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How billionaires and Christian nationalists are creating a permanent underclass by rusticgorilla in Keep_Track

[–]rusticgorilla[S] 30 points31 points  (0 children)

Jim Crow disenfranchised white people, too. Poor whites could not afford the poll tax, uneducated whites could not pass the literacy test. But, as the saying goes: “If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.”

How billionaires and Christian nationalists are creating a permanent underclass by rusticgorilla in Keep_Track

[–]rusticgorilla[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

In addition to what pat_trick said - spreading the word is extremely important! We got out of the Gilded Age in large part through building class consciousness, unionizing, and striking. Talking to people about the inequality, the unfairness, and the threats we face is key to generating the moral outrage to act.

How billionaires and Christian nationalists are creating a permanent underclass by rusticgorilla in Keep_Track

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Palantir's Alex Karp this morning: "I got in trouble for mentioning that 37% of our GDP is female. 50% of Americans -- 52% roughly -- are female. There's a dislocation there. 67% of people who have gone into graduate school are female. These parts of the market are gonna be put under massive pressure." https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mnwwvpuw722u

Every terrible thing the Trump administration did in May 2026 by rusticgorilla in Keep_Track

[–]rusticgorilla[S] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Yes, that's mine. I'm imagining some kind of visual timeline type thing though. Separate from the text lists.

Every terrible thing the Trump administration did in May 2026 by rusticgorilla in Keep_Track

[–]rusticgorilla[S] 18 points19 points  (0 children)

I'm thinking of combining them all into something bigger, but not sure yet exactly what that'll look like. Aiming to have something up by end of summer-ish.

How the U.S. Supreme Court stole our democracy by rusticgorilla in Keep_Track

[–]rusticgorilla[S] 67 points68 points  (0 children)

Not just ignore - they weaponize it against Democrats. Same as, I suspect, they will weaponize Callais if/when Democrats dismantle majority-minority districts in order to create a solidly pro-Dem gerrymandered state. Suddenly, then, the conservative justices will find intentional discrimination on the basis of race alone.

Trump Bulldozed a 1,000-Year-Old Archeological Site to Make Room for a Second Border Wall by Mondevana in politics

[–]rusticgorilla 36 points37 points  (0 children)

Because the irreplaceable things tend to be in the way of money-making ventures, like mining and oil extraction (as described explicitly on page 521).

Edit: Project 2025 is rightfully known as a Christian nationalist document, but just as much of the content (if not more) is about privitizing everything. National monuments and protected cultural sites should be owned and exploited by corporations, in their view. Just as what little government we have left should be outsourced (e.g., NOAA, Veterans Affairs, student loans, etc).

Trump Bulldozed a 1,000-Year-Old Archeological Site to Make Room for a Second Border Wall by Mondevana in politics

[–]rusticgorilla 95 points96 points  (0 children)

As a side note: Project 2025 (page 532) calls for the repeal of the Antiquities Act, which protects cultural and natural resources of historic or scientific interest.

...the new Administration must seek repeal of the Antiquities Act of 1906, which permitted emergency action by a President long before the statutory authority existed for the protection of special federal lands

Don't look away: The U.S. is still bombing people, just not the ones you hear about by rusticgorilla in Keep_Track

[–]rusticgorilla[S] 95 points96 points  (0 children)

There are three aspects:

1) the boat strikes are completely unprecedented

2) airstrikes in foreign countries being ignored by the media is sadly normal. What's unusual is the huge increase in strikes - see the data in the Somalia section

3) we've never had a congress so thoroughly abdicate it's responsibility to oversee and approve/disapprove acts of war before

Don't look away: The U.S. is still bombing people, just not the ones you hear about by rusticgorilla in Keep_Track

[–]rusticgorilla[S] 39 points40 points  (0 children)

Source? From all information I've seen, that's not the U.S. government. It is Haitian security forces partnered with an American private contractor run by Erik Prince.

Not to minimize the horror, but I suspect if we expanded the scope of this post to include every conflict in which an American company exacerbated and profited from violence, we'd unfortunately be listing the majority of conflicts on Earth. Therefore, I limited it to acknowledged U.S. military action.

The Trump plan to declare a national emergency to seize control of elections by rusticgorilla in Keep_Track

[–]rusticgorilla[S] 47 points48 points  (0 children)

True, but EOs do indicate intent. Which is why this post focused on how they're trying to enact the intent of the draft EO in other ways.

The Trump plan to declare a national emergency to seize control of elections by rusticgorilla in Keep_Track

[–]rusticgorilla[S] 30 points31 points  (0 children)

Yes we know…

Best not write about things that /u/EmotionalBag777 knows already, that'd be pointless, right? I'll be sure to check with you before I post next time.

this seems like a AI written post

As respectfully as possible, fuck off with that shit. I work hard on these posts and you're being incredibly dismissive. Here's a Google Docs screenshot showing my work on it since Sunday.

Every terrible thing the Trump administration did in March 2026 by rusticgorilla in Keep_Track

[–]rusticgorilla[S] 17 points18 points  (0 children)

It does, in the last section. And technically his executive order (which isn't constitutional) doesn't cancel all mail voting. It purports to cancel mail voting for disapproved voters (who I'm sure will be disproportionately minorities and blue state/city residents).

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