Look guys, it is good to engage with people you donāt agree with 100% politically on occasion. This is not me telling you to try to befriend neo-nazis. I mean, as a leftist, sometimes youāve got to meet a middle aged lukewater democrat where theyāre at and try to open a dialogue to help educate them on issues and discuss your beliefs. If someone seems receptive to listening and learning, that is a great chance to speak and teach. I know itās fun to make fun of the libs but sometimes ill-informed but well-intentioned Facebook liberals have had propaganda shoved down their throats for 50 years and just need someone to explain the issues to them in a way that is kind and not condescending. Itās not your job but it is nice, it is a nice thing to do and it is nice to try to treat others with understanding. This is a good time to do that, there are a lot of people out there who are frightened and confused.
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She's also publicly stated that she believes that anyone who reads her books or watches her shows and films does so because they explicitly agree with her political views.
There's no "agree to disagree" with her work. Every time you pick up her work or talk about it you are saying to her "I agree with you Joanne" whether you like it or not.
They are trying to wear you out, and they own most major social media now, along with many major media outlets. The disinformation machine is cranking along. You are going to have to slow the fuck down and read things before you help them wear out other people, too.
So you just saw a post about a real scary bill, hunh? Republicans want to make it a capital offense to pet dogs and repeal The Sky Is Blue Act of 1793, declaring the new official color of the sky to be squant? Damn, that sounds scary.
Let's go look up this fictitious "Make The Sky Squant Again Act" on GovTracker* & on the official legislative tracker on congress.gov!
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Well, let's see... GovTracker estimates it has a 1% chance of even getting out of committee and a 0% chance of being enacted, while congress.gov says this bill has 2 cosponsors who have been in the House and combined total of less than a month. The bill doesn't have any actual text, and it was referred to 5 different committees.
That fictitious bill and a hundred others like it are quite literally not worth your time, and more than that, continuing to wring your hands about it and tell other people about the scary scary squant sky bill only does their work for them. It scares people, it makes them spend time and energy on it, and it wears them out. It is a legislative Gish Gallop, meant to throw so many things at people that we can't keep up.
Even calling or messaging your Rep in this case means their staffer has to waste time responding to you and letting you know that Representative Buttzonheads definitely won't support making petting dogs a capital offense, a thing that will never, ever happen regardless.
Staying engaged in this environment is going to require protecting your heart and protecting your energy, yes, but also protecting the energy of others. This is why WWII propaganda posters also included ones taking people to task for spreading panicky rumors and undermining morale.
Do you know why most observant Jews don't eat chicken and dairy together, even though the ban is on red meat and dairy together bc you're not supposed to cook the calf in the milk of its mother?** It's not because we think that chicken might secretly lactate or Just Because. It's because the rabbis decided that if I'm sitting out in public and eating turkey and cheese together, someone might glance at the turkey and mistake it for red meat and think, "oh, well, I know that Spider is a good Jew, there must have been a change, or maybe I can just justify it to myself that if Spider does it, it must be permissible to bend the rules just that much." And I would then be accidentally leading my fellow Jew astray. We are responsible for being even more careful for the sake of others than we are for ourselves.
It's the same principle here. We need to really be careful about the information we are spreading and check things past reading a news site. Is it true? Is it relevant? Is it meaningful? Is the news site one I recognize? Can I find meaningful independent corroboration on another site, which is to say, if I find an article about it on a second site, is it just quoting or rephrasing this site?
Yeah, that is a lot. But that's how we keep them from using us to lead our fellows astray.
*GovTracker is an independent site. They explain their methodology in their About section.
**I cannot say enough how I am not at this time interested in going on a Jewish Side Quest About Dietary Laws on this post. Usually, I love it, but hold off this time, please, y'all. Let's stay on target this once.
I'm pretty sure that's the main reason for most of Trump's Executive Orders on day 1. A lot of them are unenforceable, others are blatantly illegal or even unconstitutional, but people will be distracted in the courts trying to shut them down, and it's splitting everyone's focus away from the few that are genuinely dangerous. Splitting people's focus is the one thing that Trump is genuinely good at, distracting the public while the Republicans are doing more subtle awful things in the background.
Corporations and stuff are also taking advantage where they can of "complying early" because they hate regulations.
Use the tracker.
Take notes of who's claiming the nothingburgers are already legal. They are doing illegal shit, actually, until Actual Law is passed, and as the trackers show, much won't be for ages if ever.
Take note of the genuinely hazardous shit that's got more than an ice sculptures chance at the equator at becoming actual law.
Try not to panic. Harder to manage shit mid panic.
āmake yourselves impossible to ignore. 10,000 signatures on twitter is a lot but 10 unique personal emails is enough to derail an entire council session.ā
I was in a city council meeting last week about defunding the police and one of the council members mentioned multiple times that sheād been inundated with calls and emails all that day saying to defund the police.
[ID: Two screenshots of a twitter thread by alex flanigan, anti-fascist @Coff33Detective from June 12, 2020 beginning at 11:25 AM that reads: hi! i work in local government and community management, and iām here to tell you a secret: it is like, really, really easy to overwhelm the people who work in your local government. especially right now. especially on things they can actionably do or impact.
you may not know this, but i bet your city or town or municipality has a website. i bet that website has some contact forms or email addresses on it. i bet you can use them to put together a message in about 5 minutes! i bet itās almost as easy as signing a national petition.
which is to say: iām noticing, like most other people, that the national level discussion on really important and long overdue issues is flagging. but the internet and news cycle is not the only battleground, and you will be pleasantly surprised by how easy it is toā
āfight those battles at home, on your own turf, with much more immediate impact, and they are so, so important.
I am begging you: make my job, and the jobs of people like me, difficult right now. flood us with demands. make yourselves impossible to ignore. 10,000 signatures on twitter is a lot but 10 unique personal emails is enough to derail an entire council session. End ID]
Iāve been a city council observer with the League of Women Voters for nearly a year, and I have witnessed the following:
A few guys voicing their anxiety about speeding on a street where their children play and suggesting a radar speed sign. Despite catching all of two meetings where this was mentioned, I walked back home one day andāyepāthere was a radar speed sign up.
A persistent force of 3-5ish loud residents coming to zoning and council meetings because they did not want a drive through style restaurant moving into a particular area where there were already major issues with traffic congestion and safety. This eventually resulted in a Chik-fil-a having its planning proposal shot down by council such that the lot is now likely to house an Aldi. I am getting low cost groceries instead of bigotry chicken in my neighborhood because of a D&D partyās worth of regular speakers.
A turnout of residents shouting down an attempt to reduce the amount of funding for the community Juneteenth celebration until Council backed down. One meeting. Roughly a dozen people + their kids speaking about the significance of the holiday. The celebration ended up having its full funding restored.
In my experience, it is incredibly easy to bully local politicians and get some sort of results, especially in small municipalities. If you have something that you want to see happen at the local level, seriously try to contact your local officials and see what you can make happen.
You genuinely donāt even always have to go to a meeting btw. If you have a Facebook, those council members are in your local Facebook groups.Do you know how easy it is to tag your mayor and go āhey what are you gonna do about this?ā over everything? Do you know how often that WORKS?
Government From Above looks easy. Command your followers to do shit and they do it, right?
Except when they donāt. Because all of a sudden their neighbors get in their faces.
Then the whole thing comes apart.
Itās easy for people to think Their Boy and their way of thinking has won, beating the Evil Other Side. They think they can then go back to arguing with their HOA and worrying about the price of eggs.
Teach them otherwise!
Turn up at local political meetings and have those people understand that youāre not just going to roll over and let them have their way. Yell at them. (In words bigger than they were equipped to understand, if you feel thatās the way to go.) Give them to understand that they are not right, and you will be back again to get up their ill-prepared noses about this. And again. And again. (Because theyāll never really be ready for opposition. No oneās taught them that. Theyāre just cannon fodder, poor things. They were never meant to go into battle.)
People hate looking stupid repeatedly in front of other people. You can tire them out. You can make them give up. You can make them feel thereās no point in it.
Donāt talk yourself out of this. The Goddess of Justice must descend from great heights to effect herself into the works of human beings. Donāt talk yourself out of āyour turn in the barrel.ā (As some humans have been known to call it.) It wonāt last that long. Almost none of your opponents have any staying power. (Remember Punched-in-The-Face-Nazi guy? He had a huge online presence. It took one punch to make him dig a hole and crawl in.)
Let the folks youāre opposing understand that youāre going to keep on doing this every time they show up. Let them get the sense that youāre willing to be unreasonable about this. Theyāve been thinking theyāre the āsaneā ones in this discourse. Teach them that they may possibly be incorrect.
Be persistent. Some of them will never have seen persistence in their lives. (As opposed to repeating somebody elseās talking points over and over again, which isnāt the same thing at all.) True persistence requires creativity! Every day, make a new way to come at them. They will never be able to keep up with you.
If enough of us do this⦠we can take whole legislative structures back: from the bottom up.
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Honestly my biggest argument is that more than anything it'll make your transgender sisters feel unsafe. If you insist that masculinity is Genuinely Evil in some way, how is your transgender friend going to feel when she has prominent stubble that day? When her voice drops lower than she wants? When she has to hide her transness for safety?
It was said in the tags cuz I felt like it was assumed already but I'll also put this here: it's gonna make your cis and trans man friends EXTREMELY fucking uncomfortable if you're like this. You don't wanna miss out on trans and cis dude friends!!!!! They've got your back you gotta have theirs!!!
"Iām very concerned about my clientās right to a fair trial in this case.Ā Heās being prejudiced by some statements that are being made by government officials. Like every other defendant, heās entitled to a presumption of innocence. But unfortunately the way this has been handled so far his rights are being violated. And as you know, Your Honor, thereās a wealth of case law guaranteeing his rights to a fair trial, but none of the safeguards have been put in place yet here ā in fact itās just the opposite of whatās been happening.Ā
Heās a young man, and he is being treated like a human pingpong ball between two warring jurisdictions here.
These federal and state prosecutors are coordinating with one another at the expense of him. They have conflicting theories in their indictment, and they are literally treating him like he is some sort of political fodder, like some sort of spectacle.Ā
He was on display for everyone to see in the biggest staged perp walk Iāve ever seen in my career. It was absolutely unnecessary. Heās been cooperative with law enforcement. Heād been in custody for over a week. He waived extradition. He was cooperative at all accounts. There was no reason for the NYPD and everybody to have these big assault rifles ā that frankly I had no idea it was in their arsenal ā and to have all the press there the media there. It was perfectly choreographed.Ā
And what was the New York City Mayor doing at this press conference, Your Honor? That just made it utterly political. And as your honor knows under Loro v. Charles, the Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit has held it to be clearly established that these staged perp walks to the media unrelated to a legitimate law enforcement objective is unconstitutional. And I submit that there was zero law enforcement objective to do that sort of perp walk. Thereās absolutely no need for that whatsoever.Ā
And frankly, Your Honor, the mayor should know more than anyone about the presumption of innocence that he, too, is afforded dealing with his own issues. And, frankly, I submit that he was just trying to detract from those issues by making a spectacle of Mr. Mangione.Ā
And there are consequences to this.Ā
He has a right to a fair trial. And I just want to put on the record statements that the mayor made publicly about my client. Nothing saying āallegedā for example. And he said āI wanted to send a strong message with the police commissioner that weāre leading from the front. Iām not just going to allow him to come into our city. I wanted to look him in the eye and state āYou carried out this terrorist act in my city, the city of New York that I love.āā And he wanted to show symbolism.Ā
Your Honor, heās not a symbol. Heās somebody who is afforded the right to a fair trial. Heās innocent until proven guilty. And the mayor was talking to jurors ā future potential jurors that elected him. Those are the people that elected him that he is talking to and calling this man a terrorist.
So, Your Honor, I just want to make a record of this and put everyone on notice that this has to stop, and my client is entitled to a fair trial and the presumption of innocence."
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hey i can't make it to Sorry For Visiting Wanton Destruction Upon Your Populace For No Reason Day yeah uhm its just that like you didn't invite my war crime friend and i think its kinda fucked up that you did that
Every single on of those registrations was a single person deciding to register. When you think you're just "lil ol me" and your voice doesn't matter that much: Remember this.
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A US special āhostage cellā played a crucial role in the rescue of four Israeli captives, the American news website Axios reported.
Exclusive footage obtained by Al-Jazeera showed Israeli special forces using an aid truck and a civilian car to carry out the operation.
A US special āhostage cellā played a crucial role in the rescue of four Israeli captives, the American news website Axios reported on Saturday, citing a US administration official.
Meanwhile, exclusive footage obtained by Al-Jazeera showed Israeli special forces using an aid truck and a civilian car to carry out the operation.
The images depict civilian cars escorted by Israeli military tanks penetrating the western areas of the Nuseirat camp, amid a series of unprecedented air raids targeting the camp and various central Gaza Strip areas, resulting in over 200 Palestinian deaths and dozens of injuries so far.
The Popular Resistance Committees in Gaza issued a statement, condemning the āhorrific massacre committed by the zionist enemy through its planes, warships, tanks, and special forces in the Nuseirat campā.
āThe massacre in the Nusseirat camp clearly and unequivocally reveals and confirms the participation of American enemy forces stationed on the floating dock in killing and slaughtering our people,ā the statement continued adding that this happened ādespite the criminal American administrationās assertion that this dockās purpose is solely to pump humanitarian aidā.
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