@inthehands Well, women aren't exactly a minority group, but I know what you mean. Misogyny is the leading indicator. The practice ground for inflicting humiliation. (The current crew aren't slackers in this. At all.) It's the easiest place, right at home, right where you work, right on the streets you use every day, to implement your longing for might to make right.
@pluralistic "eliminate all the beltway bandits" (which of course includes all the techbro billionaires)
God, yes. That answer is sitting right out there, with a giant "Over here!" flag on it, which is probably why the various billionaires went so hard for installing The Orange Inadequate. Prevention, they heard somewhere, is better than cure.
@dalias Less can be more. Utah in the US has more than its fair share of, um, eccentrics. 20-30 years ago, when people still took public health seriously, the authorities were trying to get everyone vaxed.
It being the US, the vaccines cost $25. You could fill out a piece of paper for a religious exemption. Heaps of people did that.
Someone had the bright idea: hey! make the exemption cost $25 and make the vax free.
I think it's important to see that it's not about punishing. Or about hating women.
It's worse than that.
It's about not seeing women as real human beings at all. It's about using women as a useful caste of breeders and servicers. It's about using pain, all kinds of pain, to keep them there.
We have a word for forcing people to provide unpaid service or else suffer pain.
Like the last time this was tried, they're also trying to stop women from crossing state lines to escape.
Mastodon netiquette question: I thought you were supposed to include all "@" mentioned in a post to which you're replying. Sometimes that's a paragraph's worth (and on my instance they all seem to count toward the 500 char limit).
Recently I saw a comment that implied doing that was a cousin of an email "reply all" and you should only include the @ you're actually replying to.
@GreenFire When he was a senator, I didn't pay much attention and in general Biden just seemed like your usual useless good ole boy.
Watchin him operate as Prez has been a real eyeopener. Without any fuss or muss or noise, he just runs rings around Repubs in Congress, now MBS, he's managed to keep the Middle East from going straight to WWIII in spite of the wishes of all the loonies there. (Bibi def included.) The Repubs allowed the IRA to pass before they knew what hit them. It's been amazing.
@abolisyonista Plus: if injection of SO2 aerosols work AS EXPECTED, there will be forest-killing levels of acid rain. It's not so good for plenty of crops, too. Or corals and ocean life.
There would be plenty of unforeseen consequences, but acid rain is a _known_ effect.
Usually found Elsewhere, so this should be the perfect place for me. Longer thoughts at Acid Test (http://www.molvray.com/acidtest/) and Reimagining Democracy (http://www.molvray.com/govforum), (1st ed. 2010). The header pic is the Eastern Sierras not far from Bishop, California, looking west (Rockies behind, Pacific ahead). #tootfinder #searchable