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@majorlinux @seachanger That’s the same thing mainstream liberals/Democrats have been saying quite loudly since well before MSNBC even existed.

@meganL One small way to resist: bring back masks and taking public health precautions in general. Every abled, white, upper-middle class person shopping, attending an event, or waiting in a waiting room with a mask on reduces the chances of mask bans that facilitate mass surveillance, endanger us all but especially those who are medically vulnerable, and prevent us from acting responsibly towards others when we have or are recovering from an infection.

It’s gonna be super fun having a bird flu pandemic with no FDA or CDC.

@Thumptastic3 @Kierkegaanks @RickiTarr He and others like him need to be made examples of, convicted, and lose their own right to vote (in many states you can’t vote if you’ve been convicted of a crime involving election subversion even if the crime was a misdemeanor). This is by far the most common type of “voter fraud” going on and should be a real concern for voting rights advocates. Too bad police work to preserve white supremacist patriarchy, not justly enforce laws.

@paninid Funny how everything homophobic and almost everything misogynistic in the Bible isn’t purported to be a direct quote from old JC, but all that stuff is absolute and must be enforced even though it very clearly doesn’t work anymore.

@VulpineAmethyst @AnarchoNinaWrites White and male supremacists, and much of the “bullying” was probably just girls saying no to dates or sex acts with them.

@luckytran Love how he just openly admits that people would not be treated equally under this law. A “little old lady” (quite a demeaning term) won’t be bothered because of age/gender presentation/class status and in all likelihood race, but you know damn well a young Black man wearing a mask anywhere is at risk no matter what medical condition he might have. And if the little old lady wants to do something unladylike like protest? Sorry about your cancer treatment but no masks for agitators!

The study referenced here was conducted in 1975. There was a fair amount of research on noise pollution in the 1970s, but it kind of dropped around the time Reagan was elected. Since then, school districts have only increased the practice of building schools next to highways, widening highways already near schools, and locating schools so that almost every student and employee need to come there by motor vehicle.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240621-how-traffic-noise-pollution-harms-childrens-health-and-development

When you spend decades turning your city budget into little more than police/prisons/surveillance, car infrastructure, and “tax relief” for the rich, your basic city services eventually collapse. American cities no longer have reliable drinking water supplies, and it’s a cooperative project between Republicans who have set most of the national policy since 1980 and supposedly liberal or progressive Democratic city leaders. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/02/atlanta-water-main-breaks

@ATLeagle @mekkaokereke @superflippy Oh, I agree there was room to criticize that game. It is subtle and context sensitive and we’re all still getting used to hearing female athletes even get discussed by mainstream sports media and fans on a regular basis. I guess it seems there’s more of a tendency overall to hear “HE crumbled in the championship game”/“SHE [habitually] crumbles under pressure” but the individuals saying one or the other might use the same expression regardless of gender.

@ATLeagle @superflippy @mekkaokereke There’s no need to pick apart Clark. None of this is her fault. She didn’t choose to be the media’s white, straight, suburban darling, she’s just a young athlete trying to earn a living playing ball despite patriarchy. Considering all the racist BS she’s been a bystander to, she’s done pretty well at pushing back against it while living in a fishbowl she didn’t ask for. The media/society are the problem, not any of the players.

@mekkaokereke @ATLeagle @superflippy I was responding to “she crumbles under pressure.” That sounded a bit like a value judgement, perhaps a bit implicitly sexist compared to how male rookies who have missed key shots are described. I realize that may have been unintentional and that your thread was about the media phenomenon rather than Clark herself, but offline & elsewhere online I have seen people personally insulting Clark, even calling her racist for getting attention she doesn’t control.

@mekkaokereke Cops love bike theft. It’s very convenient for them. It cuts down on bike ridership and reduces the number of complaints about their SUVs being illegally parked in bike lanes. They’ll probably now make a push for bike locks to be banned so bicycle users can’t protect their vehicles at all.

@Adam_Cadmon1 It is very much normal in 2024. It’s how they’re trained and both major political parties approve of it and fall all over themselves cutting useful things from city, state, and federal budgets to fund more of it. This is what people choose to pay for when they vote for politicians whose platforms are all “tough on crime” and “support our police”. Our police are a brutal occupying force by design and intent who commit much more violence than they ever prevent.

@cjpaloma Moderates and liberals have grown addicted to rehabilitating the images of last generation’s diabolical conservatives so they can maintain plausible deniability of their role in putting us in the current situation by enabling and being manipulated by people like Rove. If they’d listened to people left of them post-9/11 instead of hysterically calling us unpatriotic (as if that’s a bad thing)and fighting us harder than Bush, we wouldn’t be facing totalitarian dictatorship now.

Remember when right wing parents started rioting at school boards over COVID masks and quickly pivoted to book burning and queer bashing? Wouldn’t it be nice if left wing people got that outraged about armed military troops searching the bags of NYC subway riders and then pivoted to climate and anti-fascist/capitalist action?

Yes, I’m still capable of being shocked by the banality of evil.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/11/moscow-nypd-uae-swat-games-chechnya-chechen-unit-ukraine

Seriously in what kind of so-called democracy is it acceptable for a fucking police department to send officers and equipment around the world to a militarized SWAT team competition in a fascist petrostate while the mayor cuts library hours, school lunch funding, and traffic safety projects?

@futurebird I’ve never understood the appeal of performing gender. I understood bullying as a kid and that I was rejected by many (still am) due to my noncompliance, but the idea of doing what those assholes wanted in order to try to mitigate the abuse seemed incredibly tedious and like the worst possible thing to do. OTOH I did make half-assed attempts at fitting in/following rules from time to time into early adulthood. Why do humans lean towards responding to oppression with compliance?

@danhon No more people being aware that the bus is late, the road is closed, there’s an air quality/heat emergency, free public health services are available, there’s a public hearing, they have new employment rights due to a local ordinance, the city is hiring, etc.