The Tom Gauld original (at link above) is so good, of course. And begging to be adapted, as I did :)
Also here:
https://bsky.app/profile/tomgauld.bsky.social/post/3l444hktx6a2r
The Tom Gauld original (at link above) is so good, of course. And begging to be adapted, as I did :)
Also here:
https://bsky.app/profile/tomgauld.bsky.social/post/3l444hktx6a2r
RIP Kris Kristofferson. He wrote some amazing songs that some other people played amazingly.
Knowing that this day was coming, does not make it any easier...
#RIP
#Music
#Icon
Kris Kristofferson, Idol of Country Music and the Movies, Dies at 88
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/kris-kristofferson-dead-star-is-born-1236017415/
@burnoutqueen @hankg @EricLawton ~ No argument there, but we must look forward now. They all gave their best effort and so will we. 💕
@burnoutqueen @hankg @EricLawton ~ You are more than welcome. The conversation was aiming more towards normalizing discussion on Socialism and even Anarchy. We have to make an intelligent choice in the not to distant future on abandoning the evils of Capitalism in its dying stage. 💕
@burnoutqueen @hankg @EricLawton ~ A Democratic Socialist here and I think you may have mistaken this conversation as anti socialist, it isn't. 💕
People focus on Hitler and Nazi leaders and the atrocious lethal lies they told to justify the mass murder of Jews.
But they should focus also on the willingness of very many people to believe those lies, to cheer and assist as their Jewish neighbors were rounded up and sent to their deaths.
The problem is never just the Hitlers, the Nazis. The problem is us, many of us — our propensity to stigmatize and hate.
#Trump #Republicans #Hitler #Nazis #immigrants #BloodLibel #PoliticsofHate
In a powerful essay written with his usual lucidity, Timothy Snyder comments on Trump's "Hitlerian month" and the continued refusal of many American commentators to acknowledge the clear parallels between what Trump and Vance are doing and saying what Hitler did and said.
As Snyder notes, the myth of American exceptionalism forces us to pretend it can't happen to us, the good guys.
#Trump #Republicans #Hitler #Nazis #immigrants #BloodLibel #PoliticsofHate
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"It is fascist to start a political campaign from the choice of an enemy (this is the definition of politics by the most talented Nazi thinker, Carl Schmitt). It is fascist to replace reason with emotion, to tell big lies ('create stories,' as Vance says) that appeal to a sense of vulnerability and exploit a feeling of difference."
#Trump #Republicans #Hitler #Nazis #immigrants #BloodLibel #PoliticsofHate
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Quote from "Yes, Prime Minister" about committee discussions, decisions, and the minuted records thereof.
The way young people speak is stupid and annoying
"Cry 'Havoc!', and let slip the dogs of war."
Jonathan Cook
@Jonathan K Cook
In killing Nasrallah, Israel chose to open the gates of hell. We'll all pay the price:
Hezbollah has confirmed that its longtime leader, Hassan Nasrallah, was among the hundreds of Lebanese killed in Israel's massive bombardment of a suburb of Beirut last night.
Israel's decision to assassinate Nasrallah, using some of the enormous bunker-busting bombs the United States has been arming it with, is beyond foolhardy. It is outright deranged.
Israel has removed-and knows it has removed - a moderating influence on Hezbollah.
Israel's action will achieve nothing apart from teaching his successor, and leaders of other groups and countries labelled as terrorist by western governments, several lessons:
That Israel, and the West standing squarely behind it, do not play by any known rules of engagement, and that their opponents must do likewise. The current restraint from Hezbollah that has been so baffling western pundits will become a thing of the past.
*That Israel is not interested in compromise, only escalation, and that this is a fight to death-not just against Israel but against the West that sponsors Israel,
*That Israel's ideological extremism-its Jewish supremacism, and its endless craving for Lebensraum-must be met with even greater Shia- inspired extremism.
Decades of western terrorism in the Middle East unleashed a Sunni nihilism embodied first in al-Qaeda and then in ISIS.
Now, the West, via Israel, is fomenting for the Shia resistance its own ISIS moment. The moderates in what the West dubs "terrorist organisations" have once again lost the argument. Why? Because the US imperial project known as "the West" has once again demonstrated it will not compromise. It demands full-spectrum, global dominance - nothing less.
Israel may make very short tactical gains in killing Nasrallah. But we will all soon feel the whirlwind.
When that whirlwind comes, the job of our politicians and media will be to ensure we make no connection between this moment of savagery and insanity from us and the blowback.
The role of western establishments will be to cry victim, to insist "They hate us for our freedoms", for our civilisational superiority, because they are simply barbarians.
But what comes next, as with what came before, will be entirely predictable. Violence doesn't beget calm, it begets more violence. Israel knows that. Our leaders know that. But they opened the gates of hell anyway.
(Disclaimer: Nothing in this post, in line with Section 12 of the UK
Terrorism Act, in any way indicates, or should be seen to be encouraging, support for any group designated as a terrorist organisation by the British government.)
"The mainstream media has settled on a narrative about this election, and they did it years ago. They want excitement and book deals and gossip and trash talking and the best way to get this is through a Donald Trump win."
~ Oliver Willis
#KamalaHarris #Trump #media #MediaFail
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https://www.oliverexplains.com/p/if-kamala-harris-keeps-wonking-she
But:
"The reason why we keep alive the memory of Nazi crimes is not because it could never happen here, but because something similar can always happen anywhere. That memory has to include the details of history, or else we will not recognize the dangers.
'Never again' is something that you work for, not something that you inherit."
#Trump #Republicans #Hitler #Nazis #immigrants #BloodLibel #PoliticsofHate
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"Harris’ candidacy has made it harder to peddle that message but make no mistake that the consistent drumbeat from the mainstream press that Harris hasn’t offered up enough details or hasn;’t given an interview to the 'right' media outlets (the New York Times, of course) is about getting their preferred candidate in. Only the mainstream press can absorb Trump speaking about turning Canadian rivers into water faucets and scrub it clean of wackiness."
"Giving in to these guys won’t work. She could give a presentation with a mountain of PowerPoint slides and white papers from the world’s most prominent experts (aka what Hillary Clinton did, as well as Elizabeth Warren) and it won’t change the narrative."
"Feeding the media beast is a wrong-headed approach, as is pandering to focus groups of people who say they want 'detail' because the media has trained them well to ask for plans even if far too many wouldn’t know a policy plan if it bit them in the rear."
Scott Dworkin points to five glaring corporate media fails from this week as the media dealt with Harris and Trump, and concludes bluntly,
"At this point, it’s clear the Press works for Trump."
#KamalaHarris #Trump #media #MediaFail
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https://www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/time-for-the-press-to-stop-working
"Our attention-starved corporate media hasn’t been much better, catastrophically failing to honestly report on the most significant story in more than 160 years: The Republicans’ relentless attack on America, and our ability to choose who represents us with our sacred vote."
~ D. Earl Stephens
@Jennifer True, I'm hoping he loses by a landslide. My only worry is his capacity to cheat, stage bloody-coups, etc.
When Kamala is safely the universally acclaimed victor, I will grab some popcorn, and watch Trump's imminent destruction, which must surely follow, as night follows day.
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