Sighs
But I thought DJT loved “the gays”.When we normalize and enable hate. When we treat hate as a fringe issue. When we promote the politics of otherism. When we condition people to not give a fuck. These events become normalized.
London bus attack: Arrests after gay couple who refused to kiss beaten
Melania Geymonat and her partner Chris were set upon by a group of men on a London night bus.www.bbc.com
These events happen everyday, whether we see them in them reported in our news feed or not.
If you don't accept people because of their gender, sexuality, religious orientation, nationality, the way they look - F-off, you're horrible
If you use your religious affiliation to justify a false narrative about the right and wrong of sexual orientation - F-off, you're horrible
If you use your identity politics to promote hate / dissension amongst the masses - F-off, you're horrible.
Trump admin tells U.S. embassies no rainbow pride flag on flagpoles
The administration is rejecting requests from U.S. embassies to fly the rainbow flag on flagpoles during June, LGBTQ Pride Month, say 3 U.S. diplomats.www.nbcnews.com
Here is a somewhat off topic dispatch from Trumps America.
Tracy Morgan just bought a $2 Million Bugatti. The dealer was in NYC, and while driving the car home from NYC to his home in NJ he was side swiped by a driver in NYC. The other driver was 100% at fault.
However, the car being $2M, the damage estimate is more than the drivers total liability coverage on their insurance plan. There for the insurance company will not pay more than what's covered leaving Tracy Morgan's insurance company to likely sue the driver at fault for the remaining balance.
When it comes to a car worth that much, should an average joe be on the hook for crippling amounts of damage.
The comparison is the same damage to a normal car would cost $3,000 to fix. But to this ultra expensive Bugatti the minor damage is more than $350,000.
I feel like if you gotta sue some poor schmoe to fix your car then you should just have to deal with it yourself. Take the insurance payout and pay for the rest yourself. (Doesn't Tracy Morgan have car insurance himself that would be used in cases like this where the other party doesn't have adequate insurance? I think I would want that for such an expensive vehicle.) Yes, the other driver was at fault, but should he be financially devastated because it was his bad luck to hit a $2m car versus a Honda Civic? I don't think so. There should be limits. I'm tired of the rich and powerful using every bit of their reach to stomp all over the rest of us.
Tracy Morgan isn't the issue here. He has no intentions of going after the guy to pay for damages. The issue is his insurance company.
His insurance company will cover the damages. Then try to collect from the other guys insurance (which wont cover nearly enough). Therefor, odds are likely that Tracy Morgan's insurance company will likely try to recover the difference by going after the guy.
Every candidate regardless of party, club, ideology, or whatever they are selling sucks. None of these people are going to do anything to undue what is the basic fundamental problem - the entrenched power structure. Short of a military coup. A natural disaster or set of disasters so costly they completely bankrupt and weaken the country beyond its ability to defend its borders, or some other set of crazy fires. A depression + dust bowl + nuclear accident situation nothing is changing.
Everyone's team is finding a way to cheat.
I haven't heard a single candidate say that they will work to classify white nationalism and violent racists as domestic terrorists.
I haven't seen a single candidate discuss equity in a meaningful way - no one has a plan.
I haven't heard anyone say they are going to defund the military
I haven't heard anyone say they are going to tax religious organizations
I haven't heard a single candidate say how they are going to reform the EPA, USGS, Dept of Justice, Dept of Education
I haven't seen a single tax reform plan that is based in social equity.
I haven't seen a single plan that destroys the prison and sentencing system.
I haven't seen a single plan that gets every American into a home.
I haven't seen a single candidate explain how they are going to develop rail and repair roads and bridges before more people die.
I haven't seen anyone actually say how they are going to do anything.
This isn't a solvable problem. At least not through the means that have been sold to us as our only option.
I'll go back to my whiskey. Hope is for suckers
Thanks but I’m not interested in your team sports
Talk to me in 2024 or 2028 when either of them have done anything they claim they will do. Saying that you believe in something or that you will tax or not tax something or have this or that policy does not equal a plan nor does it equal the political capital to get anything done.
If you want to actually change something. Instead of talking about social democratism how about you and Bernie go out and actually implement it on the ground. How about we actually level the playing field instead of talk about it. People love to support a candidate who talks about the things that make them feel good about themselves or their realty but rarely does anyone practice what they preach.
Bernie gave a speech on why Democratic Socialism is the best solution to fighting off the oligarchy this country is becoming.
People ask me why I support Bernie over Warren and my response is similar to those who accuse me of being a Bernie Bro.
As a Social Democrat, I firmly believe nothing can be truly fixed in this country until we get a modern New Deal and move to undo 40+ years of attacks on social safety nets and publicly funded institutions. 40+ years of privatization/deregulation and trillions wasted on for for-profit war.
Cult of personality is not why I support Bermie (though I do find him to be as genuine politicians get) and, no, he is not perfect. But he is the only candidate in this race who disavows neoliberalism, is fighting for SYSTEMIC change and who never fails to stand up for disadvantaged communities.
The same cannot be said of Warren. She is top notch when it comes to fighting deregulation but she views regulation as the primary solution to our woes instead of a part of the solution. She is lacking in ways the Bernie isn't (privatization, the military industrial complex, the fact that she stayed silent on Standing Rock, exc). She has also said she will be taking corporate cash in a general election. Again, I'd still vote for her in a heartbeat, but there are substantial differences between her and Bernie.
I really like Bernie, I voted for him in 2016 the primary. My issue now is, I would like someone of his mold that is younger. If that ends up not existing I will probably vote for him again (need to hear more from the other million candidates). I don't want to come off as ageist but admittedly, in this case, I basically am. I just don't want his movement to disappear with him in terms of people actually being in politics so having someone younger in his mold being in the race and endorsed by Bernie would be my preference.
Let me try to be more clear about my "cynicism" here:
Until the tenets of capitalism are completely undone and a new system is implemented that
1. most likely no one has yet conceived
2. maintains creative destruction
3. values people over profits
4. disregards political boundaries
5. eliminates class and values every human equally
6. values every job equally
7. aims to continually improve the lives of everyone, but especially the weakest
8. views humans as part of all of the natural cycles of the earth
9. removes religion from societal math
10. spends zero time protecting its own institution
the same inequality, power structure, and constant harm to most will persist.
My vote is to ignore all of it, pay attention to the things going on in your community, love thy neighbor / fellow human, and hope that these people consume themselves and take out as few innocent victims as possible in the process.
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Any chance of these two being running mates at some point, you think?I'd add that it's still incredibly early and that candidates are still hashing out details on policy. At this point in 2016, Bernie has just announced. But he eventually rolled out very detailed plans to the policies he was pushing. I expect the same will happen this go round (and it has already begun).
Liz, meanwhile, has made pushing wonky policy the foundation of her campaign.
I understand cynicism. I don't understand cynicism as a blanket statement.
^This. Well said.
“I leave Sisyphus at the foot of the mountain. One always finds one's burden again. But Sisyphus teaches the higher fidelity that negates the gods and raises rocks. He too concludes that all is well. This universe henceforth without a master seems to him neither sterile nor futile. Each atom of that stone, each mineral flake of that night-filled mountain, in itself, forms a world. The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.” - Albert Camus
Counter-point: Prince's Joy in RepetitionThere's no glory in repetitive motion jobs. One can be both cynical about the political and socie-economic reality and not cynical about the nature of the universe.