agent_flounder @ agent_flounder @lemmy.one

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They're hanging right out there it seems like.

I have zero problems with a prostitute becoming a congressperson.

I do have a problem with a hateful, hypocritical piece of shit doing so.

Yup, some great g-shocks out there. I have dw5600. Awesome watch. Some day I will get the 5610.

I think I will stick to my dumb watches, thanks. Mechanical or quartz.

Governments need to be able to jail corporations.

It shouldn't be a surprise the racist right is pushing racist pseudoscience. The right believes in an immutable race hierarchy despite race being a social and not biological construct. In other words believing things without scientific evidence as usual.

Not looking fwd to WWIII though, looks fucking horrifying. I hope I can make it to at least see first contact.

Yet another reason to despise that guy. That's an interesting find I was completely unaware of. Sad if anyone is actually taking childrearing advice from the writing of superstitious chumps from more than a millenia ago. Like, gee, we kind of learned a few things since then...

This is the Netherlands, where swaths of the land is below sea level. So, naturally, this is a road below the water's surface with an aqueduct above it, enabling boaters to cross over the road. Or at least that's what I'm seeing here.

This is definitely a factor although advertising alongside subscriptions for news print was a thing for at least 100-130 years. So I don't know if subscriptions are enough.

Too, better journalism requires news media oligopolies to be dismantled and to have more independently owned news media companies.

Maybe it looks that way if you've only been at this a couple decades. Given how things have changed slowly over the last 40 and relatively abruptly with the Trump era, I think Democracy has been under fire for a long time.

The problems are that: too few have been aware of it, too many have been apathetic about it. Too few have voted, and too few have been involved beyond the absolute bare minimum of voting.

But the real failing is that the growing corruption -- regulatory capture, lobbying, campaign finance, rise of oligopolies in ever more markets, etc. -- has left us with neither major party primarily beholden to anyone but the ultra rich and mega corporations.

So I would argue that our realistic choices (since with our election mechanism, we are essentially locked into a choice between only two parties) are ...

Democratic -- incremental progress socially but mostly status quo economically and little interest in addressing the root problems I mentioned along with failing to address the seriousness of the rising threat of the right wing, loosely similar to the attitude of liberal centrists in the German Weimar Republic of 1930-1933. (I am fully aware that Democratic party is a hodge podge including some left leaning groups but the centrists run the show, I think we can agree)

Republican -- long term (40+ year) plan to undermine education, suppress voters, dismantle government safeguards, challenge (by ignoring) fundamental checks and balances, along with regressive social policies (particularly race, sexual orientation, reproductive freedom, gender expression).

If one is actually aware of the GOP's gerrymandering, active voter suppression, undermining of news media, rejection of the concept of truth and fact, conspiring to overturn the presidential election, anti-intellectualism, stochastic terrorism, active persecution and suppression of marginalized people, criminal activity, and brash corruption, one cannot interpret as anything but a directed, coordinated, doggedly persistent attack on American democracy.

Only one of these two groups severely degraded the operation of the government in the last decade and one of these groups is driven to further establish a theocratic, nationalist, authoritarian, regressive—in short, fascist—rule.

To look at the last twenty years and term "democracy on the ballot" as trope or hyperbole just shows how bad "the new normal" had gotten by the 2000s.

All this has been going on ever since the GOP transformed into a reactionary party in backlash to the Civil Rights era and especially following Nixon's resignation.

I'm starting to think the Ferengi were some kind of, like, caricature to make a statement about unbridled capitalism... naw it's just sci fi not some kind of social commentary hahaha

So this is the Sterling Free Public Library that did this? The library at this website here?

https://sterling.scklslibrary.info/

I wonder what would happen if these ignorant bigots faced a proverbial shit storm of backlash from across the country every time they tried to pull hateful shit like this?

They won't stop until all the LGBTQ people (and Jews, people of color, etc) are dead.

Agenda of tolerance. "Oh nOoOoOoo sOo sCaRY!!!1!"

To the quoted hate-filled fuck: Existing without being persecuted isn't a goddamn agenda you piece of shit. The only agenda I see here is your fascist one. Try keeping your shit to yourself and learn to let people be instead of trying to stamp them out, ignorant fuckstick.

Indeed. No question about that at all.

Texas made 93 attempts to restrict access to over 2,300 books.

That's not "rotating its library collection."

Also incest.

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison was the most challenged book in the state, on grounds it contained sexually explicit content. Other challenged books include Gender Queer, All Boys Aren’t Blue, and other books with LGBTQ+ or anti-racism themes.

What do you call it when they remove books that aren't sexually explicit but deal with LGBTQ+ and anti-racism themes?