acabchick.bsky.social
Atheist. Humanist. Debs Socialist. Boomer Chick.
Third-Party Voter (Ex-Democrat). And 👇👇👇👇
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I 💚 The Onion & Babylon Bee.
And their wry sense of humor.
Thanks for sharing this, Leigh.
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I'm with you.
But politically. Doesn't Mayor Bass want to win reelection?
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Arguably, this century, the Democrats have invested far more $ and power expansion in the police state than the GOP. The GOP is happy to use it but this is what we get when we have two right wing parties controlling our country.
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Is there some kind of rationale for this?
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@mrthagoo.bsky.social this is what LA’s mayor is sending LAPD to do, at this very moment, she wants them to be doing all this stuff
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Dali Lama. #sowwhatyoureap
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I hope you're wrong (in that I hope isn'treal crumbles faster than 10 years)
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No, but a socialist Labour party would only have come about via the sort of social movement you are talking about.
As I say, momentum could have been that for Corbyn and could easily have swept the Labour right aside if it had been ready to.
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Absolutely agree. But Labour is a deadend for that too.
Momentum could have been that but they bottled it. The Green Party has roots in all sorts of movements beyond electioneering and people like Greens organise are working to push that further.
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I'd argue that in our lifetime socialists have never been dominant in Labour, and if they had, it would have been brilliant and exactly what we needed.
But socialism is now shunned by the Labour party, so let's build that other coalition of (left wing) liberals and socialists: the Green Party.
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At the former, many of our customers were undocumented folk, good, honest and lovely people. The latter was a cesspool of elitist, racist, and exasperatingly dumb people.
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The account is gone.
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I had the same argument with the guy at our local blood bank - apparently if they require masks, they’ll lose their current donors, except they keep begging us to donate blood, so the current donor pool doesn’t seem to be working 🤷🏼♀️
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“We could, but our customers would be upset, and we prefer keeping them happy to keeping them alive and healthy enough to keep making the money they spend at our business.”
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Vanity will kill us all. Making protects us.
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(And if you won't enforce masking, I want my emotional support Canada goose, which will damn sure enforce social distancing on my behalf.)
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Conflicting access needs absolutely exist. I am just asking that my access need to not catch a disease that causes brain damage in 100% of cases be respected. Occasionally. You know.
As a treat.
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I have three close friends who, for various medical reasons, cannot mask, and they get trotted out every time I ask for public masking at private events. But there is nothing else where that small a group wins out over the majority in all cases.
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If you can require me to wear shoes and forbid me to bring a live Canada goose to every signing, you can require people wear masks. And yes, some people have valid reasons not to wear masks, and I know we can't accommodate everyone all the time. But why do my accommodations never matter?
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What, do you not like that wording because it makes you sound like an ableist asshole? Well, so does "we can't enforce masks during this author event, even at the author's request." My way is just honest about it.
I am so tired of plausible deniability.
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Like, just be honest with me. Look me in the immunocompromised eye and say "I could take a small measure to help keep you safe from a disabling oncogenic disease, one that's been proven to reduce transmission, but I don't WANT to."