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silveradept) wrote2019-01-30 07:05 am
silveradept) wrote2019-01-30 07:05 am
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Things with a more political slant to them - Mostly November 02018 - January 02019
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Far right trolls and racists enjoy adopting symbols already in widespread use for their own purposes, but they're also very quick to sue when they feel they've been wronged over their use of those symbols in hateful ways. Historically, sometimes what it takes to beat racists and trolls beating your opposition by playing your game and not theirs. Here's a suggestion on what your game is - sticking to the facts, using your I-statements, and showing and enforcing your boundaries, which might mean that when someone says a thing that crosses them, you point it out and leave. Even when it's relatives or people you care for.
Mr. Mattis is resigning his post as Defense Secretary in February 2019, citing several disagreements he and the Current Administrator have about how foreign, diplomatic, and military policy and power should be projected. Also unsurprisingly, the Administrator who has no military experience, either as an enlisted person or as an officer, believes he would have made a good commander of people. There does seem to be a trend among people that those who have been enlisted or commissioned are not very quick to brag about themselves, while several people with no experience or otherwise are quick to tout their own expertise.
Buzzfeed asserted that there is evidence and testimony on record proving the Current Administrator instructed a subordinate to lie to and obstruct the Congress with regard to a real estate deal he was attempting to close in Russia. The Special Counsel pushed back by saying that what Buzzfeed says specifically happened did not, even though the story does have things that are true and did happen in it.
Mr. Guliani has decided his best line of defense is to say that the only thing that's being claimed is that the Current Administrator had no knowledge of the collusion actions of his subordinates. Which makes sense, because his previous, fact-checkable statements have been properly exploded by the investigations and pleas made so far by members of the campaign.
Mr. Stone, long-time adherent of conservative circles, has been publicly indicted by the Special Counsel for lying and misleading investigators who were attempting to investigate various connections between the hack of the DNC's e-mails and their subsequent appearance on WikiLeaks.
Perhaps the most useful piece of hope about rooting out the entirety of conspiracies and making sure all the people involved are appropriately punished is that the people in the conspiracy keep taking notes and leaving records for the investigators to find.
Although the midterms have just passed, here's a blueprint of what it might take to get the younger generation out to vote, much of which involves "give us someone that we actually want to believe in" and "make it so the system isn't structurally biased to the point where voting doesn't seem to matter at all about who wins." The sorts of things that progressives have been shouting about for years. The trickiest part of the whole deal is that you often have to vote for the inadequate people so that you can push them into giving you adequate people, because the other side of that believes that you are not human and deserve nothing at all in the way of living your life the way you want to or having the freedoms that you currently enjoy.elf posted a guide, broken down by general age demographic, about what's most likely to be effective about bringing someone to your point of view.
The older that people get, the more conservative their political outlook gets, we're told, but that may be because a significant number of people with more liberal beliefs, like the poor and minorities, often don't live long enough to get to the point where they get the most politically active and powerful.
Which makes it interesting to see that the House now has a Somali refugee returning to the place where she entered the country, a member that needed amendment to rules banning headwear on the floor of her workplace so that she could be the Muslim she is as well as a legislator, Native women, openly bisexual women, very young women, black women in highly white districts, womwn who aren't taking back their statements about "impeaching the motherfucker", (earning herself an endorsement from the Motherfucking God of Motherfucker, Samuel L Jackson himself), women who aren't afraid to call a racist a racist when he's given everyone ample opportunity to see that he is, and plenty of other new voices that are appearing on the floor for the first time.
Because we also had needed to change those rules so that a mother could nurse her child (children were banned from the legislating floor before).
The progressive caucus of the Democrats are now raising issues that need discussion, even if the more centrist Democrats aren't completely willing to go along with their agenda. More's the pity to those who aren't on board, because if you ask the voters, they want people will want bold strokes, not milk toast, even if they might agree that in the end, the change has to be slower and more gradual to get more votes. Which is likely to only compound the problems when they're climate change ones.
The Current Administration believes hey don't need to talk to the media on the regular, and will only do so when they feel the need. Which is less of a "we're conserving our energy" idea to me and more of a "since the media doesn't fawn over us when we talk to them, we're not going to talk to them" kind of strategy.
Admittedly, it's not hard for the administration to make headlines without ever having to send anyone to a briefing. Like this: The Administrator pointedly paid no attention and left the room when someone was trying to explain policy to him.
The long-term government shutdown engineered, orchestrated, and continued by the Current Administrator and his party is not a shutdown in the proper sense, because the only things really being starved of money are the things that are meant to help the poor and the vulnerable. I'm also going to just leave "Why we Build the Wall" from Hadestown right here as an explanation as to why it might so important to the pepole who want such walls.
The prospect of Brexit has several people in the United Kingdom amassing personal stockpiles of their medications, on the assumption that the government doesn't have a clue how to handle the transition smoothly and without disruption. Insecurity is very high, and the government isn't helping matters any by requiring non-disclosure agreements from companies in the best place to tell the public about what's going on.
If people get shirty and proof-texty at you about what their religious figure might or might not have done, remind them that there are a whole host of things they did not do, but there are others that they would be very likely to do, and those are the ones to focus on.
Making what is currently invisible labor explicitly visible and paying people for it might be the best way to shift toward an economy that makes sure all of the people that live in it can do work they find fulfilling and that will pay them enough to live upon. And, very well might open up people to be able to do the work they would actually enjoy doing, rather than having to pick a career based on its economic productivity...or the need they have right now to get some money, any money, into their pockets to avoid starvation. (People who have more than enough sitting in their bank accounts or wealth coffers can be convinced to part with it, slowly and over time if needed, but yes, the shift is a thing that has to be done in such a way that everyone can achieve their desires without any Brooks Brothers riots or people getting uneasy about the perception that others are jumping social classes too easily.)
A thing to remember at the end: the work is worthwhile, even if the results aren't immediate. Although, in a lot of places, the results will be immediate, and pretty awesome, too. A small list of ways to get into things without getting overwhelmed by things. Some suggestions for going along the way and building tighter-knit, better communities and networks. And a reminder to give yourself patience, care, and time, because what you are blossoming into will be wonderful.
Far right trolls and racists enjoy adopting symbols already in widespread use for their own purposes, but they're also very quick to sue when they feel they've been wronged over their use of those symbols in hateful ways. Historically, sometimes what it takes to beat racists and trolls beating your opposition by playing your game and not theirs. Here's a suggestion on what your game is - sticking to the facts, using your I-statements, and showing and enforcing your boundaries, which might mean that when someone says a thing that crosses them, you point it out and leave. Even when it's relatives or people you care for.
Mr. Mattis is resigning his post as Defense Secretary in February 2019, citing several disagreements he and the Current Administrator have about how foreign, diplomatic, and military policy and power should be projected. Also unsurprisingly, the Administrator who has no military experience, either as an enlisted person or as an officer, believes he would have made a good commander of people. There does seem to be a trend among people that those who have been enlisted or commissioned are not very quick to brag about themselves, while several people with no experience or otherwise are quick to tout their own expertise.
Buzzfeed asserted that there is evidence and testimony on record proving the Current Administrator instructed a subordinate to lie to and obstruct the Congress with regard to a real estate deal he was attempting to close in Russia. The Special Counsel pushed back by saying that what Buzzfeed says specifically happened did not, even though the story does have things that are true and did happen in it.
Mr. Guliani has decided his best line of defense is to say that the only thing that's being claimed is that the Current Administrator had no knowledge of the collusion actions of his subordinates. Which makes sense, because his previous, fact-checkable statements have been properly exploded by the investigations and pleas made so far by members of the campaign.
Mr. Stone, long-time adherent of conservative circles, has been publicly indicted by the Special Counsel for lying and misleading investigators who were attempting to investigate various connections between the hack of the DNC's e-mails and their subsequent appearance on WikiLeaks.
Perhaps the most useful piece of hope about rooting out the entirety of conspiracies and making sure all the people involved are appropriately punished is that the people in the conspiracy keep taking notes and leaving records for the investigators to find.
Although the midterms have just passed, here's a blueprint of what it might take to get the younger generation out to vote, much of which involves "give us someone that we actually want to believe in" and "make it so the system isn't structurally biased to the point where voting doesn't seem to matter at all about who wins." The sorts of things that progressives have been shouting about for years. The trickiest part of the whole deal is that you often have to vote for the inadequate people so that you can push them into giving you adequate people, because the other side of that believes that you are not human and deserve nothing at all in the way of living your life the way you want to or having the freedoms that you currently enjoy.
elf posted a guide, broken down by general age demographic, about what's most likely to be effective about bringing someone to your point of view.The older that people get, the more conservative their political outlook gets, we're told, but that may be because a significant number of people with more liberal beliefs, like the poor and minorities, often don't live long enough to get to the point where they get the most politically active and powerful.
Which makes it interesting to see that the House now has a Somali refugee returning to the place where she entered the country, a member that needed amendment to rules banning headwear on the floor of her workplace so that she could be the Muslim she is as well as a legislator, Native women, openly bisexual women, very young women, black women in highly white districts, womwn who aren't taking back their statements about "impeaching the motherfucker", (earning herself an endorsement from the Motherfucking God of Motherfucker, Samuel L Jackson himself), women who aren't afraid to call a racist a racist when he's given everyone ample opportunity to see that he is, and plenty of other new voices that are appearing on the floor for the first time.
Because we also had needed to change those rules so that a mother could nurse her child (children were banned from the legislating floor before).
The progressive caucus of the Democrats are now raising issues that need discussion, even if the more centrist Democrats aren't completely willing to go along with their agenda. More's the pity to those who aren't on board, because if you ask the voters, they want people will want bold strokes, not milk toast, even if they might agree that in the end, the change has to be slower and more gradual to get more votes. Which is likely to only compound the problems when they're climate change ones.
The Current Administration believes hey don't need to talk to the media on the regular, and will only do so when they feel the need. Which is less of a "we're conserving our energy" idea to me and more of a "since the media doesn't fawn over us when we talk to them, we're not going to talk to them" kind of strategy.
Admittedly, it's not hard for the administration to make headlines without ever having to send anyone to a briefing. Like this: The Administrator pointedly paid no attention and left the room when someone was trying to explain policy to him.
The long-term government shutdown engineered, orchestrated, and continued by the Current Administrator and his party is not a shutdown in the proper sense, because the only things really being starved of money are the things that are meant to help the poor and the vulnerable. I'm also going to just leave "Why we Build the Wall" from Hadestown right here as an explanation as to why it might so important to the pepole who want such walls.
The prospect of Brexit has several people in the United Kingdom amassing personal stockpiles of their medications, on the assumption that the government doesn't have a clue how to handle the transition smoothly and without disruption. Insecurity is very high, and the government isn't helping matters any by requiring non-disclosure agreements from companies in the best place to tell the public about what's going on.
If people get shirty and proof-texty at you about what their religious figure might or might not have done, remind them that there are a whole host of things they did not do, but there are others that they would be very likely to do, and those are the ones to focus on.
Making what is currently invisible labor explicitly visible and paying people for it might be the best way to shift toward an economy that makes sure all of the people that live in it can do work they find fulfilling and that will pay them enough to live upon. And, very well might open up people to be able to do the work they would actually enjoy doing, rather than having to pick a career based on its economic productivity...or the need they have right now to get some money, any money, into their pockets to avoid starvation. (People who have more than enough sitting in their bank accounts or wealth coffers can be convinced to part with it, slowly and over time if needed, but yes, the shift is a thing that has to be done in such a way that everyone can achieve their desires without any Brooks Brothers riots or people getting uneasy about the perception that others are jumping social classes too easily.)
A thing to remember at the end: the work is worthwhile, even if the results aren't immediate. Although, in a lot of places, the results will be immediate, and pretty awesome, too. A small list of ways to get into things without getting overwhelmed by things. Some suggestions for going along the way and building tighter-knit, better communities and networks. And a reminder to give yourself patience, care, and time, because what you are blossoming into will be wonderful.
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The only reason I'm not stockpiling medication is I legally can't. Because Butrans is a controlled drug, I can't get a repeat until I'm in the last week of the previous prescription, and I only get four weeks worth at a time. By my reckoning we'll hit Brexit in the last week of one of those four week periods. If I'm lucky, that means I'll have four weeks for them to get a clue. If I'm unlucky, I could be facing involuntary withdrawal symptoms within a week.
On top of which, I live in Kent, and if Operation Brock, the plan to stack lorries waiting to get into Dover on the M20, fails, as pretty much everyone expects, then I expect a substantial amount of coastbound traffic to try and divert past the only exit from my estate and jam the roads, and as I can't get out on foot, the hill being too steep for my chair, then I'll be stuck.
Getting nervous.
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