@baseballmad
white, southern, slaveowner descendant and "race traitor." Dr. King is undefeated and his dream is alive and well, and our eyes will see the glory of the coming of the Lord, no matter what these stupid fascists try to tell us.
"things specifically associated with women strike everyone as lesser-than in their subconscious, including me, a woman"
welcome to your first day of class on third-wave feminism, MAGA women 🫡 (sincere and laudatory!!!)
we always say that we have to fight to preserve women's/gender/feminism studies to fully protect and expand women's rights, and yeah, that's correct, we do.
but I have to say, the modern right wing also runs an absolutely top-notch school of hard knocks on the topic. PhD level stuff.
every few years one of these pieces comes out about the women of the right wing and their paths to disillusionment, and I'd just like to say to the publishers, as one of those woke, women's studies feminist warrior types:
I will always read every last one of them. please keep publishing them, lmao
you wanted to rebel so you got a maga hat? when you could have pierced your belly button with a safety pin instead?
This, to me, is the root of it: the left is always going to be more stuffy, constrained and dogmatic because *the left believes that oppression exists and matters.* This is a turnoff to a certain sort of person who does not wish to believe this. But reality wins eventually.
TL;DR: it'll still be a total shitshow, but we get out of this and into the next administration without a substantive international or domestic gun war, IMO.
the bar is in hell but we're gonna clear it lol
you can also view it through the lens of the world wars resulting from the dying European empires jockeying for position atop the emerging global ~free-trade order
the US won that by default after WW2, and even w/all the chatter of us losing our hegemon status b/c of Trump, I don't buy it (yet)
the obvious difference between then and now being that - with the exception of a certain proportion of mouth-breathers that have always been around - the developed world is now more or less on the same page about liberal democracy cool and good as a general governing system
well, if it helps, the world wars IMO were more about Europe (and Japan) just having a reeeeeal tough time transitioning away from empire and into modern liberal democracy. which is what you were alluding to, about the working class desiring a big ol realignment
relative lack of finreg was part of what shortened the realignment period then compared to now IMO. more financial panics/economic crises = more voters big mad enough to change their habits
the text of part of Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment to the US Constitution: No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
and yes I do mean 14th here, not (just) 4th. check out that last little bit after the semicolon
these guys really just hate the entire 14th Amendment, huh
This is a thing that is within their control and they absolutely should make their negotiating position
one upside of all of this is the revelation that the swinging dick bankers and big rah rah capital execs and billionaires are actually meek little scared dogs and president AOC or whoever (god willing) should walk them on a leash and make them drink out of a bowl
what always gets me about this is that companies that make a bit of a show of being "inclusive" get a dedicated customer base who will eagerly hand them money—and whether that pandering is good or bad is up to you—but there doesn't seem to be an upside to the alternative
it's an unwritten rule in sports to not do anything a dead guy has done. out of respect. it's why I don't play baseball
dawg,
look I have to hand it to him: Jesus was in fact unvaccinated. that one is true.
“The indispensability of a liberal education is the freedom from being tied to the zeitgeist of one’s age or situation to love what is true, good, and beautiful, and to be initiated into the world while cultivating a love for it.” www.liberalcurrents.com/upholding-li...
The idea that America isn’t for everyone who wants to be an American is something that makes my blood boil. Posting a photo of yourself as a Congressman smiling next to these words is wicked. It’s antithetical to the concept of America.
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baseball btw
baseball has more single game variance than every other major sport and that’s what makes it great
the worst professional baseball team can beat the best on any given night in any season you care to name, the most random journeyman can have the night of their life
truly, anything is possible
as a Braves fan: we really dodged a bullet with this one huh
"freedom isn't free" is going to give me brain damage (along with everyone else old enough to remember 9/11)
Jim Cramer suggests on CNBC that Trump could “bomb Tehran into the Stone Age” until Iran reopens the strait, citing U.S. bombings of North Vietnam in the 1970s. Carl Quintanilla points out to him that Hanoi won that war.
oh and Smoot-Hawley of course. forgot that was him too
Hoover refusing to budge from volunteerism in favor of the welfare state, maybe? not really a fair comparison though
No win scenario
All the planning involved some combination of "those assholes fired first" and "The World Has Decided It Is Time To End The Iranian Threat," both involve a level of ally+partner integration that is absolutely not the case here
There was literally no plan for "YOLO Iran war w/Bibi"
this conflict is stupid, wrong, and infuriating
