On the eve of the anniversary of the March on Washington in 1963, Robert P. Jones uses the story of the murder of Emmett Till as a lens for viewing US history: he writes,
"The dramatic demographic changes the country has undergone over the last twenty years—from a majority white Christian nation to one with no single majority ethno-religious group—has resurfaced a fundamental question that has never fully been resolved:"
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https://www.whitetoolong.net/p/the-story-of-emmett-till-is-the-story
nostr:npub1sm4653mgsvru5qljgcupzs2ypc87ryscs0282n9u4xx93swsymdq2jy7je And I asked you a question that I don't believe you have answered:
Would you want your underaged daughter, sister, niece groomed?
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At some level, this is a curiosity that future historians, sociologists, and anthropologists will marvel at.
Mostly, they are likely to think this generation the dumbest and most ridiculous in the entire history of the species.
We make the Flapper generation look like wise and conscientious models of adulthood
nostr:npub10wj2hpqfe85a0365y8p39ktekw7jsdcepgk87ejcgmcf28l9ltvqdn0axw I look at — e.g. — the enormous potential of the internet to inform and connect people, and then look at what we've done with that potential, and I see such stupidity. All driven by the greed of a few super-rich people.
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I saw a one minute clip of Vivek. A glib, slick, oleaginous empty vessel of greed and lust for power. A grifter, a chancer. The mould had not been broken when he was created.
Is there a secret assembly line that produces these clones? He might as well be made of AI. Just insert the chip.
#Vivek #Trump
nostr:npub1p0ycaundq55puyhhtqrpxgfrrqw8nfxzpuvxw68ffu95amfsxakq6yrz7w I agree. Well-stated!
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It was rhetorical, an attempt to point out that to people who choose a very selfish value system, it really is more profitable either monetarily or to their egos, to believe that gender nonconformity is more dangerous than the climate crisis.
nostr:npub1hvw9ynmp5jpf5qgqc55un9su9ya8guwhg0aw9rwxt8kzundkf9cshheq0t Thanks for explaining. Yes, I myself think, too, there's not much chance of getting through to those folks about these issues.
Joyce Vance offers a screenshot of records for inmates housed in the Fulton County, Georgia, jail yesterday evening, including InmateP01135809.
#Trump #Republicans #crime #LawandOrder #BigLie #insurrection #CrimeParty #democracy #InmateP01135809
https://joycevance.substack.com/p/trump-gets-a-mug-shot
In America's multi-racial democracy, the election of Obama followed by a female candidate for president sparked huge backlash: people began to say that everything that was happening was a wrong direction for the nation — with white men as the drivers of the discontent and rage.
#Trump #Republicans #crime #LawandOrder #BigLie #insurrection #CrimeParty #democracy #strongman #InmateP01135809
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#InmateP01135809
nostr:npub1hvw9ynmp5jpf5qgqc55un9su9ya8guwhg0aw9rwxt8kzundkf9cshheq0t Sorry, but I don't understand what you're asking — of Renée Graham. Why shouldn't they do what? And who are "they"? Sorry that I just don't understand your question.
The mugshot of the man celebrated by huge numbers of US Christians as something approaching the second incarnation of Jesus Christ on earth.
#Trump #crime #criminal #BigLie #LawandOrder #insurrection
"The most important development in the Republican 'debate' on Wednesday evening was that six of the eight candidates pledged to support Trump for president if he is the nominee even if he is convicted in his pending criminal trials. (DeSantis, Haley, Scott, Ramaswamy, Pence, and Burgam said they would support Trump.)"
#Trump #Republicans #crime #LawandOrder #BigLie #insurrection #CrimeParty
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https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/the-real-news-on-wednesday
"The core idea is that, in order to stay in power, despots must pursue strategies that ultimately ensure their eventual downfall.
For example, in order to ensure loyalty and stave off threats, dictators purge those who challenge them—even those who just openly disagree with their opinions."
#Putin #Prigozhin #dictators #authoritarians
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"But faced with a bully of their own creation, Republicans have chosen to assiduously and consistently fold in on themselves like sad, soggy, deflating balloons. The party has had numerous opportunities to stand up to Trump and chart a new path — most notably perhaps during the impeachment vote after his coup attempt. But they’ve refused at every turn, choosing instead to kowtow, shiver, and crawl."
#Trump #Republicans #authoritarian #dominance
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"Donald Trump has staged a hostile, successful, embarrassingly thorough takeover of the party’s resources, heart, and soul. Rather than celebrating democratic processes, the debate is a tacit (and not so tacit) acquiescence to the authoritarian dominance rituals of the party’s singular overlord, who squats upon the face of the GOP like a giant blood-sucking orange xenomorph."
~ Noah Berlatsky
#Trump #Republicans #authoritarian #dominance
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https://www.publicnotice.co/p/fox-news-gop-debate-trump-2024
"The debate is not a contest, but a dominance ritual; the Republican Party’s new leader is the old leader, who feeds with much bellowing on his rivals’ vestigial spines. …
The GOP is in a pitiful state. But it’s a pitiful state it has chosen. Republicans have boasted for decades about how tough they are while they sneer at the left and the Democrats for being soft and weak."
#Trump #Republicans #authoritarian #dominance
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"Donald Trump has staged a hostile, successful, embarrassingly thorough takeover of the party’s resources, heart, and soul. Rather than celebrating democratic processes, the debate is a tacit (and not so tacit) acquiescence to the authoritarian dominance rituals of the party’s singular overlord, who squats upon the face of the GOP like a giant blood-sucking orange xenomorph."
~ Noah Berlatsky
#Trump #Republicans #authoritarian #dominance
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https://www.publicnotice.co/p/fox-news-gop-debate-trump-2024
As Laura Clawson says, killing a woman for flying a rainbow flag did not come from nowhere. She cites Mark Rothschild, who states,
"Among Ikeguchi's twitter follows were former president Trump, OANN, and conspiracy theorist podcast and one-time Alex Jones crony David Knight."
Rothschild also says,
"Based on his limited twitter activity, Ikeguchi was anti-gay, antivax, antisemitic, anti-choice, and an RFJ Jr. fan."
#LGBTQ #homophobia #violence
"Mike Pence and Mark Meadows just ruined Trump’s defense in classified docs case…. Former Vice President Mike Pence and former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows said on Sunday that they had no knowledge of then-President Donald Trump declassifying a large number of documents, completely undermining the former president’s main defense in the Mar-a-Lago case."
#Trump #crime #LawandOrder #BigLie #Pence #Meadows #NationalSecurity
"All of which makes him the very model of a modern Republican politician. ChatGPT could not have devised a more GOP GOP senator than Thomas Hawley Tuberville.
All of these qualities have been on full display in Tuberville’s two-plus-year stint as U.S. Senator."
#Tuberville #racism #Republican
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nostr:npub14xj6drrq30ck3u78tu5d55y9v3ly56kmp7jrehfmcparyrs5rekqtkhwcx I'd like to see that kind of catharsis. Am not sure I'll live to see it, however. What I'm seeing with Trump's followers is the recrudescence of things I saw growing up in the US South during the Civil Rights period. The racist bigots just will not give up and intend to seize control come what may, and too many of us have stood by as they lay a foundation for minority control.