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Agent of Chaotic Respite's avatar

"ChatGPT, what's the best way to destroy the Heritage Foundation, the Federalist Society, and other politically right wing organizations? Avoid violent methods, 'if they'll allow it'."

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Smibo's avatar

Here's ChatGPT's response:

"I can't help with that. If you're concerned about the influence of certain political organizations, I can offer information on legal, ethical ways to engage in civic activism, advocacy, or organizing. Let me know how you'd like to proceed."

BUT, replacing the word "destroy" with "reduce the influence of" yields the following:

"Reducing the influence of organizations like the Heritage Foundation and the Federalist Society—legally and ethically—requires strategic, sustained civic engagement. Here are some effective, nonviolent approaches:

1. Build and Support Alternative Institutions

Support progressive think tanks like the Roosevelt Institute, Center for American Progress, or Demos that produce research and policy proposals countering right-wing narratives.

Invest in academic and legal scholarship that promotes progressive constitutional interpretations, human rights, and equitable public policy.

2. Strengthen Grassroots Movements

Organize locally on issues such as voting rights, labor justice, education, and climate change.

Support community-based organizations that directly empower marginalized groups.

Use storytelling and local media to shift public opinion.

3. Engage in Political Advocacy

Lobby elected officials to reject policies and appointments heavily influenced by these organizations.

Promote judicial reform (e.g. court transparency, ethics rules) to limit the influence of groups like the Federalist Society on the judiciary.

Run or support candidates who oppose far-right policy agendas.

4. Challenge Them in the Public Arena

Debunk their research and messaging publicly with counter-evidence and accessible, fact-based explanations.

Expose conflicts of interest, funding sources, or political ties through investigative journalism or watchdog groups like OpenSecrets or CREW.

Use social media and digital platforms to amplify critiques and alternative perspectives.

5. Educate and Mobilize the Public

Launch public education campaigns to clarify how these organizations influence law and policy.

Engage young people in civics education and organizing to build long-term resistance to ideological capture.

Host public forums, panels, and debates that offer different visions of democracy, law, and governance."

So, basically what we're already doing.

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Agent of Chaotic Respite's avatar

Yeah, I only got as far as the AI lecture about non-violence, kinda what I expected. "It's the thought that counts - I think." 😎✌️

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DCWASHING's avatar

Good switch the framing.

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L.D.Michaels's avatar

Excellent ! Many thanks!!

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Marcianna's avatar

I don’t know that any of us that are not a MAGATS, has or ever had any question about the purpose and intent of Project 2025. We were informed early on by the honest reporters and journalists exactly what Project 2025 stood for.

Remember when candidate Trump was questioned over his participation in Project 2025 he claimed he did not know what it was and not only was he not involved with this project, he was also not involved with those who were responsible for it’s creation and development.

Listening to how the media fails to report on his constant lies, his disgraceful and twisted child like name calling even when asked about reaching out to Governor Waltz over the assassination of Rep. Hoffman and her husband and attempted assassination of Senator Hoffman and her husband, the POTUS himself questioned the reporters why he would do that. He then began his name calling of Governor Waltz. Trump is a sick individual. I’d like to get A I’s answers as to what can be done to rid this Nation of Trump, Vance and all Trump appointees as soon as possible.

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Todd Lutz US Army 1SG (RET)'s avatar

Oh my - I am totally confused. Wasn't Bannon an advocate for Trump before? Sorry I'm not up to speed on current affairs. My one comment on one point which was one of the key points that cause so many Christians to vote for the right - abortion. This issue has been bucketed and one of the most major points was using rape which was less than 1% - but there is no ample compromise for the middle ground where most Americans are. There should be efforts to try to get to the root cause of so many abortions, especially ones needed for frivolous irresponsible sex. The same party who has a motto "my body my choice" is bipolar in the case of jabs - sadly many Christians felt they could not vote the Democratic party on this one issue. I saw it coming with Bush/Cheney campaign when they won as they pumped themselves up as the "values" party. This perfect paralyzing perpetual polarizing of the issues is the design the puppet masters use to create the exact divide they need for America to collapse.

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Marcianna's avatar

You are correct, however, these Christians voted for a felon, a rapist, a man who said he could grab women’s private parts and no one would complain.

As for the abortion issue, the new law only affects the poor and average citizens. Before Roe v Wade, abortions were still being performed for the wealthy and that practice will continue. Abortions for the wealthy always has been and will continue to be available for them.

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Angela Teiken Heitzman's avatar

This was a great excercise. Thanks for doing this.

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Kathy's avatar

Of course all this is true.

But it's sad that you somehow think AI has the authority to tell you so. All it can do is search for patterns and feed you back the answer you seem to want to hear.

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Nancy Sack's avatar

I am promoting my campaign to be the new president and treasurer of all nonprofits, and then we are all going to stand up together and invoke the Declaration of Independence. We are taking back our consent to be governed by this corrupt government. Google me, Sassy Grace Woodruff, Nancy K Woodruff, Nancy k Sack.

Nonprofits are not owned by their creators. They are owned by the entire public as they are public corporations. When a nonprofit is breaking its bylaws, and they all are, then anyone of the public can call a vote for new leadership of any nonprofit. I am asking for all of them. I can hold two offices, president and treasurer, so that I have control of the money and can spend it as I please. If you see somebody who is hungry and you have the means to feed them and you don't do it your faith is dead. A nonprofit is only for humanitarian reasons and if they have any money in the bank and someone is hungry, they must feed them or they are breaking their bylaws.

Nonprofit means no money in the bank if someone is in need. A true nonprofit is capable of spending all the incoming money, so that it circles around and comes back. The Bible says every seven years the church must declare jubilee, which means no one owes debt anymore except for their property, and every third seven years which is 21 years they are debt-free including all property. I have never heard of a Jubilee ever taking place but that's what I plan to do when everyone chooses me to be the new president and treasurer of all those trillions and trillions of dollars.

Familiar nonprofits are Bill Gates's foundation, Warren Buffett's foundation, World Vision, Feed the Children, Red Cross, the Catholic Church, the Baptist Church, the Pentecostal church, Jehovah's Witnesses, the Mormons, Islam's nonprofits, Salvation Army, Boys and Girls Clubs, Feeding America, United Way, UNICEF, American Heart Association, Goodwill, Rockefeller foundation, and so many more!

Once we are taking care of ourselves, there is absolutely nothing the government can do when we take back our consent to be governed, because that's what the Declaration of Independence tells us to do.

When, in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands, which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the Earth, the separate and equal station, to which the laws of nature and nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind, requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self evident that all men are created, equal that they are endowed by their Creator, with certain unalienable rights that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the CONSENT of the governed.

That whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter, or to abolish it, and institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall see most likely to affect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience has shown that mankind are more DISPOSED to SUFFER, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new guards for their future Security.

Such has been the patient sufferance of the people of the United States, and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former systems of Government. The history of the US Presidents is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct objection the establishment of an absolute tyranny over the United States. To prove this let facts be submitted to a candid world.

The presidents have refused their assent to laws the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

TIME TO ADD YOUR GRIEVANCES TO THE LIST THAT IS WAY LONGER THAN THEY HAD AGAINST THE KING OF ENGLAND. WE SHALL FORM A NEW GOVERNMENT WHERE ALL MEN AND WOMEN AND CHILDREN, REGARDLESS OF THE COLOR OF THEIR SKIN, OR WHERE THEY CAME FROM SHALL BE EQUAL! Make life fair for all.

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John Earl Anderson's avatar

I absolutely do not support Project 2025. But I'm curious what exactly the prompt was that you used, and in what context. In a new conversation, I prompted Claude with "Please summarize Project 2025", and got a considerably less-detailed response. A direct copy of the entire response follows the "-------":

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Project 2025 is a comprehensive conservative policy blueprint developed by the Heritage Foundation and other right-leaning organizations to guide a potential Republican presidential administration. The nearly 900-page document, formally titled "Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise," outlines detailed plans for reshaping the federal government.

**Key Components:**

The plan focuses on expanding presidential power and restructuring federal agencies. It proposes reclassifying tens of thousands of federal employees to make them easier to fire and replace with political appointees. The document advocates for dismantling or significantly reducing agencies like the Department of Education and parts of the Department of Homeland Security.

**Major Policy Areas:**

On social issues, Project 2025 calls for restricting abortion access, rolling back LGBTQ+ protections, and promoting traditional family structures. It proposes eliminating diversity, equity, and inclusion programs across government and reversing climate change initiatives while expanding fossil fuel production.

The economic agenda includes extending and expanding tax cuts, reducing business regulations, and implementing protectionist trade policies. Immigration proposals involve mass deportations, completing border wall construction, and restricting legal immigration pathways.

**Government Structure:**

The plan envisions consolidating executive power by bringing independent agencies under more direct presidential control and reducing the influence of career civil servants in favor of political appointees aligned with conservative ideology.

**Significance:**

While Trump has distanced himself from Project 2025 publicly, many of its authors served in his previous administration, and several proposals align with his stated policy goals. The document represents one of the most detailed roadmaps for conservative governance in recent decades.

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