Farmers will have workers who are protected from deportation as long as they are in the farmer's good graces. Likewise, H1B visas already operate like this - as long as you are loyal and useful you are protected from the sanctioned cruelty of the justice system.

    Right wing thought does not care or support democracy. They don't want people to be free so much as "free". They want to control other people. It doesn't matter what the laws are when it comes to themselves - they exist outside that system. They have their own country club system. The right wants petty tyrants.

  • It's funny how just exposing the religious to alternative afterlife's is enough to completely lose a lifetime of teaching and servitude, and strips away any inclination for a pleasant afterlife. No convincing or reapplying every seven days - nope, just being near a thing removes all of Jesus' teachings.

  • This is a really big deal because when they were elected in 2022, the Marcos and Duterte families had combined their respective power bases into a juggernaut of Filipino politics. But each family developed their power base in a different part of the country, Marcos secured the capital and the northern islands while Duterte rules Mindinao, the largest island, and the other islands in the south.

    Then something happened and the families learned to not like each other.

    This is a big problem as each has extensive government alliances to the families and each family runs their area like strongmen dictators. It won't be a civil war, but they are prepared to be very uncivil.

  • And progress without testing it's resiliency against malicious actors will not last. As much as we hate Trump being elected and staffing clowns in each position, it will test what has been made so far. Row v. Wade, as we now know, should have been stronger. The Voting Rights Act too. The states that required the law to be fair have pulled back the law and reveal little has changed.

    No one likes getting burned but fire is useful for showing us what burns easily and what withstands the heat. We will rebuild stronger and know what works.

  • Look them in the eye and say "no tip, thank you." Smile. Be nice. Let them be mad. It doesn't matter. They won't remember after a few other customers. Ask anyone working a register in food service, there's so many that it's easy to forget who we are.