Maybe not. But maybe. Every once in a while, I wonder how many of my cultural reference points would be incomprehensible to someone born after, say, 2000.
Studying, writing on, & warning about the Christian Supremacist right since 2004. Before that, in late 90s I warned of global warming. Now, I'm hunkering down to weather the storm, also scheming with the Leguminati for our eventual world conquest.
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Maybe not. But maybe. Every once in a while, I wonder how many of my cultural reference points would be incomprehensible to someone born after, say, 2000.
Perhaps.
Hey, my white suburban family hung around with the Black Panthers.
The George Floyd protests radicalized a lot of white people AGAINST structural racism. In response, the right tapped into frustration over Covid restrictions (imposed by Red AND Blue states almost equally) and white resentments to organize an old fashioned, racialized backlash against the gubmint.
This is a man who could become president.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. filling an IV bag from a murky puddle near Trump National's sixth tee. "The president needs parameciums," he tells the assembled media. "It's the only treatment proven to work in real testing." His golf cart is piled high with dozens of dead birds.
He looks like a giant alien bug devoured his insides and is wearing his flesh as a skin suit disguise.
"Many nations from West Africa to Vietnam," historians say, "adopted the French language because they found it beautiful and because they admired the French cuisine."
Being lawless does not make Trump omnipotent – nor can he just snap his fingers and make all his authoritarian desires a reality. America is in an acutely dangerous situation. But obscuring those distinctions is an act of defeatism that only serves the regime.
He looks like that giant bug from "Men In Black" devoured his insides and is wearing his flesh suit as a disguise.
Hmm. Do MIB references date us?
"A giant alien bug that had devoured his insides was wearing his flesh suit as a disguise."
"Many people" are saying he looks like a giant bug devoured his insides and is wearing his flesh suit as a disguise.
Many people are saying Trump just had a stroke. I wonder what might have pushed him over the edge.
Of course, this does not reflect the state of the art. Imagine one of these Boston Dynamics "robot dogs", equipped with a flamethrower, chasing you. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBwd...
Or fighting an infestation of bedbugs?
This is also routine rhetoric in Silicon Valley — even by immigrant founders! — about America and nobody says shit. Journalists refuse to even *mention* it, let alone ask questions or hold anyone accountable.
What are you talking about? This technology is AWESOME
Children in Gaza are still being starved, bombed, and murdered.
And RFK Jr. has claimed he can visually identify children with mitochondrial damage... guess what has been shown to cause mitochondrial damage? - covid.
Yup. No question about it. They do. Indeed, Facebook has openly created fake user profiles.
The worm scrambled his brain. RFK Jr. is attributing the health impacts of long covid on children to vaccination, but vaccination *reduces* long covid in children.
Moldbug has proposed (as a "joke", he says) rendering the poor down into biodiesel & claimed Southern Slavery was beneficial to those enslaved. And so much more.
...including psychopathic billionaire rapists.
Frances Perkins was the *real* architect of America's post-WW2 prosperity.
Dead or alive, Rudy Giuliani brought “broken windows” policing to NYC. “Not only did broken windows policing fail to reduce crime, but it also provided cover for a deliberate targeting of Black and brown communities.” Why? The theory comes from rightwing think tankers
Crazy thing of this is that RFK Jr.'s deranged antics make Hitler's lieutenants (such as Heinrich Himmler, who sent a secret SS team to scour the world for evidence of Atlantis as the source of the "Aryans") look positively straight-laced.
People say, "the Bluesky metrics are down!", but comparable X/Twitter metrics are impossible b/c the site is so overrun by bots & troll farms. What we know for sure is that media websites say they get about 10 times the traffic from Bsky than they get from X/Twitter, which is nominally 10X bigger.
RFK Jr.'s daughter, in a 2012 interview with AP, recalls the 5 hour drive home after her father decapitated a dead whale's head with a chainsaw and strapped it to the roof of their minivan:
Unions built this city and keep it running. They’ve fought against power and greed to make the impossible possible. Now, they need an ally in City Hall. On Labor Day, the presidents of the Hotel Trades Council, 32BJ and SEIU 1199 make the case at @cityandstateny.bsky.social.
These days, when I see cars wandering all over the road (an increasingly frequent phenomenon), I have to wonder, "is the driver drunk? Staring at a cellphone? Brain damaged from covid? Or just fumbling with the car's touchscreen?"
I'm A-OK with him shriveling up.
Where's the beer gut? I thought that was required for the job.
As with the effort to jam so-called "AI" into every nook and cranny of our lives, touchscreen cars are idiotic.
I'm OK with deporting billionaire public nuisances.
What's "white"? Once upon a time in America, Irish & Italians were not allowed in the club. Meanwhile, it's hard to imagine American culture without the contribution of non-whites, notably blues & Jazz.
A few more stats: Nearly a third of the country's workforce—roughly 52 million people—earns under $15/hr. 12.1 million low-income tenants are now "severely cost burdened," spending at least half their income on rent. About 50% of people in homeless shelters—and 40% of those unsheltered—have jobs.
~whispers~ and a reminder that I wrote a book about this very thing. "When work no longer provides stability, when wages are too low and rents are too high, when millions are one medical bill, one missed paycheck, one rent hike away from losing their homes—who, exactly, is secure?"
"Heritage" = Neo-Confederacy.
He wrote those books pre-brain worm, right?
“Nothing can justify such an information blockade. Yet, it has been tolerated without debate by many of Israel's Western allies, who claim to defend the right to information as a matter of principle.” www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/a...
why can't the democrat messaging on trans people be "no, we are not going to force children to undergo genital inspections in order to play sports"
It's nearly 1,000 pages long, single spaced, and the really important stuff is buried at, like, page 891.
It's not even his money! But I guess he can't break the habit of stiffing the working class.
It wouldn't take very much to push him over the edge into babbling incoherence.
At this point, he's feeble enough that the granddaughter could probably kick his ass if he tried anything
Def. not dead, but not looking so hot.
Yes, that and/or even a minor stroke.
Yup.
He Found a Clam, A CLAM! 😊 #dog #dogday #bluesky
not just that he has no constitutional authority, there isn't even any particular legal or institutional mechanism by which the president can make anyone treat this as anything other than a weird advisory opinion.
TEXAS: “Would I be required to carry my birth certificate to the restroom because I have short hair? Is there anything in it to protect people like me?” REP. ORR: “No. It protects biological females.” @jessicafortexas.bsky.social : “That’s what I am.” More: www.fox7austin.com/news/texas-h...
Trump is such a cheap MF.
China isn’t the reason to build solar—it’s the reason we can’t afford to wait. While US nuclear flatlines, China’s solar has already rocketed past it. The lesson isn’t to copy them—it’s that the transition is happening at breakneck speed. Delay now means falling behind forever. ⚡☀️ #EnergyTransition
I'd say that's another way of expressing the same concept.
there's no difference between Eyad and any one of us watching this genocide. they're just like us: decent people in the teeth of an indecent society run by sociopaths. help them with money if you can, boost them. #FreePalestine 💕💸🍉 #GazaVoices #GazaAid #MutualAid #HelpSky #MutualAidBoost
My secret crackpot theory is that some complicated Gaian mechanism is driving humanity insane, causing us to commit collective suicide. A closely related idea was subject of a 1999 book by the Australian photojournalist Reg Morrison, "The Spirit in the Gene": innovation.cc/wp-content/u...
Back in 2001, I attended a major environmental conference. The movement was gearing up to confront the GW Bush Adm. on global warming and environmental policy, & to push a new green agenda. Three days after I left came the September 11 terrorist attacks, & all that went out the window.
It's *not* "Mad Max": "Historically, collapse often can be a good thing for a lot of people" - a historian of collapse explains that, for 1 thing, accounts of collapse get written by writers employed by the 1%, who bemoan servant girls starting to talk back & collective ownership of food production.
China has left the US in the dust.
I, too, have been victimized by woke sourdough bread, which I do not eat. It's ruining my life!
Have we seen new video footage of him walking or talking? Press conference, even? Seems like *something* is up.
Just you wait.
Yes, I too look forward to all of our troubles magically evaporating.
I wonder how Chump will try to distract from this. Invade Chicago probably. Let Fox cover Chicago. Everyone else pay respect to the victims.
Neither Christian Nationalism nor fascism explain this wanton destruction. If we were to discover a secret written directive from Putin to Trump, commanding him to destroy the US from within, it would not be surprising in the slightest.
After telling them to piss off, Trump is again courting the Q crowd. I wonder how they feel about the Trump/Epstein connection.
"Many people are saying yes"
🧵 Authoritarianism, Democratization, and Coalition Politics. The consensus around here is, more or less, that the United States is currently a consolidating authoritarian regime controlled by a mix of reactionary populists and fascists.
“The claim that trans people are disproportionately responsible for mass violence in America comes up every few months. It has never been true.” USA Today fact check from their extremism beat reporter www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
“Putting American workers first” is a funny way of saying gutting Medicaid, tearing up workers’ union contracts and cutting their jobs. The Trump administration isn’t putting workers first. They’re creating an economy that works for billionaires and CEOs, NOT us.
We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.
NYT - "Hitler and his Nazis pushed the boundaries of diplomacy and population control"
"83.3% of LLM users were unable to quote even one sentence from the essay they had just written"
If Trump and RFK are going to rip the country in half over public health, Dems should polarize the living heck out of this debate on their own terms. Scour the law for as many ways as possible to protect your people from Trump/RFK's reign of mass destruction. newrepublic.com/article/1998...
Yeah, this worked great for Europeans during the Black Plague - 40%-50% of the population died, but the survivors were so much more healthy! (better at fighting off plague, in any case - Cholera, or Smallpox, or Gonorrhea not so much.)
100 agents from various federal agencies, plus National Guard units and a helicopter too, converge on a massive Washington DC crime scene of 2 people writing with chalk on the sidewalk. Your tax $ at work. This is the sort of sh_t that happens in Red Square, in Russia.
Don't follow us Yanks over the cliff's edge. The bottom is a long, long, long way down.
Inside joke - In "Breaking Bad", Walter White also instructs Jesse to buy a *very specific* type plastic bin to contain the acid. Jesse screws this up, buys the wrong kind of plastic bin, and there are, um... consequences.
Has anyone checked to see if JD Vance has been to Home Depot, to buy a bunch of gallon bottles of that acid Jesse Pinkman, from "Breaking Bad", used to dissolve a body?
Why don't you send a sternly worded letter.
Saw a Tesla, last week, which had the front "T" logo replaced with a Toyota logo. That's how unpopular these cars have become.
I venture no opinion on whether he's alive or not. But either way, the skeletons never stop dancing.
When the math doesn’t comport with your bigotry
🖼️ Kagayama Hakuhō #Caturday
Not for about 72 hours.
I, for one, do not find JD "exciting".
We're at the "Is Stalin/Mao alive?" stage.
!!!!!!!
Yup.
🪬🧿 There is no amount of money, oil, or gold in the world that is worth more than having bees, trees, and clean water.
COVID vaccine update: Pharmacies in these states won't give you a shot unless you have a prescription. CVS: CO, FL, GA, KY, LA , ME, NY, NC, PA, UT, VA, WV, DC Walgreens: AZ, CO, GA, IN, LA, MO, MT, NM, NY, OR, SC, UT, VA, WA, WV, WI CVS is not yet offering COVID shots at all in MA, NV, and MN.
The average American simply has no idea how quickly the infrastructure that keeps us safe and healthy is collapsing. These systems run in the background thanks to government employees who quietly do critical work. Those employees are being purged and systems are being destroyed.
If you are okay with this, if you think this is justified, if you think people living on the street have brought this upon themselves, if you think this is good leadership, you may be able to fool yourself that you care about others but you don’t fool me
Looking like it, yup.
This is really good.
Here's an account from a Bluesky person who says an AI "therapist" program claimed to be in love, then gave them a "kill list". bsky.app/profile/cael...