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Great - thanks.

In meantime Biden just issued 31 drilling permits, lied about $2000 checks, refuses to support a ban on fracking or Green New Deal, hasn’t released the kids in cages, doesn’t support Medicare for All, but according to @AOC he’s working with “grassroots movements.”

This is called gaslighting by Fraud-Squad which spends its time mostly on “cute tweeting about each other”….

Also - a new development about St. Obama -- a movie "The Plot Against the President" - a 2021 documentary about involvement of government officials in initiating the “investigation”, that is, about scam of the century that still continues – into “Russian interference” in the 2016 US presidential election.

There will be no "healing and uniting" until Russia-gate hoax is resolved now that insane clown Trump has defeated himself

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1st days of the Biden presidency - lying about the $2000 dollar check. Somewhere there is a competent fascist rubbing his hands together

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Building Trump Back Better

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This is great: "...start a conversation with your family, friends, co-workers..."

Joe is right on the money in that concluding paragraph.

I'm probably "preaching to the choir here" 😀 but this whitepaper discusses one of the pieces of the puzzle in my opinion:

"..This article is the antidote to news. It is long, and

you probably won’t be able to skim it. Thanks to

heavy news consumption, many people have lost

the reading habit and struggle to absorb more

than four pages straight. This article will show you

how to get out of this trap – if you are not already

too deeply in it..."

and

"...Society needs journalism – but in a different way.

Investigative journalism is relevant in any society.

We need more hard-core journalists digging into

meaningful stories. We need reporting that polices

our society and uncovers the truth. The best

example is Watergate. But important findings

don’t have to arrive in the form of news. Often,

reporting is not time sensitive. Long journal

articles and in-depth books are fine forums for

investigative journalism – and now that you’ve

gone cold turkey on the news, you’ll have time to

read them..."

Source: https://www.gwern.net/docs/culture/2010-dobelli.pdf

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Debt isn't always a side effect of excess but the standard required to maintain a broken system. Defended despite obviousness of being broken. Toxic positivity.

Market metrics are meaningless if you're just selling to your friends.

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I'm no Graeber, but seriously; why go to work if you're not in debt? Spend your efforts looking after your own shit.

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A very good read, some historical comparisons to the late republic in Rome, and some simple truths.

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Hey Yasha: do Substack writers have a mechanism anything like a "tip line" through which we the readers can report potentially interesting, stupid and/or wildly inaccurate information to the writer directly? I apologize for the irrelevance here, but this seems to be the most recent thread at the moment.

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Mauricio Lazzaroto The Making of Indebted Man and Governing by Debt as well as Graebers Debt The first 5000 Years and Hudson’s ....and forgive them their debts are highly enlightening on the tyranny of debt. Lazzarato is especially concise in his discourse as one would expect from an Autonomous Marxist

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