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bhahne

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US / San Francisco Bay Area. He/him. Democracy defense info page: bonhoffer.tv/democracy Resources page to fight the use of transphobia in the 2024 US election: https://sites.google.com/site/bonhoffertv/transequality

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FAIR, to random
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Likely part of the reason why the good news about real wages hasn’t broken through to the public is that media have frequently framed wage growth as a concern, rather than as a positive development that allows people to defend themselves from rising prices.

https://fair.org/home/media-obsession-with-inflation-has-manufactured-discontent/

bhahne,
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@FAIR And in fact there's one of those "wage growth is pushing prices out of control, everybody panic!" pieces up right now on Yahoo Finance They specialize in high volume, low quality content. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/mcdonalds-18-big-mac-meal-181159814.html

18+ TonyStark, to random
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Inside the MAGA bubble, the economy is awful, no one has a job, and Biden is asleep.

In the land of reality and statistics, the economy is doing well and Americans are better off. One reason why is that Democrats and Joe Biden are better at operating the country and it’s economy and pass good legislation that invests in workers and families as a whole.

December jobs report: Hiring holds steady in December : NPR-
https://www.npr.org/2024/01/05/1222714145/jobs-report-december-labor-wages

bhahne,
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@TonyStark Paul Krugman has also noted the "myth of the urban hellscape" as another pervasive right-wing trope: https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/2021/07/13/paul-krugman-durable-myth/

rysiek, to TeslaMotors
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We interrupt this program to bring you this important announcement:

🚨 Constantly attention-seeking man-baby billionaire said something dumb. 🚨

It is highly unlikely that this piece of news will change anyone's mind about anything at all.

However, we can at this time predict that some people might get outraged and thus click on our article. And in the end, that is what matters.

In other breaking news tonight:

  1. water is wet;
  2. bears shit in the woods;
  3. Pope is, in fact, Catholic.

bhahne,
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@rysiek Thank you for pointing this out.

The constant churn of trigger-event-followed-by-outrage is sometimes referred to as a "call and response", in the sense of a religious liturgy. The inflammatory personality issues the "call", and progressives dutifully issue a liturgical outrage "response" that amplifies the original call.

This call-and-response cycle provides energy, power, and algorithmic social media boosts to the caller, plus it delights the right-wing fanbase.

bhahne, to Sexism
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@fugueish A.R. Moxon aka @JuliusGoat released a parody takedown of that Washington Post op-ed today.

"Wives In Stepford Increasingly Don't Want To Be Replaced By Robots: Why this threatens the institution of American marriage"

https://armoxon.substack.com/p/wives-in-stepford-increasingly-dont

bhahne, to random
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"Trump [won't] cancel elections, but [will] co-opt the machinery of state power in the way that Viktor Orban has done in Hungary. "

Georgetown professor @donmoyn has written a good article describing the mechanics of how the GOP will institute an autocracy, ending Democracy in the US, if we see a second term of the previous president. Moynihan includes his full NYT piece plus some additional commentary.

https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-i-wrote-in-the-new-york-times

adamconover, to random
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Planning my year-end giving, and looking for charities that give direct aid to trans folks trying to access gender affirming care in states that restrict such care. Would love suggestions if anyone has them! (Must be a registered 501(c)3.)

bhahne,
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@adamconover The Southern Trans Youth Emergency Project is a strong match for what you're describing.

https://southernequality.org/styep/

"...provides rapid response support directly to the families of youth who are impacted by anti-transgender healthcare bans in the South. ... we are providing grants, patient navigation support, and accurate information to impacted families to ensure that youth can access the care they need and deserve, even in the face of oppressive laws."

cstross, to random
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About YouTube and ad-blockers:

YouTube is owned by Alphabet, aka Google's umbrella corporation. Google in turn was devoured by DoubleClick, the largest advertising company to come out of the 1990s web.

When you use Google, you are feeding the attention monster that is the advertising industry.

We should aim to criminalize behavioural advertising and break up the Google monopoly, not tolerate their shit and work around it by using adblockers.

bhahne,
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@cstross
A correction - Google wasn't "devoured by DoubleClick" - the opposite is true. Google purchased Doubleclick in 2008 and integrated its technology into its broader advertising stack. Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DoubleClick

Antitrust writer Matt Stoller is in favor of breaking up Google, and does single out Google's 2008 acquisition of Doubleclick as a huge mistake for antitrust enforcers: https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/mergers-ruin-everything

Related: https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/how-a-google-antitrust-case-could

mattblaze, to random
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35 years ago today, I walked in to the CS department where I was a grad student, and bumped in to my advisor, who asked, somewhat worriedly, "Matt, did you do this?" I had no idea what he was talking about, which is exactly what I would have said if I had done it.

Happy wormiversary, to all those who celebrate.

bhahne,
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@mattblaze I think the Green Card Lawyers mass Usenet spam was also a big turning point, though that wasn't until 1994. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence_Canter_and_Martha_Siegel

warandpeas, to random
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Warm Meals

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bhahne,
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@warandpeas The monster in the current arc of Something is Killing the Children does exactly this - it's drawn to hot spring resorts because it likes warm victims. :-O https://www.boom-studios.com/archives/something-is-killing-the-children-22-first-look/

jensorensen, to journalism
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Neglected to post this cartoon from a couple weeks ago: Always blame the left!

bhahne,
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@jensorensen Related: Murc's Law, “the widespread assumption that only Democrats have any agency or causal influence over American politics.”

https://themoderatevoice.com/murcs-law-describes-news-framing-that-makes-democrats-responsible-for-republican-antics-chaos-and-dysfunction/

marcelias, to random
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    bhahne,
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    @marcelias I originally parsed this as "Lake and Finchem LOOSE again", so I was thinking "oh no, who let them out this time?"

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    bhahne,
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    @marcelias The changes look really horrific: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/10/10/2173641/-North-Carolina-GOP-uses-gerrymandered-supermajority-to-take-over-election-boards-and-restrict-voting

    GovTrack, to random
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    Ok then. McCarthy is out; the House has no Speaker at the moment. Not 100% clear what happens next because, well, this is a first.

    bhahne,
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    @GovTrack Dkos has covered this: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/10/3/2197093/-What-happens-if-they-boot-McCarthy

    "There will be a “speaker pro tempore,” an interim speaker who steps up. Following the 9/11 attacks, the 103rd Congress instituted a new rule requiring the speaker “to deliver to the Clerk a list of Members in the order in which each shall act as Speaker pro tempore in the case of a vacancy in the Office of Speaker.”...

    timbray, to LGBTQ
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    I, a straight person, have a question. I'm talking about homophobia in a draft blog piece, and what’s a good choice of word for the people that homophobes dislike and abuse? Has it got to the point where “queer” is respectful and appropriate? Is “LGBTQ” better? “Gender-diverse”? (I think I’m correct to think that “homophobe” has grown to include anti-trans and gender-related bigotries generally?) Who has written a really good essay on the subject? Thanks in advance.

    #lgbtq #gender #homophobia

    bhahne,
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    @timbray
    PFLAG currently prefers "LGBTQ+"

    Also see their glossary entry and caveats on the use of "queer": https://pflag.org/glossary/#q

    (Queer): "... Traditionally a negative or pejorative term for people who are LGBTQ+, some people within the community dislike the term. Due to its varying meanings, use this word only when self-identifying or quoting an individual who self-identifies as queer (i.e., “My cousin identifies as queer” or “My cousin is a queer person”)."

    igd_news, to Florida
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    in , hit the streets to protest ongoing repression against their mutual aid group after a new ordinance was passed that makes sharing food with a group larger than 25 without a permit a crime that can land you in jail for two months and a $500 fine.

    https://itsgoingdown.org/west-palm-beach-fl-food-not-bombs-protests-criminalization/

    bhahne,
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    @igd_news So that law would criminalize Jesus for the feeding of the 5000. That sounds about right for Florida these days.

    ProPublica, to Wisconsin
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    Republicans Went to Extremes in . Now They’re Scrambling to Protect That Power.

    Heavily redrawn districts in the battleground state gave firm control of the legislature — and the leeway to move aggressively against officials and judges they perceive as threats.

    https://www.propublica.org/article/wisconsin-gop-gerrymander-elections-janet-protasiewicz?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

    bhahne,
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    @ProPublica Where "move aggressively against" is a euphemism for "purge".

    warandpeas, to random
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    If you like reading comics, Tapas might be just for you. It's a nice reading experience there.

    https://tapas.io/series/War-and-Peas/info

    bhahne,
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    @warandpeas FYI the "learn more" link in the lower right of the banner on that site is broken.

    GWillow, to random

    How’s everybody doing today

    bhahne,
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    @GWillow Maybe you have one of the exciting new variants! :-O https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/09/health/covid-variant-eg5/index.html

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