Dave Johnson

I post on UK issues because I spent much time & effort trying to warn people about the rightward shift of US "conservatives" and what it would lead to. I moved here and see the same forces now working to capture the UK govt and impose what has been imposed on the US. I give a shit so I post & warn.

theres a few exceptions like the race where the republican is running on the platform that their opponent was raped as a child but for the most part they are just running on being the party of white people

Another story impossible to imagine in any other administration: the president's son goes hunting with a Russian criminal who is part of Putin's security entourage

If you attach the word 'terrorist' to someone you no longer have to consider them to be human. Laws no longer apply. Basic decency and humanity no longer apply. Double bonus points if they're not white.

But if you tax them they'll leave!

FOX News attempts to convince its viewers Democratic Socialism is bad www.reddit.com/r/WorkReform...

But if you tax them they'll leave!

|Americans - Schumer has to be dumped as Senate Majority Leader. For every corporate Democrat we lose in Senate Leadership, we will pick up two socialist Democrats in the suburbs in Philadelphia, and you can repeat that in Ohio and Illinois and Wisconsin. And Michigan.

House Judiciary Democrats have just released a 50-page report that pulls together years of assault allegations against Trump and his reported connections to Jeffrey Epstein. The report calls for a special counsel to investigate Trump's ties to Epstein.

The new HJC Report on Epstein describes the uncertainties around Paolo Zampoli's role in introducing Melania to Trump. democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

Trump currently holds up to $81 million in oil and gas stocks. His stocks have increased in value by 43% since the end of 2025.

i got into this whole industry thinking (wrongly) that the mainstream press just had to systematically be corrected and nudged in the right direction after decades of right-wing bullying. no. the right has a noise machine. the way to combat that noise machine is to out-shout it. period.

hm. lula succeeded by out-shouting the right and not begging for the press to do the lift for him and his supporters? wow, wonder who has been saying something like that in america for almost 20 years?

What's striking to me are the rules of engagement and the methodology of action here, which more or less is predicated on burying liberal delusions about "debate" or the "marketplace of ideas". The rules were ultimately very simple: amplify your own message and suppress your opponent's.

"An army to counteract the forces that artificially amplify far-right messaging, both on the streets and online."

I don't know that there is a template or a "secret sauce" or a clear-cut lesson to take from this. But if there is one it's the idea of treating social media as the hostile territory that it is, of actually acting like you are a participant in propaganda warfare and not like a consumer.

Thread about Brazil

The mobilization itself was already not something I ever expected to see, but to actually win? Hell, to double the winning margin from the 2022 runoff? Genuinely surreal. Maybe child raping billionaires *don't* have to run the world with a shit-eating grin. Maybe that can stop.

The Left must not be afraid to crush the Right using the exact same tactics they use against them. One fights for good, the other for evil.

Lula says action must be taken against the US Big Tech billionaires who tried to fix the Brazilian elections Brazil has the 2nd most Social Media users after the USA If Brazil banned US Big Tech and launched their own Social Media it would be a crippling blow to the US Fascists

What is stunning about this piece is that that none of the pollsters and pundits offered even a caveat about election suppression and the possibility of Trump going all out to steal the election Is a Blue Wave Coming? 6 Pollsters and Pundits Offer Their Best Guesses. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Never stop doing your thing, Rupert Murdoch media

People loudly express their uneasiness and fear. They feel helpless while this tsunami advances toward them. But vast inequality brought us corrupted governments that do not act, letting them proceed ungoverned and unregulated. /4

I'm letting ChatGPT speak for itself here. It said “A product like this should not have been released without much clearer safeguards and warnings about its reliability.” seeingtheforest.substack.com/p/chapgpt-6-...

Trump's not special. This is standard Republican campaigning. Reagan talked about "welfare Cadillacs". Nixon had the whole "Southern Strategy." Bush 1 had Willie Horton. His son won the primaries spreading rumors that McCain had an illegitimate black child.

The UK government spends up to £39 billion each year supplementing people who work for low pay. This is a subsidy to companies that refuse to pay people enough.

Imagine the reaction if brown-skinned people did this, instead of fossil-fuel companies! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I'm so old... www.nytimes.com/2012/08/03/u...

If they do this, same old story of capitalism. Sacrifice everyone's future for the short-term benefit of a few. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

In 2012 Republicans blocked cybersecurity rules. This is a very good time not to forget this. Protecting cyber infrastructure costs companies MONEY. So they didn't. Instead they paid Republicans to block regulations & legislation that would have protected the public. Explanation in reply.

I'm so old I remember Reagan telling people government was their enemy. I remember Thatcher telling people there is no such thing as society. The neolineral message was people banding together & helping each other (democracy) was bad. This left people unprotected against the wealthy and powerful.

seeingtheforest.substack.com/p/neoliberal...

Understanding Trump voters - A LOT of Americans believe that "Foreign Aid" is a huge part of the US budget. 35% believe it is at least 20% - as much as Social Security. 8% believe it is half of all govt spending. igc.fsu.edu/sites/defaul...

NEW: Trump is a Russian asset. And the UK government is finally waking from its decade-long slumber Read this. And order a wind-up radio. broligarchy.substack.com/p/the-dark-t...