“So there is no equivalence or symmetry between the ways that the right and left make claims of counterfeit victimization. Broadly speaking, progressives have identified with victims and fought to defend and care for them. Modern conservatives like Trump and Carlson, however, are basically propagandizing when they position themselves and their audiences as injured partiesContinue reading “2024 is Here”
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Come Retribution
15:05 Racism is what Trumpism is all about. It is all very convoluted also, with some jews, brown, and black people infamously supporting Trump. The tens of millions who support Trump are brainwashed by media concerns that lie, misrepresent, and pander to the worst fears and prejudices of specific demographic categories…. lower middle class olderContinue reading “Come Retribution”
The Nuclear Codes
“Our entire constitution is based on a minimum level of decency in the people who are elected to public office.” What is “decency” in this modern age of relativism though? Nobody wants to talk about the naked fact that the reason Trump is so popular is his racist anti-immigration platform. That is how he mightContinue reading “The Nuclear Codes”
Destroy Truth and Conquer
The old Roman adage, “Divide and Conquer” is based on a certain technique that destroys the basic idea of truth. Agreement on facts between people is the ground floor of any cooperative action. Trust is required to accept facts as the best approximations of a truth that will be acted upon on. By destroying anyContinue reading “Destroy Truth and Conquer”
Chauncey Tells It
“The enduring power of old-fashioned biological racism in American society is made even more terrifying given how Trump is now openly channeling Hitler, complete with threats to remove the “vermin” from the country and complaints of how non-white people are “poison” in the blood of the nation. How Trump and the MAGA movement and largerContinue reading “Chauncey Tells It”
History is a tree, not a chain
28:45 “Single cause explanations are almost always false.” 36:15 “Don’t be- too critical of the efforts of other people.” Harari…a gay medieval military historian, is one of the most influential people on Earth. And he gives a great deal of credit to his team of about 20 people. History is NOT the study of theContinue reading “History is a tree, not a chain”
Chomsky Knows
4:00, “- it’s not easy to come up with exciting new ideas, so you have to come up with crazy ideas…” And that is what makes money in the media and may destroy democracy.
Dying on a Hill
The pro-democracy movement only needs to embrace border security, gun rights, and stop promoting trans rights and they will sweep all the elections. It is simple. Those three things and democracy is secured. Those three issues are how the autocrats are going to take power, just like they are doing across the world. If democracyContinue reading “Dying on a Hill”
Republicans
I noticed many years ago on Fox News that whenever they began using the word freedom it had to do with cutting taxes or regulating industries. I found that the word greed could be substituted in these Fox scripts and it worked just fine. That is what they really mean….greed. Anything that taxes the richContinue reading “Republicans”
The Republic
It all reduces to the rich evading taxes, which is redistribution of wealth, and regulation, which enables control of the rich, who crave control of everything by way of their wealth. I do not understand why this clear and simple message is not repeated constantly. One way to argue against their talking point is toContinue reading “The Republic”
Ice on the Moon 