Notices by Quinn Norton (quinn@social.circl.lu)

A lot of people acting like Trump is a uniquely American problem because of some integral flaw in the character of Americans. Folks sure aren't looking too close to their own right wings, which is how America got where it is now.

There is a general rise in stupid awful fascism around the world, and slagging off Americans as particular idiots isn't going to help you get ready to fight your own fascists. Especially when you realize they might be your neighbors or your kids.

@evan as Berkeley goes, so goes... Berkeley. By the 1980s in the Bay Area if I'd talked about Marx I would have got my ass beat. First by my dad, then by literally everyone else I ever met.

@evan we absolutely didn't learn that information was harmless on its own. How quickly would someone have pulled the Communist Manifesto from classroom assignment?

How many school libraries carried Trotsky? Heck, even reading Russian novels in translation was a *bit* sus.

We were recruited to learn Russian, but that was 100% a military bound kids.

@evan not unless it has some link to execution. Reading isn't innocuous, and I'm not eating poison without being a plan and a purpose. This evil is meant for people like me, and I'm not going to pretend otherwise. Until I have a reason, no.

@evan If I *have* to do work on it, sure. But the popularity of, for instance, Dan Brown's ouvre doesn't compel me in how I spend my limited time under the sun.

@evan Life is all opportunity cost, and I am not young.

@evan my answer was yes but... if i can see a fatal flaw quickly and clearly, I usually don't chase down all the details. This fails occasionally, but as a heuristic it's effective and efficient.

I'm so old I can remember when we didn't think SCOTUS was a band of bought and paid for whores.

This is going to be an excellent year to go vegan, and I say this as someone who is not and doesn't intend to be a vegan. But right now, with the temps that various growing areas around the world are experiencing, your meat may come at the expense of other people having any protein at all. This seems to be an El Nino thing, not a forever things.

but if we're not feeding all the soy and pea to animals and eat more of it directly, we can literally save children from starving over the next year or two.

like literally save lives, mostly children, in the developing world, by having meat like once a month or if you feel you have to, once a week.

There will be a child out there who grows up healthy because you let them have more grain and protein, and you will miss out on nothing, because you absolutely have enough food.

...and if you don't have enough food, you will be helped by other people who do forgoing the most resource intensive crops.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@effinbirds/116783990868633735

Well, you should see the guys calling me the asshole.

The most pro-USA, patriotic thing you can do as an American who loves their country is critisize the ever-living fuck out of it.

Never let the bastards tell you different.

I'm still annoyed that the term Global South won. Most of the Global South is in the Actual North. It's just another way of othering Africans.

RE: https://social.circl.lu/@quinn/116606027981847932

Time to bring back dmoz.

no post has ever made me feel more seen than this one.

I have once again stumbled on people calling me a white supremacist again) for telling white people that yes, we are obligated to talk to and confront other white people's racism.

I get called terrible things for writing stuff like this https://medium.com/@quinnnorton/the-problem-with-white-shunning-56b67cc2d726

And I just think the other white people cancel me for calling them out.

Happy Real Labor Day, everyone. Occupy the streets and man the barricades!

Here's a little but of the history they try to make sure you never learn in school:

https://medium.com/message/may-day-4ddceeae25ad

Why am I getting the xenophobic racist hyper-violent perverted Christian cultism but without the cool floating sky ships BioShock promised

I would like a refund

@blogdiva that.. doesn't even make sense