Aug 18, 2017
He Has No Soul
"He is the malevolent fury..."
Lawrence O'Donnell with Bill Moyers
Lawrence O'Donnell with Bill Moyers
And here are some of the art pieces Lawrence referred to:
hat tip = Walker Thornton
Monday, August 21, 2017
🇺🇸 ☀️ 🇸🇪— Alexander Verbeek 🌍 (@Alex_Verbeek) April 3, 2017
August 21, 2017:
Another dark day in the U.S. with a solar eclipse
But @stockholm_act starts that day 😀pic.twitter.com/IBI0enY3yP
Aug 17, 2017
Trumpy Bear
Like everybody else, I keep thinking it just can't get any weirder - and then it does.
I have no idea if this is a real thing, but here it is.
I have no idea if this is a real thing, but here it is.
The company peddling this thing is apparently real - looks that way anyway.
Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste or intelligence of the American consumer.
A Letter
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| Stonewall Jackson - Monument Avenue, Richmond VA |
From 2 direct descendants of Stonewall Jackson.
We are native Richmonders and also the great, great grandsons of Stonewall Jackson. As two of the closest living relatives to Stonewall, we are writing today to ask for the removal of his statue, as well as the removal of all Confederate statues from Monument Avenue. They are overt symbols of racism and white supremacy, and the time is long overdue for them to depart from public display. Overnight, Baltimore has seen fit to take this action. Richmond should, too.
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Confederate monuments like the Jackson statue were never intended as benign symbols. Rather, they were the clearly articulated artwork of white supremacy. Among many examples, we can see this plainly if we look at the dedication of a Confederate statue at the University of North Carolina, in which a speaker proclaimed that the Confederate soldier “saved the very life of the Anglo-Saxon race in the South.” Disturbingly, he went on to recount a tale of performing the “pleasing duty” of “horse whipping” a black woman in front of federal soldiers. All over the South, this grotesque message is conveyed by similar monuments. As importantly, this message is clear to today’s avowed white supremacists.
As is usually the case here in USAmerica Inc, we get hung up on the symbol itself - or we get too use to feeling comfortable with the hagiographic bullshit swirling around those symbols - and we forget about what the damned thing actually stands for.
Confederate monuments like the Jackson statue were never intended as benign symbols. Rather, they were the clearly articulated artwork of white supremacy. Among many examples, we can see this plainly if we look at the dedication of a Confederate statue at the University of North Carolina, in which a speaker proclaimed that the Confederate soldier “saved the very life of the Anglo-Saxon race in the South.” Disturbingly, he went on to recount a tale of performing the “pleasing duty” of “horse whipping” a black woman in front of federal soldiers. All over the South, this grotesque message is conveyed by similar monuments. As importantly, this message is clear to today’s avowed white supremacists.
Participation Trophies.
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| Jefferson Davis - Monument Avenue, Richmond VA |
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| JEB Stuart - Monument Avenue, Richmond VA |
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| Robert E Lee - Monument Avenue, Richmond VA |
Today's Tweet
Learn sumpthin', bubba
Let us be clear.— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) August 16, 2017
Putting the statues up in the first place was "sanitizing history."
What's going on now is fumigating history.
Aug 16, 2017
Hardening Evidence
So, this isn't fully baked yet - it has to be submitted for peer-review and then maybe we'll see it in the journals.
Vox, Brian Resnick
One of the starkest, darkest findings in the survey comes from a simple question: How evolved do you think other people are?
Kteily, the co-author on this paper, pioneered this new and disturbing way to measure dehumanization — the tendency to see others as being less than human. He simply shows study participants the following (scientifically inaccurate) image of a human ancestor slowly learning how to stand on two legs and become fully human.
Participants are asked to rate where certain groups fall on this scale from 0 to 100. Zero is not human at all; 100 is fully human.
Vox, Brian Resnick
One of the starkest, darkest findings in the survey comes from a simple question: How evolved do you think other people are?
Kteily, the co-author on this paper, pioneered this new and disturbing way to measure dehumanization — the tendency to see others as being less than human. He simply shows study participants the following (scientifically inaccurate) image of a human ancestor slowly learning how to stand on two legs and become fully human.
Participants are asked to rate where certain groups fall on this scale from 0 to 100. Zero is not human at all; 100 is fully human.
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Also important: Alt-righters in the sample aren’t all that concerned about the economy. The survey used a common set of Pew question that asks about the current state of the economy, and about whether participants feel like things are going to improve for them. Here, both groups reported about the same levels of confidence in the economy.
What’s more, “the alt-right expected more improvement in the state of the economy relative to the non-alt-right sample,” the study states (perhaps because their preferred leader is president).
Fake Jesus wept.
Also important: Alt-righters in the sample aren’t all that concerned about the economy. The survey used a common set of Pew question that asks about the current state of the economy, and about whether participants feel like things are going to improve for them. Here, both groups reported about the same levels of confidence in the economy.
What’s more, “the alt-right expected more improvement in the state of the economy relative to the non-alt-right sample,” the study states (perhaps because their preferred leader is president).
Fake Jesus wept.
This Gets Weirder Still
"So you're not really a White Supremacist?"
"Apparently not."
It's a wonderment.
hat tip =@justcallmeBABA
"Apparently not."
It's a wonderment.
hat tip =
Cornered
Christopher Cantwell - Alt-Right, Smug-White, Fucking Nazi Ass-Wipe - the guy they spotlighted in that VICE piece on HBO a few days ago.
It's the Age Of Poor Poor Pitiful Me.
It's the Age Of Poor Poor Pitiful Me.
Something that just got clearer: these jagoffs talk trash all the time about how "all those people" are getting everything for free, and they're a burden to society, and honest tax-paying Americans always have to pick up the tab, and blah blah blah.
But Cantwell's not bitchin' because somebody else is gettin' the goodies - he's bitchin' cuz he's not gettin' the goodies.
There's a lot of weirdness rattling around in my brain about all this - economic pyramids, and wealth disparity, and Maslov's Hierarchy, and the downward pressure of that Supply Side crap, and what always happens when there's too much power in too few hands and too many people with nothing more to lose.
The kicker is - I wasn't expecting Cantwell to be so scared. You don't cry like that if you're not scared. And that's quite the odd little wrinkle.
Mr Colbert
Stephen brings it. And even tho' it seems like the jokes are writing themselves, this is work, kids. It's not as easy as it might look.
Today's Tweet
Now that's one eloquent lady
I'm a rabbi.— Rav Danya Ruttenberg (@TheRaDR) August 15, 2017
I believe words have power.
I try to choose mine carefully.
Fuck you, Trump.
Aug 15, 2017
Scary Shit
HBO's VICE News via YouTube:
...but a little bit encouraging in spite of it all.
Because we've been here before, and we managed to muddle thru just by stumbling forward.
...but a little bit encouraging in spite of it all.
Because we've been here before, and we managed to muddle thru just by stumbling forward.
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