<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:googleplay="http://www.google.com/schemas/play-podcasts/1.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Unfucking The World]]></title><description><![CDATA[Join host Danielle Church on a real-life quest to return the United States to its People. We all know what the problem is... do you want to be part of the solution? 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If you&#8217;re uncomfortable with math or marketing, you might want to give this one a miss or at least have a strong drink ready. No judgment from me.</span></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHACWOXU7ww&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Watch on YouTube&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHACWOXU7ww"><span>Watch on YouTube</span></a></p><p><span>A month ago, I was fretting myself into a nervous wreck over the UTW launch, finishing the filming just three days before the premiere. I spent the final night before each video went live dotting the last i&#8217;s and crossing the last t&#8217;s. (Often literally, as adding the subtitles in English and Spanish is my last task before publishing.)</span></p><p><span>I&#8217;m pleased to report that I&#8217;m no longer fretting over the UTW launch.</span></p><p><span>To recap: our first objective as UTW is to ratify the </span><a href="https://utw.vote/explainer"><span>No Confidence Amendment</span></a><span>, which will serve as a reset for the United States Federal Government. The initial six articles, from </span><a href="https://substack.unfuckingtheworld.org/p/gotta-be-a-pony"><span>&#8220;There&#8217;s Gotta Be A Pony Somewhere&#8221;</span></a><span> to </span><a href="https://substack.unfuckingtheworld.org/p/you-are-not-alone"><span>&#8220;You Are Not Alone&#8221;</span></a><span>, describe what No Confidence entails and outline our overarching strategy. I published these six daily from June 29 to July 4.</span></p><p><span>I&#8217;m actually going to go back a bit further than that to start, though.</span></p><h2><span>The Origins of No Confidence</span></h2><p><span>When I initially drafted the No Confidence Amendment, it was more of a joke. Not because it was poorly made&#8212;though, in hindsight, it </span><em><span>was</span></em><span> laughably incomplete&#8212;but because I wasn&#8217;t genuinely serious about it. It was late 2025, and I was overwhelmed with anger, and I wanted to rip and tear the power away from these terrible leaders with no real understanding of what it truly means to be </span><em><span>American.</span></em></p><p><span>It was one of a pair; the other amendment I drafted was called No Kings, which provided more punishment to the expelled politicians than No Confidence did and does. The No Kings Amendment was little more than a revenge fantasy, but as I said, I was angry.</span></p><p><span>It was all just a fantasy, honestly. I had always stayed away from politics. When I mention the &#8220;silent majority&#8221; in America, that was me a year ago. (That&#8217;s why I&#8217;m not well-known.)</span></p><p><span>I couldn&#8217;t get No Confidence out of my head, though. I knew it was unlikely that it could ever be ratified, but I follow a personal rule: I&#8217;m not allowed to declare a task &#8220;impossible&#8221; until after I&#8217;ve given it at least one good honest try myself.</span></p><h3><span>A Good Honest Try</span></h3><p><span>So I put some effort into it. I cleaned up my rough draft. I emailed my state representative, which was probably the first time I&#8217;ve done that in my life. I was quite surprised when he responded immediately to arrange a meeting.</span></p><p><span>Something I never knew about political meetings: they&#8217;re never with just one person. In the corporate world, if two names are on a meeting list, then two people will be in the room (or on the Zoom). However, my meeting with my state legislator also included his aide and a part-time intern taking notes, and that was totally fine.</span></p><p><span>It&#8217;s not like I write UTW as a one-on-one dialogue because I get uncomfortable speaking to crowds or anything like that.</span></p><p><span>My friend, I expected the part where he told me he couldn&#8217;t personally help me with a Constitutional Amendment at that moment. What surprised me was when he added, &#8220;&#8230;but let me get you some contact details for our district&#8217;s Representative in the House.&#8221;</span></p><p><span>I don&#8217;t get to claim something is impossible until I&#8217;ve given it a good honest try. I scheduled a meeting.</span></p><p><span>I wasn&#8217;t caught off-guard by the additional people in the room this time. And this time, I was paying closer attention. When they said, &#8220;We can&#8217;t help you,&#8221; I couldn&#8217;t shake the feeling like what they truly meant was exactly that: &#8220;We can&#8217;t help you.&#8221;</span></p><p><span>Not &#8220;won&#8217;t&#8221;. </span><em><span>Can&#8217;t.</span></em><span> That part is very similar to a lesson I learned in the corporate world, the rule of the status quo: </span><strong><span>those with power have little freedom, and those with freedom have little power</span></strong><span>.</span></p><p><span>Nothing I saw in those rooms suggested that any of those people </span><em><span>wouldn&#8217;t</span></em><span> jump at a real opportunity to challenge the current status quo. What I saw was that they simply could not risk it in the present political climate, certainly not without having any sort of assurance that it was what America truly wanted.</span></p><p><span>But there is another way to make a difference in America, isn&#8217;t there? It&#8217;s rare, but sometimes a grassroots movement hits the perfect tone for the moment, and suddenly it&#8217;s all anyone is talking about.</span></p><p><span>It&#8217;s a laughable idea. You can&#8217;t plan for popularity any more than you can plan to win the lottery. And if </span><em><span>anyone</span></em><span> could do it, it wouldn&#8217;t be someone like me. It was essentially impossible.</span></p><p><span>I just wasn&#8217;t allowed to call it </span><em><span>completely</span></em><span> impossible. Unless.</span></p><h2><span>Striking the Right Note</span></h2><p><span>I registered the domain </span><strong><span>unfuckingtheworld.org</span></strong><span> on April 6.</span></p><p><span>The name is an homage to a blog I followed some time ago called </span><em><a href="https://www.unfuckyourhabitat.com/"><span>Unfuck Your Habitat</span></a><span>,</span></em><span> or UfYH. Before I discovered UfYH, I never considered cleaning worthwhile unless I had the time and energy to do it properly. After all, if you clean your room but it&#8217;s still messy afterward, you can&#8217;t really be said to have </span><em><span>cleaned</span></em><span> it, can you?</span></p><p><span>It shouldn&#8217;t have been such an epiphany to be told, &#8220;if your living space is a complete disaster, addressing only the worst bits until it&#8217;s only an utter mess is an improvement,&#8221; but it really was. The idea of </span><em><span>to unfuck</span></em><span> has been enshrined for me ever since as, &#8220;to tackle the most urgent and severe issues first, creating space to deal with everything else.&#8221;</span></p><p><span>(And when I was a young adult utterly failing to keep my living space under control, it didn&#8217;t really seem fitting to use a verb as gentle as &#8220;clean&#8221; or &#8220;tidy&#8221; for what felt more like an excavation project.)</span></p><p><span>Right now, that&#8217;s all I really want. I&#8217;m no politician. I&#8217;m not trying to join the debate over what the very best solutions are. I just want us all to stop yelling at each other long enough to put the fire out before the whole house burns down.</span></p><p><span>My plan was that I&#8217;d put those first six articles out, they&#8217;d go relatively unnoticed, and then I could quietly take myself back off the Internet. I could then convince myself that I&#8217;d done </span><em><span>literally</span></em><span> everything possible, after which I could abandon the No Confidence idea and go back to writing my novel.</span></p><p><span>In order to say that I&#8217;d given it an </span><em><span>honest</span></em><span> try, though, I had to pull out all the stops. I commissioned a gorgeous website which now lives at </span><a href="https://utw.vote/"><span>UTW.vote</span></a><span>, since I have very little design sense to speak of. I have little audio and no video experience, so the podcast and video versions of UTW are professionally-done too.</span></p><p><span>Ultimately, if UTW fails, I don&#8217;t ever want to wonder, &#8220;but what if I&#8217;d also tried&#8230;?&#8221;</span></p><p><span>This means I&#8217;m also purchasing ads to spread the word. During launch week, I mainly bought text ads on Google and Facebook. Now that UTW is in video form too, I&#8217;ve begun creating short teaser videos for every new article, each around a minute long, with no profanity to make them easier to share and suitable for advertising.</span></p><p><span>I didn&#8217;t realize at the time just how useful that would become later.</span></p><h3><span>The Quietest Echo</span></h3><p><span>It&#8217;s not an ideal time to be involved in American politics, is it? We&#8217;re all feeling afraid, partly because we know that the law no longer offers protection. The modern era also provides other dangers that come with speaking out online on any topic, threatening employment, housing, and other critical necessities.</span></p><p><span>Part of this is also because so much data is constantly being gathered about us. A comment on YouTube can get harvested for intent and then sold to you as a product on Etsy the very same day. We have all become more cautious about what information we reveal about ourselves online.</span></p><p><span>I don&#8217;t receive many public comments on UTW articles so far, but that doesn&#8217;t imply the message isn&#8217;t resonating.</span></p><p><span>Did you know that when you watch a video online, the creator can see which parts you skipped over or replayed? Not you personally, but the audience as a whole. It&#8217;s called </span><em><span>audience retention,</span></em><span> usually shown as a line graph indicating how many viewers are still watching at any given point in the video.</span></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8OFT!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd42329e4-65b1-4a1c-92e9-4afd5ad159b6_801x616.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8OFT!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd42329e4-65b1-4a1c-92e9-4afd5ad159b6_801x616.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8OFT!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd42329e4-65b1-4a1c-92e9-4afd5ad159b6_801x616.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8OFT!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd42329e4-65b1-4a1c-92e9-4afd5ad159b6_801x616.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8OFT!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd42329e4-65b1-4a1c-92e9-4afd5ad159b6_801x616.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8OFT!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd42329e4-65b1-4a1c-92e9-4afd5ad159b6_801x616.png" width="801" height="616" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/d42329e4-65b1-4a1c-92e9-4afd5ad159b6_801x616.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:616,&quot;width&quot;:801,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8OFT!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd42329e4-65b1-4a1c-92e9-4afd5ad159b6_801x616.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8OFT!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd42329e4-65b1-4a1c-92e9-4afd5ad159b6_801x616.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8OFT!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd42329e4-65b1-4a1c-92e9-4afd5ad159b6_801x616.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8OFT!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd42329e4-65b1-4a1c-92e9-4afd5ad159b6_801x616.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p><span>Since this was all quite new to me, I had no basis for comparison when I told my friend how nice it was that about a quarter of my audience watched through to the outro of each video. I assumed 25% was likely on the low side. After all, why bother clicking on a video if you&#8217;re not going to watch it through to the end?</span></p><p><span>My friend informed me that for new channels nobody knows about, the typical retention rate for long-form videos is about 5%.</span></p><p><span>The retention graph for each UTW video looks similar: a swift decline at the start, as viewers decide whether or not to continue watching, followed by a relatively flat line for the rest of the video. Those who stay for more than a minute or two generally watch until the end. Apparently, in the world of online video, this is Doing Numbers.</span></p><p><span>It still doesn&#8217;t </span><em><span>sound </span></em><span>impressive though, does it? After all, these are people who clicked on the video&#8212;whether by accident or intentionally&#8212;and only one in four chose to watch all the way through. Then again, I have certainly ever decided that 10 minutes is just a little more time than I want to spend watching a video essay, even if I enjoy the presenter. There are countless reasons to choose to watch or skip a video.</span></p><p><span>Then I started getting numbers back on the ads.</span></p><p><span>The UTW teasers are appearing as preroll ads on YouTube and elsewhere, and the retention rates (called &#8220;view-through rates&#8221; in the ad industry) are astonishing even to me. Approximately 60% of viewers are watching the full minute-long ad instead of skipping after six seconds.</span></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zTy7!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcee38629-9db7-4758-a95f-9ac299d72470_803x611.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zTy7!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcee38629-9db7-4758-a95f-9ac299d72470_803x611.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zTy7!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcee38629-9db7-4758-a95f-9ac299d72470_803x611.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zTy7!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcee38629-9db7-4758-a95f-9ac299d72470_803x611.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zTy7!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcee38629-9db7-4758-a95f-9ac299d72470_803x611.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zTy7!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcee38629-9db7-4758-a95f-9ac299d72470_803x611.png" width="803" height="611" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/cee38629-9db7-4758-a95f-9ac299d72470_803x611.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:611,&quot;width&quot;:803,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zTy7!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcee38629-9db7-4758-a95f-9ac299d72470_803x611.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zTy7!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcee38629-9db7-4758-a95f-9ac299d72470_803x611.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zTy7!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcee38629-9db7-4758-a95f-9ac299d72470_803x611.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zTy7!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcee38629-9db7-4758-a95f-9ac299d72470_803x611.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p><span>They&#8217;re all performing like that; all but one of them, in which I ask the viewer to avoid thinking of other Americans as their enemies. That was apparently quite an unpopular point of view; only </span><em><span>four</span></em><span> of every ten viewers kept watching through to the end, not six. Bad news for anyone whose religion teaches &#8220;love thy enemies&#8221;, I suppose.</span></p><h2><span>Growth Curves</span></h2><p><span>I&#8217;m not na&#239;ve enough to think that a movement can be built solely on advertising. For one thing, I don&#8217;t have unlimited funds. I&#8217;m just one person. More crucially, though, advertising offers diminishing returns. There&#8217;s a limited pool of people I can reach through ads, and the longer they run, the higher the chance that people will have already seen them.</span></p><p><span>That&#8217;s okay. The ads are just a stopgap measure anyway; they&#8217;re wildly ineffective compared with personal recommendations. Substack doesn&#8217;t have paid ads the way Facebook and YouTube do; that&#8217;s one of the reasons I chose it for UTW in the first place.</span></p><p><span>That has made my subscriber count extremely predictable. When I have the energy for social media, and I post or comment about UTW, it gains more subscribers. On days when I don&#8217;t, it generally doesn&#8217;t.</span></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!TC0v!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd7461d2e-8564-479d-b106-826cef8ae3f8_1100x682.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!TC0v!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd7461d2e-8564-479d-b106-826cef8ae3f8_1100x682.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!TC0v!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd7461d2e-8564-479d-b106-826cef8ae3f8_1100x682.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!TC0v!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd7461d2e-8564-479d-b106-826cef8ae3f8_1100x682.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!TC0v!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd7461d2e-8564-479d-b106-826cef8ae3f8_1100x682.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!TC0v!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd7461d2e-8564-479d-b106-826cef8ae3f8_1100x682.png" width="1100" height="682" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/d7461d2e-8564-479d-b106-826cef8ae3f8_1100x682.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:682,&quot;width&quot;:1100,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!TC0v!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd7461d2e-8564-479d-b106-826cef8ae3f8_1100x682.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!TC0v!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd7461d2e-8564-479d-b106-826cef8ae3f8_1100x682.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!TC0v!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd7461d2e-8564-479d-b106-826cef8ae3f8_1100x682.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!TC0v!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd7461d2e-8564-479d-b106-826cef8ae3f8_1100x682.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p><span>You can practically track the amount of spare energy I had for interaction over the past few months by looking at the Substack subscriber curve. Before the launch, I was promoting UTW every day&#8212;through comments, in person, in DMs. Not a single day went by without UTW gaining at least one new subscriber, averaging to about three new subscribers per day.</span></p><p><span>Once launch week began on June 29, all my energy went to ensuring each article and episode was published on schedule. I had nothing left for promotion, and so UTW stopped attracting new subscribers until the July 4 conclusion. Afterward, I spent a few more days talking up UTW&#8212;but with all the content now available, the same effort gained new subscribers at a rate of around </span><em><span>ten</span></em><span> per day.</span></p><p><span>(Then I fell over for a few weeks, because I&#8217;d been burning the candle at both ends for three months straight.)</span></p><p><span>That&#8217;s what happens when only </span><em><span>one</span></em><span> person promotes UTW, and that actually hasn&#8217;t been the case for a little while now. I get a notification whenever someone links to a UTW article, and the new subscriber notification doesn&#8217;t generally take long to follow.</span></p><p><span>In my own experience and from watching others, it&#8217;s really easy to get people excited about UTW in one-on-one interactions. As more people learn about UTW, there will be more people willing to talk about it, both in public and in private. As the number of subscribers goes up, the rate of new subscribers will increase as well, in the social media equivalent of compound interest.</span></p><p><span>That means that, while it&#8217;s likely to keep being overshadowed by my own networking and advertising efforts for a few weeks yet still, UTW&#8217;s subscriber count is now beginning to exhibit an exponential growth curve.</span></p><p><span>So that&#8217;s pretty neat.</span></p><h2><span>Next Time</span></h2><p><span>I hope this encourages you to share the message, my friend. Just keep in mind: about 60% of Americans who see me discuss removing our government voluntarily prefer to keep listening to me rather than switch to what they were going to watch, when given the choice. This isn&#8217;t limited to just one political party.</span></p><p><span>I&#8217;m going to take a little break from talking about No Confidence next week. You and I both understand how important it is, but being important doesn&#8217;t change the fact that it will take time for us to gather the support we need.</span></p><p><span>For now, my friend: keep fighting, and stay safe.</span></p><div><hr></div><p><em><span>Thank you for spreading the word! I never expected we&#8217;d get even as far as we have, and I&#8217;m excited to see how far we&#8217;ll go.</span></em></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://substack.unfuckingtheworld.org/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://substack.unfuckingtheworld.org/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p><em><span>Be sure and subscribe and </span><a href="https://substack.unfuckingtheworld.org/account"><span>check your notification settings</span></a><span> if you want to stay informed about UTW and No Confidence, and I&#8217;d really appreciate if you hit the like button so I know I&#8217;m on the right track.</span></em></p><p><em><span>UTW is for Americans who love our country enough to argue with it. I welcome your uncertainty, your cynicism, and your skepticism in the comments; all that I ask is your good faith.</span></em></p><p><em><span>Share this with someone you know who thinks this could never work, and stay safe.</span></em></p><p><em><span>&#8211;Danielle</span></em></p><p style="text-align: center;"><em>Este art&#237;culo tambi&#233;n esta disponible <a href="https://substack.unfuckingtheworld.org/p/como-comienza-un-movimiento">en espa&#241;ol</a>.</em></p><p><sub>[https://youtu.be/oHACWOXU7ww]</sub></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cómo Comienza Un Movimiento]]></title><description><![CDATA[Una historia prematura e incompleta de la Enmienda No Confidence | Escucha ahora (19 mins)]]></description><link>https://substack.unfuckingtheworld.org/p/como-comienza-un-movimiento</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://substack.unfuckingtheworld.org/p/como-comienza-un-movimiento</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Danielle Church]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 15:59:11 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/209323936/d2ce3b3e01145793673541fbecc1e5a8.mp3" length="0" type="audio/mpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<h2><span>Bienvenido, mi amigo.</span></h2><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHACWOXU7ww&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Ve en YouTube&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHACWOXU7ww"><span>Ve en YouTube</span></a></p><p><span>Voy a correr un poco la cortina en este. Si te sientes inc&#243;modo con las matem&#225;ticas o el marketing, quiz&#225;s quieras saltarte este o al menos tener una bebida fuerte lista. Sin juicio de mi parte.</span></p><p><span>Hace un mes, me estaba preocupando hasta convertirme en un desastre nervioso por el lanzamiento de UTW, terminando la filmaci&#243;n solo tres d&#237;as antes del estreno. Pas&#233; la noche final antes de que cada video se publicara poniendo los &#250;ltimos puntos sobre las &#237;es y cruzando las &#250;ltimas t&#233;s. (A menudo literalmente, ya que agregar los subt&#237;tulos en ingl&#233;s y espa&#241;ol es mi &#250;ltima tarea antes de publicar.)</span></p><p><span>Me complace informar que ya no me preocupo por el lanzamiento de UTW.</span></p><p><span>Para recapitular: nuestro primer objetivo como UTW es ratificar la </span><a href="https://utw.vote/explainer"><span>Enmienda No Confidence</span></a><span>, que servir&#225; como un reinicio para el Gobierno Federal de los Estados Unidos. Los seis art&#237;culos iniciales, desde &#8220;</span><a href="https://substack.unfuckingtheworld.org/p/tiene-que-haber-un-pony"><span>Tiene Que Haber Un Pony En Alg&#250;n Lugar</span></a><span>&#8221; hasta &#8220;</span><a href="https://substack.unfuckingtheworld.org/p/no-estas-solo"><span>No Est&#225;s Solo</span></a><span>&#8221;, describen lo que implica No Confidence y esbozan nuestra estrategia general. Publiqu&#233; estos seis diariamente del 29 de junio al 4 de julio.</span></p><p><span>En realidad, voy a retroceder un poco m&#225;s que eso para empezar, sin embargo.</span></p><h2><span>Los Or&#237;genes de No Confidence</span></h2><p><span>Cuando inicialmente redact&#233; la Enmienda No Confidence, era m&#225;s una broma. No porque estuviera mal hecha&#8212;aunque, en retrospectiva, </span><em><span>era</span></em><span> rid&#237;culamente incompleta&#8212;sino porque no estaba genuinamente seria al respecto. Era finales de 2025, y estaba abrumada de ira, y quer&#237;a arrancar y destrozar el poder de estos l&#237;deres terribles sin un entendimiento real de lo que realmente significa ser </span><em><span>estadounidense.</span></em></p><p><span>Era una de un par; la otra enmienda que redact&#233; se llamaba No Kings, que proporcionaba m&#225;s castigo a los pol&#237;ticos expulsados de lo que No Confidence hac&#237;a y hace. La Enmienda No Kings era poco m&#225;s que una fantas&#237;a de venganza, pero como dije, estaba enojada.</span></p><p><span>Todo era solo una fantas&#237;a, honestamente. Siempre me hab&#237;a mantenido alejado de la pol&#237;tica. Cuando menciono la &#8220;mayor&#237;a silenciosa&#8221; en Am&#233;rica, ese era yo hace un a&#241;o. (Es por eso que no soy bien conocida.)</span></p><p><span>No pod&#237;a sacarme No Confidence de la cabeza, sin embargo. Sab&#237;a que era improbable que alguna vez pudiera ser ratificada, pero sigo una regla personal: no se me permite declarar una tarea &#8220;imposible&#8221; hasta despu&#233;s de haberle dado al menos un buen intento honesto yo mismo.</span></p><h3><span>Un Buen Intento Honesto</span></h3><p><span>As&#237; que puse algo de esfuerzo en ello. Limpi&#233; mi borrador rough. Envi&#233; un correo electr&#243;nico a mi representante estatal, que probablemente fue la primera vez que he hecho eso en mi vida. Me sorprendi&#243; bastante cuando respondi&#243; inmediatamente para organizar una reuni&#243;n.</span></p><p><span>Algo que nunca supe sobre las reuniones pol&#237;ticas: nunca son con solo una persona. En el mundo corporativo, si dos nombres est&#225;n en una lista de reuni&#243;n, entonces dos personas estar&#225;n en la sala (o en el Zoom). Sin embargo, mi reuni&#243;n con mi legislador estatal tambi&#233;n incluy&#243; a su asistente y a un interno a tiempo parcial tomando notas, y eso estuvo totalmente bien.</span></p><p><span>No es que escriba UTW como un di&#225;logo uno a uno porque me sienta inc&#243;modo hablando a multitudes o algo as&#237;.</span></p><p><span>Mi amigo, esperaba la parte en la que me dijera que no pod&#237;a ayudarme personalmente con una Enmienda Constitucional en ese momento. Lo que me sorprendi&#243; fue cuando agreg&#243;, &#8220;&#8230;pero d&#233;jame darte algunos detalles de contacto del Representante de nuestro distrito en la C&#225;mara.&#8221;</span></p><p><span>No puedo reclamar que algo es imposible hasta que le haya dado un buen intento honesto. Program&#233; una reuni&#243;n.</span></p><p><span>No me tom&#243; por sorpresa la gente adicional en la sala esta vez. Y esta vez, estaba prestando m&#225;s atenci&#243;n. Cuando dijeron, &#8220;No podemos ayudarte,&#8221; no pude sacudirme la sensaci&#243;n de que lo que realmente quer&#237;an decir era exactamente eso: &#8220;No podemos ayudarte.&#8221;</span></p><p><span>No &#8220;no queremos&#8221;. No </span><em><span>podemos.</span></em><span> Esa parte es muy similar a una lecci&#243;n que aprend&#237; en el mundo corporativo, la regla del status quo: </span><strong><span>aquellos con poder tienen poca libertad, y aquellos con libertad tienen poco poder</span></strong><span>.</span></p><p><span>Nada de lo que vi en esas salas sugiri&#243; que cualquiera de esas personas no saltar&#237;a ante una oportunidad real de desafiar el status quo actual. Lo que vi fue que simplemente no pod&#237;an arriesgarse en el clima pol&#237;tico presente, ciertamente no sin tener alg&#250;n tipo de aseguranza de que era lo que Am&#233;rica realmente quer&#237;a.</span></p><p><span>Pero hay otra forma de hacer una diferencia en Am&#233;rica, &#191;no es as&#237;? Es rara, pero a veces un movimiento de base golpea el tono perfecto para el momento, y de repente es de lo &#250;nico de lo que todos hablan.</span></p><p><span>Es una idea rid&#237;cula. No puedes planear la popularidad m&#225;s de lo que puedes planear ganar la loter&#237;a. Y si </span><em><span>alguien</span></em><span> pudiera hacerlo, no ser&#237;a alguien como yo. Era esencialmente imposible.</span></p><p><span>Solo no se me permit&#237;a llamarlo </span><em><span>completamente</span></em><span> imposible. A menos.</span></p><h2><span>Golpeando la Nota Correcta</span></h2><p><span>Registr&#233; el dominio </span><strong><span>unfuckingtheworld.org</span></strong><span> el 6 de abril.</span></p><p><span>El nombre es un homenaje a un blog que segu&#237; hace alg&#250;n tiempo llamado </span><em><span>Unfuck Your Habitat,</span></em><span> o UfYH. Antes de descubrir UfYH, nunca consider&#233; limpiar valioso a menos que tuviera el tiempo y la energ&#237;a para hacerlo adecuadamente. Despu&#233;s de todo, si limpias tu habitaci&#243;n pero todav&#237;a est&#225; desordenada despu&#233;s, no se puede decir realmente que la hayas </span><em><span>limpiado,</span></em><span> &#191;verdad?</span></p><p><span>No deber&#237;a haber sido tal epifan&#237;a que me dijeran, &#8220;si tu espacio vital es un desastre completo, abordar solo las peores partes hasta que sea solo un completo l&#237;o es una mejora,&#8221; pero realmente lo fue. La idea de </span><em><span>unfuck</span></em><span> ha sido consagrada para m&#237; desde entonces como, &#8220;abordar los problemas m&#225;s urgentes y severos primero, creando espacio para lidiar con todo lo dem&#225;s.&#8221;</span></p><p><span>(Y cuando era un adulta joven fallando completamente en mantener mi espacio vital bajo control, realmente no parec&#237;a adecuado usar un verbo tan suave como &#8220;limpiar&#8221; o &#8220;ordenar&#8221; para lo que se sent&#237;a m&#225;s como un proyecto de excavaci&#243;n.)</span></p><p><span>Ahora mismo, eso es todo lo que realmente quiero. No soy pol&#237;tica. No estoy tratando de unirme al debate sobre cu&#225;les son las mejores soluciones. Solo quiero que todos dejemos de gritarnos el uno al otro el tiempo suficiente para apagar el fuego antes de que toda la casa se queme.</span></p><p><span>Mi plan era que publicar&#237;a esos primeros seis art&#237;culos, pasar&#237;an relativamente desapercibidos, y entonces podr&#237;a quitarme discretamente de Internet. Entonces podr&#237;a convencerme de que hab&#237;a hecho </span><em><span>literalmente</span></em><span> todo lo posible, despu&#233;s de lo cual podr&#237;a abandonar la idea de No Confidence y volver a escribir mi novela.</span></p><p><span>Para poder decir que le hab&#237;a dado un intento </span><em><span>honesto</span></em><span>, sin embargo, ten&#237;a que sacar todos los stops. Comision&#233; un hermoso sitio web que ahora vive en </span><a href="https://utw.vote/"><span>UTW.vote</span></a><span>, ya que tengo muy poco sentido del dise&#241;o de lo que se diga. Tengo poca experiencia de audio y ninguna de video, as&#237; que las versiones de podcast y video de UTW tambi&#233;n est&#225;n hechas profesionalmente.</span></p><p><span>En &#250;ltima instancia, si UTW falla, nunca quiero preguntarme, &#8220;&#191;pero y si tambi&#233;n hubiera intentado&#8230;?&#8221;</span></p><p><span>Esto significa que tambi&#233;n estoy comprando anuncios para difundir la palabra. Durante la semana de lanzamiento, principalmente compr&#233; anuncios de texto en Google y Facebook. Ahora que UTW tambi&#233;n est&#225; en forma de video, he comenzado a crear videos teaser cortos para cada nuevo art&#237;culo, cada uno de alrededor de un minuto de duraci&#243;n, sin profanidad para hacerlos m&#225;s f&#225;ciles de compartir y adecuados para publicidad.</span></p><p><span>No me di cuenta en ese momento de cu&#225;n &#250;til se volver&#237;a eso m&#225;s tarde.</span></p><h3><span>El Eco M&#225;s Silencioso</span></h3><p><span>No es un momento ideal para involucrarse en la pol&#237;tica estadounidense, &#191;verdad? Todos nos sentimos temerosos, en parte porque sabemos que la ley ya no ofrece protecci&#243;n. La era moderna tambi&#233;n proporciona otros peligros que vienen con hablar en l&#237;nea sobre cualquier tema, amenazando el empleo, la vivienda y otras necesidades cr&#237;ticas.</span></p><p><span>Parte de esto tambi&#233;n es porque se est&#225; recopilando constantemente tanta data sobre nosotros. Un comentario en YouTube puede ser cosechado por intenci&#243;n y luego vendido a ti como un producto en Etsy el mismo d&#237;a. Todos nos hemos vuelto m&#225;s cautelosos sobre qu&#233; informaci&#243;n revelamos sobre nosotros mismos.</span></p><p><span>No recibo muchos comentarios p&#250;blicos en los art&#237;culos de UTW hasta ahora, pero eso no implica que el mensaje no est&#233; resonando.</span></p><p><span>&#191;Sab&#237;as que cuando ves un video en l&#237;nea, el creador puede ver qu&#233; partes saltaste o repetiste? No t&#250; personalmente, sino la audiencia como un todo. Se llama </span><em><span>retenci&#243;n de audiencia</span></em><span>, usualmente mostrada como un gr&#225;fico de l&#237;nea que indica cu&#225;ntos espectadores todav&#237;a est&#225;n viendo en cualquier punto dado del video.</span></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!e28W!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F374b8d7c-1091-4027-b15a-864a92c14cca_801x616.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!e28W!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F374b8d7c-1091-4027-b15a-864a92c14cca_801x616.png 424w, 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y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p><span>Como todo esto era bastante nuevo para m&#237;, no ten&#237;a base de comparaci&#243;n cuando le dije a mi amiga lo agradable que era que alrededor de un cuarto de mi audiencia viera hasta el outro de cada video. Asum&#237; que el 25% probablemente estaba en el lado bajo. Despu&#233;s de todo, &#191;para qu&#233; molestarse en hacer clic en un video si no vas a verlo hasta el final?</span></p><p><span>Mi amiga me inform&#243; que para canales nuevos que nadie conoce, la tasa de retenci&#243;n t&#237;pica para videos de formato largo es de alrededor del 5%.</span></p><p><span>El gr&#225;fico de retenci&#243;n para cada video de UTW se ve similar: una declinaci&#243;n r&#225;pida al inicio, mientras los espectadores deciden si continuar viendo o no, seguida de una l&#237;nea relativamente plana para el resto del video. Aquellos que se quedan por m&#225;s de un minuto o dos generalmente ven hasta el final. Aparentemente, en el mundo del video en l&#237;nea, esto es Haciendo N&#250;meros.</span></p><p><span>Todav&#237;a no suena impresionante, sin embargo, &#191;verdad? Despu&#233;s de todo, estas son personas que hicieron clic en el video&#8212;ya sea por accidente o intencionalmente&#8212;y solo uno de cada cuatro eligi&#243; ver todo el camino. Entonces de nuevo, yo ciertamente he decidido alguna vez que 10 minutos es solo un poco m&#225;s de tiempo del que quiero gastar viendo un ensayo en video, incluso si disfruto del presentador. Hay incontables razones para elegir ver o saltar un video.</span></p><p><span>Entonces comenc&#233; a recibir n&#250;meros de los anuncios.</span></p><p><span>Los teasers de UTW est&#225;n apareciendo como anuncios preroll en YouTube y en otros lugares, y las tasas de retenci&#243;n (llamadas &#8220;tasas de view-through&#8221; en la industria de los anuncios) son asombrosas incluso para m&#237;. Aproximadamente el 60% de los espectadores est&#225;n viendo el anuncio completo de un minuto en lugar de saltarlo despu&#233;s de seis segundos.</span></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Drwn!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5fc18d10-8d74-4610-98c0-53ffe0817e4d_803x611.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Drwn!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5fc18d10-8d74-4610-98c0-53ffe0817e4d_803x611.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Drwn!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5fc18d10-8d74-4610-98c0-53ffe0817e4d_803x611.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Drwn!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5fc18d10-8d74-4610-98c0-53ffe0817e4d_803x611.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Drwn!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5fc18d10-8d74-4610-98c0-53ffe0817e4d_803x611.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Drwn!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5fc18d10-8d74-4610-98c0-53ffe0817e4d_803x611.png" width="803" height="611" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/5fc18d10-8d74-4610-98c0-53ffe0817e4d_803x611.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:611,&quot;width&quot;:803,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Drwn!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5fc18d10-8d74-4610-98c0-53ffe0817e4d_803x611.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Drwn!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5fc18d10-8d74-4610-98c0-53ffe0817e4d_803x611.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Drwn!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5fc18d10-8d74-4610-98c0-53ffe0817e4d_803x611.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Drwn!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5fc18d10-8d74-4610-98c0-53ffe0817e4d_803x611.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p><span>Todos est&#225;n desempe&#241;&#225;ndose as&#237;; todos excepto uno de ellos, en el que le pido al espectador que evite pensar en otros estadounidenses como sus enemigos. Eso aparentemente fue un punto de vista bastante impopular; solo cuatro de cada diez espectadores siguieron viendo hasta el final, no seis. Malas noticias para cualquiera cuya religi&#243;n ense&#241;e &#8220;ama a tus enemigos&#8221;, supongo.</span></p><h2><span>Curvas de Crecimiento</span></h2><p><span>No soy lo suficientemente ingenua como para pensar que un movimiento puede construirse &#250;nicamente sobre publicidad. Por una cosa, no tengo fondos ilimitados. Soy solo una persona. M&#225;s crucialmente, sin embargo, la publicidad ofrece retornos decrecientes. Hay un pool limitado de personas a las que puedo alcanzar a trav&#233;s de anuncios, y cuanto m&#225;s tiempo corren, mayor es la chance de que la gente ya los haya visto.</span></p><p><span>Eso est&#225; bien. Los anuncios son solo una medida de stopgap de todos modos; son salvajemente inefectivos comparados con las recomendaciones personales. Substack no tiene anuncios pagados de la forma en que Facebook y YouTube s&#237;; esa es una de las razones por las que lo eleg&#237; para UTW en primer lugar.</span></p><p><span>Eso ha hecho que mi conteo de suscriptores sea extremadamente predecible. Cuando tengo la energ&#237;a para las redes sociales, y publico o comento sobre UTW, gana m&#225;s suscriptores. En los d&#237;as en que no, generalmente no.</span></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zlnC!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7504fa6e-f203-4b70-9072-542f79110699_1100x682.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zlnC!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7504fa6e-f203-4b70-9072-542f79110699_1100x682.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zlnC!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7504fa6e-f203-4b70-9072-542f79110699_1100x682.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zlnC!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7504fa6e-f203-4b70-9072-542f79110699_1100x682.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zlnC!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7504fa6e-f203-4b70-9072-542f79110699_1100x682.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zlnC!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7504fa6e-f203-4b70-9072-542f79110699_1100x682.png" width="1100" height="682" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/7504fa6e-f203-4b70-9072-542f79110699_1100x682.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:682,&quot;width&quot;:1100,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zlnC!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7504fa6e-f203-4b70-9072-542f79110699_1100x682.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zlnC!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7504fa6e-f203-4b70-9072-542f79110699_1100x682.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zlnC!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7504fa6e-f203-4b70-9072-542f79110699_1100x682.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zlnC!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7504fa6e-f203-4b70-9072-542f79110699_1100x682.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p><span>Puedes pr&#225;cticamente rastrear la cantidad de energ&#237;a sobrante que tuve para la interacci&#243;n durante los &#250;ltimos meses mirando la curva de suscriptores de Substack. Antes del lanzamiento, estaba promoviendo UTW todos los d&#237;as&#8212;a trav&#233;s de comentarios, en persona, en DMs. No pas&#243; un solo d&#237;a sin que UTW ganara al menos un nuevo suscriptor, promediando alrededor de tres nuevos suscriptores por d&#237;a.</span></p><p><span>Una vez que comenz&#243; la semana de lanzamiento el 29 de junio, toda mi energ&#237;a se fue a asegurar que cada art&#237;culo y episodio se publicara a tiempo. No me qued&#243; nada para promoci&#243;n, y as&#237; UTW dej&#243; de atraer nuevos suscriptores hasta la conclusi&#243;n del 4 de julio. Despu&#233;s, pas&#233; unos d&#237;as m&#225;s hablando de UTW&#8212;pero con todo el contenido ahora disponible, el mismo esfuerzo gan&#243; nuevos suscriptores a una tasa de alrededor de </span><em><span>diez</span></em><span> por d&#237;a.</span></p><p><span>(Entonces me ca&#237; por unas pocas semanas, porque hab&#237;a estado quemando la vela por ambos extremos durante tres meses seguidos.)</span></p><p><span>Eso es lo que pasa cuando solo </span><em><span>una</span></em><span> persona promueve UTW, y eso en realidad no ha sido el caso por un poco de tiempo ahora. Recibo una notificaci&#243;n cada vez que alguien enlaza a un art&#237;culo de UTW, y la notificaci&#243;n de nuevo suscriptor generalmente no tarda mucho en seguir.</span></p><p><span>En mi propia experiencia y de observar a otros, es realmente f&#225;cil emocionar a la gente sobre UTW en interacciones uno a uno. A medida que m&#225;s personas aprenden sobre UTW, habr&#225; m&#225;s personas dispuestas a hablar de ello, tanto en p&#250;blico como en privado. A medida que el n&#250;mero de suscriptores sube, la tasa de nuevos suscriptores tambi&#233;n aumentar&#225;, en el equivalente de las redes sociales del inter&#233;s compuesto.</span></p><p><span>Eso significa que, aunque es probable que siga siendo opacado por mis propios esfuerzos de networking y publicidad por unas pocas semanas todav&#237;a, el conteo de suscriptores de UTW ahora est&#225; comenzando a exhibir una curva de crecimiento exponencial.</span></p><p><span>As&#237; que eso es bastante neat.</span></p><h2><span>La Pr&#243;xima Vez</span></h2><p><span>Espero que esto te anime a compartir el mensaje, mi amigo. Solo ten en mente: alrededor del 60% de los estadounidenses que me ven discutir remover nuestro gobierno voluntariamente prefieren seguir escuch&#225;ndome en lugar de cambiar a lo que iban a ver, cuando se les da la opci&#243;n. Esto no est&#225; limitado a solo un partido pol&#237;tico.</span></p><p><span>Voy a tomarme un peque&#241;o descanso de hablar de No Confidence la pr&#243;xima semana. T&#250; y yo ambos entendemos cu&#225;n importante es, pero ser importante no cambia el hecho de que tomar&#225; tiempo para que reunamos el apoyo que necesitamos.</span></p><p><span>Por ahora, mi amigo: sigue luchando, y mantente a salvo.</span></p><div><hr></div><p><em><span>Gracias por difundir la palabra! Nunca esper&#233; que lleg&#225;ramos incluso tan lejos como hemos llegado, y estoy emocionada de ver qu&#233; tan lejos iremos.</span></em></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://substack.unfuckingtheworld.org/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://substack.unfuckingtheworld.org/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p><em><span>Aseg&#250;rate de suscribirte y revisar tus configuraciones de notificaci&#243;n si quieres mantenerte informado sobre UTW y No Confidence, y realmente apreciar&#237;a si le das al bot&#243;n de like para que sepa que estoy en el camino correcto.</span></em></p><p><em><span>UTW es para estadounidenses que aman nuestro pa&#237;s lo suficiente como para discutir con &#233;l. Doy la bienvenida a tu incertidumbre, tu cinismo y tu escepticismo en los comentarios; todo lo que pido es tu buena fe.</span></em></p><p><em><span>Comparte esto con alguien que conozcas que piensa que esto nunca podr&#237;a funcionar, y mantente a salvo.</span></em></p><p><em><span>&#8211;Danielle</span></em></p><p style="text-align: center;"><em>This article is also available <a href="https://substack.unfuckingtheworld.org/p/how-a-movement-begins">in English</a>.</em></p><p><sub>[https://youtu.be/oHACWOXU7ww]</sub></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why This Will Work]]></title><description><![CDATA[I wouldn&#8217;t waste my time, and I certainly won&#8217;t waste yours | Listen now (16 min)]]></description><link>https://substack.unfuckingtheworld.org/p/why-this-will-work</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://substack.unfuckingtheworld.org/p/why-this-will-work</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Danielle Church]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2026 16:02:04 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/207921131/7bd51ca492eb84157f3e6d3ac5ea51d9.mp3" length="0" type="audio/mpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<h2><span>Welcome, my friend.</span></h2><p><span>Let&#8217;s dive right in.</span></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://youtu.be/KfXMMW2WRs4&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Watch on YouTube&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://youtu.be/KfXMMW2WRs4"><span>Watch on YouTube</span></a></p><p><span>The second most common reaction I get when I tell people about No Confidence is skepticism, and quite reasonably so. (After all, if it amending the US Constitution were </span><em><span>easy,</span></em><span> we wouldn&#8217;t have the problems we have today; we would instead have completely different problems.) If you&#8217;ve been spreading the word yourself, you&#8217;ve probably had more than a couple of people scoff at how unlikely it is that we could amend the Constitution in the modern era.</span></p><p><span>They aren&#8217;t wrong to be skeptical. The Constitution currently has 27 amendments, and the last time we ratified one was in 1992. However, the last time we </span><em><span>proposed</span></em><span> and ratified an amendment was in 1971.</span></p><p><span>(Yes, that is a weird discrepancy. Yes, I&#8217;ll explain shortly.)</span></p><p><span>Before I can tell you what the skeptics are missing, though, you need to understand the scale of the task ahead of us, and why they&#8217;re entirely right to be skeptical.</span></p><h2><span>The Problem</span></h2><p><span>The United States Constitution is one of the oldest written constitutions in the world that remains in force today. It&#8217;s also among the least amended.</span></p><p><span>In the 237 years it&#8217;s been in force, the Constitution has been amended only 27 times. Meanwhile, over half the state constitutions are similarly old, having been in force since before the 20th century, and on average they have more than 150 amendments each. As historian Jill Lepore </span><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-inquiry/the-united-states-unamendable-constitution"><span>writes</span></a><span>:</span></p><p><span>&#8220;[A]round the world, written constitutions turn out to have lasted, on average, only</span><a href="https://www.law.uchicago.edu/news/lifespan-written-constitutions"><span> seventeen years</span></a><span> before being scrapped. Not the U.S. Constitution. It&#8217;s lasted more than two hundred years and hasn&#8217;t been amended in any meaningful way since 1971, more than half a century ago.</span></p><p><span>&#8220;Laws govern people; constitutions govern governments. Lately,</span><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-future-of-democracy?verso=true"><span> American democracy</span></a><span> has begun to wobble, leaning on a constitution that&#8217;s grown brittle.&#8221;</span></p><p><span>(If the name Jill Lepore sounds familiar, it&#8217;s probably because her history of the Constitution, </span><em><a href="https://wwnorton.com/books/9781631496080"><span>We The People</span></a></em><span>, won her the Pulitzer this year.)</span></p><p><span>The last time the US Constitution was amended, </span><em><span>cellphones</span></em><span> didn&#8217;t exist. The word &#8220;text&#8221; was a noun, Nokia wouldn&#8217;t </span><em><span>start</span></em><span> making bricks for another decade, and the Internet wasn&#8217;t even a twinkle in Al Gore&#8217;s eye. It&#8217;s not that the world hasn&#8217;t changed enough in the intervening time to warrant changing the rules that govern our government. So why haven&#8217;t we?</span></p><p><span>The United States Constitution is notoriously difficult to amend. It requires a two-thirds majority in either Congress or the States to propose an amendment, and ratification by a three-quarters majority of either the States or their citizens.</span></p><p><span>You already know the rest of the story.</span></p><p><span>The United States of the 21st century is divided down the middle, half-and-half. Every issue that someone might want an amendment on falls under the purview of either the Democratic Party or the Republican Party, and thus about half the states and about half the Congresspeople will refuse to even consider proposing or ratifying it. The result is stark. From the last chapter in </span><em><span>We The People:</span></em></p><p><span>&#8220;Members of Congress had proposed more than twenty-one hundred constitutional amendments between 1980 and 2020. Congress, more polarized with each passing year, approved none. In roughly that same stretch of time, state legislatures introduced almost five thousand amendments and passed nearly four thousand.&#8221;</span></p><p><span>The will of the people is clearly to amend our constitutions, but the US Constitution has such a high bar for ratification that we haven&#8217;t managed to do so ever since our nation became so starkly divided.</span></p><h2><span>The Exception</span></h2><p><span>So what about 1992? That was the year the 27th Amendment was ratified. Why doesn&#8217;t it count as &#8220;amending the Constitution in a meaningful way&#8221;?</span></p><p><span>The 27th Amendment, known as the </span><strong><span>Congressional Pay Amendment</span></strong><span>, is straightforward: it says that if Congress passes a law to give itself a pay increase, that raise can&#8217;t take effect until after the next election. In other words, the voters have a chance to make their displeasure known before Congress gets to see a dollar.</span></p><p><span>Pretty obvious, right? The reason it isn&#8217;t a &#8220;meaningful&#8221; change is that even though it was ratified in 1992, it was proposed in 1789.</span></p><p><span>No, that&#8217;s not a typo. The Congressional Pay Amendment was part of the original Bill of Rights proposed by the first Congress, it just didn&#8217;t get ratified at the same time as the ten most popular. That first Congress didn&#8217;t set a time limit for ratification, as all the more recent ones have, so it could be ratified even today, despite being two centuries old.</span></p><p><span>That was what Gregory Watson of the University of Texas wrote, at least in a sophomore paper for his poli sci course, back in 1982.</span></p><p><span>He got a C.</span></p><p><span>Determined to redeem himself, Watson began a one-man campaign to increase the number of ratifications of the amendment from seven, three short of the ten it would have required at our nation&#8217;s founding, to the 38 required by a 50-state US.</span></p><p><span>It took him ten years of writing, faxing, and calling state legislators around the country, but on May 5, 1992, when Alabama became the 38th state to ratify the Congressional Pay Amendment, making it the 27th Amendment to our Constitution, he proved himself right.</span></p><p><span>What Greg Watson understood was that politics is the stories we tell each other. It isn&#8217;t merely the laws we write or the cases we decide in court. Rather, politics is the outward expression of a nation&#8217;s desire to live in peace and stability.</span></p><p><span>It wasn&#8217;t </span><em><span>just</span></em><span> that three-quarters of the United States ratified the Congressional Pay Amendment.</span></p><p><span>It was that one single American citizen had spent ten years of his life and thousands of dollars of his own money because he believed in a simple truth: the rest of us don&#8217;t get to write our own paychecks, so Congress shouldn&#8217;t either.</span></p><p><span>Maine went first, ratifying it in 1983.</span></p><p><span>Colorado next, in &#8216;84.</span></p><p><span>Then, in 1985, </span><em><span>five</span></em><span> states ratified it. Not a single year passed between then and 1992 without at least one more state joining the list. As more and more states joined, the public began to take notice.</span></p><p><span>It wasn&#8217;t just a few local-interest stories anymore. By 1992, it was national news. This wasn&#8217;t just a piece of legislation; it was the triumphant conclusion of a decade-long campaign against a Congress that, even as of 1991, was still giving itself pay raises.</span></p><p><span>As for Watson: his professor later submitted a grade-change form, officially changing his grade to an A+. It&#8217;s the only one the University of Texas has issued&#8212;their usual scale only goes up to an A.</span></p><h2><span>The Lesson</span></h2><p><span>Politics is not a machine. You can&#8217;t simply drop 38 ratifications into the coin slot and expect an amendment to pop out.</span></p><p><span>Politics is the stories we tell one another.</span></p><p><span>The story of the 27</span><sup><span>th</span></sup><span> Amendment tells us what we need to know: if we follow the Constitution&#8217;s letter </span><em><span>and</span></em><span> the American public believes in what we&#8217;re doing, the Constitution will change.</span></p><h3><span>A Story of Our Future</span></h3><p><span>I&#8217;d like to tell you a story now, a story about a future that might not come to pass, but that isn&#8217;t so far outside the realm of credibility.</span></p><p><span>A week or so after you read this article, a news story breaks. The government is covering up the murders of more and more American citizens. You go on Facebook, and a friend of yours is freaking the fuck out. She thinks she&#8217;s gonna die, that they&#8217;re all after her, that it&#8217;s just a matter of time, that there&#8217;s no way out.</span></p><p><span>She&#8217;s lashing out at people in the comments, too. Your mutuals are trying to talk her down, but reasoning with her isn&#8217;t helping, and neither is comforting her. She just can&#8217;t be calmed, and you&#8217;re not about to try to get your face bitten off.</span></p><p><span>Then you remember what I wrote last time in </span><a href="https://substack.unfuckingtheworld.org/p/how-you-can-help"><span>&#8220;How You Can Help&#8221;</span></a><span>. She is your friend, after all, so you decide it&#8217;s worth a try. You copy and paste the last example I gave directly into a reply:</span></p><p><span>&#8220;Yeah, it&#8217;s true, things are really awful right now. I&#8217;ve been listening to a podcast called </span><em><span>Unf*cking The World,</span></em><span> and it&#8217;s been giving me hope that we&#8217;ve got a way out of this.&#8221;</span></p><p><span>Around half an hour later, you get a notification that she liked your comment. You check back in to find she hasn&#8217;t replied to anyone else since you posted it. She still hasn&#8217;t responded to any offers of advice, help, or comfort, but at least she&#8217;s not snapping at anyone anymore. Progress.</span></p><p><span>The next day, you wake up to find she&#8217;s started posting links to UTW videos everywhere across all her socials. She&#8217;s finally turned off the caps lock, though, so it&#8217;s a definite improvement.</span></p><p><span>You go back to your day, but you do occasionally respond to things you see online when you happen to see them. Mostly it&#8217;s just copy-and-paste, but every once in a while you&#8217;ll write a new one and add it to the text file you&#8217;ve got sitting on your desktop.</span></p><p><span>It&#8217;s October when the news comes: the war is heating up, and the elections will have to be postponed, with the date TBD. Your social media is a flood of doom from every direction (except for your friend from earlier, but everyone is basically used to her posting UTW links these days, with varying levels of exclamation points).</span></p><p><span>You throw out a couple of your copy-and-paste comments to lift some spirits, but it&#8217;s not doing much against all the screaming. You make one grumpy post before logging out: &#8220;If y&#8217;all are really this upset, you could do something about it. UTW.vote, just saying.&#8221;</span></p><p><span>Your post gets way more likes than you&#8217;re used to, so you mute it. You do re-share it every time another big news story breaks, though, and it gets another couple hundred likes. That&#8217;s pretty neat.</span></p><p><span>November 3 rolls around. The US doesn&#8217;t hold elections; something else happens instead.</span></p><p><span>46 of the 50 states introduce nearly identical resolutions in their legislatures. The other four follow later in the week. These resolutions ask Congress to propose the No Confidence Amendment and pre-emptively ratify it.</span></p><p><span>After all, if an amendment can be ratified 200 years after its proposal, why not 2 months before? But just in case, the resolutions also commit to ratifying it again after Congress proposes it.</span></p><p><span>A couple of states quickly pass the resolution, and another couple just as quickly reject it. Elections are scheduled for December 1, with the military providing armed presence at each polling station to defend against external threats from our enemies, of course. ICE graciously offers to temporarily suspend all its other operations and provide joint support. Three more states pass the resolution. None reject it.</span></p><p><span>December 1 comes and goes. The vote results are nonsensical and absurd. Widespread election fraud is suspected, but nothing is ever proven. On December 3, both houses of Congress surprise the world by introducing a joint resolution to propose the No Confidence Amendment, exactly as written.</span></p><p><span>It&#8217;s a protest move, of course; no votes are scheduled, and few members of Congress are willing to comment on it. Nonetheless, it has an effect; five more states ratify No Confidence within the week, bringing the total to 10, with 3 now opposing.</span></p><p><span>It isn&#8217;t just national news anymore; it&#8217;s international. The world is holding its breath, as it did during the Brexit vote. Two more states ratify, and every news site now features a widget on its front page reading </span><strong><span>No Confidence: 12/38</span></strong><span>.</span></p><p><span>Your state isn&#8217;t one of them. Your friend reaches out to you. She&#8217;s so glad you introduced her to UTW back in October, because it gave her a purpose exactly when she needed one. She asks if you would be willing to call your state rep and state senator, and she gives you the phone numbers. It takes you about fifteen minutes.</span></p><p><span>Two days later, your state joins the list of supporters, bringing the total to 18. Two days after that, something unbelievable happens:</span></p><p><span>The Senate passes the No Confidence resolution, 99 in favor and 0 opposed.</span></p><p><span>One news article discusses the other times the Senate has recorded a 99-0 vote, including most recently in May 2026, when the Senate forfeited its pay during government shutdowns, and the one that accepted the ratification of the 27</span><sup><span>th</span></sup><span> Amendment in 1992.</span></p><p><span>Practically every day brings news of another state ratifying No Confidence or, rarely, rejecting it. The House continues to deliberate, but one Representative gives a statement to the press saying that if and when his state ratifies the No Confidence Amendment, he will support its proposal in the House, but not a moment before. Three days later, his state passes ratification.</span></p><p><span>A news organization conducts a poll of Americans and releases the results: 80% support No Confidence and 5% oppose. The House passes the resolution as the number of ratifying states crosses 30, officially proposing the amendment once the writing is clearly on the wall. It&#8217;s the final act of the outgoing Congress before the new one is seated.</span></p><p><span>So far, ten states have rejected the No Confidence Amendment, but 35 have ratified it.</span></p><p><span>The President posts on social media that No Confidence is an illegal conspiracy and that he won&#8217;t comply with it, no matter what. The remaining five states ratify No Confidence the very next day, bringing the total to 40.</span></p><h3><span>It won&#8217;t happen exactly like this, of course.</span></h3><p><span>There&#8217;s an infinite number of possibilities for what Congress might decide to do, how the states might decide to respond, and what the current administration might do to antagonize the people, believing itself invulnerable. If it were easy, we would have done it already.</span></p><p><span>The founders of our country wrote Article V of our Constitution so that if our government ever became intolerable, we could change it without having to shed any more blood.</span></p><p><span>America goes through long stretches of history when we forget this power we were given, and we&#8217;ve been in this one for 55 years now. As Lepore puts it: &#8220;Article V is a sleeping giant. It sleeps until it wakes, and then it roars.&#8221;</span></p><p><span>55 years isn&#8217;t the longest the giant has slept. The 12</span><sup><span>th</span></sup><span> Amendment was ratified in 1804, and the 13</span><sup><span>th</span></sup><span> Amendment was ratified in 1865, 61 years later.</span></p><p><span>The critical point is that there is one and only one ingredient required for this plan: overwhelming public support. No Confidence can&#8217;t be stopped by elections going the wrong way, or even by elections being suspended altogether. As long as we are willing to fight and our numbers continue to grow, we can keep pushing it forward.</span></p><h2><span>Next Time</span></h2><p><span>You know what the skeptics are missing now: it&#8217;s that no amendment we&#8217;ve proposed in the past several decades has been able to secure the support of more than half of the American people.</span></p><p><span>We didn&#8217;t get to the UTW numbers today, or why they give me so much hope; I&#8217;ll have to leave that for next week.</span></p><p><span>Thank you for sticking with me, my friend. Keep spreading the good news, and stay safe.</span></p><p style="text-align: right;"><strong>Next: <a href="https://substack.unfuckingtheworld.org/p/how-a-movement-begins">How A Movement Begins</a></strong></p><div><hr></div><p><em><span>Thank you for reading! This is just one possible version of our future, of course; if I told you about every variation I&#8217;ve considered over the past months, we&#8217;d be here for days.</span></em></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://substack.unfuckingtheworld.org/p/why-this-will-work?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://substack.unfuckingtheworld.org/p/why-this-will-work?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p><em><span>Every version of No Confidence relies on the support of the people, and that means we need your help. Share this article, share the news about No Confidence. Share hope.</span></em></p><p><em><span>Questions, challenges, additions, and thoughtful disagreements are encouraged in the comments; bring your good faith, and others will do the same. Today&#8217;s topic: of every fictional event in my narrative above, what strikes you as the </span></em><span>least</span><em><span> likely?</span></em></p><p><em><span>Share this with someone you know who needs a purpose in their life, and stay safe.</span></em></p><p><em><span>&#8211;Danielle</span></em></p><p style="text-align: center;"><em><span>Este art&#237;culo tambi&#233;n esta disponible </span><a href="https://substack.unfuckingtheworld.org/p/por-que-esto-funcionara"><span>en espa&#241;ol</span></a><span>.</span></em></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Por Qué Esto Funcionará]]></title><description><![CDATA[Yo no perder&#237;a mi tiempo, y desde luego no voy a hacerte perder el tuyo | Escucha ahora (22 min)]]></description><link>https://substack.unfuckingtheworld.org/p/por-que-esto-funcionara</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://substack.unfuckingtheworld.org/p/por-que-esto-funcionara</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Danielle Church]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2026 15:59:58 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/208423214/d5aedf59fa2ea8e39329100aa4b24c90.mp3" length="0" type="audio/mpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<h2><span>Bienvenido, amigo m&#237;o.</span></h2><p><span>Vamos a ponernos manos a la obra.</span></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://youtu.be/KfXMMW2WRs4&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Ve en YouTube&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://youtu.be/KfXMMW2WRs4"><span>Ve en YouTube</span></a></p><p><span>La segunda reacci&#243;n m&#225;s habitual que recibo cuando le hablo a la gente de No Confidence es el escepticismo, y con toda raz&#243;n. (Al fin y al cabo, si enmendar la Constituci&#243;n de EE. UU. fuera </span><em><span>f&#225;cil,</span></em><span> no tendr&#237;amos los problemas que tenemos hoy en d&#237;a; en su lugar, tendr&#237;amos problemas completamente diferentes). Si t&#250; mismo has estado difundiendo la idea, probablemente m&#225;s de una o dos personas se hayan burlado de lo improbable que es que podamos enmendar la Constituci&#243;n en la era moderna.</span></p><p><span>No les falta raz&#243;n al mostrarse esc&#233;pticos. La Constituci&#243;n cuenta actualmente con 27 enmiendas, y la &#250;ltima vez que ratificamos una fue en 1992. Sin embargo, la &#250;ltima vez que </span><em><span>propusimos</span></em><span> y ratificamos una enmienda fue en 1971.</span></p><p><span>(S&#237;, es una discrepancia extra&#241;a. S&#237;, lo explicar&#233; en breve).</span></p><p><span>Pero antes de que pueda explicarte lo que los esc&#233;pticos no tienen en cuenta, tienes que comprender la magnitud de la tarea que tenemos por delante y por qu&#233; tienen toda la raz&#243;n al mostrarse esc&#233;pticos.</span></p><h2><span>El Problema</span></h2><p><span>La Constituci&#243;n de los Estados Unidos es una de las constituciones escritas m&#225;s antiguas del mundo que sigue vigente en la actualidad. Tambi&#233;n se encuentra entre las que menos enmiendas han sufrido.</span></p><p><span>En los 237 a&#241;os que lleva en vigor, la Constituci&#243;n solo ha sido enmendada 27 veces. Por su parte, m&#225;s de la mitad de las constituciones estatales son igualmente antiguas, ya que llevan en vigor desde antes del siglo XX, y cuentan, de media, con m&#225;s de 150 enmiendas cada una. Como </span><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-inquiry/the-united-states-unamendable-constitution"><span>escribe</span></a><span> la historiadora Jill Lepore:</span></p><p><span>&#8220;En todo el mundo, las constituciones escritas han durado, de media, solo </span><a href="https://www.law.uchicago.edu/news/lifespan-written-constitutions"><span>diecisiete a&#241;os</span></a><span> antes de ser derogadas. No es el caso de la Constituci&#243;n de los Estados Unidos. Ha durado m&#225;s de doscientos a&#241;os y no ha sido enmendada de forma significativa desde 1971, hace m&#225;s de medio siglo.</span></p><p><span>&#8220;Las leyes gobiernan a las personas; las constituciones gobiernan a los gobiernos. &#218;ltimamente, la </span><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-future-of-democracy?verso=true"><span>democracia estadounidense</span></a><span> ha comenzado a tambalearse, apoy&#225;ndose en una Constituci&#243;n que se ha vuelto fr&#225;gil.&#8221;</span></p><p><span>(Si el nombre de Jill Lepore te suena familiar, probablemente sea porque su historia de la Constituci&#243;n, </span><em><a href="https://wwnorton.com/books/9781631496080"><span>We The People</span></a></em><span>, le vali&#243; el Pulitzer este a&#241;o.)</span></p><p><span>La &#250;ltima vez que se modific&#243; la Constituci&#243;n de EE. UU., los </span><em><span>tel&#233;fonos m&#243;viles</span></em><span> a&#250;n no exist&#237;an. Los mensajes de texto no exist&#237;an, Nokia no </span><em><span>empezar&#237;a</span></em><span> a fabricar &#8220;ladrillos&#8221; hasta una d&#233;cada m&#225;s tarde, e Internet ni siquiera era una idea en la mente de Al Gore. No es que el mundo no haya cambiado lo suficiente desde entonces como para justificar una modificaci&#243;n de las normas que rigen nuestro gobierno. Entonces, &#191;por qu&#233; no lo hemos hecho?</span></p><p><span>La Constituci&#243;n de los Estados Unidos es notoriamente dif&#237;cil de enmendar. Se requiere una mayor&#237;a de dos tercios, ya sea en el Congreso o en los estados, para proponer una enmienda, y la ratificaci&#243;n por una mayor&#237;a de tres cuartos, ya sea de los estados o de sus ciudadanos.</span></p><p><span>Ya sabes c&#243;mo acaba la historia.</span></p><p><span>Los Estados Unidos del siglo XXI est&#225;n divididos por la mitad, a partes iguales. Cada tema sobre el que alguien pudiera querer una enmienda entra dentro del &#225;mbito de competencia del Partido Dem&#243;crata o del Partido Republicano y, por lo tanto, aproximadamente la mitad de los estados y la mitad de los congresistas se negar&#225;n incluso a considerar su propuesta o ratificaci&#243;n. El resultado es contundente. Del &#250;ltimo cap&#237;tulo de </span><em><span>We The People</span></em><span>:</span></p><p><span>&#8220;Los miembros del Congreso propusieron m&#225;s de dos mil cien enmiendas constitucionales entre 1980 y 2020. El Congreso, cada vez m&#225;s polarizado con el paso de los a&#241;os, no aprob&#243; ninguna. Aproximadamente en ese mismo periodo, las asambleas legislativas estatales presentaron casi cinco mil enmiendas y aprobaron cerca de cuatro mil.&#8221;</span></p><p><span>La voluntad del pueblo es claramente enmendar nuestras constituciones, pero la Constituci&#243;n de los Estados Unidos establece unos requisitos tan estrictos para su ratificaci&#243;n que no hemos logrado hacerlo desde que nuestra naci&#243;n qued&#243; tan profundamente dividida.</span></p><h2><span>La Excepci&#243;n</span></h2><p><span>&#191;Y qu&#233; hay de 1992? Ese fue el a&#241;o en que se ratific&#243; la Enmienda XXVII. &#191;Por qu&#233; no se considera que eso supone &#8220;enmendar la Constituci&#243;n de forma significativa&#8221;?</span></p><p><span>La Enmienda XXVII, conocida como la </span><strong><span>Enmienda sobre la Remuneraci&#243;n del Congreso</span></strong><span>, es muy clara: establece que, si el Congreso aprueba una ley para concederse un aumento salarial, dicho aumento no podr&#225; entrar en vigor hasta despu&#233;s de las siguientes elecciones. En otras palabras, los votantes tienen la oportunidad de manifestar su descontento antes de que el Congreso vea ni un solo d&#243;lar.</span></p><p><span>Bastante obvio, &#191;verdad? La raz&#243;n por la que no se trata de un cambio &#8220;significativo&#8221; es que, aunque se ratific&#243; en 1992, se propuso en 1789.</span></p><p><span>No, no es un error tipogr&#225;fico. La Enmienda XXVII formaba parte de la Declaraci&#243;n de Derechos original propuesta por el primer Congreso, pero no se ratific&#243; al mismo tiempo que las diez m&#225;s populares. Aquel primer Congreso no estableci&#243; un plazo para la ratificaci&#243;n, como han hecho todos los m&#225;s recientes, por lo que podr&#237;a ratificarse incluso hoy, a pesar de tener dos siglos de antig&#252;edad.</span></p><p><span>Eso fue lo que escribi&#243; Gregory Watson, de la Universidad de Texas, al menos en un trabajo de segundo curso para su asignatura de ciencias pol&#237;ticas, all&#225; por 1982.</span></p><p><span>Sac&#243; un C.</span></p><p><span>Decidido a redimirse, Watson inici&#243; una campa&#241;a en solitario para aumentar el n&#250;mero de ratificaciones de la enmienda, que pasaba de siete&#8212;tres menos de las diez que se habr&#237;an necesitado en el momento de la fundaci&#243;n de nuestra naci&#243;n&#8212;a las 38 requeridas por los 50 estados de EE. UU.</span></p><p><span>Le llev&#243; diez a&#241;os escribir, enviar faxes y llamar a los legisladores estatales de todo el pa&#237;s, pero el 5 de mayo de 1992, cuando Alabama se convirti&#243; en el 38.&#186; estado en ratificar la Enmienda sobre la Remuneraci&#243;n del Congreso, convirti&#233;ndola en la 27.&#170; Enmienda de nuestra Constituci&#243;n, demostr&#243; que ten&#237;a raz&#243;n.</span></p><p><span>Lo que Greg Watson comprendi&#243; fue que la pol&#237;tica son las historias que nos contamos unos a otros. No se trata simplemente de las leyes que redactamos o de los casos que resolvemos en los tribunales. M&#225;s bien, la pol&#237;tica es la expresi&#243;n externa del deseo de una naci&#243;n de vivir en paz y estabilidad.</span></p><p><span>No se trataba </span><em><span>solo</span></em><span> de que tres cuartas partes de los Estados Unidos ratificaran la Enmienda XXVII.</span></p><p><span>Se trataba de que un solo ciudadano estadounidense hab&#237;a dedicado diez a&#241;os de su vida y miles de d&#243;lares de su propio bolsillo porque cre&#237;a en una simple verdad: el resto de nosotros no podemos fijarnos nuestros propios sueldos, as&#237; que el Congreso tampoco deber&#237;a hacerlo.</span></p><p><span>Maine fue el primero, en 1983.</span></p><p><span>Le sigui&#243; Colorado, en 1984.</span></p><p><span>Posteriormente, en 1985, </span><em><span>cinco</span></em><span> estados lo ratificaron. No pas&#243; ni un solo a&#241;o entre entonces y 1992 sin que al menos un estado m&#225;s se sumara a la lista. A medida que se sumaban m&#225;s y m&#225;s estados, la opini&#243;n p&#250;blica empez&#243; a tomar conciencia.</span></p><p><span>Ya no se trataba solo de unas cuantas noticias de inter&#233;s local. En 1992, ya era noticia a nivel nacional. No se trataba solo de una ley; era la conclusi&#243;n triunfal de una campa&#241;a de una d&#233;cada contra un Congreso que, incluso en 1991, segu&#237;a concedi&#233;ndose aumentos salariales.</span></p><p><span>En cuanto a Watson: su profesor present&#243; m&#225;s tarde un formulario de modificaci&#243;n de nota, cambiando oficialmente su calificaci&#243;n a una A+. Es la &#250;nica que ha otorgado la Universidad de Texas; su escala habitual solo llega hasta la A.</span></p><h2><span>La Lecci&#243;n</span></h2><p><span>La pol&#237;tica no es una m&#225;quina. No basta con introducir 38 ratificaciones en la ranura y esperar a que salga una enmienda.</span></p><p><span>La pol&#237;tica son las historias que nos contamos unos a otros.</span></p><p><span>La historia de la Enmienda XXVII nos dice lo que necesitamos saber: si seguimos al pie de la letra la Constituci&#243;n </span><em><span>y</span></em><span> la ciudadan&#237;a estadounidense cree en lo que estamos haciendo, la Constituci&#243;n cambiar&#225;.</span></p><h3><span>Una historia de nuestro futuro</span></h3><p><span>Me gustar&#237;a contarte ahora una historia, una historia sobre un futuro que quiz&#225; no llegue a suceder, pero que no est&#225; tan lejos de lo cre&#237;ble.</span></p><p><span>Aproximadamente una semana despu&#233;s de que leas este art&#237;culo, sale a la luz una noticia. El Gobierno est&#225; encubriendo los asesinatos de cada vez m&#225;s ciudadanos estadounidenses. Entras en Facebook y una amiga tuya est&#225; flipando a m&#225;s no poder. Cree que va a morir, que todos van a por ella, que es solo cuesti&#243;n de tiempo, que no hay salida.</span></p><p><span>Adem&#225;s, est&#225; arremetiendo contra la gente en los comentarios. Vuestros amigos comunes intentan calmarla, pero razonar con ella no sirve de nada, ni tampoco consolarla. Es imposible tranquilizarla, y t&#250; no est&#225;s dispuesto a arriesgarte a que te muerda la cara.</span></p><p><span>Entonces recuerdas lo que escrib&#237; la &#250;ltima vez en </span><a href="https://unfuckingtheworld.substack.com/p/como-puedes-ayudar"><span>&#8220;C&#243;mo Puedes Ayudar&#8221;</span></a><span>. Al fin y al cabo, es tu amiga, as&#237; que decides que vale la pena intentarlo. Copias y pegas el &#250;ltimo ejemplo que di directamente en una respuesta:</span></p><p><span>&#8220;S&#237;, es verdad, las cosas est&#225;n realmente mal ahora mismo. He estado escuchando un podcast llamado </span><em><span>Unf*cking The World,</span></em><span> y me ha dado esperanzas de que hay una salida a esto.&#8221;</span></p><p><span>Unos treinta minutos m&#225;s tarde, recibes una notificaci&#243;n de que le ha gustado tu comentario. Vuelves a entrar y ves que no ha respondido a nadie m&#225;s desde que lo publicaste. Sigue sin responder a ninguna oferta de consejo, ayuda o consuelo, pero al menos ya no est&#225; respondiendo mal a nadie. Es un avance.</span></p><p><span>Al d&#237;a siguiente, te despiertas y te das cuenta de que ha empezado a publicar enlaces a v&#237;deos de UTW por todas sus redes sociales. Eso s&#237;, por fin ha desactivado el bloqueo de may&#250;sculas, as&#237; que es una mejora indudable.</span></p><p><span>Vuelves a tu rutina diaria, pero de vez en cuando respondes a cosas en Internet cuando te las encuentras por casualidad. La mayor&#237;a de las veces solo es copiar y pegar, pero de vez en cuando escribes algo nuevo y lo a&#241;ades al archivo de texto que tienes en el escritorio.</span></p><p><span>Es octubre cuando llega la noticia: la guerra se est&#225; recrudeciendo y las elecciones tendr&#225;n que posponerse, con fecha por determinar. Tus redes sociales son un torrente de pesimismo procedente de todas partes (excepto por tu amiga de antes, pero b&#225;sicamente todo el mundo est&#225; acostumbrado ya a que publique enlaces de UTW estos d&#237;as, con distintos niveles de signos de exclamaci&#243;n).</span></p><p><span>Publicas un par de tus comentarios de &#8220;copiar y pegar&#8221; para levantar un poco el &#225;nimo, pero no sirven de mucho frente a todos esos gritos. Haces una publicaci&#243;n malhumorada antes de cerrar sesi&#243;n: &#8220;Si de verdad est&#225;is tan enfadados, podr&#237;ais hacer algo al respecto. UTW.vote, solo digo.&#8221;</span></p><p><span>Tu publicaci&#243;n recibe muchos m&#225;s &#8220;me gusta&#8221; de lo que est&#225;s acostumbrado, as&#237; que la silencias. Sin embargo, la vuelves a compartir cada vez que sale una noticia importante, y consigue otros doscientos &#8220;me gusta.&#8221; Est&#225; muy bien.</span></p><p><span>Llega el 3 de noviembre. En EE.UU. no se celebran elecciones; en su lugar, ocurre algo m&#225;s.</span></p><p><span>46 de los 50 estados presentan resoluciones casi id&#233;nticas en sus asambleas legislativas. Los otros cuatro lo hacen m&#225;s adelante esa misma semana. Estas resoluciones solicitan al Congreso que proponga la Enmienda No Confidence y la ratifique de forma preventiva.</span></p><p><span>Al fin y al cabo, si una enmienda puede ratificarse 200 a&#241;os despu&#233;s de su propuesta, &#191;por qu&#233; no dos meses antes? Pero, por si acaso, las resoluciones tambi&#233;n se comprometen a ratificarla de nuevo una vez que el Congreso la haya propuesto.</span></p><p><span>Un par de estados aprueban r&#225;pidamente la resoluci&#243;n, y otros dos la rechazan con la misma rapidez. Las elecciones est&#225;n previstas para el 1 de diciembre, con presencia militar armada en cada colegio electoral para defenderse de amenazas externas de nuestros enemigos, por supuesto. El ICE se ofrece amablemente a suspender temporalmente todas sus dem&#225;s operaciones y a proporcionar apoyo conjunto. Otros tres estados aprueban la resoluci&#243;n. Ninguno la rechaza.</span></p><p><span>Llega y pasa el 1 de diciembre. Los resultados de la votaci&#243;n son il&#243;gicos y absurdos. Se sospecha de un fraude electoral generalizado, pero nunca se demuestra nada. El 3 de diciembre, ambas c&#225;maras del Congreso sorprenden al mundo al presentar una resoluci&#243;n conjunta para proponer la Enmienda No Confidence, tal y como est&#225; redactada.</span></p><p><span>Se trata de una medida de protesta, por supuesto; no hay prevista ninguna votaci&#243;n y pocos miembros del Congreso est&#225;n dispuestos a comentarla. No obstante, surte efecto: otros cinco estados ratifican la Enmienda No Confidence en el transcurso de la semana, lo que eleva el total a diez, con tres que ahora se oponen.</span></p><p><span>Ya no es solo una noticia nacional; es internacional. El mundo est&#225; conteniendo la respiraci&#243;n, igual que hizo durante la votaci&#243;n del Brexit. Dos estados m&#225;s lo ratifican, y todas las p&#225;ginas de noticias mostrar&#225;n en su portada un recuadro que dir&#225; </span><strong><span>No Confidence: 12/38</span></strong><span>.</span></p><p><span>Tu estado no es uno de ellos. Tu amiga se pone en contacto contigo. Est&#225; muy contenta de que le presentaras UTW all&#225; por octubre, porque le dio un prop&#243;sito justo cuando m&#225;s lo necesitaba. Te pregunta si estar&#237;as dispuesta a llamar a tu diputado y a tu senador estatales, y te da los n&#250;meros de tel&#233;fono. Te lleva unos quince minutos.</span></p><p><span>Dos d&#237;as despu&#233;s, tu estado se une a la lista de partidarios, con lo que el total asciende a 18. Dos d&#237;as despu&#233;s de eso, ocurre algo incre&#237;ble:</span></p><p><span>El Senado aprueba la resoluci&#243;n de No Confidence, con 99 votos a favor y 0 en contra.</span></p><p><span>Un art&#237;culo de prensa repasa las otras ocasiones en las que el Senado ha registrado una votaci&#243;n de 99 a 0, incluyendo la m&#225;s reciente en mayo de 2026, cuando el Senado renunci&#243; a su salario durante los cierres del Gobierno, y la que acept&#243; la ratificaci&#243;n de la 27.&#170; Enmienda en 1992.</span></p><p><span>Pr&#225;cticamente cada d&#237;a llegan noticias de que otro estado ratifica la Enmienda No Confidence o, en contadas ocasiones, la rechaza. La C&#225;mara de Representantes sigue deliberando, pero un diputado hace unas declaraciones a la prensa en las que afirma que, si su estado ratifica la Enmienda No Confidence &#8212;y cuando lo haga&#8212;, apoyar&#225; la propuesta en la C&#225;mara, pero ni un momento antes. Tres d&#237;as despu&#233;s, su estado aprueba la ratificaci&#243;n.</span></p><p><span>Un medio de comunicaci&#243;n realiza una encuesta entre los estadounidenses y publica los resultados: el 80% apoya No Confidence y el 5 % se opone. La C&#225;mara de Representantes aprueba la resoluci&#243;n cuando el n&#250;mero de estados ratificantes supera los 30, proponiendo oficialmente la enmienda una vez que el resultado es ya inevitable. Es el &#250;ltimo acto del Congreso saliente antes de que el nuevo tome posesi&#243;n.</span></p><p><span>Hasta ahora, diez estados han rechazado la Enmienda No Confidence, pero 35 la han ratificado.</span></p><p><span>El presidente publica en las redes sociales que No Confidence es una conspiraci&#243;n ilegal y que no la acatar&#225; bajo ning&#250;n concepto. Los cinco estados restantes ratifican No Confidence al d&#237;a siguiente, con lo que el total asciende a 40.</span></p><h3><span>Por supuesto, no suceder&#225; exactamente as&#237;.</span></h3><p><span>Hay un sinf&#237;n de posibilidades en cuanto a lo que el Congreso podr&#237;a decidir hacer, c&#243;mo podr&#237;an responder los estados y qu&#233; podr&#237;a hacer la actual administraci&#243;n para ganarse la antipat&#237;a del pueblo, crey&#233;ndose invulnerable. Si fuera f&#225;cil, ya lo habr&#237;amos hecho.</span></p><p><span>Los fundadores de nuestro pa&#237;s redactaron el art&#237;culo V de nuestra Constituci&#243;n para que, si alguna vez nuestro gobierno se volv&#237;a intolerable, pudi&#233;ramos cambiarlo sin tener que derramar m&#225;s sangre.</span></p><p><span>Estados Unidos atraviesa largos per&#237;odos de la historia en los que olvidamos este poder que se nos concedi&#243;, y llevamos ya 55 a&#241;os en este. Como dice Lepore: &#8220;El art&#237;culo V es un gigante dormido. Duerme hasta que se despierta, y entonces ruge&#8221;.</span></p><p><span>55 a&#241;os no es el periodo m&#225;s largo que el gigante ha dormido. La Enmienda XII se ratific&#243; en 1804, y la Enmienda XIII se ratific&#243; en 1865, 61 a&#241;os despu&#233;s.</span></p><p><span>El punto clave es que solo hay un ingrediente imprescindible para este plan: un apoyo p&#250;blico abrumador. No Confidence no puede detenerse por un resultado electoral desfavorable, ni siquiera por la suspensi&#243;n total de las elecciones. Mientras estemos dispuestos a luchar y nuestro n&#250;mero siga creciendo, podremos seguir impuls&#225;ndolo.</span></p><h2><span>Pr&#243;ximamente</span></h2><p><span>Ya sabes lo que los esc&#233;pticos no tienen en cuenta: que ninguna de las enmiendas que hemos propuesto en las &#250;ltimas d&#233;cadas ha logrado obtener el apoyo de m&#225;s de la mitad de la poblaci&#243;n estadounidense.</span></p><p><span>Hoy no hemos llegado a hablar de las cifras de UTW, ni de por qu&#233; me dan tanta esperanza; tendr&#233; que dejarlo para la semana que viene.</span></p><p><span>Gracias por seguir a mi lado, amigo m&#237;o. Sigue difundiendo las buenas noticias y mantente a salvo.</span></p><p style="text-align: right;"><strong><span>Pr&#243;ximo: </span><a href="https://substack.unfuckingtheworld.org/p/como-comienza-un-movimiento">C&#243;mo Comienza Un Movimiento</a></strong></p><div><hr></div><p><em><span>&#161;Gracias por leer! Por supuesto, esta es solo una de las posibles versiones de nuestro futuro; si te contara todas las variantes que he barajado en los &#250;ltimos meses, estar&#237;amos aqu&#237; d&#237;as y d&#237;as.</span></em></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://substack.unfuckingtheworld.org/p/por-que-esto-funcionara?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://substack.unfuckingtheworld.org/p/por-que-esto-funcionara?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p><em><span>Todas las versiones de No Confidence dependen del apoyo de la gente, y eso significa que necesitamos tu ayuda. Comparte este art&#237;culo, difunde la noticia sobre No Confidence. Comparte esperanza.</span></em></p><p><em><span>Te animamos a que plantees preguntas, retos, aportaciones y desacuerdos constructivos en los comentarios; ven con buena fe y los dem&#225;s har&#225;n lo mismo. El tema de hoy: de todos los acontecimientos ficticios de mi relato anterior, &#191;cu&#225;l te parece el </span></em><span>menos</span><em><span> probable?</span></em></p><p><em><span>Comparte esto con alguien que conozcas que necesite un prop&#243;sito en su vida, y mantente a salvo.</span></em></p><p><em><span>&#8211;Danielle</span></em></p><p style="text-align: center;"><em><span>This article is also available </span><a href="https://substack.unfuckingtheworld.org/p/why-this-will-work"><span>in English</span></a><span>.</span></em></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cómo Puedes Ayudar]]></title><description><![CDATA[Instrucciones expl&#237;citas para desmantelar el sistema bipartidista en 2026 | Escucha ahora (19 min)]]></description><link>https://substack.unfuckingtheworld.org/p/como-puedes-ayudar</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://substack.unfuckingtheworld.org/p/como-puedes-ayudar</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Danielle Church]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 01:16:02 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/207947478/38a205f67e896b472b27cb82407e7007.mp3" length="0" type="audio/mpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<h2><span>Bienvenido, mi amigo.</span></h2><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHgMGis-hJ4&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Ve en YouTube&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:&quot;button-wrapper&quot;}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary button-wrapper" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHgMGis-hJ4"><span>Ve en YouTube</span></a></p><p><span>Espero que me perdones si este es un cambio de tono chocante; honestamente pens&#233;, cuando escrib&#237; el texto de mi art&#237;culo anterior, que bien podr&#237;a ser la &#250;ltima oportunidad que tendr&#237;a de decirte algo. Ten&#237;a planes de contingencia por si la respuesta era mediocre; le di muchas vueltas a c&#243;mo podr&#237;a retirarme con elegancia a mi rinc&#243;n an&#243;nimo de Internet si resultaba que nadie me estaba escuchando.</span></p><p><span>Todo lo que puedo decir es que lamento mucho haberte subestimado.</span></p><p><span>Para cuando termin&#243; la semana de lanzamiento, UTW ten&#237;a m&#225;s de cien suscriptores, en todas las plataformas que rastrean ese tipo de cosas. Cruzamos la marca de 200 en cuesti&#243;n de </span><em><span>d&#237;as</span></em><span> despu&#233;s de que terminara, la p&#225;gina de Facebook ya ha superado los mil seguidores, y no muestra signos de detenerse</span></p><p><span>Todo el equipo de producci&#243;n qued&#243; asombrado por la fuerza de tu respuesta.</span></p><p><span>&#8220;Gracias&#8221; parece insuficiente, pero a falta de algo mejor: &#161;gracias!</span></p><p><span>(Tambi&#233;n estoy experimentando una especie de dilataci&#243;n del tiempo muy extra&#241;a en este momento. Para ti, han pasado dos semanas desde que publiqu&#233; mi art&#237;culo anterior&#8212;quiz&#225;s incluso menos que eso desde que lo le&#237;ste por primera vez. Para m&#237;, han pasado tres meses desde que escrib&#237; su texto, sin tener idea de lo que traer&#237;a el cambio de estaci&#243;n.</span></p><p><span>(Es muy surrealista estar editando un documento en la misma carpeta, como si fuera la misma Danielle Church que escribi&#243; las palabras &#8220;No Est&#225;s Solo&#8221;.)</span></p><h2><span>Un Nuevo Horario Semanal</span></h2><p><span>Antes de seguir adelante, me gustar&#237;a anunciar un par de cambios log&#237;sticos para </span><em><span>Unfucking The World</span></em><span>.</span></p><p><span>En primer lugar, he cerrado el servidor de Discord, el sub de Reddit y el grupo de Facebook. Agradezco mucho a todas aquellas personas que se pasaron por all&#237;, pero algunos lectores muy perspicaces se&#241;alaron acertadamente que quiz&#225; no fuera una buena idea mantener en </span><em><span>ning&#250;n</span></em><span> sitio una lista centralizada de &#8220;personas que est&#225;n trabajando activamente para ayudar con UTW&#8221;. A partir de ahora, puedes </span><em><span>seguir</span></em><span> a UTW (en Substack, Facebook o Bluesky) y puedes </span><em><span>suscribirte</span></em><span> a UTW (en Substack, YouTube o una plataforma de podcasts), pero no te voy a pedir que te </span><em><span>unas</span></em><span> a UTW.</span></p><p><span>Sin embargo, eso no significa que no vayas a saber nada de m&#237;.</span></p><p><span>A partir de ahora, </span><em><span>Unfucking The World</span></em><span> se mudar&#225; a un horario semanal, por todo el tiempo que pueda mantenerlo: publicar&#233; un art&#237;culo cada s&#225;bado a las 12pm Eastern, 9am Pacific, en todos los formatos y en ambos idiomas.</span></p><p><span>El comienzo va a ser un poco complicado&#8212;el v&#237;deo de este mismo episodio no se publicar&#225; hasta dentro de unos d&#237;as, y esta versi&#243;n de espa&#241;ol tambi&#233;n&#8212;pero har&#233; lo mejor que pueda para mantener ese ritmo.</span></p><p><span>Ya basta de detalles log&#237;sticos. La &#250;ltima vez te ped&#237; preguntas, y &#161;ciertamente han tenido bastantes desde que lanzamos!</span></p><p><span>Con mucho, la m&#225;s com&#250;n es:</span></p><blockquote><p><span>&#8220;&#191;Qu&#233; puedo hacer? No, en realidad, espec&#237;ficamente, &#191;qu&#233; puedo hacer yo personalmente?&#8221;</span></p></blockquote><p><span>Muy de cerca detr&#225;s de esa est&#225;</span></p><blockquote><p><span>&#8220;Sabes que esto nunca tener&#225; exito, &#191;verdad?&#8221;</span></p></blockquote><p><span>Estas son dos preguntas lo suficientemente importantes como para merecer un art&#237;culo completo para ellas mismas; abordar&#233; la primera hoy.</span></p><h2><span>Antes de Empezar: Dos Aclaraciones</span></h2><p><span>Esos no son toda la retroalimentaci&#243;n que he recibido, sin embargo, as&#237; que tambi&#233;n tengo un par de aclaraciones que hacer. Puedo ser una autora, pero eso no significa que siempre sepa las palabras correctas para decir, y a veces el significado que se transmite no es el que yo pretend&#237;a. Considero eso un fracaso de mi parte; mi objetivo es difundir esperanza, no miedo, y si no lo he comunicado correctamente, es mi culpa, no la tuya.</span></p><h3><span>Lo que Entiendo por &#8220;Sistema&#8221;</span></h3><p><span>En </span><a href="https://substack.unfuckingtheworld.org/p/que-hara-falta"><span>&#8220;Qu&#233; Har&#225; Falta&#8221;</span></a><span>, introduje los conceptos de confiabilidad de sistemas y estados de fallo, usando algunos ejemplos de toda la sociedad humana: un DMV, un reloj, y una red el&#233;ctrica.</span></p><p><span>Eso incomod&#243; a algunos lectores, en este mundo donde nuestros trabajos est&#225;n siendo continuamente reemplazados por m&#225;quinas, y en retrospectiva eso era extremadamente predecible.</span></p><p><span>Ahora que lo pienso, ojal&#225; hubiera aclarado que no todos los sistemas son hechos por el hombre, y que no todos los sistemas tienen una funci&#243;n&#8212;algunos, como nuestro Sistema Solar, simplemente </span><em><span>son.</span></em></p><p><span>Sin embargo, no se me ocurri&#243;, as&#237; que solo me queda pedir disculpas por la incomodidad causada y esforzarme por hacerlo mejor la pr&#243;xima vez.</span></p><h3><span>Lo que Entiendo por &#8220;Riesgo&#8221;</span></h3><p><span>El otro desliz de mi parte que me gustar&#237;a se&#241;alar es de </span><a href="https://substack.unfuckingtheworld.org/p/accion-de-censura"><span>&#8220;Acci&#243;n De Censura&#8221;</span></a><span>; mencion&#233; que es poco probable que los legisladores estatales apoyen la ratificaci&#243;n de la Enmienda No Confidence, especialmente ahora, porque ser&#237;a &#8220;demasiado arriesgado&#8221;.</span></p><p><span>Realmente deber&#237;a haber aclarado el tipo de riesgo del que estaba hablando aqu&#237;.</span></p><p><span>El riesgo no es para el p&#250;blico estadounidense, sino para los legisladores mismos.</span></p><p><span>Los &#250;ltimos meses antes de una reelecci&#243;n son un momento extremadamente vulnerable para cualquier pol&#237;tico; es un per&#237;odo de tiempo lo suficientemente corto como para que una decisi&#243;n impopular a&#250;n est&#233; fresca en la mente de los votantes cuando vayan a las urnas, y eso podr&#237;a destruir una carrera pol&#237;tica.</span></p><p><span>Por mucho que a &#233;l personalmente le gustar&#237;a ayudarnos, por mucho que crea en los principios de No Confidence, actuar sin el apoyo visible y p&#250;blico de su circunscripci&#243;n podr&#237;a acabar con su propio sustento, y no le pedir&#233; eso a nadie.</span></p><p><span>Esta es una de las formas en que el sistema disuade a nuestros legisladores de actuar, incluso cuando ello redundar&#237;a en nuestro propio beneficio. Esa cultura de cautela e inacci&#243;n no es un fen&#243;meno aislado. Como </span><a href="https://lcfrancis.substack.com/p/the-sovereign-executive-the-final"><span>escribe</span></a><span> el historiador L.C. Francis:</span></p><p><span>&#8220;Lo que estamos presenciando es un profundo cambio estructural. La C&#225;mara de Representantes, originalmente encargada de defender ferozmente nuestra libertad, ahora opera con una pasividad silenciosa mientras el poder ejecutivo erosiona constantemente los cimientos de la Constituci&#243;n.</span></p><p><span>&#8220;Los datos cuentan una historia que es dif&#237;cil de ignorar. En 2023, los funcionarios electos promulgaron menos de 100 leyes, mientras que las agencias federales emitieron m&#225;s de 3,000 reglas. Ese desequilibrio golpea el n&#250;cleo del gobierno representativo. Reemplaza la elaboraci&#243;n de leyes con la administraci&#243;n y desplaza la autoridad lejos de aquellos responsables ante el pueblo.&#8221;</span></p><p><span>Visto desde esa perspectiva, nuestro actual Congreso estancado no es un sistema </span><em><span>fallado;</span></em><span> es el sistema funcionando seg&#250;n un nuevo dise&#241;o.</span></p><p><span>Nuestro actual sistema pol&#237;tico est&#225; configurado para elegir un Congreso en punto muerto; la evidencia de eso es que consistentemente lo ha hecho.</span></p><p><span>No podemos desatar este nudo usando un sistema dise&#241;ado para apretarlo; debemos tomarlo y desarmarlo nosotros mismos.</span></p><h2><span>C&#243;mo Arreglamos las Cosas</span></h2><p><span>Por eso nuestro primer objetivo es construir apoyo para No Confidence, y basado en la respuesta que he visto a UTW hasta ahora, est&#225; bien dentro de nuestro alcance.</span></p><p><span>Pas&#233; el mes de junio aprendiendo qu&#233; funciona y qu&#233; no para incorporar a nuevas personas, y resulta que es </span><em><span>realmente f&#225;cil,</span></em><span> debido a que la mayor&#237;a de las personas han estado desesperadamente esperando que algo como esto apareciera.</span></p><p><span>Todo lo que tienes que hacer es estar dispuesto a ofrecerles esperanza a las personas.</span></p><p><span>Aqu&#237; es como yo lo he estado haciendo.</span></p><h3><span>Tres Pasos: Acordar, Compartir, Informar</span></h3><p><span>Todos los d&#237;as, navego por mis redes sociales y busco a alguien expresando desesperaci&#243;n sobre el estado de la pol&#237;tica estadounidense, ya sea en relaci&#243;n con el Presidente, o el Congreso, o la Corte Suprema, o cualquiera de la gran maquinaria pol&#237;tica en este pa&#237;s.</span></p><p><span>Nunca he tenido ning&#250;n problema en absoluto en este paso.</span></p><p><span>Una vez que encuentro a alguien que est&#225; desesperando de que las cosas mejoren, o frustrado por no poder hacer nada, publico una respuesta p&#250;blica para esa persona, como sea apropiado para la plataforma.</span></p><p><span>En esa respuesta hago tres cosas:</span></p><h4><span>1. Acordar</span></h4><p><span>Primero, encuentro algo con lo que estar de acuerdo.</span></p><p><span>Esta parte no es dif&#237;cil, pero es importante; todos est&#225;n sintiendo el dolor de vivir en y/o lidiar con este pa&#237;s, pero la mayor&#237;a de nosotros en Estados Unidos fuimos criados en un entorno de pol&#237;tica partidista, de pensar en otros estadounidenses como nuestros enemigos.</span></p><p><span>El partidismo nos meti&#243; en este l&#237;o; no servir&#225; para sacarnos.</span></p><p><span>En este momento, no importa de qui&#233;n es la culpa de que hayamos llegado aqu&#237;; importa que las cosas ahora est&#225;n peor que nunca.</span></p><p><span>As&#237; que cuando estoy de acuerdo con &#233;l, digo con </span><em><span>qu&#233;</span></em><span> estoy de acuerdo, tanto para su beneficio como para cualquiera que lea el intercambio, y no menciono ning&#250;n partido pol&#237;tico ni ideolog&#237;a.</span></p><p><span>Alguien que se queja de los jueces conservadores en la Corte Suprema se est&#225; quejando de que la corte ha sido politizada en primer lugar, cuando siempre se prometi&#243; que ser&#237;a pol&#237;ticamente neutral.</span></p><p><span>Cualquiera que no pueda soportar c&#243;mo Trump est&#225; pisoteando nuestros derechos, instituciones y tradiciones est&#225; molesto porque el Congreso ha fallado completamente en su deber de defender la naci&#243;n y la Constituci&#243;n de un Presidente desleal.</span></p><p><span>Si nada m&#225;s, una cosa en la que </span><em><span>todos</span></em><span> est&#225;n de acuerdo es que el Gobierno de EE.UU. deber&#237;a ser m&#225;s responsable ante sus ciudadanos que solo dejarnos elegir el menor de dos males cada par de a&#241;os.</span></p><h4><span>2. Compartir</span></h4><p><span>Segundo: despu&#233;s de estar de acuerdo con &#233;l en que hay un problema, comparto lo que estoy haciendo personalmente para abordarlo.</span></p><blockquote><p><span>&#8220;Lo s&#233;, es horrible c&#243;mo la Corte Suprema puede hacer lo que quiera sin que nadie los controle. Por eso estoy reuniendo apoyo para una Enmienda que permitir&#225; al pueblo estadounidense expulsarlos.&#8221;</span></p></blockquote><blockquote><p><span>&#8220;Tienes toda la raz&#243;n, nuestro sistema electoral nunca nos dar&#225; un Congreso que realmente se preocupe por los estadounidenses. Estoy ayudando a iniciar un movimiento llamado </span><em><span>Unfucking The World</span></em><span> que finalmente nos permitir&#225; cambiarlo.&#8221;</span></p></blockquote><blockquote><p><span>&#8220;S&#237;, no se puede permitir el Presidente siga haciendo lo que est&#225; haciendo. La Enmienda No Confidence que estoy ayudando cortar&#225; su mandato, una vez que podamos obtener suficiente apoyo para ratificarla.&#8221;</span></p></blockquote><p><span>O incluso solo:</span></p><blockquote><p><span>&#8220;S&#237;, es verdad, las cosas est&#225;n realmente horribles ahora mismo. He estado escuchando un podcast llamado </span><em><span>Unfucking The World,</span></em><span> y me ha estado dando esperanza de que tenemos una salida de esto.&#8221;</span></p></blockquote><p><span>No lo estoy diciendo lo que </span><em><span>deben</span></em><span> hacer; eso b&#225;sicamente nunca funciona con los estadounidenses.</span></p><p><span>No lo estoy diciendo que esta es la &#250;nica forma de avanzar; demostrablemente no lo es.</span></p><p><span>Todo lo que estoy diciendo es que veo el mismo problema que &#233;l ve, y que estoy haciendo activamente algo al respecto, ahora mismo.</span></p><h4><span>3. Informar</span></h4><p><span>La tercera y &#250;ltima cosa es que lo hago saber c&#243;mo puede encontrar m&#225;s informaci&#243;n, si quiere involucrarse, para que no tenga que preguntarlo directamente.</span></p><p><span>El shortlink </span><a href="https://utw.vote"><span>UTW.vote</span></a><span> es &#250;til para esto, al igual que el enlace </span><a href="https://utw.vote/explainer"><span>UTW.vote/explainer</span></a><span> que lleva al texto sobre No Confidence, pero a veces soy enlazar directamente a uno de los art&#237;culos o videos de UTW que explica m&#225;s sobre el tema en cuesti&#243;n.</span></p><p><span>Otras veces solo comparto el nombre de </span><em><span>Unfucking The World,</span></em><span> y que est&#225; disponible tanto en YouTube como en podcast.</span></p><p><span>Depende en gran parte de la plataforma en la que est&#233;.</span></p><p><span>La clave, he descubierto, es dejarlo abierto y no pedir retroalimentaci&#243;n directa.</span></p><p><span>Ahora mismo no es el mejor momento para ser pol&#237;tico como estadounidense, ya sea en l&#237;nea o en persona, y por eso tengo cuidado de evitar </span><em><span>preguntarles</span></em><span> a las personas qu&#233; est&#225;n dispuestos a apoyar, incluso ret&#243;ricamente.</span></p><p><span>&#8220;&#191;No quieres vivir en un pa&#237;s donde&#8230;?&#8221; pone a la gente a la defensiva.</span></p><p><em><span>&#8220;Yo</span></em><span> preferir&#237;a vivir en un pa&#237;s donde&#8230;&#8221; hace que la gente empatice.</span></p><p><span>Casi nunca recibo respuestas a estos comentarios&#8212;pero cada vez que escribo uno, uno o dos suscriptores m&#225;s se inscriben en UTW.</span></p><h3><span>T&#250; tambi&#233;n puedes hacer esto.</span></h3><p><span>Una vez al d&#237;a m&#225;s o menos, cuando te sientas en tu mejor momento y listo para lidiar con el mundo, ve a buscar algo de oscuridad en l&#237;nea.</span></p><p><span>Cuando la encuentres, comparte solo un poco de luz. Solo un comentario, de dos o tres oraciones de largo.</span></p><p><span>Recuerda que cuando hagas eso est&#225;s escribiendo no solo para esa una persona, sino para cualquiera que vea lo que escribiste, incluso si son demasiado t&#237;midos para hablar.</span></p><p><span>Si la persona a la que est&#225;s respondiendo no est&#225; de acuerdo contigo o duda de ti, &#161;d&#233;jalos! Ser una de las pocas personas en Internet dispuestas a decir p&#250;blicamente &#8220;No tienes que estar de acuerdo conmigo, est&#225; bien&#8221; har&#225; que tus opiniones se destaquen de la multitud b&#225;sicamente en todas partes.</span></p><p><span>Si no eres el tipo de persona que se involucra con las redes sociales, tambi&#233;n puedes hacer esto en persona.</span></p><p><span>Son los mismos tres pasos:</span></p><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span>Acordar. Compartir. Informar.</span></strong></p></div><p><span>Solo una vez al d&#237;a, todos los d&#237;as que puedas reunir la energ&#237;a para hacerlo.</span></p><h3><span>Un Peque&#241;o Poco de Esperanza</span></h3><p><span>Puede parecer improbable, frente a todo lo que est&#225; saliendo mal en 2026, que algo tan peque&#241;o&#8212;solo t&#250; trayendo un peque&#241;o poco de esperanza al d&#237;a de una sola persona, mientras nuestro pa&#237;s de cientos de millones se desmorona a nuestro alrededor&#8212;pueda posiblemente marcar una diferencia a una escala lo suficientemente grande como para cambiar las cosas.</span></p><p><span>Admitir&#233; que yo misma tuve problemas para creer eso antes de lanzar UTW.</span></p><p><span>Toda la l&#243;gica, el an&#225;lisis y la intuici&#243;n del mundo podr&#237;an decirme que No Confidence </span><em><span>es</span></em><span> necesario, que Am&#233;rica </span><em><span>s&#237;</span></em><span> quiere esto, pero simplemente no ten&#237;a ning&#250;n n&#250;mero para respaldarlo.</span></p><p><span>Mi amigo, t&#250; eres quien me trajo esos n&#250;meros, y por eso estoy agradecida m&#225;s all&#225; de las palabras.</span></p><p><span>Con el tipo de apoyo que demostraste simplemente estando dispuesto a escuchar a alguien de quien nunca hab&#237;as o&#237;do hablar antes, has probado que no solo </span><em><span>s&#237;</span></em><span> tenemos el tipo de impulso que puede convertirse en un movimiento lo suficientemente poderoso como para remodelar nuestro gobierno, sino que podemos hacerlo m&#225;s r&#225;pido de lo que cualquiera, incluso yo, jam&#225;s imagin&#243;.</span></p><h2><span>La Pr&#243;xima Vez</span></h2><p><span>Advertencia justa, voy a meterme un poco m&#225;s en los n&#250;meros la pr&#243;xima vez, pero har&#233; lo mejor que pueda para mantenerlo interesante.</span></p><p><span>Aparte de eso, hay un otro tipo de retroalimentaci&#243;n que he escuchado unas cuantas veces desde que lanc&#233; UTW que supongo que deber&#237;a abordar.</span></p><p><span>No me molestar&#233; en repetirlo aqu&#237;, porque es una puta demasiado vulgar para </span><em><span>Unfucking The World;</span></em><span> solo dir&#233; que la realidad donde me importara siquiera una fracci&#243;n de un indicio de lo que alguien quiera llamarme no se parece en absoluto a esta.</span></p><p><span>Nuestro gobierno se est&#225; cayendo a pedazos a nuestro alrededor y la gente piensa que me importan los </span><em><span>pronombres.</span></em></p><p><span>Por favor.</span></p><p><span>Bien. De todos modos, mi amigo:</span></p><p><span>difunde esperanza, pero mantente a salvo.</span></p><p style="text-align: right;"><strong>Pr&#243;ximo: <a href="https://substack.unfuckingtheworld.org/p/por-que-esto-funcionara">Por Qu&#233; Esto Funcionar&#225;</a></strong></p><div><hr></div><p><em><span>&#161;Gracias por ser parte de UTW mientras avanzamos! Personalmente he encontrado que la pr&#225;ctica de encontrar conscientemente esperanza que pueda compartir con las personas todos los d&#237;as ha dado frutos en m&#225;s formas que solo el conteo de suscriptores: mi depresi&#243;n es m&#225;s f&#225;cil de sacudir cuando empeora, es m&#225;s f&#225;cil para m&#237; interactuar con otras personas en persona, y tengo m&#225;s energ&#237;a para todo lo que hago.</span></em></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://substack.unfuckingtheworld.org/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://substack.unfuckingtheworld.org/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p><em><span>Aseg&#250;rate de estar suscrito para no perderte el siguiente, y hazme un favor y presiona ese bot&#243;n de Me Gusta si est&#225;s inclinado. UTW es y siempre ser&#225; gratis, pero eso significa que no tengo la perspectiva de &#8220;qui&#233;n est&#225; dispuesto a enviarme dinero&#8221; para recordarme que lo que estoy luchando es valioso para m&#225;s personas que solo yo.</span></em></p><p><em><span>Te animamos a que plantees preguntas, retos, aportaciones y desacuerdos constructivos en los comentarios; ven con buena fe y los dem&#225;s har&#225;n lo mismo. El tema de hoy: &#191;Has intentado publicitar No Confidence o UTW a alguien que conoces, ya sea en persona o en l&#237;nea? &#191;C&#243;mo te fue?</span></em></p><p><em><span>Comparte esto con alguien que conozcas que trae luz al mundo, y mantente a salvo.</span></em></p><p><em><span>&#8211;Danielle</span></em></p><p><em>P.D.: &#161;El equipo de producci&#243;n de UTW sigue creciendo! Quiz&#225; te hayas dado cuenta de que este art&#237;culo resulta un poco m&#225;s agradable a la vista y est&#225; mucho mejor organizado que los anteriores, y, como seguro que ya sabes, eso no es precisamente lo </em>m&#237;o<em>. &#161;Deja un comentario para expresar tu agradecimiento!</em></p><p style="text-align: center;"><em>This article is also available <a href="https://substack.unfuckingtheworld.org/p/how-you-can-help">in English</a>.</em></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[How You Can Help]]></title><description><![CDATA[Explicit instructions for dismantling the two-party system in 2026 | Listen now (14 min)]]></description><link>https://substack.unfuckingtheworld.org/p/how-you-can-help</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://substack.unfuckingtheworld.org/p/how-you-can-help</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Danielle Church]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2026 18:45:57 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/207098101/26c730cc5b1b0a90fc9264e5c46e703b.mp3" length="0" type="audio/mpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<h2><span>Welcome, my friend.</span></h2><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHgMGis-hJ4&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Watch on YouTube&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHgMGis-hJ4"><span>Watch on YouTube</span></a></p><p><span>I hope you&#8217;ll forgive me if this is a jarring change in tone; I thought that when I wrote the text of my previous article, it might be the last chance to say anything to you. I had contingency plans for if the response was mediocre; I put a lot of thought into how I could gracefully fade away back into my anonymous corner of the Internet if it turned out no one was listening.</span></p><p><span>All I can say is that I am so very sorry I underestimated you.</span></p><p><span>By the time launch week was over, UTW had over a hundred subscribers across all the platforms that track that kind of thing. We crossed the 200 mark within </span><em><span>days</span></em><span> of launch week ending, the Facebook page has now passed a thousand followers, and it shows no signs of stopping.</span></p><p><span>The entire production team was astonished by the strength of your response.</span></p><p><span>&#8220;Thank you&#8221; seems insufficient, but for lack of anything better: thank you!</span></p><p><span>(I&#8217;m also experiencing a very strange kind of time dilation right now. For you, it has been two weeks since I posted my previous article&#8212;perhaps even less than that since you first read it. For me, it has been three months since I wrote its text, having no clue what the turning of the season would bring.</span></p><p><span>(It&#8217;s very surreal to be editing a document in the very same folder, as though I were the very same Danielle Church who wrote the words &#8220;You Are Not Alone&#8221;.)</span></p><h3><span>A New Weekly Schedule</span></h3><p><span>Before I get any further, I&#8217;d like to announce a couple logistical changes for </span><em><span>Unfucking The World</span></em><span>.</span></p><p><span>First, I&#8217;ve shuttered the Discord server, Reddit sub, and Facebook group. I very much appreciate those folks who did poke their heads in, but some very insightful readers correctly pointed out that it would perhaps be a bad idea to keep a centralized list of &#8220;people who are actively working on helping with UTW&#8221; </span><em><span>anywhere</span></em><span>.</span></p><p><span>From now on, you can </span><em><span>follow</span></em><span> UTW (on Substack, Facebook, or Bluesky), and you can </span><em><span>subscribe to</span></em><span> UTW (on Substack, YouTube, or a podcast platform), but I&#8217;m not going to ask you to </span><em><span>join</span></em><span> UTW.</span></p><p><span>That doesn&#8217;t mean you won&#8217;t be hearing from me, though.</span></p><p><span>Starting now, </span><em><span>Unfucking The World</span></em><span> will be moving to a weekly schedule, for as long as I can manage it. I&#8217;ll post one article every Saturday at 12pm Eastern, 9am Pacific, in all formats and both languages.</span></p><p><span>It&#8217;s going to be a bit rocky to start&#8212;the video for this very episode won&#8217;t be going up for a few more days, and neither will the Spanish version&#8212;but I&#8217;ll do my best to keep to that cadence.</span></p><p><span>That&#8217;s enough logistics, though. Last time I asked for questions, and you&#8217;ve certainly had plenty since we launched!</span></p><p><span>By far the most common is:</span></p><blockquote><p><span>&#8220;What can I do? No, actually, specifically, what can I personally do?&#8221;</span></p></blockquote><p><span>Coming up very closely behind that:</span></p><blockquote><p><span>&#8220;You know this will never work, right?&#8221;</span></p></blockquote><p><span>These are both important enough to merit a full article each. I&#8217;ll tackle the first today.</span></p><h2><span>Before We Begin: Two Clarifications</span></h2><p><span>That&#8217;s not all the feedback I&#8217;ve gotten, though, and so I also have a couple of clarifications to make.</span></p><p><span>I may be an author, but that doesn&#8217;t mean I always choose the right words. Sometimes the meaning that comes across isn&#8217;t the one I&#8217;d intended.</span></p><p><span>I consider that a failure on my end. My goal is to spread hope, not fear. If I haven&#8217;t communicated that properly, it&#8217;s my fault, not yours.</span></p><h3><span>What I Mean by a &#8220;System&#8221;</span></h3><p><span>In </span><a href="https://substack.unfuckingtheworld.org/p/what-it-will-take"><span>&#8220;What It Will Take&#8221;</span></a><span>, I introduced the concepts of systems reliability and failure states, using a few examples from across human society: a DMV, a wall clock, and an electric power grid.</span></p><p><span>That made some readers uncomfortable, in this world where our jobs are continually being replaced by machines, and in retrospect that was extremely predictable.</span></p><p><span>In hindsight, I wish I&#8217;d clarified how not all systems are manmade, and not all systems even have a function&#8212;some, like our Solar System, simply </span><em><span>are</span></em><span>.</span></p><p><span>It didn&#8217;t occur to me, though, and so I&#8217;ll just apologize for the discomfort and work on doing better next time.</span></p><h3><span>What I Mean by &#8220;Risk&#8221;</span></h3><p><span>The other slip-up on my part I&#8217;d like to call out is from </span><a href="https://substack.unfuckingtheworld.org/p/no-confidence"><span>&#8220;No Confidence&#8221;</span></a><span>; I mentioned that state legislators would be unlikely to support ratification of the No Confidence Amendment, especially now, because it would be &#8220;too risky&#8221;.</span></p><p><span>I really ought to have clarified the type of risk I meant.</span></p><p><span>The risk is not to the American public, but to the legislators themselves.</span></p><p><span>The last few months before a re-election are an extremely vulnerable time for any politician. That&#8217;s a short enough window that an unpopular decision will still be fresh in voters&#8217; minds when they go to the polls, and that could destroy a political career.</span></p><p><span>As much as they might personally like to help us, as much as they might believe in the principles of No Confidence, acting without the visible, public support of their constituencies could destroy their very livelihood, and I won&#8217;t ask that of anyone.</span></p><p><span>This is one of the ways the system discourages our legislators from acting, even when it would be to our best interests. That culture of caution and inaction is not an isolated phenomenon. As historian L.C. Francis </span><a href="https://lcfrancis.substack.com/p/the-sovereign-executive-the-final"><span>writes</span></a><span>:</span></p><p><span>&#8220;What we are witnessing is a profound structural shift. The House of Representatives, originally tasked with fiercely defending our liberty, now operates with quiet passivity as the executive branch steadily erodes the Constitution&#8217;s foundation.</span></p><p><span>&#8220;The data tells a story that is difficult to ignore. In 2023, elected officials enacted fewer than 100 laws, while federal agencies issued more than 3,000 rules. That imbalance strikes at the core of representative government. It replaces lawmaking with administration and shifts authority away from those accountable to the people.&#8221;</span></p><p><span>When viewed from that perspective, our current stymied Congress is not a </span><em><span>failed</span></em><span> system. It is the system working according to a new design.</span></p><p><span>Our current political system is set up to elect Congress that is at loggerheads; the evidence shows that it has consistently done so.</span></p><p><span>We cannot untie this knot with a system designed to tighten it; we must take hold of it and pick it apart ourselves.</span></p><h2><span>How We Fix Things</span></h2><p><span>That&#8217;s why our first goal is to build support for No Confidence, and based on the response I&#8217;ve seen to UTW so far, it&#8217;s well within our grasp.</span></p><p><span>I spent the month of June learning what does and doesn&#8217;t work to bring new people onboard. It turns out it&#8217;s </span><em><span>really easy,</span></em><span> because most people have been desperately waiting for something like this to come along.</span></p><p><span>All you have to do is be willing to offer people hope.</span></p><p><span>Here&#8217;s how I&#8217;ve been going about it.</span></p><h3><span>Three Steps: Agree, Share, Inform</span></h3><p><span>Every day, I poke around on my social networks, and I look for someone expressing despair about the state of US politics, whether that&#8217;s about the President, or Congress, or the Supreme Court, or any of the big political machinery in this country.</span></p><p><span>I&#8217;ve never had any trouble with this step.</span></p><p><span>Once I find someone who is despairing of things getting better, or frustrated about not being able to do anything, I post a public reply to them, appropriate for the platform.</span></p><p><span>In that reply I do three things.</span></p><h4><span>1. Agree</span></h4><p><span>First, I find something to agree with.</span></p><p><span>This part isn&#8217;t hard, but it is important. Everyone is feeling the pain of living in and/or dealing with this country, but most of us in America were raised into an environment of partisan politics, of thinking of other Americans as our enemies.</span></p><p><span>Partisanship got us into this mess. It will not serve to get us out.</span></p><p><span>Right now, it doesn&#8217;t matter whose fault it is that we got here. It matters that things now are worse than they&#8217;ve ever been.</span></p><p><span>So, when I agree with them, I say what it is I&#8217;m agreeing </span><em><span>with,</span></em><span> both for their benefit and for anyone else who reads the exchange, and I don&#8217;t mention any political party or ideology.</span></p><p><span>Someone who is complaining about conservative Justices on the Supreme Court is complaining that the court has been politicized in the first place, when it was always promised to be politically neutral.</span></p><p><span>Anyone who can&#8217;t stand how Trump is riding roughshod over our rights, institutions, and traditions is upset that Congress has utterly failed in its duty to defend the nation and the Constitution from a disloyal President.</span></p><p><span>If nothing else, one thing that </span><em><span>everyone</span></em><span> agrees on is that the US Government should be more accountable to its citizens than just letting us pick the lesser of two evils every couple years.</span></p><h4><span>2. Share</span></h4><p><span>Second, after agreeing with them that there&#8217;s a problem, I share what I&#8217;m personally doing to address it.</span></p><blockquote><p><span>&#8220;I know, it&#8217;s awful how the Supreme Court gets to do whatever they want without anyone keeping them in check. That&#8217;s why I&#8217;m gathering support for an Amendment that will let the American people throw them out.&#8221;</span></p></blockquote><blockquote><p><span>&#8220;You&#8217;re absolutely right, our electoral system will never give us a Congress that actually cares about Americans. I&#8217;m helping start a movement called </span><em><span>Unfucking The World</span></em><span> that will let us finally change it.&#8221;</span></p></blockquote><blockquote><p><span>&#8220;Yeah, the President can&#8217;t be allowed to keep doing what he&#8217;s doing. The No Confidence Amendment I&#8217;m helping with will cut his term short, once we can get enough support to ratify it.&#8221;</span></p></blockquote><p><span>Or even just:</span></p><blockquote><p><span>&#8220;Yeah, it&#8217;s true, things are really awful right now. I&#8217;ve been listening to a podcast called </span><em><span>Unfucking The World,</span></em><span> and it&#8217;s been giving me hope that we&#8217;ve got a way out of this.&#8221;</span></p></blockquote><p><span>I&#8217;m not telling them what they </span><em><span>must</span></em><span> do; that basically never works on Americans.</span></p><p><span>I&#8217;m not telling them that this is the only way forward; it&#8217;s demonstrably not.</span></p><p><span>I&#8217;m not mentioning either political party, because that will get people on both sides angry, and anger won&#8217;t help us yet.</span></p><p><span>All I&#8217;m saying is that I see the same problem they see, and that I&#8217;m actively doing something about it, right now.</span></p><h4><span>3. Inform</span></h4><p><span>The third and final thing is I let them know how they can find out more, if they want to get involved, so they don&#8217;t have to come right out and ask.</span></p><p><span>The </span><a href="https://utw.vote"><span>UTW.vote</span></a><span> shortlink is handy for this, as is the </span><a href="https://utw.vote/explainer"><span>UTW.vote/explainer</span></a><span> link to the No Confidence text, but sometimes I&#8217;ll link directly to one of the UTW articles or videos that explains more about the topic in question.</span></p><p><span>Other times, I just share the name </span><em><span>Unfucking The World</span></em><span> and say it&#8217;s available both on YouTube and as a podcast.</span></p><p><span>It depends in large part on what platform I&#8217;m on.</span></p><p><span>The key, I&#8217;ve found, is to leave it open-ended and not ask for direct feedback.</span></p><p><span>Right now is not the best time for being political as an American, either online or in person, and so I&#8217;m careful to avoid </span><em><span>asking</span></em><span> people what they are willing to support, even rhetorically.</span></p><p><span>&#8220;Don&#8217;t you want to live in a country where&#8230;?&#8221; gets people defensive.</span></p><p><em><span>&#8220;I</span></em><span> would rather live in a country where&#8230;&#8221; gets people to empathize.</span></p><p><span>I almost never get replies to these comments&#8212;but every time I write one, another one or two subscribers sign up for UTW.</span></p><h3><span>You can do this too.</span></h3><p><span>Once a day or so, when you&#8217;re feeling at your best and ready to deal with the world, go look for some darkness online.</span></p><p><span>When you find it, share just a little bit of light. Just one comment, two or three sentences long.</span></p><p><span>Remember when you do that you are writing not just to this one person, but for anyone who happens to see what you wrote, even if they&#8217;re too shy to speak up.</span></p><p><span>If the person you&#8217;re replying to disagrees with you or doubts you, let them! Being one of the vanishingly few people on the Internet willing to publicly say &#8220;You don&#8217;t have to agree with me, that&#8217;s okay,&#8221; will make your opinions stand out from the crowd basically everywhere.</span></p><p><span>If you&#8217;re not the kind of person that engages with social media, you can do this in person too.</span></p><p><span>It&#8217;s the same three steps:</span></p><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span>Agree. Share. Inform.</span></strong></p></div><p><span>Just once a day, every single day you can scrounge up the energy to do it.</span></p><h3><span>A Tiny Bit Of Hope</span></h3><p><span>It might seem implausible, in the face of everything going wrong in 2026, that something so tiny&#8212;just you bringing a tiny bit of hope into one single person&#8217;s day, as our country of hundreds of millions falls apart around us&#8212;could possibly make a difference on a big enough scale to change things.</span></p><p><span>I&#8217;ll admit that I had trouble believing that, myself, before I launched UTW.</span></p><p><span>All the logic, analysis, and intuition in the world could tell me that No Confidence </span><em><span>is</span></em><span> needed, that America </span><em><span>does</span></em><span> want this, but I just didn&#8217;t have any numbers to back it up.</span></p><p><span>My friend, you are the one who brought me those numbers, and for that I am grateful beyond words.</span></p><p><span>With the kind of support that you demonstrated simply by being willing to listen to someone you&#8217;d never heard of before, you&#8217;ve proven that not only </span><em><span>do</span></em><span> we have the kind of momentum that can build into a movement powerful enough to reshape our government, we can do it faster than anyone, even I, ever imagined.</span></p><h2><span>Next Time</span></h2><p><span>Fair warning, I&#8217;m gonna get a little more into the numbers next time, but I&#8217;ll do my best to keep it interesting.</span></p><p><span>Aside from that, there is one other type of feedback I&#8217;ve heard a few times since I launched UTW which I suppose I should address.</span></p><p><span>I won&#8217;t bother to repeat it here, because it&#8217;s a little too vulgar for </span><em><span>Unfucking The World.</span></em><span> I&#8217;ll just say that the reality where I cared even a fraction of an inkling what anyone wants to call me bears absolutely zero resemblance to this one.</span></p><p><span>Our government is falling to pieces around us and people think I care about </span><em><span>pronouns.</span></em></p><p><span>Please.</span></p><p><span>Right. Aside from that, my friend:</span></p><p><span>Spread hope, but stay safe.</span></p><p style="text-align: right;"><strong><span>Next: </span><a href="https://substack.unfuckingtheworld.org/p/why-this-will-work"><span>Why This Will Work</span></a></strong></p><div><hr></div><p><em><span>Thank you for being part of UTW as we move forward! I&#8217;ve personally found that the practice of consciously finding hope I can share with people every single day has paid off in more ways than just subscriber count: my depression is easier to shrug off when it gets bad, it&#8217;s easier for me to interact with other people in person, and I have more energy for everything I do.</span></em></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://substack.unfuckingtheworld.org/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://substack.unfuckingtheworld.org/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p><em><span>Make sure you&#8217;re subscribed so you don&#8217;t miss the next one, and do me a favor and hit that Like button if you&#8217;re so inclined. UTW is and will always be free, but that means I don&#8217;t have the insight of &#8220;who&#8217;s willing to send me money&#8221; to remind me that what I&#8217;m fighting for is worthwhile to more people than just me.</span></em></p><p><em><span>Questions, challenges, additions, and thoughtful disagreements are encouraged in the comments; bring your good faith, and others will do the same. Today&#8217;s topic: Have you tried advertising No Confidence or UTW to anyone you know, either in person or online? How did it go?</span></em></p><p><em><span>Share this with someone you know who brings light into the world, and stay safe.</span></em></p><p><em><span>&#8211;Danielle</span></em></p><p><em><span>P.S. The UTW production team continues to grow! You might notice this article is a little easier on the eyes and is much better organized than those prior, and as I&#8217;m sure you know by now, that certainly isn&#8217;t in </span></em><span>my</span><em><span> wheelhouse. Share your appreciation in the comments!</span></em></p><p style="text-align: center;"><em>Este art&#237;culo tambi&#233;n est&#225; disponible <a href="https://substack.unfuckingtheworld.org/p/como-puedes-ayudar">en espa&#241;ol</a>.</em></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[You Are Not Alone]]></title><description><![CDATA[What one person can do in the face of overwhelming numbers | Listen now (17 min)]]></description><link>https://substack.unfuckingtheworld.org/p/you-are-not-alone</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://substack.unfuckingtheworld.org/p/you-are-not-alone</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Danielle Church]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2026 11:01:27 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/204342951/abb02c07ea9dddf9f06a0cf3e096d9ec.mp3" length="0" type="audio/mpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Welcome, reader. It&#8217;s good you&#8217;re here.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXsUyamkA38&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Watch on YouTube&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:&quot;button-wrapper&quot;}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary button-wrapper" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXsUyamkA38"><span>Watch on YouTube</span></a></p><p>As I write this article, the date is April 7, 2026. Donald Trump has just committed an unforgivable act of terrorism, threatening an entire nation with obliteration. Social media has erupted; there are calls for impeachment, there are calls for the Vice President to invoke the 25<sup>th</sup> Amendment, there are calls for soldiers to refuse orders to commit war crimes.</p><p><span>Everyone is calling for someone </span><em><span>else</span></em><span> to do something.</span></p><p><span>I understand the impulse. The world is so much bigger than you or me; when something this awful happens, it feels like there&#8217;s nothing we can do about it. All the real decisions get made by people with more power, with more money, or with more connections than us, and it seems like all you or I can hope is that we make enough noise to get their attention and maybe change their minds.</span></p><p><span>This is an optical illusion. It is one of the cruelest tricks the twenty-first century has played on the minds of the human race, and I wish I could do more to stop it than simply teaching you how to defend yourself from it.</span></p><p><span>Have you ever taken a long trip somewhere, but when you finally arrive at your destination it feels like you&#8217;re still traveling? My grandmother used to say that &#8220;your body gets there first but your spirit takes a little while to catch up,&#8221; and as with most old sayings, there&#8217;s a lot of truth in there if you know how to look.</span></p><p><span>To start, the physical explanation. When you travel, you put your body under stress. When you ride a moving vehicle, even as a passenger, your body is constantly making minute adjustments to compensate for how the seat moves under you. It&#8217;s part of what&#8217;s known as &#8220;travel fatigue,&#8221; and it can leave you feeling stressed and exhausted after a long day on the road, even if all you&#8217;ve been doing is sitting still.</span></p><p><span>Then there&#8217;s the mental exhaustion. Our brains are constantly taking in sensory information from outside and filtering it out for us, before it even reaches the level of our conscious awareness. For autistic people like me, that filter can sometimes be a bit faulty, but we all have one; we started building it from the moment we emerged into this blinding, deafening, overwhelming world, when all we could do was scream.</span></p><p><span>As adults, we don&#8217;t even notice the filter, most of the time; it&#8217;s a part of our brain structure that&#8217;s deeper and older than the need for conscious thought. When we&#8217;re in a familiar environment, like our home or office, it excels; most everything around us, it has already seen and categorized as the known, and so the filter doesn&#8217;t need to let it through. That&#8217;s where the &#8220;invisible corner&#8221; of mess in your closet (or at least in mine) comes from; you&#8217;ve already seen it, you know it&#8217;s there, it hasn&#8217;t changed, so it doesn&#8217;t even enter your awareness when you open the door.</span></p><p><span>When you travel, your senses are constantly being bombarded by new and different information. The further you go from home, the more unfamiliar your surroundings, and so the more your filter will let things past, into your conscious awareness. Part of the allure of travel, for those who enjoy it, is that you can </span><em><span>literally</span></em><span> see more of the world when you&#8217;re away from the familiar. The cost of all this additional information, though, is paid in mental energy. In short: travel fatigue.</span></p><p><span>That&#8217;s all well and good for the physical and biochemical explanation, but there&#8217;s more to it than that, as there always is with humans. We are greater than just the sum of our parts; I don&#8217;t care if you call it your spirit, or your soul, or your ineffable consciousness that no science can pinpoint, but each of us has a fundamental sense of </span><em><span>self,</span></em><span> beyond simply our name, our shape, and our skills. That self, that spirit, has an inertia to it; it isn&#8217;t geographical, though, it&#8217;s conceptual.</span></p><p><span>We humans aren&#8217;t very good at adapting to fundamental change, despite being orders of magnitude better at it than most of the species we see around us. We form an image of ourself in our head, and it becomes as much part of our &#8220;familiar environment&#8221; as the invisible corner in the bedroom closet. We grow comfortable with ourselves, with the picture of who we are inside.</span></p><p><span>When you set off on a journey to a new place (and not just on the commute to work), you are making a fundamental, if temporary, change to your view of yourself. You are no longer a person in a routine; you are now a </span><em><span>traveler.</span></em><span> Your old sense of self slowly and gently subsides as you drive, or walk, or ride, out of your home environment; you might start your journey by running through a mental list of all the things you did before leaving home, and you might think about the food still in the fridge when you pass your local grocery store; but by the time you&#8217;ve made it to the next town over, you are now a person thinking about the path you&#8217;re taking and where it will lead you. A traveler.</span></p><p><span>When you reach a destination you&#8217;ve never been to before, there is no similar chance to gradually bring yourself back from that fundamental alignment of spirit before you arrive. One moment you are a traveler; the next you are no longer traveling. The change is imposed from outside rather than from inside, and it jars your sense of self until you have a chance to adjust.</span></p><p><span>My grandmother said it much more succinctly, of course: your body gets there first, but your spirit takes a little while to catch up.</span></p><p><span>The cruel trick of the twenty-first century is a little bit about traveling, and it is a little bit about that fundamental sense of self, and it is a lot about that subconscious filter that I was talking about seven or eight paragraphs ago.</span></p><p><span>The most important thing to remember is that our brains are doing the best they can. They&#8217;re made out of genetic structures dating back millions of years, survival instincts dating back tens of thousands, and societal norms going back centuries, and on top of all that, they have to remember that glowing rectangles are some of the most important objects in the entire world. What I&#8217;m saying is, be gentle with them; they weren&#8217;t designed for this.</span></p><p><span>Of all the differences between the world everyone alive today grew up in, versus the world that the overwhelming majority of humans who ever lived grew up in, our </span><em><span>range</span></em><span> is the one that seems hardest to adjust to, in my experience and observation. If you&#8217;d lived in pre-industrial times, you might suffer travel fatigue like we do today, but you&#8217;d never experience jet lag; it simply wasn&#8217;t possible to travel far enough, fast enough to disrupt your body&#8217;s natural rhythms.</span></p><p><span>You also never knew what was going on a country away, except in the most general terms like &#8220;at war with.&#8221; You rarely knew what was going on even a town away, and the only time the outside world made an impact on your life was when it intruded physically on your hometown, whether in the form of armies, tax collectors, travelers, or the natural world.</span></p><p><span>Thus, there were only ever two kinds of conflict you had to concern yourself with, in those times: conflicts between neighbor and neighbor, and conflicts between your town and the outside world. The first kind of conflict is part of the human condition; wherever there are people, we will squabble with each other. Though these conflicts might grow vicious, even bloody, they remained </span><em><span>small.</span></em><span> It was easy enough for you to see where the conflict started and understand its scope, even if there might have been a debate about exactly </span><em><span>who</span></em><span> it was that started it.</span></p><p><span>The other kind of conflict, in-town versus out-of-town, was one where you always knew who your allies were. They might not have been able to help you&#8212;a swarm of locusts would devour everyone&#8217;s crops equally&#8212;but they would understand, and they would commiserate. Everyone around you shared the same </span><em><span>context</span></em><span> you did, and you saw them, if not every day, then every month at least.</span></p><p><span>Humans are social creatures. We derive stability and safety by staying in community with each other, and we have for tens of thousands of years. All of our instincts tell us to band together in the face of danger, and they also tell us when the danger is too great to face, even all of us together. Way down at the level of that automatic filter, your brain gives you an estimate of how many people stand with you, whenever you find yourself in need of allies.</span></p><p><span>It truly is amazing how we </span><em><span>have</span></em><span> adapted to the twenty-first century. Where we could once only make community with people who live nearby, we can now form groups with people who live further away than most people travel in a lifetime. The deep, old parts of our brains are perfectly happy to treat a profile picture and a username as a close, trusted friend, just as well as they might the smiling face of your next-door neighbor.</span></p><p><span>People can only hold so many &#8220;neighbors&#8221; in their head at once, though. When a community grows larger, either in geographic size or digital population, we necessarily end up only being able to personally remember a smaller and smaller fraction of them, either individually or as a statistic.</span></p><p><span>Do you see it, reader? We get our news from across the entire globe. We are exposed in lurid detail to conflicts greater than any of us can imagine, and in the back of our minds we&#8217;re comparing the entire amount of </span><em><span>us</span></em><span> we&#8217;ve ever met in our whole lives with the number of </span><em><span>them</span></em><span> we see day-to-day in the news, and we come up short. Like the farmer with the locusts, each of us knows in the deep place in our hearts that we are on our own against this onslaught. Doomscrolling is only </span><em><span>one</span></em><span> side-effect of that.</span></p><p><span>I&#8217;ve never had much luck staying away from the news, myself. Even when I try and focus on other things, the state of the world always looms in the back of my mind; it colors all my emotions over the course of the day. When I </span><em><span>do</span></em><span> focus on it, the scale of the injustice in this world is so great it makes me feel utterly, completely insignificant.</span></p><p><span>I can&#8217;t pretend, even to myself, that the greater happenings in our world are anything less than a nightmare. What I remind myself instead, every time the task ahead seems insurmountable, is that whenever I act in any way, it is not only </span><em><span>my</span></em><span> strength that I act with. Whenever I make a decision, it is not only me that makes that decision; it is also the uncountably many others in this world who think as I do, whom I may never meet but who came to the same conclusion I did, for the same reasons. My </span><em><span>cohort.</span></em></p><p><span>When I was in the industry, I got to see firsthand how marketing executives divide the public into cohorts, how each and every view someone might hold an opinion </span>on <span>can be expressed as a percentage of how many of what type of population agree. Even the &#8220;individualist&#8221; crowd is a cohort&#8212;a very lucrative one, for a certain kind of market.</span></p><p><span>I find that archetype to be especially common among us Americans; it demands we each strive to be utterly unique, to be as different from others as we possibly can be, to be singular shining stars in the universe. Perhaps others find more fulfillment in that than I do; personally, I find it comforting to know that, simply due to the sheer number of humans in the world, it is a statistical certainty that there are many, many other people who want the same things I do, who hold the same values important.</span></p><p><span>Take care, however; once you truly understand that your actions count for more than yourself, it can be tempting to punish yourself too harshly for your inactions and your failures. Please resist the impulse. When you come home after your second shift of the day and all you can do is collapse in front of the TV, give yourself that room to collapse. Prioritize yourself when you need to, and know that when you do so you are not just taking care of yourself, you&#8217;re taking care of every member of your cohort. Build your energy up so that when the day comes for us to speak for ourselves, we can do so with a voice like no one has ever heard. Stay </span><em><span>safe,</span></em><span> reader.</span></p><p><span>Stay safe.</span></p><p><span>This will be the last article of </span><em><span>Unfucking The World</span></em><span> that I publish, for a little while. As I write these words, I have not yet published even the first; I have no way to know what kind of reception UTW has enjoyed by the time you&#8217;re reading this. I can only suspect the size of </span><em><span>my</span></em><span> cohort, among those of us who are ready to do the work and make a change; realistically, though, I expect the response has fallen into one of two broad categories.</span></p><p><span>In the first and most likely, UTW has achieved some minor popularity. There are a few comments under each article, maybe even as many as a couple dozen. The online community has attracted some members, but most are inactive; some people find my ideas compelling, and some think they&#8217;re dangerous, but by and large, most treat UTW as an addition to the online discourse, and nothing more. America might want change, but we no longer have the strength to reach out and grab for it.</span></p><p><span>Or.</span></p><p><span>In the second response, America has decided that enough is enough. Maybe the comment sections are as tame as they are above; maybe they&#8217;ve become a flurry of activity, with people debating points back and forth. The real difference, though, is the </span><em><span>community.</span></em><span> It is growing past just a few people with questions into a dedicated group of people from both sides of the aisle who are willing to take action: to make phone calls, to send emails, and to walk up and speak with people in person, to gather the support we need to make our will into a reality.</span></p><p><span>I have to ask for your help now, reader. I have done my best to show you my vision for our future, but you can see better from where you are, now, on the day you&#8217;re reading this, than I can from here in the past. How does it look? Have you and I spoken? I hope so. I hope I&#8217;ve gotten to speak with each and every person who wants to take the world and demand that </span><em><span>it</span></em><span> change to suit </span><em><span>us</span></em><span>, instead of always the other way around.</span></p><p><span>The next chapter of </span><em><span>Unfucking The World</span></em><span> will be written not in words but in action. I&#8217;ll still publish articles, but not as often; I hope to be spending most of my time making things happen and helping you do the same. Send me any burning questions you have, about No Confidence, about Restricted Elections, about the state of the world, even I suppose about me; I&#8217;ll answer as many as I can, in the next article. Stay safe, reader, but also?</span></p><p><span>Kick ass.</span></p><p style="text-align: right;"><strong>Next: <a href="https://substack.unfuckingtheworld.org/p/how-you-can-help">How You Can Help</a></strong></p><div><hr></div><p><em><span>Thank you, thank you, thank you. There is no possible way for me to fully express the gratitude I feel, that you have allowed me to share this dream with you. Regardless of how things change over the coming months, I want you to know that it has been the honor of my life to be so trusted by so many, and I will do everything in my power to ensure that I never betray that.</span></em></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://substack.unfuckingtheworld.org/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://substack.unfuckingtheworld.org/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p><em><span>The next article of </span></em><span>Unfucking The World</span><em><span> will be published two weeks from today, on Saturday, July 18. In the meantime, I&#8217;ll be figuring out what kind of ongoing schedule I can maintain as UTW moves forward, and I&#8217;ll be sure to let you know then. If you haven&#8217;t subscribed yet, be sure to do so.</span></em></p><p><em><span>Questions, challenges, additions, and thoughtful disagreements are encouraged in the comments; bring your good faith, and others will do the same. Today&#8217;s topic: what are you hearing about UTW in the area where you live, whether that&#8217;s in the US or abroad?</span></em></p><p><em><span>It&#8217;s time. Let&#8217;s go.</span></em></p><p><em><span>&#8211;Danielle</span></em></p><p style="text-align: center;"><em>Este art&#237;culo tambi&#233;n est&#225; disponible <a href="https://substack.unfuckingtheworld.org/p/no-estas-solo">en espa&#241;ol</a>.</em></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[No Estás Solo]]></title><description><![CDATA[Lo que una persona puede hacer frente a n&#250;meros abrumadores | Escucha ahora (20 min)]]></description><link>https://substack.unfuckingtheworld.org/p/no-estas-solo</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://substack.unfuckingtheworld.org/p/no-estas-solo</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Danielle Church]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2026 10:59:54 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/204342955/7837e16c13db94c129f2e7c338afb237.mp3" length="0" type="audio/mpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span>Bienvenido, lector. Es bueno que est&#233;s aqu&#237;.</span></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXsUyamkA38&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Ve en YouTube&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXsUyamkA38"><span>Ve en YouTube</span></a></p><p><span>Mientras escribo este art&#237;culo, la fecha es 7 de abril de 2026. Donald Trump acaba de cometer un acto imperdonable de terrorismo, amenazando con la obliteraci&#243;n a toda una naci&#243;n. Las redes sociales han estallado; hay llamados a un impeachment, hay llamados a que el Vicepresidente invoque la 25&#170; Enmienda, hay llamados a que los soldados se nieguen a cumplir &#243;rdenes de cometer cr&#237;menes de guerra.</span></p><p><span>Todos est&#225;n llamando a que alguien </span><em><span>m&#225;s</span></em><span> haga algo.</span></p><p><span>Entiendo el impulso. El mundo es mucho m&#225;s grande que t&#250; o que yo; cuando ocurre algo tan terrible, parece que no hay nada que podamos hacer al respecto. Todas las decisiones reales las toman personas con m&#225;s poder, con m&#225;s dinero o con m&#225;s conexiones que nosotros, y parece que todo lo que t&#250; o yo podemos esperar es hacer suficiente ruido para llamar su atenci&#243;n y tal vez cambiar sus mentes.</span></p><p><span>Esto es una ilusi&#243;n &#243;ptica. Es uno de los trucos m&#225;s crueles que el siglo veintiuno ha jugado en las mentes de la raza humana, y desear&#237;a poder hacer m&#225;s para detenerlo que simplemente ense&#241;arte c&#243;mo defenderte de &#233;l.</span></p><p><span>&#191;Alguna vez has hecho un viaje largo a alg&#250;n lugar, pero cuando finalmente llegas a tu destino sientes que todav&#237;a est&#225;s viajando? Mi abuela sol&#237;a decir que &#8220;tu cuerpo llega primero pero tu esp&#237;ritu tarda un poco en alcanzarlo&#8221;, y como con la mayor&#237;a de los dichos antiguos, hay mucha verdad en eso si sabes c&#243;mo mirarlo.</span></p><p><span>Para empezar, la explicaci&#243;n f&#237;sica. Cuando viajas, sometes a tu cuerpo a estr&#233;s. Cuando vas en un veh&#237;culo en movimiento, incluso como pasajero, tu cuerpo est&#225; constantemente haciendo ajustes minuciosos para compensar c&#243;mo se mueve el asiento debajo de ti. Es parte de lo que se conoce como &#8220;fatiga de viaje&#8221;, y puede dejarte sinti&#233;ndote estresado y exhausto despu&#233;s de un largo d&#237;a en la carretera, incluso si todo lo que has hecho es estar sentado.</span></p><p><span>Luego est&#225; el agotamiento mental. Nuestros cerebros est&#225;n constantemente recibiendo informaci&#243;n sensorial del exterior y filtr&#225;ndola por nosotros, antes incluso de que llegue al nivel de nuestra conciencia. Para las personas autistas como yo, ese filtro a veces puede estar un poco defectuoso, pero todos tenemos uno; empezamos a construirlo desde el momento en que emergimos a este mundo cegador, ensordecedor y abrumador, cuando todo lo que pod&#237;amos hacer era gritar.</span></p><p><span>Como adultos, ni siquiera notamos el filtro la mayor parte del tiempo; es una parte de la estructura de nuestro cerebro que es m&#225;s profunda y m&#225;s antigua que la necesidad de pensamiento consciente. Cuando estamos en un entorno familiar, como nuestra casa u oficina, funciona excelentemente; casi todo lo que nos rodea, ya lo ha visto y categorizado como conocido, por lo que el filtro no necesita dejarlo pasar. De ah&#237; viene la &#8220;esquina invisible&#8221; de desorden en tu armario (o al menos en el m&#237;o); ya la has visto, sabes que est&#225; ah&#237;, no ha cambiado, as&#237; que ni siquiera entra en tu conciencia cuando abres la puerta.</span></p><p><span>Cuando viajas, tus sentidos est&#225;n constantemente siendo bombardeados por informaci&#243;n nueva y diferente. Cuanto m&#225;s te alejas de casa, m&#225;s desconocidos son tus alrededores, y por lo tanto m&#225;s cosas dejar&#225; pasar tu filtro hacia tu conciencia. Parte del atractivo de viajar, para quienes lo disfrutan, es que </span><em><span>literalmente</span></em><span> puedes ver m&#225;s del mundo cuando te alejas de lo familiar. El costo de toda esta informaci&#243;n adicional, sin embargo, se paga en energ&#237;a mental. En resumen: fatiga de viaje.</span></p><p><span>Todo eso est&#225; muy bien para la explicaci&#243;n f&#237;sica y bioqu&#237;mica, pero hay m&#225;s que eso, como siempre lo hay con los humanos. Somos m&#225;s que la simple suma de nuestras partes; no me importa si lo llamas tu esp&#237;ritu, o tu alma, o tu conciencia inefable que ninguna ciencia puede precisar, pero cada uno de nosotros tiene un sentido fundamental de s&#237; </span><em><span>mismo,</span></em><span> m&#225;s all&#225; simplemente de nuestro nombre, nuestra forma y nuestras habilidades. Ese yo, ese esp&#237;ritu, tiene una inercia; no es geogr&#225;fica, sino conceptual.</span></p><p><span>Los humanos no somos muy buenos adapt&#225;ndonos al cambio fundamental, a pesar de ser &#243;rdenes de magnitud mejores en ello que la mayor&#237;a de las especies que vemos a nuestro alrededor. Formamos una imagen de nosotros mismos en nuestra cabeza, y se convierte en parte de nuestro &#8220;entorno familiar&#8221; tanto como la esquina invisible en el armario del dormitorio. Nos sentimos c&#243;modos con nosotros mismos, con la imagen de qui&#233;nes somos por dentro.</span></p><p><span>Cuando te embarcas en un viaje a un lugar nuevo (y no solo en el trayecto al trabajo), est&#225;s haciendo un cambio fundamental, aunque temporal, en tu visi&#243;n de ti mismo. Ya no eres una persona en una rutina; ahora eres un viajero. Tu viejo sentido de ti mismo se desvanece lenta y suavemente mientras conduces, caminas o viajas fuera de tu entorno habitual; puedes comenzar tu viaje repasando mentalmente una lista de todas las cosas que hiciste antes de salir de casa, y puedes pensar en la comida que todav&#237;a est&#225; en el refrigerador cuando pasas por tu supermercado local; pero para cuando llegas a la siguiente ciudad, ahora eres una persona pensando en el camino que est&#225;s tomando y hacia d&#243;nde te llevar&#225;. Un viajero.</span></p><p><span>Cuando llegas a un destino en el que nunca has estado antes, no hay una oportunidad similar de traerte gradualmente de vuelta de ese alineamiento fundamental del esp&#237;ritu antes de llegar. Un momento eres un viajero; al siguiente ya no est&#225;s viajando. El cambio se impone desde afuera en lugar de desde adentro, y sacude tu sentido de ti mismo hasta que tienes la oportunidad de ajustarte.</span></p><p><span>Mi abuela lo dijo mucho m&#225;s sucintamente, por supuesto: tu cuerpo llega primero, pero tu esp&#237;ritu tarda un poco en alcanzarlo.</span></p><p><span>El truco cruel del siglo veintiuno tiene un poco que ver con viajar, y tiene un poco que ver con ese sentido fundamental de s&#237; mismo, y tiene mucho que ver con ese filtro subconsciente del que hablaba hace siete u ocho p&#225;rrafos.</span></p><p><span>Lo m&#225;s importante que hay que recordar es que nuestros cerebros est&#225;n haciendo lo mejor que pueden. Est&#225;n hechos de estructuras gen&#233;ticas que datan de millones de a&#241;os, instintos de supervivencia que datan de decenas de miles de a&#241;os, y normas sociales que se remontan a siglos, y encima de todo eso, tienen que recordar que los rect&#225;ngulos brillantes son algunos de los objetos m&#225;s importantes en todo el mundo. Lo que estoy diciendo es: s&#233; gentil con ellos; no fueron dise&#241;ados para esto.</span></p><p><span>De todas las diferencias entre el mundo en el que creci&#243; todo el mundo vivo hoy, versus el mundo en el que creci&#243; la abrumadora mayor&#237;a de los humanos que alguna vez vivieron, nuestro </span><em><span>rango</span></em><span> es el que parece m&#225;s dif&#237;cil de ajustar, en mi experiencia y observaci&#243;n. Si hubieras vivido en tiempos preindustriales, podr&#237;as sufrir fatiga de viaje como nosotros hoy, pero nunca experimentar&#237;as jet lag; simplemente no era posible viajar lo suficientemente lejos ni lo suficientemente r&#225;pido como para alterar los ritmos naturales de tu cuerpo.</span></p><p><span>Tampoco sab&#237;as lo que estaba pasando en un pa&#237;s lejano, excepto en los t&#233;rminos m&#225;s generales como &#8220;en guerra con&#8221;. Rara vez sab&#237;as lo que estaba pasando incluso en un pueblo lejano, y la &#250;nica vez que el mundo exterior impactaba tu vida era cuando se entromet&#237;a f&#237;sicamente en tu pueblo natal, ya fuera en forma de ej&#233;rcitos, recaudadores de impuestos, viajeros o el mundo natural.</span></p><p><span>Por lo tanto, solo hab&#237;a dos tipos de conflicto con los que ten&#237;as que preocuparte en aquellos tiempos: conflictos entre vecino y vecino, y conflictos entre tu pueblo y el mundo exterior. El primer tipo de conflicto es parte de la condici&#243;n humana; dondequiera que haya personas, nos pelearemos unos con otros. Aunque estos conflictos pudieran volverse viciosos, incluso sangrientos, permanec&#237;an </span><em><span>peque&#241;os.</span></em><span> Era bastante f&#225;cil para ti ver d&#243;nde comenzaba el conflicto y entender su alcance, incluso si pod&#237;a haber debate sobre exactamente </span><em><span>qui&#233;n</span></em><span> lo inici&#243;.</span></p><p><span>El otro tipo de conflicto, el del pueblo contra el exterior, era uno en el que siempre sab&#237;as qui&#233;nes eran tus aliados. Puede que no pudieran ayudarte &#8212;un enjambre de langostas devorar&#237;a las cosechas de todos por igual&#8212;, pero entender&#237;an y te acompa&#241;ar&#237;an en tu pesar. Todos a tu alrededor compart&#237;an el mismo </span><em><span>contexto</span></em><span> que t&#250;, y los ve&#237;as, si no todos los d&#237;as, al menos todos los meses.</span></p><p><span>Los humanos somos criaturas sociales. Derivamos estabilidad y seguridad al permanecer en comunidad unos con otros, y lo hemos hecho durante decenas de miles de a&#241;os. Todos nuestros instintos nos dicen que nos unamos frente al peligro, y tambi&#233;n nos dicen cu&#225;ndo el peligro es demasiado grande para enfrentarlo, incluso todos juntos. Muy abajo, en el nivel de ese filtro autom&#225;tico, tu cerebro te da una estimaci&#243;n de cu&#225;ntas personas est&#225;n contigo, cada vez que te encuentras necesitando aliados.</span></p><p><span>Realmente es asombroso c&#243;mo nos </span><em><span>hemos</span></em><span> adaptado al siglo veintiuno. Donde antes solo pod&#237;amos formar comunidad con personas que viv&#237;an cerca, ahora podemos formar grupos con personas que viven m&#225;s lejos de lo que la mayor&#237;a viaja en toda una vida. Las partes profundas y antiguas de nuestros cerebros est&#225;n perfectamente felices de tratar una foto de perfil y un nombre de usuario como un amigo cercano y de confianza, tan bien como podr&#237;an tratar la cara sonriente de tu vecino de al lado.</span></p><p><span>Sin embargo, las personas solo pueden mantener tantas &#8220;vecinos&#8221; en su cabeza al mismo tiempo. Cuando una comunidad crece m&#225;s, ya sea en tama&#241;o geogr&#225;fico o en poblaci&#243;n digital, necesariamente terminamos solo pudiendo recordar personalmente una fracci&#243;n cada vez m&#225;s peque&#241;a de ellos, ya sea individualmente o como estad&#237;stica.</span></p><p><span>&#191;Lo ves, lector? Recibimos noticias de todo el globo. Estamos expuestos con detalles escabrosos a conflictos mayores de lo que cualquiera de nosotros puede imaginar, y en el fondo de nuestras mentes estamos comparando la cantidad total de </span><em><span>nosotros</span></em><span> que hemos conocido en toda nuestra vida con el n&#250;mero de </span><em><span>ellos</span></em><span> que vemos d&#237;a a d&#237;a en las noticias, y nos quedamos cortos. Como el granjero con las langostas, cada uno de nosotros sabe en ese lugar profundo de nuestro coraz&#243;n que estamos solos contra este embate. El doomscrolling es solo </span><em><span>uno</span></em><span> de los efectos secundarios de eso.</span></p><p><span>Nunca he tenido mucha suerte manteni&#233;ndome alejado de las noticias, yo mismo. Incluso cuando intento concentrarme en otras cosas, el estado del mundo siempre acecha en el fondo de mi mente; ti&#241;e todas mis emociones a lo largo del d&#237;a. Cuando </span><em><span>s&#237;</span></em><span> me concentro en ello, la escala de la injusticia en este mundo es tan grande que me hace sentir completamente, totalmente insignificante.</span></p><p><span>No puedo fingir, ni siquiera ante m&#237; mismo, que los acontecimientos mayores en nuestro mundo son algo menos que una pesadilla. Lo que me recuerdo a m&#237; mismo en su lugar, cada vez que la tarea por delante parece insuperable, es que cada vez que act&#250;o de cualquier manera, no es solo con </span><em><span>mi</span></em><span> fuerza que act&#250;o. Cada vez que tomo una decisi&#243;n, no soy solo yo quien toma esa decisi&#243;n; tambi&#233;n son los incontables otros en este mundo que piensan como yo, a quienes puede que nunca conozca pero que llegaron a la misma conclusi&#243;n que yo, por las mismas razones. Mi </span><em><span>cohorte.</span></em></p><p><span>Cuando estaba en la industria, pude ver de primera mano c&#243;mo los ejecutivos de marketing dividen al p&#250;blico en cohortes, c&#243;mo cada una de las opiniones que alguien pueda tener se puede expresar como un porcentaje de cu&#225;ntos de qu&#233; tipo de poblaci&#243;n est&#225;n de acuerdo. Incluso el grupo de los &#8220;individualistas&#8221; es una cohorte &#8212;una muy lucrativa, para cierto tipo de mercado.</span></p><p><span>Encuentro que ese arquetipo es especialmente com&#250;n entre nosotros los estadounidenses; exige que cada uno se esfuerce por ser completamente &#250;nico, por ser tan diferente de los dem&#225;s como sea posible, por ser estrellas brillantes singulares en el universo. Quiz&#225;s otros encuentren m&#225;s realizaci&#243;n en eso que yo; personalmente, me resulta reconfortante saber que, simplemente debido al enorme n&#250;mero de humanos en el mundo, es una certeza estad&#237;stica que hay muchas, muchas otras personas que quieren las mismas cosas que yo, que consideran importantes los mismos valores.</span></p><p><span>Sin embargo, ten cuidado; una vez que realmente entiendes que tus acciones cuentan por m&#225;s que t&#250; mismo, puede ser tentador castigarte demasiado duramente por tus inacciones y tus fracasos. Por favor, resiste el impulso. Cuando llegas a casa despu&#233;s de tu segundo turno del d&#237;a y todo lo que puedes hacer es derrumbarte frente a la televisi&#243;n, date ese espacio para derrumbarte. Prior&#237;zate a ti mismo cuando lo necesites, y sabe que cuando lo haces no solo est&#225;s cuidando de ti mismo, est&#225;s cuidando de cada miembro de tu cohorte. Construye tu energ&#237;a para que cuando llegue el d&#237;a en que tengamos que hablar por nosotros mismos, podamos hacerlo con una voz como nadie ha o&#237;do jam&#225;s. Mantente a </span><em><span>salvo,</span></em><span> lector.</span></p><p><span>Mantente a salvo.</span></p><p><span>Este ser&#225; el &#250;ltimo art&#237;culo de </span><em><span>Unfucking The World</span></em><span> que publique, por un tiempo. Mientras escribo estas palabras, ni siquiera he publicado el primero; no tengo forma de saber qu&#233; tipo de recepci&#243;n ha tenido UTW para cuando est&#233;s leyendo esto. Solo puedo sospechar el tama&#241;o de </span><em><span>mi</span></em><span> cohorte, entre aquellos de nosotros que estamos listos para hacer el trabajo y generar un cambio; de manera realista, sin embargo, espero que la respuesta haya ca&#237;do en una de dos categor&#237;as amplias.</span></p><p><span>En la primera y m&#225;s probable, UTW ha alcanzado cierta popularidad menor. Hay algunos comentarios debajo de cada art&#237;culo, tal vez incluso hasta un par de docenas. La comunidad en l&#237;nea ha atra&#237;do a algunos miembros, pero la mayor&#237;a est&#225;n inactivos; algunas personas encuentran mis ideas convincentes, y algunas piensan que son peligrosas, pero en general, la mayor&#237;a trata a UTW como una adici&#243;n al discurso en l&#237;nea, y nada m&#225;s. Am&#233;rica puede querer cambio, pero ya no tenemos la fuerza para extender la mano y agarrarlo.</span></p><p><span>O.</span></p><p><span>En la segunda respuesta, Am&#233;rica ha decidido que ya es suficiente. Tal vez las secciones de comentarios sean tan tranquilas como las de arriba; tal vez se hayan convertido en un torbellino de actividad, con personas debatiendo puntos de un lado a otro. La diferencia real, sin embargo, es la </span><em><span>comunidad.</span></em><span> Est&#225; creciendo m&#225;s all&#225; de solo unas pocas personas con preguntas para convertirse en un grupo dedicado de personas de ambos lados del pasillo que est&#225;n dispuestas a tomar acci&#243;n: hacer llamadas telef&#243;nicas, enviar correos electr&#243;nicos, y acercarse a hablar con personas en persona, para reunir el apoyo que necesitamos para convertir nuestra voluntad en realidad.</span></p><p><span>Ahora tengo que pedirte tu ayuda, lector. He hecho lo mejor que pude para mostrarte mi visi&#243;n de nuestro futuro, pero t&#250; puedes ver mejor desde donde est&#225;s ahora, el d&#237;a que est&#225;s leyendo esto, de lo que yo puedo desde aqu&#237; en el pasado. &#191;C&#243;mo se ve? &#191;T&#250; y yo hemos hablado? Eso espero. Espero haber podido hablar con cada una de las personas que quieren tomar el mundo y exigir que </span><em><span>&#233;l</span></em><span> cambie para adaptarse a </span><em><span>nosotros</span></em><span>, en lugar de siempre al rev&#233;s.</span></p><p><span>El pr&#243;ximo cap&#237;tulo de </span><em><span>Unfucking The World</span></em><span> se escribir&#225; no en palabras sino en acci&#243;n. Seguir&#233; publicando art&#237;culos, pero no tan a menudo; espero pasar la mayor parte de mi tiempo haciendo que las cosas sucedan y ayud&#225;ndote a hacer lo mismo. Env&#237;ame cualquier pregunta urgente que tengas, sobre No Confidence, sobre las Elecciones Restringidas, sobre el estado del mundo, incluso supongo que sobre m&#237;; responder&#233; tantas como pueda en el pr&#243;ximo art&#237;culo. Mantente a salvo, lector, pero tambi&#233;n?</span></p><p><span>Patea culos.</span></p><p style="text-align: right;"><strong>Pr&#243;ximo: <a href="https://substack.unfuckingtheworld.org/p/como-puedes-ayudar">C&#243;mo Puedes Ayudar</a></strong></p><div><hr></div><p><em><span>Gracias, gracias, gracias. No hay palabras para expresar plenamente la gratitud que siento por haberme permitido compartir este sue&#241;o contigo. Independientemente de c&#243;mo cambien las cosas en los pr&#243;ximos meses, quiero que sepas que ha sido el mayor honor de mi vida contar con la confianza de tanta gente, y har&#233; todo lo que est&#233; en mi mano para asegurarme de no traicionarla jam&#225;s.</span></em></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://substack.unfuckingtheworld.org/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://substack.unfuckingtheworld.org/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p><em><span>El pr&#243;ximo episodio de &#171;Unfucking The World&#187; se publicar&#225; dentro de dos semanas, el s&#225;bado 18 de julio. Mientras tanto, estar&#233; pensando qu&#233; tipo de calendario puedo mantener a medida que UTW siga adelante, y me asegurar&#233; de comunic&#225;rtelo en su momento. Si a&#250;n no te haces suscrito, no dudes en hacerlo.</span></em></p><p><em><span>Te animamos a que plantees preguntas, retos, aportaciones y desacuerdos constructivos en los comentarios; ven con buena fe y los dem&#225;s har&#225;n lo mismo. El tema de hoy: &#191;qu&#233; se dice sobre UTW en la zona donde vives, ya sea en EE. UU. o en el extranjero?</span></em></p><p><em><span>Es la hora. Vamos all&#225;.</span></em></p><p><em><span>&#8211;Danielle</span></em></p><p style="text-align: center;"><em>This article is also available <a href="https://substack.unfuckingtheworld.org/p/you-are-not-alone">in English</a>.</em></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[No Confidence]]></title><description><![CDATA[How we take America back | Listen now (17 min)]]></description><link>https://substack.unfuckingtheworld.org/p/no-confidence</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://substack.unfuckingtheworld.org/p/no-confidence</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Danielle Church]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 11:01:12 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/204339403/10830ac6113327623b2373904206e789.mp3" length="0" type="audio/mpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span>Welcome, reader, it&#8217;s wonderful to see you again.</span></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4_sZFwvTYo&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Watch on YouTube&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4_sZFwvTYo"><span>Watch on YouTube</span></a></p><p><span>Over the past four articles, I&#8217;ve done my best to show you my vision for our future, to explain how it works, and to convince you that of all the ways we could react to everything that&#8217;s going on in the world right now, </span><em><span>this</span></em><span> one gives us the chance to actually make our voices heard, in a real, lasting way. I hope I&#8217;ve gotten through to you, at least a little, that this is not just a fantasy, and that this isn&#8217;t just words on the Internet.</span></p><p><span>You might have noticed, though, that while I&#8217;ve been talking quite a bit </span><em><span>about</span></em><span> the No Confidence Amendment I drafted, I haven&#8217;t shared its actual text with you yet. That changes now; along with this article, I&#8217;ve posted both the </span><a href="https://UTW.vote/draft"><span>current draft</span></a><span> of the text and an </span><a href="https://UTW.vote/explainer"><span>explainer</span></a><span> that lays each point out in plain language.</span></p><p><span>I lay no claim to being perfect. I can see the corruption in our government, and I can see what it will take to free ourselves from it, but I&#8217;m only one person, and I can&#8217;t see </span><em><span>everything&#8212;</span></em><span>I need your eyes, too, reader. Please look over the explainer and think about what it will mean to you. Imagine how your state might implement Restricted Elections; I&#8217;ve done my best to ensure that there is no way to bias the outcome and still meet the requirements, but I&#8217;ll be a lot happier if I have you and everyone else to check my work.</span></p><p><span>If you have a legal background, please check the draft text as well; is there anything that I or my reviewers have missed that might cause problems or delays? We&#8217;re trying something very new here already, and if I&#8217;ve missed sanding down any of the rough spots, any amount of friction could be enough to keep us from achieving our goal.</span></p><p><span>In order to make No Confidence a part of our Constitution and unfuck US politics, we need the legislatures of thirty-eight of the fifty states to agree that it&#8217;s a good idea. We need them to agree that things are </span><em><span>so</span></em><span> bad right now that it is worth trying to do something that we&#8217;ve never tried before. That magic number is our target. If we make it to 38 ratifications, we </span><em><span>win</span></em><span>. History changes course; the future grows brighter. The work continues, of course, because there&#8217;s so much else that needs unfucking, but we will have taken a solid first step towards a better world.</span></p><p><span>The flip side of that coin, of course, is that it only takes thirteen states to block No Confidence. Only thirteen states have to decide that doing something like this, especially </span><em><span>now</span></em><span> of all times, right before midterm elections, is just too risky&#8212;and we lose our chance. If we were to put the question of ratification to them now, on the day I post this article, I fully expect </span><em><span>all</span></em><span> of them would decide that.</span></p><p><span>We&#8217;re going to change their minds. We&#8217;re going to do that </span><em><span>before</span></em><span> the question gets put to them as a whole, before they have to take a public stance one way or another, before they&#8217;ve even gotten word that a new Amendment to the Constitution is on the table. We&#8217;re going to let each and every one of our representatives in the state legislatures know that No Confidence is coming, and that when the question </span><em><span>is</span></em><span> put to them later this year, they must support it, or they will lose the</span><em><span> confidence </span></em><span>of their constituents.</span></p><p><span>Did you know, that of the 7,386 seats in the legislatures of the fifty United States, all but around 800 of them are up for re-election this November?</span></p><p><span>So there&#8217;s our first goal, reader, and we&#8217;ve only got a few months to do it in. We need to till the fields and sow our seeds </span><em><span>now,</span></em><span> if we&#8217;re to have any chance of them sprouting in time to help us. You and I can&#8217;t do it on our own, of course, but we have help&#8212;everyone else who subscribes to </span><em><span>Unfucking The World</span></em><span> also wants a brighter future for us all. We may not agree on anything else besides that, but that&#8217;s enough.</span></p><p><span>I can&#8217;t possibly come up with a strategy comprehensive enough to sway enough people in this country to make No Confidence a reality by November, but thankfully, I don&#8217;t need to. You know your community better than I do, reader. What is important to them? What can you say to your neighbors that will make them enthusiastic for No Confidence?</span></p><p><span>We could never have managed something like this in the eighteenth century, nor the nineteenth nor even the twentieth, but this is the twenty-first. Your online connections allow you to spread the word from community to community, skipping all across the United States and beyond, completely unbound by geography; your in-person connections allow you to build support within your community, until your voice is loud enough that those you&#8217;ve elected to represent you have no choice but to listen. Until </span><em><span>our</span></em><span> voices are loud enough that every single state legislator knows that when the question is finally asked of them, they must say </span><em><span>yes</span></em><span> without hesitation.</span></p><p><span>Now I have a question for you, reader, and I want you to take some time to think carefully about it. Consider the shape of your life, right now, today. Think about your obligations and your opportunities, about where you go to have fun and what you do to wind down. Where does No Confidence fit in that tapestry? What kind of energy can you bring to our fight, without spending so much of yourself that you don&#8217;t have enough left for the rest of your life? The point of community is that no person should ever have to shoulder a burden heavier than they can carry, and that goes for activism just as much as for labor.</span></p><p><span>Maybe you have just a little bit of energy, here and there, but your schedule is completely packed. You can help. Reach out to your friends online; post on your socials; chat with your coworkers on your lunch break. Tell them about No Confidence yourself, if you like; if they&#8217;re as enthusiastic for a change as you are, they&#8217;ll be delighted to hear the good news from you. If politics isn&#8217;t something you feel like talking about, then just tell them about </span><em><span>Unfucking The World.</span></em><span> Let them come to their own conclusions.</span></p><p><span>Maybe you have a little bit of free time on your days off, and you want to devote some of your time to doing something worthwhile. You can help. </span><a href="https://UTW.vote/flyers"><span>Print out flyers</span></a><span>, if you have the means; spread the word amongst your community where you live. Walk outside; say hi to your neighbors, and give them the good news that this horror show is finally about to end. Call your state legislators and tell them you support the No Confidence Amendment, and that you expect them to do the same when it&#8217;s time.</span></p><p><span>Maybe you, like me, have reached the point where </span><em><span>not</span></em><span> doing anything hurts more than anything else. You can help, I promise. Join one of the online communities organizing for No Confidence, or start your own; I&#8217;ve started a couple myself, but I can&#8217;t possibly organize everything on my own. Start a local activist group in your community. Set up a meeting to speak with your state legislator in person; print out one of the No Confidence explainers to bring along, since they probably won&#8217;t have even heard of it yet. Tell them in your own words why we need this change so badly.</span></p><p><span>Maybe you don&#8217;t have anything to spare, and even reading this newsletter feels like a stretch. You are </span><em><span>already</span></em><span> helping. No political movement in world history has ever attempted to gain so much support as quickly as we must, to show the politicians how serious we are. In order to do that, we must demonstrate to the </span><em><span>algorithms</span></em><span> how serious we are, so that they start spreading the word themselves. In short: we must go viral. Even if all you can do is subscribe to the newsletter and hit the like button, you are making a difference in our fight. You are doing enough.</span></p><p><span>Never doubt that we will face opposition, and not just from those who have something to gain from the existing corruption in our government. No Confidence is a drastic step, the likes of which have never been seen in our country&#8217;s history, and I don&#8217;t blame </span><em><span>anyone</span></em><span> for being nervous about it upon first encountering the idea. I&#8217;ve done my best to help you understand both why it&#8217;s necessary and what makes it our best option; I&#8217;d like to think that the fact that you&#8217;re still reading means I&#8217;ve succeeded, at least a little.</span></p><p><span>We </span><em><span>can</span></em><span> do this, reader. We have only seven thousand minds to change, and there are so many more of </span><em><span>us</span></em><span> than there are of </span><em><span>them.</span></em><span> The strategy is simple: we each ask our state legislators to support No Confidence. If they say no, we go and talk to our neighbors and we bring them on board, and then we ask again. If they continue to say no, when we bring more and more people to tell them that we need this? Well then, by that point we&#8217;ll have enough people this November to replace them with someone who will listen.</span></p><p><span>And if you </span><em><span>are</span></em><span> a state legislator, reader? First off, </span><em><span>thank you</span></em><span>. You do so much of the work every day that actually keeps our country running smoothly, and you do it without the fame and prestige that come along with being elected to Congress. Our country works best when all of its powers are balanced, and we&#8217;re seeing the effects now of what happens at the federal level when too much of the power has shifted over to the White House, away from Congress and the courts.</span></p><p><span>There&#8217;s another balance in this country, between the central authority of the Federal Government and the inherent sovereignty of the States, and it has been tipping steadily towards the centralization of power for hundreds of years. It&#8217;s time we start dragging the needle back in the other direction. We must remind the Federal Government that </span><em><span>its</span></em><span> mandate comes from you, and that </span><em><span>your</span></em><span> mandate comes directly from the people, and we finally have a way to do that.</span></p><p><span>As long as we have the numbers, the state legislators </span><em><span>will</span></em><span> be on our side. Their constituencies are small enough, and the bar for entry in running for office is low enough, that they simply can&#8217;t afford to ignore a growing movement in their district the way a member of Congress can&#8212;not that I expect it would ever come to that. All </span><em><span>you</span></em><span> need to worry about in order for us to have our victory is spreading the word as far and as fast as you possibly can: it&#8217;s finally time.</span></p><p><span>I&#8217;ll be working on the other half of the equation, because that </span><em><span>is</span></em><span> a job that one person can do. The states can&#8217;t amend the Constitution on their own; the amendment must be </span><em><span>proposed</span></em><span> in order to be ratified, and that task requires the cooperation of Congress.</span></p><p><span>Would you like to know what I was best-known for, reader? Back when I was an architect, when I was the last resort before my company lost millions of dollars? I told you before that I was good at finding the answers to any technical problems that came along, but it went beyond that. Other people at my company knew as much about our software as I did, but I could </span><em><span>explain</span></em><span> problems like no one else could.</span></p><p><span>Time and time again, I was called into meetings with CEOs, CTOs, executives, and finance officers, and the pattern was the same each and every time: their voices would start out hostile, suspicious, uncertain. (This was before Zoom let us see everyone&#8217;s faces during teleconferences.) I would answer every single question they had, and I would explain why our solution was the best option for them in particular, and why whatever problem they&#8217;d been worried about wasn&#8217;t going to impact their bottom line. And every single time, once I was finished, the voices I heard were all warmth and relief. It was one of my very favorite parts of that job, hearing the relief in a person&#8217;s voice when someone made a problem they were worrying about disappear in front of their eyes.</span></p><p><span>What every single one of those executives wanted was reassurance that the decisions they had made, or were making, or were going to make, were good ones, choices that would help their company thrive. They were nervous, thinking that if they worked with us, they wouldn&#8217;t have access to the expertise and support they needed, when anything went wrong. All they needed was to see that we, as a company, could handle anything that went wrong&#8212;so I showed them that, even in the worst-case scenario, I could pinpoint what was broken, fix the immediate problem, and commit on the spot to ensuring that it would never fail in that way again. I could do that, because I had expertise, and I had confidence, and I had the reputation and influence that came from being a top architect at my company, which I&#8217;d spent years and years building.</span></p><p><span>I still have the confidence. I still have the expertise&#8212;the particular domain I worked in was software, but the skills I developed were more generic than that. They allow me to look at a system, any kind of system, and see how it should work when things are going right, and where the most likely points of failure are, and what types of vulnerabilities it must be cautious of. The one thing I lack is the reputation; they have no </span><em><span>reason</span></em><span> to listen to me.</span></p><p><span>You are my solution, reader, and I will do everything in my power to be yours. As long as our numbers continue to grow, you will be giving </span><em><span>my</span></em><span> voice more weight; you will make it impossible for them to ignore me when I knock on their doors. When I tell them about the change that is coming, how they are vulnerable to it, and what they can best do to protect themselves, your presence behind me in that room will give them no choice but to take me seriously. When the words &#8220;No Confidence&#8221; grace the front page of every newspaper in the country, they will know that the time has finally come, and their only choice is whether to help us themselves or be replaced by someone who will.</span></p><p><span>I promise you, reader. You deliver me the States, and I will deliver you Congress. It might take a week to gather that kind of support; it might take months; it might require us to follow through on our intentions to vote against our state legislators in November. (I have the easy job. A member of Congress who stands against the will of their State does not last long in Congress; I only need to remind them of that.) There are only two questions left to be answered, and I can&#8217;t answer them without your help:</span></p><p><span>How loud will our voice grow? And, how long will it take us to grow it?</span></p><p><span>I have one more bit of wisdom to share with you, but it&#8217;s going to take a little while to explain, so I&#8217;ll leave that for next time.</span></p><p><span>Until then, and always: stay safe.</span></p><h5 style="text-align: right;">Next: <a href="https://substack.unfuckingtheworld.org/p/you-are-not-alone">You Are Not Alone</a></h5><div><hr></div><p><em><span>Thank you for being part of the fight. Today, July 3, marks six months from the day when President Trump had President Maduro kidnapped from Venezuela, and thus today also marks six months from the day I realized the No Confidence Amendment I&#8217;d drafted a month prior actually stood a chance.</span></em></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://UTW.vote/resources&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Get The Word Out&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://UTW.vote/resources"><span>Get The Word Out</span></a></p><p><em><span>You have the data, now. You know why there is reason to hope, and also why that can&#8217;t be a passive, idle hope, it must be one we grab onto with both hands and don&#8217;t let go. Use everything I&#8217;ve shared with you, and come up with ideas of your own for how to promote UTW. Make flyers. Record videos. Write songs. Get your neighbors involved. I&#8217;ll highlight the efforts of the community at </span><a href="https://utw.vote"><span>UTW.vote</span></a><span>, so that you can see you aren&#8217;t alone.</span></em></p><p><em><span>Questions, challenges, additions, and thoughtful disagreements are encouraged in the comments; bring your good faith, and others will do the same. Today&#8217;s topic: what are you, personally, planning to do to support No Confidence?</span></em></p><p><em><span>Share this with everyone you know, and stay safe.</span></em></p><p><em><span>&#8211;Danielle</span></em></p><p style="text-align: center;"><em>Esta art&#237;culo tambi&#233;n esta disponible <a href="https://substack.unfuckingtheworld.org/p/accion-de-censura">en espa&#241;ol</a>.</em></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Acción De Censura]]></title><description><![CDATA[C&#243;mo recuperamos Am&#233;rica | Escucha ahora (19 min)]]></description><link>https://substack.unfuckingtheworld.org/p/accion-de-censura</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://substack.unfuckingtheworld.org/p/accion-de-censura</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Danielle Church]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 10:59:31 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/204339410/afd830a0fd02b0b084bafe9c73fa1ee1.mp3" length="0" type="audio/mpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Bienvenido, lector, es maravilloso verte de nuevo.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4_sZFwvTYo&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Ve en YouTube&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:&quot;button-wrapper&quot;}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary button-wrapper" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4_sZFwvTYo"><span>Ve en YouTube</span></a></p><p>A lo largo de los &#250;ltimos cuatro art&#237;culos, he hecho todo lo posible por mostrarte mi visi&#243;n para nuestro futuro, explicarte c&#243;mo funciona y convencerte de que, de todas las formas en que podr&#237;amos reaccionar a todo lo que est&#225; ocurriendo en el mundo en este momento, <em>esta</em> nos da la oportunidad de hacer que nuestras voces se escuchen de verdad, de una manera real y duradera. Espero haber logrado transmitirte, al menos un poco, que esto no es solo una fantas&#237;a y que no se trata solo de palabras en Internet.</p><p>Sin embargo, es posible que hayas notado que, aunque he hablado bastante <em>sobre</em> la Enmienda No Confidence que redact&#233;, todav&#237;a no te he compartido su texto real. Eso cambia ahora; junto con este art&#237;culo, he publicado tanto el <a href="https://UTW.vote/draft">borrador actual</a> del texto como un <a href="https://UTW.vote/explainer">explicador</a> que detalla cada punto en lenguaje sencillo.</p><p>No pretendo ser perfecta. Puedo ver la corrupci&#243;n en nuestro gobierno y puedo ver lo que har&#225; falta para liberarnos de ella, pero soy solo una persona y no puedo verlo <em>todo;</em> tambi&#233;n necesito tus ojos, lector. Por favor, revisa el explicador y piensa en lo que significar&#225; para ti. Imagina c&#243;mo tu estado podr&#237;a implementar las Elecciones Restringidas; he hecho todo lo posible para garantizar que no haya forma de sesgar el resultado y aun as&#237; cumplir con los requisitos, pero estar&#233; mucho m&#225;s feliz si te tengo a ti y a todos los dem&#225;s para revisar mi trabajo.</p><p>Si tienes formaci&#243;n jur&#237;dica, por favor revisa tambi&#233;n el borrador del texto; &#191;hay algo que yo o mis revisores hayamos pasado por alto que podr&#237;a causar problemas o retrasos? Ya estamos intentando algo muy nuevo aqu&#237;, y si me he dejado alg&#250;n borde &#225;spero sin pulir, cualquier fricci&#243;n podr&#237;a ser suficiente para impedirnos alcanzar nuestro objetivo.</p><p>Para que No Confidence forme parte de nuestra Constituci&#243;n y para unfuck la pol&#237;tica de EE.UU., necesitamos que las legislaturas de treinta y ocho de los cincuenta estados acuerden que es una buena idea. Necesitamos que acuerden que las cosas est&#225;n <em>tan</em> mal en este momento que vale la pena intentar hacer algo que nunca antes hemos intentado. Ese n&#250;mero m&#225;gico es nuestro objetivo. Si llegamos a 38 ratificaciones, <em>ganamos.</em> La historia cambia de rumbo; el futuro se vuelve m&#225;s brillante. El trabajo contin&#250;a, por supuesto, porque hay mucho m&#225;s que unfuck, pero habremos dado un s&#243;lido primer paso hacia un mundo mejor.</p><p>La otra cara de la moneda, por supuesto, es que solo se necesitan trece estados para bloquear No Confidence. Solo trece estados tienen que decidir que hacer algo como esto, especialmente <em>ahora</em> de todos los momentos, justo antes de las elecciones de mitad de per&#237;odo, es simplemente demasiado arriesgado, y perdemos nuestra oportunidad. Si les plante&#225;ramos la cuesti&#243;n de la ratificaci&#243;n ahora, el d&#237;a en que publico este art&#237;culo, espero plenamente que <em>todos</em> ellos decidan que s&#237;.</p><p>Vamos a cambiar sus mentes. Vamos a hacerlo antes de que la cuesti&#243;n se les plantee como conjunto, antes de que tengan que tomar una postura p&#250;blica de un modo u otro, antes de que siquiera se enteren de que hay una nueva Enmienda a la Constituci&#243;n sobre la mesa. Vamos a hacer que cada uno de nuestros representantes en las legislaturas estatales sepa que No Confidence est&#225; llegando y que, cuando la cuesti&#243;n se les plantee m&#225;s adelante este a&#241;o, deben apoyarla o perder&#225;n la <em>confianza</em> de sus electores.</p><p>&#191;Sab&#237;as que, de los 7,386 esca&#241;os en las legislaturas de los cincuenta Estados Unidos, todos menos alrededor de 800 est&#225;n en juego para la reelecci&#243;n este noviembre?</p><p>As&#237; que ah&#237; est&#225; nuestro primer objetivo, lector, y solo tenemos unos pocos meses para lograrlo. Necesitamos arar los campos y sembrar nuestras semillas <em>ahora,</em> si queremos tener alguna posibilidad de que broten a tiempo para ayudarnos. T&#250; y yo no podemos hacerlo solos, por supuesto, pero tenemos ayuda: todos los dem&#225;s que se suscriban a <em>Unfucking The World</em> tambi&#233;n quieren un futuro m&#225;s brillante para todos nosotros. Puede que no estemos de acuerdo en nada m&#225;s aparte de eso, pero eso es suficiente.</p><p>No puedo concebir una estrategia lo suficientemente completa como para influir en suficientes personas en este pa&#237;s para hacer de No Confidence una realidad en noviembre, pero afortunadamente no necesito hacerlo. T&#250; conoces tu comunidad mejor que yo, lector. &#191;Qu&#233; es importante para ellos? &#191;Qu&#233; puedes decirles a tus vecinos que los haga entusiasmarse con No Confidence?</p><p>Nunca habr&#237;amos podido lograr algo como esto en el siglo dieciocho, ni en el diecinueve, ni siquiera en el veinte; pero este es el siglo veintiuno. Tus conexiones en l&#237;nea te permiten difundir la palabra de comunidad en comunidad, saltando por todos los Estados Unidos y m&#225;s all&#225;, completamente libres de la geograf&#237;a; tus conexiones en persona te permiten construir apoyo dentro de tu comunidad, hasta que tu voz sea lo suficientemente fuerte como para que aquellos a quienes elegiste para representarte no tengan m&#225;s remedio que escuchar. Hasta que <em>nuestras</em> voces sean lo suficientemente fuertes como para que cada legislador estatal sepa que, cuando finalmente se les haga la cuesti&#243;n, deben decir <em>s&#237;</em> sin dudarlo.</p><p>Ahora tengo una pregunta para ti, lector, y quiero que te tomes un tiempo para pensarla con cuidado. Considera la forma de tu vida, justo ahora, hoy. Piensa en tus obligaciones y en tus oportunidades, en d&#243;nde vas a divertirte y en qu&#233; haces para relajarte. &#191;D&#243;nde encaja No Confidence en ese tapiz? &#191;Qu&#233; tipo de energ&#237;a puedes aportar a nuestra lucha, sin gastar tanto de ti mismo que no te quede suficiente para el resto de tu vida? El punto de la comunidad es que ninguna persona deber&#237;a tener que cargar nunca con una carga m&#225;s pesada de la que puede llevar, y eso vale tanto para el activismo como para el trabajo.</p><p>Tal vez tengas solo un poco de energ&#237;a, aqu&#237; y all&#225;, pero tu horario est&#225; completamente lleno. Puedes ayudar. Contacta con tus amigos en l&#237;nea; publica en tus redes sociales; charla con tus compa&#241;eros de trabajo en tu pausa para el almuerzo. Cu&#233;ntales t&#250; mismo sobre No Confidence, si quieres; si est&#225;n tan entusiasmados con un cambio como t&#250;, se alegrar&#225;n de o&#237;r la buena noticia de ti. Si la pol&#237;tica no es algo de lo que te apetezca hablar, entonces solo cu&#233;ntales sobre <em>Unfucking The World.</em> Deja que lleguen a sus propias conclusiones.</p><p>Tal vez tengas un poco de tiempo libre en tus d&#237;as de descanso y quieras dedicar parte de tu tiempo a hacer algo que valga la pena. Puedes ayudar. <a href="https://UTW.vote/flyers">Imprime folletos</a>, si tienes los medios; difunde la palabra entre tu comunidad donde vives. Sal a caminar; saluda a tus vecinos y dales la buena noticia de que este espect&#225;culo de horror finalmente est&#225; a punto de terminar. Llama a tus legisladores estatales y diles que apoyas la Enmienda No Confidence y que esperas que ellos hagan lo mismo cuando llegue el momento.</p><p>Tal vez t&#250;, como yo, hayas llegado al punto en el que <em>no</em> hacer nada duele m&#225;s que cualquier otra cosa. Puedes ayudar, te lo prometo. &#218;nete a una de las comunidades en l&#237;nea que se est&#225;n organizando para No Confidence, o inicia la tuya; yo mismo he iniciado un par, pero no puedo organizar todo solo. Inicia un grupo activista local en tu comunidad. Organiza una reuni&#243;n para hablar en persona con tu legislador estatal; imprime un explicador de No Confidence para llevarlo, ya que probablemente ni siquiera haya o&#237;do hablar de &#233;l todav&#237;a. Diles con tus propias palabras por qu&#233; necesitamos tanto este cambio.</p><p>Tal vez no tengas nada que puedas dar y hasta leer este bolet&#237;n te parezca un esfuerzo. Ya <em>est&#225;s</em> ayudando. Ning&#250;n movimiento pol&#237;tico en la historia del mundo ha intentado nunca ganar tanto apoyo tan r&#225;pido como nosotros debemos hacerlo, para mostrarles a los pol&#237;ticos lo serios que somos. Para lograr eso, debemos demostrarles a los <em>algoritmos</em> lo serios que somos, para que ellos mismos empiecen a difundir la palabra. En resumen: debemos volvernos virales. Incluso si todo lo que puedes hacer es suscribirte al bolet&#237;n y darle al bot&#243;n de &#8220;me gusta&#8221;, est&#225;s marcando la diferencia en nuestra lucha. Est&#225;s haciendo lo suficiente.</p><p>Nunca dudes que enfrentaremos oposici&#243;n, y no solo de aquellos que tienen algo que ganar con la corrupci&#243;n existente en nuestro gobierno. No Confidence es un paso dr&#225;stico, como nunca se ha visto en la historia de nuestro pa&#237;s, y no culpo a <em>nadie</em> por ponerse nervioso al encontrarse por primera vez con la idea. He hecho todo lo posible por ayudarte a entender tanto por qu&#233; es necesario como qu&#233; lo convierte en nuestra mejor opci&#243;n; me gustar&#237;a pensar que el hecho de que sigas leyendo significa que lo he logrado, al menos un poco.</p><p>Podemos hacerlo, lector. Solo tenemos que cambiar siete mil mentes, y hay muchos m&#225;s de nosotros que de <em>ellos.</em> La estrategia es sencilla: cada uno de nosotros le pide a sus legisladores estatales que apoyen No Confidence. Si dicen que no, vamos y hablamos con nuestros vecinos y los incorporamos, y luego volvemos a preguntar. Si siguen diciendo que no, cuando traigamos a m&#225;s y m&#225;s personas para decirles que necesitamos esto&#8230; bueno, para entonces ya tendremos suficientes personas este noviembre como para reemplazarlos con alguien que est&#233; dispuesto a escuchar.</p><p>&#191;Y si <em>eres</em> un legislador estatal, lector? En primer lugar, <em>gracias.</em> Haces gran parte del trabajo todos los d&#237;as que realmente mantiene a nuestro pa&#237;s funcionando sin problemas, y lo haces sin la fama y el prestigio que conlleva ser elegido para el Congreso. Nuestro pa&#237;s funciona mejor cuando todos sus poderes est&#225;n equilibrados, y ahora estamos viendo los efectos de lo que sucede a nivel federal cuando demasiada parte del poder se ha desplazado hacia la Casa Blanca, lejos del Congreso y los tribunales.</p><p>Hay otro equilibrio en este pa&#237;s, entre la autoridad central del Gobierno Federal y la soberan&#237;a inherente de los Estados, y ha estado inclin&#225;ndose constantemente hacia la centralizaci&#243;n del poder durante cientos de a&#241;os. Es hora de que empecemos a arrastrar la aguja en la otra direcci&#243;n. Debemos recordarle al Gobierno Federal que su mandato proviene de ti, y que tu mandato proviene directamente del pueblo, y finalmente tenemos una forma de hacerlo.</p><p>Mientras tengamos los n&#250;meros, los legisladores estatales <em>s&#237;</em> estar&#225;n de nuestro lado. Sus distritos son lo suficientemente peque&#241;os y el umbral para postularse a un cargo es lo suficientemente bajo como para que simplemente no puedan permitirse ignorar un movimiento creciente en su distrito de la forma en que puede hacerlo un miembro del Congreso; no es que espere que alguna vez llegue a eso. Todo lo que <em>t&#250;</em> necesitas preocuparte para que tengamos nuestra victoria es difundir la palabra tan lejos y tan r&#225;pido como puedas: finalmente ha llegado el momento.</p><p>Yo estar&#233; trabajando en la otra mitad de la ecuaci&#243;n, porque ese <em>es</em> un trabajo que una persona puede hacer. Los estados no pueden enmendar la Constituci&#243;n por s&#237; solos; la enmienda debe ser propuesta para ser ratificada, y esa tarea requiere la cooperaci&#243;n del Congreso.</p><p>&#191;Te gustar&#237;a saber de qu&#233; era m&#225;s conocida, lector? Cuando era arquitecto, cuando era el &#250;ltimo recurso antes de que mi empresa perdiera millones de d&#243;lares. Te dije antes que era bueno encontrando respuestas a cualquier problema t&#233;cnico que surgiera, pero iba m&#225;s all&#225; de eso. Otras personas en mi empresa sab&#237;an tanto sobre nuestro software como yo, pero yo pod&#237;a <em>explicar</em> los problemas como nadie m&#225;s pod&#237;a.</p><p>Una y otra vez, me llamaban a reuniones con directores ejecutivos, directores de tecnolog&#237;a, ejecutivos y oficiales de finanzas, y el patr&#243;n era el mismo cada vez: sus voces comenzaban hostiles, sospechosas, inseguras. (Esto era antes de que Zoom nos permitiera ver las caras de todos durante las teleconferencias). Yo respond&#237;a cada una de sus preguntas y explicaba por qu&#233; nuestra soluci&#243;n era la mejor opci&#243;n para ellos en particular y por qu&#233; cualquier problema que les preocupara no iba a afectar su resultado final. Y cada vez, una vez que terminaba, las voces que escuchaba eran todo calidez y alivio. Era una de mis partes favoritas de ese trabajo, escuchar el alivio en la voz de una persona cuando alguien hac&#237;a desaparecer un problema que les preocupaba frente a sus ojos.</p><p>Lo que cada uno de esos ejecutivos quer&#237;a era la seguridad de que las decisiones que hab&#237;an tomado, o estaban tomando, o iban a tomar, eran buenas, elecciones que ayudar&#237;an a que su empresa prosperara. Estaban nerviosos, pensando que si trabajaban con nosotros no tendr&#237;an acceso a la experiencia y el apoyo que necesitaban cuando algo saliera mal. Todo lo que necesitaban era ver que nosotros, como empresa, pod&#237;amos manejar cualquier cosa que saliera mal; as&#237; que les mostr&#233; que, incluso en el peor de los escenarios, yo pod&#237;a identificar qu&#233; estaba roto, solucionar el problema inmediato y comprometerme en el acto a asegurar que nunca volver&#237;a a fallar de esa manera. Pod&#237;a hacerlo porque ten&#237;a experiencia, ten&#237;a confianza y ten&#237;a la reputaci&#243;n e influencia que ven&#237;a de ser un arquitecto principal en mi empresa, que hab&#237;a pasado a&#241;os y a&#241;os construyendo.</p><p>Todav&#237;a tengo la confianza. Todav&#237;a tengo la experiencia; el dominio particular en el que trabajaba era el software, pero las habilidades que desarroll&#233; eran m&#225;s gen&#233;ricas que eso. Me permiten mirar un sistema, cualquier tipo de sistema, y ver c&#243;mo deber&#237;a funcionar cuando las cosas van bien, y d&#243;nde est&#225;n los puntos de falla m&#225;s probables, y qu&#233; tipos de vulnerabilidades debe tener cuidado. Lo &#250;nico que me falta es la reputaci&#243;n; no tienen <em>motivo</em> para escucharme.</p><p>T&#250; eres mi soluci&#243;n, lector, y har&#233; todo lo que est&#233; en mi poder para ser la tuya. Mientras nuestros n&#250;meros sigan creciendo, le estar&#225;s dando m&#225;s peso a <em>mi</em> voz; har&#225;s que sea imposible para ellos ignorarme cuando llame a sus puertas. Cuando les hable del cambio que viene, de c&#243;mo son vulnerables a &#233;l y de qu&#233; pueden hacer mejor para protegerse, tu presencia detr&#225;s de m&#237; en esa sala les dar&#225; no m&#225;s remedio que tomarme en serio. Cuando las palabras &#8220;No Confidence&#8221; aparezcan en la portada de todos los peri&#243;dicos del pa&#237;s, sabr&#225;n que finalmente ha llegado el momento y su &#250;nica elecci&#243;n ser&#225; si ayudarnos ellos mismos o ser reemplazados por alguien que lo haga.</p><p>Te lo prometo, lector. T&#250; me entregas los Estados y yo te entrego el Congreso. Reunir ese tipo de apoyo podr&#237;a tomar una semana; podr&#237;a tomar meses; podr&#237;a requerir que cumplamos con nuestra intenci&#243;n de votar en contra nuestros legisladores estatales en noviembre. (Yo tengo el trabajo f&#225;cil. Un miembro del Congreso que se oponga a la voluntad de su Estado no dura mucho en el Congreso; solo necesito record&#225;rselo). Solo quedan dos preguntas por responder y no puedo responderlas sin tu ayuda:</p><p>&#191;Hasta qu&#233; punto crecer&#225; nuestra voz? Y hacerla crecer, &#191;cu&#225;nto tiempo nos tomar&#225;?</p><p>Tengo un &#250;ltimo pedazo de sabidur&#237;a que compartir contigo, pero va a tomar un poco de tiempo explicarlo, as&#237; que lo dejar&#233; para la pr&#243;xima vez.</p><p>Hasta entonces, y siempre: mantente a salvo.</p><h5 style="text-align: right;">Pr&#243;ximo: <a href="https://substack.unfuckingtheworld.org/p/no-estas-solo">No Est&#225;s Solo</a></h5><div><hr></div><p><em>Gracias por formar parte de esta lucha. Hoy, 3 de julio, se cumplen seis meses desde el d&#237;a en que el presidente Trump orden&#243; el secuestro del presidente Maduro en Venezuela, y por lo tanto, hoy tambi&#233;n se cumplen seis meses desde el d&#237;a en que me di cuenta de que la Enmienda No Confidence que hab&#237;a redactado un mes antes ten&#237;a realmente posibilidades de prosperar.</em></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://UTW.vote/resources&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Corre La Voz&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:&quot;button-wrapper&quot;}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary button-wrapper" href="https://UTW.vote/resources"><span>Corre La Voz</span></a></p><p><em>Ahora ya tienes los datos. Sabes por qu&#233; hay motivos para tener esperanza, y tambi&#233;n por qu&#233; esa esperanza no puede ser pasiva ni ociosa, sino que debemos aferrarnos a ella con ambas manos y no soltarla. Utiliza todo lo que he compartido contigo y aporta tus propias ideas sobre c&#243;mo promover UTW. Haz folletos. Graba v&#237;deos. Escribe canciones. Involucra a tus vecinos. Destacar&#233; los esfuerzos de la comunidad en </em><a href="https://UTW.vote/">UTW.vote</a><em>, para que veas que no estas solo.</em></p><p><em>Te animamos a que plantees preguntas, retos, aportaciones y desacuerdos constructivos en los comentarios de UTW.vote/confidence; ven con buena fe y los dem&#225;s har&#225;n lo mismo. El tema de hoy: &#191;qu&#233; piensas hacer, personalmente, para apoyar No Confidence?</em></p><p><em>Comparte esto con todos tus conocidos y mantente a salvo.</em></p><p style="text-align: center;"><em>This article is also available <a href="https://substack.unfuckingtheworld.org/p/no-confidence">in English</a>.</em></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Purpose Of Life]]></title><description><![CDATA[I turned 42 this past year, I&#8217;m pretty sure that qualifies me to talk about it | Listen now (12 min)]]></description><link>https://substack.unfuckingtheworld.org/p/purpose-of-life</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://substack.unfuckingtheworld.org/p/purpose-of-life</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Danielle Church]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 11:01:41 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/204336578/8b07848b344ff236bcc621169fde7d1f.mp3" length="0" type="audio/mpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span>Welcome, reader. I&#8217;m so happy that you&#8217;re alive today. </span></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7Wqm0SF3U4&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Watch on YouTube&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7Wqm0SF3U4"><span>Watch on YouTube</span></a></p><p><span>I mean it. You bring something unique to the world that has never existed before and will never exist again after you&#8217;re gone. You are the sum total of your heritage, your upbringing, your experiences, and your dreams, and no one in the world can exemplify that particular combination as well as you can.</span></p><p><span>Sappy, I know, but in this case also literally true, at least by the metric I use to gauge reality. You don&#8217;t have to share my views on whether it is literally, morally, or spiritually true, but I hope you&#8217;ll at least consider this as a useful lens to view the world through.</span></p><p><span>I can&#8217;t tell you why life exists in </span><em><span>our</span></em><span> universe, which is what people usually mean when they discuss the &#8220;meaning of life&#8221;&#8212;I&#8217;ll leave that to the philosophers and the priests. What I can tell you is why you might want to see life in </span><em><span>a</span></em><span> universe, if you had one to play around with.</span></p><p><span>Imagine yourself a researcher some fantastic distance into the future, where we have the ability to simulate entire universes, down to the microscopic scale. Why would you choose to simulate </span><em><span>life developing</span></em><span> in your little pocket universe instead of something interesting, like galaxies colliding, or black holes eating nebulae, or astronomically huge crystalline rock formations?</span></p><p><span>You would choose life in specific if what you wanted was to try as many different possibilities as you could, all at once. All life tends to diversify; a species tends to set itself apart in a way that lets it become the best at filling its ecological niche, and an individual tends to set itself apart from its species in a way that makes it more successful than its peers.</span></p><p><span>As a researcher, you might use that tendency to breed microbes that can eat nuclear waste, a process that could take millions of years in the real world. So you seed your pocket universe with microbes that eat every type of thing you can think of. You allow them to breed, and mutate, and diversify, as all life will, and once there are enough of them, billions and trillions and quadrillions of individuals, the chances that at least </span><em><span>one</span></em><span> of them has the combination of genetics, environment, stimulus, and drive that you need are basically one hundred percent.</span></p><p><span>All you need to do is make sure you don&#8217;t miss these individuals when they pop up. You fill your little test universe with lots of tasty little nuclear poops, and you keep a careful eye on them as you run the simulation. Once you start to see them disappearing, you can just pause the simulation and see what&#8217;s doing it, and there are your microbes, with genetic code that you can copy and try in </span><em><span>our</span></em><span> universe. So long as the ecosystem is healthy enough, you can leave it running for however many millions or billions of simulated years it takes before some lucky microbe finally hits on that magic combination.</span></p><p><span>I don&#8217;t know why life exists in our universe, or even if there </span><em><span>is</span></em><span> a why. What I do know is that in order to fulfill that purpose, we must all of us find the traits and skills that most truly fulfill us, and we must cherish and nourish them to find the thing that each of us is </span><em><span>best</span></em><span> suited for doing, over all else. After all, if your lucky nuclear-eating microbe never tried the spicy radiation food just because all the </span><em><span>other</span></em><span> microbes were busy eating chlorophyll, you&#8217;d never even know it existed.</span></p><p><span>This is why I bear Donald Trump no personal animosity. He is an execrable miscreant; he is being the </span><em><span>best damn execrable miscreant he can be</span></em><span>. He&#8217;s doing it right. He&#8217;s exemplifying the wealth he came from and the awful personality he was presumably born with, and I would expect no less.</span></p><p><span>As I said previously: the United States was </span><em><span>always</span></em><span> going to elect someone like Trump. Our current electoral system selects for the people who can best appeal to the public, which limits the pool to saints and sociopaths. When the country is doing well, the public likes to elect a President who is positive and forward-looking, just like they are in their own lives. When the country is doing poorly, the public likes to elect a President who can tell them who is to blame for their problems.</span></p><p><span>The whole world is doing poorly. The regulations that currently exist around the global economy are causing wealth to become more and more stratified at a faster and faster rate, and it is causing life to become more and more difficult for the vast, overwhelming majority of people. More and more, people will turn to someone who can tell them who is responsible for the way things are.</span></p><p><span>That&#8217;s why I need you to set aside your pain, just for a moment. If you think that Donald Trump is personally responsible for what is going on, or that Democrats are, or Republicans or immigrants or any other group, then you are missing a very, very great deal of the bigger picture. Our government, itself, has fallen sick. A big part of our strength as a country comes from our ability to maintain continuity even as we change our government out over and over again; now, it is that very continuity that persists the illness. Our legislators no longer have enough political freedom to defend our Constitution from Trump, or to deal with any problem where the desires of the wealthy conflict with the needs of the country.</span></p><p><span>You don&#8217;t ask a surgeon to do surgery on themself, and I personally consider it unconscionable (in addition to being ill-advised and generally unsuccessful) to ask an elected government to change the laws that got it elected in the first place. That becomes an unavoidable conflict of interest, one which the public will always lose; or at least, one where the government is not incentivized to choose the solution that best suits the public&#8217;s needs.</span></p><p><span>This is why we need a second way to elect our government. If we are to remain the United States of America&#8212;the nation of the people, by the people, and for the people&#8212;then we cannot be a country with just a single electoral process. No matter how fair and good we make it, we will always end up back where we are today, in 2026, because every complex system will eventually enter a failure state it can&#8217;t escape without help. We must be a country with </span><em><span>two</span></em><span> electoral processes: one will be what we use normally, designed to find and elect the best, brightest, and savviest politicians America has to offer. The other, the Restricted Election, is designed to elect the most </span><em><span>trustworthy</span></em><span> Americans, the ones with the best view of what is actually going on with the country: the working class.</span></p><p><span>As I mentioned last time, the Interim Government has another control that keeps it honest. Anyone elected to the Interim Government by Restricted Election is forbidden from seeking re-election. No Confidence does not hand America over to a </span><em><span>new</span></em><span> government, the way you might see if we were conquered by a foreign nation or toppled by a revolution. No Confidence lets us give the existing electoral system a much-needed </span><em><span>break.</span></em><span> We get to send a bunch of legislative janitors to go in and, with clear incentive and pure motive, make us an electoral system that we can be </span><em><span>proud</span></em><span> of as Americans, rather than having to cringe every time someone says the words &#8220;electoral college.&#8221;</span></p><p><span>And then when they&#8217;re done, two years later, we get to try out the brand-new electoral system they created for ourselves. Whoever your favorite legislator is, they&#8217;ll be back; anyone truly beloved of their constituency has nothing whatsoever to worry about. Only the legislators who have hung on by electoral trickery will have to worry about their seats.</span></p><p><span>We don&#8217;t have to worry about the Interim Government messing things up for everyday Americans, because the Interim Government will be made </span><em><span>up</span></em><span> of everyday Americans, ones who will be taking two years (or four, or six) out of their lives to do the hardest thing this country has had to do in 250 years. And when those years are over, they will go </span><em><span>back</span></em><span> to their everyday lives, and they will want those lives&#8212;and the lives of their family, and their friends, and their community&#8212;to be as good and healthy as possible.</span></p><p><span>And when they&#8217;re done and the new Congress gets elected, they will get seated in a (conceptually) brand-new Capitol, still with that fresh new-government smell, and they will have so much more capacity to do good work for this country, and for the world, than they have today.</span></p><p><span>You might not believe that the world is teetering on the edge of disaster, but you don&#8217;t need to. If you turn around and look away from the scary you&#8217;ll see that the world is poised at the threshold of </span><em><span>freedom,</span></em><span> and we as Americans just have to be brave enough to make the leap. The technology of the twenty-first century has given us what we need, to be able to make this happen: the ability to take a single voice and magnify it into a thousand, into a </span><em><span>million,</span></em><span> and fire it off as a single shot that will echo around the globe and resound through the closed doors of our legislatures.</span></p><p><span>We have nothing to lose from No Confidence&#8212;our government has already failed us. We have everything to gain; not just for ourselves, but for our children and grandchildren and for everyone else.</span></p><p><span>I know hope is in short supply these days, but if you can find any between the couch cushions, now is the time to scrounge it up. No Confidence gives us a way </span><em><span>out.</span></em><span> Not just a way to fight back; a way to truly birth a new era for our society, one in which we, the People, are truly in control of our own destiny.</span></p><p><span>Until then, stay safe.</span></p><h5 style="text-align: right;">Next: <a href="https://substack.unfuckingtheworld.org/p/no-confidence">No Confidence</a></h5><div><hr></div><p><em><span>Thank you for being you, and for trusting me, over the past four articles, with an hour or two of your time. These past four articles describe the shape of our dream, the goal we have in sight; now, you just have to know why it is that 2026 gives us the best chance we&#8217;ve ever had at doing this, and why the end goal is closer than you might think.</span></em></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://UTW.vote/&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share The UTW.vote Website&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://UTW.vote/"><span>Share The UTW.vote Website</span></a></p><p><em><span>If you haven&#8217;t yet walked outside and told your neighbor, &#8220;I&#8217;m helping to launch a political movement to fix the US, it&#8217;s called </span></em><span>Unfucking The World</span><em><span>, and you can find it at </span><a href="https://utw.vote"><span>UTW.vote</span></a><span>,&#8221; I highly encourage it! Yes, you can say that, I give you permission. After all, if it weren&#8217;t for you, this movement wouldn&#8217;t exist.</span></em></p><p><em><span>Questions, challenges, additions, and thoughtful disagreements are encouraged in the comments; bring your good faith, and others will do the same. Today&#8217;s topic: what do you hope for most out of the Interim Congress? What&#8217;s the secret yearning you&#8217;ve wished the US Government would do, if only they&#8217;d start listening to the people?</span></em></p><p><em><span>Share this with someone you know who brings something unique to the world, and stay safe.</span></em></p><p><em><span>&#8211;Danielle</span></em></p><p style="text-align: center;"><em>Esta art&#237;culo tambi&#233;n esta disponible <a href="https://substack.unfuckingtheworld.org/p/proposito-de-la-vida">en espa&#241;ol</a>.</em></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[El Propósito De La Vida]]></title><description><![CDATA[Cumpl&#237; 42 este a&#241;o pasado, estoy bastante seguro de que eso me califica para hablar de ello | Escucha ahora (14 min)]]></description><link>https://substack.unfuckingtheworld.org/p/proposito-de-la-vida</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://substack.unfuckingtheworld.org/p/proposito-de-la-vida</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Danielle Church]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 10:59:02 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/204336622/c40c70c1364032c1512ca4051ee8ffcf.mp3" length="0" type="audio/mpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span>Bienvenido, lector. Estoy tan feliz de que est&#233;s vivo hoy.</span></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7Wqm0SF3U4&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Ve en YouTube&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7Wqm0SF3U4"><span>Ve en YouTube</span></a></p><p><span>Lo digo en serio. Traes algo &#250;nico al mundo que nunca ha existido antes y nunca existir&#225; de nuevo despu&#233;s de que te hayas ido. Eres la suma total de tu herencia, tu crianza, tus experiencias y tus sue&#241;os, y nadie en el mundo puede ejemplificar esa combinaci&#243;n particular tan bien como t&#250; puedes.</span></p><p><span>Sentimental, lo s&#233;, pero en este caso tambi&#233;n literalmente cierto, al menos por la m&#233;trica que yo uso para medir la realidad. No tienes que compartir mis puntos de vista sobre si es literalmente, moralmente o espiritualmente cierto, pero espero que al menos consideres esto como una lente &#250;til a trav&#233;s de la cual ver el mundo.</span></p><p><span>No puedo decirte por qu&#233; existe la vida en </span><em><span>nuestro</span></em><span> universo, que es lo que la gente suele querer decir cuando discute el &#8220;sentido de la vida&#8221; &#8212;lo dejar&#233; a los fil&#243;sofos y al clero. Lo que s&#237; puedo decirte es por qu&#233; podr&#237;as querer ver vida en </span><em><span>un</span></em><span> universo, si tuvieras uno con el que jugar.</span></p><p><span>Imag&#237;nate a ti mismo como un investigador a alguna distancia fant&#225;stica en el futuro, donde tenemos la capacidad de simular universos enteros, hasta la escala microsc&#243;pica. &#191;Por qu&#233; elegir&#237;as simular </span><em><span>vida desarroll&#225;ndose</span></em><span> en tu peque&#241;o universo de bolsillo en lugar de algo interesante, como galaxias colisionando, o agujeros negros comi&#233;ndose nebulosas, o formaciones de roca cristalina astron&#243;micamente enormes?</span></p><p><span>Elegir&#237;as vida en espec&#237;fico si lo que quer&#237;as era intentar tantas posibilidades diferentes como pudieras, todas a la vez. Toda vida tiende a diversificarse; una especie tiende a apartarse de una manera que le permite convertirse en la mejor para llenar su nicho ecol&#243;gico, y un individuo tiende a apartarse de su especie de una manera que lo hace m&#225;s exitoso que sus pares.</span></p><p><span>Como investigador, podr&#237;as usar esa tendencia para criar microbios que puedan comer desechos nucleares, un proceso que podr&#237;a tomar millones de a&#241;os en el mundo real. As&#237; que siembras tu universo de bolsillo con microbios que comen todo tipo de cosas en las que puedes pensar. Les permites reproducirse, y mutar, y diversificarse, como toda vida lo har&#225;, y una vez que haya suficientes de ellos, billones y trillones y cuatrillones de individuos, las probabilidades de que al menos </span><em><span>uno</span></em><span> de ellos tenga la combinaci&#243;n de gen&#233;tica, entorno, est&#237;mulo y motivaci&#243;n que necesitas son b&#225;sicamente del cien por ciento.</span></p><p><span>Todo lo que necesitas hacer es asegurarte de no perderte a estos individuos cuando aparezcan. Llenas tu peque&#241;o universo de prueba con muchas cacas nucleares sabrosas, y les echas un ojo cuidadoso mientras ejecutas la simulaci&#243;n. Una vez que empieces a verlas desaparecer, simplemente puedes pausar la simulaci&#243;n y ver qu&#233; lo est&#225; haciendo, y ah&#237; est&#225;n tus microbios, con c&#243;digo gen&#233;tico que puedes copiar y probar en </span><em><span>nuestro</span></em><span> universo. Siempre y cuando el ecosistema est&#233; lo suficientemente saludable, puedes dejarlo funcionando por cuantos millones o billones de a&#241;os simulados tome antes de que alg&#250;n microbio afortunado finalmente d&#233; con esa combinaci&#243;n m&#225;gica.</span></p><p><span>No s&#233; por qu&#233; existe la vida en nuestro universo, o incluso si </span><em><span>hay</span></em><span> un porqu&#233;. Lo que s&#237; s&#233; es que para cumplir ese prop&#243;sito, todos nosotros debemos encontrar los rasgos y habilidades que m&#225;s verdaderamente nos cumplen, y debemos apreciar y nutrirlos para encontrar la cosa para la que cada uno de nosotros est&#225; mejor preparado para hacer, por encima de todo lo dem&#225;s. Despu&#233;s de todo, si tu microbio afortunado comedor de nucleares nunca hubiera probado la comida de radiaci&#243;n picante solo porque todos los </span><em><span>otros</span></em><span> microbios estaban ocupados comiendo clorofila, nunca sabr&#237;as siquiera que exist&#237;a.</span></p><p><span>Es por esto que no le guardo ninguna animosidad personal a Donald Trump. Es un miserable execrable; est&#225; siendo el </span><em><span>mejor maldito miserable execrable que puede ser.</span></em><span> Lo est&#225; haciendo bien. Est&#225; ejemplificando la riqueza de la que proviene y la horrible personalidad con la que presumiblemente naci&#243;, y no esperar&#237;a menos.</span></p><p><span>Como dije anteriormente: los Estados Unidos </span><em><span>siempre</span></em><span> iban a elegir a alguien como Trump. Nuestro sistema electoral actual selecciona a las personas que mejor pueden apelar al p&#250;blico, lo que limita el grupo a santos y soci&#243;patas. Cuando el pa&#237;s va bien, al p&#250;blico le gusta elegir a un Presidente que sea positivo y con visi&#243;n de futuro, justo como ellos lo son en sus propias vidas. Cuando el pa&#237;s va mal, al p&#250;blico le gusta elegir a un Presidente que pueda decirles qui&#233;n tiene la culpa de sus problemas.</span></p><p><span>Todo el mundo va mal. Las regulaciones que existen actualmente alrededor de la econom&#237;a global est&#225;n causando que la riqueza se vuelva m&#225;s y m&#225;s estratificada a un ritmo cada vez m&#225;s r&#225;pido, y est&#225; causando que la vida se vuelva m&#225;s y m&#225;s dif&#237;cil para la vasta, abrumadora mayor&#237;a de las personas. Cada vez m&#225;s, las personas se volver&#225;n hacia alguien que pueda decirles qui&#233;n es responsable de la forma en que son las cosas.</span></p><p><span>Es por eso que necesito que dejes a un lado tu dolor, solo por un momento. Si piensas que Donald Trump es personalmente responsable de lo que est&#225; pasando, o que los Dem&#243;cratas lo son, o los Republicanos o los inmigrantes o cualquier otro grupo, entonces te est&#225;s perdiendo una parte muy, muy grande del panorama m&#225;s amplio. Nuestro gobierno, en s&#237; mismo, se ha enfermado. Una gran parte de nuestra fuerza como pa&#237;s proviene de nuestra capacidad para mantener la continuidad incluso mientras cambiamos nuestro gobierno una y otra vez; ahora, es esa misma continuidad la que persiste la enfermedad. Nuestros legisladores ya no tienen suficiente libertad pol&#237;tica para defender nuestra Constituci&#243;n de Trump, o para lidiar con cualquier problema donde los deseos de los ricos entren en conflicto con las necesidades del pa&#237;s.</span></p><p><span>No le pides a un cirujano que se opere a s&#237; mismo, y yo personalmente considero abusivo (adem&#225;s de mal aconsejado y generalmente sin &#233;xito) pedirle a un gobierno electo que cambie las leyes que lo eligieron en primer lugar. Eso se convierte en un conflicto de intereses inevitable, uno que el p&#250;blico siempre perder&#225;; o al menos, uno donde el gobierno no est&#225; incentivado a elegir la soluci&#243;n que mejor se adapte a las necesidades del p&#250;blico.</span></p><p><span>Es por esto que necesitamos una segunda forma de elegir a nuestro gobierno. Si vamos a seguir siendo los Estados Unidos de Am&#233;rica &#8212;la naci&#243;n del pueblo, por el pueblo y para el pueblo&#8212; entonces no podemos ser un pa&#237;s con solo un &#250;nico proceso electoral. No importa cu&#225;n justo y bueno lo hagamos, siempre terminaremos de vuelta donde estamos hoy, en 2026, porque todo sistema complejo eventualmente entrar&#225; en un estado de fallo del que no puede escapar sin ayuda. Debemos ser un pa&#237;s con </span><em><span>dos</span></em><span> procesos electorales: uno ser&#225; el que usemos normalmente, dise&#241;ado para encontrar y elegir a los mejores, m&#225;s brillantes y m&#225;s astutos pol&#237;ticos que Am&#233;rica tiene para ofrecer. El otro, la Elecci&#243;n Restringida, est&#225; dise&#241;ado para elegir a los estadounidenses m&#225;s </span><em><span>confiables,</span></em><span> los que tienen la mejor visi&#243;n de lo que realmente est&#225; pasando con el pa&#237;s: la clase trabajadora.</span></p><p><span>Como mencion&#233; la &#250;ltima vez, el Gobierno Interino tiene otro control que lo mantiene honesto. Cualquier persona elegida para el Gobierno Interino por Elecci&#243;n Restringida tiene prohibido buscar la reelecci&#243;n. No Confidence no le entrega Am&#233;rica a un </span><em><span>nuevo</span></em><span> gobierno, de la forma en que podr&#237;as ver si fu&#233;ramos conquistados por una naci&#243;n extranjera o derrocados por una revoluci&#243;n. No Confidence nos permite darle al sistema electoral existente un </span><em><span>descanso</span></em><span> muy necesario. Conseguimos enviar a un mont&#243;n de conserjes legislativos para que entren y, con incentivo claro y motivo puro, nos hagan un sistema electoral del que podamos estar </span><em><span>orgullosos</span></em><span> como estadounidenses, en lugar de tener que encogernos cada vez que alguien dice las palabras &#8220;colegio electoral&#8221;.</span></p><p><span>Y luego cuando terminen, dos a&#241;os despu&#233;s, conseguimos probar el sistema electoral completamente nuevo que crearon para nosotros mismos. Quienquiera que sea tu legislador favorito, volver&#225;; cualquiera verdaderamente amado por su electorado no tiene absolutamente nada de qu&#233; preocuparse. Solo los legisladores que se han mantenido por trucos electorales tendr&#225;n que preocuparse por sus asientos.</span></p><p><span>No tenemos que preocuparnos de que el Gobierno Interino arruine las cosas para los estadounidenses comunes, porque el Gobierno Interino estar&#225; </span><em><span>compuesto</span></em><span> de estadounidenses comunes, unos que estar&#225;n tomando dos a&#241;os (o cuatro, o seis) de sus vidas para hacer la cosa m&#225;s dif&#237;cil que este pa&#237;s ha tenido que hacer en 250 a&#241;os. Y cuando esos a&#241;os terminen, volver&#225;n a sus vidas cotidianas, y querr&#225;n que esas vidas &#8212;y las vidas de su familia, y sus amigos, y su comunidad&#8212; sean lo mejor y m&#225;s saludables posible.</span></p><p><span>Y cuando terminen y el nuevo Congreso sea elegido, se sentar&#225;n en un Capitolio (conceptualmente) completamente nuevo, todav&#237;a con ese fresco olor a nuevo gobierno, y tendr&#225;n mucha m&#225;s capacidad para hacer un buen trabajo para este pa&#237;s, y para el mundo, de la que tienen hoy.</span></p><p><span>Podr&#237;as no creer que el mundo est&#225; tambale&#225;ndose al borde del desastre, pero no necesitas hacerlo. Si te das la vuelta y miras lejos de lo aterrador ver&#225;s que el mundo est&#225; posicionado en el umbral de la </span><em><span>libertad,</span></em><span> y nosotros como estadounidenses solo tenemos que ser lo suficientemente valientes para dar el salto. La tecnolog&#237;a del siglo veintiuno nos ha dado lo que necesitamos, para poder hacer que esto suceda: la capacidad de tomar una sola voz y magnificarlo en mil, en un </span><em><span>mill&#243;n,</span></em><span> y dispararlo como un solo tiro que resonar&#225; alrededor del globo y a trav&#233;s de las puertas cerradas de nuestras legislaturas.</span></p><p><span>No tenemos nada que perder con No Confidence &#8212;nuestro gobierno ya nos ha fallado. Tenemos todo que ganar; no solo para nosotros mismos, sino para nuestros hijos y nietos y para todos los dem&#225;s.</span></p><p><span>Yo s&#233; que la esperanza escasea estos d&#237;as, pero si puedes encontrar alguna entre los cojines del sof&#225;, ahora es el momento de escarbarla. No Confidence nos da una </span><em><span>salida.</span></em><span> No solo una forma de contraatacar; una forma de verdaderamente dar a luz una nueva era para nuestra sociedad, una en la que nosotros, el Pueblo, estamos verdaderamente al control de nuestro propio destino.</span></p><p><span>Hasta entonces, mantente a salvo.</span></p><h5 style="text-align: right;">Pr&#243;ximo: <a href="https://substack.unfuckingtheworld.org/p/accion-de-censura">Acci&#243;n De Censura</a></h5><div><hr></div><p><em>Gracias por ser como eres y por haberme dedicado, a lo largo de los &#250;ltimos cuatro art&#237;culos, una o dos horas de tu tiempo. Estos &#250;ltimos cuatro art&#237;culos describen la forma que tiene nuestro sue&#241;o, el objetivo que tenemos a la vista; ahora solo tienes que saber por qu&#233; el a&#241;o 2026 nos ofrece la mejor oportunidad que hemos tenido nunca para lograrlo, y por qu&#233; el objetivo final est&#225; m&#225;s cerca de lo que podr&#237;as pensar.</em></p><p><em>Si a&#250;n no has salido a la calle y le has dicho a tu vecino: &#171;Estoy ayudando a poner en marcha un movimiento pol&#237;tico para arreglar Estados Unidos, se llama Unfucking The World y lo puedes encontrar en UTW.vote&#187;, &#161;te animo encarecidamente a que lo hagas! S&#237;, puedes decir eso, te doy permiso. Al fin y al cabo, si no fuera por ti, este movimiento no existir&#237;a.</em></p><p><em>Te animamos a que plantees preguntas, retos, aportaciones y desacuerdos constructivos en los comentarios de UTW.vote/life; ven con buena fe y los dem&#225;s har&#225;n lo mismo. El tema de hoy: &#191;qu&#233; es lo que m&#225;s esperas del Congreso Interino? &#191;Cu&#225;l es ese anhelo secreto que te gustar&#237;a que el Gobierno de EE. UU. hiciera, si tan solo empezara a escuchar a la gente?</em></p><p><em>Comparte esto con alguien que conozcas que aporte algo &#250;nico al mundo, y mantente a salvo.</em></p><p><em>&#8211;Danielle</em></p><p style="text-align: center;"><em>This article is also available <a href="https://substack.unfuckingtheworld.org/p/purpose-of-life">in English</a>.</em></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Addressing The Elephant In The Room]]></title><description><![CDATA[It might not have been a pony after all, I&#8217;m afraid | Listen now (14 min)]]></description><link>https://substack.unfuckingtheworld.org/p/elephant-in-the-room</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://substack.unfuckingtheworld.org/p/elephant-in-the-room</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Danielle Church]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 11:02:38 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/204322950/8cd55e6522a0daf3ce34f0217dff5ca4.mp3" length="0" type="audio/mpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span>Welcome, reader. I&#8217;m glad you&#8217;re hanging in there.</span></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lh0PzBOm7p4&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Watch on YouTube&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lh0PzBOm7p4"><span>Watch on YouTube</span></a></p><p><span>The title of this article doesn&#8217;t refer to the mascot of one of the two big political parties in the USA, but this isn&#8217;t </span><em><span>unrelated</span></em><span> to them, either. The concept of two-party politics in the United States has had centuries to entrench itself into our political and electoral system, not to mention our cultural landscape, and it will take a lot more than a single amendment to dig it out.</span></p><p><span>Here&#8217;s the problem, which you may already have thinking been about: even if we remove the current government, where exactly are we supposed to find a </span><em><span>better</span></em><span> one? The two political parties, Democrat and Republican, have an effective stranglehold on American politics. Regardless of what rules No Confidence might put in place, there is zero doubt in my mind, as there should be in yours, that the state politicians will do everything they can to give </span><em><span>their</span></em><span> party the best chance to succeed in the elections to come. Even if you ignore the rampant gerrymandering, </span><em><span>every</span></em><span> state writes their election laws in such a way as to give their party the best chance in the Federal Government. I don&#8217;t necessarily even think that&#8217;s a bad thing.</span></p><p><span>No Confidence doesn&#8217;t try to take the authority away from the states (as Trump is presently attempting); the states are the ones who will have to ratify the amendment, and that would make it utterly dead in the water. No Confidence is a way to give power </span><em><span>back</span></em><span> to the states, as so very many small-government advocates have wanted ever since our country&#8217;s founding. How, then, can we ignore all of the blatantly anti-voter laws that have been enacted all across the country? They, or laws like them, will color the outcome of every state-run election. Trump isn&#8217;t even wrong about that part, and we all know it.</span></p><p><span>So how do we get fifty incredibly partisan states who are very comfortable in their biases to run fair elections, without infringing on their right to make whatever rules they damn well please? Simple. We don&#8217;t give them rules to follow; we give them </span><em><span>targets</span></em><span>.</span></p><p><span>No Confidence introduces a new type of election into American politics: the Restricted Election. This is not intended to replace the existing electoral system, and it isn&#8217;t the type of elections we&#8217;d do going forward, forever; the Restricted Election format is </span><em><span>only</span></em><span> used to elect an interim government after No Confidence removes the old one. After that, unless the Interim Government passes laws or proposes amendments to </span><em><span>change</span></em><span> the existing electoral system, we go right back to it in the next election.</span></p><p><span>The Restricted Election format demands more, of both the states themselves and the American people, than any ballot or referendum we have ever held. We cannot stop the organizations and lobbyists from doing everything they can to bias the results towards their cause; therefore, the Restricted Election requires Americans to raise our voices louder than we ever have before, to drown them out.</span></p><p><span>That&#8217;s why, in a Restricted Election, voting is not just a privilege, it is a responsibility. Every citizen of age is required to vote, and every state is required to do their utmost to assist them. If the deeply partisan states try to play their usual games of making sure only the &#8220;right&#8221; people get to the polls, they will fall short of the high bar set by a Restricted Election.</span></p><p><span>The penalty for failing to do a Restricted Election properly after a No Confidence is that the rest of the states who </span><em><span>did</span></em><span> do it right get to start doing Congress stuff without you. If the deep-blue and deep-red states don&#8217;t do everything they can to ensure they run a fair election, they will not be part of the reconstruction of America until they </span><em><span>do</span></em><span>. Their citizens will have to go and vote again, and again if necessary, before they will have any voice in the Interim Congress.</span></p><p><span>(I&#8217;ll tell you though: if the results of America&#8217;s first Restricted Election are that only lawmakers from the swing states end up being seated from the beginning of the Interim Congress session, I can&#8217;t really see that as a bad thing.)</span></p><p><span>The actual text setting out the requirements for a Restricted Election is pretty wordy, but it boils down to three key points:</span></p><ol><li><p><span>Every citizen votes.</span></p></li><li><p><span>Every voter has someone to vote for.</span></p></li><li><p><span>Every candidate on the ballot is trustworthy.</span></p></li></ol><p><span>Number one is pretty easy. Normal elections in America are voluntary; a Restricted Election is compulsory. Every citizen of age who resides in the state is required to submit a ballot, with no exceptions. No Confidence doesn&#8217;t propose or even suggest penalties for citizens who don&#8217;t submit a ballot (even a blank abstention ballot, for those citizens who have religious objections to voting); states would be free to enact penalties for not participating in a Restricted Election if they felt the need, but they wouldn&#8217;t have to.</span></p><p><span>Turns out, saying &#8220;everyone has to vote&#8221; increases voter turnout, even when there are no explicit penalties for non-voting. (Shock, I know.) We even know by how much! Australia had voluntary voting like the US until 1924, and their voter turnout was in the fifty to eighty percent range, just like ours is today. Ever since 1924 voting has been compulsory, and their voter turnout has been over ninety percent.</span></p><p><span>Therefore, in order to hold a successful Restricted Election, the state must show that they have received a quantity of filled ballots equal to at least </span><em><span>ninety percent of their population of resident citizens of age</span></em><span>.</span></p><p><span>The state is permitted to set whatever rules they like; they can require you to show photo ID, or to register a month in advance, or to go to one of just a few polling places. They will simply need to provide enough support to their citizens that at least nine out of ten can make it out to vote at the right time.</span></p><p><span>Something tells me that all across America it will suddenly and mysteriously become </span><em><span>extremely easy</span></em><span> for a citizen to vote, at least in the Restricted Election. Much cheaper that way.</span></p><p><span>That takes care of number 1. Either the state gets close enough to &#8220;all citizens voting&#8221;, or they have to stay home while the other states get to go to Congress. How about number 2, that everyone should have someone to vote for? How do you ensure the state legislature doesn&#8217;t just pack the ballot with people </span><em><span>they</span></em><span> want to see in Congress?</span></p><p><span>Well, that comes down to the </span><em><span>type</span></em><span> of ballots states are required to use. I&#8217;m not talking electronic versus paper, I&#8217;m talking about &#8220;vote for no more than two&#8221; versus &#8220;vote for at least one.&#8221; Compulsory voting has been rejected by America in the past because of conflicts with the First Amendment; by requiring everyone to vote, you&#8217;re depriving citizens of their chance to make a political statement by </span><em><span>not</span></em><span> voting.</span></p><p><span>No Confidence avoids running afoul of the First Amendment by saying only that every citizen must submit </span><em><span>a ballot</span></em><span>. In addition, it specifically calls out that a voter may submit a ballot without any votes on it; the specific text is that each ballot may contain votes for &#8220;none, any, or all&#8221; of the candidates. This makes a Restricted Election a form of</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Approval_voting"><span> approval voting</span></a><span>, where voting for one candidate doesn&#8217;t harm the prospects for a different candidate.</span></p><p><span>It also provides the mechanism to guarantee the second of the three criteria, that every voter have someone to vote for. How? Well, the ninety-percent voter turnout requirement counts </span><em><span>filled</span></em><span> ballots. Specifically, the voter has to have </span><em><span>voted</span></em><span> for at least as many candidates as are being </span><em><span>elected</span></em><span>, for their ballot to count towards that ninety percent requirement. States </span><em><span>must</span></em><span> allow their citizens to submit under-filled or even blank ballots, or else they violate their citizens&#8217; free speech rights (and wouldn&#8217;t the ACLU have a field day with that); this means they need for their voters to </span><em><span>want</span></em><span> to vote for at least as many candidates as they have seats to fill.</span></p><p><span>(That&#8217;s another thing: Restricted Elections don&#8217;t even try to address the gerrymandering issue. The state is required to elect all its Senators and Representatives at-large in the Restricted Election. Yes, this does mean that each Californian will have to mark down votes for at least 54 candidates. It&#8217;s not quite as bad as it sounds.)</span></p><p><span>The more effort the state puts towards restricting and biasing its candidate pool, the less likely the voters will be happy with the ballot. Voters do not need to be </span><em><span>instructed</span></em><span> to avoid voting for people they don&#8217;t like; that&#8217;s already the expectation. So, if the state holds a Restricted Election but only puts Democrats on the ballot, there&#8217;s an approximately zero chance they&#8217;ll capture enough Republican votes to hit ninety percent of the electorate.</span></p><p><span>To avoid that becoming something that an anti-democracy movement could game (by instructing their members to undervote, perhaps), Restricted Elections are also the only elections that accept partial credit. If the state gets at least ninety percent of its citizens to the polls, but each ballot only has four votes on it, then the state sends two Senators and two Representatives to Congress. It will have to hold another Restricted Election to fill the rest of its seats in the House of Representatives.</span></p><p><span>Give them a target they can&#8217;t hit unless they&#8217;re actually giving it their all.</span></p><p><span>Still, though. Even if that accounts for the first two criteria, what about the third? How do you legislate </span><em><span>trustworthiness?</span></em><span> If there were a reliable way to tell whether someone was trustworthy, there wouldn&#8217;t be a need for trust in the first place. How can the states possibly tell if a candidate can be trusted, and how could that possibly be verified after the fact?</span></p><p><span>I have to credit the</span><a href="https://votersnotpoliticians.com/"><span> Voters Not Politicians</span></a><span> movement from Michigan for the inspiration here, for the way they formed their 2020 Congressional redistricting committee. The answer is that you don&#8217;t try and figure out whether any </span><em><span>given</span></em><span> candidate is trustworthy; instead, you pick your candidates from a group that you already </span><em><span>know</span></em><span> is trustworthy. And how do you do that? Math.</span></p><p><span>Here&#8217;s the thing about trustworthiness: it, like everything else about biological life, exists on a spectrum. Some people are so trustworthy that they could say they need to borrow a thousand dollars of yours today so they can give you a million tomorrow, and they would be telling the truth. Some people are so </span><em><span>untrustworthy</span></em><span> that they could say the same thing and you&#8217;d believe it just as strongly, until they didn&#8217;t come back the next day. Most of us, though? Eh, we&#8217;ll bend the truth every once in a while if there&#8217;s no real harm in it, but we&#8217;d never try and cheat someone out of house and home, and even if we tried we couldn&#8217;t pull off that level of sociopathy without giving it away.</span></p><p><span>Our existing electoral system only picks people from the first and second categories. No Confidence exclusively picks people from the third, and here&#8217;s how: </span><em><span>every person who appears on a Restricted Election ballot</span></em><span> must have been chosen randomly from a pool of at least ten thousand, at some point within the ninety days prior. As Michigan discovered thanks to VNP, whenever you choose a random person from a large group, you get&#8230;just an ordinary person. Not a saint or an angel, and not someone gaming the system, but just an everyday citizen trying to live their life and make their way in the world. You get someone you can trust. Not an &#8220;I know they will tell the truth&#8221; type of trust, but an &#8220;I&#8217;m confident I could tell if they were lying&#8221; trust.</span></p><p><span>There&#8217;s still a lot of leeway in how the states enact the requirement, of course. They could call for tens of thousands of volunteers to submit their names, and then put all those names in a hat and pick a dozen out. They could randomly choose one out of every ten thousand citizens on the jury duty roster and send each one a mailing saying &#8220;you could be a candidate in the Restricted Election if you want to&#8221; and pick the candidates by hand from whoever responds, or whoever gets at least a hundred signatures, or whoever passes the background check.</span></p><p><span>(I suppose they could even turn it into some sort of reality show if they thought it would increase voter engagement. I&#8217;m not saying it&#8217;s a good idea</span><em><span>,</span></em><span> I&#8217;m just saying that as long as the candidates went through a random selection process at some point, it doesn&#8217;t matter how the campaigns get run, or whether the state allows viewers to vote candidates off the ballot before the election even happens to improve ratings, just so long as the actual Restricted Election they run at the end meets all the criteria. Hope that helps, California.)</span></p><p><span>There actually is one more thing in No Confidence that keeps the candidates honest, but this article is already long enough, so I&#8217;ll leave that for next time.</span></p><p><span>Until then, stay safe.</span></p><h5 style="text-align: right;">Next: <a href="https://substack.unfuckingtheworld.org/p/purpose-of-life">The Purpose Of Life</a></h5><div><hr></div><p><em><span>Thank you for sticking with me on this journey. It is easy to tear down the things that offend us; if we truly want to unfuck the world, we must spend ten times as much effort and be ten times as careful with what we construct to take its place.</span></em></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://UTW.vote/community&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Join A Community&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://UTW.vote/community"><span>Join A Community</span></a></p><p><em><span>If reading, commenting on, and sharing these articles isn&#8217;t enough for you and you want to do more to help, join one of the online communities organizing for UTW and No Confidence. All are welcome, regardless of political views or energy level; the only requirement is that you bring your best behavior.</span></em></p><p><em><span>Questions, challenges, additions, and thoughtful disagreements are encouraged in the comments; bring your good faith, and others will do the same. Today&#8217;s topic: if your state&#8217;s electoral commission invited you to appear on the Restricted Election ballot, and the fellow citizens of your state trusted you to speak for them, would you be willing to spend the next few years of your life representing their best interests in Congress?</span></em></p><p><em><span>Share this with someone you know who dreams of a better future, and stay safe.</span></em></p><p><em><span>&#8211;Danielle</span></em></p><p style="text-align: center;"><em>Esta art&#237;culo tambi&#233;n esta disponible <a href="https://substack.unfuckingtheworld.org/p/elefante-en-la-habitacion">en espa&#241;ol</a>.</em></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Abordando Al Elefante En La Habitación]]></title><description><![CDATA[Me temo que, despu&#233;s de todo, puede que no haya sido un pony | Escucha ahora (18 min)]]></description><link>https://substack.unfuckingtheworld.org/p/elefante-en-la-habitacion</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://substack.unfuckingtheworld.org/p/elefante-en-la-habitacion</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Danielle Church]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 10:59:57 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/204332695/a2b0ca238584e1608fa084302392f738.mp3" length="0" type="audio/mpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Bienvenido, lector. Me alegra que est&#233;s aguantando ah&#237;.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lh0PzBOm7p4&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Ve en YouTube&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:&quot;button-wrapper&quot;}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary button-wrapper" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lh0PzBOm7p4"><span>Ve en YouTube</span></a></p><p>El t&#237;tulo de este art&#237;culo no se refiere a la mascota de uno de los dos grandes partidos pol&#237;ticos en los EE.UU., pero esto tampoco es <em>ajeno</em> a ellos. El concepto de la pol&#237;tica bipartidista en los Estados Unidos ha tenido siglos para arraigarse en nuestro sistema pol&#237;tico y electoral, sin mencionar nuestro panorama cultural, y har&#225; falta mucho m&#225;s que una sola enmienda para desenterrarlo.</p><p>Aqu&#237; est&#225; el problema, en el que quiz&#225;s ya hayas estado pensando: incluso si eliminamos al gobierno actual, &#191;exactamente d&#243;nde se supone que vamos a encontrar uno <em>mejor?</em> Los dos partidos pol&#237;ticos, Dem&#243;crata y Republicano, tienen un control efectivo sobre la pol&#237;tica estadounidense. Independientemente de qu&#233; reglas pueda establecer No Confidence, no tengo ninguna duda en mi mente, como tampoco deber&#237;as tenerla t&#250;, de que los pol&#237;ticos estatales har&#225;n todo lo que puedan para dar a su partido la mejor oportunidad de triunfar en las elecciones venideras. Incluso si ignoras el gerrymandering rampante, cada estado escribe sus leyes electorales de tal manera que da a su partido la mejor oportunidad en el Gobierno Federal. No creo necesariamente que eso sea algo malo.</p><p>No Confidence no intenta quitarle la autoridad a los estados (como Trump est&#225; intentando actualmente); los estados son los que tendr&#225;n que ratificar la enmienda, y eso la dejar&#237;a completamente muerta en el agua. No Confidence es una forma de <em>devolver</em> el poder a los estados, como tantos defensores del gobierno peque&#241;o han querido desde la fundaci&#243;n de nuestro pa&#237;s. Entonces, &#191;c&#243;mo podemos ignorar todas las leyes descaradamente anti-votante que se han promulgado por todo el pa&#237;s? Ellas, o leyes como ellas, te&#241;ir&#225;n el resultado de cada elecci&#243;n administrada por los estados. Trump ni siquiera se equivoca en esa parte, y todos lo sabemos.</p><p>&#191;C&#243;mo conseguimos que cincuenta estados incre&#237;blemente partidistas que est&#225;n muy c&#243;modos en sus sesgos organicen elecciones justas, sin infringir su derecho a hacer las malditas reglas que les d&#233; la gana? Simple. No les damos reglas que seguir; les damos <em>objetivos.</em></p><p>No Confidence introduce un nuevo tipo de elecci&#243;n en la pol&#237;tica estadounidense: la Elecci&#243;n Restringida. Esto no pretende reemplazar el sistema electoral existente, y no es el tipo de elecciones que har&#237;amos de ahora en adelante, para siempre; el formato de Elecci&#243;n Restringida <em>solo</em> se usa para elegir un gobierno interino despu&#233;s de que No Confidence elimine al anterior. Despu&#233;s de eso, a menos que el Gobierno Interino apruebe leyes o proponga enmiendas para <em>cambiar</em> el sistema electoral existente, volvemos directamente a &#233;l en la siguiente elecci&#243;n.</p><p>El formato de Elecci&#243;n Restringida exige m&#225;s, tanto de los propios estados como del pueblo estadounidense, que cualquier boleta o refer&#233;ndum que hayamos realizado jam&#225;s. No podemos impedir que las organizaciones y los cabilderos hagan todo lo que puedan para sesgar los resultados hacia su causa; por lo tanto, la Elecci&#243;n Restringida requiere que los estadounidenses levantemos nuestras voces m&#225;s fuerte que nunca antes, para ahogarlas.</p><p>Por eso, en una Elecci&#243;n Restringida, votar no es solo un privilegio, es una responsabilidad. Todo ciudadano en edad de votar est&#225; obligado a votar, y todo estado est&#225; obligado a hacer todo lo posible para asistirles. Si los estados profundamente partidistas intentan jugar sus juegos habituales de asegurarse de que solo la gente &#8220;correcta&#8221; llegue a las urnas, se quedar&#225;n cortos del alto est&#225;ndar establecido por una Elecci&#243;n Restringida.</p><p>La penalizaci&#243;n por no realizar una Elecci&#243;n Restringida correctamente despu&#233;s de un No Confidence es que el resto de los estados que <em>s&#237;</em> lo hicieron bien pueden empezar a hacer las cosas del Congreso sin ti. Si los estados profundamente azules y profundamente rojos no hacen todo lo posible para garantizar que organicen una elecci&#243;n justa, no formar&#225;n parte de la reconstrucci&#243;n de Am&#233;rica hasta que lo <em>hagan.</em> Sus ciudadanos tendr&#225;n que ir a votar otra vez, y otra vez si es necesario, antes de que tengan alguna voz en el Congreso Interino.</p><p>(Te lo dir&#233; aunque: si el resultado de la primera Elecci&#243;n Restringida de Am&#233;rica es que solo los legisladores de los estados indecisos terminan siendo elegidos desde el comienzo de la sesi&#243;n del Congreso Interino, no puedo verlo realmente como algo malo.)</p><p>El texto real que establece los requisitos para una Elecci&#243;n Restringida es bastante largo, pero se reduce a tres puntos clave:</p><ol><li><p>Todo ciudadano vota.</p></li><li><p>Todo votante tiene a alguien por quien votar.</p></li><li><p>Todo candidato en la boleta es confiable.</p></li></ol><p>El n&#250;mero uno es bastante f&#225;cil. Las elecciones normales en Am&#233;rica son voluntarias; una Elecci&#243;n Restringida es obligatoria. Todo ciudadano en edad de votar que resida en el estado est&#225; obligado a entregar una boleta, sin excepciones. No Confidence no propone ni siquiera sugiere penalizaciones para los ciudadanos que no entreguen una boleta (incluso una boleta de abstenci&#243;n en blanco, para aquellos ciudadanos que tienen objeciones religiosas al voto); los estados ser&#237;an libres de promulgar penalizaciones por no participar en una Elecci&#243;n Restringida si lo consideraran necesario, pero no tendr&#237;an que hacerlo.</p><p>Resulta que decir &#8220;todo ciudadano tiene que votar&#8221; aumenta la participaci&#243;n electoral, incluso cuando no hay penalizaciones expl&#237;citas por no votar. (Qu&#233; sorpresa, lo s&#233;.) &#161;Incluso sabemos por cu&#225;nto! Australia tuvo voto voluntario como los EE.UU. hasta 1924, y su participaci&#243;n electoral estaba en el rango del cincuenta al ochenta por ciento, igual que la nuestra hoy. Desde 1924 el voto ha sido obligatorio, y su participaci&#243;n electoral ha sido de m&#225;s del noventa por ciento.</p><p>Por lo tanto, para realizar una Elecci&#243;n Restringida exitosa, el estado debe demostrar que ha recibido una cantidad de boletas completadas igual a al menos <em>el noventa por ciento de su poblaci&#243;n de ciudadanos residentes en edad de votar.</em></p><p>Al estado se le permite establecer las reglas que quiera; pueden requerir que muestres identificaci&#243;n con foto, o que te registres un mes antes, o que vayas a uno de solo unos pocos lugares de votaci&#243;n. Simplemente necesitar&#225;n proporcionar suficiente apoyo a sus ciudadanos para que al menos nueve de cada diez puedan salir a votar en el momento correcto.</p><p>Algo me dice que en toda Am&#233;rica de repente y misteriosamente se volver&#225; extremadamente f&#225;cil para un ciudadano votar, al menos en la Elecci&#243;n Restringida. Mucho m&#225;s barato de esa manera.</p><p>Eso se encarga del n&#250;mero 1. O el estado se acerca lo suficiente a &#8220;todos los ciudadanos vota&#8221;, o tienen que quedarse en casa mientras los otros estados pueden ir al Congreso. &#191;Qu&#233; hay del n&#250;mero 2, que todo votante deber&#237;a tener a alguien por quien votar? &#191;C&#243;mo garantizas que la legislatura estatal no simplemente llene la boleta con gente que <em>ellos</em> quieren ver en el Congreso?</p><p>Bueno, eso se reduce al <em>tipo</em> de boletas que los estados est&#225;n obligados a usar. No estoy hablando de electr&#243;nico versus papel, estoy hablando de &#8220;vota por no m&#225;s de dos&#8221; versus &#8220;vota por al menos uno&#8221;. El voto obligatorio ha sido rechazado por Am&#233;rica en el pasado debido a conflictos con la Primera Enmienda; al requerir que todo ciudadano vote, est&#225;s privando a los ciudadanos de su oportunidad de hacer una declaraci&#243;n pol&#237;tica al <em>no</em> votar.</p><p>No Confidence evita chocar con la Primera Enmienda al decir solo que todo ciudadano debe entregar <em>una boleta.</em> Adem&#225;s, especifica que un votante puede entregar una boleta sin ning&#250;n voto en ella; el texto espec&#237;fico es que cada boleta puede contener votos por &#8220;ninguno, cualquiera o todos&#8221; de los candidatos. Esto convierte a una Elecci&#243;n Restringida en una forma de <a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voto_aprobatorio">voto aprobatorio</a>, donde votar por un candidato no perjudica las perspectivas de un candidato diferente.</p><p>Tambi&#233;n proporciona el mecanismo para garantizar el segundo de los tres criterios, que todo votante tenga a alguien por quien votar. &#191;C&#243;mo? Bueno, el requisito del noventa por ciento de participaci&#243;n cuenta boletas <em>completadas.</em> Espec&#237;ficamente, el votante tiene que haber votado por al menos tantos candidatos como se est&#225;n <em>eligiendo,</em> para que su boleta cuente para el requisito del noventa por ciento. Los estados <em>deben</em> permitir que sus ciudadanos entreguen boletas incompletas o incluso en blanco, o de lo contrario violan los derechos de libre expresi&#243;n de sus ciudadanos (y &#191;no tendr&#237;a el ACLU un d&#237;a de campo con eso?); esto significa que necesitan que sus votantes <em>quieran</em> votar por al menos tantos candidatos como tienen asientos que llenar.</p><p>(Eso es otra cosa: las Elecciones Restringidas ni siquiera intentan abordar el problema del gerrymandering. El estado est&#225; obligado a elegir a todos sus Senadores y Representantes en general en la Elecci&#243;n Restringida. S&#237;, esto significa que cada californiano tendr&#225; que marcar votos por al menos 54 candidatos. No es tan malo como suena.)</p><p>Cuanto m&#225;s esfuerzo ponga el estado en restringir y sesgar su grupo de candidatos, menos probable ser&#225; que los votantes est&#233;n contentos con la boleta. Los votantes no necesitan que se les <em>instruya</em> para evitar votar por personas que no les gustan; eso ya es lo esperado. Entonces, si el estado realiza una Elecci&#243;n Restringida pero solo pone dem&#243;cratas en la boleta, hay una probabilidad aproximadamente cero de que capturen suficientes votos republicanos para alcanzar el noventa por ciento del electorado.</p><p>Para evitar que eso se convierta en algo que un movimiento antidemocr&#225;tico pueda manipular (instruyendo a sus miembros a votar parcialmente, quiz&#225;s), las Elecciones Restringidas tambi&#233;n son las &#250;nicas elecciones que aceptan cr&#233;dito parcial. Si el estado consigue que al menos el noventa por ciento de sus ciudadanos lleguen a las urnas, pero cada boleta solo tiene cuatro votos, entonces el estado env&#237;a dos Senadores y dos Representantes al Congreso. Tendr&#225; que realizar otra Elecci&#243;n Restringida para llenar el resto de sus asientos en la C&#225;mara de Representantes.</p><p>Dales un objetivo que no puedan alcanzar a menos que realmente lo est&#233;n dando todo.</p><p>Aun as&#237;, sin embargo. Incluso si eso cubre los dos primeros criterios, &#191;qu&#233; hay del tercero? &#191;C&#243;mo legislas la <em>confiabilidad?</em> Si hubiera una forma confiable de saber si alguien es confiable, no habr&#237;a necesidad de confianza en primer lugar. &#191;C&#243;mo pueden los estados saber si un candidato puede ser confiable, y c&#243;mo podr&#237;a eso verificarse despu&#233;s del hecho?</p><p>Tengo que acreditar al movimiento <a href="https://votersnotpoliticians.com/">Voters Not Politicians</a> de Michigan por la inspiraci&#243;n aqu&#237;, por la forma en que formaron su comit&#233; de redistribuci&#243;n congresional de 2020. La respuesta es que no intentas averiguar si un candidato <em>dado</em> es confiable; en cambio, eliges a tus candidatos de un grupo del que ya <em>sabes</em> que es confiable. &#191;Y c&#243;mo haces eso? Matem&#225;ticas.</p><p>Aqu&#237; est&#225; la cosa sobre la confiabilidad: esta, como todo lo dem&#225;s sobre la vida biol&#243;gica, existe en un espectro. Algunas personas son tan confiables que podr&#237;an decir que necesitan pedirte prestados mil d&#243;lares hoy para poder darte un mill&#243;n ma&#241;ana, y estar&#237;an diciendo la verdad. Algunas personas son tan <em>poco</em> confiables que podr&#237;an decir lo mismo y t&#250; lo creer&#237;as con la misma fuerza, hasta que no regresaran al d&#237;a siguiente. La mayor&#237;a de nosotros, sin embargo? Pues, doblaremos la verdad de vez en cuando si no hay da&#241;o real en ello, pero nunca intentar&#237;amos estafar a alguien para que pierda su casa, y aunque lo intent&#225;ramos no podr&#237;amos lograr ese nivel de sociopat&#237;a sin delatarnos.</p><p>Nuestro sistema electoral existente solo elige personas de la primera y segunda categor&#237;a. No Confidence elige exclusivamente personas de la tercera, y aqu&#237; est&#225; c&#243;mo: <em>toda persona que aparece en una boleta de Elecci&#243;n Restringida</em> debe haber sido elegida al azar de un grupo de al menos diez mil, en alg&#250;n momento dentro de los noventa d&#237;as anteriores. Como Michigan descubri&#243; gracias a VNP, cada vez que eliges a una persona al azar de un grupo grande, obtienes&#8230; solo una persona ordinaria. No un santo ni un &#225;ngel, y no alguien que manipula el sistema, sino solo un ciudadano cotidiano tratando de vivir su vida y abrirse camino en el mundo. Obtienes a alguien en quien puedes confiar. No un tipo de confianza de &#8220;yo s&#233; que dir&#225; la verdad&#8221;, sino un tipo de confianza de &#8220;estoy seguro de que podr&#237;a darme cuenta si estuviera mintiendo&#8221;.</p><p>Todav&#237;a hay mucho margen en c&#243;mo los estados promulgan el requisito, por supuesto. Podr&#237;an llamar a decenas de miles de voluntarios para que env&#237;en sus nombres, y luego poner todos esos nombres en un sombrero y elegir una docena. Podr&#237;an elegir al azar uno de cada diez mil ciudadanos en la lista de deber de jurado y enviar a cada uno un correo diciendo &#8220;usted podr&#237;a ser candidato en la Elecci&#243;n Restringida si quiere&#8221; y elegir a los candidatos a mano de quien responda, o quien obtenga al menos cien firmas, o quien pase la verificaci&#243;n de antecedentes.</p><p>(Supongo que incluso podr&#237;an convertirlo en una especie de reality show si pensaran que aumentar&#237;a la participaci&#243;n de los votantes. No digo que sea una buena idea, solo digo que mientras los candidatos pasen por un proceso de selecci&#243;n aleatoria en alg&#250;n momento, no importa c&#243;mo se lleven a cabo las campa&#241;as, o si el estado permite que los espectadores voten para sacar candidatos de la boleta antes de que ocurra la elecci&#243;n para mejorar los ratings, siempre y cuando la Elecci&#243;n Restringida real que realicen al final cumpla con todos los criterios. Espero que eso ayude, California.)</p><p>En realidad hay una cosa m&#225;s en No Confidence que mantiene a los candidatos honestos, pero este art&#237;culo ya es lo suficientemente largo, as&#237; que lo dejar&#233; para la pr&#243;xima.</p><p>Hasta entonces, mantente a salvo.</p><h5 style="text-align: right;">Pr&#243;ximo: <a href="https://substack.unfuckingtheworld.org/p/proposito-de-la-vida">El Prop&#243;sito De La Vida</a></h5><div><hr></div><p><em>Gracias por acompa&#241;arme en este viaje. Es f&#225;cil derribar aquello que nos ofende; si de verdad queremos unfuck el mundo, debemos dedicar diez veces m&#225;s esfuerzo y ser diez veces m&#225;s cuidadosos con lo que construimos para sustituirlo.</em></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://UTW.vote/community&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;&#218;nete A Una Comunidad&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:&quot;button-wrapper&quot;}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary button-wrapper" href="https://UTW.vote/community"><span>&#218;nete A Una Comunidad</span></a></p><p><em>Si leer, comentar y compartir estos art&#237;culos no te parece suficiente y quieres hacer algo m&#225;s para ayudar, &#250;nete a una de las comunidades en l&#237;nea que se est&#225;n movilizando en apoyo de UTW y No Confidence. Todos son bienvenidos, independientemente de sus opiniones pol&#237;ticas o de su nivel de energ&#237;a; el &#250;nico requisito es que te comportes de la mejor manera posible.</em></p><p><em>Te animamos a que plantees preguntas, retos, aportaciones y desacuerdos constructivos en los comentarios; ven con buena fe y los dem&#225;s har&#225;n lo mismo. El tema de hoy: si la comisi&#243;n electoral de tu estado te invitara a presentarte en la papeleta de Elecci&#243;n Restringida, y los conciudadanos de tu estado confiaran en ti para que hablaras en su nombre, &#191;estar&#237;as dispuesto a dedicar los pr&#243;ximos a&#241;os de tu vida a representar sus mejores intereses en el Congreso?</em></p><p><em>Comparte esto con alguien que conozcas y que sue&#241;e con un futuro mejor, y mantente a salvo.</em></p><p><em>&#8211;Danielle</em></p><p style="text-align: center;"><em>This article is also available <a href="https://substack.unfuckingtheworld.org/p/elephant-in-the-room">in English</a>.</em></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[What It Will Take]]></title><description><![CDATA[How to fix a system that's been running since before you were born | Listen now (14 min)]]></description><link>https://substack.unfuckingtheworld.org/p/what-it-will-take</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://substack.unfuckingtheworld.org/p/what-it-will-take</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Danielle Church]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 11:01:59 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/203779851/8e29e69edf285ff68af194a2072d5809.mp3" length="0" type="audio/mpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span>Welcome, reader, and thanks for being here.</span></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Mco6aOVR4k&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Watch on YouTube&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Mco6aOVR4k"><span>Watch on YouTube</span></a></p><p><span>I want to talk to you about No Confidence today, but I also want to talk to you about distributed systems architecture, a profession obscure enough that most people have never even heard of it. (It is relevant, I promise.) </span><em><span>I</span></em><span> certainly didn&#8217;t understand what it was the first, second, third, or even fifteenth time I asked my father what he did for a living.</span></p><p><span>Obviously I had to go into the profession for myself. How could I not, when even learning what it </span><em><span>meant</span></em><span> was such a delightful challenge?</span></p><p><span>It&#8217;s probably easier to comprehend today than it was in the 1980s, of course, since now we&#8217;re all plugged into the Internet, the biggest distributed system humanity has ever created save capitalism itself. So there&#8217;s your clue for the first part of the name: a </span><em><span>distributed</span></em><span> system is one that is spread out over a wide area, made up of countless individual components all working in concert.</span></p><p><span>In the industry, &#8220;distributed&#8221; means something else, as well. It means that there is no single point of failure, no central authority that everything relies on for its operation. Imagine going in to renew your driver&#8217;s license, but instead of taking a number and waiting for it to be called, you go to the first window and tell them why you&#8217;re here, and then go to a second window and give them your documentation, and so on and so forth like a bureaucratic fast-food drive-thru.</span></p><p><span>It might seem like it works more smoothly at first, right up until the first time a person can&#8217;t explain exactly what they need to the receptionist. Then everyone has to wait on that interaction to finish before </span><em><span>anyone</span></em><span> else can get seen.</span></p><p><span>Reader, if you just had the thought, &#8220;well, clearly they should have a </span><em><span>few</span></em><span> receptionists at that desk, because everyone has to go there first anyway,&#8221; then you begin to understand the </span><em><span>architecture</span></em><span> part of the profession, as well. A distributed systems architect must not only know how the system itself works, they must know how people interact with it, too.</span></p><p><span>The </span><em><span>systems</span></em><span> part is the one I find both easiest and hardest to comprehend and define, largely because just about </span><em><span>anything</span></em><span> can be a system, as long as it&#8217;s made up of more than one part. The agonizingly long process to get a driver&#8217;s license is a system of people and rules; a wall clock is a system of gears and axles; an electric power grid is a system of generators, transformers, and transmission lines. The only particularly defining feature of a </span><em><span>system,</span></em><span> as opposed to just a collection of individual things, is that </span><em><span>changing one part of a system affects the rest.</span></em></p><p><span>When a system is healthy, everything works, well, like clockwork. A new number gets called every few minutes, so you can see yours getting closer and you don&#8217;t get too impatient; the hour hand hits a new number exactly as the minute hand hits twelve; another generator spins up and starts producing electricity when the demand goes up in the heat of summer.</span></p><p><span>The more separate pieces a system has, the more impressive it is when they all work together as designed; who among us hasn&#8217;t marveled at a perfectly-synchronized marching band or laughed at a ridiculous Rube Goldberg machine?</span></p><p><span>Of course, it&#8217;s that very ridiculousness that hints at the potential trap of systems. Rube Goldberg&#8217;s drawings were so funny because those machines were so much more likely to fail than succeed. A single domino out of place, or a mouse jumping the wrong way, and the machine would not just fail to work, it would become utterly useless.</span></p><p><span>In systems architecture, we call this a &#8220;failure state&#8221;: the system can no longer perform its designed function just by relying on the nature of the system itself. If each clerk at the motor vehicle office is working on a particularly long and cumbersome transaction, then the people with quick renewals stop cycling through, numbers stop getting called, and everyone in the building gets more impatient. A misaligned hour hand might hit a new number when the minute hand reaches seven, instead of twelve.</span></p><p><span>Some failure states aren&#8217;t so benign. In February 2021, the electric power grid in Texas suffered catastrophic failures that left millions of homes without power for days, resulting in over two hundred deaths, despite everything the state could do to restore power more quickly. Even that, though, was a fraction of how bad it could have been; if power plant operators hadn&#8217;t acted quickly enough to save as much of the grid as they did, the entire </span><em><span>state</span></em><span> could have lost power, potentially for months.</span></p><p><span>This is not a hypothetical scenario;</span><a href="https://www.texastribune.org/2021/02/18/texas-power-outages-ercot/"><span> this was minutes away from happening</span></a><span>. Power plant generators are some of the most phenomenally powerful machines that humanity has produced, and like all of our most powerful inventions, they need to be part of a carefully tended and maintained system or all that power will tear it apart from within. The surest (non-violent) way to destroy a power plant generator is to increase its load past what the system can bear; because power plants represent such a sizable financial investment, </span><em><span>all</span></em><span> power plants are designed to shut themselves off rather than vibrate themselves to pieces, if the load gets too high.</span></p><p><span>This overload was state-wide, though, which meant that not just one or two of them but </span><em><span>every</span></em><span> generator would have shut down. The state would have had to perform a &#8220;black start&#8221; to restore power to the grid, a process rife with points for potential failure in part because </span><em><span>it has never been done before.</span></em></p><p><span>Some systems get so complex that we&#8217;re not even sure if we </span><em><span>can</span></em><span> get them running again, if they stop. &#8220;Too big to fail&#8221; does not mean that they </span><em><span>can&#8217;t</span></em><span> fail; it just means that we&#8217;re really scared of what will happen if they do.</span></p><p><span>This is why the discipline of distributed systems </span><em><span>architecture</span></em><span> exists. We have learned so much as a species, in between the time when electric power grids were first spreading across North America and now. Dependable systems reliability has become essential for so much of what we do now that the majority of our world runs on the Internet, and the intuitions of yestercentury have become the well-established best practices of today.</span></p><p><span>One thing we&#8217;ve learned the hard way (and proved mathematically, for good measure) is that </span><em><span>no</span></em><span> system lasts forever. Anything with enough pieces can get into a failure state, and diagnosing and </span><em><span>fixing</span></em><span> failure states is difficult, costly, and sometimes impossible. Every complex system </span><em><span>can</span></em><span> get into a failure state it can&#8217;t get out of on its own, which means that if you leave it running long enough, then eventually, every complex system </span><em><span>will.</span></em></p><p><span>This, of course, is where the ubiquitous advice of &#8220;Have you tried turning it off and back on again?&#8221; comes from. Any electronic device is a system; any system can get into a failure state. If the system is simple enough that you can just start it up again from scratch, then that will always be the easiest way to get it working again.</span></p><p><span>Some systems, of course, aren&#8217;t that simple. So let&#8217;s talk about No Confidence.</span></p><p><span>First off: why the name? It comes from the &#8220;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_of_no_confidence"><span>motion of no confidence</span></a><span>,&#8221; a feature of parliamentary governments. In these systems, where the parliament elects the government, the parliament can likewise </span><em><span>unelect</span></em><span> that government once it no longer has their support. In America, it is we the citizens who elect our government, and thus it must be we, the American people, who raise our voices to tell our government that </span><em><strong><span>it has lost our confidence.</span></strong></em><span> We no longer have faith that our government will actually do right by us, and that lost faith has real repercussions, and it also has a name, recognized and feared in halls of government the world over: No Confidence.</span></p><p><span>The No Confidence Amendment doesn&#8217;t attempt to solve any of the many problems with American politics directly. Movements have been trying to come up with the </span><em><span>best</span></em><span> solutions to the various problems that plague our society for longer than I&#8217;ve been alive, and one or two have been at least mildly successful, but on the whole American politics resists any efforts to nudge it away from the status quo.</span></p><p><span>No Confidence makes no attempt to solve those problems, because those are not problems that can be solved by a single person. Instead, it simply addresses the failure state itself. Our government is a complex system that has been operating continuously for two hundred fifty years, and the failure state it has gotten into is not one that our existing electoral system is capable of fixing. Because of how rigid American politics has become, it&#8217;s only a very small part of our government, the so-called &#8220;swing&#8221; or &#8220;battleground&#8221; states and seats, that actually have a chance of changing in each election. Every part of the government that does </span><em><span>not</span></em><span> change persists the failure state into the new term.</span></p><p><span>No Confidence allows the American people to demand a </span><em><span>true</span></em><span> break from the existing system. It creates a single point in time when we change out </span><em><span>every</span></em><span> political role in our government&#8212;that is, the people who make decisions, not the millions of hardworking government employees who actually keep our country running day-to-day, regardless of which party is holding the reins.</span></p><p><span>When we ratify No Confidence, we strip every single one of those decision-makers of their authority, along with anyone they placed in a persisting role. We hit &#8220;undo&#8221; or &#8220;pause&#8221; on every decision that has been made since the current administration took office, until we have someone we can trust to look over them and decide which were good for the country, and which were not. We guarantee every government employee (both those who have been faithfully executing their roles for years </span><em><span>and</span></em><span> those whose employment was wrongfully terminated by the current administration) their job and their paycheck, for the interim. We trust these selfless functionaries to keep our country running, just like we trust our brave soldiers to keep our country safe, while we the citizens of the United States do the really hard part.</span></p><p><span>Only the first of the eleven sections of the No Confidence text describe the above: what happens the moment the amendment becomes part of our Constitution (or when we need it again in another two centuries or so). The other ten describe what we do </span><em><span>after</span></em><span> we clean house: how we elect an Interim Congress to oversee the cleanup efforts, their role in the reconstruction of America, and the process for returning to a more normal (and, hopefully, more </span><em><span>healthy)</span></em><span> political system once they&#8217;re done.</span></p><p><span>I&#8217;ll go into more detail next time, but again, No Confidence isn&#8217;t designed to fix any of our problems itself. When we ratify it, all it will do is leave us with a trustworthy interim government that actually wants to make lasting progress in our country&#8212;but even if they </span><em><span>don&#8217;t,</span></em><span> we will have given our existing system enough of a break that the next Congress will have much more political freedom than the one we have now. No Confidence is a way to pick ourselves back up out of the dirt, dust ourselves off, and stagger forward to the starting line.</span></p><p><span>I wrote No Confidence and designed its ratification strategy to be something we could use in the last of the last resorts. This is not an amendment that you would ever write into your Constitution with a healthy government; it&#8217;s </span><em><span>only</span></em><span> politically viable at a point in history when the vast, typically-apolitical majority of Americans are unable to avoid seeing just </span><em><span>how bad</span></em><span> things have gotten.</span></p><p><span>That&#8217;s on purpose. No Confidence is an extremely powerful disinfectant; if we allow it to be used just when one group of people doesn&#8217;t like what the government is doing, then it will itself become a corruptible part of the system, and it will lose its power. This way, we will only ever&#8212;we </span><em><span>can</span></em><span> only ever&#8212;reach for it when the situation is, as it is now, so wrong that </span><em><span>everyone</span></em><span> can see it.</span></p><p><span>It also means that if we </span><em><span>do</span></em><span> attempt to change things slowly and piecemeal by means of midterm elections and legislation, or if someone deposes this administration by means of violence, we will be giving up the option for No Confidence for good, unless and until things get this bad </span><em><span>again</span></em><span>.</span></p><p><span>There might still be paths forward for America and the world in that case, but I can&#8217;t see them, reader, and I gotta tell you, I&#8217;m </span><em><span>tired</span></em><span> of waiting and hoping that maybe someone comes up with some solution someday in the future. This solution exists now, and it doesn&#8217;t require waiting, it requires </span><em><span>doing</span></em><span>. Now, tomorrow, the next day, maybe skip the one after that if you need a break, but all that No Confidence demands is that you decide, right now, that you want the America of tomorrow to be strong, proud, great, and </span><em><span>free</span></em><span>.</span></p><p><span>Until next time, stay safe.</span></p><h5 style="text-align: right;">Next: <a href="https://substack.unfuckingtheworld.org/p/elephant-in-the-room">Addressing The Elephant In The Room</a></h5><div><hr></div><p><em><span>Thank you for reading </span></em><span>Unfucking The World</span><em><span>. We have an enormous task ahead of us, and I&#8217;m so glad that I get to start introducing you to the tool I&#8217;ve been crafting, refining, and honing to address it.</span></em></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://substack.unfuckingtheworld.org/?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share Unfucking The World&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://substack.unfuckingtheworld.org/?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share"><span>Share Unfucking The World</span></a></p><p><em><span>There will be more to do for No Confidence in the future, but the most important thing is to grow our voice as fast as we can. Share the news on social media with the hashtag </span></em><strong><span>#UTW</span></strong><em><span> and the URL </span></em><strong><a href="https://UTW.vote"><span>UTW.vote</span></a></strong><em><span>, and make sure you and everyone you know has subscribed.</span></em></p><p><em><span>Questions, challenges, additions, and thoughtful disagreements are encouraged in the comments; bring your good faith, and others will do the same. Today&#8217;s topic: a change on the scale of No Confidence is inherently scary. What worries you the most about it?</span></em></p><p><em><span>Share this with someone you know who wants to end this nightmare, and stay safe.</span></em></p><p><em><span>&#8211;Danielle</span></em></p><p style="text-align: center;"><em>Este art&#237;culo tambi&#233;n est&#225; disponible <a href="https://substack.unfuckingtheworld.org/p/que-hara-falta">en espa&#241;ol</a>.</em></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Qué Hará Falta]]></title><description><![CDATA[C&#243;mo arreglar un sistema que ha estado funcionando desde antes de que t&#250; nacieras | Escucha ahora (18 min)]]></description><link>https://substack.unfuckingtheworld.org/p/que-hara-falta</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://substack.unfuckingtheworld.org/p/que-hara-falta</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Danielle Church]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 11:00:08 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/204008099/ab4e3d40b71555bbe23b0a45d2925969.mp3" length="0" type="audio/mpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span>Bienvenido, lector, y gracias por estar aqu&#237;.</span></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Mco6aOVR4k&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Ve en YouTube&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Mco6aOVR4k"><span>Ve en YouTube</span></a></p><p><span>Quiero hablarte hoy sobre No Confidence, pero tambi&#233;n quiero hablarte sobre la arquitectura de sistemas distribuidos, una profesi&#243;n lo suficientemente oscura como para que la mayor&#237;a de la gente ni siquiera haya o&#237;do hablar de ella. (Es relevante, lo prometo.) Ciertamente </span><em><span>yo</span></em><span> no entend&#237;a qu&#233; era la primera, segunda, tercera, ni siquiera la decimoquinta vez que le pregunt&#233; a mi padre a qu&#233; se dedicaba.</span></p><p><span>Obviamente tuve que entrar yo mismo en la profesi&#243;n. &#191;C&#243;mo no hacerlo, cuando incluso aprender qu&#233; </span><em><span>significaba</span></em><span> era un desaf&#237;o tan delicioso?</span></p><p><span>Probablemente sea m&#225;s f&#225;cil de comprender hoy que en la d&#233;cada de 1980, por supuesto, ya que ahora todos estamos conectados a Internet, el sistema distribuido m&#225;s grande que la humanidad ha creado, salvo el capitalismo mismo. As&#237; que ah&#237; tienes tu pista para la &#250;ltima parte del nombre: un sistema </span><em><span>distribuido</span></em><span> es uno que est&#225; repartido sobre un &#225;rea amplia, compuesto por innumerables componentes individuales que trabajan todos en concierto.</span></p><p><span>En la industria, &#8220;distribuido&#8221; tambi&#233;n significa otra cosa. Significa que no hay un &#250;nico punto de fallo, ninguna autoridad central de la que todo dependa para su funcionamiento. Imagina que vas a renovar tu licencia de conducir, pero en lugar de tomar un n&#250;mero y esperar a que te llamen, vas a la primera ventanilla y les dices por qu&#233; est&#225;s all&#237;, luego vas a una segunda ventanilla y les das tu documentaci&#243;n, y as&#237; sucesivamente como en un drive-thru burocr&#225;tico de comida r&#225;pida.</span></p><p><span>Al principio puede parecer que funciona m&#225;s fluidamente, hasta la primera vez que una persona no puede explicar exactamente lo que necesita al recepcionista. Entonces todos tienen que esperar a que termine esa interacci&#243;n antes de que </span><em><span>nadie</span></em><span> m&#225;s pueda ser atendido.</span></p><p><span>Lector, si acabas de tener el pensamiento &#8220;bueno, claramente deber&#237;an tener </span><em><span>varios</span></em><span> recepcionistas en ese mostrador, porque todos tienen que ir all&#237; primero de todos modos&#8221;, entonces empiezas a entender tambi&#233;n la parte de </span><em><span>arquitectura</span></em><span> de la profesi&#243;n. Un arquitecto de sistemas distribuidos no solo debe saber c&#243;mo funciona el sistema en s&#237;, sino que tambi&#233;n debe saber c&#243;mo interact&#250;an las personas con &#233;l.</span></p><p><span>La parte de </span><em><span>sistemas</span></em><span> es la que encuentro tanto la m&#225;s f&#225;cil como la m&#225;s dif&#237;cil de comprender y definir, principalmente porque pr&#225;cticamente </span><em><span>cualquier</span></em><span> cosa puede ser un sistema, cuando est&#233; compuesta por m&#225;s de una parte. El proceso agonizantemente largo para obtener una licencia de conducir es un sistema de personas y reglas; un reloj es un sistema de engranajes y ejes; una red el&#233;ctrica es un sistema de generadores, transformadores y l&#237;neas de transmisi&#243;n. La &#250;nica caracter&#237;stica particularmente definitoria de un sistema, a diferencia de una simple colecci&#243;n de cosas individuales, es que </span><em><span>cambiar una parte de un sistema afecta al resto.</span></em></p><p><span>Cuando un sistema est&#225; sano, todo funciona, bueno, como un reloj. Se llama un nuevo n&#250;mero cada pocos minutos, as&#237; que puedes ver que el tuyo se acerca y no te impacientas demasiado; la aguja de las horas llega a un nuevo n&#250;mero exactamente cuando la aguja de los minutos llega a las doce; otro generador se pone en marcha y empieza a producir electricidad cuando la demanda sube en el calor del verano.</span></p><p><span>Cuanto m&#225;s piezas separadas tiene un sistema, m&#225;s impresionante es cuando todas funcionan juntas seg&#250;n lo dise&#241;ado; &#191;qui&#233;n de nosotros no ha quedado maravillado ante una banda de marcha perfectamente sincronizada o se ha re&#237;do con una rid&#237;cula m&#225;quina de Rube Goldberg?</span></p><p><span>Por supuesto, es precisamente esa ridiculez la que apunta a la trampa potencial de los sistemas. Los dibujos de Rube Goldberg eran tan divertidos porque esas m&#225;quinas ten&#237;an muchas m&#225;s probabilidades de fallar que de tener &#233;xito. Un solo domin&#243; fuera de lugar, o un rat&#243;n saltando en la direcci&#243;n equivocada, y la m&#225;quina no solo fallar&#237;a en su funcionamiento, sino que se volver&#237;a completamente in&#250;til.</span></p><p><span>En la arquitectura de sistemas, llamamos a esto un &#8220;estado de fallo&#8221;: el sistema ya no puede realizar su funci&#243;n dise&#241;ada simplemente confiando en la naturaleza del sistema mismo. Si cada empleado en la oficina de veh&#237;culos motorizados est&#225; trabajando en una transacci&#243;n particularmente larga y engorrosa, entonces las personas con renovaciones r&#225;pidas dejan de avanzar, dejan de llamarse n&#250;meros y todos en el edificio se impacientan m&#225;s. Una aguja de las horas desalineada podr&#237;a llegar a un nuevo n&#250;mero cuando la aguja de los minutos llega a las siete, en lugar de las doce.</span></p><p><span>Algunos estados de fallo no son tan benignos. En febrero de 2021, la red el&#233;ctrica en Texas sufri&#243; fallos catastr&#243;ficos que dejaron a millones de hogares sin electricidad durante d&#237;as, resultando en m&#225;s de doscientas muertes, a pesar de todo lo que el estado pudo hacer para restaurar la energ&#237;a m&#225;s r&#225;pidamente. Aun as&#237;, eso fue solo una fracci&#243;n de lo malo que podr&#237;a haber sido; si los operadores de las plantas de energ&#237;a no hubieran actuado lo suficientemente r&#225;pido para salvar tanto de la red como lo hicieron, </span><em><span>todo</span></em><span> el estado podr&#237;a haber perdido la electricidad, potencialmente durante meses.</span></p><p><span>Esto no es un escenario hipot&#233;tico; </span><a href="https://www.texastribune.org/2021/02/18/texas-power-outages-ercot/"><span>esto estuvo a minutos de suceder</span></a><span>. Los generadores de las plantas de energ&#237;a son algunas de las m&#225;quinas m&#225;s fenomenalmente poderosas que la humanidad ha producido, y como todas nuestras invenciones m&#225;s poderosas, necesitan formar parte de un sistema cuidadosamente atendido y mantenido o todo ese poder las destrozar&#225; desde dentro. La forma m&#225;s segura (no violenta) de destruir un generador de planta de energ&#237;a es aumentar su carga m&#225;s all&#225; de lo que el sistema puede soportar; como las plantas de energ&#237;a representan una inversi&#243;n financiera tan considerable, todas las plantas de energ&#237;a est&#225;n dise&#241;adas para apagarse solas en lugar de vibrar hasta hacerse pedazos, si la carga se vuelve demasiado alta.</span></p><p><span>Esta sobrecarga fue a nivel estatal, sin embargo, lo que significaba que no solo uno o dos de ellos, sino que todos los generadores se habr&#237;an apagado. El estado habr&#237;a tenido que realizar un &#8220;black start&#8221; o &#8220;arranque aut&#243;geno&#8221; para restaurar la electricidad a la red, un proceso lleno de puntos de posible fallo en parte porque </span><em><span>nunca se ha hecho antes.</span></em></p><p><span>Algunos sistemas se vuelven tan complejos que ni siquiera estamos seguros de si </span><em><span>podemos</span></em><span> volver a ponerlos en marcha si se detienen. &#8220;Demasiado grande para fallar&#8221; no significa que no </span><em><span>puedan</span></em><span> fallar; simplemente significa que tenemos mucho miedo de lo que suceder&#225; si lo hacen.</span></p><p><span>Esta es la raz&#243;n por la que existe la disciplina de la </span><em><span>arquitectura</span></em><span> de sistemas distribuidos. Hemos aprendido tanto como especie, entre el momento en que las redes el&#233;ctricas se extend&#237;an por primera vez por Norteam&#233;rica y ahora. La fiabilidad confiable de los sistemas se ha vuelto esencial para gran parte de lo que hacemos ahora que la mayor&#237;a de nuestro mundo funciona en Internet, y las intuiciones del siglo pasado se han convertido en las mejores pr&#225;cticas bien establecidas de hoy.</span></p><p><span>Una cosa que hemos aprendido por las malas (y demostrado matem&#225;ticamente, para mayor medida) es que ning&#250;n sistema dura para siempre. Cualquier cosa con suficientes piezas puede entrar en un estado de fallo, y diagnosticar y arreglar estados de fallo es dif&#237;cil, costoso y a veces imposible. Todo sistema complejo puede entrar en un estado de fallo del que no puede salir por s&#237; solo, lo que significa que si lo dejas funcionando el tiempo suficiente, eventualmente, todo sistema complejo lo </span><em><span>har&#225;.</span></em></p><p><span>Esto, por supuesto, es de donde proviene el consejo omnipresente de &#8220;&#191;Has probado apagarlo y volverlo a encender?&#8221;. Cualquier dispositivo electr&#243;nico es un sistema; cualquier sistema puede entrar en un estado de fallo. Si el sistema es lo suficientemente simple como para que puedas reiniciarlo desde cero, entonces esa siempre ser&#225; la forma m&#225;s f&#225;cil de hacerlo funcionar de nuevo.</span></p><p><span>Algunos sistemas, por supuesto, no son tan simples. As&#237; que hablemos de No Confidence.</span></p><p><span>Primero: &#191;por qu&#233; el nombre? Proviene de la &#8220;motion of no confidence&#8221; o &#8220;</span><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moci%C3%B3n_de_censura"><span>moci&#243;n de censura</span></a><span>&#8221;, una caracter&#237;stica de los gobiernos parlamentarios. En estos sistemas, donde el parlamento elige al gobierno, el parlamento puede igualmente </span><em><span>destituir</span></em><span> a ese gobierno una vez que ya no cuenta con su apoyo. En Am&#233;rica, somos nosotros, los ciudadanos, quienes elegimos a nuestro gobierno, y por lo tanto debemos ser nosotros, el pueblo estadounidense, quienes alcemos nuestras voces para decirle a nuestro gobierno que </span><em><strong><span>ha perdido nuestra confianza</span></strong></em><span>. Ya no tenemos fe en que nuestro gobierno realmente actuar&#225; correctamente con nosotros, y esa fe perdida tiene repercusiones reales, y tambi&#233;n tiene un nombre, reconocido y temido en los pasillos del gobierno en todo el mundo: No Confidence.</span></p><p><span>La Enmienda No Confidence no intenta resolver ninguno de los muchos problemas de la pol&#237;tica estadounidense directamente. Los movimientos han estado tratando de encontrar las </span><em><span>mejores</span></em><span> soluciones a los diversos problemas que aquejan a nuestra sociedad durante m&#225;s tiempo del que yo he vivido, y uno o dos han tenido al menos un &#233;xito moderado, pero en general la pol&#237;tica estadounidense resiste cualquier esfuerzo por alejarla del statu quo.</span></p><p><span>No Confidence no hace ning&#250;n intento por resolver esos problemas, porque esos no son problemas que puedan resolverse por una sola persona. En cambio, simplemente aborda el estado de fallo en s&#237;. Nuestro gobierno es un sistema complejo que ha estado operando continuamente durante doscientos cincuenta a&#241;os, y el estado de fallo en el que ha entrado no es uno que nuestro sistema electoral existente sea capaz de arreglar. Debido a lo r&#237;gida que se ha vuelto la pol&#237;tica estadounidense, solo una parte muy peque&#241;a de nuestro gobierno, los llamados estados o esca&#241;os &#8220;swing&#8221; o &#8220;indecisos&#8221;, tienen realmente una oportunidad de cambiar en cada elecci&#243;n. Cada parte del gobierno que no cambia perpet&#250;a el estado de fallo en el nuevo mandato.</span></p><p><span>No Confidence permite al pueblo estadounidense exigir una </span><em><span>verdadera</span></em><span> ruptura con el sistema existente. Crea un &#250;nico punto en el tiempo en el que cambiamos </span><em><span>todos</span></em><span> los roles pol&#237;ticos en nuestro gobierno &#8212;es decir, las personas que toman decisiones, no los millones de empleados gubernamentales trabajadores que realmente mantienen nuestro pa&#237;s funcionando d&#237;a a d&#237;a, independientemente de qu&#233; partido est&#233; al mando.</span></p><p><span>Cuando ratifiquemos No Confidence, despojamos a cada uno de esos tomadores de decisiones de su autoridad, junto con cualquiera que ellos hayan colocado en un rol persistente. Le damos &#8220;undo&#8221; o &#8220;pausa&#8221; a cada decisi&#243;n que se haya tomado desde que la administraci&#243;n actual asumi&#243; el cargo, hasta que tengamos a alguien en quien podamos confiar para revisarlos y decidir cu&#225;les fueron buenas para el pa&#237;s y cu&#225;les no. Garantizamos a todos los empleados gubernamentales (tanto a aquellos que han estado ejecutando fielmente sus roles durante a&#241;os </span><em><span>como</span></em><span> a aquellos cuyo empleo fue terminado injustamente por la administraci&#243;n actual) sus trabajos y sus sueldos durante el per&#237;odo interino. Confiamos en estos funcionarios desinteresados para mantener nuestro pa&#237;s en funcionamiento, tal como confiamos en nuestros valientes soldados para mantener nuestro pa&#237;s seguro, mientras nosotros, los ciudadanos de los Estados Unidos, hacemos la parte realmente dif&#237;cil.</span></p><p><span>Solo la primera de las once secciones del texto de No Confidence describe lo anterior: lo que sucede en el momento en que la enmienda se convierte en parte de nuestra Constituci&#243;n (o cuando la necesitemos de nuevo en otros dos siglos m&#225;s o menos). Las otras diez describen lo que hacemos </span><em><span>despu&#233;s</span></em><span> de limpiar la casa: c&#243;mo elegimos un Congreso Interino para supervisar los esfuerzos de limpieza, su rol en la reconstrucci&#243;n de Am&#233;rica, y el proceso para regresar a un sistema pol&#237;tico m&#225;s normal (y, con suerte, m&#225;s </span><em><span>saludable)</span></em><span> una vez que terminen.</span></p><p><span>Entrar&#233; en m&#225;s detalle la pr&#243;xima vez, pero de nuevo, No Confidence no est&#225; dise&#241;ado para arreglar ninguno de nuestros problemas por s&#237; mismo. Cuando lo ratifiquemos, todo lo que har&#225; es dejarnos con un gobierno interino confiable que realmente quiere hacer un progreso duradero en nuestro pa&#237;s &#8212;pero incluso si </span><em><span>no</span></em><span> lo hacen, le habremos dado a nuestro sistema existente suficiente descanso como para que el pr&#243;ximo Congreso tenga mucha m&#225;s libertad pol&#237;tica que el que tenemos ahora. No Confidence es una forma de levantarnos del polvo, sacudirnos el polvo y tambalearnos adelante hacia la l&#237;nea de salida.</span></p><p><span>Escrib&#237; No Confidence y dise&#241;&#233; su estrategia de ratificaci&#243;n para que fuera algo que pudi&#233;ramos usar en el &#250;ltimo de los &#250;ltimos recursos. Esta no es una enmienda que escribir&#237;as en tu Constituci&#243;n con un gobierno sano; </span><em><span>solo</span></em><span> es pol&#237;ticamente viable en un punto de la historia en el que la vasta mayor&#237;a t&#237;picamente apol&#237;tica de los estadounidenses no pueda evitar ver lo </span><em><span>mal</span></em><span> que se han puesto las cosas.</span></p><p><span>Eso es a prop&#243;sito. No Confidence es un desinfectante extremadamente poderoso; si permitimos que se use solo cuando un grupo de personas no le gusta lo que est&#225; haciendo el gobierno, entonces se convertir&#225; &#233;l mismo en una parte corruptible del sistema y perder&#225; su poder. De esta manera, solo recurriremos a &#233;l &#8212;solo </span><em><span>podremos</span></em><span> recurrir a &#233;l&#8212; cuando la situaci&#243;n est&#233;, como ahora, tan mal que </span><em><span>todos</span></em><span> puedan verlo.</span></p><p><span>Tambi&#233;n significa que si </span><em><span>s&#237;</span></em><span> intentamos cambiar las cosas lentamente y por partes mediante elecciones de medio t&#233;rmino y legislaci&#243;n, o si alguien depone a esta administraci&#243;n mediante violencia, estaremos renunciando a la opci&#243;n de No Confidence para siempre, a menos y hasta que las cosas se pongan tan mal de </span><em><span>nuevo.</span></em></p><p><span>Todav&#237;a podr&#237;a haber caminos adelante para Am&#233;rica y el mundo en ese caso, pero no los veo, lector, y tengo que decirte que estoy </span><em><span>cansada</span></em><span> de esperar y esperar que tal vez alguien proponga alguna soluci&#243;n alg&#250;n d&#237;a en el futuro. Esta soluci&#243;n existe ahora, y no requiere esperar, requiere </span><em><span>actuar.</span></em><span> Ahora, ma&#241;ana, el d&#237;a siguiente, tal vez saltarse el siguiente si necesitas un descanso, pero todo lo que No Confidence exige es que decidas, ahora mismo, que quieres que la Am&#233;rica de ma&#241;ana sea fuerte, orgullosa, grandiosa y </span><em><span>libre.</span></em></p><p><span>Hasta la pr&#243;xima, mantente a salvo.</span></p><h5 style="text-align: right;">Pr&#243;ximo: <a href="https://substack.unfuckingtheworld.org/p/elefante-en-la-habitacion">Abordando Al Elefante En La Habitaci&#243;n</a></h5><div><hr></div><p><em><span>Gracias por leer </span></em><span>Unfucking The World</span><em><span>. Tenemos por delante una tarea enorme, y me alegra mucho poder empezar a presentarte la herramienta que he estado creando, perfeccionando y puliendo para abordarla.</span></em></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://substack.unfuckingtheworld.org/?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share Unfucking The World&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://substack.unfuckingtheworld.org/?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share"><span>Share Unfucking The World</span></a></p><p><em><span>Habr&#225; m&#225;s cosas que hacer para No Confidence en el futuro, pero lo m&#225;s importante es aumentar nuestro n&#250;meros lo m&#225;s r&#225;pido posible. Comparte la noticia en las redes sociales con el hashtag </span></em><strong><span>#UTW</span></strong><em><span> y la URL </span></em><strong><a href="https://UTW.vote/"><span>UTW.vote</span></a></strong><em><span>, y aseg&#250;rate de que tanto t&#250; como todos tus conocidos os hay&#225;is suscrito.</span></em></p><p><em><span>Te animamos a que plantees preguntas, retos, aportaciones y desacuerdos constructivos en los comentarios de UTW.vote/systems; ven con buena fe y los dem&#225;s har&#225;n lo mismo. El tema de hoy: un cambio de la magnitud de No Confidence da miedo por naturaleza. &#191;Qu&#233; es lo que m&#225;s te preocupa al respecto?</span></em></p><p><em><span>Comparte esto con alguien que conozcas que quiera acabar con esta pesadilla, y mantente a salvo.</span></em></p><p style="text-align: center;"><em><span>This article is also available </span><a href="https://substack.unfuckingtheworld.org/p/what-it-will-take"><span>in English</span></a><span>.</span></em></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's Gotta Be A Pony Somewhere]]></title><description><![CDATA[On knowing where to look when all you can see is a dung heap | Listen now (12 min)]]></description><link>https://substack.unfuckingtheworld.org/p/gotta-be-a-pony</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://substack.unfuckingtheworld.org/p/gotta-be-a-pony</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Danielle Church]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 11:01:05 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/202802227/e5c3250a944aea83faec5023d8a9ed61.mp3" length="0" type="audio/mpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span>Welcome, reader. I&#8217;m glad you&#8217;re still around; it&#8217;s pretty rough out there.</span></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfE6WWHEKXU&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Watch on YouTube&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfE6WWHEKXU"><span>Watch on YouTube</span></a></p><p><span>You don&#8217;t need me to tell you that, though. If you&#8217;re reading this around the time I&#8217;m writing it, then you already know how bad it is. I don&#8217;t need to know anything about you to know that things have gotten a lot scarier for you over the last several years, worse than they ever have in your life. Prices are going up, jobs are disappearing, wages are stagnating, and our governments can&#8217;t seem to do anything to slow that process down. All of us, no matter our position on any political spectrum, are feeling the world spiraling out of control right now.</span></p><p><span>We don&#8217;t all react the same way to that fear, of course: some of us cower in our homes and avoid the news, while some of us grab for whatever control we can find, in whatever context we can find it. Some of us get energized to fight back, while some of us plaster on fake smiles in hopes that pretending the problems don&#8217;t exist will make them go away. I&#8217;m not here to judge; the fact that we all react differently to danger is part of what makes us strong as humans.</span></p><p><span>So reader, don&#8217;t let anyone, not even you, tell you you&#8217;re reacting </span><em><span>wrong</span></em><span> to the crisis that is the twenty-first century. You are not broken; you are reacting appropriately to a world that is getting more and more dangerous every day, in ways you might not be consciously thinking of but that you can probably feel on the back of your neck. I personally know more than one lifelong pacifist who has decided that now might not be a bad time to own a firearm after all.</span></p><p><span>What I&#8217;m going to ask of you now is difficult, but it is necessary. Our fear responses evolved to react to a world where danger nearly always comes from some other being, either human or animal. When something goes wrong, we intuitively look for who is to blame, who is at fault, because millennia of inherited experience have taught us that to resolve a problem, we must look to its source. Every single one of us has looked across the aisle and seen there the face of The Enemy, and I&#8217;m no less guilty of that than you are, I promise.</span></p><p><span>I need you to let go of that, at least for as long as you&#8217;re reading this. You are not wrong to see blame when you look at the people who are making your life miserable, but for right now, you need to allow for the idea that it may be a mirage. You need to convince yourself that the blame you see may actually be in the air between you, in the structure of this world we have created for ourselves, whether you truly believe it or not. If you cannot&#8212;if your own pain is so strong that you can&#8217;t set it aside, even in the interests of preserving our future&#8212;that is </span><strong><span>okay</span></strong><span>. Not everyone is made for the fight.</span></p><p><span>If the previous paragraphs were too soft and hand-holdy for your taste, then perhaps this will be more your speed: I need you to grow the fuck up and get over yourself. If that&#8217;s too much to ask, then feel free to </span><a href="https://substack.unfuckingtheworld.org/account/cancel"><span>see yourself out</span></a><span>.</span></p><p><span>If you&#8217;re still here, reader, then I think you want to fix the world as much as I do. You may or may not believe that the situation is quite as dire as I do, but you know things are bad, and you desperately want them to change, even though it feels like nothing possibly ever </span><em><span>could.</span></em></p><p><span>Unfortunately, the real world rarely provides us with such obvious signposts as yellow paint on climbable surfaces, billionaires who act like literal cartoon villains, or a bright red box labeled &#8220;BREAK GLASS IN CASE OF TYRANNY.&#8221; Knowing that something is wrong doesn&#8217;t mean knowing how to make it better, as the current US administration is so impressively (and illegally) demonstrating.</span></p><p><span>I don&#8217;t know how to fix everything, and even if I did I wouldn&#8217;t try; the world that would be ideal for Danielle Church, or for any one single person, would be intolerable to nearly everybody else. That&#8217;s </span><em><span>why</span></em><span> our government is made up of so many different people: differences of opinion make us strong.</span></p><p><span>What I </span><em><span>can</span></em><span> do is drag us back from the brink. I can&#8217;t </span><em><span>fix</span></em><span> the world, but I do know how we can unfuck it just enough to where we can all breathe again. I wouldn&#8217;t be writing this if I couldn&#8217;t see the path we&#8217;re going to take to reach for a brighter future.</span></p><p><span>It won&#8217;t be easy, though, and it won&#8217;t be possible at all unless we narrow our focus. For now, we can&#8217;t be distracted by the loss of jobs to AI, nor by the genocide of trans people in the United States, the atrocities in the Middle East, the war in Ukraine, or worsening financial projections the world over. If we want to give ourselves the best chance for survival in the decades to come, we must focus right now on one thing, and one thing only.</span></p><p><em><strong><span>The first step to unfucking the world is to peaceably remove Donald Trump from power and erase his impact on American politics.</span></strong></em><span> This holds whether you are American or not, whether you love this country or hate it, whether you wish progress would go faster or slow down just a bit. The United States is, for better or for worse, an exceptional country (in the sense of being an exception) with an </span><a href="https://acoup.blog/2022/07/08/collections-is-the-united-states-exceptional/"><span>outsize impact on the world economy</span></a><span>. It is presently at a tipping point in its history, and depending on how the next couple years play out, we will see one of two potential futures come to pass.</span></p><p><span>In the first future, Trump&#8217;s legacy stands. This could take many forms: Trump might hold on to the reins for a third term and beyond; he might die in office, violently or otherwise; he might attempt a coup and fail; he might be taken down by someone else&#8217;s coup; he might, I suppose, even leave power peaceably at the end of his term. Regardless of whether or not hell freezes over, these various timelines have one thing in common: Trump&#8217;s impact on US politics remains intact. The people he pardoned remain pardoned, the Supreme Court justices he installed remain installed, and the bills he championed remain the law of the land.</span></p><p><span>Trump&#8217;s legacy </span><em><span>could</span></em><span> also be the destruction of the United States as a country, depending on how this war goes. We&#8217;ll see, I suppose.</span></p><p><span>In any of these futures, America&#8212;presuming it still stands&#8212;loses any remaining influence (other than military) over global politics. The United States will never be trusted by any other nation, because we will have shown ourselves to have no consistent national identity. We will see more efforts to get sham Presidents into place, and some will be successful, because the rewards for doing so are </span><em><span>permanent</span></em><span>. Regardless of whether we still technically have elections, the United States will remain, as it is becoming, a fascist state at its core. Even if we elect a string of respectable Presidents after this who just want to balance the budget and keep our own economy going strong, no one will trust Dr. Jekyll when they know that Mr. Hyde will eventually come back.</span></p><p><span>See, the thing is, what&#8217;s going on now isn&#8217;t even Trump&#8217;s fault, not really. He isn&#8217;t even a little bit special. One thing we know from history is that </span><em><span>every</span></em><span> rule gets tested eventually. The United States was always going to elect a President who didn&#8217;t give a shit about the Constitution </span><em><span>someday</span></em><span>. And that means that we were always going to have this crisis, regardless of if that President was Trump, or Musk, or someone fifty years down the line who hasn&#8217;t even been born yet. The fact that this is happening exactly one quarter-millennium into our country&#8217;s history brings a nice sense of narrative gravitas to it, but it&#8217;s ultimately a coincidence.</span></p><p><span>If America does fall to tyranny, or if it falls altogether, then the very real economic problems facing the world will be up to everyone else to sort out. America will either be a country that can be bought for money or it will have disappeared altogether; either way, it will be of no assistance in unraveling the mess that is the global economy. I&#8217;m not gonna say humanity has </span><em><span>no</span></em><span> chance at that point, but I really don&#8217;t like our odds. (I do have plans for how to unfuck the economy after we&#8217;re done here, but one step at a time.)</span></p><p><span>What happens next in </span><em><span>America&#8217;s</span></em><span> history, though, is and was always going to be up to us Americans. We&#8217;re the generations that happen to be alive at the point in time the US is undergoing this inevitable metamorphosis, whether into tyranny or into freedom, and so the responsibility to fix it falls to us.</span></p><p><span>Because that&#8217;s the other future. In that second future, we rise up and say that this is </span><em><span>not</span></em><span> business as usual. Regardless of whether and where we fit on the liberal or conservative spectrum, we say that having a President who brazenly flouts the Constitution, who openly sells pardons for money, who decides on war plans by consulting a very fancy Magic 8-Ball rather than Congress, is a bridge too far.</span></p><p><span>In that future, we remove him from power but we go one step further: we rewind, undo, and erase every single thing he did. We can&#8217;t unmurder the people he&#8217;s had killed, of course, but we can void every Executive Order he&#8217;s ever issued, we can annul the pardons he&#8217;s sold, and we can remove every crony he&#8217;s inserted into positions of power that will remain even after he&#8217;s gone. Once he&#8217;s out, we can pick and choose what to preserve from the things he did which </span><em><span>did</span></em><span> help our country, as soon as we can trust the people making those decisions.</span></p><p><span>In this future, America will have demonstrated that even if the Presidency </span><em><span>can</span></em><span> be subverted, it won&#8217;t bring any lasting benefit to the ones doing the subverting. We will also have made strides towards repairing our reputation with the rest of the world, which is going to be clutch in the decades to come, but most importantly, we will </span><em><span>survive.</span></em></p><p><span>This can only be done by amending the Constitution. There </span><em><span>is</span></em><span> no other way to erase his legacy, and therefore, that is the only path forward. If you want to see that future as much as I do, then put all thoughts of midterm elections, of Supreme Court cases, of ICE raids, and of war crimes out of your head; any plan that does not include amending the United States Constitution within the next two years guarantees we get the bad ending.</span></p><p><span>Next time, I&#8217;ll talk a bit about No Confidence, the amendment I drafted to fix this damn mess. Until then, stay safe.</span></p><h5 style="text-align: right;">Next: <a href="https://substack.unfuckingtheworld.org/p/what-it-will-take">What It Will Take</a></h5><div><hr></div><p><em><span>Thank you so much for taking the time out of your day to read </span></em><span>Unfucking The World</span><em><span>. </span>I hope it brings you at least a little comfort to know that we can put out a thousand tiny fires eroding our democracy all in one go, instead of having to deal with each and every provocation individually.</em></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://substack.unfuckingtheworld.org/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://substack.unfuckingtheworld.org/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p><em><span>If you want to follow the project, make sure you&#8217;re subscribed. You can read or listen to each article here on Substack, and you can </span><a href="https://substack.unfuckingtheworld.org/account"><span>choose whether you want English, Spanish, or both</span></a><span> in your inbox. </span>If you want to find out more, visit the website at <strong><a href="https://UTW.vote/">UTW.vote</a></strong>.</em></p><p><em><span>Questions, challenges, additions, and thoughtful disagreements are encouraged in the comments; bring your good faith, and others will do the same. Today&#8217;s topic: how much about it would have to change for you to trust the US Government?</span></em></p><p><em><span>Share this with someone you know who wants to help unfuck the world, and stay safe.</span></em></p><p><em><span>&#8211;Danielle</span></em></p><p style="text-align: center;"><em>Este art&#237;culo tambi&#233;n est&#225; disponible <a href="https://substack.unfuckingtheworld.org/p/tiene-que-haber-un-pony">en espa&#241;ol</a>.</em></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tiene Que Haber Un Pony En Algún Lugar]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sobre saber d&#243;nde mirar cuando todo lo que puedes ver es un mont&#243;n de esti&#233;rcol | Escucha ahora (15 min)]]></description><link>https://substack.unfuckingtheworld.org/p/tiene-que-haber-un-pony</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://substack.unfuckingtheworld.org/p/tiene-que-haber-un-pony</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Danielle Church]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 10:59:28 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/203779865/f9cd52b28eacd327f4f1bdebdf8d68f9.mp3" length="0" type="audio/mpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span>Bienvenido, lector. Me alegra que sigas por aqu&#237;; est&#225; bastante duro all&#225; afuera.</span></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfE6WWHEKXU&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Ve en YouTube&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfE6WWHEKXU"><span>Ve en YouTube</span></a></p><p><span>No necesitas que yo te lo diga, sin embargo. Si est&#225;s leyendo esto alrededor del tiempo en que lo estoy escribiendo, entonces ya sabes lo malo que es. No necesito saber nada sobre ti para saber que las cosas se han vuelto mucho m&#225;s aterradoras para ti en los &#250;ltimos varios a&#241;os, peor de lo que nunca han sido en tu vida. Los precios est&#225;n subiendo, los empleos est&#225;n desapareciendo, los salarios se est&#225;n estancando, y nuestros gobiernos no parecen poder hacer nada para ralentizar ese proceso. Todos nosotros, sin importar nuestra posici&#243;n en cualquier espectro pol&#237;tico, estamos sintiendo que el mundo se est&#225; saliendo de control en este momento.</span></p><p><span>No todos reaccionamos de la misma manera ante ese miedo, por supuesto: algunos de nosotros nos acobardamos en nuestras casas y evitamos las noticias, mientras que algunos de nosotros agarramos cualquier control que podamos encontrar, en cualquier contexto que podamos encontrarlo. Algunos de nosotros nos energizamos para luchar, mientras que algunos de nosotros nos ponemos sonrisas falsas con la esperanza de que fingir que los problemas no existen los har&#225; desaparecer. No estoy aqu&#237; para juzgar; el hecho de que todos reaccionemos de manera diferente al peligro es parte de lo que nos hace fuertes como humanos.</span></p><p><span>As&#237; que, lector, no dejes que nadie, ni siquiera t&#250;, te diga que est&#225;s reaccionando </span><em><span>mal</span></em><span> a la crisis que es el siglo veintiuno. No est&#225;s roto; est&#225;s reaccionando de manera apropiada a un mundo que se est&#225; volviendo m&#225;s y m&#225;s peligroso cada d&#237;a, de maneras en las que quiz&#225;s no est&#233;s pensando conscientemente pero que probablemente puedas sentir en la nuca. Personalmente conozco a m&#225;s de un pacifista de toda la vida que ha decidido que ahora quiz&#225;s no sea un mal momento para tener un arma de fuego despu&#233;s de todo.</span></p><p><span>Lo que te voy a pedir ahora es dif&#237;cil, pero es necesario. Nuestras respuestas de miedo evolucionaron para reaccionar a un mundo donde el peligro casi siempre proviene de alg&#250;n otro ser, ya sea humano o animal. Cuando algo sale mal, intuitivamente buscamos a qui&#233;n culpar, qui&#233;n tiene la culpa, porque milenios de experiencia heredada nos han ense&#241;ado que para resolver un problema, debemos mirar a su fuente. Cada uno de nosotros ha mirado al otro lado del pasillo y ha visto all&#237; el rostro de El Enemigo, y yo no soy menos culpable de eso que t&#250;, te lo prometo.</span></p><p><span>Necesito que sueltes eso, al menos mientras est&#233;s leyendo esto. No est&#225;s equivocado al ver culpa cuando miras a las personas que est&#225;n haciendo tu vida miserable, pero por ahora, necesitas permitir la idea de que puede ser un espejismo. Necesitas convencerte a ti mismo de que la culpa que ves puede estar realmente en el aire entre t&#250; y ellos, en la estructura de este mundo que hemos creado para nosotros mismos, ya sea que realmente lo creas o no. Si no puedes &#8212;si tu propio dolor es tan fuerte que no puedes dejarlo de lado, incluso en inter&#233;s de preservar nuestro futuro&#8212; eso est&#225; </span><strong><span>bien</span></strong><span>. No todos estamos hechos para la pelea.</span></p><p><span>Si los p&#225;rrafos anteriores fueron demasiado suaves y de mano guiada para tu gusto, entonces quiz&#225;s esto sea m&#225;s tu velocidad: Necesito que madures de una puta vez y superes tu mierda. Si eso es demasiado pedir, entonces si&#233;ntete libre de </span><a href="https://substack.unfuckingtheworld.org/account/cancel"><span>irte</span></a><span>.</span></p><p><span>Si todav&#237;a est&#225;s aqu&#237;, lector, entonces creo que quieres arreglar el mundo tanto como yo. Puede que creas o no que la situaci&#243;n es tan grave como yo lo creo, pero sabes que las cosas est&#225;n mal, y desesperadamente quieres que cambien, aunque se sienta como que nada posiblemente </span><em><span>podr&#237;a</span></em><span> hacerlo jam&#225;s.</span></p><p><span>Desafortunadamente, el mundo real rara vez nos proporciona se&#241;ales tan obvias como pintura amarilla en superficies escalables, multimillonarios que act&#250;an como villanos de caricatura literal, o una caja roja brillante etiquetada &#8220;ROMPER EL CRISTAL EN CASO DE TIRAN&#205;A&#8221;. Saber que algo est&#225; mal no significa saber c&#243;mo mejorarlo, como la actual administraci&#243;n de EE.UU. est&#225; demostrando tan impresionantemente (e ilegalmente).</span></p><p><span>No s&#233; c&#243;mo arreglar todo, y aunque lo supiera no lo intentar&#237;a; el mundo que ser&#237;a ideal para Danielle Church, o para cualquier persona individual, ser&#237;a intolerable para casi todos los dem&#225;s. Es por </span><em><span>eso</span></em><span> que nuestro gobierno est&#225; compuesto por tantas personas diferentes: las diferencias de opini&#243;n nos hacen fuertes.</span></p><p><span>Lo que </span><em><span>s&#237;</span></em><span> puedo hacer es arrastrarnos de vuelta del precipicio. No puedo </span><em><span>arreglar</span></em><span> el mundo, pero s&#237; s&#233; c&#243;mo podemos unfuck lo suficiente como para que todos podamos respirar de nuevo. No estar&#237;a escribiendo esto si no pudiera ver el camino que vamos a tomar para alcanzar un futuro m&#225;s brillante.</span></p><p><span>No ser&#225; f&#225;cil, sin embargo, y no ser&#225; posible en absoluto a menos que estrechemos nuestro enfoque. Por ahora, no podemos distraernos con la p&#233;rdida de empleos por la IA, ni con el genocidio de personas trans en Estados Unidos, las atrocidades en Oriente Medio, la guerra en Ucrania, o las proyecciones financieras que empeoran en todo el mundo. Si queremos darnos la mejor oportunidad de supervivencia en las d&#233;cadas venideras, debemos enfocarnos ahora mismo en una sola cosa, y solo en una cosa.</span></p><p><em><strong><span>El primer paso para unfuck el mundo es remover pac&#237;ficamente a Donald Trump del poder y borrar su impacto en la pol&#237;tica estadounidense.</span></strong></em><span> Esto se mantiene tanto si eres estadounidense como si no, tanto si amas este pa&#237;s como si lo odias, tanto si deseas que el progreso vaya m&#225;s r&#225;pido o se ralentice un poco. Estados Unidos es, para bien o para mal, un pa&#237;s excepcional (en el sentido de ser una excepci&#243;n) con un </span><a href="https://acoup.blog/2022/07/08/collections-is-the-united-states-exceptional/"><span>impacto desproporcionado en la econom&#237;a mundial</span></a><span>. Actualmente se encuentra en un punto de inflexi&#243;n en su historia, y dependiendo de c&#243;mo se desarrollen los pr&#243;ximos un par de a&#241;os, veremos que uno de dos futuros potenciales se materializa.</span></p><p><span>En el primer futuro, el legado de Trump permanece. Esto podr&#237;a tomar muchas formas: Trump podr&#237;a aferrarse a las riendas para un tercer mandato y m&#225;s all&#225;; podr&#237;a morir en el cargo, violentamente o de otra manera; podr&#237;a intentar un golpe y fallar; podr&#237;a ser derrocado por el golpe de alguien m&#225;s; podr&#237;a, supongo, incluso dejar el poder pac&#237;ficamente al final de su mandato. Independientemente de si el infierno se congela o no, estas diversas l&#237;neas temporales tienen una cosa en com&#250;n: el impacto de Trump en la pol&#237;tica de EE.UU. permanece intacto. Las personas a las que perdon&#243; permanecen perdonadas, los jueces de la Corte Suprema que instal&#243; permanecen instalados, y los proyectos de ley que defendi&#243; permanecen como ley del pa&#237;s.</span></p><p><span>El legado de Trump tambi&#233;n </span><em><span>podr&#237;a</span></em><span> ser la destrucci&#243;n de Estados Unidos como pa&#237;s, dependiendo de c&#243;mo vaya esta guerra. Ya veremos, supongo.</span></p><p><span>En cualquiera de estos futuros, Am&#233;rica &#8212;presumiendo que a&#250;n se mantenga en pie&#8212; pierde cualquier influencia restante (aparte de la militar) sobre la pol&#237;tica global. Estados Unidos nunca ser&#225; confiable para ninguna otra naci&#243;n, porque nos habremos mostrado a nosotros mismos como sin una identidad nacional consistente. Veremos m&#225;s esfuerzos para colocar presidentes falsos en el poder, y algunos tendr&#225;n &#233;xito, porque las recompensas por hacerlo son </span><em><span>permanentes</span></em><span>. Independientemente de si todav&#237;a tenemos t&#233;cnicamente elecciones, Estados Unidos permanecer&#225;, como se est&#225; volviendo, un estado fascista en su n&#250;cleo. Incluso si elegimos una serie de presidentes respetables despu&#233;s de esto que solo quieran equilibrar el presupuesto y mantener nuestra propia econom&#237;a fuerte, nadie confiar&#225; en el Dr. Jekyll cuando saben que el Sr. Hyde eventualmente volver&#225;.</span></p><p><span>Mira, la cosa es que lo que est&#225; pasando ahora ni siquiera es culpa de Trump, no realmente. Ni siquiera es un poco especial. Una cosa que sabemos de la historia es que cada regla se pone a prueba eventualmente. Estados Unidos siempre iba a elegir a un Presidente que no le importara una mierda la Constituci&#243;n </span><em><span>alg&#250;n</span></em><span> d&#237;a. Y eso significa que siempre &#237;bamos a tener esta crisis, independientemente de si ese Presidente era Trump, o Musk, o alguien cincuenta a&#241;os en el futuro que ni siquiera ha nacido todav&#237;a. El hecho de que esto est&#233; sucediendo exactamente un cuarto de milenio despu&#233;s de la historia de nuestro pa&#237;s le da un bonito sentido de gravedad narrativa, pero en &#250;ltima instancia es una coincidencia.</span></p><p><span>Si Am&#233;rica cae en la tiran&#237;a, o si cae por completo, entonces los problemas econ&#243;micos muy reales que enfrenta el mundo tendr&#225;n que ser resueltos por todos los dem&#225;s. Am&#233;rica ser&#225; un pa&#237;s que se puede comprar con dinero o habr&#225; desaparecido por completo; de cualquier manera, no ser&#225; de ninguna ayuda para desenredar el desastre que es la econom&#237;a global. No voy a decir que la humanidad no tenga </span><em><span>ninguna</span></em><span> oportunidad en ese punto, pero realmente no me gustan nuestras probabilidades. (S&#237; tengo planes para c&#243;mo unfuck la econom&#237;a despu&#233;s de que terminemos aqu&#237;, pero un paso a la vez).</span></p><p><span>Lo que sucede despu&#233;s en la historia de </span><em><span>Am&#233;rica,</span></em><span> sin embargo, siempre fue y siempre va a depender de nosotros los estadounidenses. Somos las generaciones que casualmente estamos vivas en el punto en el tiempo en que EE.UU. est&#225; experimentando esta metamorfosis inevitable, ya sea hacia la tiran&#237;a o hacia la libertad, y por lo tanto la responsabilidad de arreglarlo recae sobre nosotros.</span></p><p><span>Porque ese es el otro futuro. En ese segundo futuro, nos levantamos y decimos que esto </span><em><span>no</span></em><span> es el negocio habitual. Independientemente de si y d&#243;nde encajamos en el espectro liberal o conservador, decimos que tener un Presidente que descaradamente burla la Constituci&#243;n, que abiertamente vende perdones por dinero, que decide planes de guerra consultando una muy elegante Bola M&#225;gica 8 en lugar del Congreso, es cruzar un l&#237;mite demasiado lejos.</span></p><p><span>En ese futuro, lo removemos del poder pero vamos un paso m&#225;s all&#225;: rebobinamos, deshacemos y borramos cada cosa que hizo. No podemos desasesinar a las personas que ha hecho matar, por supuesto, pero podemos anular cada Orden Ejecutiva que haya emitido, podemos anular los perdones que ha vendido, y podemos remover a cada compinche que ha insertado en posiciones de poder que permanecer&#225;n incluso despu&#233;s de que se haya ido. Una vez que est&#233; fuera, podemos elegir qu&#233; preservar de las cosas que hizo que </span><em><span>s&#237;</span></em><span> ayudaron a nuestro pa&#237;s, tan pronto como podamos confiar en las personas que tomen esas decisiones.</span></p><p><span>En este futuro, Am&#233;rica habr&#225; demostrado que incluso si la Presidencia </span><em><span>puede</span></em><span> ser subvertida, no traer&#225; ning&#250;n beneficio duradero a quienes la subvierten. Tambi&#233;n habremos avanzado hacia la reparaci&#243;n de nuestra reputaci&#243;n con el resto del mundo, lo cual va a ser crucial en las d&#233;cadas venideras, pero lo m&#225;s importante, </span><em><span>sobreviviremos</span></em><span>.</span></p><p><span>Esto solo se puede hacer enmendando la Constituci&#243;n. No </span><em><span>hay</span></em><span> otra manera de borrar su legado, y por lo tanto, ese es el &#250;nico camino hacia adelante. Si quieres ver ese futuro tanto como yo, entonces saca de tu cabeza todos los pensamientos sobre elecciones de mitad de per&#237;odo, casos de la Corte Suprema, redadas de ICE y cr&#237;menes de guerra; cualquier plan que no incluya enmendar la Constituci&#243;n de Estados Unidos dentro de los pr&#243;ximos dos a&#241;os garantiza que obtengamos el final malo.</span></p><p><span>La pr&#243;xima vez, hablar&#233; un poco sobre No Confidence, la enmienda que redact&#233; para arreglar este maldito desastre. Hasta entonces, mantente a salvo.</span></p><h5 style="text-align: right;">Pr&#243;ximo: <a href="https://substack.unfuckingtheworld.org/p/que-hara-falta">Qu&#233; Har&#225; Falta</a></h5><div><hr></div><p><em>Much&#237;simas gracias por dedicar parte de tu tiempo a leer </em>Unfucking The World<em><span>. Espero que te sirva de consuelo, aunque sea un poco, saber que podemos apagar de una sola vez los mil peque&#241;os incendios que est&#225;n minando nuestra democracia, en lugar de tener que hacer frente a cada provocaci&#243;n por separado.</span></em></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://substack.unfuckingtheworld.org/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://substack.unfuckingtheworld.org/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p><em><span>Si quieres seguir el proyecto, aseg&#250;rate de suscribirte. </span>Puedes leer o escuchar cada art&#237;culo aqu&#237;, en Substack, y puedes <a href="https://substack.unfuckingtheworld.org/account">elegir si quieres recibirlo en ingl&#233;s, en espa&#241;ol o en ambos idiomas</a> en tu bandeja de entrada. Si quieres saber m&#225;s, visita la p&#225;gina web en <strong><a href="https://UTW.vote/">UTW.vote</a></strong>.</em></p><p><em><span>Te animamos a que plantees preguntas, retos, aportaciones y desacuerdos constructivos en los comentarios; ven con buena fe y los dem&#225;s har&#225;n lo mismo. El tema de hoy: &#191;qu&#233; tendr&#237;a que cambiar para que confiaras en el Gobierno de EE. UU.?</span></em></p><p><em><span>Comparte esto con alguien que conozcas que quiera ayudar a unfuck el mundo, y mantente a salvo.</span></em></p><p style="text-align: center;"><em>This article is also available <a href="https://substack.unfuckingtheworld.org/p/gotta-be-a-pony">in English</a>.</em></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Welcome.]]></title><description><![CDATA[If you want to help, you're in the right place. | Listen now]]></description><link>https://substack.unfuckingtheworld.org/p/welcome</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://substack.unfuckingtheworld.org/p/welcome</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Danielle Church]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 02:47:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/199641925/a4b273db147ae2515a6d7efb8443a415.mp3" length="0" type="audio/mpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Welcome, reader. Thank you so much for joining me.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMTPaGJTXwk&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Watch on YouTube&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMTPaGJTXwk"><span>Watch on YouTube</span></a></p><p>Today, I&#8217;d like to tell you a little bit about the newsletter you&#8217;re reading, and about me. <em>Unfucking The World</em> is not a newspaper, and I am not a reporter. I follow current events, of course, and from time to time I might comment on something noteworthy if I feel the existing coverage is missing something, but there are plenty of other people on the Internet talking about things that have already happened in the world.</p><p>I&#8217;m a lot more interested in where we&#8217;re <em>going</em> than where we&#8217;ve <em>been,</em> and what I&#8217;ve seen has me very, very worried. I worked in the technology sector for over two decades, and it landed me at the very top of the tech support chain; I was the person that even the experts went to when an installation was failing with a multi-million-dollar contract on the line, and I always found the answer.</p><p>You don&#8217;t treat as many ailing systems as I have without developing some very strong techniques and intuitions for what kinds of things can go wrong when you take millions of individual components, each with their own goals and instructions, and expect them all to work together as a cohesive whole. You begin to see patterns that show up again and again when a system starts to struggle, even when the causes are completely unrelated.</p><p>When the COVID pandemic hit and wrecked my health to the point where it ended my career, it left me with a lot of time to step back and take a critical look at how things were going in the world, something my work had never left me with the energy to focus on before. And, given that all software is created by humans, it probably shouldn&#8217;t have come as a surprise to me that I saw the same patterns from my professional career popping up in human society, too.</p><p>The bad news is, the pattern we&#8217;re currently in is terminal. There are some fundamental flaws in our global economy&#8212;I&#8217;ll go into them in a later article&#8212;that will eventually, inevitably, cause it to collapse in its entirety unless corrective action is taken. I don&#8217;t think I need to tell you that if the global economy collapses, humanity does not fare particularly well.</p><p>I&#8217;m not an economics expert. If I were, I could probably tell you how long we have before we need to worry about it; it might be decades down the line, or it might be just a few years away. The equations I&#8217;d need to get that kind of specificity aren&#8217;t something I ever needed to study in my work, but I&#8217;ll tell you, I&#8217;m seeing a lot more early-warning signs out there than I&#8217;d like.</p><p>The good news is, I&#8217;ve charted us a course out of this mess. It starts with stabilizing US politics, it moves on to curtail the wasteful spending in the technology sector, and it continues on, someday, to guarantee basic human rights the world over.</p><p>Fully <em>none</em> of the steps involve waiting around while politicians decide what will happen with our lives.</p><p><em>Unfucking The World</em> is not a newspaper; it is a verb. It is the will that I am putting out into the world, and I hope you&#8217;ll back me when I&#8217;m right, and tell me I&#8217;m wrong when I&#8217;ve missed something. In return, for as long as I&#8217;m here, I will spend every bit of energy I can muster guiding us toward ways to turn our dreams into reality.</p><p>My name is Danielle Church, reader, and together, you and I will unfuck the world.</p><p>Stay safe.</p><h5 style="text-align: right;"><strong>Next: <a href="https://substack.unfuckingtheworld.org/p/gotta-be-a-pony">There&#8217;s Gotta Be A Pony Somewhere</a></strong></h5><div><hr></div><p><em>Thank you for reading, and welcome to </em>Unfucking The World.</p><p><em>This is the start of a fairly monumental undertaking, and I hope at least some of you will want to come along. Whether you&#8217;re here to help, argue, listen, or simply watch one person attempt to chart a path toward a better world, I&#8217;ll do my best to make each article easy to follow and worth your time.</em></p><p><em>UTW is being produced as both a newsletter and a podcast. You&#8217;ll be able to read each article here on Substack or listen to the audio version, and once the podcast launches, future episodes will be released in both formats at the same time.</em></p><p><em>Thanks to volunteer help with translation, each episode will also be available in Spanish. Yes, that means four versions. No, I have not yet decided whether this is ambition or a cry for help.</em></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://substack.unfuckingtheworld.org/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:&quot;button-wrapper&quot;}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary button-wrapper" href="https://substack.unfuckingtheworld.org/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p><em>The next article is where the work starts in earnest, so make sure you&#8217;re subscribed if you don&#8217;t want to miss it. If you also want updates on UTW as a newsletter, podcast, and movement, you can subscribe separately to the Updates section in your <a href="https://unfuckingtheworld.substack.com/account">publication settings</a>. You can also choose whether you want English, Spanish, or both in your inbox.</em></p><p><em>Please leave questions or comments below, and share this article with anyone who might want to help unfuck the world.</em></p><p>The journey starts on <strong>June 29.</strong></p><p><em>Wish me luck.</em></p><p><em>&#8211;Danielle</em></p><p style="text-align: center;"><em>Este art&#237;culo tambi&#233;n est&#225; disponible <a href="https://unfuckingtheworld.substack.com/p/bienvenido">en espa&#241;ol</a>.</em></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bienvenido.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Si quieres ayudar, est&#225;s en el lugar correcto | Escucha ahora]]></description><link>https://substack.unfuckingtheworld.org/p/bienvenido</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://substack.unfuckingtheworld.org/p/bienvenido</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Danielle Church]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 03:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/201693528/e4330462157f647a7aa5c34364e959c3.mp3" length="0" type="audio/mpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Bienvenido, lector. Much&#237;simas gracias por acompa&#241;arme.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMTPaGJTXwk&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Ve en YouTube&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMTPaGJTXwk"><span>Ve en YouTube</span></a></p><p>Hoy me gustar&#237;a contarte un poquito sobre el bolet&#237;n que est&#225;s leyendo y sobre m&#237;. <em>Unfucking The World</em> no es un peri&#243;dico, y yo no soy reportera. Claro que sigo las noticias del d&#237;a a d&#237;a, y de vez en cuando comento algo si siento que la cobertura habitual se est&#225; perdiendo alguna parte importante, pero hay un mont&#243;n de gente en Internet hablando de cosas que ya pasaron en el mundo.</p><p>Estoy mucho m&#225;s interesada en hacia d&#243;nde <em>vamos</em> que en d&#243;nde hemos <em>estado,</em> y lo que he visto me tiene muy, muy preocupada. Trabaj&#233; en el sector tecnol&#243;gico m&#225;s de veinte a&#241;os y termin&#233; en lo m&#225;s alto de la cadena de soporte t&#233;cnico: era a quien incluso los expertos llamaban cuando una instalaci&#243;n se estaba cayendo con un contrato de varios millones de d&#243;lares en juego&#8230; y siempre encontraba la soluci&#243;n.</p><p>No puedes lidiar con tantos sistemas que se est&#225;n rompiendo sin desarrollar una intuici&#243;n bien fuerte sobre qu&#233; cosas pueden salir mal cuando juntas millones de componentes, cada uno con sus propios objetivos e instrucciones, y esperas que todo funcione como un equipo. Empiezas a ver patrones que se repiten una y otra vez cuando un sistema empieza a fallar, incluso cuando las causas parecen totalmente distintas.</p><p>Cuando lleg&#243; la pandemia de COVID y me destroz&#243; la salud hasta el punto de que tuve que dejar mi carrera, me sobr&#243; mucho tiempo para dar un paso atr&#225;s y mirar con ojos cr&#237;ticos c&#243;mo iban las cosas en el mundo, algo que mi trabajo nunca me hab&#237;a permitido antes. Y como todo el software lo hacemos los humanos, la verdad es que no deber&#237;a haberme sorprendido ver los mismos patrones de mi trabajo apareciendo tambi&#233;n en la sociedad.</p><p>La mala noticia es que el patr&#243;n en el que estamos ahora es terminal. Hay algunos fallos fundamentales en nuestra econom&#237;a global&#8212;los voy a explicar en un art&#237;culo m&#225;s adelante&#8212;que, tarde o temprano, van a hacer que todo se derrumbe si no tomamos medidas correctivas. No creo que necesite decirte que, si la econom&#237;a global se derrumba, a la humanidad no le va a ir nada bien.</p><p>No soy experta en econom&#237;a. Si lo fuera, podr&#237;a decirte con m&#225;s precisi&#243;n cu&#225;nto tiempo nos queda antes de que esto se ponga feo; podr&#237;an ser d&#233;cadas, o podr&#237;an ser solo unos pocos a&#241;os. Las f&#243;rmulas que necesitar&#237;a para calcularlo con exactitud no son algo que haya estudiado en mi trabajo, pero te soy sincera: estoy viendo muchas m&#225;s se&#241;ales de alerta temprana de las que me gustar&#237;a.</p><p>La buena noticia es que ya trac&#233; un camino para sacarnos de este l&#237;o. Empieza por estabilizar la pol&#237;tica de Estados Unidos, luego sigue con recortar el gasto innecesario en el sector tecnol&#243;gico y, alg&#250;n d&#237;a, llegar a garantizar los derechos humanos b&#225;sicos en todo el mundo.</p><p><em>Ninguno</em> de esos pasos consiste en sentarse a esperar a que los pol&#237;ticos decidan qu&#233; va a pasar con nuestras vidas.</p><p><em>Unfucking The World</em> no es un peri&#243;dico; es un verbo. Es la voluntad que estoy poniendo en el mundo, y espero que me apoyes cuando tenga raz&#243;n y me digas que estoy equivocada cuando me equivoque. A cambio, mientras est&#233; aqu&#237;, voy a poner toda la energ&#237;a que tenga para guiarnos hacia formas reales de convertir nuestros sue&#241;os en realidad.</p><p>Mi nombre es Danielle Church, lector, y juntos, t&#250; y yo vamos a unfuck el mundo.</p><p>Mantente a salvo.</p><h5 style="text-align: right;">Pr&#243;ximo: <a href="https://substack.unfuckingtheworld.org/p/tiene-que-haber-un-pony">Tiene Que Haber Un Pony En Alg&#250;n Lugar</a></h5><div><hr></div><p><em>Gracias por leerme y bienvenidos a </em>Unfucking The World.</p><p><em>Me voy a embarcar en una empresa bastante monumental, y espero que al menos algunos de los que le&#233;is esto os anim&#233;is a uniros a mis esfuerzos. Tanto si lo hac&#233;is como si no, he hecho y har&#233; todo lo posible para que cada art&#237;culo sea f&#225;cil de seguir y agradable de escuchar, aunque solo lo consider&#233;is la fantas&#237;a de una persona sobre un mundo mejor.</em></p><p><em>S&#237;, &#8220;escuchar.&#8221;</em> <em>UTW se publica tanto en formato de bolet&#237;n como de podcast, y podr&#225;s escuchar el audio del podcast como voz en off de cada art&#237;culo, tal y como puedes hacer arriba. El podcast a&#250;n no est&#225; listo en el momento de la publicaci&#243;n de este bolet&#237;n, pero podr&#225;s suscribirte a &#233;l en todas las principales plataformas, adem&#225;s de aqu&#237; en Substack. Una vez que se lance, los futuros art&#237;culos o episodios se publicar&#225;n simult&#225;neamente tanto en formato de bolet&#237;n como de podcast.</em></p><p><em>Adem&#225;s, gracias a la ayuda de algunos voluntarios con la traducci&#243;n, publicar&#233; cada art&#237;culo en espa&#241;ol, adem&#225;s de en ingl&#233;s. Me han asegurado que mi pronunciaci&#243;n es lo suficientemente buena tanto no pasar </em>demasiada <em>verg&#252;enza, as&#237; que, en realidad, se publicar&#225;n cuatro versiones simult&#225;neamente.</em></p><p><em>El pr&#243;ximo art&#237;culo que publique en este bolet&#237;n ser&#225; cuando el trabajo comience en serio, as&#237; que aseg&#250;rate de estar suscrito si no quieres perd&#233;rtelo:</em></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://substack.unfuckingtheworld.org/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:&quot;button-wrapper&quot;}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary button-wrapper" href="https://substack.unfuckingtheworld.org/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p><em>Si t&#250; tambi&#233;n quieres estar al d&#237;a de las novedades de UTW, tanto en forma de bolet&#237;n, como de podcast y como movimiento, he creado una secci&#243;n espec&#237;fica para las actualizaciones, a la que puedes suscribirte por separado activando las notificaciones en <a href="https://unfuckingtheworld.substack.com/account">la configuraci&#243;n de esta publicaci&#243;n</a>. Tambi&#233;n puedes elegir en qu&#233; idioma quieres recibir los art&#237;culos, o si prefieres recibirlos en ambos idiomas en tu bandeja de entrada.</em></p><p><em>Deja tus preguntas o comentarios m&#225;s abajo y comparte este art&#237;culo con tus amigos siempre que puedas.</em></p><p>El viaje comienza dentro de un mes, el <strong>29 de junio</strong>.</p><p><em>Des&#233;ame suerte.</em></p><p><em>&#8211;Danielle</em></p><p style="text-align: center;"><em>This article is also available <a href="https://unfuckingtheworld.substack.com/p/welcome">in English</a>.</em></p>]]></content:encoded></item></channel></rss>