philip_cardella

philip_cardella, 8 months ago to random

@Darbraun @lednabwm I swear I don't want to argue and I think we can all find common ground here but you literally labeled a group of people fascists. We should indeed be careful on how and when we apply labels but there is a time and a place where we should in fact use them. As you just did. If there's a bone to pick I think it's the opposite problem, it's not just religion that has anti human Rights tendencies, the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China were/are openly atheist.

philip_cardella, 9 months ago to politics

I sometimes forget that the far right is an anti enlightenment movement.

Perhaps it's my decades of being submerged in the ivory tower of the university or maybe it's just a love of logic and enlightenment principals. I don't know.

But I'm realizing what I find persuasive--evidence that's based on reason--not only fails to persuade the anti-enlightenment crowd, but actually incenses them. They hate reason the way vampires hate sunlight.

#politics #philosophy #USPol #rightwing

philip_cardella, 29 days ago to random

So. I just submitted my final work of the term. And of the degree. Unless something weird happens, I have a graduate degree in history!!

philip_cardella, 3 months ago to random

I'm telling y'all. You need to be terrified of #nikkihaley

Talking to my buddy who is absolutely a #NeverTrumper voted for Obama twice and is so worried about #Biden's age he'd vote for #Haley.

I'm trying to convince him Haley will gleefully implement #Project2025 (which he's never heard of--if I told you his job title you'd shit, he's swinging a big stick) but he's a prime example of why she's so dangerous.

philip_cardella, 25 days ago to random

'“We are seeing younger voters defecting more to Trump. And Black voters as well,” Taglia said of the results. The reason? “Among young voters, it lights up as a Christmas tree: economy and housing affordability. For Black voters, it’s very similar.”' Miami Herald

#Democrats and #Progressives, it doesn't matter that #Trump would be worse for the housing crisis. People who have lost or are desperate to not lose the roof over their head aren't thinking about national politics much.

philip_cardella, 8 months ago to bookstodon

#13books to get to know me. I guess 🤷‍♂️

Non fiction
Field of Blood - Freeman
Thunder at the Gates - Egerton
America on Fire - Hinton
Silencing the Past - Trouillot
How the South Won the Civil War - Cox Richardson
Pedagogy of the Oppressed - Freire
The Second Founding - Foner
Barrio America - Sandoval-Strausz
The Broken Heart of America - Johnson

Fiction
Rama Revealed - Clarke and Lee
The Fifth Season - Jemisin
Thrawn - Zahn
Ahsoka - Johnston

@bookstodon

philip_cardella, 11 months ago to random

Okay I think today I'm going to write a piece about how the mayor of Miami running for president isn't what you think it is in no small part because he's not really the mayor of Miami. Technically, yes he is the mayor of a city named Miami, but that city is not what you think it is and not what his national backers want you to think it is.

You see, Miami Dade County has a mayor. And that mayor is called the Big Mayor here because all the other cities in the county, 34 of them, are small fries.

philip_cardella, 4 months ago to random

I'll admit the poorly written Wikipedia page on the economics of fascism can be read to yes there's some big debate about the role of capitalism in fascism. There really isn't a debate there's a debate about the nature of the relationship. That's even in the Wikipedia article of you don't just skim.

People who study know fascism is derived from liberal democracy, that is a legally (though often not practically) free society with rule of law and a free market.

philip_cardella, 10 days ago to random

Folks, there is a full blown, certified by experts (including previously reluctant ones) fascist party in the United States, the #GOP

It's part of a larger neofascist movement that crosses national boundaries.

Until the #fascist run party is no longer run by fascists I am a #SingleIssueVoter : I'm voting against #fascism.

And no. #Biden isn't a fascist. You can level many complaints against him and the Dems but being fascist isn't one of them.

philip_cardella, 7 days ago to random

Things people say when they don't understand what fascism is. And this one I believe is actually honestly against fascism. They just don't know anything they didn't "learn" on social media or YouTube.

These people are the same ones that allowed the Brown Shirts and the Nazis to win in 1922 and 1932.

I cannot emphasize this enough.

philip_cardella, 4 months ago to politics

Ok my kid is trying to develop a study for AP research on political bias. She needs to find examples of myths liberals buy.

Yes, I know that the very nature of being liberal makes it a little harder to get duped (I don't think it's because we're smarter per se, I think it's because we don't care if our "team" is wrong).

But what are some #political #myths #liberals accept? #USPol #politics

philip_cardella, 6 months ago to random

Did you know that there are many varieties of mushrooms; some that are edible and others that are poisonous and can cause death?

Yet people eat and sometimes enjoy mushrooms.

Did you know that there are several varieties of #capitalism; some that are beneficial and some that are poisonous and can cause death?

People can thrive in some forms of #capitalism while they'll surely die in others.

Did you know that most if not all varieties of #fascism are derived from frustration with capitalism?

philip_cardella, 1 month ago to random

@fulanigirl I'm white so I'm not going to jump on your recent thread. It's a great and important thread so I boosted it.

You're touching on something very important and urgent. Housing is a at one of the highest crisis levels in American history. This hurts real people.

I hope what I say next is taken as complimentary to your posts: stable housing and food needs is both necessary to political stability AND lack of those things were the conditions Mussolini and Hitler rose to power on.

philip_cardella, 9 months ago to random

Y'all understand the lawyers pick the jury, right? It's going to start with a cross section of citizens in South Florida (MDC, Brow, PBC) and in DC, but the lawyers are going to do everything they can to find juries they like or at least can live with.

#SoFla voted overwhelmingly for #Biden but because that number was smaller than what voted for Hillary people think it's #Trump country but it is not. Biden received 58% of the vote in South Florida. A 16 point victory.

https://www.politico.com/2020-election/results/florida/

philip_cardella, 19 days ago to random

We should rename Mastodon "Fediverse populated by too many software developers way over their skiis with their political takes."

philip_cardella, 4 months ago to random

I'm increasingly convinced the thing we should all be mad at and hate and want destroyed are corporations, not #capitalism

Corporations are stealing your wages, not the boss/owner sweating next to his employees in the kitchen or in the field.

Corporations are the things buying politicians and judges and creating billionaires who take Clarence and Sam on $100,000 fishing trips, not the boss/owner who wishes you had universal healthcare so s/he didn't have to think about it.

philip_cardella, 9 months ago to random

Some of my favorite movies are Christopher Nolan movies. However the treatment of women in oppenheimer, which I've only read about because I haven't had a chance to see it yet, or should I say the exclusion of the many women who participated in that project, makes me reflect on his entire resume. Does this man really just not put women in his movies except for sex objects? Or secondary characters?

philip_cardella, 10 months ago to Ukraine

Hey folks @timkmak is some of the best work on #Ukraine there is. This is a must follow journalist on #UkraineWar against expanding fascism.

But if Tim's going to keep using #mastodon Tim needs more interaction here and more financial support.

Support is $8/month and I just signed up even though I'm stretched pretty thin myself--because Tim's work is both important and very good.

philip_cardella, 6 months ago to random

I'm in a huge line in #MiamiDade where the county is trying to pass the first ever heat ordinance for workers. Over 30 people die a year in this county alone from heat related crises at work.

And yet workers are NOT entitled to water.

Read that again.

The heat index here can go over 105° and workers aren't entitled to water or breaks in the shade. And NO PLACE in the US has any laws to protect workers from heat.

We're trying to change that.

Get out and #vote today get involved tomorrow.

philip_cardella, 3 months ago to random

Yeah. Kolektiva is an anarchist thing, I guess. While I recognize there are a few anarchists who don't realize anarchism is literally the most extreme form of libertarianism and libertarianism is the most extreme form of public self gratification I'm pretty good if I never have to talk to another self proclaimed anarchist.

I mean, I don't care if you're for or against any particular system. I do care if your solution is mansplaining why all systems are bad.

philip_cardella, 3 months ago to Polls

Here's a reason #polls are so dangerous:

Thousands of people voted for Nader in 2000 as a protest vote because "Gore is going to win my state anyway" or "my vote doesn't matter" or "the two parties are the same."

Millions of people voted for #Brexit as a "protest vote" because Brexit wasn't going to win anyway.

James Comey knew that #Hillary was going to win given the polls and so his email story wasn't going to matter anyway.

Stop thinking your protest vote won't matter. Damnit. #USPoll

philip_cardella, 4 months ago to random

The #NewYorkTimes is bad, right? Carrying water for the #GOP, right?

There are individuals who buck that trend but in general. We agree, right?

And we agree the GOP is #fascist or at least fascist friendly, right?

And we know, don't we, that there are many in the GOP, especially the old guard, who don't mind the fascism but, like any good fascist, would be happy to stick a knife in #Trump's back if it did l suited them. Right?

Then why do you think they're just being silly boosting #Haley?

philip_cardella, 3 months ago to random

Can I just say how awful a platform #WhatsApp is for groups? (I'm talking organizations, volunteers etc not necessarily friends)

The constant stream of noise obscures any important information that might be in it.

As ONE way of communicating maybe, I guess. But as THE platform? Foh.

An announcement I'm not looking for but might need gets buried in twenty responses before I see it and makes it hard to follow.

Yes, I know there's a way to clarify but my groups rarely do.

philip_cardella, 25 days ago to floridanews

"Preposterous in an ethical society, but we’re actually not that anymore here in the land of feverish #Trump idolatry a la Fidel #Castro in 1959. The American right-wing caudillo, who tried to derail democracy and took off with secret military documents he shared and hid from the FBI, can do no wrong."

FABIOLA SANTIAGO writes for the #MiamiHerald

We need more reporters, columnists, politicians and activists linking Trump to Castro and Hugo Chavez.

philip_cardella, 10 months ago to nba

The idea of the #NBA expanding to Vegas before righting the wrong it did to $Seattle makes me sick.

To be clear, there's no indication I've seen that they're planning on going to Vegas first but the fact that it's not, Seattle, if they want us, and everyone else, makes me ill.