nostr:npub1lzz05275zkk6zwuzel45jusr74ftyyuah8zll8vl09k98w8smy7qedjhl3 I don’t know why I read it the other way, but it makes sense. Our ideas about masculinity and race are formed early & largely unexamined.
nostr:npub1tsky5pd4wg76l37cz85mvwnqgdz62t72ms59v94c466slxklp0fsfjf9lx I agree. That's very well-stated.
nostr:npub1lzz05275zkk6zwuzel45jusr74ftyyuah8zll8vl09k98w8smy7qedjhl3 That sounds like a polite way of saying that most “gun nuts” are crazy white cowards.
nostr:npub1xwe2jmg2xfhlg57mefxj3lurs7l4czpljllxrx2uge8x2kdx8fjqwdd3kd Definitely strong correlations here with race, (manufactured) fear, and masculine insecurity.
"U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan on Saturday issued a new deadline for former President Donald Trump to respond to special counsel Jack Smith's request for a protective order as the Department of Justice (DOJ) seeks to safeguard evidence and rein in Trump's public comments."
~ NBC
#Trump #crime #criminal #LawandOrder #BigLie #insurrection
"Before 'Barbie' was even released, right-wing media tried to take it down, with an all-hands-on-deck pile-on intended to spur a right-wing boycott that would show Hollywood that it better not do that again. Instead, Fox News and Ben Shapiro and the rest of them showed the limits of their power. 'Barbie' is a huge hit. ...
'Barbie' is on track to hit $1 billion worldwide on Sunday or Monday."
~ Laura Clawson
#Barbie FoxFail
"Between 2003-2015, for instance, there were 891 killings of Indigenous persons, an annual average of 68 each year. In the four past years, the average number of annual killings jumped to almost 199."
Important to keep in mind here that Bolsonaro had the strong support of "pro-life" evangelicals in Brazil and the US.
#Bolsonaro #Brazil #indigenous
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"During former president Jair Bolsonaro's administration (2019-2022), 795 members of Indigenous peoples were killed in Brazil, with almost 200 killings each year, according to a report recently released by the Bishops' Conference's Indigenous Missionary Council (known by the Portuguese acronym CIMI)."
~ Eduardo Campos Lima
#Bolsonaro #Brazil #indigenous
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nostr:npub1lzz05275zkk6zwuzel45jusr74ftyyuah8zll8vl09k98w8smy7qedjhl3 yes we need Court reform and media reform if we want to fix our democracy
nostr:npub12cwd4t4pt3yp29tnunqt4vwlsjjupgen09vxgfnt6q98arhnde2qvq04dn You’re absolutely right. That is key.
nostr:npub1lzz05275zkk6zwuzel45jusr74ftyyuah8zll8vl09k98w8smy7qedjhl3 how can sea life survive such high temps? Do fish linger & die or "wander" off?
nostr:npub1aretamf3kjchytwxz8e9ladvmsgxdhd4qxvf4u88wtnadxz2537q800yj6 I think that unfortunately a lot of sea life, both in the animal and plant kingdom, dies as temperatures grow warmer.
nostr:npub1lzz05275zkk6zwuzel45jusr74ftyyuah8zll8vl09k98w8smy7qedjhl3
Just sad that you take steps backwards and not forward...
Too often, and in many areas, a completely wrong attitude is being taken and pushed forward.
It's really a piece of evidence of poverty in general...
nostr:npub14yagc4k97qumnh8qmjr7pw3h33rw350sh2yc3cqw0wml3n5lpjesxcrz3r definitely sad that people prefer to pull societies backwards. Unfortunately, we have all sorts of evidence that that happens. William F Buckley Jr. frankly admitted that this is what the rightwing project is all about He described it as standing astride history and shouting no to forward movement.
nostr:npub1lzz05275zkk6zwuzel45jusr74ftyyuah8zll8vl09k98w8smy7qedjhl3 the correlation may be better understood in reverse…male & white supremacy thinking leads to strong gun identity.
nostr:npub1tsky5pd4wg76l37cz85mvwnqgdz62t72ms59v94c466slxklp0fsfjf9lx I actually understood the correlation to be working just that way. That’s how I read the analysis.
nostr:npub1lzz05275zkk6zwuzel45jusr74ftyyuah8zll8vl09k98w8smy7qedjhl3
Unless your James Hansen, he's been warning of "faster then expected" for a long time.
nostr:npub1fk2jyjkty3uqe9mz4seppedsvgzrsutztj0favz0u5gxrhlypehs4v5l0c Yes, he and quite a few others.
David Rothkopf thinks that even if Trump loses in court or in 2024, our system will remain profoundly broken — due to
"a decades-long systematic effort by those on the right to promote minority rule in America and, in particular, to ensure that the interests and power of a small fraction of Americans—primarily rich, white, Christian men—would remain protected."
#Trump #Republicans #WhiteChristianNationalism #MaleDominance #patriarchy #WhiteSupremacy #MinorityRule
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-losing-in-court-wont-save-us-democracy
Zack Beauchamp notes that though the "economic anxiety makes them do it" — support Trump, that is — canard has been thoroughly debunked, no less than David Brooks at his New York Times bully pulpit keeps pushing it. Because it makes us feel comfortable. it exonerates Trump supporters, while facing the reality of what is really motivating them does not comfort us.
#Trump #MAGA #EconomicAnxiety #racism #homophobia #xenophobia #patriarchy #WhiteChristianNationalism
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https://www.vox.com/2023/8/4/23818817/trump-support-david-brooks-economic-anxiety
What's REALLY driving Trump supporters:
"the late 20th-century revolution in social values: the end of segregation, mass nonwhite immigration, feminist challenges to patriarchy, a decline in traditional Christianity, and the rise of the LGBTQ movement."
They refuse to accept this and the way in which it dethrones them, as white Christian Americans, from their power perch.
#Trump #MAGA #EconomicAnxiety #racism #homophobia #xenophobia #patriarchy #WhiteChristianNationalism
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Zack Beauchamp notes that though the "economic anxiety makes them do it" — support Trump, that is — canard has been thoroughly debunked, no less than David Brooks at his New York Times bully pulpit keeps pushing it. Because it makes us feel comfortable. it exonerates Trump supporters, while facing the reality of what is really motivating them does not comfort us.
#Trump #MAGA #EconomicAnxiety #racism #homophobia #xenophobia #patriarchy #WhiteChristianNationalism
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https://www.vox.com/2023/8/4/23818817/trump-support-david-brooks-economic-anxiety
"I blame the father. Frederick Trump raised his children, one in particular, to believe that the world was divided into winners and losers and that there was no greater crime than to fall into the latter category. …
Referring to the second article of the US constitution, [Donald Trump] told an audience of teenagers in 2019, “I have an Article II, where I have the right to do whatever I want as president.”
~ Jonathan Freedland
#Trump #crime #LawandOrder
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/04/donald-trump-courtroom-jurors-truth-indictment
Hunter Walker and Nicole Lafond report on a multimillion dollar ad campaign in Ohio to get voters riled up to vote for Republican-sponsored issue 1, which is essentially an anti-abortion. The tactic this ad campaign is using: it links the abortion issue with drag queens.
#Ohio #abortion #drag #democracy