KashifShah

@KashifShah@mastodon.sdf.org

Retired .NET enterprise software developer and computing nerd.
Bachelor of Arts dual-degrees in Mathematics and Psychology.
Neurodivergent and “medically frail”.
Pakistani-Irish-American, Radical Moderate, and (illiterate) Muslim.
Occasional enjoyer of kayaking and sport touring by car or motorcycle.
Connoisseur of science fiction and national-chain pizza.
Looking for ways to give back to the community.

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doctorjaymarie, to random

"No Black American was intended to be a citizen of the United States by the framers."

Martha S. Jones, Citizenship, in The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story (created by Nikole Hannah-Jones)

KashifShah,

@doctorjaymarie The UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) ought to supersede our Declaration of Independence (1776) and we ought to update our constitution to match.

“Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world,”

https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-human-rights

KashifShah,

@doctorjaymarie Aye, good doctor, it’s going to take a massive grassroots effort to break the duopoly and the politicians of their dishonorable behavior over the last 75 years.

KashifShah,

@blacktraffic @c_merriweather @doctorjaymarie indeed, i’ve noticed some similar insights. i mean, even take a look at recent efforts to require “working” to obtain medicaid, here in the states.

Radical_EgoCom, to random

How long before people start resorting to violence as the only logical conclusion?

KashifShah,

@timgatewood @Radical_EgoCom The only way to defeat fascism is to strictly adhere to the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
“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, and …”

https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-human-rights

sharonecathcart, to random
@sharonecathcart@sfba.social avatar

Quote from article: Gutting the federal government and throwing power to the states makes it easier for business leaders to cozy up to legislators and slash business regulations. It also enables a radical minority to enact its own worldview despite the wishes of the state. This dynamic is very clear over abortion rights and gun safety.

Last June, quite dramatically, the Supreme Court overturned federal protection of the right to an abortion guaranteed in the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision. In the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health decision the right-wing court said that decisions about abortion rights belonged to voters at the state level.

But as the last ten months have made clear, the right wing does not really intend to let the voters of the states make decisions that contradict right-wing ideology.

https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/april-28-2023?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

KashifShah,

@sharonecathcart Time for a radical majority to speak up as loudly as those at the margins?

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2022/01/05/americans-at-the-ends-of-the-ideological-spectrum-are-the-most-active-in-national-politics/

Please check out these hastags. If you like what you see, please follow and contribute with high-quality, accurate posts:

flexghost, to random
@flexghost@mastodon.social avatar

At least 5 or dead in Texas from another mass shooting

Another man with an A.R. 15 style rifle

He shot the victims execution style. Victims range from 8 to 40 years of age

Why?

Someone asked the murderer to be quiet because a baby was sleeping

So far in 2023
There have been 13,716 gun violence deaths
174 mass shootings
568 children under 18 murdered

It’s the guns.

KashifShah,

@maddad @flexghost

juddlegum, to random
@juddlegum@journa.host avatar

Oh look, we are now calling peaceful protests "mob action" and deeming it a "threat to democracy"

KashifShah,

@juddlegum there are mobs in the radical-right and the radical-left. if people keep this up, we will turn into competing ochlocracies instead of a democracy

KashifShah, to random

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/voices/stop-using-phony-science-to-justify-transphobia/

KashifShah, to random

a blast from the past

rbreich, to random
@rbreich@masto.ai avatar

GOP strategy:

  1. Cut taxes for the rich & corporations, claiming they'll pay for themselves

  2. Explode the deficit

  3. Use the debt & deficit as an excuse to demand cuts to programs that millions rely on

  4. Repeat

They're trying to get away with it again. We can't let them.

KashifShah,

@rbreich for some ways to fight back

seachanger, to random

i feel like we're all "neurodivergent" and i'm tired of pathologizing different types of minds. especially when "neurotypical" happens to be the kind that advances capitalism from the rank and file most efficiently. when will we accept that everything falls on a spectrum, and that the narrow norms we've been living within are just the ones that push the most money up to the top?

KashifShah,

@seachanger @msquebanh i don’t think that protecting a rigid gender binary is necessarily a defense of the capitalist order. i see it as a defense of natural bio-norms for purposes of reproduction within the species

in this day and age of science, though, i believe there are healthy approaches where gender-typical people can embrace gender-diversity while continuing to embrace the family unit

i think that reading between the lines in makes that a clear goal

thoughts?

KashifShah,

@seachanger there’s nothing inherently pathological about being neurodivergent or neurodiverse, for sure. i’m neurodivergent in at least a few different ways. but there is merit in recognizing when a specific condition causes specific, treatable problems with functioning.

for example, there are neurodivergences in the category of social behavior where an individual is extremely limited in the capacity to respect the rights of others.

when does it actually become a pathology?

JoelforWI, to random
KashifShah,

@JoelforWI and the DEM strategy is any different?

KashifShah,

@JoelforWI flip sides of the same evil coin…

as it stands today, it is my opinion that the our “democracy” is on the verge of becoming a concrete duopoly of chimeral aristocracy+ochlocracy.

a better strategy:

KashifShah,

@JoelforWI neither Party has done their actual job about - why haven’t either Party yet mandated the education of elementary-school age children about it? Why is it not yet mandated that all secondary-school age young adults be educated in the full scale and scope of their human rights and in the context of the history of the Greatest Generation and the War to End All Wars?

As Einstein asked of Freud: Why War?

KashifShah,

@JoelforWI no comment?

KashifShah,

@JoelforWI > “Not true in the US.”

Can you point to some specific legislation that supports your statement?

> “Gen Z appears to be fearful, good. They should be. We should all keep that going.”

You, as a self-described Democrat, are making my point for me about the equivalency of Democratic and Republican strategies - both use fear to try to control the people, which is in direct conflict with the principles of the and the basis for that fear is often contrary-to-fact

KashifShah,

@JoelforWI Perhaps you are living in the past? That you haven’t yet supported your take on these opinions with facts is beginning to speak volumes.

KashifShah,

@JoelforWI The question was why have neither Democrats nor Republicans yet mandated the education of secondary-school age children about the UNUDHR, as is expected by internationally agreed-upon standards set 75 years ago.

It is demonizing when you equate the Republican Party with fascists or Q-Anon as a means to instill fear in the populace and steer people towards the Democratic Party. There are plenty of other examples of Democrats using fear-baiting, just like Republicans.

KashifShah,

@sharonecathcart @JoelforWI something to keep in mind: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2022/01/05/americans-at-the-ends-of-the-ideological-spectrum-are-the-most-active-in-national-politics/

KashifShah,

@JoelforWI @sharonecathcart > “Got a point besides wringing your hands that you believe I'm too blunt?”

I believe that I’ve made my points sufficiently clear.

You consistently cross the line from being blunt to being disrespectful and undignified while simultaneously consistently failing to support your opinions with lawful facts.

And so the time has come for me to indefinitely isolate you from my feed.

KashifShah, to random

it’s nice to know that I wasn’t alone in the idea of being a .

here is a discourse that I found after independently arriving at this politik:

https://areomagazine.com/2021/06/14/why-i-am-a-radical-moderate/

“Hyper-polarisation is now the norm, and it creates pressure for people to come down squarely on one side or the other. A more nuanced position works against this and helps support free speech, democratic dialogue and civil disagreement: pluralistic values fundamental to our multiracial democratic experiment.”

KashifShah, to humanrights

“…
Whereas it is essential, if man is not to be compelled to have recourse, as a last resort, to rebellion against tyranny and oppression, that human rights should be protected by the rule of law,
…”

https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-human-rights

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