Andy Funk

No shit…

Acceptable Losses Whose deaths get to be deemed unacceptable in supremacist America, and whose are deemed necessary? And who does the deeming?

"To a supremacist society, most of us are acceptable losses. Charlie Kirk is not. To a supremacist society, guns are allowed to kill most of us, and the pundits can debate later how sad our deaths were.

But guns were not supposed to kill Charlie Kirk."

www.the-reframe.com/acceptable-l...

Im rewatching the first Captain America movie because dammit sometimes you need a story about heroes. In it, the scientist Erskine says, "So many people forget that the first country the Nazis invaded was their own."

I mean, dang. That's good writing in any case, but right now? It hits hard.

Some on the left pointed out the irony of a staunch defender of gun rights becoming a victim of gun violence.

Some on the right sought "to turn his murder into a justification for an all-out war, a Reichstag fire for our time."

So, you know, both sides.

Can you imagine if we had instead invested those funds in climate, health care, and education instead of lining the pockets of the military industrial complex?

Islamic terrorists still the OG at mass murder

That's a lawsuit

Simple Talk Want to move people? Focus on principles, not tactics. An essay about finding a real third way, using the simplest and most persuasive talk there is.

I wrote about the Third Way memo and its list of forbidden words. Comparing the alleged desire for simple persuasive talk and the way those who want it never seem to arrive at the simplest most persuasive "talk" there is: principled action.

www.the-reframe.com/simple-talk-2/

Print these words out, post them up where you and everyone else can see them, read them daily, and fight the good fight.

I read it. Can confirm the essay does not include the words white or supremacy.

I came here looking for the tequila tweet. Was not disappointed

I'd like to see a sketch of Republican politicians cracking each other up over the increasingly ridiculous bullshit they've claimed in public, and how their gullible voters keep eating it up.

Gorn Baby Gorn

Platner: No one cares that you pretend to be remorseful as you sell out to lobbyists. Symbolic opposition does not reopen hospitals. Weak condemnations do not bring back Roe V Wade. Maine deserves better than Susan Collins.

Your Ignorance Doesn't Make You An Expert Let's go chasing waterfalls.

I wrote about the humility of expertise and the arrogance of ignorance, the profound laziness that attends believing that you can find knowledge by ignoring the accumulation of inherited human knowledge, and the ways lazy arrogance fuels narratives of fascism. www.the-reframe.com/your-ignoran...

I think we have to start by acknowledging that it's at least 35-40% of America. The first step to recovery is admitting you have a problem.

I'm reluctant to cut anyone out of my life. But I won't hesitate to point out all the ways Republicans are embracing fascism. If any of my family and friends don't want to hear it, I figure they'll cut themselves off. Self-deport, if you will.

There Is No Trolley Problem We actually aren't constrained into atrocious premises by thought exercises. Obstacles are a reason to fight, not an excuse to quit. Our friends and neighbors aren't distractions..

Today I wrote about a general tendency to accept atrocious premises, and the need to reject fascism's false choices in order to find expansive and imaginative paths forward.

Breaking the premise, embracing the obstacles, pursing everything.

www.the-reframe.com/there-is-no-...

Ok but have you driven your car on it

holy shit this is a helluva ad from the Democrat running against Joni Ernst in Iowa. worth every second

Sixty percent of us can't be the boss. We'd have no employees.

We all have the right to our personal beliefs, provided we don't try to force them on others. But I am interested in the relationship between religion and conservative ideology. It seems to me they both involve holding some beliefs that aren't supported by evidence.

What Is Evil? Explaining away even the most horrific acts of violence by saying some people are just wicked is understandable—but it won’t help us build a safer society.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

OK Boomer

'Go jump in the Gulf of Maine': Maine denies DOJ's request for list of state voters Maine’s Secretary of State is fighting back against the federal government.

Trump's DOJ requested that Maine turn over its entire state voting roll, voting records, and verification procedures.

Here's how Secretary of State Shenna Bellows responded:

"Go jump in the Gulf of Maine."

Unironically this is my new motto.

"Even a shallowly ignorant earnest belief in progress and improvement will accomplish more than a lazy cynical belief that progress and improvement are unattainable."

It's important to note that people--a lot of people--were saying this at the time, and predicting exactly what is happening now, and were called anti-American lovers of terrorism for holding that position, mostly by people who are still given platforms today to tell us we're overreacting.