Watching Fedi and the world react to the US president go absolutely unhinged in public, threatening war crimes as his cognitive grip disintegrates before our eyes, watching the horror and the outrage…there is something I want to tell you from Minneapolis.
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@barbra @inthehands The problem is that by the time the signs of demantia are obvious enough to diagnoze officially, the person is already pretty advanced, (but can still have good days).
In a case such as Trump, because the chief of staff can hide the president on his down days, we don't get to see such obvious signs. The tell will be when he forgets to use utensils during state dinner visible to foreign leaders (or to media).
Differentiating between normal Trump & mental illness is hard
@jfmezei @inthehands We can tell when someone use a sociopath - they will tell you with their actions, and Trump has screamed sociopath for decades. The Goldberg Rule was always bullshit.
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@jfmezei @inthehands We can tell when someone use a sociopath - they will tell you with their actions, and Trump has screamed sociopath for decades. The Goldberg Rule was always bullshit.
@barbra @inthehands And it is because Trump has been sociopath for decades that it becomes hard to diagnose dementia since he is just worse than before and it's impossible to measure until there are clear signs.
Normally, imagining that everyone is against you and stealing stuff from you is textbook psychosis. But Trump has worked so hard to make ennemies, that it is true that everyone is against him.
His inability to let go of crowd sie, and now the 2020 election loss does point to problem.
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@Npars01 @LukefromDC @inthehands
End the fallacy that corporations are people
@nanowiz @LukefromDC @inthehands
Koch Network waged a decades-long malign influence campaigns to get "corporate personhood".
Their next effort is "AI personhood" so they can buy swarms of AI agents to overwhelm and overturn the will of real people.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/30/artificial-intelligence-personhood
For people freaked out over extremely rare non-citizen voter fraud, the GOP are weirdly unperturbed by Putin launching "AI voters" at elections.
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@Npars01 @LukefromDC @inthehands
End the fallacy that corporations are people
@nanowiz @Npars01 @LukefromDC @inthehands
It was a useful piece of propaganda for the side winning the class war, wasn’t it?
One day, the working class will rise, even in the US.
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@barbra @inthehands And it is because Trump has been sociopath for decades that it becomes hard to diagnose dementia since he is just worse than before and it's impossible to measure until there are clear signs.
Normally, imagining that everyone is against you and stealing stuff from you is textbook psychosis. But Trump has worked so hard to make ennemies, that it is true that everyone is against him.
His inability to let go of crowd sie, and now the 2020 election loss does point to problem.
@jfmezei @inthehands but in the end whether he has dementia is irrelevant - his sociopath alone is enough for an article 25 removal from office, since it renders him unfit to act in the country's best interest.
But like the old saying goes, you get the ruler you deserve. Americans knew what he was, and enough voted for him. The US has only itself to blame because, unfortunately, anyone can become president. Including a known crook.
What would be have done differently if he were a Russian agent? Nothing. Putin bailed him out from certain bankruptcy by guaranteeing a loan through Deutch Bank when no American bank would.
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@jfmezei @inthehands but in the end whether he has dementia is irrelevant - his sociopath alone is enough for an article 25 removal from office, since it renders him unfit to act in the country's best interest.
But like the old saying goes, you get the ruler you deserve. Americans knew what he was, and enough voted for him. The US has only itself to blame because, unfortunately, anyone can become president. Including a known crook.
What would be have done differently if he were a Russian agent? Nothing. Putin bailed him out from certain bankruptcy by guaranteeing a loan through Deutch Bank when no American bank would.
@barbra @inthehands When felon Trump ran for office, his candidacy was challenged in court since constitution bars felons. Supreme court ruled it wasn,t their business to interfere with elections and it was up to the people to choose.
Amd when Supreme Court decided Trump had immunity as President, it was with understanding that Congress was the one with jurisdiction to impeach him for crimes.
25th requires VP, majority of cabinet and majority of Congress to be challenge-proof. Not happening
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My fellow people of the United States, if I have anything to teach from what Minneapolis just lived through, it is this:
Nobody is coming to save us.
Not Congress. Not the courts. Not the ICC or the EU or NATO. Not the generals or the rank and file. Not the press. Not the markets. Not the elections. Not some mythical version of “The People” that materializes out of nowhere as some messianic external force.
We’re it. We’re all we’ve got. If we don’t stop fascism from completely engulfing the US, then nobody stops it.
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[The quote is from the book _The Country Between Us_ by Carolyn Forché. It is some of the most powerful and gut-wrenching poetry I’ve ever read, and the book still burns like a hot coal in my hands when I hold it. The book is among other things the origin of my handle, “in the hands.” Don’t look up that quote; look up the book. Read it slowly. You’ll know the quotes when you find them.]
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Thanks for sharing that. Carolyn Forché is my friend's mom but I don't know her work much. I only know she was one of Ta-Nehisi Coates's professors and mentors. I'll have to take a closer look! -
Watching Fedi and the world react to the US president go absolutely unhinged in public, threatening war crimes as his cognitive grip disintegrates before our eyes, watching the horror and the outrage…there is something I want to tell you from Minneapolis.
And I’m not sure how, and I’m not sure if I can, but I want to try. People are always thanking us and calling us heroes and asking us for some kind of…something, anything we can offer in the face of the authoritarian march, and well, here it is, here is something, if I can figure out how to say it.
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@inthehands well put. Bracing.
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[The quote is from the book _The Country Between Us_ by Carolyn Forché. It is some of the most powerful and gut-wrenching poetry I’ve ever read, and the book still burns like a hot coal in my hands when I hold it. The book is among other things the origin of my handle, “in the hands.” Don’t look up that quote; look up the book. Read it slowly. You’ll know the quotes when you find them.]
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Watching Fedi and the world react to the US president go absolutely unhinged in public, threatening war crimes as his cognitive grip disintegrates before our eyes, watching the horror and the outrage…there is something I want to tell you from Minneapolis.
And I’m not sure how, and I’m not sure if I can, but I want to try. People are always thanking us and calling us heroes and asking us for some kind of…something, anything we can offer in the face of the authoritarian march, and well, here it is, here is something, if I can figure out how to say it.
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In our search of that something else, we failed time and again.
Those who we encountered either wanted to lead us or wanted us to lead them.
There were those who got close to us out of an eagerness to use us, or to gaze backward, be it with anthropological or militant nostalgia. …
At last, someone who understood that we were not looking for shepherds to guide us, nor flocks to lead to the promised land. Neither masters nor slaves. Neither leaders nor leaderless masses.
— Subcomandante Marcos. "Between Light and Shadow". Enlace Zapatista, 2014-05-27.
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Watching Fedi and the world react to the US president go absolutely unhinged in public, threatening war crimes as his cognitive grip disintegrates before our eyes, watching the horror and the outrage…there is something I want to tell you from Minneapolis.
And I’m not sure how, and I’m not sure if I can, but I want to try. People are always thanking us and calling us heroes and asking us for some kind of…something, anything we can offer in the face of the authoritarian march, and well, here it is, here is something, if I can figure out how to say it.
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I think it was Bernard Williams who once remarked about a mildly famous thought experiment which goes like this:
You’re walking by a lake and see a child drowning. But it turns out that the child is Hitler or Trump or whoever. Now apply various moral theories to see what they tell you to do in this situation.
Williams says, Anyone who actually behaved this way in such a situation is already a moral monster. A morally good person seeing a child in danger does not stop and think about the ethics of the situation.
The morally good person, not a moral hero mind you - this is about meeting a moral minimum, sees the need and acts.
Was reminded of this as I read your thread.
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Watching Fedi and the world react to the US president go absolutely unhinged in public, threatening war crimes as his cognitive grip disintegrates before our eyes, watching the horror and the outrage…there is something I want to tell you from Minneapolis.
And I’m not sure how, and I’m not sure if I can, but I want to try. People are always thanking us and calling us heroes and asking us for some kind of…something, anything we can offer in the face of the authoritarian march, and well, here it is, here is something, if I can figure out how to say it.
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@inthehands
Thx
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You don’t know what’s going to happen. You don’t know what to do. You feel powerless. Nothing you can do seems like it could possibly be enough.
And then the work is there, on your doorstep, in your hands, and you •just do it• because that is what you do.
Nobody is coming to save you. The choice is ourselves or nothing. The moment you believe that, that you •know• it in your bones, is the moment the work truly begins.
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My fellow people of the United States, if I have anything to teach from what Minneapolis just lived through, it is this:
Nobody is coming to save us.
Not Congress. Not the courts. Not the ICC or the EU or NATO. Not the generals or the rank and file. Not the press. Not the markets. Not the elections. Not some mythical version of “The People” that materializes out of nowhere as some messianic external force.
We’re it. We’re all we’ve got. If we don’t stop fascism from completely engulfing the US, then nobody stops it.
7/
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Watching Fedi and the world react to the US president go absolutely unhinged in public, threatening war crimes as his cognitive grip disintegrates before our eyes, watching the horror and the outrage…there is something I want to tell you from Minneapolis.
And I’m not sure how, and I’m not sure if I can, but I want to try. People are always thanking us and calling us heroes and asking us for some kind of…something, anything we can offer in the face of the authoritarian march, and well, here it is, here is something, if I can figure out how to say it.
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And of course there are a thousand practical lessons in fighting authoritarians, and we are passing them on as best we can as so many thousands of thousands have before us — but for now, for today, this is the one thing I can tell you: stop waiting for someone else to save you. This is it. We’re all we’ve got. Either we do this or no one does.
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It is either the beginning or the end
of the world, and the choice is ourselves
or nothing.
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@inthehands the Land of the free and the home of the brave 🫡
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Watching Fedi and the world react to the US president go absolutely unhinged in public, threatening war crimes as his cognitive grip disintegrates before our eyes, watching the horror and the outrage…there is something I want to tell you from Minneapolis.
And I’m not sure how, and I’m not sure if I can, but I want to try. People are always thanking us and calling us heroes and asking us for some kind of…something, anything we can offer in the face of the authoritarian march, and well, here it is, here is something, if I can figure out how to say it.
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@inthehands Thank you, Paul.
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[The quote is from the book _The Country Between Us_ by Carolyn Forché. It is some of the most powerful and gut-wrenching poetry I’ve ever read, and the book still burns like a hot coal in my hands when I hold it. The book is among other things the origin of my handle, “in the hands.” Don’t look up that quote; look up the book. Read it slowly. You’ll know the quotes when you find them.]
@inthehands Thanks for this. I'm not in the US but I think we may need this perspective in Australia pretty soon. The problems won't be exactly the same here, but the answers will be.
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It was a dark, dark day when US cops repurposed this wise adage by inverting its meaning. Or maybe it's just the LAPD, but they use it a lot and I hate it.
@AdrianRiskin @jzb @inthehands They should think twice about playing that "game," as it's one two can play
