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Quote:The profound racism and ignorance you once again freely demonstrate here would be laughable, if it weren't so pathetic.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Why do you need somebody from the Media to tell you that people who are trying to come here illegally and leech off of our economy are invaders.
That's the real question. That's the only question.
You don't know a single fact about any of it. Not one.
I could attempt to educate you, but you are incapable of learning. That's why you did so poorly in school. It's one of several mental defects you possess.
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This year, over 100 bills have been introduced across the country targeting trans people, mostly youth, and they have moved aggressively through state legislatures and been debated with vitriol and cruelty.
This wave of anti-trans bills is based on model legislation written by extraordinarily well-funded right-wing think tanks, like the Heritage Foundation; the Eagle Forum, which was founded by religious right icon Phyllis Schlafly; and the Alliance Defending Freedom, which is a designated hate group according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.
The legislative attacks, and the ferocity with which Republicans are pushing for them, work to produce a convenient target for moral panic and right-wing identity formation. Harkening back to the moral panic of Anita Bryant and Phyllis Schafly, this moment is part of a long tradition of consolidating fear and disgust of the unknown to leverage political power. The right wants to conjure a frankly lurid obsession with children’s bodies.
Conservatives are obsessed with nonexisting children. This is nothing new: The paranoia is a central tenet of the modern American right. They worry about a zygote or embryo as if it were already a child (it is not). Then there was the whole generation of nonexistent children whose brains turned to fried eggs on marijuana. The murderous Satanic children. The Black “superpredator” children were a powerful racist fantasy.
The right has taken up the cause of another sort of nonexisting child: the children who are coerced into becoming trans; the so-called biological male children who pretend to be girls to play sports, and the other little girls on the team who are devastated by this; the children getting gender-affirming surgery or other irreversible medical interventions; and several variants on these nonexisting kids.
None of these categories of children actually exist, even if a number of children are wrongly described in these terms by conservatives and their anti-trans allies. People who don’t exist are far better suited to cynical political manipulation and prurient psychological projection than are living, breathing children.
More at https://theintercept.com/2021/04/01/trans-kids-rights-arkansas-gop/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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The Conservative Movement Is Rejecting America
A recent essay in a prominent right-wing outlet gives an unusually clear window into the modern right’s anti-democratic worldview. The American Mind — a publication of the Claremont Institute, an influential conservative think tank based in California — published an incendiary essay arguing that the country has already been destroyed by internal enemies.
https://americanmind.org/salvo/why-the-claremont-institute-is-not-cons
ervative-and-you-shouldnt-be-either/
“Most people living in the United States today — certainly more than half — are not Americans in any meaningful sense of the term,” Glenn Ellmers, the essay’s author, writes. “They do not believe in, live by, or even like the principles, traditions, and ideals that until recently defined America as a nation and as a people. It is not obvious what we should call these citizen-aliens, these non-American Americans; but they are something else.”
These seditious citizens are opposed, according to Ellmers, by “the 75 million people who voted in the last election against the senile figurehead of a party that stands for mob violence, ruthless censorship, and racial grievances, not to mention bureaucratic despotism.” (74,222,958 voted for Trump. 81,283,098 for Biden.)
If Trump voters and conservatives do not band together and fight “a sort of counter-revolution,” then “the victory of progressive tyranny will be assured. See you in the gulag.”
What exactly this counter-revolution entails is unclear, but Ellmers has some tips. “Learn some useful skills, stay healthy, and get strong,” he writes. “One of my favorite weightlifting coaches likes to say, ‘Strong people are harder to kill, and more useful generally.’”
Ellmers’s essay has been widely discussed in American media and intellectual circles, due to its bracing honesty about the modern right’s worldview and the prominence of the outlet that published it. Claremont is an influential institution of the right; one of its publications, the Claremont Review of Books, published the notorious “Flight 93” essay arguing that the 2016 election was a choice between Trump and national extinction. (“2016 is the Flight 93 election: charge the cockpit or you die,” that essay declared in its opening line.)
Minutes before the January 6 assault on Capitol Hill, former President Donald Trump told his assembled supporters that “if you don’t fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore.” In a 2019 speech, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) warned that “we have come again to one of the great turning points in our national history, when the fate of our republican government is at issue.” In a 2020 Facebook post, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy declared that “Democrats want to defund, destroy, and dismantle our country.”
Ellmers’s essay should be taken seriously because it makes the anti-democratic subtext of conservative discourse into clearly legible text. And it is a clear articulation of what the movement has been telling us through its actions, like Georgia’s new voting law: It sees democracy not as a principle to respect, but as a barrier to be overcome in pursuit of permanent power.
More at https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2021/4/1/22356594/conservative
s-right-wing-democracy-claremont-ellmers
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Originally posted by reaverfan:Quote:The profound racism and ignorance you once again freely demonstrate here would be laughable, if it weren't so pathetic.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Why do you need somebody from the Media to tell you that people who are trying to come here illegally and leech off of our economy are invaders.
That's the real question. That's the only question.
It's not racism. It's NATIONALISM.
Do not conflate the two. You look like an idiot when you do.
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Add a $2.25 trillion infrastructure bill to a $1.9 trillion stimulus bill and what do you get? How about a massive economic infusion equal to roughly 20% of overall U.S. GDP. To be clear, the infrastructure spending won’t happen all in one year, more like eight years if all goes according to plan.
Bidenomics Is as American as Apple Pie. Big spending on infrastructure goes back to the Erie Canal.
The era of big government investment and high taxes on the rich coincided, not incidentally, with the U.S. economy’s greatest generation — the postwar decades of rapidly rising living standards.
But the story of public investment and progressive taxation in America goes back much further than the ’50s.
We’ve relied on government infrastructure investment to jump-start economic growth ever since the construction of the Erie Canal between 1818 and 1825. Unlike the privately owned canals that had proliferated in 18th-century Britain, the Erie Canal was built by the government of New York State, at a cost of $7 million. This may not sound like a lot, but the economy was vastly smaller then, and prices much lower too. As a share of state G.D.P., the canal was probably the equivalent of a $1 trillion national project today.
And a big public role in infrastructure continued down the generations. Land grants were used to promote railway construction and higher education. Teddy Roosevelt built the Panama Canal. F.D.R. brought electricity to rural areas. Eisenhower built the highway network.
So when Republicans denounce the American Jobs Plan as an “out-of-control socialist spending spree,” remember, large-scale public investment is the American way.
More at https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/01/opinion/biden-infrastructure.html
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Quote:Fixed. And yes, you're racist as fuck, and always were. Your nationalism IS racism (and fascism). You're just using a slightly different word.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
It's not racism. It's FASCISM.
Do not conflate the two. You look like an idiot when you do.
Every fascist in the world calls themselves a nationalist. Idiot.
https://www.justsecurity.org/72339/qanon-is-a-nazi-cult-rebranded/
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Republican Speaker of the House John Boehner is right about the GOP before Trump
Opinion by Charlie Dent, former Republican congressman from Pennsylvania who served as chairman of the House Ethics Committee.
During Donald Trump's presidency, many of his critics argued that he was the cause of so many problems plaguing the country and the Republican Party. While Trump was far from innocent, as a former member of Congress and lifelong Republican, I have never bought the simplicity of that argument.
Instead, Trump was a consequence of the shifting dynamics in the United States -- and specifically within the GOP -- that allowed an anti-establishment candidate to rise to power and act on his worst impulses while in office.
In simpler terms, Trump was gasoline on the proverbial fire.
Former House Speaker John Boehner, in excerpts from "On the House: A Washington Memoir," provides clear evidence that the Republican Party was already struggling with its identity and ideology long before Trump was a serious candidate for political office.
In the 2010 midterm elections, when the Tea Party-affiliated candidates gained a number of seats in Congress, Boehner wrote, "You could be a total moron and get elected just by having an R next to your name -- and that year, by the way, we did pick up a fair number in that category."
Unfortunately, those Boehner labeled "morons" gained an outsized voice within the House GOP conference, bringing their extreme views and conspiracy theories to Congress. They pushed for legislation that had no chance of passing -- including defunding Obamacare while President Barack Obama was in office and Democrats controlled the US Senate -- and attempted to obstruct the raising of the debt ceiling, which would have led to fiscal Armageddon.
Their views were further amplified by a right-wing media ecosystem eager to support these congressmen. As Boehner notes, Fox News talent, like Sean Hannity, and Fox News leadership, at the time Roger Ailes, were all too willing to provide those fringe members primetime placement every evening. After all, giving a public forum to those members to rant about their latest contrived outrage was good for ratings -- and the network's bottom line.
What made a number of these Tea Party members -- many of whom formed the Freedom Caucus -- so difficult to work with was their seeming lack of interest in actually governing. Instead, many of them were consumed with developing their media personas. Former US Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota, first elected in 2006, was one such example. Boehner writes that her political rise was emblematic of conservative media's ability to make "people who used to be fringe characters into powerful media stars." ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michele_Bachmann#113th_Congress Bachmann left a legacy of political missteps and lots of incendiary rhetoric — often loaded with false accusations and wild exaggerations.)
Rather than laying out policy plans to address issues facing everyday Americans, the rejectionist wing of the GOP was more interested in airing grievances, stoking anger and settling political scores. In contrast, I spent most of my days focused on doing my committee work, serving my district's interests and largely avoiding national media attention.
More at https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/02/opinions/john-boehner-right-gop-pre-tru
mp-dent/index.html
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Originally posted by reaverfan:Quote:And yes, you're racist as fuck, and always were. Your nationalism IS racism (and fascism). You're just using a slightly different word.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
It's not racism. It's NATIONALISM.
Do not conflate the two. You look like an idiot when you do.
Every fascist in the world calls themselves a nationalist. Idiot.
https://www.justsecurity.org/72339/qanon-is-a-nazi-cult-rebranded/
I'm sure my step-dad, who's MEXICAN parents moved here legally and worked their asses off are racists too.
You're an idiot.
That's the problem with all you virtue signalling white idiots. You think you speak for everybody.
I assure you that you don't.
You are an enemy of America, and of all Americans of any ethnicity.
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Quote:There is a place in Texas I know well called Barrett Station. The demographics have not been updated for 2020 to show an influx of Hispanics and it doesn't get mentioned in the Wikipedia, but the blacks are secretly contemptuous of the Mexicans. You might call it racism. And the Mexicans are secretly contemptuous of the blacks. Could be called racism. And the white man second is amazed at how foolish people are in secret about racism.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I'm sure my step-dad, who's MEXICAN parents moved here legally and worked their asses off are racists too.
You're an idiot.
That's the problem with all you virtue signalling white idiots. You think you speak for everybody.
I assure you that you don't.
You are an enemy of America, and of all Americans of any ethnicity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrett,_Texas#Demographics
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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"Virtue signaling." -Another Nazi tell. To the Nazi's twisted mind, anyone who stands up for anything is "virtue signaling," because in their world, no one is capable of caring about anyone else.
GOP: break your Keurig, burn your Nikes, don’t watch CNN, MLB, NBA, NFL, or NASCAR, don’t shop at Walmart, Target, Kohl’s, Nordstrom, or Macy’s, don’t drink Pepsi or Starbucks, don’t watch HBO or Netflix and don’t eat Oreos.
Also GOP: Let’s talk about how cancel culture is bad. 
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