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We need a new political party to champion the cause of Liberty and Justice For All, one that recognizes Liberty as the absence of unjust authority of any kind and Justice as an exercise of love, not spite - a party whose structure ensures timely accountability and responsiveness to compelling causes

This is exemplary of my failures to communicate. I present a series of points - because they convey quickly and clearly - and expect that others can draw the connective lines. It turns out, though, this is often seen as a series of non sequiturs. My dots make a cloud... even when there's only two.

Permission is the root of power. Politics is the art of getting and withdrawing permission. Government is the permission structures our political system currently supports. Liberty is those permissions all may presume without process. Justice is those permissions none shall presume without process.

An alien overlord that feeds on our stress would be a better president.

@etymonline.bsky.social 'Optimum' and 'optimize' need antonyms, as in '[to solve for] the worst combination of a set of parameters'. I coin today, 'pessimum' and 'pessimize'!

I've a well-polished craze, which I finally elucidated in 300-character increments - ~3 of them.

A Great Con Make transportation so affordable for enough generations that society is built around the ability to casually pass a day's walk in half an hour, then price most people out of casual travel and watch the tapestry fall to loose threads.

Schrodinger's Catanglement Put a cat in a box and close it. Divide the box with a pair of adjacent blades into two boxes with blades for lids. Distribute the boxes to parties which part ways. Now either party can open their own box and have a pretty good idea whether or not the cat is still alive.

Godzilla does not wipe his feet and has poor table manners. Trying to drive him into the sea is a waste of missiles - let's just focus on calling out the effect his attack has on prices. Vote for us or he'll eat your city next!

Invest early in the mining frenzy that will ensue during the million years or so following our transit through the galactic plane - the solar system is doing most of the work for us! Also, though, it'll prevent all those new planetesimals from becoming new waves of mass extinction as they shatter.

To call them a kakistocracy is to identify the surface - this is the current that drives those overt waves of incompetence and cartoonish corruption:

That the settlement can be described as theft from us all, and also as criminals benefiting from their crime, are very salacious points; the salient point is that we are now a nation purely of Executive fiat, prison or riches at whim - Congress's power and the court's power are both utterly usurped.

The old tug-of-war between Democrats and Republicans has been hijacked by Russia tugging Republicans and Israel tugging Democrats, and they don't pull against each other, they drag us to the tar pit they prepared for us: Iran; for decades Israel was their cause to fortify and Russia was their means.

Any line you imagine the regime won't cross is something they will definitely transgress just to see the look on your face. I've heard it said they respect nothing, but they go far beyond that: anything that anyone respects becomes a target to transgress unto destruction for depraved schadenfreude.

It's transducers all the way down. Free will is an illusion, proof of the supernatural, or both to varying degrees. If anyone has ever experienced the divine then anyone can - accept no substitutes for your own experience, nor tempt anyone to accept your story as a substitute for having their own.

It's not too late for the Democratic Party to split into Progressives and Traditionalists, draw all the Republicans who wish they weren't fascists into the Traditionalists, and present a decisive majority to scrub the fascists out of power by impeachment and expulsion. No need to wait for elections!

America is exporting credibility in exchange for lessons in reality-based planning.

In another universe, the latest Bondi hearing started with a statement from the Democratic Chair: "We saw how you treated the Senate Democrats, so we didn't bring our good faith today. We brought zingers. You are going to sit there while we make fun of you until we get tired of it. You may resign."

'Double-You' deserves its own name. Helpful context: Tee-You-Vee-*___*-Ex-Why-Zee Options: Wee Woo Wah Way Wih Woe Ow Ew Aw Oo Dub Oui Oui! Dubya Choose! (Or propose another.)

Most look a the sea and have already seen, but some peer into the depths - they'd be called fools if not for the timely warnings they sometimes give. False Enlightenment ensues when one, wishing to emulate the wise, finds in the depths their own reflection and, this being superior to most, settles.

Looks like we have a new de facto party leader.

The Quaternion of Inauthenticity: Cringe, Irony, Sarcasm To be sarcastically ironic is cringe, to be ironically sarcastic is anticringe. (I think the point of diminishing returns in fun to be had from this has been reached before the other rotations are considered, but go ahead 😶 )

Venezuela is cause to Impeach Trump, Vance, Hegseth, Rubio, and Bondi, but not urgent. The urgent cause to Impeach is to prevent them from attacking our NATO allies, starting in Greenland - that is an unmistakable betrayal of American interests, and stating intent to that effect is cause to Impeach.

Better for all the conservatives in politics to be replaced with historians, the liberals with science fiction authors, and the moderates with teachers and comedians, but the historians, authors, teachers, and comedians would never seek the job because of the politicians they'd have to work with.

Justice denied is worse than injustice applied. Justice denied will perpetuate until sufficient injustice is applied that everyone will settle for justice again - Justice for All, and no being picky about 'All'. We'll soon be hearing that 'tainted wells' of evidence result in unjust prosecutions.