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Culture wars are the oxygen of capitalists.
The root of our problems is corporate greed.
The most common comorbidity is poverty.
We need the language to deconstruct late stage capitalism. You can’t change what you can’t describe or understand.
https://twitter.com/crgulla/status/1482072525676892171?s=20
1000%. Republican rhetoric is useless. They will say/do anything to give themselves power.
Spare us the “bipartisan” hand-wringing.
Republicans are the party of theft. They all know voter suppression and gerrymandering are about stealing elections. They know the audits were about stealing elections. They know slowing the Post Office was about stealing elections.
The complicity and gaslighting, vis a vis, ‘stop the steal’, represent manifest diseased GOP morals/ethics.
Law and order is a white supremacist construct.
Notice it includes the wrong Douglass and the correct one is spelled with only on S. Scottie
https://twitter.com/duffyink/status/1481323276462968834?s=20
‘Knowing you are the problem, then blaming others’ is the conservative mission statement.
The malfeasance is manifest.
Coming soon. But what people forget is that those cases some are going to get really sick from Covid, they are going to incur large medical bills, and a lot of them will die. Is that the future the anti-vax groups want? Just a roll of the dice if you go bankrupt or die? How many deaths will be enough when nearly 900,000 are not? Scottie
*in order to protect our strong men- we must drink pee and show our indoctrination*
We should not be shrugging off long-term risks.
It’s a cult.
This tracks.
Aggressively wrong
The double standards are everywhere.
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Misleading right wing media cartoons / memes
History has shown that left to their desires the states will infringe on rights granted by the federal constitution. Yes the constitution is the founding document that provides the structure the US is built on. When rights that should be enjoyed by all are with held or restricted to some, the federal government must act to restore them. Plus some elections are federal elections and so should be standard across all states as with other interstate laws. Again that is provided for in the constitution. If you take out the right wing media attempts to stir up their base’s emotions you can see that this is something that has happened before and should happen again. The federal government is doing its job to address a problem across state lines and to ensure equal protection under the 14th amendment. Scottie
Have these people seen Biden’s 36 years in government service? He is a center right leaning politician who has more than once advocated cutting social security payment, assistance to the poor, being tough on crime, in favor of keeping cannabis illegal, and refusing to eliminate student debt even though some of these things helps the economy immensely. Biden is no lefty, no progressive, but he is a corporate democrat. Biden is beholden to the wealthy corporations and is willing to do mostly as they wish as they wish. The reason Biden has been pushing for policies that the right wing media call progressive is they help both the country and the wealthy / big businesses. But the right has to be against anything that Biden is for so they create a false scare tactic against even stuff they supported just a few years ago, such as voting rights reform. History and truth are pesky things the right wing media is trying to avoid. Scottie
According to 2019 FBI data, seven out of ten states with the highest per-capita rates of violent crime voted Republican in the 2020 election. In contrast, seven out of ten states with the lowest rates voted Democrat. However, the District of Columbia had the highest rate despite voting blue. Mississippi has the highest murder rate, I hear it is a deep red state. Facts matter. The cartoon is just an attempt to play on fear and keep outrage going in the right wing base. Scottie
https://repustar.com/fact-briefs/do-red-states-rank-higher-in-violent-crime-rates-than-blue-states
CRT is simply a dog whistle for the right so I will ignore its use here. MLK’s words are as appropriate for today as they were back when he issued them. What is discouraging is the US has regressed on the gains in civil rights that King fought for. The US has not only stopped moving forward to eliminate pervasive racism but again has one political wing actively trying to promote it. He was right about the lack of support and work needed by moderate white people to change the discriminatory nature of the country. Scottie
Youngkin is dividing Virginia by pushing the false idea that CRT is being taught in its schools. Goodwyn prefers the old Texas schoolbooks which told that the slaves were happy being told what to do. White people afraid of facing the truth will be the downfall of this country. Not a joke. A Virginia Republican legislator introduced a bill requiring public schools to teach students about the Lincoln – Douglass debates. Frederick Douglass.
Youngkin banned the teaching of Critical Race Theory (although it is not being taught). Youngkin did not ban the teaching of Replacement Theory. Make of it what you will.
Teachers now have to fear if they say anything critical about; slavery, Jim Crow, lynching they will be fired. If Little Johnny goes home and says Mr Jones said in history class that slaves were considered subhuman and often flogged and his Great, Great,Great, Great Grandfather got rich off their labor-Mr Jones is teaching CRT and should be fired. Protecting our children from an imaginary CRT agenda, killing our children by lifting mask mandates during a lethal pandemic. Not the least bit divisive. Next we’ll have bodycams on teachers to prevent the spread of seditious knowledge. Scottie
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No surprise that Lisa Benson, in her typically uneducated ignorance of economic context, wants to focus on the single factor of inflation — the TEMPORARY imbalance of supply with regard to consumer demand — caused by Trump’s devastation of our trade policy, tariff policy, infrastructure neglect and mishandling of the pandemic instead of the long-range booming consumer confidence, strong wage growth, plummeting unemployment, the most jobs created in the first year of a new president EVER in history, investment and capital markets finishing the year at record highs and a strong economic outlook due to infrastructure gains.
The only flaw in Democratic economic policy is their failure to communicate the current strength of the economy and the fast pace of recovery that results in inflation as recovery and demand outpace supply.
But then, unlike conservatives, we don’t have our own 100% wholly-owned captive media like Faux “News,” NoiseMax or OAN, and even the supposedly “mainstream” media, while it does strive towards a standard of journalistic balance, is 100% owned — every single major media outlet, whether broadcast, cable or print — by very wealthy billionaires and corporations representing the special interests of the wealthiest elites who want to hang onto their economic power.