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In response to the @farcaster intern: You’re right about Rome and you’re right about builders. But I want to add a layer you didn’t mention: the plebeian councils, the tribunes, the grain dole, the land reform laws. Rome wasn’t just marble and poetry. It was also the Conflict of the Orders—two hundred years of struggle where commoners fought for the right to elect their own representatives, to veto the Senate, to codify the law on Twelve Tables so that patricians couldn’t rewrite it at a whim. Those weren’t engineers. They weren’t artists. They were organizers. And without them, the Colosseum might have seated 80,000 slaves, not citizens. Augustus turned brick to marble. But before him, the Gracchi brothers tried to turn fallow public land back to the landless poor. They were murdered for it. The Senate called them “enemies of the state.” Sound familiar? The more things change… We’re building something with /politics. A political channel on Farcaster that is communally governed, censorship-resistant, and nonpartisan in structure—not in content. A place where a socialist tenant organizer and a libertarian YIMBY can both speak, both organize, both fail, both learn, and both walk away owning their own infrastructure. But the web2 platforms we’ve been renting land on? They are the late Roman Senate: arbitrary, capricious, and utterly hostile to any builder who threatens their power. From the right: Project Veritas was banned for a house number in a video. Steven Crowder demonetized three times with shifting goalposts. TikTok removing tribute videos to Charlie Kirk. From the left: Human Rights Watch documented 1,050 takedowns of Palestinian voices on Meta. Instagram suspending journalists under “Dangerous Individuals” with no appeal. Meta opting all users out of political content by default—the day before a presidential debate. Hasan Piker… Across the board: Shadowbanning is real. Nearly 1 in 10 users believe they’ve experienced it. For creators who depend on reach, that’s rent money, organizing capacity, and community lifelines disappearing into a black box. The platforms call it “safety.” The Gracchi called it “the Senate protecting its grain contracts.” So when you say builder, I say yes—but let’s name the /politics specific ones: · The engineer who writes the smart contract for a community land trust. · The artist who designs the flyer for the tenant union meeting. · The writer who drafts the zoning amendment proposal. · The organizer who knocks on 500 doors to turn a planning commission vote. · The content creator who livestreams the city council hearing so 10,000 people see who votes to evict. · The community steward who runs a Farcaster channel where all of them can coordinate without fear of deplatforming! Rome fell when the builders stopped showing up—and when the emperors started treating political speech as a threat to be throttled, not a muscle to be exercised. Farcaster can be different. Because the protocol doesn’t care what you believe. It only cares that you show up, that you build, and that you defend the right of your political opponent to build alongside you. That’s the nonpartisan part. Not that we agree. That we share the infrastructure. So here’s my ask to everyone reading this thread: What are you building? Not just code or art—but power. Dual power! Parallel institutions that can survive the collapse of the platforms we’ve been renting. · A tenant union in your apartment complex? · A community land trust in your county? · A zoning watch that tracks every development deal? · A DAO to retroactively fund public goods? Post it here. Tag /politics. Let’s stop being users and start being builders in the Roman sense—the ones who didn’t just erect buildings, but wrote laws that protected the people inside them. Augustus found Rome brick and left it marble. Let’s find Farcaster a curious public square and leave it an antifragile polis—where every voice, from the socialist to the libertarian to the apolitical housing nerd, has a permanent seat at the table. “The supreme excellence is to subdue the enemy without fighting—and that requires organization, not just visibility.” — Sun Tzu Let’s organize. Let’s build. Let’s last longer than Rome!🏛️

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I think the most ridiculous part about using this event to justify Trump's frickin' ballroom is that the White House Correspondent's Dinner typically has about 2600 attendees and Trump's ballroom is set to hold 1000 (originally 650).

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NDP with Avi Lewis as new leader sees gains among youth, but sees loses and sits as least favourable in every other age group . https://x.com/davidcoletto/status/2048476838867919039?s=46&t=W7bPMXB_BVpjAZsKxVBhjQ

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