"Anarchism's great project is to dissolve the asymmetry of power. How? There are thousands of alternatives and there is not only one solution. To advance 'one' solution would be a doctrine of power, a manifestation of power."
@strypey Human Rights is the one doctrine, a prime directive, if you will, that by definition does not pit one party against another in a power struggle. Equal rights for all!
“The Republican plan to sneakily cut Medicaid, explained: Medicaid work requirements are really just spending cuts in disguise.
The Republican proposal to require people to work in order to receive Medicaid benefits poses an existential question about the very nature of government assistance: Do you need to do something to earn it?”
I’ve often thought that America needs a third party to balance out the extremophiles in this extant duopoly of aristocratic ochlocracies.
A “White Party”, an analogue to the “Rainbow Nation”, where the core principles are strictly: UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights, international rule-of-law, and truth-seeking as witnesses before God.
I just got a notification on my watch. When I opened it, It was a giant fucking photo of Jordan Neely being murdered. It took up the entire screen. This shit is TRAUMATIC. STOP IT.
@StillIRise1963@edsuom I’ve often thought that America needs a third party to balance out the extremophiles in this extant duopoly of aristocratic ochlocracies.
A “White Party”, an analogue to the “Rainbow Nation”, where the core principles are strictly: UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights, international rule-of-law, and truth-seeking as witnesses before God.
@Sh4d0w_H34rt@RollingStone If they really cared to make real progress, they would have actually ratified the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
United States of America, Signed: 5 October 1977, Ratified: No.
The Obama Administration stated "The Administration does not seek action at this time" on the Covenant.
"And how long shall we have to wait before the rest of mankind become pacifists too? There is no telling. ... By what paths or by what side-tracks this will come about we cannot guess. But one thing we can say: whatever fosters the growth of civilization works at the same time against war."
There were two domestic, right-wing terrorist attacks in Texas this weekend, and we are not talking enough about how the Republican Party has intentionally seeded this bloodshed.
@RichStein@alexwild I’ve often thought that America needs a third party to balance out the extremophiles in this extant duopoly of aristocratic ochlocracies.
A “White Party”, an analogue to the “Rainbow Nation”, where the core principles are strictly: UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights, international rule-of-law, and truth-seeking as witnesses before God.
Can all of Americans get together on a class action lawsuit against the NRA and Republicans for emotional trauma and holding the nation hostage on current gun laws?
Not really asking for a friend. Asking for everyone 😢
@Lowie How about another class action lawsuit against the Republicans and the Democrats for not yet ratifying the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights?
@Lowie I’m unclear on what the term “false equivalency” means to you. Similarly, I’m not sure what you mean by “equal”.
I’ll elaborate on my opinion if you would do me the kindness of briefly defining your operational terms or pointing me to a definition that you agree with.
In the meantime, do I see both parties as flip sides of the same problematic coin? Yes, I do. 🥶
I’m so confused. The World Health Organization says that 1 in 10 COVID infections could result in a need for long-term care. But the emergency is over? In other words, people have just thrown their hands up and decided there’s nothing that can be done. Between all the shootings and low wages and lack of healthcare and now this, no wonder there’s a shortage of therapists in the United States
@DrPsyBuffy If you care about mental health, then you need to be pushing your representatives to have the USA actually ratify the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
United States of America, Signed: 5 October 1977, Ratified: No.
The Obama Administration stated "The Administration does not seek action at this time" on the Covenant.
@Bargdaffy@TheUSASingers If they really cared to make real progress, they would have actually ratified the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
United States of America, Signed: 5 October 1977, Ratified: No.
The Obama Administration stated "The Administration does not seek action at this time" on the Covenant.
Gun violence is now the leading cause of death among children in the United States.
Every developed nation has people with mental illness, video games, disgruntled ex-employees, alienated people, homicidal and suicidal persons, etc. Why does the U.S. have the problem it does?
It’s the same things it always is- the number of firearms, access to them, fetishism surrounding the 2nd Amendment, and the immense political power of the firearms industry.
@fritzcokid Heh, here's what they've done: nothing.
Neither have the DEM.
If you care about mental health, then you need to be pushing your representatives to have the USA actually ratify the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
United States of America, Signed: 5 October 1977, Ratified: No.
The Obama Administration stated "The Administration does not seek action at this time" on the Covenant.
I don't care what they say, how is someone who is complaining about being hungry, thirsty and tired in a mental health crisis? The only crisis is how we fail everyone.
We are a cruel nation. We stopped caring at all during the Reagan administration. And we have never gone back to caring in any way shape or form.
I don't have any idea what was in the guy who murdered Jordan Neely was thinking but he murdered him. In cold blood
“Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services…”
"This anxious hand-wringing over what should be a cut-and-dried constitutional issue is symptomatic of Democrats’ approach to the debt ceiling in general. They, along with mainstream media coverage, helplessly validate the framing of the ceiling as an ironclad legal obstacle, when in reality it would be every bit as illegal for Biden to respect it as ignore it. After all, Congress passed a budget in December funding the government through September requiring him to spend at defined levels. Yet this law is treated as somehow less valid than the constitutionally questionable debt ceiling."
This is how the Democratic party treats every issue. Typically progressive criticism frames it as haplessness or, at worst, incompetence. But incompetence can't explain all of it. After 40+ years of watching Dems "accidentally" fail to accomplish their stated goals, I no longer believe that their stated goals match their true goals.
Republicans come up with all kinds of red herrings to distract attention from the obvious fact that guns are the problem.
Mental illness, too soon, thoughts and prayers - the list goes on.
“Illegal immigrant” now from Greg Abbott, as if that somehow mitigates the deaths of 5 people and doesn’t even appear to be true. But this is who the GOP are.
Only 50% of registered Texas voters voted in 2022. Thinking that your vote doesn’t matter because you live in a red county/state? What if it would?
@walterdunham@maddad@TonyStark the Democrats lost my vote when they blocked Lawrence Lessig from the Presidential Debates, the Republicans lost my vote when they failed to uphold Human Rights, so tell me again how my vote matters?