Category: Advice for the Times
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Freedom From Fatalism – And This Has a Double Meaning
The Nazis want us to feel hopeless. They want us to give up the fight. If they have succeeded in making you feel that all is lost, they have achieved their mission. Do not allow them that victory. But don’t kick yourself if you can’t stop yourself feeling that way; just shake off the shock,
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Dems: STOP Preparing America’s Political Soil for Future MAGA Assaults on Democracy
Let’s make one thing perfectly clear: any given president is only allowed to serve two terms. The 22nd Amendment makes that absolutely clear. And then along came Steve Bannon, arrogantly announcing that Trump will have a third term. Democrats mostly responded almost immediately by treating a third term as a real possibility. Dems quickly went
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Make Hate Wrong Again
Because swift, certain and severe consequences — economic, social, civil or criminal penalty — are the only deterrents that hate understands. The goal is to reverse and dismantle the social permission structure for open expressions of hate that Trump has created. How do I identify hate? Hate vilifies others because of their race, religion, non-religion,
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Our Response to the Epstein Files Needs to be Deafening
And I mean that literally. We normal, decent people must make it impossible for Trump to make a public appearance ever again. Ever. Every time that he shows his face, we normal decent people must drown him out with the most deafening, jeering, heckling, screaming blowback that the world has ever seen. Imagine a thousand
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Don’t Burn Up Your Energy As Heat – Put It To Work Instead
Another day, another social media share of the latest Trump outrage. This week it’s Trump’s planned incineration of huge stores of food intended for starving children. I get it. It’s an outrage. But MAGA thinks it’s funny. MAGA thinks it’s funny to screw over helpless people and they laugh at our outrage. Laughing at innocent
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We Are The Normal People. Never Forget That.
With millions of Americans believing that intentional cruelty is something to be celebrated, the times can make us doubt ourselves. Is there something wrong with us? No. We are the normal people who live in reality. We are the decent people whose basic human concepts of right and wrong are still intact — those normal
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If You Don’t Understand What MAGA Is
… then your chances of defeating it drop substantially. A quote attributed to Stephen King on Bluesky reads: “Republicans: When are you going to stop supporting Trump and start supporting America?” You don’t get it. They think that Trump IS America. More specifically, they believe that Trump is their pathway to establishing the cruel, brutal,
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The Illusion Created By Shock and Awe
(Or, the System is bearing up, once cool heads figure things out) The orderly legislative and executive behavior of old, constrained by familiar, conventional decency and norms, has long been easily addressed by the mountains of jurisprudence and judicial precedent that has been built up over many decades — case histories built up and upon
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War Is Expensive
During World War 2, civilians and institutions understood the importance of contributing to the war effort. They sacrificed, they conserved precious resources, and they contributed monetarily by purchasing what were then called War Bonds. Civilians, corporations, and institutions invested their own efforts and resources to the war effort, as they knew that our way of
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Don’t Let MAGA Use Your Decency Against You
Or, Don’t Fall for MAGA’s Mind Games I’m sure that you’ve been gaslit before by MAGA’s talking-point judo. They will demand that you show inclusiveness and be accommodationg toward them, so that they can more openly exclude others. They will implore you to “reach across the aisle,” and when you do, they will rip the
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MAGA Has No Defense Against This Kind of Attack
(Or, How to Immunize Your Children against Trumpism Through Good Parenting) Think you can stop MAGA in its tracks by pointing out their self-contradictions? Guess again. Think that blasting their latest outrageous lies on social media will make a dent? Forget it. MAGA takes it as a compliment. And never mind generating stupid memes. Memes
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How to Stand Up to Hate in Your Community
To stand up to hate in our community, or anywhere else, we must be as hard as granite: an impenetrable stone wall of opposition. Don’t ever give hate an inch or it will take a mile. Hate will look for ways to use your goodness against you. Hate will look for ways to use your
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When Bad Things Happen, Remember Who
When the topic is the surge in racism and discrimination, remind everyone who made racism “acceptable” again. When the topic is bullying in schools, remind everyone who made bullying popular again. When the topic is the lack of respect for others in today’s society, remind everyone who made disrespect for others a sign of being
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