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51·2 days agoThe problem with this is there are actual Neo-Nazis in the government and MAGA militias. Regardless of what bad actors or the twitter mob that doesn’t know any better say, if it looks like a Nazi, shouts like a Nazi, and salutes like a Nazi…
Have you checked The Big List of Protests for your local area?
Reminds me of grade school again. Get bullied, nothing happens. Fight back, get punished.
Only in this case the school is Reddit, the bully is DOGE tearing the country apart, and fighting back is posting memes. What a world.
Still can’t get over the Republicans out there with “Support Tesla” signs. Do they know it is an EV company?
Gee, they really can’t stop proving how small-minded they are with their constant projection, huh?
“The liberal meanies keep accusing me of doing a propaganda…well, I’m gonna tell everyone THEY are doing a propaganda instead!” This is how a child’s mind works, jfc.
Very well put.
Yeah, this is why the term “scientific racism” grinds my gears so much, including when people balk at the phrase “race is a social construct”. If these people actually cared about the science, the notion of “scientific racism” would last about as long as it takes for it to enter their head. They cherry pick studies and sources to confirm their pre-existing prejudices.
Let’s gooooooo!
In 2024, Spartz voted against a crucial $60 billion aid package for Ukraine, shortly after being accused by a primary challenger of prioritizing aid to Ukraine over domestic Republican priorities including the border wall. Her vote against the U.S. aid for Ukraine came just three days after a Russian missile strike on Chernihiv, where her family lived, killed 18 civilians and injured 78. Having previously been lauded in Chernihiv for her life story and as “one of their own”, some inhabitants reactions were described as pride turning into “anger” and a “sense of betrayal” due to her vote against the aid, intensified after the Russian bombing during rush hour on her hometown.
This is after years of advocating for sending aid to Ukraine. Wonder what changed?
I’d also mention that the Dems are profoundly unpopular right now. I can’t tell you many Trump voters I’ve talked to the past few weeks that have a short circuit when I tell them that I hate the Dems too, probably more than they do. Many Trump voters (and non-voters for that matter) are as Anti-Dem as they are Pro-Trump, if not moreso.
I’m not sure how to convince these people to vote for a Democrat in the short term. Even if in the long term the goal is a new party or a radical restructuring of the current one.
They want to go back to a past that doesn’t exist except in their minds.
Terrorism is…checks notes…taking material actions to stop a genocide (as required by international law)?
Edit: I realized this comment might be getting misunderstood. I am not saying that this is what the American government is doing with regards to the OP. I am saying this is what the people our government is currently accusing of terrorism are doing.
So, what you are describing is the false dichotomy that proponents of scientific racism rely on to convince people.
The accepted scientific consensus agrees with your take. It isn’t radical to say “there are biological differences between men and women, including in how they think.” Quite the opposite. The issue is science isn’t very good at promoting itself (partly due to how precise scientific studies are–“men are better at spatial awareness in this specific circumstance, with these specific parameters, but our study is not conclusive in the general case. More work is needed.” That kind of thing. People want more concrete answers than “hormones definitely affect how we think, but figuring out precisely how is more difficult.”), so grifters come in with half-truths and “common sense” takes that convince people that don’t know any better that scientists are dumb.
More to the point with regards to race, there are differences between ethnicities. They just aren’t what proponents of scientific racism say they are. The actual differences are mostly aesthetic or related to things like body type, eye/hair color, and height, that kind of thing (I should also mention that even defining a specific “race” is a significant hurdle in and of itself–we say race is a social construct for a reason). And, to reiterate, this isn’t a radical stance in the actual scientific community. “Scientific racism” is a misnomer–there’s nothing scientific about it beyond aesthetics.
Edit: I’ve edited this with clarifying statements like a dozen times already, so I should stop lol. I hope you all get my meanings.
Is this the fabled past Republicans were hoping for?
Who am I kidding, at this point they’d probably say “yes.”
Hell yeah. I might not agree with every single thing Jasmine says or does, but this is exactly the energy the Dems need to be putting forward.
Worth mentioning this one probably has nothing to do with what you think it does. See here.
Also worth mentioning that hacking machines isn’t the only way to interfere with an election. (I shouldn’t need to mention the potential for corruption when a small handful of people control voting blocs this large and important, but even that notwithstanding there’s good ol’ fashioned voter suppression that was applied liberally in 2024).
The party of “empathy is a sin.”
4·5 days agoYou sound like an awesome parent.
I’m so tired of people telling me I was overreacting or being alarmist when I said…
Now it’s: Detention centers and Ecuadorian prisons are just the start. They are testing the waters for something much, much worse. (Edit: And to be clear, I wasn’t the only person saying all these things. This isn’t some sort of humble brag. I just listened to the countless experts, historians, and others much smarter and more well informed than me.)
I feel like I got gaslit by the media and Republicans saying that everything was going to be ok. That it was business as usual despite the rhetoric and to hunker down for the eventual pendulum swing back to the left. “Maybe I am overreacting, there’s too many good people, systems, and checks that would stop the worst aspects from happening, surely…”
The best time to act was 4 (or even 8) years ago. The second best time is NOW. “It could never happen here” is so damn entrenched in the subconscious of our society people refuse to see the evidence in front of their eyes.