This is a great response to attempted coercion by philo-fascist conservatives and Republicans.
Erin ReedThe Missouri AG threatened Daniel Boone Regional Library in Columbia with total defunding and investigations if they read books with LGBTQ+ themes to kids in a Pride story hour. They did so anyway. Our latest story from s. Baum of one library's defiance against an oppressive Republican regime.
The vast majority of death & destruction in war has been from conventional weapons, other than the end of WWII. Now multiple nations have nuclear weapons, & 1 miscalc cld dwarf the death & destruction of, & due to, humanity thru all of history. It's the avail means, not the quantity of instances.
"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret DevereauxIt's certainly an uptick in interstate violence, though not yet the kind of wrenching, global catastrophe of the world wars. Russia-Ukraine may have crossed over 1m KIA between all parties, but nothing close to the c. 20m deaths of WWI or the c. 70m of WWII.
Important thread within a thread below. Re: Elon Musk's escalating demagoguery & incitement of political violence via his private SM platform.
Hari Kunzru“She made me look foolish so I want one of you, my 241m followers, to murder her”
Libertarians, corps & kleptocrats want no government regulation, oversight or enforcement of any economic activity, and for all services--even essential services--to be privatized.
Joe SudbayTrump really does own the "vomiting, cramping and explosive diarrhea": "On Thursday evening, Taylor Farms executives met with the White House and FDA to try to distance the company from the outbreak and air concerns about the official investigations into the outbreak"
Miller bears an uncanny resemblance to a corpse, sans its soul, yet he lives. That's not normal.
PEIPolitical 🇨🇦Miller: "It's not a coincidence that when you look at these violent Antifa demonstrations not one of the people that is demonstrating looks like a normal person. Not one looks normal. They're all deformed in some way in their appearance, in their dress, in their mannerism." #cdnpoli
This thread explains how the doers on the Right & the thinkers on the Left rationalize & criticize market theory, but 95% of the public doesn't think so rationally or deeply, & never get past concepts, mostly unarticulated, like the Am. Dream, i.e. upward mobility/materially exceeding their parents.
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)Market theory goes like this: even the best of us can fall prey to selfishness and rationalization, so let's arrange society so people acting on their most selfish impulses end up producing benefit for all of us. That'll be easier and more reliable than convincing everyone to be more generous. 1/
How is it DEM's fault that ICE kills someone after mistaking the person for someone else, while Republikkkan tyrants are in charge?
Aaron RuparTom Homan: "It all go backs to the Dems ... there's still gonna be more bloodshed unless they shut their mouth and let ICE enforce the laws that they enacted."
Someone in his administration did the math and told Trump it would cost the U.S. more than it earned to protect individual ships, and that we lack sufficient means to protect every cargo ship. Besides, he got his stock trades in overnight. #TrumpIncompetence&Corruption
Carl QuintanillaMonday. Tuesday. @politico.com
Your point is undermined by the article you posted & the political realities it reveals. Congress passed affordable housing legislation bc the material reality inflicted widely by RW-corporatists is eliciting authentic populism. It was passed w/ veto-proof majorities, . . .
Seth AbramsonThere is no reason to be concerned about this. History gives us precisely no examples of would-be authoritarians using fake emergencies as cover for seizing absolute power. My suggestion would be for all Americans and especially all politicians in Washington to continue doing whatever they're doing.
Vance has legally changed his name at least twice to be more marketable. The lack of authenticity is the only authentic thing about him.
Karl Bode"[Vance] has sought to tackle one question on the minds of many Americans: What will happen to workers?" Vance's Presidential campaign is going to lean heavily on his fake anti-corporate populism and the press is going to help him sell it despite everything we've seen