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"In aggrandizing power, the court illegitimately dominates policymaking, undermining democracy to an extent we have not seen in nearly 100 years. …

One telltale sign that the justices have become partisan politicians: their refusal to adopt mandatory ethics rules, which destroys the essence of judicial impartiality that is the root of their legitimacy."

#SupremeCourt #democracy #ethics
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Trump, taking shots at Hillary Clinton in 2016, was predictive of himself in 2023. "We could very well have a sitting President under federal indictment."

Traitor Trump's words should be played over and over by the Biden re-election campaign.

https://crooksandliars.com/2023/07/trump-hillary-2016-president-under?utm_source=social&utm_medium=twitter&utm_content=76544

Private college still commits to diversity
https://southernmarylandchronicle.com/2023/07/02/st-marys-college-of-maryland-remains-committed-to-diversity-following-supreme-court-decision/

Because a few of us have been fighting for our future the USA now gets 42% of electricity from zero carbon resources

We are on course to about double that share by 2035! Biden's Inflation Reduction Act climate legislation is accelerating these existing market gains making even more of the power we use become zero-carbon electricity.

A 100% Zero CO2 grid is in sight if we keep up the fight and vote the GOP out of our government! https://cleantechnica.com/2023/07/01/inflation-reduction-act-already-lowering-us-greenhouse-gas-emissions/

When will the GOP start understanding that their gun obsession is hurting them by making people afraid to go to public places to shop, eat, or entertainment. They complain that malls are not full, yet don't seem to understand the safety of shopping online vs in public.

Commodore LeVar has an urgent subspace message for you.

#StarTrek #GeordiLaForge #LeVarBurton #ReadingRainbow

In crowded field, Republican primary candidates lean into voter fears https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2023/07/02/republican-presidential-candidates-campaign-fear-socialism/70351140007/ they throw those at the morons so fast, they forget yesterday’s ones. And their media is amplifying them as they get churned. #uspolitics

So many teachers have died from COVID. It's very sad and is something never talked about. I do miss teaching but can't return to it as schools aren't mitigated. It's very sad not to be able to teach anymore. There is a teacher shortage and so many I know have stopped teaching because of it. The government stopped publishing the figures for education staff deaths when it reached 540. I came across this article earlier https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/over-1-000-educators-died-from-covid-heres-the-story-of-one/2022/12

"There is no consistent logic or principle beyond ideologically driven power politics. The idea that those who founded the United States envisioned a super-body composed of unaccountable, all-powerful rulers clad in robes, free to reign entirely outside the structure of institutions that make up the political system, is preposterous."

#SupremeCourt #corruption #democracy
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At least the new Twitter rules will force some people to stop linking to it. Maybe even convince some of the folks we only see on the bird mirror sites to just come here.

@bh913 Happy Canada Day! 🇨🇦

Charles Barkley changing his will to ensure Auburn is ‘more diverse’ after affirmative action ruling - al.com https://www.al.com/news/2023/06/charles-barkley-changing-his-will-to-ensure-auburn-is-more-diverse-after-affirmative-action-ruling.html

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@Radical_EgoCom @Huntn00 I don't think most people are evil. In fact I think all people consider themselves kind and fair and it takes some major trauma or disorder to change that.

The problem is that it doesn't take people to be evil to create such systems. I think other things in human nature are responsible such as competitiveness and strive to have better life.

However everyone can't live better than average by definition. Everyone wants to live in their own house on the waterfront. So people compete.

We can make it all a bit fairer and it already happens but I am not sure this game ever stops. There always will be less nice things than people wanting them because the most always want more.

@Huntn00 @Radical_EgoCom @shuro

I think the main human problem is: Humans like to organize in tribes/groups. Those who are "in" are the good ones, the friends. Everyone else is the enemy.

We managed to have kingdoms and countries through a mix of propaganda (distributing a "common understanding" of living together instead of renegotiating it all the time in your group) and stuff like laws and law enforcement (the danger of punishment when you don't conform to the common understanding).

So instead of people with big clubs (the wooden kind) we today have people who are good at gaming the system (state, country, society) on top.

@Huntn00 @shuro @Radical_EgoCom

This was more in the style of "let's discuss human society mechanisms", less direct suggestions to change our society

@Huntn00 @Radical_EgoCom @shuro

I think by transforming a company more into a group/tribe/family (the actual kind, not the one with shareholders) could improve a lot of things.

Maybe with more "kindness" in the local group we could better motivate that people elsewhere also want to live.

@wakame @Radical_EgoCom @Huntn00 > transforming a company more into a group/tribe/family ... could improve a lot of things.

It is difficult after certain level of complexity is reached. E.g. I currently work in a company having around ten thousand people in core staff and there's also contractors, franchises, etc.

Sure family-like relations are pretty common in smaller startups but it is hard to maintain them when size and complexity grows and a couple of hundred people are coming and going every week.

Same for societies. Smaller collectives often are anarchist in their nature even if they don't call themselves that. Now scale it up to size of France. And I am not talking about just wine and cheese but also running and developing railroads, nuclear power plants, aviation and such.

@Huntn00 I think it explains everything that's happening in the US & UK. The KGB routinely monitored wealthy & influential people who arrived in Russia or satellite states. Every single room was wired for video & sound. Guess who visited often? Trump. Musk. God knows how many more. Rachel Maddow did some excellent deep dives into this.