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Cake day: June 4th, 2025

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  • This map is incomplete.

    • the 1968 coup that ousted President Fernando Belaúnde Terry from Peru

    • La Violencia in Colombia

    • the US economic Blockade of Guyana in the 1970s, along with several CIA interventions.

    • the US backed the Dictatorship in Surinam until a Coup in 1980, and sent military aid to support the regime through the resulting conflict.

    As for French Guiana - this may be our single exception, as the French did all the Horrors there, and the US “respected their claim”.






  • Step 1 - raise awareness.

    Step 2 - gather active participants

    Step 3 - collectively do legal things that make life harder for anyone with the power to enact this, yet does not.

    Step 4 - repeat Step 3, making it clear why this is happening.

    Step 5 - make memes of the affair to further drive engagement.

    Step 5.1 (potentially American/Russian/etc Exclusive) - get declared a terrorist for doing a perfectly legal thing.

    Step 6 - build support structures and tools to mitigate consequences.

    Step 7 - keep going anyway, in spite of what consequences can be brought.

    Step 8 - profit build incremental victories to bolster the movement.







  • Is Obama better than Trump? Yes.

    Do we need to keep claiming he is perfect? No, let’s quit deluding ourselves.

    https://youtube.com/shorts/4xaT7Qr7hA8 a short video that cites a couple sources.

    So much of what Trump can do is built upon what Obama accomplished in the name of “National Security”. Even ICE.

    He caved. He was an effective, brilliant, and charismatic community organizer. But when he took office in the White House, he balanced all of those things we love about him? With his party’s pathological need to please both his opposition and their shared donors.

    And he was so much more effective at doing what Republicans wanted, even when he adds some “humane restrictions” to it, these policies and precedents set us on an even more dangerous path. Just like with every previous presidency in my lifetime.

    I don’t say this to be mean, I wish it wasn’t true. But we need to be honest with ourselves. If Democracy is supposed to work, we cannot afford to trust our representatives to be surrounded by lobbyists without our active voices demanding some share of their time.

    And yet, we have allowed our politics to be “vote every 2-4 years along party lines, and trust that it will be fine.” We’re not doing just fine.