noraham.bsky.social
Professor, parent, partner, likes reading, cats and food
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Can't help but think of the long stretch along the Central Valley I-5, field after field covered in signs proudly stating you're in Trump country. Destroying California's agriculture sector to own the libs. Sigh.
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Reminding Californians that they are present here as an occupying force, not as fellow countrymen
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And this doesn't even include yesterday's political murders
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Yes
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"pro-life" party ➡️ death drive party
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Thank you, I never understood why a lie that implies gross incompetence is considered an acceptable response
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Ugh, this is why we can't have nice things like *checks notes* affordable healthcare
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Fair point, I put up with a lot less nonsense these days
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It's not good but it's very watchable trash if you're in the right mood
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Didn't SCOTUS just reward him for this?
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That was my guess
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Ghouls
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My sister and I just recently went through the family jewelry and found my parents' wedding rings and my grandma's ring.
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Yep, it's class warfare. I hate it here
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And yes, definitely need an intersectional lens to clearly see how much white Gen X culture has been steeped in racism, classism, misogyny and grievance.
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Plenty of cool Gen Xers were racist, sexist assholes too. Irony and nihilism read as edgy and cool but they are toxic to empathy.
All the same, some of the most lovely people I know, committed to communal support, are Gen X. Because they grew up seeing all that ugliness for what it was
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This is what Walter Benjamin means when he describes fascism as the astheticization of politics
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Nice! I'll try that out, thank you!
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Yes, but realized too late that I don't have a spray bottle for cooking so I just did it by hand. Whoops. Next loaf will be prettier
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Just out of the oven and it smells delicious. Will work on my knife skills not the next loaf 🍽️
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Doing okay so far. Dough is shaped and ready for its second rise
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All good, it's helpful to have folks share answers
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Yeah thanks, another poster explained it to me earlier. Our convo is in the thread
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Thanks
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Your vision is better than mine then as I only saw one badge in passing and didn't see ICE on it, whereas the vests are the main visual signifier. But I believe you. I also saw ERO on their vests but not sure what it means
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Their gear says Police, not ICE. Are the LAPD now arresting immigrants for ICE?
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With more context, maturity & empathy, most people I know saw through that framing and are better people than the culture we were raised in. But definitely know why Gen X is full of assholes
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Gen X here. My pet theory for the massive # of racist, bigoted Gen Xers is that 1) we were acculturated to feed on our grievances and resentments. 2) We grew up in a time when rape culture & violence against women was normalized. 3) POC were treated as violent threats. The open racism was ugly.
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This post is selling it. Just put the book on my tbr list
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Partly because MSM keeps signalling the lack of urgency or need to heed such warnings
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I can think of at least one other news anchor with a big enough trust fund to show some spine. And a bunch of others with the money to not need the networks. They aren't acting out of fear or cowardice. They see themselves as aligned with the forces running the country
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This is the wrong message at the wrong time. Folks are losing their civil rights at a rapid clip. It's those of us who are privileged (in this instance by being cis) who need to listen. Also this person is a terf, probably simplest to block and move on.
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Yes this is the part I don't get. How do these end time Christians convince themselves that the folks who actively work with the forces of evil to bring about war, death and destruction are the souls that will be saved?
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I am a proponent of nonviolence and yet I can't help but wonder why, in the wake of the right wing political assassinations in MN, the NYT decides to highlight a critique of the "violence" of the resistance, not Trump supporters
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Yup
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Either it's a fake or those aquarium workers can walk on water
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Whelp, that's depressingly accurate