SpinozasHeresy @SpinozasHeresy@qoto.org
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Jiu-jitsu liberal. Couldn't drink well enough to be a writer or a lawyer. Became a stoned philosopher instead. Sometimes pay the bills.
Joined Nov 2022
I’ll chip in five bucks to get on this MF’n list.
I think this young man will be president one day.
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Results are out for the guaranteed basic income pilot in Austin where 135 people got $1,000/mo for a year.
9% of people reported working less and 7% reported working more. Of those who worked less, half upskilled for better future jobs, and half chose unpaid care work.
Housing security significantly increased, as did food security. People lived in better housing and ate more balanced meals.
People also felt significantly more connected to the people and places in their neighborhoods.
Like Ryan Gosling, America Ferrera was nominated (and rightly so) for best supporting actress. Any complaints there?
Honestly, I think Ryan Gosling is padding. Robert Downey, Junior, is probably going to get best supporting. But that’s my opinion.
Here are the nominees for best actress in a leading role. This is Margo Robbie’s competition. Not Ryan Gosling.
Annette Bening (Nyad)
Lily Gladstone (Killers of the Flower Moon)
Sandra Hüller (Anatomy of a Fall)
Carey Mulligan (Maestro)
Emma Stone (Poor Things)
Sorry Margo, but there are some pretty solid performances here.
Best actor and best supporting actor are two separate categories. Margot Robbie was the lead and Ryan Gosling was in a supporting role. Stop with the apples to oranges comparisons. They cheapen the ACTUAL problems of inequality.
Evangelicals often claim they’re being persecuted but truth is, they’re just not very likeable.
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'What can be said at all can be said clearly; and what we cannot talk about we must pass over in silence.' -Wittgenstein-
“Treasonous insurrectionists” “that chose treason to maintain slavery”
https://youtu.be/z8Gx8sgyHLw?si=TwMcSAG2yCWj1wfS
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"I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies: 1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. 2. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. 3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things."
Douglas Adams
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These groups are relatively small, but because of their high profiles on social media and disproportionate representation in the media, people think the groups are larger then they are.
People who are not in this group of hyper-partisans know about politics and care about politics—but they do not spend hours watching cable news or scrolling through a politics feed.
What I've been calling the panic-outrage cycle is a symptom of these groups.
https://terikanefield.com/can-democracy-work-in-america-part-1-there-are-no-yankees-here/
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Watching this documentary on PBS and I am weirded out that I was completely unaware of this. I was born during this time period and thought I had a pretty good idea of what was happening in the late 60s. Blown away at this history I’ve been deprived of knowing for so long.
It’s not that I want to disengage from politics and related current events, but I’m pretty much done with all things Trump. No more clickbait, no more channel surfing. It amazes me how certain media outlets have so many people on payroll willing to drone endlessly about “what if?” Is he going to prison? Is going to be president? It’s just tedious. At this point I’ve come to terms with the fact that my span of control is voting in November and waiting for verdicts. The rest is nonsense.
There are 3,143 counties in the US. I keep waiting for our journalism to do a story about how each county is broken down into small precincts to distribute and collect votes and how INCREDIBLY DIFFICULT IF NOT IMPOSSIBLE it would be to “rig” an election.
If you want to argue facts with a Trump supporter, good luck. If you want to drive them absolutely up a wall, tell them you won’t be voting for him because he wears diapers and smells bad. Keep hammering on that point and nothing else. Argue calmly with things like “everyone knows he wears diapers” or “look... if you want a president that smells bad, go for it, but no other president in this country’s history has ever smelled that bad. That’s a fact!” Try it. The reaction is priceless.
I’m unaware of any democracy that came about in the absence of violence; either by an oppressor or by the oppressed. Kvetching about the many ways an unlikely Trump presidency will result in a fascist nightmare is foolish. If one truly believes in such a possibility, then the only concern should be the kind of violence one is prepared to commit in the defense of the democracy.
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What’s needed in the runup to the 2024 election is simple explanatory journalism along with some remedial civics education. So here are quick summaries of the stories I would assign if I were in charge. https://presswatchers.org/2023/12/heres-what-news-organizations-need-to-tell-the-public-about-the-2024-election/
On its face, the notion that Trump has presidential immunity is just dumb. Silly. Buffoonery. And yet, five days since the hearing his lawyer argued such nonsense, MSNBC is STILL...STILL! hyperventilating over it! Just put it to bed!! Trump is a clown and says stupid things to get the EXACT response he’s getting. And MSNBC (and many others) habitually beat his dead horses for days at a time thus providing him the media attention he craves. After 7 years of Trumps buffoonery has no one learned?
In a stunning feat of legal jiu-jitsu, Israel has skillfully executed the “Israel is rubber, Hamas is glue” defense. Genius! The only problem I can see with that is Hamas is not a signatory to the ICJ and the barbarity of a terror group like Hamas is absolutely no justification for a sovereign state acting like barbarians. But beyond that, as far as I can tell...case closed!
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Jiu-jitsu liberal. Couldn't drink well enough to be a writer or a lawyer. Became a stoned philosopher instead. Sometimes pay the bills.
Joined Nov 2022
