What can Democrats realistically do between now and next November from stopping the Trump dictatorship from beginning? It seems like we're all just sleepwalking towards a cliff right now...
remember #democracy? where we get to #debate our positions, look for the people who would best represent us, well before the big day, we ought to be searching for the very best.
We don’t just need a Not #Trump for our future #US leader. We need an experienced, intelligent,
calm, resourceful, compassionate, charismatic #representative of our best #values to bring us forward
through vastly complex troubled times.
“I look at #Israel and Israel says we never want another person into our country that doesn’t share our #values They said they don’t want #refugees. They don’t want any of these people. I want #American#immigration#policy to be like that.” ~Charlie Kirk, American #Fascist
It’s true that Christish tradition is to send #greeting#cards for the #holiday of the sender and not the recipient, but that just doesn’t reflect our great nation’s Islamojudaic #values.
Pick up some Christish cards at my shop for whichever of their #holidays is up next.
"A liar, fraud, money launderer, indicted, hanger on-er is expelled from Congress, while a liar, fraud, money launderer, indicted, hanger on-er is leading the GOP race for President. This conundrum is not a conundrum at all. In fact, it’s a feature of today’s GOP."
"useful organizational values come in the form of tradeoffs: giving up one nice thing in order to get some other nice thing. Wishy-washy values like "respect your co-workers" aren't really values, because nobody would ever pick a value like "don't respect your co-workers." ...
"A real value is something like ... "deliver the software on schedule, even if there are bugs." In both cases, one can legitimately imagine valuing the opposite."
Robin Wall Kimmerer says we have a “shared responsibility for Mother Earth,” and Indigenous understandings can help us heal our relationship with the land. I wrote about three of those values: responsibility, respect, and reciprocity, and what might be possible if they informed Western science.
New at Nature :: Spirit: "What Does the Earth Ask of Us?"
Our state of denial of the role of cars
The normalisation of crashes must stop Pt.2
"These policies have promoted car-based infrastructure and urban sprawl. Public transport and active transport such as walking and cycling have been neglected.
Children are the victims of our obsession with allowing heavy, fast-moving vehicles in our everyday spaces, including around schools.
The freedom of car drivers comes at the expense of the freedom of all others. At the same time, the environment and society bear most of the costs of this car culture.
It’s essentially a form of victim blaming. Instead of reducing the source of violence, we tell everybody to be more careful around it.
We need to recognise that the car threatens children’s safety and their right to independently roam public spaces. This directly threatens their long-term health and wellbeing.
Car drivers’ rights are not more important than children’s rights to be safe on our streets. The interests of those who oppose measures such as reduced car parking or lower speed limits should not be more important than our children’s wellbeing. No benefit of a pro-car policy can be greater than the benefit of children’s active presence in public spaces, where they have a right to be imperfect and distracted."
Pt. 1 https://mastodon.au/@Bellingen/111338456771726719
My big take home from the Anarchist Bookfair yesterday was that most anarchists who don’t teach in conventional schools see the word “teacher” and (perhaps rightly) think “cop” 😂 However there are many of us anarchist teachers out there trying to do better than the school system is built to allow and offer, often at great psychic cost, our students and colleagues glimpses of better alternatives to the current system from WITHIN the current system. Because, for the most part, that’s where the people are. It’s a constant daily battle and involves a lot of holding our noses and making compromises to balance our values with the antithetical demands of the job. But there are a lot of us out there trying to make a difference and struggling with the mental toll of it.
"U.S. Culture and Multiculturalism": A longtime professor in Japan looks back at the U.S. in terms of culture. See this self-explanatory slideshow for Thai and Japanese university participants on what culture is, world cultures and values, and comparative culture. For example, you can see intercultural communication research findings on where the U.S., Japan, and Thailand stand on the cultural dimension of individualism vs. collectivism. The presentation aims for objectivity, so you can draw your own conclusions: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/374143089_US_Culture_and_Multiculturalism
Are you at Mensch & Computer and interested in #values in design? Michael Bui will present our paper on “Patient Journey Value Mapping: Illustrating values and experiences along the patient journey to support eHealth design” today at 14:00 in building 4.
the circus that currently performs in finnish government is getting so out of hands that im just waiting for the day it just implodes in on it self like couple billionaires in a submarine.
Wrap up about that utterly ridiculous “equality paper” that is all about beautiful sentences distracting from the original problem; which is that we have racist nazis as ministers in the government.
Meaning, for example, that you permit me to follow you with any software I like. And so I permit you to follow me with any software you like. It wouldn’t feel right if we didn’t reciprocate.
I can comment on your stuff. You can comment on my stuff. (Unless one of us gets abusive, for example, then reciprocity ends.)
Perhaps this is a lens we can use to tell whether #meta is participating in good faith or not.