This one is pretty easy: Kevin McCarthy is working to block a bipartisan congressional investigation of the Jan. 6 insurrection because Kevin McCarthy is deeply implicated in the Jan. 6 insurrection
Even as someone who considers themselves pretty sex-positive, I STILL feel this cultural push. It feels like the entire landscape is slanted, and if you don't actively strive against it, you will roll to the point of least resistance, which is Mega Prudishness.
For everyone asking when will we stop going from crisis to crisis?
We won't, this is what the beginning of climate decline looks like, constant natural disasters, political unrest and pandemics due to crumbling infrastructure.
Quit falling for flamboyant lawyers who know how to put on a show and start looking at who was never arrested at all despite being the ringleaders of the crimes
[share author='Max Kennerly' profile='https://twitter.com/MaxKennerly' avatar='https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/2272212478/b00wlaliuo2qbd5vyit8.jpeg' link='https://twitter.com/MaxKennerly/status/1394386276875395080' posted='2021-05-17 20:16:09']So while extremist groups were openly talking about their plan to use violence to keep Trump in power, the DOJ—filled with stalwart Republicans who have since been picked up by corporate law firms—was ignoring that and instead going after @NunesAlt with a secret subpoena.
1. HIPAA applies to health-care providers, not ordinary folks talking about someone’s medical stuff.
2. If you’re NOT a health-care provider, you can talk *as much as you want* about other people’s medical stuff. Perfectly legal. Breaks no law. Full stop.
Oh my god 🙄 theyre gunna “weed mommy” MSG. White suburban people are going to get rich using this “new salt substitute” while for the past 2 decades society shamed and boycotted Asian restaurants/ products that used the same ingredient.
ftr “banning sexual content from the internet is inherently queerphobic” and “perpetuating the idea that hypersexualization is an inherent trait of queerness is toxic and erasive” are two statements that can be and absolutely are simultaneously true
As the articles keep coming about Bill Gates's close relationship with Epstein and his long history of sexual advances on Microsoft employees, I'll just reminisce about all the times people told me I was wrong about billionaires being bad because "Bill Gates"
This was just unsealed. In the last weeks of the Trump administration, William Barr's Justice Department tried to use a secret grand jury subpoena to unmask @NunesAlt, a Devin Nunes parody account.
At this particular moment? Amplify Palestinian voices. This is a war of narratives, and we need your help. We do not have a state-sponsored propaganda department, all we have is our truth and our social media accounts.
Welp had our first "I'm not wearing a mask, I'm fully vaccinated!" run-in at the day job today despite the MASKS REQUIRED sign on the door. It went about as bad as you'd expect.
CDC really didn't think about how violent this will be for retail/food service/in-person places.
I have a couple explanations that may be both true at the same time: - It is perceived as “weak” (solidarity) and should be weeded out from a “strong” (individualistic) society. - It reflects poorly on people who don’t want to spend the effort being considerate so they lash out at the people making them look bad in comparison.
Someone on tv just said, “when we want to incentivize rich people we give them money but when we want to incentivize poor people we take away money,” and holy fuck that’s so true.
This trend of blaming defund when the cops haven’t been defunded and blaming an increased minimum wage when the wage hasn’t actually been raised is really a new level of having absolutely no argument.
Another thing I keep thinking about is how Israel prevents construction materials from entering Gaza. So every bomb that drops, every apartment building and house that's destroyed, is gone forever. They're collectively and permanently punishing every resident there.
you will never ever be able to convince me that this sudden capitulation of CDC leading to the 'mission accomplished' announcements everywhere has nothing to do with poverty wage jobs needing their workers.
There was an attempted coup four months ago where the president sent his supporters and domestic terrorists to attack Congress, kill his vice president, and overthrow an election and people are either acting like it never happened or like it’s a totally manageable non-crisis.
You've got to ask...what's the point? This is an exercise in futility and a guarantee that the process will not lead to anything like justice or accountability.
New: A since-deleted video from 2019 shows MTG harassing @AOC's office through a locked door. Calling her "crazy eyes" and telling her through the office's mailbox slot to "get rid of your diaper" while telling the office to open the door and come out.
Thanks CDC! Now we get to have liars who aren't vaccinated walk among those of us trying to protect ourselves or our immunocompromised family and friends and we'll have no way of telling them apart from vaccinated people. Thank you! This is what I was hoping for ALLLLL year!
I think we on the left could use a lot more friendly, approachable media. While I love me some good aggressive graphic design, right now, I think the right is consistently winning the propaganda game in part because they wrap their ideas with really easy-to-swallow tone and appeals to common sense. We can do that too, in pursuit of a more compassionate, humane, and just world.
So I made a couple images for my local chapter of the IWW that I'm pretty proud of.
I have SVG versions of these if people want to play with them. I'm happy for these to be spread widely; please download them, share them, modify them, whatever. Information wants to be free!
>in pursuit of a more compassionate, humane, and just world
As long as our mates in general and our propagandists in particular don't get in their heads that nobody wants the opposite of this, the needle will never be swayed. It's not us versus them, it's us *with* them.
also I find it funny that you're railing against bosses when they're only employees of the megacorps we should be fighting, and only pocket the surplus value of our labor in small businesses, which is also where workers enjoy the greatest relative bargaining power
1. Managers, as humans, deserve happiness, safety, security, the opportunity to engage in meaningful work, and all the other basic human dignities. 2. Management is, by and large, a "bullshit job" that produces nothing and only exists as a result of the organizational complexity (and ever-squeezing pressure to create value) of late-stage capitalism.
I think the "lefty" way to do it is distributed. Make toolkits, distribute them for free. Decrease the barrier to entry. Create a network rather than a central designated authority.
Mostly because I don't think we'll ever have the institutional support to have an organization, as such. For some reason, established institutions don't seem to much care for anticapitalist messaging. 🙃
But I'm not trying to rain on your parade, by any means. If that sparks a fire for you, go for it! More power to you.
As an IWW member I like it very much. I also like that the message would not be out of place next to a Laborer’s International Union logo. ( Just as an example ) I see that as a significant feature. @ParadeGrotesque
I like these, though I'll point out that another big reason RWing messaging has traction is because it constantly reinforces the "objective," historically inaccurate bullshit most of us were already marinated in from birth. (At least, that's true in the U.S.)
Oh boy, this is blowing up and so is my anxiety. 🙃
Generally, I'm not interested in arguing these points, folks, so if you have improvements or disagreements, I recommend you take them to your own space. I won't be hashing it out with strangers. 👍🏻
I really like these! Have been thinking the same for a very long time; that we need a lot more messaging & propoganda that sounds supportive rather than violent.
Tommi 🤯
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