“The tech industry was never perfect. It never lived up to its lofty ambitions. But it has gotten demonstrably worse. And I think the fork-in-the-road moment was when the industry stopped trying to celebrate old-school hackers like Aaron Swartz and started working full-time to build monuments to Sam Altman instead.”
Republicans are cowards...
Republicans refuse debates hosted by League of Women Voters — here's why
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As Joyce Vance reminds us,
"Today, it has been 61 years since a white supremacist’s bomb went off at 10:22 a.m. at 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, killing four young girls who were getting ready for church services."
#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #Ohio #Haitians #immigrants #PoliticsofHate
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Then:
"Today, as church bells ring across my city and people mourn the loss of young lives and condemn the evil men who made it possible, this country is at risk of repeating that history. Just like violence against Black people was often justified by lies about crimes they had committed, Donald Trump and J.D. Vance are spreading lies about Haitian immigrants—lies that are so ridiculous they would be laughable if their potential impact wasn’t so deadly serious."
"It’s easier to spread hate and sow division than to work to make a country better. That’s what domestic terrorism is: ideologically driven crimes used to intimidate or coerce a civilian population and to influence policy or conduct of government. That’s the ultimate irony of Trump’s 'Make America Great Again' slogan."
#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #Ohio #Haitians #immigrants #PoliticsofHate
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Jemar Tisby reminds readers of the threats of violence and murder that Charles Morgan Jr., a white lawyer in Birmingham, Alabama, received when he spoke out about the silent (and sometimes active) complicity of "good" white citizens and church members with the violence of the church bombings.
This is our history, and it's imperative that we face it now.
#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #Ohio #Haitians #immigrants #PoliticsofHate #Birmingham #ChurchBombing
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"Bomb threats have come to Springfield, Ohio. So why don’t Trump and J.D. Vance back off the demagoguery? Because supercharging all these toxic social tensions is precisely what they want."
~ Greg Sargent
#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #Ohio #Haitians #immigrants #PoliticsofHate #violence #threats
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"The right wing engages in stochastic terrorism to foment violence, in a way that’s eerily reminiscent of Nazi Germany of the late 1930s. We talk a lot about this comparison, not because it’s facile, but because it’s accurate."
~ Stephanie G. Wilson
#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #Ohio #Haitians #immigrants #PoliticsofHate #violence #threats #Nazis
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"It’s not every day that a political figure openly admits to fabricating stories to get media attention. But that’s precisely what Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance did during a Sunday appearance on CNN’s State of the Union. Vance acknowledged that he 'create[d] stories' about Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, supposedly stealing and eating people’s pets."
~ Parker Molloy
#Trump #JDVance #Ohio #Haitians #PoliticsofHate #violence #threats
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"If Donald Trump quotes Nazis, dines with Nazis, promotes Nazi talking points, describes Nazis as 'very fine people,' pals around with people who platform Nazi apologists, and mainstreams Nazi conspiracy theories that have resulted in terrorist attacks and threaten to endanger innocent Haitian communities, then what do you call such a person?"
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As NBC News reports, Trump advisor Tim Murtaugh defends Trump's telling lies about Haitian immigrants because this allows immigration to "be talked about," and another unnamed Trump advisor repeats, "Immigration should be talked about," and Trump accomplished this by lying about and targeting Haitians.
#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #Ohio #Haitians #immigrants #PoliticsofHate #violence #threats #Nazis
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Note the shocking amoral heart of this argument by Republican officials: if their leaders lie boldly about a targeted community of immigrants, knowing as they spread vicious lies that they are both violating the truth and exposing hapless human beings to violence, this is all to the good, if it focuses the conversation on immigration.
#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #Ohio #Haitians #immigrants #PoliticsofHate #violence #threats #Nazis
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Merrill Kaplan notes that "the pet-eating rumor is just the latest iteration of a legend that has long attached to assorted immigrant groups in the US." In the 1890s, it was used to target recent German immigrants. And:
"In the 1980s, Asian immigrants (Chinese, Vietnamese, Hmong) were accused of stealing and eating pets in Eau Claire, Wisconsin…"
#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #Ohio #Haitians #immigrants #PoliticsofHate #violence #threats #Nazis
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"The bottom line of the shoe salesman’s very public narratives against immigrant groups is this: I simply don’t think that Trump would do this if he didn’t think that this would work with enough people. And it just might, to be honest.
These narratives also function to distract from other things."
~ Chitown Kev
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"Asked by the CNN host Dana Bash whether the false rumors centering on Springfield, Ohio, were 'a story that you created', Vance replied, 'Yes!'"
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~ Edward Helmore
From somebody not in the US, who can't do anything about the election and shouldn't be forced to live with it like a constant soap opera, thank you for responsible tagging.
I do dip toes to check on the yanks here (switch my filter to 'warn' not 'hide') and there, but it's way better for my mental health when I can filter posts like this out.
If it walks like a Nazi, speaks like a Nazi and looks like a Nazi then it is a Nazi.
#BirminghamBombingAnniversary
Irwin Allen's Lost in Space started 59 years ago today on CBS.
"A space colony family struggles to survive when a spy/accidental stowaway throws their ship hopelessly off course."
Music by John(ny) Williams (then 33 years old).
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There are only 3 apps that #WINE needs to make sure they work out of the box when the user tries to install them (without hacks or complications). But the project is lacking vision and direction to know it.
1. #Photoshop CS5 (pre-subscription version)
2. Affinity Photo (due to #Gimp sucking)
3. #CapCut video editor (due to #DavinciResolve having too many limitations on #Linux).
That's it. That's 95% of your WINE "application" userbase right there.
#steam #proton #windows #affinityphoto #adobe
15 September 1929 | Polish Jewish woman Halina Birenbaum was born in Warsaw.
She survived the Warsaw ghetto, Majdanek, Auschwitz (no. 48693), Ravensbrück & Neustadt-Glewe camps. In 1947, she emigrated to Israel.
A poet & writer.
Today she turns 95.
Read "There is my soul".
"Great poetry lives in a state of perpetual transformation, perpetual translation: the poem dies when it has no place to go."
#SundaySentence #TodaysPoem @poetry
19 Ways of Looking at Wang Wei by Eliot Weinberger (1987 @NewDirections) tinyurl.com/2p95v5mk
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September 15, 2020 – During an ABC News town hall, Trump maintained that the coronavirus would “disappear.” Apparently referring to “herd immunity,” Trump said, “You’ll develop, you’ll develop herd — like a herd mentality. It’s going to be, it’s going to be herd-developed, and that’s going to happen.” Trump also faulted Biden for not instituting a national mandate on masks. Biden, however, does not hold public office.
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in reply to unusual_whales • • •James Singer, a spokesperson for Harris’s campaign, stated in an interview with NBC News that Harris supports raising the corporate tax rate to 28%
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in reply to unusual_whales • • •"...Trump’s 2017 tax reform ... reduced the corporate tax rate from 35% to 21%. ... Trump has recently pledged to further cut taxes, including for businesses, if he regains the presidency."
This is why we can't have nice things.