Notices by Philip Cardella (philip_cardella@historians.social)

And, yes, I'm thinking about leaving before it starts.

Just down at a local Dem meeting, wearing my mask, two old ladies are talking about how sick they've been recently, one even went to the Dr yesterday to be tested for COVID and flu, the other obviously has laryngitis

Either wearing a mask? Of course not.

Now I am being asked if I am sick.

FML.

No, I'm not sick and have only rarely been sick since 2019.

Because I wear a mask.

Long story how I have gotten sick those few tomes but basically, it involves my kids.

@dashrb @GottaLaff @WarnerCrocker I was going to do this but, thankfully, you beat me to it. 🤣

@GottaLaff @dashrb @WarnerCrocker 🤪😆

I don't! I've just got a warped sense of humor for dealing with this stuff. Certainly don't want to bug you.

Anyway...truth be told, at least one of those accounts was almost certainly bot designed to piss people off.

I try (but often fail) to laugh them off.

"Together with emails obtained from local health departments through public records requests, this investigation revealed key problems, including a deference to the farm industry, eroded public health budgets, neglect for the safety of agriculture workers, and the sluggish pace of federal interventions."

Deference to the industry.✔️
Eroded public health budgets✔️
Neglecting worker safety✔️
Sluggish Federal response✔️

This is #neoliberalism not necessarily "capitalism" writ large.

I'm not defending capitalism.

I'm identifying the proximate threat and that threat is founded on bad definitions and misunderstanding.

A healthy capitalist system and should accommodate regulations for food and worker safety from the government under the banner of "for the general welfare" of the people.

Neoliberalism rejects all of that.

This doesn't mean capitalism is good. It means that neoliberal capitalism is a specific strain with specific characteristics not necessary to capitalism.

@pluralistic it's probably worth noting that, at least in broad terms, this describes almost every fascist regime.

What history actually teaches us about #revolutions is the the more violent the revolution the more #violent the new regime.

#violence begets violence.

There are ways to stop or slow it, to be sure.

But Mao and Castro were probably on the right side of history. Until they weren't.

There is a time for violence. There's certainly a time for anger.

Once you *want* violence you've forfeited any claim to a fair and equal government.

Name two impressive, successful #revolutionaries who actually got shit done in the 20th century and didn't start murdering their citizens once they got their revolution. Yeah, that second part, amiright?

Anyway, now you're thinking of Ghandi and Martin Luther King Jr. Right?

Kinda interesting their approach wasn't killing people, isn't it?

Oh, you're thinking of Nelson Mandela? While his approach may not have been as peaceful it was the peaceful part that worked in the end.

Dude makes a clean get away on a bike, taking advantage of traffic congestion and the police's cowardice leading them to hide in their cars only to be caught holding a manifiesto and a ghost gun he could have dropped literally anywhere and not had it conclusively traced to him by a fast food employee in a different state.

That's the story, right?

I'm not saying it's false or suggesting it is.

Something isn't right, though.

He *wanted to be caught and made famous* is my guess.

@Joe_Hill the first rule of assassination is assassinate the assassin. I think the fact that he's alive punches a hole in the patsy theory but I probably know less than most people following the story closely because I'm not following it closely.

You know who is angry right now? Liberal voters.

God take me over the rainbow bridge the day someone does a think piece about why we're so angry, scared and resentful. #politics #America

I'm resentful that most people that look like me voted for a sexist, racist, transphobic, burnt steak eating, failed businessman and con artist over the most qualified presidential candidate in history.

I'm resentful as fuck. Where's the think piece on me and people like me?

I'm resentful two of the three most qualified people ever nominated for President didn't beat the least qualified person ever nominated for President by a major party by fifty points.

I'm resentful the editors at most major news outlets only know how to publish what their billionaire owners tell them to.

I'm resentful that a failed colonel from a failed (nation) state who was too greedy and stupid to rotate the tires on his military's vehicles played us.

The kids stabbed by the fascists in NYC are on my heart and mind right now.

I ache for them. For their families. For a country that would tolerate this atrocity and treat it as less important than the United Health Care CEO.

@StillIRise1963 totally agree. 100%

But I love dogs. No exception. So, in my mind, dogs are better than people.

Even a bad dog, and bad dogs do exist, are bad because people made them that way.

And I also love alligators. 100% of them. I have no illusions alligators love me. There are no good nor bad alligators. Just alligators.

For me dogs and alligators are better than people.

I still love people. I just love dogs and alligators more. And orcas. I love orcas.

I hate all things #meta but several groups in my life think #WhatsApp is the greatest thing since sliced bread.

My phone broke yesterday.

Rather the screen did.

Without the screen I CANNOT TURN IT OFF.

So on the new phone I'm trying to set up what's app and it's demanding I check my broken phone to verify I'm who I say I am.

🤦♂️

@mekkaokereke and Biden was trying to out tough on crime Reagan and Nixon. AND Gingrich in the 90s.

And let's not give LBJ a pass. He's the one the diverted money for the War on Poverty into the War on Crime, giving block grants to police to start sports leagues so they could identify pre delinquents.

Aka children they thought were going to be criminals. Children.

You probably know but for those who don't.

Book: From the war on poverty to the war on crime, Hinton, 2016

@CartyBoston @mekkaokereke @bumblebeedc agreed! I have long said I have more beefs with Biden than most Biden detractors can even name.

And I campaigned hard for him after he got the nomination in 2020 and would have this year too if he had accepted it.

This is in all honesty, my biggest beef with him.

His record (particularly as Senator) with policing and prisons is among the worst in modern history. All parties included.