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July 4, 2020 at 6:26 pm in reply to: updated–Round Three? Robinson’s rebuttal to the rebuttal to the . . . #117580
wvParticipantwvParticipantlink:https://nonsite.org/
Saw this site mentioned by Halper and Taibbi. Adolph Reed Jr, had something to do with starting it, i think.Here’s an example of one of the articles:
The Triumph of Black Lives Matter and Neoliberal Redemption
By Cedric Johnson (University of Illinois at Chicago)Draped in Ghanaian kente cloth, a fabric popularized by Afrocentric nationalists during the late eighties, a dozen or so Congressional Democrats knelt in a moment of silence before unveiling their Justice in Policing legislation. Their actions came exactly two weeks to the date that George Floyd was killed by Minneapolis police, and after an unprecedented wave of protests that swept all fifty states, over 500 U.S. towns and cities, and scores of demonstrations of solidarity globally. Led by Karen Bass, Congressional Black Caucus chair, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the congress members embraced the language and tone of Black Lives Matter protests, with some lecturing on the “original sin” of slavery, and South Carolina congressman James Clyburn adding that Floyd’s death was “just a continuation” of a long and unbroken history of American racism. Even former presidential hopefuls, senators Kamala Harris and Corey Booker traded in their previous roles as tough-on-crime enforcers and adopted the histrionic rhetoric of popular anti-racism. This was perhaps the perfect valence to mount the center-right Democratic renewal, especially after a botched campaign to impeach Donald Trump, and the social-democratic left challenge of Bernie Sanders’ second bid for the party’s nomination. This moment has been a triumph for Black Lives Matter activists, but once the plumes of tear gas dissipate and compassion fatigue sets in, the real beneficiaries will likely be the neoliberal Democrats and the capitalist blocs they serve. Nearly all of the Democrat leadership who “took a knee” against racist policing, have openly opposed Medicare for All, free higher education, and the expansion of other public goods, but their technical reforms to reduce excessive force incidents and prosecute police for misconduct are the perfect way of displaying commitment to racial justice, while perpetuating the very pro-market logics and class relations that stress policing and mass incarceration were invented to protect.
Adolph Reed, Jr.’s “How Racial Disparity Does Not Help Make Sense of Patterns of Police Violence,” should be read again and often during this moment of resurgent Black Lives Matter sentiment, precisely because he so clearly names the limitations of anti-racism as a way of thinking about the problems of carceral power, and cautions against any left-progressive politics that separates racism from historical processes and political economy. As Reed notes, “antiracism is not a different sort of egalitarian alternative to a class politics but is a class politics itself.” Furthermore, antiracist politics is essentially “the left wing of neoliberalism in that its sole metric of social justice is opposition to disparity in the distribution of goods and bads in the society, an ideal that naturalizes the outcomes of capitalist market forces so long as they are equitable along racial (and other identitarian) lines.” Of course, I can already hear some friends of mine, academic colleagues and activists alike, who will grumble and cry foul, quickly asserting the presence of this or that tendency that embodies the true radical spirit of Black Lives Matter. Others will likely point to the scale of recent protests as evidence of a new moment, a turning point that will yield massive substantive reforms. Like Occupy Wall Street protests before, however, Black Lives Matter is more of a sentiment than a fully formed political force. Let’s not forget that it was born as a hashtag, and while it has provided a powerful banner for longer-standing organizations and legislative campaigns working to reverse the social toll of carceral expansion, the liberal character of the hashtag should be more apparent now than ever….see link
wvParticipantlink:https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/01/world/europe/german-special-forces-far-right.html?smid=tw-nytimesworld&smtyp=cur
Germany Disbands Special Forces Group Tainted by Far-Right Extremists
July 1
For years, far-right extremists were tolerated inside Germany’s most elite military unit. An underground bunker of explosives has woken the authorities to an alarming problem.BERLIN — Germany’s defense minister announced Wednesday that she would partially disband the most elite and highly trained special forces in the country, saying it had been infiltrated by far-right extremism.
The defense minister, Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, said one of four fighting companies inside the special forces had become so infested with far-right extremism that it would be dissolved. The rest of the special forces unit, known by its German acronym, KSK, has until the end of October to overhaul its recruitment, training and leadership practices before being allowed to rejoin any international military exercises or missions.
“The KSK cannot continue in its current form,” Ms. Kramp-Karrenbauer told a news conference, describing “an unhealthy elitism” and “toxic leadership” inside the unit, which, she added, had “developed and promoted extremist tendencies.”
The announcement came six weeks after investigators discovered a trove of Nazi memorabilia and an extensive arsenal of stolen ammunition and explosives on the property of a sergeant major who had served in the KSK since 2001.
His company is at the center of a long-running controversy over a notorious party three years ago, where soldiers were reported to have flashed Hitler salutes and listened to neo-Nazi rock music.
The raid highlighted “a new quality” of far-right extremism among those trained and armed to protect Germany’s democracy, Ms. Kramp-Karrenbauer said. Since then, military leaders and politicians have rolled out a flurry of initiatives, which critics said were long overdue.
A committee was formed to report back on far-right extremism in the special forces and to propose measures to combat it. New legislation was passed to make it easier to fire far-right soldiers. And, crucially, the KSK and the rest of the military has been ordered to account for missing weapons and ammunition.
Some 48,000 rounds of ammunition and 62 kilograms worth of explosives have gone missing from the special forces, said Gen. Eberhard Zorn, inspector general of the armed forces and co-author of the report on the special forces that was presented on Wednesday. The missing weapons and ammunition have added to concerns that the recent raid was only the tip of the iceberg.
The explosives in question were used by the KSK to explode building facades on special missions abroad, General Zorn said. “This is no small thing,” he added. “It worries me very much.”
It worries others, too.
“Do we have terrorist cells inside our military? I never thought I would ask that question, but we have to,” said Patrick Sensburg, a conservative lawmaker on the intelligence oversight committee and president of the reservist association.
The commander of the KSK, Gen. Markus Kreitmayr, wrote a three-page letter to his troops after the recent raid, in which he addressed far-right soldiers directly: “You don’t deserve our camaraderie!” he wrote, urging them to leave the unit on their own. “If you don’t, you will realize that we will find you and get rid of you!”
Ms. Kramp-Karrenbauer said efforts would now be intensified to determine whether recent and older cases of extremism were part of a network.
“The probability that it’s not just isolated cases but that there are connections is obvious and has to be fully investigated,” Ms. Kramp-Karrenbauer said.
Ms. Kramp-Karrenbauer added that she now wants to better integrate the KSK into the wider military to increase oversight of the unit. Training that had been conducted separately from other units would be opened up, security checks of new recruits would be intensified and the number of years soldiers could serve in the same company would be capped.
The report presented to the minister by General Zorn concluded that parts of the KSK existed outside the military chain of command. “The KSK, at least in some areas, has become independent in recent years, under the influence of an unhealthy understanding of elitism by individual leaders.”
But the failings were not just inside the KSK, the minister said. Across the military, ammunition and explosives have been allowed to go missing.
wvParticipantFwiw:
link:http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/55298.htm
By Shannon Jones
July 02, 2020 “Information Clearing House” -According to newly released Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) figures, 47.2 percent of working-age Americans were without work in May, the highest level recorded since the end of World War II…
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Study finds COVID-19 hospital patients who took hydroxychloroquine were less likely to die.
link:https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/study-finds-covid-19-patients-who-took-hydroxychloroquine-were-less-likely-to-dieQuick summary of results:
Hospitalized Covid-19 patients in the Henry Ford Health System in southeast Michigan.18.1% of patients died overall.
HCQ group: 13.5% died
Azithromycin: 22.4% died
HCQ+ Azithromycin: 20.1% died
Neither drug: 26.4% diedThe study was “among one of the largest COVID-19 hospital patientcohorts (n=2,541) assembled in a single institution”
Researchers attribute the success of the HCQ and HCQ combinations to early treatment….
————-wvParticipantI never knew Vidal had a long correspondence with Tim McVeigh, the Oklahoma bomber.
Vidal noted that the Corporate-Media painted McV over and over as an ‘evil’ character and that was the ‘reason’ he bombed the gov building.But according to Vidal, McV simply saw himself as a very very serious ‘soldier.’ He was at war with the US Government because he thought the US Government was at war with citizens. Waco, etc.
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……I sat on an uncomfortable chair, facing a camera. Generators hummed amid the delphiniums. Good Morning America was first. I had been told that Diane Sawyer would be questioning me from New York, but ABC has a McVeigh “expert,” one Charles Gibson, and he would do the honors. Our interview would be something like four minutes. Yes, I was to be interviewed In Depth. This means that only every other question starts with “Now, tell us, briefly . . . ” Dutifully, I told, briefly, how it was that McVeigh, whom I had never met, happened to invite me to be one of the five chosen witnesses to his execution.Briefly, it all began in the November….
…..….McVeigh quotes again from Justice Brandeis: “Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill it teaches the whole people by its example.” He stops there. But Brandeis goes on to write in his dissent, “Crime is contagious. If the government becomes the law breaker, it breeds contempt for laws; it invites every man to become a law unto himself.” Thus the straight-arrow model soldier unleashed his terrible swift sword and the innocent died. But then a lawless government, Brandeis writes, “invites anarchy. To declare that in the administration of the criminal law the end justifies the means—to declare that the government may commit crimes in order to secure the conviction of a private criminal—would bring terrible retribution.”
One wonders if the Opus Dei plurality of the present Supreme Court’s five-to-four majority has ever pondered these words so different from, let us say, one of its essential thinkers, Machiavelli, who insisted that, above all, the Prince must be feared.
Finally, McVeigh sent me three pages of longhand notes dated April 4, 2001, a few weeks before he was first scheduled to die. It is addressed to “C.J.”(?), whose initials he has struck out.
I explain herein why I bombed the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. I explain this not for publicity, nor seeking to win an argument of right or wrong, I explain so that the record is clear as to my thinking and motivations in bombing a government installation.
I chose to bomb a Federal Building because such an action served more purposes than other options. Foremost, the bombing was a retaliatory strike: a counter-attack, for the cumulative raids (and subsequent violence and damage) that federal agents had participated in over the preceding years (including, but not limited to, Waco). From the formation of such units as the FBI’s “Hostage Rescue” and other assault teams amongst federal agencies during the 80s, culminating in the Waco incident, federal actions grew increasingly militaristic and violent, to the point where at Waco, our government—like the Chinese—was deploying tanks against its own citizens.
. . . For all intents and purposes, federal agents had become “soldiers” (using military training, tactics, techniques, equipment, language, dress, organization and mindset) and they were escalating their behavior. Therefore, this bombing was also meant as a pre-emptive (or pro-active) strike against those forces and their command and control centers within the federal building. When an aggressor force continually launches attacks from a particular base of operations, it is sound military strategy to take the fight to the enemy. Additionally, borrowing a page from U.S. foreign policy, I decided to send a message to a government that was becoming increasingly hostile, by bombing a government building and the government employees within that building who represent that government. Bombing the Murrah Federal Building was morally and strategically equivalent to the U.S. hitting a government building in Serbia, Iraq, or other nations. Based on observations of the policies of my own government, I viewed this action as an acceptable option. From this perspective what occurred in Oklahoma City was no different than what Americans rain on the heads of others all the time, and, subsequently, my mindset was and is one of clinical detachment. (The bombing of the Murrah Building was not personal no more than when Air Force, Army, Navy or Marine personnel bomb or launch cruise missiles against (foreign) government installations and their personnel.)
I hope this clarification amply addresses your question.
Sincerely, T.M., USP Terre Haute (In.)….see link
wvParticipantwvParticipantThe question remains though.
Define what is meant by “leftist/progressive.” Waterfield asked that a couple of times.
BT gave one try at it and I gave another. But…no one person is going to nail that.
I learn a lot from people giving that an effort.
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I’ll get around to it eventually. Its a hard question to keep simple, and message-board-sized. Its also not the easiest thing to answer, in general. What is a leftist?The basics havent changed for me since the 90’s but I think I’m more focused on Imperialism now than i was in my earlier-leftist-life. I dunno why.
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vwvParticipantAt least for the Biden v Trump battle.
Those wearing masks are more likely than not to vote for Biden. Those not wearing masks are more likely than not to vote for Trump.
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In my little WV college town, college-aged kids are not wearing masks.
Middle-aged and older folks are wearing masks.w
vJuly 2, 2020 at 5:52 pm in reply to: Jackie Slater on what’s happened to the run game in today’s NFL #117501wvParticipantGood article.
I forget, why the Rams dumped Zampese. Was it because they wanted an inferior coach? Was that it?
“We were very highly skilled,” Slater said. “We weren’t limited to one or two blocking schemes. We ran everything. We ran powers. We ran dives. We ran bellies, which is inside zone to the tight end, inside zone away from the counter end. Counter to the tight end. Counters away from the tight end. Powers where you go to the tight end, double team on that front side and then you insert the backside guard pulling over there. Then we did tackle traps. It was unbelievable.”
Zampese would later become offensive coordinator of the Dallas Cowboys, as his well-balanced offensive philosophy helped Dallas win three Super Bowls in a four-year span….”
wvParticipantLA:https://laist.com/2020/07/01/los-angeles-city-council-votes-lapd-budget-cuts-150-million.php
City Council Votes To Slash LAPD Budget By $150 Million
by Libby Denkmann in News on July 1, 2020 5:10 PM
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The L.A. City Council on Wednesday voted to cut $150 million out of the Los Angeles Police Department’s $1.8 billion operating budget, with plans to reinvest the funds in marginalized communities.The move comes in response to recent historic protests that saw hundreds of thousands of Angelenos take to the streets, demanding justice for Black people killed at the hands of police following the death of George Floyd. Four former Minneapolis police officers — all fired — have been charged in Floyd’s killing.
A coalition of community groups led by Black Lives Matter-LA has been organizing sustained protests and civic engagement, including:
Calling and writing city council members
Showing up to demonstrate outside elected officials’ offices and homes
Developing their own alternative spending plan called The People’s Budget.That budget proposal calls for investing in public safety alternatives, housing and social services instead of armed law enforcement….see link
wvParticipantA simple way to think of Progressivism (or mild-leftism) vs Not-Leftism would be:
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Biden vs FDR.
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Hillary vs Bernie
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Pelosi vs AOC
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Obama vs MLK
—-Not perfect analogies but its nice hack-sized.
Progressivism is about helping poor people.
Democrat-ism is about helping middle-class and wealthy.w
vwvParticipantwvParticipantwvParticipantI’ll try and add something at some point, but for starters, lets look at Corporate-Money and American Dem-Rep-Politics. (for the gazillionth time) Below are just a sampling of Corporate PAC contributions I grabbed off of one random website.
A ‘leftist’ would have a major problem with that snapshot below.
Does anyone see any poor-people represented below?
The wealthy(corporations mainly) BUY the political system.
It has always been that way all through human history. In the past it was kings or lords or land-owners or whatever. Now its corporations, banks, etc.The Dem Party and the Rep Party are just like the two biggest Lords of a corporate feudal system. Sure there’s differences in the two Lords. But its still a fuck-the-poor system.
Money rules. Its wrong. Leftists know/feel that.
Dems and Reps enable (at best) and revel in (at worst) this system. Thats why leftists say Dems and Reps are two ‘wings’ of the same ‘Corporate-Business Party.’Differences? Yes. Like the differences between two Lords on Game of Thrones.
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Political Contributions:
Based in Boston, General Electric is a conglomerate made up of companies spanning a number of industries.
Total donations: $1,753,871
Percentage donated to Republicans: 43.2%
Percentage donated to Democrats: 56.0%
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Based in New York City, Goldman Sachs is a major bank.
Total donations: $11,457,248
Percentage donated to Republicans: 52.2%
Percentage donated to Democrats: 47.0%
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Aerospace and defense company Lockheed Martin is based in Bethesda, Maryland.
Total donations: $2,364,432
Percentage donated to Republicans: 54.7%
Percentage donated to Democrats: 43.7%
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Johnson & Johnson develops pharmaceuticals and medical devices, and is based in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
Total donations: $1,981,003
Percentage donated to Republicans: 45.4%
Percentage donated to Democrats: 52.2%
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Dish Network is a direct-broadcast satellite service provider operating out of Meridian, California.
Total donations: $2,604,920
Percentage donated to Republicans: 42.8%
Percentage donated to Democrats: 55.4%
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Based in Philadelphia, Comcast is a telecommunications and broadcasting company.
Total donations: $4,145,981
Percentage donated to Republicans: 42.7%
Percentage donated to Democrats: 56.8%
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Wells Fargo is a bank based in San Francisco.
Total donations: $3,212,918
Percentage donated to Republicans: 44.7%
Percentage donated to Democrats: 54.2%
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Bank of America is a bank based in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Total donations: $2,931,246
Percentage donated to Republicans: 41.4%
Percentage donated to Democrats: 57.9%
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Based in New York City, Morgan Stanley is a financial services firm.
Total donations: $5,362,033
Percentage donated to Republicans: 54.9%
Percentage donated to Democrats: 44.1%
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JP Morgan Chase is a New York City-based banking and financial services company.
Total donations: $6,173,244
Percentage donated to Republicans: 49.9%
Percentage donated to Democrats: 54.5%
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Based in Chicago, Boeing is a major aerospace company.
Total donations: $2,805,418
Percentage donated to Republicans: 43.8%
Percentage donated to Democrats: 55.4%—————
Delta is a large airline based in Atlanta.
Total donations: $2,045,942
Percentage donated to Republicans: 52.2%
Percentage donated to Democrats: 45.4%
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Exxon Mobil is a oil and gas company based in Irving, Texas.
Total donations: $2,134,633
Percentage donated to Republicans: 63.0%
Percentage donated to Democrats: 36.0%
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Facebook is a social media platform based in Menlo Park, California.
Total donations: $2,150,577
Percentage donated to Republicans: 7.0%
Percentage donated to Democrats: 91.3%
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Global investment management company BlackRock is based in New York City.
Total donations: $2,231,664
Percentage donated to Republicans: 28.1%
Percentage donated to Democrats: 71.3%
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corpse money:https://www.businessinsider.com/fortune-500-companies-republican-democrat-political-donations-2018-2#goldman-sachs-30wvParticipantWell, like i say, I’m agnostic. If this case was in a court of law, where the burden of proof is ‘beyond a reasonable doubt,’ the ‘evidence’ is so thin (if i can even call it evidence at all) the case would simply be dismissed. Without question. Dismissed.
Now of course ‘we’ are not in a court of law so we can use whatever standards we want.
My ‘own’ stance is ‘agnostic’ on stuff like this. The evidence is thin, lame, hearsay. “sources unknown” quoted by anonymous ‘intelligence’ agents.
Please.As for Mate and Blumenthal, i dont know whether they are really agnostic on this or atheists on this. I’d have to interview and them and ask them.
I’d be surprised if anyone was an ‘atheist’ on this for the reasons zn pointed out. Heck yeah, all the big corporate and nationalist gangster-states do this shit. Wouldnt surprise me at all if Putin was doing this, or Trump, or Obama any of the other gangster-states. But thats not proof.
And there are reasons and agendas why the Dem-MSM and the Dem-Faction in the “Intelligence community” push these stories. Its that agenda that annoys me.
I know thats a separate subject, blah blah. But its not separate to ‘me.’ 🙂
Its an inseparable subject for ‘me.’w
vwvParticipantA reminder that #TamirRice was killed for having a toy gun, while #PatriciaMcCloskey pointed a gun at peaceful protesters with her hand ON the trigger & is still practicing law + sits on the Missouri Bar Association’s ethics panel.#BlackLivesMatter #Racist #America pic.twitter.com/vfbXOvnsnp
— Shruti Patel, MD (@ShrutiPatelMD) June 29, 2020
wvParticipantwvParticipantwvParticipant…and the misconceptions that come along with being lumped into a “group” that is so diverse within that sphere.
but that applies to everyone really. not just muslims (which really spans across entire continents and cultures). not just arab americans. not just asian americans. not just second generation americans. but any “community”. right?
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When to lump,
and when not to lump.Seems like the more you know about a ‘group’ the less you lump. Mostly.
I always think of the example of ‘Christians’ because i know a lot of them. You have yer snake-handlers from Kentucky (who might be different from yer snake-handlers from WV). You have yer Commie-Liberation-Theologists in Central America.
You have yer rightwing rural Southern Baptists. Episcopalians. White Nationalist Ku Klux Klan Christians. Haiti’s Christians with a mix of Voodoo. Christian Humanists. Jesuits. Christian Mystics. Etc, etc, etc.There’s no “Christians.”
No “Muslims.”
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vwvParticipantInteresting point at the 43 minute mark:
“You can tell the story of white leadership in America, and never mention the FBI one time. You cant tell the story of black leadership, not once, without having to deal with the full weight of the criminal justice system weaponized against black dissent.”wvParticipantThat looks great.
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wvParticipant“Trump:Can anyone believe that Princeton just dropped the name of Woodrow Wilson from their highly respected policy center…”
————-Well that should make utube’s ‘cynical historian’ very happy.
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“…Trustees say Wilson’s name will remain on the alumni award however, because it was endowed by a gift that came with a “legal obligation to name the prize for Wilson.”Alongside the veneration have also been concerns by students over Wilson’s prominence on campus. In 2015, students protested, occupying the president’s office. In response, the trustees assembled a special committee to review concerns over Wilson’s legacy and provide recommendations.
The committee recommended that the school keep the 28th president’s name on both schools, even as it acknowledged that “Wilson indisputably opposed the idea of admitting black students to the Princeton of his time.”
But as anti-racist protests surged across the nation, the celebration of Wilson’s legacy at Princeton was one more longstanding debate to reenter the spotlight.
Students of the public policy school recently sent a letter, dated June 22, demanding, among other things, a name change.
“If Princeton saw fit to change the name of the School of Public and International Affairs in 1948 to reflect the politics of the midcentury United States, then it is time to change the name once again, over sixty years later, to reflect the morals and principles of our institutional identity in 2020,” the letter read. ”
link:https://www.npr.org/sections/live-updates-protests-for-racial-justice/2020/06/27/884310403/princeton-to-remove-woodrow-wilsons-name-from-public-policy-schoolJune 29, 2020 at 8:18 am in reply to: Jon Stewart: “i was more mad about stuff than inspired” #117314wvParticipantPS, if you listen to that ‘burn pit’ segment by Jon Stewart — this is one of the many reasons why i always call him a ‘liberal’ and not a ‘leftist.’
He goes on and on about ‘american’ lives. Wanting to help ‘american’ veterans. “make Rathion and the Corporations give ten percent of their war profits to Veterans after the war…”
Well gee. Lets just make American-Wars more fair to americans.No thought to the Iraqi lives. The Iraqis downwind of the burn pits. Etc, and so forth.
Non-American Lives Matter. I wish someone would start ‘that’ meme. NALM.
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vwvParticipantSomeone is going to be very famous in 18 months or so. The postmodern Salk. People Magazine covers. Oprah Shows. Possibly even a shoe deal.
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vJune 29, 2020 at 8:07 am in reply to: Jon Stewart: “i was more mad about stuff than inspired” #117311wvParticipant“burn pits”
I’d never heard of ‘burn pits.’June 28, 2020 at 4:13 pm in reply to: updated–Round Three? Robinson’s rebuttal to the rebuttal to the . . . #117289wvParticipantPart of the failure to move toward better policies is the Left’s failure. Bernie has failed to talk effectively to anyone outside his own camp. A year ago, Bernie did a Fox Town Hall and ended up advocating for the right to vote for people in jail.
Think about that, the leader of the Left goes on Fox and advocates a fringe position that regular Fox News Americans will laugh at and just dismiss. Going on Fox to talk sense to those voters is a good idea, but you have to sell your ideas and make appealing arguments.
Another example, remember Bernie’s appearance on 60 Minutes when he ended up defending his interest in Cuban communism by praising Cuban literacy? That was a super easy question to respond to. Bernie flat out failed.
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Thats been a common criticism of Bernie (Saagar and Krystal both stated that as well)
I disagree though. I think Bernie’s Ads were brilliant. I think he ran a brilliant campaign. And he had some amazing african-american talent on his team, out front. He stayed on message, and pounded away at simple, important policies.
I dont think it was Bernie’s failure at all. I think he did great, for a Leftist running for Prez.
I blame the Nation, not Bernie. The system has dummed down the Right, and dummed down the middle and dummed down the fake-left.
I think Bernie actually exceeded expectations.
I dont blame Bernie for the voters being idiots. 🙂
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vJune 28, 2020 at 3:57 pm in reply to: defunding the police … & other legislative responses to the protests #117287wvParticipantYup. Colorado.
“…he bill requires that all police officers use activated body cameras or dashboard cameras during service calls or officer-initiated public interactions. It also bars officers from using deadly force against those suspected of minor or non-violent offenses, requires officers to intervene should they witness another officer using excessive physical force and establishes new data reporting on the use of force.
The measure specifically bans officers from using chokeholds, a long-controversial technique, particularly following the death of Eric Garner in 2014 when a police officer was accused of choking him. The death of George Floyd, who died after a Minneapolis police officer restrained him by pressing a knee on his neck for nearly nine minutes, has prompted nationwide protests…”
link:https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/19/politics/colorado-polis-police-body-cameras-banning-chokeholds/index.htmlJune 28, 2020 at 3:51 pm in reply to: defunding the police … & other legislative responses to the protests #117286wvParticipant
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That cant be right. I’ll have to check on that.I mean….thats a significant, real-life change.
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vJune 28, 2020 at 3:49 pm in reply to: Jon Stewart: “i was more mad about stuff than inspired” #117285wvParticipant -
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