Eric J. Korpela @SETIEric@qoto.org

Eh, @JoshuaACasey, I attack your position, you attack me personally, then run. You may be a victim of the last 20 years of discourse decay, but you're also a perpetrator of the kind of cowardly absolutism that endangers our democracy.

Sad to see this kind of poison here.

@marcelias

#Doonesbury: “If people want to die for their politics, who am I to stop them?” #COVID #comics

See entire strip here:
https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/2023/11/26

Republicans tried to repeal Obamacare 73 times

When Trump is in office they had all three branches of government and couldn’t pass any replacement let alone any other positive legislation

Trump downplaying Covid cost an additional 40% in casualties

This, while 80% of Obamacare enrollees live in states that voted for Trump

…while they paid higher premiums since their states rejected subsidies

Republicans never miss an opportunity to shoot themselves, and you, in the foot

what the fuck,

Here’s my report at Law Dork: https://www.lawdork.com/p/georgia-utility-commission-voting-rights-act

How Can Democracy Possibly Work Under Such Conditions?
 
Pervasive pessimism and nostalgia, waning support for a racial reckoning, anti-feminist retrenchment, and so many conspiracies…
 
New piece: https://thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/how-can-democracy-possibly-work-under

“The first thing I would say is that we’ve now lived in the deregulated system for 40 years. What we ended up with was a system that failed to achieve the things that the deregulators said it would. We now have a system that is less competitive than it was even during regulation. The top four airlines collectively have a larger market share now than the top four airlines did in 1977. This system of markets and competition has led to massive consolidation and concentration”https://hls.harvard.edu/today/airline-deregulation-may-be-why-flying-is-such-a-miserable-part-of-holiday-travel/

White suburbanites: WhY dOn'T tHeM pOoRs JuSt PuLl ThEsSeLvEs Up By ThE bOoTsTrApS?

The longer it takes the courts to hold Trump accountable for inciting violence against court staff and refusing to respond to a gag order, the more damage it does to the justice system and undermine the public’s belief in justice and the rule of law.

Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow, on the obligaqtion of people of conscience to speak now:

"We must speak when Jewish children are brutally killed in the name of liberation, when antisemitism and Islamophobia slip in through the back door of supposedly progressive spaces. When Palestinian children in refugee camps are bombed and killed, when schools and hospitals and entire neighborhoods are laid waste, we must speak."

#Israel #Palestinians

https://www.democracynow.org/2023/11/24/the_mandates_of_conscience_michelle_alexander

#fediverse #mastodon #bluesky #bsky

#BanalityOfEvil [repost] “A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: A Palestine Story”

About the Palestinian children Israel sent to jail. An edited extract from “A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: A Palestine Story”, which was recently published by Allen Lane.

“In her work as a doctor with #UNRWA, the UN relief and works agency for Palestinian refugees, Huda saw things that made her afraid for her sons. She had witnessed a soldier shoot a boy who threw a stone at a tank. The soldiers stopped her from going to help him as he fell to the ground. At home in Sawahre, listening to the nightly news of West Bank killings and closures, she had trouble sleeping. She knew Hadi was out throwing stones.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/21/a-hidden-universe-of-suffering-the-palestinian-children-sent-to-jail

@israel
@palestine
@bookstodon
#OccupiedWestBank
#Israel
#Palestine
#ChildrensRights
#HumanRights

I love the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

Happy Buy Nothing Day to those who celebrate.