If you want to know why I hold the New York Times in almost pure contempt at this point, look at this headline praising the entertainment value in Trump's performance -- a speech that contained almost nothing but lies, vile provocations, and worse.
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@dangillmor MmmHmm. All bark & no bite accomplishes what exactly? They don't & won't care until you make them care. You're just one of the rando inconsequential 'little people' bitching up a storm yet still doing nothing, just like they expected you and everyone like you to. Much as you may […]
@Beggarmidas @dangillmor personally i think bearing witness is as important. the pain in this case will be from boycotting, divesting, protesting, and showing up at elections to vote the spineless out. and we'll do better at all of that if we have folks spreading the word about _why_ it needs […]
@fixiemama @dangillmor seeing patterns they're looking for. Stupid people present smart people all the mirror they need to outsmart themselves. Meanwhile the brutes just full steam ahead for the prize. Everywhere else on this planet folks know how & where to fight back, because it's just […]
@fixiemama @dangillmor One of the key problems here is a fundamental misdiagnosis of events by the American General public. Most don't have any more direct experience with this sort of thing except in the most vague way possible seeing it on the evening news happening 10K miles away somewhere […]
@fixiemama @dangillmor Not trying to be an asshole. I appreciate your position but we're in a race for time & I don't have the spoons or the skillset to handhold everyone past the proper framing finish line. My skillbase is deeply grounded in the physical world. My writing skills mostly […]
@fixiemama @dangillmor That may have been true during the civil rights movement. But it doesn't even register as a noticeable inconvenience in the middle of a coup. Y'all are using the wrong playbook to respond to the game in progress.
@Beggarmidas i'm just using a 'yes, and' framework instead of a divisive, 'not that this' one. What action are you planning? I'm hopeful about making it to DC for protests next weekend. Long-term I'm going into nursing instead of a different career change, so I can be a source of healthcare in […]
@fixiemama Typically coup ringleaders know there is no going back. They know they'll face prison or execution, best case. SO they tend to hold out until the very bitter end. Use every dirty trick in the book & every one the inner circle can dream up. As one gets closer they also tend to get […]
@fixiemama I'm preparing for stronger measures. Much stronger. In my experience the only real ways to regime shift a coup in the process of permanizing it's authority is by force or if the vast majority of the entire country essentially shutting itself down for an extended time. And I do mean […]
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I can't read the NY Times any more either, Dan.
The sound of all the ass-kissing is too distracting.
If it were me I'd be checking out news sources from other English speaking countries too 🫣
Especially now with all the manipulation
Total contempt