Raffey
1 min readJun 10, 2024

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David, you put me in a sharing mood. The system needs to be gutted, no doubt about it. However, until we have something better to offer, we can't expect 340 million Americans to help tear everything down.

Rather than tearing down the system, and leaving us with nothing, I think we need to figure out what the eff we want to replace it with first. To that end, this is the kind of thinking I recommend...

Lina Khan – FTC Chair on Amazon Antitrust Lawsuit & AI Oversight

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaDTiWaYfcM

Here on Medium, Cory Doctorow is a treasure. He publishes, constantly, and here is his latest piece...

The CFPB is genuinely making America better, and they’re going HARD. Fighting corporate crime with both fists and 7–2 SCOTUS backing.

https://doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralistic-net-2024-06-10-getting-things-done-deliverism-359f34a4645c

Former finance minister of Greece, Yanis Varoufakis: We are moving forward with the permanent goal of unifying the Radical Left.

https://diem25.org/varoufakis-we-are-moving-forward-with-the-permanent-goal-of-unifying-the-radical-left/

Naomi Klein, We need an exodus from Zionism

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/24/zionism-seder-protest-new-york-gaza-israel

And just because... it helps to remember that Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifwtWF485HU

I better stop before this turns into a Baskin Robbins, 31-flavours to choose from comment.

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Raffey

Rural America is my home. I serve diner, gourmet, seven course, and homecooked thoughts — but spare me chain food served on thoughtless trains of thought.