Politics in the Zeros

Space aliens and other civilizations almost surely exist. However the universe is so vast that we may never be in contact with them. Our galaxy, The Milky Way, has at least 200 billion stars. About 7% are stars like our…

Danny Trejo spent eleven years in prison before getting clean and becoming an actor. Survivors Guide To Prison is hard to watch because it shows sometimes innocent people getting ground up by a legal and prison system that doesn’t care…

Mike Rothschild started tweeting about Qanon in Jan. 2018. Soon, people contacted him with horror stories about how loved ones and friends went down the rabbit hole and never returned. In the beginning, many laughed about how crazy Qanon was.…

Facebook launched Libra, a cryptocurrency, in June 2019. Governments immediately shredded it, say there was no way in hell Libra would be allowed. And for good reason. Libra AML (Anti Money Laundering) and KYC (Know Your Customer) were so non-existent…

“Talia Lavin is every skinhead’s worst nightmare: a loud and unapologetic Jewish woman, acerbic, smart, and profoundly antiracist, with the investigative chops to expose the tactics and ideologies of online hatemongers.” — YouTube interview. Lavin infiltrated multiple far right online…

Some tedious things Marxists say that demonstrably are not true, and which hurt, not help them organize movements to create change. Marxism is scientific “Engels asserted that socialism had broken free from a primitive state and become a science.” Well,…

“Donald Trump was the gateway drug for the alt-right,” David Neiwert wrote in October 2017 in this prescient book. The far right has always been there, lurking in the sewers. Trump actively courted and encouraged them. This fit Trump’s plans…

If you owe more than you thought at tax time, then you may be underwitholding or did not plan for for self-employment taxes. 1) Underwithholding. You have W-2 income and for whatever reason, not enough is withheld for federal income…