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gwynnion

@gwynnion@mastodon.social

Formerly from Twitter and Mastodon.lol. Trans, bi, she / her. Writing, dreams, politics, science, metaphysics.

Blocking and muting you is the easiest thing in the world if you mouth off at me.

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"The most chilling thing about this era isn't the growing number of explicit fascists, it's the way elite institutions refuse to even attempt to stop them."

https://bsky.app/profile/michaelhobbes.bsky.social/post/3ksowrqbmmk27

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The Very Serious Person perspective on Israel-Palestine is predicated on several interlocking beliefs:

  1. Palestinian lives don't matter and are automatically forfeit because of Hamas or whatever,

  2. Arabic and Muslim lives and perspectives generally don't matter,

  3. Israel is necessary for the US to project power against its Arabic and Muslim neighbors, and thus,

  4. Israel must always be allowed to "win" the "peace" process on its terms for that alliance to continue.

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Most Americans think the false civility surrounding our politics is bullshit, but it's Trump's violation of that norm of civility that most upsets centrists and it's almost all we ever hear about him in the media, not his criminality or authoritarianism, which alarms everyone else when they're allowed to hear about it.

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"First They Tried to 'Cure' Gayness. Now They’re Fixated on 'Healing' Trans People."

"Conversion therapy is alive and well, even in places where it’s been banned."

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/05/conversion-therapy-lgbtq-anti-trans-gay-gender-affirming-care/

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I don't trust anyone who sneers at service industry employment because those workers are disproportionately women and minorities, which is also why those jobs tend to pay poorly.

But there's nothing wrong with someone working at a fast food place and having a comfortable lifestyle and it's only your internalized racism, misogyny, and classism that makes you think otherwise.

Everyone deserves to have nice things.

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Every once in a while you see these stories of right-wingers who suddenly realize everything they believed in was bullshit, followed shortly by realizing how most of their fellow right-wingers prefer to believe or at least profess to believe in the bullshit anyway because it serves their agenda to do so.

"Courtney Gore, a Granbury ISD school board member, has disavowed the far-right platform she campaigned on."

https://www.texastribune.org/2024/05/15/texas-granbury-isd-school-board-courtney-gore/

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A fundamental problem with this entire discussion is so many straight white Democrats think it's enough just to say good things, to nominally support them in principle, even if nothing is done to make them a reality -- or worse, turning around and doing the opposite. There's a lot of women and Black, Hispanic, and queer people who keep telling you empty promises aren't enough. They don't believe you or your politicians anymore. Because they can see what you really care about.

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Again, it's not that Biden has done nothing, it's that it's fiddling in the margins stuff. Going after late and junk fees? That's good! But the fundamental misunderstanding is thinking everything is fine inside the margins.

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Democrats talk about the "good things" they've done for the economy, and while I'm glad the economy didn't crash because of COVID, these are the same people who underwrote the financialization of every industry while neglecting to appropriately tax, regulate, and break up monopolies, exploiting workers and consumers.

The "good things" Democrats do are mostly tertiary or benefit niche groups, like manufacturing or infrastructure, whose real impact is minimal or takes years to materialize.

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Biden playing follow the leader with Trump again by "protecting" Americans from cheap imports at a time when the US EV sector is marginal to nonexistent.

"Biden announces 100% tariff on Chinese-made electric vehicles"

https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/may/14/joe-biden-tariff-chinese-made-electric-vehicles

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"China is overproducing electric vehicles and other consumer tech products! Their stuff would be cheap for Americans struggling with inflation! Our own efforts to catch up are decades behind! We have to stop them!" 🤔

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"Biden is falling into the same trap that Democrats can’t seem to avoid, in which apologetic moves to the right are deemed necessary to steal votes from the GOP’s camp and the betrayal of one’s own voters is presumed to have little effect. In this case, it’s a strategy that is more likely to cost Biden votes from Democrats than win him votes from those leaning toward Trump."

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/biden-trump-democrats-immigration-election-rcna151979

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I don't know what else to say here except this is the inevitable result of Biden being the president of old white people who love cops, have investments, and hate change, a demographic that shares his perennial fixations and reflects his narcissistic self-regard.

It's not that Biden hasn't thrown the rest of us a bone occasionally, e.g., student debt relief. It's that it's a drop in the ocean compared to what's needed.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/13/us/politics/biden-trump-battleground-poll.html

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I don't want Biden to lose. I want Biden to be a better person so he might win.

But Biden is congenitally incapable of understanding why "blow everything up and start over" is becoming increasingly attractive even to Democratic voters.

Which is not a good thing, obviously, but it reflects the stagnation of our politics and economy for everyone but the very privileged.

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Yes, of course, Trump would be much worse, but that's missing the point that Biden's much vaunted "quiet stability" represents merely more of the same if not a slow, ongoing decay in standards of living to voters who have already had enough -- and that failure to read to room is empowering Trump and fascists masquerading as populists.

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We ended up keeping more DVDs than I expected because some of this stuff might be impossible to find online or ever again and how many times do we have to buy the same shows / movies? 🤨

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I forget who said it but Americans have a severe case of brain worms when it comes to state violence.

They will insist that terrorism is bad but if a government does it, it's okay, as long as it's a government they like.

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One of the most pernicious narratives in American political circles is that the Clinton era Oslo Accords "solved" the Israeli-Palestinian peace process and would have provided for a Palestinian state by now if only Palestinians had cooperated. In fact, the agreement was always deeply flawed, deliberately did not address any of the major issues in contention, and was rendered moot soon after the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin.

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The Oslo Accords were undermined from the beginning through their vagueness, by the assassination of Rabin, the rise of right-wing hardliners like Netanyahu, the dramatic and continued expansion of West Bank settlements, Israel's refusal to withdraw militarily, Israel isolating Gaza and the West Bank politically and economically, the corruption and complicity of Abbas and the Palestinian Authority, the Second Intifada, ongoing Hamas terror attacks, and Israeli favoritism by the US and Europe.

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Netanyahu has played Fatah / Abbas and Hamas against each other as a divide and conquer strategy. Neither are popular with Palestinians, but elections have been repeatedly stymied and Netanyahu has used the violence as a pretext for Israeli military crackdowns and to avoid his own political / legal problems. That includes the ongoing destruction of Gaza in response to the 10/7 Hamas terror attack, which Netanyahu's government was warned about beforehand.

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There's no question Hamas needs to be removed and disbanded. The vast majority of Palestinians living in Gaza would agree, as they live in fear of them. There's no love lost for Abbas either. But the peace process has been sabotaged by successive Israeli governments with no intention of granting Palestinian statehood. Netanyahu has exacerbated tensions for decades to forestall a two state solution and to keep himself in office despite a majority of Israelis demanding he resign.

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So the Oslo Accords didn't resolve anything and many believe they were never meant to.

Nor has Israel ever negotiated in good faith, as it believes any practical one or two state solution would cost much more than it would gain in terms of security and stability. It doesn't have to either, as the US perpetually defends it.

Meanwhile, Palestinians are fractured and suffering under both the Israeli occupation turned genocide and corrupt leaders they can't get rid of, as elections are denied.

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Editorial boards across the US are like: "Free speech is precious. That's why you should never criticize us or we'll have you arrested."

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It's hard to get excited about aurorae living in Texas. 😐

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Maybe the geomagnetic storm will fry all the Starlink satellites.

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