@waltzing.bsky.social
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Our healthcare system can be fixed politically -- murdering people is not necessary. Yes, people voted against reform just last month, but people are far from unpersuadable on this issue.
December 11, 2024 at 12:56 AM
Our healthcare system can be fixed politically -- murdering people is not necessary. Yes, people voted against reform just last month, but people are far from unpersuadable on this issue.
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Hamas launched the Oct. 7 attack hoping it would set off a cascade of events that toppled hated governments from power and transformed the region.
Except they were hoping it’d be governments they hate.
Except they were hoping it’d be governments they hate.
December 7, 2024 at 4:29 PM
Hamas launched the Oct. 7 attack hoping it would set off a cascade of events that toppled hated governments from power and transformed the region.
Except they were hoping it’d be governments they hate.
Except they were hoping it’d be governments they hate.
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More amazing campists takes
December 8, 2024 at 9:26 AM
More amazing campists takes
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Assadists coping and seething.
December 8, 2024 at 1:27 PM
Assadists coping and seething.
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Orcas off the coast of Washington state have started wearing dead salmon hats again, bringing back a bizarre trend first described in the 1980s, researchers say
Orcas start wearing dead salmon hats again after ditching the trend for 37 years
Orcas off the coast of Washington State are balancing dead fish on their heads like it's the 1980s, but researchers still aren't sure why they do it.
www.livescience.com
November 28, 2024 at 12:45 PM
Orcas off the coast of Washington state have started wearing dead salmon hats again, bringing back a bizarre trend first described in the 1980s, researchers say
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The problem isn’t government waste. The problem is that billionaires don’t pay taxes.
November 27, 2024 at 11:26 PM
The problem isn’t government waste. The problem is that billionaires don’t pay taxes.
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We have to get to the point where "base" does not mean "people who hate the Democratic Party and spend all day complaining about it online and won't vote if some esoteric condition is not met."
November 27, 2024 at 7:40 PM
We have to get to the point where "base" does not mean "people who hate the Democratic Party and spend all day complaining about it online and won't vote if some esoteric condition is not met."
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if you live around conservatives, a common bumper sticker reads “liberalism is a mental disorder.” you’ll see effigies of dem politicians, unhinged screeds about satan-worshipping dems written on lawn signs. this stuff gets ignored while any hint of condescension from liberals is treated as endemic
November 26, 2024 at 9:27 PM
if you live around conservatives, a common bumper sticker reads “liberalism is a mental disorder.” you’ll see effigies of dem politicians, unhinged screeds about satan-worshipping dems written on lawn signs. this stuff gets ignored while any hint of condescension from liberals is treated as endemic
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you'll notice 'your body my choice' was not immediately pinned on gop leadership by the Very Smart Number Pundits
November 26, 2024 at 8:27 PM
you'll notice 'your body my choice' was not immediately pinned on gop leadership by the Very Smart Number Pundits
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i have become extremely fucking tired of the punditocracy’s fixation on ensuring that everyone to the left of bill kristol minds their manners at all times and displays perfect empathy while everyone to his right can fourteen words their way through every day without even a mild reprimand
this thing where every voter on the left, including people who did not vote for democrats, are presumed to not just be speaking on behalf of the democrats but leading the democrats, is insane and unsustainaable.
There is truth, of course, to the fact that people get the policy regime of the president they voted for. But that’s not the same as voting for the policy package itself.
Feel like I’ve seen a lot of derisiveness about swing voters in particular, and lack of empathy is part of reason why they swung
Feel like I’ve seen a lot of derisiveness about swing voters in particular, and lack of empathy is part of reason why they swung
November 26, 2024 at 8:35 PM
i have become extremely fucking tired of the punditocracy’s fixation on ensuring that everyone to the left of bill kristol minds their manners at all times and displays perfect empathy while everyone to his right can fourteen words their way through every day without even a mild reprimand
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No, Kamala Harris did not lose because of her supposed embrace of “identity politics.” Just the reverse is true: Donald Trump won because of his very real embrace of identity politics. White identity politics.
Thread, Part 1. 1/15
Thread, Part 1. 1/15
November 26, 2024 at 6:24 PM
No, Kamala Harris did not lose because of her supposed embrace of “identity politics.” Just the reverse is true: Donald Trump won because of his very real embrace of identity politics. White identity politics.
Thread, Part 1. 1/15
Thread, Part 1. 1/15
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Here's an article with a summary of where we are on the threatened 25% US tariff and some hints about what we might do.
Some good ideas in there; some bad.
Let me summarize in a thread.
Begin with 3 facts, then 3 things not to do, then 3 actions items.
www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...
Some good ideas in there; some bad.
Let me summarize in a thread.
Begin with 3 facts, then 3 things not to do, then 3 actions items.
www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...
As Trump threatens tariffs against Canada and Mexico, here are five things we know so far
On social media Monday, he fired an opening salvo in the global trade war that he has long promised in his second term as U.S. president
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 26, 2024 at 4:42 PM
Here's an article with a summary of where we are on the threatened 25% US tariff and some hints about what we might do.
Some good ideas in there; some bad.
Let me summarize in a thread.
Begin with 3 facts, then 3 things not to do, then 3 actions items.
www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...
Some good ideas in there; some bad.
Let me summarize in a thread.
Begin with 3 facts, then 3 things not to do, then 3 actions items.
www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...
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I still don't fully understand how acknowledging that peoples' problems are oftentimes a result of discrimination, is "woke."
We've been doing this since the 1960s, folks. Talking about race and gender inequality isn't new, but somehow it's become a sticking point?
We've been doing this since the 1960s, folks. Talking about race and gender inequality isn't new, but somehow it's become a sticking point?
I asked James Carville, a frequent critic of "wokeness," if Democrats should defend trans people. The exchange got pretty intense.
Carville concedes that John Fetterman got the language right in defending Sarah McBride.
Read these four screen caps:
newrepublic.com/article/1888...
Carville concedes that John Fetterman got the language right in defending Sarah McBride.
Read these four screen caps:
newrepublic.com/article/1888...
November 26, 2024 at 1:42 PM
I still don't fully understand how acknowledging that peoples' problems are oftentimes a result of discrimination, is "woke."
We've been doing this since the 1960s, folks. Talking about race and gender inequality isn't new, but somehow it's become a sticking point?
We've been doing this since the 1960s, folks. Talking about race and gender inequality isn't new, but somehow it's become a sticking point?
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This echo chamber nonsense is predicated on the notion that bigotry is a valid perspective. It isn’t. Grow up! Think better!
November 22, 2024 at 3:12 PM
This echo chamber nonsense is predicated on the notion that bigotry is a valid perspective. It isn’t. Grow up! Think better!
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Never in my life have I ever been hanging out with my friends, having a blast, and suddenly thought, “Hey, this is kind of an echo chamber, huh? You know what we would benefit from? Hanging out with someone who hates gay people! That’s a perspective we haven’t considered!”
November 22, 2024 at 1:35 PM
Never in my life have I ever been hanging out with my friends, having a blast, and suddenly thought, “Hey, this is kind of an echo chamber, huh? You know what we would benefit from? Hanging out with someone who hates gay people! That’s a perspective we haven’t considered!”
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Minimizing flat-earthers, Plandemic peddlers, coup defenders or tranphobes from discussions has never turned a single discussion into an echo chamber. Rather it helps everybody stay on topic while they present legitimate, but different, points of view.
Opinion: This is a stupid fucking premise for an argument.
Fucking obviously being on Twitter where the entire platform is manipulated by a Nazi didn't fucking help.
Fucking obviously being on Twitter where the entire platform is manipulated by a Nazi didn't fucking help.
Opinion - The problem with Bluesky: It won’t broaden our horizons: In the wake of Donald Trump’s election win, the social-media platform has enjoyed a surge of new users looking for an alternative to Elon Musk’s X. But will it be useful, if it just creates an echo chamber for the left?
November 22, 2024 at 9:42 PM
Minimizing flat-earthers, Plandemic peddlers, coup defenders or tranphobes from discussions has never turned a single discussion into an echo chamber. Rather it helps everybody stay on topic while they present legitimate, but different, points of view.
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gecko chamber
a group of lizards are eating a piece of food on a wooden table with the year 2011 on the bottom right
ALT: a group of lizards are eating a piece of food on a wooden table with the year 2011 on the bottom right
media.tenor.com
November 22, 2024 at 7:11 PM
gecko chamber
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I'm trying to read about the police report, re: sexual assault and Hegseth, and it's inspired me to re-post, once more, the brilliant @dianamoskovitz.bsky.social's long and important take on why you don't need to use the word "alleged" or "allegedly" deadspin.com/against-alle...
Deadspin | Against Allegedly
Deadspin | Against Allegedly
deadspin.com
November 21, 2024 at 6:34 PM
I'm trying to read about the police report, re: sexual assault and Hegseth, and it's inspired me to re-post, once more, the brilliant @dianamoskovitz.bsky.social's long and important take on why you don't need to use the word "alleged" or "allegedly" deadspin.com/against-alle...
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Even if transphobia didn't catch cis people in the crossfire, even if it didn't affect one single cis person ever, you should still fight to defend trans people on account of us being human beings worthy of respect and safety.
November 21, 2024 at 6:36 PM
Even if transphobia didn't catch cis people in the crossfire, even if it didn't affect one single cis person ever, you should still fight to defend trans people on account of us being human beings worthy of respect and safety.
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This is why scholars of authoritarianism & illiberalism have been urging folks not to give into defeatism. The guardrails of America's democracy & its rule of law are weaker than they were in 2016 - but that is precisely why it is so critical for civil society not to concede the field preemptively.
November 18, 2024 at 8:14 PM
This is why scholars of authoritarianism & illiberalism have been urging folks not to give into defeatism. The guardrails of America's democracy & its rule of law are weaker than they were in 2016 - but that is precisely why it is so critical for civil society not to concede the field preemptively.