Notices by Kit Arvizu (thekitmalone@hoosier.social), page 3

Does Cory Booker ALWAYS look like someone in the crowd is shining a laser pointer in his eye? #dnc

Did I just clock the first specific mention of trans people of the #dnc, or did someone raise it before Booker?

Obviously I've missed a lot of it, so maybe I missed it?

Damn I don't think I truly understand how much I was affected by Jan6 until just now when I realized I kinda couldn't watch that footage again. #dnc

I mean if you're just voting according to the quality of the musical acts, it's Dem all the way #dnc

I can tell if someone on the left shares any part of my worldview by whether or not they think it's funny to use felon as an insult.

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Normally I just save spice jars (and any other glass jars I have) and refill them.

Another bonus is that I have so much extra on hand that I usually give friends and family cute little homemade seasoning mixes in reclaimed jars for the holidays.

Ready for my 2nd career as a mom influencer!

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@dalias I appreciate that sentiment, but those measures didn't really stop the rise of the new far right in Germany.

I'd like to see the end of the Citizens United era, and meaningful reforms to donor reporting requirements for non profits so that the monied interests who are funding and profiting from this nonsense could no longer hide behind a shield of anonymity.

@dalias that's a good rundown of why such restrictions are often unworkable. It's incredibly difficult to craft laws that can't be wormed around without applying a blunt instrument to free speech or else becoming so vague that they are unenforceable.

Do that in the US and watch how fast it gets used to shut down leftist dissent, minority protests, and anyone else corporate America's bought judicial system decides is "hateful."

@amyedge I haven't! But I led campaigns against a number of Indiana's worst anti-trans bills, abortion restrictions, and anti immigration bills. The leaders behind them are all the literal same people, backed by all the same big nationals like the ADF. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to start noticing the playbook.

I'll def look it up, it sounds like a good read.

@amyedge It's worse (and so was that). Both were tied to fairly wealthy political interests interested in manipulating religious social conservatives to build their donor base, mobilize voters for sympathetic candidates who will then go on to do whatever it is those interests actually want (usually keep taxes low for the wealthy/corporations).

Religious conservatives are just useful idiots to them.

@amyedge I don't think we're more easily manipulated as a whole than other cultural groups. But our political landscape and loose controls on private funding encourages the growth of "advocacy" groups with just massive funding behind them to launch and maintain literal misinformation campaigns.

Citizens United poured gasoline on this stuff. The war chests these people can accumulate are unreal.

They'll keep doing this. They'll keep moving down the line to whatever group is viewed with some amount of suspicion and they'll use it to campaign on, build power, get folks elected and ultimately do whatever it is they already planned to do to enrich themselves.

... most of which has nothing to do with trans people, gay people, immigrants, black people, or whatever other group they've decided the polling data will allow them to gin up a moral panic about.

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They attempted this strategy around gay marriage - that's why you started seeing marriage bans crop up in states that had never even had legal gay marriage or even a public debate about it.

Marriage backfired on them, but polling data in like 2015 found that trans people where widely viewed with suspicion so out came the bathroom bans and that had some legs and gave them a start.

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It's important to understand that the widespread anti-trans hatred you see today isn't organic.

It's the result of a calculated, well-funded campaign that capitalizes on biases to galvanize political supporters to build power and wealth.

People made jokes about us in the 70s, but they didn't run campaigns. That's new. And it's a political strategy.

Every anti-trans talking point you've ever heard - including the sports shit - was dreamt up by messaging experts in a board room somewhere.

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@bhawthorne @Hannah

I don't agree that a prosecuter, DA or AG is "not a cop." To an abolitionist like me, she's a cop.

But this entire debate is stupid. She's pretty good - better than we deserve. She's not materially different from her predecessors on the law enforcement issue.

But you aren't going to win over committed prison abolitionists who are skeptical of those strong law enforcement credentials by going to Websters about her job titles.

@albnelson @clacke I 100% agree with that. But critique is not what I'm seeing from some folk. I doubt I'll ever see a candidate that I don't have serious critique for and I'll never be on the side of "just fall in line."

@clacke @albnelson

Which doesn't distinguish her from most presidents and presidential candidates. She was also an actual prosecutor which is, to my mind, basically a cop.

My point is that *some* on the left are subjecting her to a test that we have subjected literally zero other mainstream candidates to and that is unfair, shortsighted, and in a few cases that I've seen, actively racist.