@jlpiraux@wallonie-bruxelles.social2025-04-01 13:45:58
"The Tax Foundation is a veteran anti-tax campaign organization from the United States. It has been around since 1937 when it was founded by top brass from companies such as Standard Oil and General Motors. Close links to some of the biggest corporations in the US has been a constant feature of the organization, as has its political aim of bringing down taxes"
#lobbying
@castarco@hachyderm.io2025-03-31 07:21:14
uspolitics, trump
I keep seeing smart people writing stuff like
> [the US] kept peace through strength balanced with restraint, and wielded influence through culture, values, and diplomacy
I understand that #Trump is terrible and some people feel tempted to idealize what they had before him, but we should be more discerning, or otherwise it becomes impossible to understand how this happened in the first place.
Let's start with some questions:
- peace where? and for who? was it true peace, or "Pax Romana"?
- are we going to take seriously that statement on "restraint"? after all the lies, internal witch hunting, sanctions, coups, wars, invasions, genocides, and last but not least, 2 unnecessary nuclear strikes on Japan?
Now, on "culture, values, and diplomacy". Sure. Why not. Not everything was going to be bad, right?
But the thing is, abusive husbands aren't bad all the time either. From time to time they know how to be sweet and seem to care: one present here, flowers the next day, a little bit of gaslighting, and fake apologies after that "accidental" slap.
Given enough time (if the wife is still alive), at some point the victim decides to leave, and then all hell breaks loose. Trump is the manifestation of that moment. He does not represent a change in #USA's nature, but a hidden side that was "always" there, just waiting to play its role.
Others believe this is because #US citizens have been intentionally dumbed down by a combination of propaganda and a disfunctional education system, and I'm sure it's partly true... But let's see what many of their most brilliant and educated citizens are choosing to do with their lives today: https://sfstandard.com/2025/03/12/stanford-students-want-in-on-the-military-tech-gold-rush/
So, all I'm asking is: please drop the act. It was always a clusterfuck.
@cwilcke@bildung.social2025-04-18 18:46:57
David Brooks: "What’s Happening Is Not Normal. America Needs an Uprising That Is Not Normal"
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It’s time for a comprehensive national civic uprising. It’s time for Americans in universities, law, business, nonprofits and the scientific community, and civil servants and beyond to form one coordinated mass movement. Trump is about power. The only way he’s going to be stopped is if he’s confronted by some movement that possesses rival power."
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@magicicada@social.sdf.org2025-03-30 20:16:31
@caroldib@vivaldi.net2025-04-21 23:42:56
“Tenho o privilégio de não saber quase tudo. E isso explica o resto.”
Manoel de Barros ✨
@caroldib@mastodon.social2025-04-18 04:58:31
Ouvindo Schoenberg e lembrando de quem?
❄️👧🔥
Não aguentei e fui pesquisar. A versão da Menina dos Fósforos que assisti em Paris foi composta por Helmut Lachenmann.
E pra quem estranha o dodecafonismo (como eu), “brace yourselves”, pq a chamada música concreta instrumental é ainda mais radical! As pessoas levantavam e iam embora aos punhados, no dia seguinte saiu na tv!
Fiquei até o fim pq o ingresso foi caro e eu não ia sair debaixo do “plafond” de Chagall por conta de…
@magicicada@social.sdf.org2025-03-28 17:03:32
Defunct railroad building.
Taken 4 August 2024.
#WindowFriday #FensterFreitag #Abandoned #Ohio
