I am watching for them to try to enforce the male dress code on her. " “He” must wear a coat and tie to participate in the proceedings of the House." Haven’t heard it yet, but if they don’t get enough “owning the libs” shrieks out of the bathroom stunt, that will be next. That, and intentionally misgendering her from the podium at every opportunity. The shitshow never ends.
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Not sure if this is quite the right thread for this, but it does seem consequential on the election result.
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“ Sebastian Stan said in a post-screening Q&A of his film “The Apprentice”Tuesday night that his participation in Variety‘s “Actors on Actors” video and TV series is halted because no other actor wants to talk about Trump. Stan plays the president-elect in the Ali Abbasi film that covers Trump’s early years and rise to initial prominence as a Manhattan real-estate mogul.”
Disgust or fear?
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Insert one’s chosen ‘why not both’ gif, because I’m sure in many cases it really is.
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I know I should have expected this, but I did not. Just had my first instance of a young Black man coming to see me because he is facing more rudeness and abuse from emboldened racists at school. He is a very large, but slightly immature, young man, and had never faced this before. He has responded with outbursts of anger and “disrespect” which have gotten him suspended. Of course, the white kids who are abusing him, and the teachers who apparently expect him to bow and scrape, face no consequences at all. The next few years are gonna suck, man.
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That was not the choice though. Il Douche is not a Republican, if such a thing even exists anymore. He is a flat-out neo-fascist. Harris is not a “Republican-lite,” she was an imperfect candidate, but there will never be perfection. Nearly half the country voted for Il Douche either because they like his fascist POV or because he is a white man, and that will always to preferable to a woman, let alone a Black woman. I don’t accept the argument that she ran a poor campaign or that she didn’t chase white male voters enough. White male voters (of a certain type, clearly, being that I am one) were not going to vote for a Black woman regardless. It is a very clear argument that the dems did not pursue their base adequately, but I am not sure that a big part of that was how the campaign was covered, rather than their actual positions.
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I feel like we’re going to be having these discussions for the next four years… The only way to prove who is correct is to run more leftists, populists of color, up and down the ticket… how well they do will be the proof of which theory is correct… i personally think it’s both, that the Democrats are too corporate (at the top at least) and too centrists, not offering enough of a contrast and are too concerned with pursuing some mythical middle, and that racism and misogyny is animating quite a large swath of white voters… Looking for a singular answer is missing the point, I’d argue…
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I would agree. I fear that the lesson taken will be “we can’t run women at the top of the ticket.” And it’s tough to argue that, considering the unique test run here.
Against the same utterly unqualified candidate:
White man: Wins popular vote and electoral college
White woman: Wins popular vote, loses electoral college
Black woman: Loses popular vote and electoral college
I am struggling with the fact that a majority of my fellow Americans could support the asshat. And I don’t know what to do with the rage and sadness that brings. Is it inherent fascism, racism, sexism, all the above plus some other stupidity built in for kicks? It makes me tired.
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RFK Jr has been rightly pilloried for promoting a litany of theories linking vaccines with autism, chemicals in the water supply to gender identity, how people contract Aids and saying the Covid-19 vaccine, which in fact stemmed the deadliest pandemic of our lifetimes, was itself “the deadliest vaccine ever made”. He claimed Covid-19 was meant to target certain ethnic groups, Black people and Caucasians, while sparing Asians and Jewish people.
In normal times, these notions would be disqualifying. Spouting unfounded scientific claims is corrosive to a functioning democracy. It weakens the bonds of trust in our public institutions, and feeds the rightwing narrative that all government is illegitimate
And yet can go on to conclude that this same asshat could be “transformational.” Well, I guess I agree, in a way. But he needs to understand that, although our healthcare system is a mess, truly, the answer is not to turn it over to the loons who think that made up shit is better than actual science. And “transformational” is not the same as “improving.” This transformation from a barely functional system to a stinking pile of shit is not, in any way, a good thing.
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The article assumes rfk is going to listen to doctors and take the advice of top clinicians? Like fauci.
Fucking shut up uk rags… JFC.
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Yep… people are going to die. And this Barsky shithead needs to understand that tearing systems down that are in need of transformation isn’t how you get positive change. I’m really sick of people looking at dystopias and thinking that that is how you get progress. Strikes me that Zizek was correct about how we can’t imagine any alternative to the modern neo-liberal order except dystopia…
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Probably some plain old exhaustion mixed in there too. We’ve been talking about that fascist idiot nonstop for damn near a decade; what’s left to say?
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They did pretty damn well in 2024! Just one of many reasons the Prez results don’t make sense…
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