All of this is just my stream of consciousness of what I have in running around my head.
Craig Winston
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Yarvin not Garvin.
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Whoever can create it and actually get it through to the massive population that wants to fight back will be the best person to lead it. I hope we have multiple people that rise up with varying visions but the same ideas regarding values, morality and how to make a future that works.
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The right has had a vision of nostalgia as the direction the future should be. Go back to when you believed things were better. We can't become the techno optimists I see the abundance crowd taking that leads to Musk and Garvin nihilism & true destruction. i don't know how to create that narrative.
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We need an overarching story that becomes part of the whole of society's narrative to become infused the public see our views as a light about a positive future, not utopia, but a better future due to intact democracy, functioning institutions and an economic system that helps the vast majority.
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Yep all of it. Just wanted to point out the doomer conclusions that there will be masked feds at every polling place. Subtlerer actions will be taken specific locs thus we need to be strategic & communicate fighting back & reassure people the vast majority of locs will be the same as every election.
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They are leaving "Thank you, sir" stories and flowers at it.
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My back of the envelope math was pretty good!
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Why are post-apocalyptic films so popular? Psychology tells us why.
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Adding to the reasons why I'm staying out of the States for now...
Another thing to consider here is that the intrusive searches & data theft from international scholars at the border may subject their U.S. colleagues to allegations of having “foreign ties” & “un-American ideas,” esp those of us studying surveilled & suppressed topics like race, class, gender, etc.