Teddy Roosevelt never said “The only good indian is a dead indian.” That quote is typically associated with Philip Sheridan.

A number of sources claim a similar quote (“I don’t go so far as to think that the only good Indians are the dead Indians, but I believe nine out of every 10 are…") alleged to be from an 1886 speech in New York, but this still goes against how he treated native americans generally and I can’t find the original speech so I’m a bit suspicious of this as well.

This must be real because Republicans and Fox News are acting like this is exactly what zelensky did.

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When you have a 25% tariff, additional tariffs really don’t matter.

Let’s not keep making the mistake of assuming Trump’s tweets have force of law. He’s just talking out of his ass again, just like he’s not actually invading greenland and canada. Notice how he’s talking about at least 4 different actions here, I’m pretty sure none of which he can actually do. 5 if you count thanking us for our attention to this matter (?). If Trump tries to do anything in this regard no judge* will uphold it.

*Obligatory other than Clarence Thomas

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Except that whole thing about Dems being just as bad, which is like 90% of tankie arguments about the US.

When Ukraine’s president surprisingly shifted towards Russia, the people engaged in civil disobedience until there was a new president.

What will the US do?

Anyone who failed to beat Trump has to go away. No exceptions.

That’s not so much a murder stab as a flesh stab. To spell that out, it can be a metaphor for:

• “If you’re a trans woman you must use the mens room, or if you’re a trans man you must use the women’s room”
• “My trans child is dead to me”
• “We’re going to remove trans soldiers from the military”
• “We’re going to spend your taxpayer dollars to actively remove anything in government that recognizes the existence of trans people”
• “We’re going to spread hate against you to win elections”

Normalize Elon hate

He boycotted Bud Light because they did a promotional campaign that included a trans influencer on instagram. The stock fell 20% and basically made LGBTQ-related promotions a no-go for corporate America since.

I will never have zelensky’s patience and calmness. If I were in the room, everyone would be wondering who painted the oval office red.

That’s not true, companies are plenty worried about this sort of thing. Look at how Bud light panicked over the kid rock boycott. If he can do it, anyone can.

Ok. Make it a consistent thing then. Starting today.

For one why limit it to the North Atlantic? Japan, South Korea, and Australia should get in on the action too. And France and the UK can help them all get nukes (yes I mean that seriously - US and Russia being the only large nuclear powers is a disaster). Now would be a great time for the stable democracies (not the US) to create a new alliance.

I disagree with both the premise and the conclusion. Even if skipping corporate stuff for a day is only a mild inconvenience, that is still obviously not convenient. Second, there’s no reason to suspect convenience should strongly impact effectiveness. How much did it inconvenience anyone to boycott South Africa in the 80s?

Maximizing effectiveness for unit of effort is smart. And when a tiny change in share price can make a big difference in CEO compensation, we’d be complete masochists not to use that in our favor. But also even if you’re into maximizing pain, if we wanna talk about permanently going after these corporations then it’s gotta start somewhere. And it’s best to start with getting people to do what’s easy.

Don’t worry, Real World Boston cast member Sean Duffy is on the case.

When? When was he more bipartisan?

The internet. It led to the following:

• Good social change occurred very rapidly from the 1990s-2010s, causing highly motivated pushback from those who didn’t like the changes
• Rising wealth inequality caused by tech billionaires increased incentives and capability for a small number of extremely wealthy people to seize control of media and political power centers
• Foreign dictator governments became more able to more easily spread pro-dictator propaganda
• Media became more decentralized, leading to some good things but also the hijacking of our psychology to spread fear and disgust for the sake of grabbing attention