Clara Listensprechen @ClaraListensprechen4@qoto.org

The founding proponents of modern American conservatism started to advance their views as early as 1951, when William Buckley wrote God and Man at Yale. If you are not familiar with this book, you can get an idea of it from this highly critical contemporaneous review. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1951/11/the-attack-on-yale/306724/ 5/

Modern American conservatives believe in inherent authority of the church, the patriarchal Christian family, and an unfettered market. The view also rests on a belief about the incompetence of government. Government is too removed, too big, too clumsy for tasks other than minimal order-keeping. When government does properly maintain order and stability, individuals and nongovernmental organizations can attend to all the other tasks government might attempt but is likely to botch. 4/

Modern American conservatism approves only a very small range for government action. Government may act to maintain order, stability, and certain kinds of hierarchy, and only it if does not encroach upon the prerogatives of appropriate churches (white evangelical Christian ones and those with comparable tenets and practices), acceptable families (heterosexual, two-parent, patriarchal), and the free market (capitalist). 3/

Modern American conservatism fuses ideas from libertarianism, Chicago-School free-market economics, and white Christian evangelicalism, with the goal of reversing the New Deal and the post-World-War-II civil rights movement. 2/

There is total continuity from the early 1970s dawn of so-called “modern American conservativism” and today’s Republican crime syndicate.

With the Heritage Foundation back in the news because of this, ‘lawandcrime.com/high-profile/p… I thought it might be helpful to put the organization in context. 1/

Normally, the UK has no Fourth of July. This year is very much an exception. The usual disclaimers do not apply.

🔔#Earthquake (#sismo) M2.2 strikes 17 mi E of #Reno (#Nevada) 3 min ago. More info: https://m.emsc.eu/?id=1679139

Keep calm everyone

Today's the day

#UKPol

Internet speed record 402M Mbps achieved using standard optic fibre cable
L: https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/internet-speed-record-of-420000000-mbps-achieved-using-standard-optic-fibre-cabling-fast-enough-to-download-baldurs-gate-3-in-less-than-four-milliseconds/
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40870612
posted on 2024.07.03 at 18:30:40 (c=0, p=4)

Politics is like climate change; most people will agree that things need to change, but not at the expense of reliable, predictable personal privilege. Anything but inconvenience.

SpaceX Tender Offer Said to Value Company at Record $210B
L: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-06-27/spacex-tender-offer-said-to-value-company-at-record-210-billion
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40806980
posted on 2024.06.26 at 23:46:47 (c=0, p=6)

(1) Bolivia attempted coup fails as military flees, leading general arrested • FRANCE 24 English – YouTube

http://nedhamsonsecondlineviewofthenews.com/2024/06/26/1-bolivia-attempted-coup-fails-as-military-flees-leading-general-arrested-france-24-english-youtube/

While on our walk today, just up behind our place.
#canada #BC

new pandas just dropped https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/pandas-arriving-san-diego-china-rcna158541

You know what would fix this? Single-payer #healthcare, an option which #Biden and the #Democrats have rejected on behalf of their corporate donors and their special interest lobbyist chums.

“So now, [United Healthcare] is just blatantly breaking the law by denying a hip replacement as a ‘pre-existing condition.’

He was never seen for his hip prior to seeing me and never diagnosed with arthritis so they just lied.

Appeal filed and also denied.

This has to stop”

https://x.com/generalorthomd/status/1806028135160561756?s=46&t=521hINbbUzSBIUxrCF_rbg

Checked some of my plants early this evening, and I was pleased to see four or five Morning Glories are now climbing. But the flowering vine that’s really surprising is this Tangerine-A-Peel. It’s trying to strangle a neighboring Abutilon as it wraps itself around every balcony post in reach. But the #flowers are beautiful!

#Gardening #ContainerGarden

Just got back from a business trip where 25 people were inside a big conference room for two days. One person was coughing, and I was the only person who masked. But maybe not fast enough (I foolishly thought that someone with obvious symptoms would stay home). Now I quarantine from my family to see if I pay the price for my own stupidity.

Stacked Macro Meadow Sage

Images stacked using the WeMacro Focus Rail and Zerene Stacker in Linux.

📷 Canon R10 Mirrorless - Tokina AT-X Pro 100mm Macro Lens - ISO:200 - Aperture: f/11 - Shutter Speed:0.3sec

#Photo #photography #Macro #FocusStacked #WeMacro #FocusRail #Flower #Sage #MILC #Mirrorless #CanonR10 #TokinaMacro #ZereneStacker #GiMP