The culture here makes it possible.
After Jan 6th I privately confronted Mace for lying about my story bc she too was terrified in her office.
I said as another assault survivor you know how harmful what you did is. Why? She said “whatever you know it’s a game, just points on the board”
Uhh no???
After Jan 6th I privately confronted Mace for lying about my story bc she too was terrified in her office.
I said as another assault survivor you know how harmful what you did is. Why? She said “whatever you know it’s a game, just points on the board”
Uhh no???
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Many who are deeply disconnected from the harm do view and talk about it privately as a kind of sport. It is gross 🤢
You have an incredibly comfortable position in your district and are unlikely to be ran out by AIPAC. So tell us why you still voted yes for H.Res 1449? 21 others were brave enough to vote no, but not you? Between this and you playing hardball for Biden... it's incredibly sad.
To them it's just a game,like a sports team rivalry.
Their games haven't effected *them* (so far! FO is coming for them) so it's just a lark, what's the big deal?
Board rooms and war rooms alike.
We don't need to go to the same level, but it feels like only recently that most Dem politicians acknowledged that the opposition isn't acting in good faith and hasn't for a while.
They could barely get their act together to elect a speaker
Look at how many Dems adopted right wing points already and will happily do so more.
But they aren’t.
Because they’re cowards.
They’d rather our nation collapse so they can say I told you so, than fight to keep it alive.
Cheating is a lifestyle for him.
But if politics is a game then Dems need to learn how to play.
Today, where are Dem leaders?
Where?
Where’s a recount? Trump has cheated at everything he’s even done. And Kamala’s not requesting a recount???
Y’all are just going to give Trump the presidency without a fight?
Educational & media failure
+ political failure
+ market failure
= eco-social crisis
https://kairos.social
Thanks, Alexandria
If it's sport to them, then let's bring some trash talk while beating them.
Perhaps there are an inordinate number attracted to the benefits of the right wing , pro Trump lifestyle.
Democrats play by the rules, while the GOP makes up its own rules.
The only way to win that game is to make up better rules.
@aoc.bsky.social - how are democrats are implementing these low level political countermeasures? Who care about individual representatives being dishonest.
We’re exhausted, demoralized, and a bit cynical. How to proceed?
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Not fake, but "staged." They're playing a role, getting their sound bites, landing their blows...and it's all about hype and fame.
Bad faith actors aren't tolerated, they're encouraged. It's gross.
Many acts of racial hatred, violence or exploitation are part of a revenge cycle (which provides some dubious justifications).
So, it is doubly despicable to fabricate racism based events, the source that starts off new cycles.
but a lot of people can't afford to do that
It didn’t have to be this way but it seems to be the way a lot of elected officials use division and anger to stay in power
https://petersironwood.com/2019/09/10/essays-on-america-the-game/
Cleese and Palin are sorta fighting for their lives because this is their movie and the church wanted to ban it.
After the debate....
Palin and Cleese realized...to those bishops, it was just showbiz. Just; come on, play your part, get a paycheck, have some fun. They didn't care about Life of Brian, didn't know anything about it.
They assume no one believes anything. It's just showbiz.
While people's lives literally hang in the balance
The government is a great and terrible machine, and it's inputs can be hard work, blood, sweat, maliciousness and greed, and it's outputs can be great joy and great suffering. The U.S. especially.
It cannot be a game.
He had a six figure salary, a three bedroom home, three kids that all went off to college successfully, went on vacations.
He said he liked Trump's ideas and his brother stopped talking to him.
I think about that guy a lot. So materially adrift as others are confronted with the material realities that his and the Republicans' actions will cause.
They do not contemplate their policies will kill people.
Elected Democrats have no idea how much Democratic voters want their own version of a fighter like Trump
There's a huge disconnect in the anger of Dem voters and liberal media and elected officials
Massive opportunity
Dem voters too are tiring of realpolitik and polished boring sounding candidates that say safe things all the time and sound like a bad rehearsed parody of a politician
They want someone talking off the cuff, saying-
The right refers to the "evil left" all the time yet there is no elected Democrat who consistently attacks the right VOTERS, they all talk about "Republicans", vaguely and in soft terms referring to elected officials only
I wish I could say I’m surprised at that cavalier attitude, but I’m not.
I’m grateful there seem to be some legislators who see the humans, not a game board.
It only appeals to those who have accepted authoritarianism. The rest of us don't want to play. We know that there are alternatives.
Take care!
It sickens me.
But distressingly, they often also seem to be the most successful at it. I don't know what to do about that.
:(
Keep dripping the inside scoop on things like this!
I guess that didn’t last long.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/new-research-reveals-how-the-nazis-targeted-transgender-people-180982931/
We need much better designed incentive structures for Congress in general to avoid all of this, I think.
Otherwise know as our new governments Modus operandi
Adapt or Die Liberals!!
This is Not A Drill
Deportation Day is in 47 Days
Disgust is an apt description for my reaction to it.
Don't.
Care.
Reversing centuries of Enlightenment: They. Don't. Care.
Plunging the entire planet into a climate change hellscape for 10k+ years: They. Don't. Care.
https://bsky.app/profile/bessbell.bsky.social/post/3lbgjyjbhr62i
I’m glad you are not like that.
Values, morals, integrity matter.
They don't matter. Winning is EVERYTHING. Casualties are just losers.
The cognitive dissonance would exhaust the average person. It has to be their superpower.
We do not.
Educational & media failure
+ political failure
+ market failure
= eco-social crisis
It’s a game to them. It’s not real. They go home to their privileged lives and will be back on set tomorrow morning.
There was a time in this country when education, intelligence, wit, truth, & defending the principles of Democracy in offices and on the street were a badge of honor.
Thoughts, @pwnallthethings.bsky.social?
and fuck the 110 million+ americans who didn't even get off they sorry asses and vote.
https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/video/full-mace-interview-trump-put-all-of-our-lives-at-risk-99597381587
the King Clown
And by that I mean go full Karen: call her a man, demand to see its genitals.
#CrueltyIsThePoint
and gleefully weaponizes that talking point to shut down constructive conversations
We ask that you GOVERN and WORK, Nancy. Not perform political theater.
It is so destructive and inhumane to view leading a country with 3 million people as a *game*.
It's absurd. People like that shouldn't have power over others.
Grifter's gonna grift.
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:oevwabzy3hoiqzqngwo3wspb/lists/3lbe6jm745p2y
Trans people aren’t playing any game, being a victim isn’t fun.
My mother used to tell me that if one person is laughing and the other crying, saying “we were just having fun” makes them a bully.
Such a craven and cynical attention seeker, gaming a cause ginned up for clickbait.
'Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell of California likened several outspoken GOP lawmakers ...to professional wrestlers, saying they were simply putting on an act on social media and television.'
https://www.yahoo.com/news/rep-eric-swalwell-says-cruz-075446841.html
Can of Mace.