John Brown didn’t get to kill enough slavers, that’s why we’re all here. We gave the racists a little rope, and now they’re trying to hang us with it. Been that way ever since Reconstruction ended.
Opposition to racism must be enduring. It must be absolute. It can brook no compromise, because compromise is tacit agreement to the validity (however small or marginal) of the opposition’s point, and racism is based on an absurdity. And when a society starts validating absurdities… well, look at Trump.
and the fact the confederacy was allowed to “live in on” in memory as heritage, and allowed statues honouring traitors to the United States
If you allow confederate statues to honour enemies of the country, why are there no statues honouring the british red coats from the war of independence? Where are the statues honouring soviet spies executed for espionage?
Constructed largely after the cowards were all dead, in the civil rights era. And yet some people still insist that it’s ‘history’ to leave them standing instead of a blatant attempt to cement the United States as a ‘White Man’s’ polity.
Fuck them.
If you allow confederate statues to honour enemies of the country, why are there no statues honouring the british red coats from the war of independence? Where are the statues honouring soviet spies executed for espionage?
Let’s make some 9/11 memorials to commemorate those brave hijackers too.
It’s fucking absurd, and while I know HOW it got started, I don’t know how it got started. You know what I mean? Like, I understand the conditions that led to the rise of Lost Causer nonsense, but I just can’t wrap my fucking head around the idea that everyone just fucking normalized it. Like, even if you are a racist (as most 19th century Americans were to at least some degree), what the fuck kind of lunatic country commemorates the ‘heroism’ of literal traitors and secessionists who killed hundreds of thousands of our countrymen?
He keeps on repeating the lie that the election was stolen without any consequences at all. Fox lies to their viewers every night without any consequences at all.
When will we stop letting these fascist assholes lie to Americans and brainwash them into thinking the lies are true? It’s obviously damaging to America and they’re just allowed to fucking damage America without anyone stopping them or them receiving any consequences. It’s fucking ridiculous. It needs to stop otherwise America will never recover from the fascist bullshit.
When we reform campaign finance laws so that corporate media can no longer buy policy positions, things can change. Until then it’s not happening, because this exact thing resulted in the repeal of the Fairness Doctrine during Reagan’s presidency in 1987.
so many of these behaviors are in so many animals but we can't say with any degree of confidence till a study is done. I have seen squirrels strategize.
In 2024, white people account for about 58 percent of the U.S. population.
Especially now that you can “become black.”
That said, I wonder if someone like Obama is counted in the “white people” part of that statistic. He should. He’s as white as he is black, just like Kamala Harris is as Indian as she is black.
It’s only in the past few years that “two or more” races became an option on most demographic forms. Even into the early 2000s most demographic forms only let you pick one category so you had to make a choice. The 2024 number may more accurately account for mixed race people but there is no way that 80s number does at all.
Source: was a confused mixed child asking adults which I should pick on official forms and just got shoulder shrugs and hand waving from them.
Three other day, I was reading through the parts of Mississippi constitution which regard marriages and got to the section about race-mixing. It was really disturbing to see some of those incredibly offensive terms merely crossed out from such a legally influential document.
Also, I learned that you have to accept the existence of “a supreme being” to hold any office in Mississippi. Less fucked up, but still fucked up.
I grew up in the south. Mississippi was too much even for a lot of us more country folk. My apologies to any decent people in Ms for getting lumped in with the rest of the terrible folks in that state….
Oof. I’m from Texas and had a friend in highschool who grew up in Mississippi. One day while discussing dominant and recessive traits in biology, she noted that she was born left-handed, but the teachers at her public school beat it out of her and got her to use her right hand. Anytime she’d use her left hand they’d
smack her hand with a ruler
because
"that’s THE DEVIL’S hand!"
Fucking beating kids in public school over superstitions! How we haven’t nuked Mississippi yet is beyond me. Fuck it, nuke everything from Texas to Florida up to South Carolina. I haven’t lived a perfect life, I’m sure I deserve a face-full of nuke, too.
If you haven’t seen bittersoutherner.com I highly recommend it. A great publication that’s doing good work trying to counteract all the shit happening down there. A lot of stuff I love about the south but unfortunately even more that I’m ashamed of about it.
I don’t doubt it, but based on Trump’s reasoning, Kamala Harris has an Indian mother, so she’s Indian. Therefore Barack Obama has a white mother, so he’s white.
Which is why I’m going to keep telling that to Republicans.
Your worry about posters here “unfairly” blaming Israel - whose government can’t stop genociding men, women and children of another ethnicity at the same time as claiming they represent all Jews and call those that criticize that government and that genocide anti-semites - for the increase of acts of anti-semitism justified by said genocide, is purelly the result of you being a pure, loving soul that can’t but empathise with the suffering of the poor Genocidal ethno-Fascists.
I mean, what pure soul out there wouldn’t feel pain when people are “unfairly” blaming genocidal ethno-Fascists who claim to represent an entire ethnicity and accuse those critical of them of being against that ethnicity, for an increase in actions against that ethnicity justified by the genocide being commited by those ethno-Fascists: there is clearly no relation at all between ethno-Fascists doing horrible deeds claiming it’s for an entire ethnicity and there being people who believe that ethnicity is responsible for those crimes.
And don’t get me started on how your choice of “whatabout” targets just happen to be Islamic nations and Islam, THE favorite choice of pro-Zionism racists, and not even being an equivalent “whatabout” since none of those nation went around committing genocide whilst claiming to represent Islam and accusing critics of being Islamophobic.
Clearly you’re just one big misunderstood impeccably fair softy and all the coincidences in the kind, form, quality and target of that argument of yours with the style used by pro-Zionist racists is just an amazing coincidence.
There are two reasons for something being said by multiple people:
It’s just people following people, and repeating what others said, which indeed is a trend.
It’s multiple people independently deriving the same conclusions from the facts on the ground.
If somebody is shot on the street in front of a crowd and dies, and 10 passerbys who saw it are interviewed and all say that “a person was murdered”, it’s not a trend, it’s them deriving the same conclusion from having observed what happenned.
Similary the people here having read again and again, from the government of Israel and Western “leaders” such as Sholz and Biden calling Israel “the Jewish Nation” and even accusing those critical of Israel and its actions of being anti-semite (i.e. of being “against Jews”, not of being against Israel) and then seeing news of somebody attacking a Jew whilst loudly criticising Israel, multiple people are all concluding from that base data that all those claims of Israel representing Jews are why some people really do believe Israel represents Jews, is simple logic: cause and consequence rather than a social mechanism like a “trend”.
It’s so simple logic, that confusing it with a meme is strange.
Beyond that, the tendency for people to actually go to the trouble of sharing with others that conclusion here now is probably driven by their outrage at the actions of Israel in recent times - very few people were pointing out the logic conclusion that “Israel claiming to represent Jews will lead others to actually believe it and hence blame Jews for any bad actions of Israel” back when the Israeli Genocide was slow burning and they weren’t murdering thousands of chidren a month.
NIAAS, National Incorporation As A Service, fee is the difference between highest paid employee and lowest each year. What they receive, not what some outsourcer charges for a limpeza.
Alternative is full incorporation required in each state operated in.
While corporations are at the heart of this, conservatives are to blame. Conservatives made this possible and are genuinely delighted by it.
Conservatism is the single most deadly threat humanity faces today. It is a hate-based ideology opposed to science, health and basic human decency. There is absolutely no place for conservatism in a modern civilization.
The best part is that it’s not even as easy to say “opposed to science”. They love that shit if it gives them power. All conservatism is, or has ever been, is an ideology to give to the stupid in order for those in power to maintain their grip on it. Any common themes over the years and in different cultures are just so because that’s the meta.
Price fixing is temporary, and doomed to fail in the long term. Nixon tried it with an Executive Order and it was a disaster. It caused supply chain constraints and prices shot well past inflation when the Order expired.
Congressional legislation setting grocery store presentation limits would increase brand variety, foster competitive pricing, and put an end to the corporate control over pricing.
Limiting the number of products and facings in a store by percent of available retail space.
Limiting the number of products alone doesn’t suffice, because larger companies will pay retailers to increase the number of facings of a product to keep out competition in that product space.
They wanted to cause enough controversy so that Mike Pence could not certify the results and they could point to the few states they attempted this scheme in. This Arizona part of the scheme is step 1.
So basically…
Find a few States to make up “voter fraud” in, and flood the courts with made-up voter fraud challenges.
Mike Pence says, well because of all these issues there is clearly potential fraud so I won’t certify the election results.
Trump remains president and then takes the next steps to ensure he remains president and dictator .
The whole plan was a complete success except step 2, Mike Pence didn’t go along with the plan, so that’s when Trump ordered his supporters to attack the capital on Jan.6 to prevent the certification that way, which also failed.
I really don’t like Mike Pence but he single handedly saved America that day.
He saved it that day only for trump to continue to get away with multiple crimes that should see him locked away in prison forever. And then continue on to try and steal the election again in 2024 while constantly telling his followers that Democrats are the ones that are cheats who are stealing elections without any fucking irony whatsoever. And his dumbass followers are too far gone to even try to figure out the truth so we’ll be seeing an even bigger effort from them to steal the election yet again.
It’s just completely fucking stupid that people are being charged and locked up for crimes they committed at the command of a massive piece of shit and yet that massive piece of shit is somehow not responsible for the crimes he commanded others to do.
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