Fight This Fight
THE ∞$VorV?∞ SCALE - 11/21/2024
Yes to all of this. For fucks sake, we have to fight this fight.
Will Bunch
One of the biggest mistakes Democrats made in the last cycle was shutting the fuck up on this issue.
All of that hate was just unanswered.
So many Americans are simply uneducated on this issue. And I get why!
I used to be uneducated on this, too. Twenty years ago, when I lived in red America and surrounded by the Murdoch and Rush Limbaugh news zeitgeist, those vile ads would have most likely worked on me.
You know when I started to grow the fuck up and see all of our neighbors as neighbors? It was when I moved to NYC and started to belly up to the bar next to every type of human from every corner of this miraculous pale blue spaceship.
Guess what I learned?
If I bought a round, my new friends would buy the next. And most of the time, the first round was the one that was offered by my new friends.
Meeting our neighbors has always been that magical tool that has broken the mirage of supremacy of every kind. So, all those vicious hate-mongering ads should have been countered with ads that showed our neighbors' kindness and humanity. It's as simple as that.
The job of the next four years is to make this issue the "actually, left-handed Americans aren't possessed demons" issue of our time.
Like those of you who were born with a better working left hand than right hand, Our trans teammates have always existed.
I can't wait until our idiotic society learns the science and reality behind yet another issue that should not be an issue.
And we can get there by exposing the motives behind the assholes who are in the business of being a hate-mongering politician.
As I was saying, a lot of these people don't really have an ideology besides whatever helps them climb upwards. If you're wondering which of these versions of Nancy Mace is a fraud ... they both are.
— Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec.bsky.social) 2024-11-21T04:23:44.951Z
We win this fight by showing strength in this issue. You know, like this.
Imagine if all democrats talked like and had the strength of @aoc.bsky.social
— Elad Nehorai (@eladn.bsky.social) 2024-11-21T02:48:39.566Z
THURSDAY'S WEBLOG
TODAY ON THE VICIOUS SIDE OF THE ∞$VorV?∞ SCALE
Maybe Nancy Mace, who supposedly deeply cares about women's safety, should look at the top of her party for the real threat.
Diana Falzone
The "populist" "pro-worker" party "wins" again.
A Trump Judge Just Nixed Overtime Pay for Millions—and Media Yawned
Remember the right-wing frenzy over “Rich Men North of Richmond”? Well, this ruling exposes Trump-MAGA hypocrisy on the working class—and reveals a big media failure.
Greg Sargent and The New Republic
More winning for the "populist" party.
Amazon and SpaceX aim to defang the federal labor board. Trump may help.
More than two dozen corporations are pursuing legal action against the agency that protects labor organizing as Trump weighs challenging its legal structure by firing Democratic board members.
Delta CEO says the Trump administration will reverse government ‘overreach’ seen under Biden
FYI, reversing "overreach" means they will get to fleece us puny customers by 'MAKING JUNK FEES GREAT AGAIN.'
The "populist" party wins again!
How about this? Is this populism?
@ronanfarrow.bsky.social reports on how the Trump Administration could use phone-hacking software to surveil citizens and target vulnerable groups. “Every single person should be worried,” a privacy expert said.
— The New Yorker (@newyorker.com) 2024-11-20T20:35:10.499Z
ONWARD TO THE BEST STUFF IN MY FEED TODAY
More proof that we humans don't love the massive murdering machines that most of us currently use to get from point A to point B.
Carlton Reid
If we build infrastructure for a far better world of transportation, we will use it. City after beautiful city is proving this fact.
Jonathan Vanian
What if every entrepreneur started their business with this same philosophy? This is about designing this ethos into the core of the company. Back in the 90's grunge movement, this was known as "never selling out."
I absolutely love that philosophy. So, cheers to Jay Graber and the Bluesky team for turning it into their business model.
Maybe we can move this philosophy to government next? Okay, that job might take a little time. You know, since the most rapacious billionaire assholes on earth will be our President and Shadow-President in January.
Something that could have been prevented if only we ...
Today in 'What the fuck was Merrick Garland doing for the first 2 years on his job?' ...
Oh no, poor Brazilians! Do they not know that the only way to defeat an authoritarian assault is “at the ballot box” and that if you want to save the constitutional order, you have to let the authoritarian destroy it? I hope it’s not too late for them to learn from the great U.S. of A.
— Thomas Zimmer (@thomaszimmer.bsky.social) 2024-11-21T19:28:19.551Z
How is this good news? Just because our DOJ failed at its job doesn't mean we can't celebrate a country that puts its coup plotters in fucking jail. Cheers to you, my friends in Brazil!
And this is a much-needed reminder to all of us. The wins are out there, and these were huge fucking wins.
Mark Joseph Stern
Stay strong, my friends.