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That Dem consultants told Gov. Walz to stop calling them “weird” still has me miffed.

If you want to beat them, figure out how to organize a bloc of economic actors whose material interests are served by the transition. Organize a bloc with *more power* and then *defeat* them. That's how this works. You're not going to fucking seduce them with your clever verbiage!

They are not going to be fooled into forgetting about those interests by the right combination of words! There is no magical messaging or phrasing, no "framing," that is going to distract them from their material interests! They are not open to persuasion on this matter!

I don't want to do a whole long rant on this, so I'll just say: the reason fossil fuels & other aligned incumbents don't want to transition to clean energy is that it will *damage their material interests*. And folks, they understand their own material interests. Really well!

Not just that people focus on this, but they focus on it to the exclusion of almost everything else! Like the amount of f'ing language analysis from the left & academia *dwarfs* the amount of, say, *power* analysis. Y'know ... power? Anyone? Power?

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Mainstream America: We are obsessed with Heated Rivalry and Drag Race. We love them and can't get enough.
American Democrat politicians: LGBT people are not culturally normal. We will not speak of them.

Having a Middle East war global recession while also having a capricious tariff global recession while also having an AI bubble global recession is not going to be a good time.

Part of Trump’s mass appeal (and of why he’s so dangerous) is that he really seems to share Joe Barstool’s worldview that there are no complex problems: Everything has a simple brute solution, which previous leaders were somehow too stupid or weak to deploy.

Still crazy that the president’s lawyer spent two days with Ghislaine Maxwell, she “cleared” him of wrongdoing and was almost immediately transferred to a more pleasant prison and nobody in the administration will explain it and the media acts like two large dots are just impossible to connect.

Folks need to stop using "Department of War". It should neither be validated nor normalized.

The people leading the U.S. war on Iran are a former “Fox & Friends” guest and a former “Fox & Friends” host.

As an ex-vangelical, I remember purity culture in Texas and "purity ball" ceremonies in which young girls basically pledged that their fathers (or older adult men in the family) would safeguard their virginity.

Basically, girls would ceremonially marry their dads. And all because of sex.

FFS, to NOT be that kind of bsky person. Anyway, have a lovely night!

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Not gold standard sources, but they jibe with my sense from my previous life as a chemical engineer.

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This is an irresponsible, misleading post that misrepresents what Leavitt said. There's enough awful stuff happening. Don't confuse people.

"Just after starting on Cars 2, I was told by a superior that I would be uninvited from all weekly art department meetings because Lasseter 'has a hard time controlling himself' around young women... It was clear that the institution was working hard to protect him, at the expense of women like me."

At the funeral of Rev. Jesse Jackson. Rep. Jones and I walk in his footsteps. Our story isn’t possible without the work, advocacy, Organizing, and struggle of Rev. Jackson. Rest in power.

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Once you recognize the New York Times special “exculpatory tense” for right wingers you see it CONSTANTLY

Chef’s kiss: “We must all be willing to endure some short term pain so our dumbass president can implement the policies that will ensure long term pain.”

"Working class" has been a very vague term for a very long time, but we've hit a stage where it's a self-chosen label for any white man who is openly racist and/or has a beard and some muscles, which is inevitably going to lead people to some completely stupid conclusions.

Like clockwork.

"Oh my goodness, you expect Congress to do its job? Heaven forfend."

15 years ago if you complained about how the extraction class wanted to buy up the entirety of media and befuddle the electorate with right wing agitprop you'd be tsk-tsked by professional tutscolds who treated you like a toddler who just took a dookie on the wedding dance floor

Music and politics expert here. There is no music that is free from politics, because music is a human construct and whether or not we like to admit it, humans are all affected intimately by politics. Even music without words can express political ideas. You’re just noticing it for the first time.

They are always some kind of scam, but even if it seems to superficially work... Remember...

There's people inside it.

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One of the first things I learned as a professor is that accommodations don’t make the class/assessment easier — they just make it inclusive. Doing a moral panic on accommodations is just gross and ableist.

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This is weirdly consistent for The Atlantic! Jesse Singal's 2018 article about kids being rushed into transition starts with an anecdote about someone *not* being rushed into transition. Literally nothing happened!

There is no other issue in prestige media that has editorial standards this low.