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Stardust Mirror

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January 16, 2026

Fun effective strategy?

how about using this in all conversations, just to kinda remind people

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/7KHkqJZmnks

January 14, 2026

What is being done to prevent the Trump cabal from stealing the next election?

We know they're going to try so presumably the Democrats are planning to counter that.

January 12, 2026

Is AI making it harder to distinguish facts from fiction?

And, though there are ways to tell the difference, will people give up even trying? Maybe even give up trying to follow current events?

Will it become more difficult or even impossible to tell the difference one of these days?

Not talking about the politically engaged, like DU users, but general public.

January 3, 2026

Dear Europe,

If there is a leader in another country who breaks the law, say, rape, fraud, pedophilia, treason, etc., it is ok for you to bomb that country, killing some civilians, and capturing/kidnapping that leader and bringing him to your country to be prosecuted and punished.

Just a little update for ya

December 19, 2025

Trump declares January 6th a National Holiday

satire or prophecy?

December 18, 2025

Barron has enlisted

to fight in Venezuela

/s

January 17, 2025

quick photo op at White House then off to Merd A Lago

where the ass kissing and bribes will continue

I'm predicting he'll spend less time in the White House than on the golf course.

January 16, 2025

Mind reader that I am, I'm thinking that right wingers..

I'm posting this in hopes of getting feedback from sharper minds than my own.
(Warning: excessive use of quotation marks and parentheses and possible abuse of the Oxford comma)

I'm thinking that right wingers wrongly conflate authoritarianism with communism. In my admittedly limited understanding, communism is government controlling the economy, socialism is the workers controlling the economy, and capitalism is "owners" controlling the economy. (I don't know how to label worker owned/run companies like the Mondragon Corporation.)

I don't think right wingers understand those definitions/differences. I posit that when they complain about 'communism' they are not talking about the economy at all. What they're complaining about is people telling them what to do. In other words, having to obey laws and, especially, regulations. You can't regulate gun ownership! You can't tell me how to build my house! You can't tax me, ie., steal my money! You can't tell me I can't graze my cattle on public land! Of course it's obvious to us that they are hypocrites, happy to dictate what others can and can't do.

Let's talk about being made to do something. Seems like two ways that happens, by force or by consent. Consent in this context being people in a society agreeing for their own mutual benefit, to contribute resources for needed common services, and to abide by regulations crafted to keep everyone safe (you could say "promote the general welfare&quot . I would add cheating and propaganda to my definition of "force", since it is a way to make people do things non-consensually.

I posit that right wingers don't consent to a social contract. Not only do they not accept consent, they do believe in and use force, ie., violence, to impose their wills on others. I would even speculate that many of them believe that violence is the only way to get people to do things. Looking at our country's history, the settlers genocided the occupants they encountered, to steal land. The stole and enslaved people, with mind-bendingly sadistic cruelty, to be the construction 'workers' to build their homes, businesses and government buildings, to do all the work to create/maintain a cash crop economy (tobacco, indigo, cotton, sugar) and exploited immigrants, using force and law, to build railroads and other infrastructure.

When the abolition of slavery in Britain threatened the entire farming, shipping and banking economy that the colonists depended on, they used violence to preserve slavery, by creating the United States. When again the abolition of slavery was looming, the used violence/force and started the Civil War.

When the veterans who served in WWI camped out in DC demanding the pay they'd been promised, they were gunned down. When laborers whispered the word "union" they were gunned down. Jim Crow was enforced by lynching and legal enforced servitude. When school integration was attempted the response, from the Deep South to Boston, was violence.

Most people would agree that violence is morally acceptable in self defense. And that self defense includes defending one's family. And home. And farm? And business? And pickup truck? But those aren't questions I care to spend time on now. I want to focus on the the question to what extent is it ok to "self-defend" one's "lifestyle" or "culture" or "heritage" or, to cut to the chase, one's self-identity as a superior "white" person ("white" being only a social construct). My inclination would be towards as narrow as possible as to what can be morally considered ok using violence to defend.

My point is right wingers don't believe in democracy: it's their way or violence. If a person doesn't agree with them they don't get a voice.

OK, I'm ready to be enlightened. Thanks in advance.

December 23, 2024

Since it's fair to assume almost all of Drumpf's appointment picks are based on bribes..

isn't there some sort of evidence trail that could be used to prosecute him for government-by-bribe?

I mean it's not like he knows anything about the government agencies he's appointing people to head, or the countries he's giving ambassadorships to. Someone has to be screening all the requests to submit bids/bribes to get positions they want. I don't believe anyone on the Drumpf team is researching who is best qualified for any of these positions but I would venture there is a team screening/soliciting bribe bids.

OK those are my crazy thoughts. I'm ready to be corrected and informed.

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About Stardust Mirror

my creds for DU My Mom - as a teenager before the US entered WWII she was beaten up in NYC for standing up to an avowed Nazi - as an adult, she boycotted, canvassed, laid her body on railroad tracks to stop nuclear waste trains -after retiring, helped open and run a women's shelter in her rural county Me - in 5th, I gave a class presentation on The Gulf of Tonkin just after it happened, and in 6th grade I gave a book report on "Unsafe at Any Speed" by Ralph Nader - in middle school when assigned a 'lip sync' exercise for Speech class, I lip synced "Call Any Vegetable" by Zappa and The Mothers - after college worked at Harvard scholarship program and was arrested in late 70's by the protester-head-busting Boston Tactical Squad (basically just for mouthing off) - as an adult, worked for years on a County Committee of judges, DA's, feminist activists, etc working to address and reduce domestic violence in our county - as an adult volunteered for years as a facilitator for MEN (Men Evolving Nonviolently), leading groups of men who had volunteered or been mandated counseling, teaching men to stop their violence - did volunteer work on several campaigns for County Supervisor candidates - have never failed to vote in any election.
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