We are living in an age of anger... as Josh Cohen suggests this is a result of a 'malign public care', an environment that thrives on stoking our anger & outrage, with little concern for veracity or justice.
This picture of our society is both distressing & plausible... the Q. is what can we do about it? (media & online regulation feel like attempting to shut the stable door now the horse has bolted)....
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Harris seen as debate winner while maintaining slight lead over Trump: POLL (Gary Langer/ABC News)
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Ronald Reagan's former staff back Harris-Walz ticket: "Today is a choice between integrity and demagoguery." (Aaron Navarro/CBS News)
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Harris Is Good on Abortion Rights. Now She Needs to Take It to 11. nytimes.com/2024/09/15/opinion…
Richards is the last person I want to hear from on reproductive rights after she sold out in 2009 during the ACA debates.
She should have pressed hard, mounted a campaign from the left to ensure basic reproductive health care like birth control, breast exams, emergency treatment for pregnant women were covered under ACA. Instead she agreed to shut up because they promised her community center funding for Planned Parenthood.
And now women are bleeding out in parking lots. Nope.
Jonathan Freedland, Hadley Freeman, and David Aaronovitch have all declared they will no longer have anything to do with the Jewish Chronicle.
It took this bloody long for supposedly 3 intelligent writers/reporters/journalists to be slightly uncomfortable at the toxic manipulation of British Jewish opinion in order to uncritically support Israel whatever. Shame on them.
#Israel #Palestine #antizionismisnotantisemitism #ItWasAScam
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Folklore says it’s the final resting place the giant Old Debras.
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When you pull off a great move in the new roguelike, it’s incredibly satisfying.
Last Tuesday Don Trump shat his pants on national TV. Ever since, he's been scooting his butt around on the national carpet to dislodge the detritus of loserdom. It's standard narcissist self-care behavior. It would be nice if all of this could be *only* funny.
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There is a town, name of Springfield OH, and it was a declining town—declining since the 60s. But Haitian immigrants were willing to come, and fill the jobs that were there to fill.
"Adding humans" is what makes a declining town stop declining, in case you didn't know that.
In the Nazi internet, Vance found a vile racist lie about the Haitian immigrants in Springfield, and he told it all over the place, and he's still telling it now.
It's a lie. It's a vile lie. There is no evidence that any of it is true. None.
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Eventually the lie found itself being repeated by Don Trump at the debate:
"They are eating the dogs, and they're eating the cats, and they're eating the pets of the people who live there."
Which is interesting, because the Haitian immigrants ARE "the people who live there."
And violence has come to Springfield, as violence was intended to. There are bomb threats, and threats upon threats and lies upon lies, and elementary schools are being evacuated, and Haitian Ohioans are hiding in their houses, trying to keep their children safe.
"Keeping children safe," incidentally, is something that conservatives claim is important to them.
And Vance has got the full buy-in of his boss on this, and Trump has the full enthusiasm of his party—the "conservative" party.
We should be clear that this is openly Nazi behavior.
We should probably just come out and say that we have a very popular Nazi party in the U.S.
If you want to quibble over names, let's just call it deeply evil with murderous intent, in a way that is entirely indistinguishable from the historical examples of genocidal propogandists who have come before.
We've seen all this sort of thing before. We know where it leads.
And all of it done to oppress people from Haiti—the nation to whom Trump was referring when he famously claimed not to want immigrants from "shithole countries."
But Haitians aren't the only oppressed people.
Conservatives are oppressed too. They'll tell you all about it.
Conservatives are oppressed by immigrants, of course, even though immigrants add value to their communities and always have, even though immigrants uphold the values conservatives claim to hold dear more than conservatives do.
But immigrants oppress conservatives by...existing.
Conservatives are oppressed by queer people, too. This, even though queer people want to live life on their own terms without being forced to live on another's terms, which is something that conservatives claim to care about.
Queer people oppress conservatives by...existing.
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And conservatives are oppressed by the fact that these women want to have some say in how many children their bodies produce, and when, and with whom—which explains JD Vance's creepshow obsession with the viability of their eggs.
This, even though many conservatives ARE women.
You know what? Let's do it. Let's actually do it.
I think we ought to oppress conservatives.
For the very first time in our nation's history, let's oppress the oppressors.
It seems like a great idea.
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and what galls me the most is that his wife is South Asian and a child of immigrants and his children are bi-racial
they will be safe though, even though their husband and father is a despicable dangerous evil racist
I heard that too, and you’re the first person I’ve seen call it out. Thank you
Haitian immigrants have just as much right to live in Springfield or ANYWHERE in the US, and THAT’S what the racists are really objecting to, using vile lies to do so
In one of the most striking moments of Sidney Lumet's film Twelve Angry Men, a veritable masterpiece of the closed-room drama, Juror 10, one of these Very Fine Conservative people, goes off on a very racist rant against the defendant. Gradually, the entire rest of the panel stand up and turn their backs to him, disgusted by his behaviour. He becomes more and more plaintive, demanding that they listen to him, until Juror 4 finally says, "I have. Now sit down, and don't open your mouth again."
Unsurprisingly, the proceedings are generally saner from that point, by which I mean that they have less bigotry. And at the end, lacking that 'reason' to hate, even he elects not to offer a guilty verdict, as reason finally prevails over rhetoric.
And I daresay we're in agreement that if that is oppression -- that we have taken the opinions of the hateful under advisement, considered, and rejected them -- then we need much more of it in this world.
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in reply to Emeritus Prof Christopher May • • •That will require investment in education ( buildings, equipment and workforce). Re-proffessionalising teaching, instead of making follow edicts from on high.
Improving housing standards, so children can benefit from the investment in education, and finally investing in the poor, perhaps by UBI. It simply works.
Emeritus Prof Christopher May
in reply to Epistatacadam • • •And of course, that's all going to happen really soon.....
[irony klaxon]
Epistatacadam
in reply to Emeritus Prof Christopher May • • •A review of the subject is here,
doi.org/10.1146%2Fannurev-publ…
So it appears UK gov, and some others around the world are deliberately heaping illness on many of the current generation's grandchildren. Sudan, the Middle East, Ukraine, large parts of both Americas.
Just to bail out bankers and big businesses.