charvaka :mastodon:

immigrant, progressive, desi, atheist, antifascist, optimist, humanist, engineer. he/him

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2024-08-18 00:38:27

The existence of #billionaire #oligarchs is a symptom of a democracy in decline. When capitalism goes into #metastatis, you get a rapid increase in the number of oligarchs and their power over #government. Our polity is in crisis. We need immediate therapy of tax reform to heal the body politic.
https://mstdn.social/@DemocracyMattersALot/112978347047336334

2024-08-17 23:42:54

How to inoculate your cult against the truth: expose them to small amounts of the truth with “some people say” after you have dehumanized the people who say the truth.
#WeirdDonOLD #Trump
#Harris2024 #HarrisWalz2024
https://bird.makeup/users/acyn/statuses/1824913358526833146

2024-08-17 23:11:06

#WeirdDonOLD’s father was arrested at a Ku Klux Klan riot. Electing #WeirdDonOLD would give the #KKK control of the federal government.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2023/04/04/fred-trump-arrests/
See how that works?
#Trump #Harris2024 #HarrisWalz2024
https://journa.host/@w7voa/112979475353803596
https://hivemind.plus/system/media_attachments/files/112/979/911/632/205/729/original/a3fe6a3850e5fbaa.png

2024-08-15 17:33:56

Are you a journalist attending the scheduled public meltdown this afternoon? Are you unable to think of actual meaningful questions to ask #WeirdDonOLD? Let me help you.
1. Did your campaign take $10 million in illegal donation from the Egyptian dictator just before the 2016 election? Why did you turn US policy in favor of the dictator after taking office in 2017?
2. You told a story about a helicopter crash last week that doesn't check out. Are you losing your memory?
https://journa.host/@w7voa/112966982614668450

2024-08-13 16:13:18

It would also be accurate to call her Vice President Harris and him Convicted Felon Trump.
#Harris2024 #WeirdDonOLD
https://mstdn.social/@Strandjunker/112955376857896729

2024-08-12 23:32:46

I am amazed at Tim Walz's skills. I have seen plenty of situations where one person edges out someone else for a position both of them want. But the person who won the contest becoming a mentor to the person who lost, and the person who lost coming to see the first person as a mentor, that's a level of interpersonal skills and leadership that I have not seen in my career!
#Walz4VP #HarrisWalz2024 #Harris2024
https://vmst.io/@jalefkowit/112950937987272656

2024-08-12 00:27:00

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@npub17ha…t8va “Let’s put the guy who went bankrupt four times running casinos in charge of setting monetary policy,” said no sane businessman ever.

2024-08-05 22:33:11

I donated again to the #Harris2024 campaign via #MastodonForHarris today. We are well on our way to $500,000 in donations.
Xitter is a toxic dump and we need the Harris campaign here on Mastodon. Please join me and the people here who are trying to make that happen: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/mastodon-for-harris

2024-08-05 19:13:10

This is a message to everyone who is still using #X, the far-right platform that an #oligarch built using #Twitter. If you are still there because you have a large number of followers, you are part of the problem. There is really no good excuse for you to keep hanging out at a Nazi bar. "My friends are all at the Nazi bar, I don't like Nazis but am there for my followers" isn't a good excuse. You are enabling the oligarch and his attempted subversion of #democracy. Stop it.

2024-07-30 14:58:44

I donated again to #MastodonForHarris today. We are on our way to $500k. I would love to see the Harris campaign build its presence on Mastodon directly. Please join me in making that happen: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/mastodon-for-harris
#Harris2024 #Kamala2024 #DonOLDTrump

2024-07-25 22:04:38

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@npub1xg3…nyjk
Thomas's and Alito's corruption needs to be highlighted in impeachment hearings. They took bribes and then ruled that bribery is A-OK.

2024-07-22 01:34:21

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@npub1grx…uxfe
I donated the max to Biden in 2020 general, haven't given a dollar until today. I sent in my first donation to #Harris2024 today. We will win this election.

2024-06-11 19:41:53

After considering the recent news regarding Hunter Biden's felony convictions, I have made the decision that I shall never vote for Hunter Biden for any public office whatsoever. It would be really irresponsible, nay borderline nihilistic, to vote for a convicted felon. I don't want America to become a s***hole country, that's why I I won't vote for any felons, even if they belong to my favorite political party or promise to benefit me personally.
#Hunter #HunterBiden #Felony

2024-01-12 02:39:38

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@npub16mj…alcf
It does have an element of saying the quiet part out loud: it's about shipping costs and cascading effects on supply chains and inflation in an election year. But it was more palatable than more accurate naming options like Operation Genocide Abetment and Operation Arab Lives Matter Less.

2024-01-12 02:33:23

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@npub1lnv…jwyn
He is very ignorant and incurious about a lot of things, but two things he knows very well: how to spot people who can be conned and how to manipulate the media by putting on a show.

2024-01-11 01:22:12

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@npub13nf…84zh
They now believe it is worse to be woke than it is to be a Nazi.

2024-01-11 01:16:37

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@npub1m9m…78lk
It would make a bigger splash perhaps if the consequence of this argument is pointed out: Biden can order Trump's secret service detail to assassinate him, and as long as enough Democrats in the Senate vote against convicting Biden for that, that would be totally legal according to Trump's argument.

2024-01-11 01:12:18

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@npub16le…e33l
That's material information, but not non-public. So I don't think the SEC would go after someone for that trade.
Not a lawyer.

2024-01-11 01:05:24

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@npub14dn…ruqg
It would make a bigger splash perhaps if the consequence of this argument is pointed out: Biden can order Trump's secret service detail to assassinate him, and as long as enough Democrats in the Senate vote against convicting Biden for that, that would be totally legal according to Trump's argument.

2024-01-11 01:01:09

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@npub1lrv…tth9
The people still on Twitter are living the Martin Niemoller poem. They are showing us how personal interests drive well-meaning people to rationalize to themselves behavior that won't stand the test of history.

2024-01-11 00:55:46

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@npub1hnu…arvx @npub1uwt…p8lz
He was once asked by an American journalist for his opinion of western civilization. He replied that that would be a good idea.

2024-01-11 00:46:57

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@npub1s4u…38us
Beautiful. This was always going to happen if she became a serious contender. The racist frontrunner was going to play the race card against her. Now Haley has to continue claiming that Republicans aren't racist, while knowing that to be untrue, because her political strategy is to appease the worst elements of American society in order to further her own ambition. As a naturalized Indian American,I have to say, this couldn't have happened to a more deserving person.

2024-01-09 22:24:28

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@npub1hgr…2e7r @npub1pn3…khxu
Even Ted Cruz doesn't take his presidential ambitions any more as anything but an unfunny joke. There is nothing to sacrifice here, just a lot more to grift.

2024-01-09 18:09:37

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@npub1s0t…64s6
They will quickly pivot from "it's a liberal hoax!" to "aw shucks, it's too late, there is nothing we can do about it now, let's just crank up the AC and keep going, also thoughts and prayers to those who die because of this."

2024-01-09 17:38:04

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@npub1qll…r5q8
Is it a criminal conspiracy if you don't actually carry it out? I hope the DA's office is on it.

2024-01-09 15:16:33

#Trump attorney's argument to the appeals court is that if the president commits a crime, the only constitutional remedy is impeachment, and that he cannot be prosecuted criminally.
What if he escapes impeachment by assassinating enough representatives and senators opposed to his impeachment and/or conviction?
He becomes a dictator legally! No #criminal liability.
Has he put enough extremists on the courts who will buy this?

2024-01-08 23:47:06

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@npub18qk…8e4k
"I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that. This mission to maximize profits is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it."

2024-01-08 23:30:23

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@npub19qv…0tmd @npub1xkg…gph9
😂

2024-01-08 23:24:47

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@npub1xkg…gph9
These tech bros are free speech absolutists until they actually start thinking about the issue at any depth. When forced to deal with the issue in depth, they pivot to, "I will personally make all the decisions about who can speak and how much, I am just an absolutist."

2024-01-08 22:11:35

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@npub1kmk…73sc @npub1pu9…599g
😂

2024-01-08 21:59:05

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@npub1pu9…599g
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Is this guy suggesting that "Enlightenment" is a "recent fashion of the progressive left?" Exactly how many centuries in the past does he want to drag us back to?

2024-01-08 21:43:15

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@npub1hn5…mzl8 @npub120n…n06v
You look at a CEO making 400x what an entry level worker makes and think, "no, that multiple is too low, why can't it be 40,000x?" That's how you come up with the "2024" structure above and go on to throw investors' money at overconfident bloviators who promise to make this vision happen.

2024-01-08 21:36:05

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@npub14dn…ruqg
As usual, Trump's defense will be, "He is an untrustworthy liar, like all the untrustworthy liars I hire. Don't believe a word he says, don't believe your lying eyes, believe only me." Won't work in a court of law, but his followers will eat that right up.

2024-01-08 20:32:50

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@npub19zs…5azk
The most expensive sport futility vehicle that money can buy!

2024-01-08 20:18:46

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@npub1xg6…e6jt
From the team that brought you Four Seasons Total Landscaping, coming soon to a polling place near you, the presidential campaign that is so incompetent that they can't fill out a form! But want to run the country and call other people stupid.

2024-01-08 19:02:50

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@npub1w30…dh68
I will stick to a regular helmet until I can be sure that I can trust this company with my data.

2024-01-08 00:11:08

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@npub1mmf…eknq
To be fair to the UK, being wholly disingenuous about matters like human rights, genocide and war crimes has been the official British policy since (let me check my notes) 1707 CE when the UK was formed.

2024-01-07 23:58:27

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@npub1qll…r5q8
Look at it from the grifters’ perspective… here are all these rubes who are so blinded by hate that they are begging to be robbed by anyone who provides validation for their hate. They might as well get this tattooed on their foreheads: “you validate my hate and I will let you pick my pocket.”

2024-01-07 23:54:24

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@npub1d5s…jnqt @npub1grx…uxfe
Thank you!

2024-01-07 23:04:09

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@npub1z2d…7yfv
Some day soon, a woman will die because she is denied necessary medical care as a result of the stay being lifted, but sure, let’s focus instead on the politics and get it exactly wrong.

2024-01-07 22:54:00

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@npub17ha…t8va
When the #Republicans send their people to #Congress, they’re not sending their best. They’re not sending you. They’re not sending you. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us.
#FamilyValues #conservatism

2024-01-07 22:52:47

When the #Republicans send their people to #Congress, they’re not sending their best. They’re not sending you. They’re not sending you. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us.
https://apnews.com/article/lauren-boebert-exhusband-altercation-investigation-f4a1477a5f407ad6985afdd0f1d9de00
#FamilyValues #conservatism

2024-01-07 22:38:07

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@npub1jrl…krkx
When you realize that the BEST case scenario is that the leading candidate of a major party has put together a team that is so incompetent that they booked Four Seasons Total Landscaping and can’t fill out paperwork properly, you know that America is in a really bad place.

2024-01-07 22:31:18

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@npub1grx…uxfe I need to figure out how bookmarks work on Mastodon so I can save this post for future reference throughout 2024.

2024-01-07 18:11:59

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@npub13lv…5cs9
Perhaps he just wishes a little bit of slavery should have been left in the constitution so oligarchs like himself could have a few slaves.

2024-01-07 17:43:21

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@npub1tg7…9dl9
The oligarch is saying to us plebs:
"I got money, loads if it. That gives me the power to amplify specious arguments to achieve my nefarious objectives. How dare you little people try to use the same specious arguments against my wife? Do you not know that she is an oligarch's wife and if you go after her, bad shit will happen to you?"
He just worded it in a more PR-friendly way.

2024-01-07 15:44:55

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@npub13k8…7an8 @npub19qm…sn8k
Yes for X, which has already lost the vast majority of its ad revenue thanks to the same embrace of extremists.
No for Tesla, whose target demographic doesn't like what he is doing. Not sure about SpaceX, but government contracts are a big source of revenue there and ties to extremists likely won't help, unless the extremists get into office.

2024-01-07 05:02:08

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@npub19qm…sn8k
That looks like the Wall Street Journal. Trust them to focus on his drug use as the worrying problem, not his embrace of white supremacists and conspiracy theorists.

2024-01-06 16:11:33

Happy Sore Losers Day! On this day in 2021 a bunch of sore losers tried to steal an election with violence against cops and intimidating Congress, all at the incitement of the losingest president in American history. Many of these sore losers have been arrested and convicted, but Sore Loser in Chief who incited them roams free. Hoping 2024 is when he is convicted for his crimes.
This November let's make sure that the Sore Loser loses big again.
#SoreLosersDay #TrumpLoser

2024-01-06 03:34:10

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@npub1jjx…nsye
I agree. I didn't mean to suggest the rise of pseudoscience and disdain for nerdiness in society is the whole reason, but it's an important part of the puzzle. Pseudoscience has always been an easy target for political exploitation (e.g. eugenics). Once you bring in big money into politics (thanks to the Supreme Court in Citizens United), and we have a system that produces candidates like this.

2024-01-05 23:28:47

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@npub1nyq…vvvs
Exhibit A: https://www.engadget.com/kohlers-voice-controlled-bidet-seat-turns-your-dumb-toilet-into-a-luxurious-smart-throne-174934904.html

2024-01-05 23:24:36

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@npub1595…j8aw
It is time. What Apple have been doing to Beeper is clearly anticompetitive. They are acting with impunity because they have been getting a free pass for monopolistic behavior.

2024-01-05 23:22:52

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@npub1p65…zvuf
Any woman who dies in Idaho for lack of emergency medical care because of this stay will be personally resurrected by Sam Alito if the court rules that the federal law on emergency care prevails.

2024-01-05 23:10:55

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@npub1xg6…e6jt
Perhaps we should pay representatives the federal minimum wage for the hours actually worked in Congress. That will definitely make the federal minimum wage go up.

2024-01-05 05:01:50

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@npub1jup…77gr
""Let me tell you, I'm not willing to do too damn much right now to help a Democrat and to help Joe Biden's approval rating, I will not help the Democrats try to improve this man's dismal approval ratings. I'm not going to do it. Why would I?"
Oh, I thought you wanted to fix an actual problem at the border that you care about. Thank you for clarifying on national television that you care MORE about politics than about the border.

2024-01-05 04:47:28

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@npub1jjx…nsye
Carl Sagan had a good take on how we got here in his book The Demon-Haunted World written in the 1990s.
https://hivemind.plus/system/media_attachments/files/111/701/526/579/209/842/original/615214f3b49b2134.png

2024-01-05 04:33:59

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@npub1dxd…fzm9
Exhibit A: Elise Stefanik

2024-01-04 23:55:09

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@npub1nqz…838y Grifting is the foundation of the MAGA scam, and its only core principle. Perhaps the money is beginning to dry and that’s why the grifters are trying to grift from other grifters?

2024-01-04 19:29:48

So many issues here...
1. Violation of the emoluments clause of the constitution
2. Any bribe like this comes with expectations of favors from the person in power
3. National security: foreign nationals who gave him money have leverage over him
4. Undisclosed payments like these forced Trump to fire Michael Flynn as National Security Adviser in early 2017. If this is a fireable offense for NSA, why is this not disqualifying for a president?
#Trump #Corruption
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/04/us/politics/trump-hotels-foreign-business-report.html
https://hivemind.plus/system/media_attachments/files/111/699/317/028/849/490/original/f94a6a5bd862773c.png

2024-01-04 17:29:58

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@npub1xg6…e6jt
The only parts of the constitution that Republicans care about are the parts they like (the electoral college, the second amendment, etc.) Anything in the constitution that puts limits on what Republicans can do, they just ignore those parts.

2024-01-04 00:50:58

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@npub1san…vglw
"Let us rich tech bros who know everything debate and decide this, not doctors and the women whose bodies we are talking about!"

2024-01-03 23:32:16

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@npub1cwx…0ejd
This is the fever dream of conservatives, punish poor people for making conservatives face the uncomfortable reality of how their fellow human beings live. Don't help them, just make them disappear out of your sight.

2024-01-03 22:29:38

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@npub1v2s…mqq5
"The law is the law, we can do nothing, let the woman die."
- Republicans, about abortion
"The law says that, but it has never been applied to anyone before because nobody broke it until now, so the law shouldn't be applied now."
- Republicans on the 14th amendment
https://hivemind.plus/@charvaka/111690415592352687

2024-01-03 22:19:04

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@npub1652…j6rp
Ceasefire for thee, not for me!

2024-01-03 05:41:31

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@npub1aq2…4nfw
"The law is the law, we can do nothing, let the woman die."
- Republicans, about abortion
"The law says that, but it has never been applied to anyone before because nobody broke it until now, so the law shouldn't be applied now."
- Republicans on the 14th amendment

2023-12-29 22:11:32

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@npub1tuk…07wx
To be fair to Trump, his argument is, "It's not a crime when I do it." Doesn't matter what the "it" is -- he has "absolute immunity" to do all the crimes. That's his defense.
Now we wait for the Supreme Court to come up with a way to say, "it's not a crime for Donald to do it, but it's not allowed for Joe Biden to do the same thing." That will take more dissembling, but they are up to the task.

2023-12-29 22:02:51

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@npub10us…52ml @npub14uk…2erc
I am not a historian. But my understanding is that for decades after the statue was inaugurated, European immigrants were processed on the nearby Ellis Island so they assumed the statue in New York harbor was there to welcome them. It was the first thing of America they saw after a long ocean voyage to a country they didn't know. The Emma Lazarus poem was then added to the pedestal to acknowledge that sentiment, about 20 years after the status was initially dedicated.

2023-12-29 18:24:54

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@npub1yx4…a76a
Making promises that she won't keep.

2023-12-29 00:26:14

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@npub1p86…tf63 @npub14uk…2erc
The performative answer she gave was directed at the racist base of the GOP that dominates the party's primary electorate. She didn't want to give an answer that loses her racist votes in her home state primary, that's why she spewed the garbage she did. Today she says "of course" the civil war was about slavery, which just reinforces her stance to be, "I know that the war was fought over slavery, but I respect your racism way too much to say that your faces."

2023-12-27 17:26:16

The media is failing America.
#Fascism #Media #News #Denocracy #Journalism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xds9WDUd1yc

2023-12-25 17:31:55

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@npub1kja…e5gq
So much discussion about the politics of all this, but the journalist does not point out that the Republicans now want to impeach Biden over trumped-up charges that they are still trying to figure out how to trump up, just because Trump was impeached for actual offenses with evidence. That the facts don't matter to Republicans any more in their naked quest for power.

2023-12-25 01:58:59

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@npub1m9a…025m @npub1grx…uxfe
The genius of the oligarchs lies in convincing a sizable minority of the population that each one of them has a meaningful chance of striking it rich and becoming an oligarch himself. Then that well-funded minority vociferously defends the oligarchs' interests in all branches of government.

2023-12-23 21:10:53

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@npub1grx…uxfe
The horrible atrocities that happened in the past are never a valid excuse for more atrocities in the present or the future. Past colonialism and past apartheid regimes don't make what is happening today ok, they show that what is happening today must be stopped.

2023-12-23 19:50:38

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@npub15yw…htxl @npub1qmc…v6gx
I don't know much about the history of social media. I run my own solo instance of Mastodon. I wasn't sure what I should do about Threads. I read this excellent article and now I am clear.

2023-12-23 19:46:40

The media is failing in its coverage of Trump's extreme rhetoric. Good podcast from NPR's Ayesha Rascoe.
"As he campaigns for a second term as President, Trump is increasingly threatening retribution and violent acts if he's reelected. Rascoe speaks with a journalist and a scholar who both believe the media is failing to convey the danger Trump poses to American democracy."
https://www.npr.org/2023/12/17/1198909715/media-failings-in-covering-trump
#democracy #npr #fascism #press

2023-12-22 17:08:39

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@npub13sh…s5nf
There are a lot of myopic and self-serving takes about this conflict, but this one beats them all.
To "reclaim" something, you need to have owned it once. White Christian men never really owned Jerusalem. Jesus Chris was "sand people" too.

2023-12-22 17:00:12

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@npub13sh…s5nf
No. You are wrong in your premise.

2023-12-22 16:55:08

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@npub13sh…s5nf No.

2023-12-22 16:51:30

How to create the next Hamas:
1. Order people to evacuate their homes and concentrate them in areas that you designate as "safe"
2. Withhold food, water, fuel and medical assistance from them
3. Bomb those "safe" areas with 2,000 pound bombs
4. Kill thousands of children and innocent people with your bombs
5. Profit!
If the state of Israel was actively trying to make the future of its people less secure, they couldn't do much else.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/21/world/middleeast/israel-gaza-bomb-investigation.html
#Gaza #Genocide #Israel

2023-12-22 02:16:20

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@npub1jfl…ru8c
That's why the former guy went to court 60 times in 2020.
But that's not why he lost the overwhelming majority of those court cases. He lost them because he is a habitual loser.

2023-12-21 17:44:52

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@npub1rem…fw9u
At a minimum you can say that their like of money outweighs any of their stated dislike of Nazis.

2023-12-20 21:26:54

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@npub1zva…e2q5
To be fair to Speaker Johnson, his preference would be for Putin to win in Ukraine and the soldier on the right to lose (or worse).

2023-12-20 19:18:42

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@npub1nqz…838y
Professional managers get fired for making corporate decisions based on personal beefs on social media. But nobody will hold this guy accountable, not the SEC, not the courts.

2023-12-20 17:06:01

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@npub1xg6…e6jt
Republicans have made it abundantly clear that they don't care what the constitution says. They just refer to it when it's convenient for their political positions.

2023-12-20 02:48:42

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@npub1cc0…ncce
What even is this? Is it supposed to be funny? Do the women agree to be part of this nonsense?

2023-12-20 02:40:54

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@npub1eam…kza8 @npub1agl…443x
But wouldn't this design result in a lot of people opening the door to see what's inside without actually picking up anything, resulting in more warmer air getting in?

2023-12-20 02:31:52

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@npub1yme…r5de thank you so much, this is so helpful!

2023-12-20 02:30:49

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@npub1qll…r5q8
Here is an idea he will like: take up a collection to bribe him with enough money for him to recuse himself.

2023-12-19 20:15:17

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@npub1hrw…70yp
Without the backlash against Obama's election, there is no Tea Party or Freedom Caucus. Without the racist birther movement, there is no Trump nomination or Trump presidency.
That said, we are talking about a minority of white people in the country who had this reaction. The majority of young white voters, for example, voted for Obama against McCain and Romney. Between those two segments of the white population there are many who aren't politically active.

2023-12-19 04:49:32

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@npub13y6…dylg
This Christmas, the Republicans running Texas want to make sure that Jesus is born in prison, not in a barn. The Romans and the people of Judaea were too nice to the migrant parents of that brown-skinned socialist, according to these avowed Christians.

2023-12-18 21:49:09

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@npub16u8…zwrv
Anything is bad for conservatives when it hurts their in-group or helps the out-groups. Anything is good when it helps the in-group or hurts the out-groups.
Identity politics, socialism, the role of government, this applies to all these issues and more.
Borrowing from Frank Wilhoit:
"Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."

2023-12-18 06:32:47

@npub1lnu…dtlh
I was raised in a different religious tradition, and a lot of what you say applies to that one too. A lot of religion is about reinforcing social control and getting people to accept their fates as divinely ordained.

2023-12-18 06:27:00

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@npub1lnu…dtlh
I have been an atheist all my adult life. And I try to be optimistic so when bad things happen, I look for an upside. When the religious right embraced the lying rich serial adulterer and he somehow wiggled his way into the highest office in the land, there was just one silver lining I saw in that situation. That thinking people of faith will see the utter hypocrisy in it and find their way out. I am really happy that you did! Congratulations on your courage.

2023-12-17 03:04:38

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@npub1lrv…tth9
This is the way to ratings and corporate profits.
Our system optimizes for corporate profits, not for crazy nonsense like democracy.

2023-12-16 16:36:58

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@npub1w30…dh68 So it is “war” then, not a “special military operation?”

2023-12-16 15:19:50

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@npub1aq2…4nfw Maersk made a similar announcement yesterday. This will create similar chaos in global supply chains that the ship stuck in the canal did in 2021, only this time it will take longer to solve the problem.

2023-12-16 15:01:51

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@npub17ha…t8va
Mistakes happen when you deviate from the standard operating procedure and do something different. That is not what happened in this case. They just did what they have already done to thousands of people, including thousands of children. It is only becasue of the different religion of the victims that they are calling this particular action a mistake.
Is killing children part of their rules of engagement? Why no investigation into the killings of thousands of children?

2023-12-16 14:57:27

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@npub1xpc…3t05
Mistakes happen when you deviate from the standard operating procedure and do something different. That is not what happened in this case. They just did what they have already done to thousands of people, including thousands of children. It is only becasue of the different religion of the victims that they are calling this particular action a mistake.
Also it is hard to call what they are now doing “defense” so IDF is a propaganda name.

2023-12-11 19:33:28

"Is Anti-Colonialism Always Anti-British?"
"Is Anti-Apartheid Always Anti-Dutch?"
"Is Anti-Fascism Always Anti-Italian?"
Do better, New York Times.
https://hivemind.plus/system/media_attachments/files/111/563/449/447/908/912/original/d80e3cb1dddd6d9f.png

2023-12-06 23:05:51

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@npub16pg…jv07
Unless we as a society somehow figure out how to put in positions of authority people who have studied history.