Hobbesian Diplomacy "This will make great television"

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So increasing the minimum wage to a livable wage is “socialism”?

But Amazon union busting, keeping wages low, and forcing workers onto public assistance while its founder increases his net worth by $7.9M an hour is the "free market"?

Perhaps this could be a WaPo opinion piece.

I was thinking that perhaps we should just change it to "The Not So United States of America" and just switch to paying state taxes only. But then there is the sticky business of "national security" and energy. Pretty sure we could get the food thing figured out.

I've heard more than one person say recently "I consider myself apolitical" - with a certain degree of resentment. That they have to be a little bit more engaged. I feel the same way trying to take it a step further and wrap my mind around foreign policy. Probably should have started there .

This morning I finished reading @margaretatwood.bsky.social 's The Testament and it was so eerily on point. I came home from a really nice day soaking with a pal and decided I better purchase The Handmaids Tale (while I still can ???). I hate all this fear.

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Thanks for this . I am enrolled in this course I think you might find interesting. I'll try to update you about it later on when I get further in.
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Cool. Thanks for this. I just started a course that you might find interesting. www.regenerat.es/regenerative...

Incubation and Invitation
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History Is Lunch: Hasan Kwame Jeffries, “(Mis)Remembering the Past: From Slavery to Civil Rights” YouTube video by MDAHVideo

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An 'Unserious' Show (with Jonathan V. Last) Watch now | We've got (Thanksgiving) leftover focus group sound we didn't get to last week.

When I say that some large and possibly determinative segment of voters are unserious I’m suggesting that some of the ways Dems can appeal to them won’t be very nice and will not appeal to people like me.

But might be effective.
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