laurenbrns.bsky.social
Anti-fascist all day long.
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Not meaning to sound defeatist.
Meaning rather that people cannot, by any stretch, assume the Party has things under control or has some big trap waiting to be sprung.
I realize now they most likely they have no plan at all.
Yes, they must be primaried en masse.
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They've betrayed the American people to the same degree that the white house had betrayed the Ukrainians.
And to the same effect: leaving a vulnerable people who depended upon and believed in them alone against a fascist juggernaut.
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They aren't going to do a damned thing; they're off somewhere curled up in a fetal position.
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Your turn, reputable American journalists!
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They are working with remarkable speed (like real fascists do).
The time to act is now, before they manage to completely destroy our institutions and corrupt our society.
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Four years time is unlikely to solve the problem, either. The odds are high that Trump intends on being President for life.
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The situation here is quite dire, but few can see it for what it is.
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For myself, I respond "you're damned right, I have a sense of entitlement to social security; I paid for it for thirty years. How dare you suggest I'm not entitled to it!"
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I don't think this is a matter of intentional engineering of language, but the folks who want to cut entitlements are aware of how the word benefits them because of the negative connotation.
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People who *have not* earned something and yet act as if it is there due, are derisively said to have a "sense of entitlement."
This use and the legal meaning have become oddly commingled when people discuss America's "entitlement programs."
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They are, in fact, entitlements in the sense that when we buy a car, we are given the "title" to the car and are "entitled" to put it to whatever legal use we desire.
There is an trick of language that has been played with the word entitlement in America that makes the use of the term confusing.
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Partially. I have very little contact with the very poor. I donate to a couple local food banks, but that's not a sufficient substitute for the type of community and society building that Mr. Vexler is referring to.
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As I said before, I'm happy for any net reduction in human human suffering. Any such reduction that endures, anyway.
The entire world is about to pay dearly for Bill Clinton's failure to remember who the Democratic Party represented.
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It's sarcastic. A joke from the old Seinfeld series...
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Good one.
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Such an important thing, that our now hyper-atomized societies have lost.
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She was sent by the Democrats to represent them her response was "both sides..."
This party is deeply inept. There is no hope that whoever is calling the shots over there is going to save America.
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Lovely to hear this idea advanced again. This is an idea that would have helped prevent so much financial waste.
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How blithely you seem to accept "many more deaths." Perhaps even more so than the loss of the livelihoods of the workers you gladly trade for poor Chinese without political rights.
The United States military is vastly more deadly than the Russian or Israeli militaries.
Many more deaths indeed...
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Except it's not the Empire that's fading, it's the Republic.
The Empire is just getting started and it is a fascist empire, with the most highly trained, best equipped, most deadly military the world has ever known.
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It is certainly true that reducing human suffering anywhere is a straight up good. It really is.
But, given that we are now seeing that the unintended consequence may amount to a vast increase in human suffering worldwide, wrought by a fascist America, it may be time to adjust the scoring.
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Ah, person who doesn't feel the pain of the offshoring of American industries comforts himself with a great leap forward for Chinese workers.
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This is after the fact behavior. The policy decisions were already implemented before it was possible for them to "choose."
Their politicians, the people charged with protecting their interests, chose for them, emboldened by neo-liberal incantations and producer campaign donations.
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Where is this full interview?