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Cake day: July 5th, 2023

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  • *reflects the voting public

    Just calling it evil is a cop out. It’s religious colonial nationalism fueled by propaganda and racism that is fed to them as soon as they leave the womb. There is a very intentional wall that keeps the settlers and Israelis from seeing what is happening to Palestinians. When that wall cracks some people switch sides. These absolutists “they’re all evil” end up contributing to the problem by drawing that line. Instead we should be amplifying the voices and orgs in Israel and Palestine that aren’t giving up on the propagandized. It is an uphill battle and you’re helping the other side more than anything else.






  • TLDR: Farmer who talks about all this: https://youtube.com/@farmtotaber

    There’s lots of actual farmers who talk about the fertilizer situation. Since the start of agricultural subsidies we have pigeonholed our farmers into growing cash crops. Chemical companies clocked in and invested genetically modified strains of said cash crops that are resistant to their pesticides. All the while the US gov is pumping cash into the farm sector to overproduce crops for export. Farmers forgot how to farm without pesticides because there is too much tax payer money being funneled to grow the same cash crops year over year.

    These new crops make it very easy to grow the most profitable crops but they require accompanying pesticides and fertilizers to be feasible.

    We need to stop handing money to farmers and let them fail and open the playing field to new farms who can’t compete with government subsidized multi billion dollar “family farms”.






  • Since Trump first started consolidating executive power the only thing he’s missing is a semi justified declaration of a national emergency. He tried it with immigration but it’s not really catching on like he hoped. Now he’s started a war with an asymmetrical foe with ties to terrorist orgs. I expect a series of attacks to be carried out on US soil, they’ll need them in a few major cities for the largest effect and serious enough to involve emergency powers. My guess is we’ll see something between now and midterms so that he can get DHS at the polls. We may even see an event at the polls that the admin will lean on to “cancel” the election and keep the results in limbo.

    None of this would stand up to the courts for long but they would try to use DHS to control the opposition. They’ve been packing ICE with Nazis and Trump supporters for almost a year now. I hope I’m wrong but I’d be surprised if they don’t try something.