Notices by bhaugen (bhaugen@social.coop), page 5

"Never mind that he was the most pro-union president we’ve ever had. Never mind he is a fundamentally decent man; his character is not in question.

It wasn’t enough apparently. …

Biden didn’t fail America — America failed him."

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"This is a lazy pre-existing [corporate media] narrative to be sold, not because of any actual analysis of the electorate. These are writers who for various reasons have committed to an anti-woke narrative. And once you have committed to that narrative, you are determined to force it into every story, no matter how misleading."

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"Choosing to write stories that 'blame elitist Democrats' ignores the real story of what happened on Tuesday. That distraction normalizes the grotesque, existential threat of Trump's electoral victory. Trump could not buy more favorable and helpful coverage if he paid for those stories with Elon Musk’s billions."

~ Hubbell, ibid.

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"But the media is (again) sane-washing Trump's depravity. Rather than acknowledge—or even mention—his dominant campaign themes in analyzing his victory, the media insists that Trump won because Democrats are ;elitists; who somehow ;alienated' major portions of the electorate or that Democrats lost because Kamala Harris and her advisors refused to run her campaign in the manner demanded by the legacy media."

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'An important lesson from Nazi Germany: Dumb people are more dangerous than evil people. Ignorance will destroy America like it destroyed Germany during the Nazi era."

~ Oliver Markus Molloy

Molly quotes W.E.B. DuBois:

"Either the United States will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States."

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https://badchoicesmakegoodstories.substack.com/p/an-important-lesson-from-nazi-germany

@cstross @anthracite
We are visited daily by a neighborhood stray cat that we call Squeaky because of his voice, and one of our neighbors calls Cougar because of how he lopes long. Squeaky/Cougar probably knows some interesting stories, if only he could tell them.
We feed him, as do other neighbors.

@eniko done, thanks for the prompt.

@blogdiva Credit really is a trap.

Meant to keep you paying interest forever.

Once you're stuck on using credit, it's very painful to get off it again.

Lots of people aren't even given a non-borrowing path forward. It's literally borrow-or-bust in many cases.

Only the bank wins, everybody else loses.

yeah, sure, taking up arms isn't feasible for many; but are you willing to blow up your debt?

are you willing to give up the imaginary comfort of car leases or credit cards, to blow up what keeps you tethered to the people who want us all dead? how about getting out of that all white suburb?

the most impactful violence white people can unleash, RIGHT NOW, is economic violence.

how are you gonna blow up your comforts and the comforts of your communities, to starve the beast from your cash?

so even before thinking of taking up arms and becoming a resistance fighter, because you think it isn't necessary?

money feeds the beast.

the more your comfort and well-being is entrenched in the illusion that your credit cards, your mortage, your leases, are gonna protect you, the more power you give to this international crime syndicate of billionaire fascists.

THEY BELIEVE THEY HAVE A MANDATE FOR THEIR EUGENICS

there are 950+ pages of how they're gonna unleash violence.

BELIEVE THEM

YOUR MEEKNESS WILL KILL US ALL

you need to start being present to ALL FORMS OF VIOLENCE, ESPECIALLY ECONOMIC.

your acquiescence has killed over a million people of #covid19 alone, but every year it kills over 100K people of the #flu.

your REFUSAL to feeling a tad uncomfortable has made one of the biggest sociopaths on the planet, Bezos, the one guy DICTATING how the country’s supply chains work.

and then there is the keeping up with the Joneses mentality…

“We're also not currently at the stage where resistance fighters are most necessary.”

presumably the person who wrote this are white.

we Black and Indigenous people have been at this point forever, but especially, since the Patriot Act. we just don't have the numbers.

lynchings by police sky rocketed after the Patriot Act was passed and what did white folks do?

ask for more cops.

white people's REFUSAL to see themselves in the faces of BIPOC lynched by police is gonna get us all killed.

y’all know why we do not have a functional welfare system in this country?

credit cards.

if this were the Jimmy Carter & Ed Koch era, many of you would be receiving right now housing vouchers, food stamps, Medicaid.

this is EXACTLY how life was before capitalists brainwashed your parents, many my cohorts, into believing credit cards and credit reports are an inevitable part of living and if not, you should be dead.

your credit cards are welfare cards you pay, to capitalists, @ 20% interest…

@adamburck

Yeah, "college educated" white voters tend to be more democratic. Because real prolonged exposure to people not like you, can reduce biases and preconceptions. Not always, but can.

There's a sleight of hand that happens though, where folks extend this to think that because college grads earn more than non-college grads, that poor, uneducated white people are more racist than rich, educated white folks. This is demonstrably not true, and is a very unfair insult to poor white folk.

If ~50% of white voters of all generations reliably vote for whoever is the most racist candidate on the ballot, but only ~10% of Black voters do...

Then how do you think Trump will do with young voters?

Why are Dems always talking about the "youth vote?"

Why does voter suppression (which is aimed at Black communities) tend to affect young voters more?

These questions aren't hard to answer.

YOUR FIRST ANTIFASCIST DUTY IS TO
CUT OFF THE NECROTIC NEOLIBERALISM
THAT SCREAMS “WE ARE CAPITALISTS”
FROM THE HALLS OF CONGRESS

who’s we, when am not the one with a fucking website dedicated to the still very legal insider trading that made you a hundreds millionaire?

capitalism is fascism as it stands today. it is never going back to the morals & ethics Adam Smith outlined, to prove it is what the people make, not the property of kings, that makes the wealth of a nation… 🧵

RASHID
OMAR
OCASIO-CORTEZ

all of them, the so call extremists of the Democratic party won re-election.

Democrats lost congress because they PAID FOR vicious campaigns against progressive congresspeople. and what happened?

most of the seats held by YOUNG Black progressive incumbents, NOT BUPPIES, flipped to republicans.

and that's just by my very casual observation of what happened here in NYS. can't imagine how much worse it's elsewhere.

🧵…

WHICH MEANS
BILLIONAIRES CANNOT EXIST
WITHOUT OUR POVERTY

to me the death knell of the Democratic party happened when Nancy Pelosi went to the halls of Congress to scream “WE ARE CAPITALISTS”.

that was the end of it right there.

because what came after that? her complicity in getting rid of every single Black and brown congressman in the Progressive caucus that could further the power of not just The Squad but in particular AOC who they all are scared about.

🧵…

I SAID MOVEMENT, NOT POLITICAL PARTY.

the United States needs an antifascist movement with multiples of groups and institutions, including parties.

the Democratic Party is NOT an antifascist party. the Green Party nor Jill Stein are antifascist.

antifascist Democratic Party incumbents should stay put in the party for now, but not for long, not with the necrotic parasite of neoliberalism keeping them back.

@timbray Apparently Bernie posted this on Facebook? ???