Well, a browser crash cleaned out my desktop tabs for me quite some time ago, but my laptop browser is slowing down under the weight of tabs, so let's clear some out...
A reminder that white supremacists will say or do anything to strike at their enemies. They don't care about justice or law except where it serves their ends.
NBC and Weinstein: Rich white men look after their own.
A glimpse in the mind of President Used Car Salesman.
What the two previous articles have in common. Simply put, we enable abusers in America.
Another thing Trump and Weinstein have in common: organized and criminal cover-ups of their wrongdoing.
Glimpses into the minds of people who, despite all the evidence, despite everything, still support Trump. And the reaction other people have to those people.
ALL OF THIS. And more, probably. Republican policies are intended to concentrate wealth and crush the poor... and Democrats have failed to provide any serious pushback, never mind policies that would actually fix the problem. (And no, job training is NOT a solution, not when you're training people to compete with China and India and when the jobs in question will never come to the people being trained.)
And this is WHY Democrats have no answers: their leadership is filled with the same kind of people who are squeezing the rest of us.
Yet another chapter in the politicization of the bench. Electoral politics have no place in a courtroom NONE. (This judge will be on the bench until at least 2021, by the way.)
Burger King says no to bullying... sandwiches.
Fascism spreading around the world...
Yet another reminder that when a conservative says "voter fraud", what they mean is, "only wealthy white men should vote." (And incidentally, this isn't the only con game Kris Kobach is involved in.) (Not that he's the only Republican blocking people from voting...nor is this in any way a recent development...)
A reminder of how Republicans got this way.
You know how Trump just ordered his attorney general to perform selective declassification of FBI records in order to prove the Russia investigation was politically motivated? Not the first time he's declassified records for purely political ends. This is what a dictator does.
And you know how Trump is rumored to be considering pardoning war criminals? Might be because he doesn't think it's a crime to kill families of terrorists or innocent bystanders."Not white" is enough for him. And he knows his followers agree.
This is another thing dictators do: attempt to change the facts to match their beliefs.
All part of the Big Lie Trump is employing, a tactic which his supporters embrace wholeheartedly.
That's going to do it for this one...
Showing posts with label voting rights. Show all posts
Showing posts with label voting rights. Show all posts
Saturday, May 25, 2019
Sunday, September 10, 2017
Link Bundle #3
Clearing out yet more old tabs on the browser.
Cop catches his supervisor on video demanding to know why he hasn't arrested enough black people.
Different cops beat the hell out of a black man, then claim self-defense, not knowing surveillance cameras would prove their lie.
North Carolina Republicans were working to systematically make it difficult if not impossible for Democratic-leaning people to vote.
North Carolina isn't alone in working to disenfranchise voters. Republicans are using wild claims of illegal voters to justify voter purges- despite the fact that the people making the claims are known liars and con men.
A concise description of what the alt-right is. Short: cowardly fascists.
Another reminder: the alt-right is not about free speech. It's not about tolerance. It's not about anything else except racism, bigotry, and evil. To say "alt-right" is the same thing as to say "KKK", "White Citizens Committee," and "Nazi." It's all the same thing, just wearing a fancy suit and waving a Kekistan flag.
And Trump, let it be always remembered, is their man. He's proven it by his words, his deeds, and the company he keeps. (Note: Ben Rodriguez, a former creative collaborator of mine, has become an ardent follower of Castalia House publisher and Rabid Puppies fascist troll Vox Day, the man quoted in the first linked article for saying, "There is no more Republican vs. Democrat. It is now whites vs. non-whites and white quislings.")
Speaking of Kekistan: How alt-right trolls took an obscure, poorly drawn cartoon and made it the face of hate, racism, and sadism on the Internet.
A common tactic of abusers is to tell their victim, "What's the matter with you? I'm just playing with you!" It's a common lie, and the alt-right uses the "I'm joking" defense for the exact same reasons. The idea is to get the victims to let them continue, to let them grow stronger, to get a tighter grip on them, until escape becomes impossible.
Written a year ago, before Trump's election, this article is a lot more sympathetic than most would be today. What I take from it: the well-off despise those with less than they have, and the poor whites generally despise non-whites who appear to get government help they themselves are too proud to accept. Oh, and both sides are fervent believers in conspiracies.
Short version: when wealth concentrates, it ceases to circulate, choking the economy. The more concentrated the wealth, the more it tends to concentrate even more, squeezing everyone else.
Short version: self-control is a total myth. Any system that relies on it to function WILL fail.
I must remember to seek out and buy some Penzey's spices.
A thorough coverage of the history of Presidential disability in office, and how government coped- or failed to cope.
A reminder that the world has seen rich businessmen elected to executive office before. The trend is, the richer the businessman, the MORE corrupt his administration.
We are in a new cold war with Vladmir Putin's Russia, even if few in Washington want to admit it. Putin is deliberately spreading misinformation to influence elections around the world. His end goal: to discredit democracy, weaken Russia's enemies, and bring about a world order of totalitarian, white-supremacist regimes. And Putin's support of Trump's campaign, about which more facts come out every day, was part and parcel of that.
And I think I'll stop there for now.
Cop catches his supervisor on video demanding to know why he hasn't arrested enough black people.
Different cops beat the hell out of a black man, then claim self-defense, not knowing surveillance cameras would prove their lie.
North Carolina Republicans were working to systematically make it difficult if not impossible for Democratic-leaning people to vote.
North Carolina isn't alone in working to disenfranchise voters. Republicans are using wild claims of illegal voters to justify voter purges- despite the fact that the people making the claims are known liars and con men.
A concise description of what the alt-right is. Short: cowardly fascists.
Another reminder: the alt-right is not about free speech. It's not about tolerance. It's not about anything else except racism, bigotry, and evil. To say "alt-right" is the same thing as to say "KKK", "White Citizens Committee," and "Nazi." It's all the same thing, just wearing a fancy suit and waving a Kekistan flag.
And Trump, let it be always remembered, is their man. He's proven it by his words, his deeds, and the company he keeps. (Note: Ben Rodriguez, a former creative collaborator of mine, has become an ardent follower of Castalia House publisher and Rabid Puppies fascist troll Vox Day, the man quoted in the first linked article for saying, "There is no more Republican vs. Democrat. It is now whites vs. non-whites and white quislings.")
Speaking of Kekistan: How alt-right trolls took an obscure, poorly drawn cartoon and made it the face of hate, racism, and sadism on the Internet.
A common tactic of abusers is to tell their victim, "What's the matter with you? I'm just playing with you!" It's a common lie, and the alt-right uses the "I'm joking" defense for the exact same reasons. The idea is to get the victims to let them continue, to let them grow stronger, to get a tighter grip on them, until escape becomes impossible.
Written a year ago, before Trump's election, this article is a lot more sympathetic than most would be today. What I take from it: the well-off despise those with less than they have, and the poor whites generally despise non-whites who appear to get government help they themselves are too proud to accept. Oh, and both sides are fervent believers in conspiracies.
Short version: when wealth concentrates, it ceases to circulate, choking the economy. The more concentrated the wealth, the more it tends to concentrate even more, squeezing everyone else.
Short version: self-control is a total myth. Any system that relies on it to function WILL fail.
I must remember to seek out and buy some Penzey's spices.
A thorough coverage of the history of Presidential disability in office, and how government coped- or failed to cope.
A reminder that the world has seen rich businessmen elected to executive office before. The trend is, the richer the businessman, the MORE corrupt his administration.
We are in a new cold war with Vladmir Putin's Russia, even if few in Washington want to admit it. Putin is deliberately spreading misinformation to influence elections around the world. His end goal: to discredit democracy, weaken Russia's enemies, and bring about a world order of totalitarian, white-supremacist regimes. And Putin's support of Trump's campaign, about which more facts come out every day, was part and parcel of that.
And I think I'll stop there for now.
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