They just get worse and worse

[Romana]

Just looked in at Twitter. Susan Sarandon is trending. After scrolling past the right wing snark about "liberals" and the liberals' tweets saying, "hell no, we don't want her", I found this :

Actress Susan Sarandon retweets message comparing cops at funeral for fallen NYPD Officer Jason Rivera to ‘fascists’

Actress Susan Sarandon in an eyebrow-raising tweet has called into question the need for police in New York City — and she did it by reposting a message likening cops at the funeral for fallen Officer Jason Rivera to…

www.nydailynews.com

 

[Aribeth Zelin]

It's getting worse and worse here. Many people think these racists and nazi's are a joke, that they're a small percentage of the population but I think Kamilah got it right in another post when he said that 1/3 of the country would happily kill the other third while 1/3 looks on. My guess is that I would probably be in that first third they want to kill off, but if not, then I can't just look on. I don't know what I'm going to do when all hell breaks out but I can't just look on. I can't.

I'm doing everything I can now to help Charlie Crist, even though he's actually a Republican turned Democrat because the GOP has become so batshit crazy. But he's better than DeSatan.

Well, I guess it counts because looking back, the 1/3 they want to kill usually includes those who refuse to just look away and act like its normal.

 

[Rose Karuna]

Saw this today and thought it had a lot of truth to it.


Also another post in this tweet was one by Wednesday Addams (AKA Miss Andry), I thought this was a very interesting observation.

She holds up a sign that reads

"We were taught to fear witches but not those that burned them alive"

 

[Aribeth Zelin]

Saw this today and thought it had a lot of truth to it.


Also another post in this tweet was one by Wednesday Addams (AKA Miss Andry), I thought this was a very interesting observation.

She holds up a sign that reads

Again, its not a fear issue - they know who their supporters are. Their only fear is that the rest of us will stand up against their evil.

[And yeah, because we're taught to fear witches -by- those who tortured and murdered 'witches'

 

[Noodles]

The media production industry (film, TV, etc.) employs twice as many people in Georgia as the coal industry in the whole US, and a bit less than half the number of people who voted for her in the last election.

They should just move then. Make sure the termination letters clearly state "MTG told us to leave, so we did."

 

[Aribeth Zelin]

They should just move then. Make sure the termination letters clearly state "MTG told us to leave, so we did."

Okay, so...

I've a couple of friends, both worked in the La film industry - one is a reasonably well known actor, and his wife is or at least was a special effects artist [makeup stuffs].

When Bobby Jindal drove the movie industry away, they stopped working - in their fields. He was doing booze deliveries, and she was working retail.

The problem with this sort of shit [on her part, not yours] and companies going 'K, bai.' is it hurts normal people more than it hurts the MTGs and Bobby Jindals of this world. And I think people have gotten tired of getting caught in the crossfire.

That said, I wish every single chain business in Florida would pull out over the current fines if you require masks or vaccines in your businesses. But I know how badly it would hurt my neighbors.

 

[danielravennest]

They should just move then. Make sure the termination letters clearly state "MTG told us to leave, so we did."

The main reason there is so much media production in Georgia is the tax credits. The second reason is lower cost than big media places like Los Angeles. We want *her* to leave, not leave ourselves. Her district is literally hillbilly country - part of the Appalachians. Its not representative of the whole state, just one redneck corner of it.

 

[bubblesort]

I was surfing reddit, and ran across this dramatic picture of a book burning in Tennesee (link to thread where I found it):

This was done by a pastor, who is a Q anon person. Many of the books they burned were Harry Potter, which is... kinda weird. I mean, the left hates Rowling, because she's a transphobic bigot, but sometimes I forget the right hates her, too. She's nobody's friend!

This stuff bothers me, because one of my formative political experiences in middle school was when my mother burned my D&D and Cyberpunk 2020 books in the back yard barbecue. I never forgave anybody involved in the satanic panic for that, and I don't think I ever will (from both parties!).

I wonder at what point book burning will cease to have any symbolic power. I mean, most books are already distributed in digital form, which you can't really burn. Also, it's not like the middle ages, when burning a book was destroying a thing of immense monetary value, that only royalty and clergy were allowed to posses. It's also not really censorship, because since the lithographic revolution, no matter how many copies of a book you burn, we can always print up more copies. Book burning is not about a failing of the person who wrote or legally owns the book in question. Book burning is really all about the impotent rage of the burner. It's a symbol of their pathetic powerlessness. That doesn't make it right... it just makes it sad.

The engagement metrics for books that get burned are huge, though, because engagement is all about impotent rage! This is great marketing. I wonder if Rowling paid for this bonfire.

 

[Aribeth Zelin]

The main reason there is so much media production in Georgia is the tax credits. The second reason is lower cost than big media places like Los Angeles. We want *her* to leave, not leave ourselves. Her district is literally hillbilly country - part of the Appalachians. Its not representative of the whole state, just one redneck corner of it.

I don't know if I'd consider Paulding to be Appalachian - that's actually a pretty nice place -then again, I haven't seen the new map yet.

 

[Rose Karuna]

I was surfing reddit, and ran across this dramatic picture of a book burning in Tennesee (link to thread where I found it):
<snip>
I wonder at what point book burning will cease to have any symbolic power. I mean, most books are already distributed in digital form, which you can't really burn. Also, it's not like the middle ages, when burning a book was destroying a thing of immense monetary value, that only royalty and clergy were allowed to posses. It's also not really censorship, because since the lithographic revolution, no matter how many copies of a book you burn, we can always print up more copies. Book burning is not about a failing of the person who wrote or legally owns the book in question. Book burning is really all about the impotent rage of the burner. It's a symbol of their pathetic powerlessness. That doesn't make it right... it just makes it sad.
<snip>

This is a really interesting observation, is there still power in book burning when so many things are now in digital form?

I think that even though it's symbolic, there is. In this time period, it's still about how certain groups of people are still trying to restrict what other people (particularly young people) can read, digital or otherwise.

For example when a school board restricts certain courses (like CRT) or certain texts from being used in teaching or they don't not allow them to be included in a library. Or when companies refuse to sell certain digital (or other) media. Or when, as in your case, parents decide that their child should not read something and take action to remove it.

My personal opinion is that removing "offensive" material (games, books or other media) is much more harmful both to society and to children. You only restrict knowledge when you want to control people. So when people burn books, symbolically or literally by removing them from circulation, it should be a big red flag to a free society.

 

[Soen Eber]

Myself, I'm still waiting for the bonfire of the vanities. Oh Lord! Look at all those iPods melting! Cry for the jet skis!

...and it'll never happen. Rethuglicans' true god is materialism.

 

[danielravennest]

Also, it's not like the middle ages, when burning a book was destroying a thing of immense monetary value, that only royalty and clergy were allowed to posses.

It is not that books were restricted, just that they were very expensive. Parchment was made from animal skin, so a book's worth required about a flock of sheep as raw materials. Writing with a quill pen took about a year of educated (for their day) labor. Monasteries had both the animals (they owned enough land to support themselves) and enough people who could read and write, and they had an interest in preserving religious books. As an example, The Duke of Berry (french) owned 60 books, and that was considered a great library. But a village priest might not own any, not even a Bible. That was reserved for the bishop and his cathedral. Once papermaking and the printing press were developed in Europe, there was an explosion of book production.

 

[danielravennest]

I don't know if I'd consider Paulding to be Appalachian - that's actually a pretty nice place -then again, I haven't seen the new map yet.

Paulding is suburban Atlanta, and parts of it turned blue in 2020. But back when they drew that map, it was solid red, and they needed a county with enough population to make up the total for a district. The mountains are in the NW corner of the state where the rest of her district is.

 

[Romana]

Virginia's new governor, folks :

 

[Romana]

Right wing bots, Republicans running for office, and probably Russian troll farms are now busy in Twitter spreading the life that Biden wants to give out free crack pipes (something to do with a safe needle space idea for drug users that soneobe proposed, I think).
So of course they're taking aim at Hunter Biden again. It makes me so mad, because I just can't help thinking that they want to drive him back into addiction or worse.
Hopefully all it will do is boost sales of his book.

 

[Aribeth Zelin]

Right wing bots, Republicans running for office, and probably Russian troll farms are now busy in Twitter spreading the life that Biden wants to give out free crack pipes (something to do with a safe needle space idea for drug users that soneobe proposed, I think).
So of course they're taking aim at Hunter Biden again. It makes me so mad, because I just can't help thinking that they want to drive him back into addiction or worse.
Hopefully all it will do is boost sales of his book.

Crack pipes - that's a dog whistle if I've ever seen one. Its sort of like the whole crack down under Reagan.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Arkansas officials praise doctor accused of giving inmates ivermectin without consent

Despite lawsuit filed against Dr Robert Karas by four inmates, local officials have praised him for a ‘job well done’

www.theguardian.com

Evernote link

 

[Spirits Rising]

Arkansas officials praise doctor accused of giving inmates ivermectin without consent

Despite lawsuit filed against Dr Robert Karas by four inmates, local officials have praised him for a ‘job well done’

www.theguardian.com

Evernote link

Oh hey, a "doctor" and a set of officials that ought to lose their jobs, be blacklisted and ostracized.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

‘Gazpacho police’: Nazi gaffe lands Republican congresswoman in the soup

Marjorie Taylor Greene appears to confuse Hitler’s secret police with popular Spanish cold tomato soup

www.theguardian.com

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The Georgia congresswoman has made numerous bigoted statements and her spreading of Covid misinformation has seen her ousted from Twitter. She made the most recent comments in an interview on Real America with Dan Ball, produced by the rightwing One America News Network television channel.

“Not only do we have the DC jail which is the DC gulag, but now we have Nancy Pelosi’s gazpacho police spying on members of Congress, spying on the legislative work that we do, spying on our staff and spying on American citizens,” she said, referring to the Democratic speaker of the House.

Greene did not explain why she thought Pelosi would form a police force inspired by gazpacho soup, nor why it would then carry out such extensive surveillance at the heart of American democracy.

ETA

 

[GoblinCampFollower]

‘Gazpacho police’: Nazi gaffe lands Republican congresswoman in the soup

Marjorie Taylor Greene appears to confuse Hitler’s secret police with popular Spanish cold tomato soup

www.theguardian.com

Evernote link

She really is every bit as embarrassing as Republicans think AOC is.