In any group protesting for something good, if there’s a single objectionable thing said or done, the entire protest is illegitimate. But in a group of torch-bearing fascists, if there’s even one person I think has a valid complaint, the entire group must get a sympathetic hearing.
My favorite part of these is the litany of disqualifying caveats. "Yes the anecdotes I'm cherry-picking aren't representative ... but what if they were?"
HUGE WIN FOR STARBUCKS WORKERS
Coffee giant announces it will begin collective bargaining process with unions.
“We wanted Starbucks to actually be the company they always said they were.”
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"fiery outsider in the culture war" is NYT code for "this guy's beliefs are so deranged we're afraid that just describing them will make us look biased"
The New York Times keeps on normalizing the far-right.
Here’s how it presents the extremist whom North Carolina Republicans nominated for governor yesterday.
The story barely mentions his anti-LGBTQ bigotry & ignores his misogyny, antisemitism, & conspiracy theories www.nytimes.com/2024/03/06/u...
I'm begging my fellow Queers, please let HP go, please for the love of Applegate switch to some sorta other zillion other brands to latch on to. Like Animorphs
Some people got very pissy with me for saying that their Harry Potter addictions were directly funding transphobia but my point still stands: if you're still spending money on this crap, it is going towards hate & you need to deal with that.
www.pajiba.com/politics/you...
March 5, 1953. A Ukrainian restaurant in New York City invites people to taste borscht for free on the occasion of the death of Joseph Stalin, who died on this day.
Cold air will sweep through the Midwestern U.S. after days of unseasonable warmth, which could allow for hail the size of hen eggs and possible tornadoes and severe storms on Tuesday evening into Wednesday morning.
I was at a vigil for Nex last night, and during the portion where people could speak an 11 yo genderqueer kid broke down in tears yelling that they're so tired of being afraid and they hate that the world is so awful.
I don't think I've ever been less okay. I don't think any of us have been.
/2 The Nazis’ increasingly all-encompassing laws didn’t just serve policy goals. They served to normalize the idea of the state having authority in every segment of life, and to make more and more people complicit in enforcing that authority. That’s what totalitarianism means.
It would be wrong to see this as just a prudish or Victorian or even sincerely religious attitude about sex. It’s about control. It’s about the authority of the state intruding into more and more parts of life, and about making more and more people complicit in the abuse of power.
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