The reason why none of these “Biden’s plan is to limit you to 4lbs of red meat” posts actually link to Biden’s plan to do this is because no such plan exists.
In other words, they are lying. masslive.com/politics/2021/…
The right wing conspirasphere has just become a means of turning real policy conversations - we need to cut carbon emissions to keep human existence in tolerable conditions - into deranged mischaracterizations - Biden is banning hamburgers!
The fundamental point here is that right wing media, social media clout chasers and politicians see the same incentive structure: the culture war lie is rewarded. Zero pushback or loss of credibility for lying in the conspirasphere in which they operate.
Update - we can and should mock Fox’s 25 second retraction for a story it pushed but that’s more than we will get from others who peddled this story in bad faith.

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If you are even remotely interested in campus speech and debates about critical race theory, cancel culture etc. this is essential listening.
TLDR: the language may have changed slightly, but we already had this debate in the 1990s podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/you…
Key elements of the 1990s moral panic about political correctness hold today:
*unrepresentative and misleading anecdotes ✅
*conservatives and powerful portraying themselves as victims✅
*donor-funded conservative setting the narrative for mainstream media✅
*Dines D'Souza✅
The biggest difference between the 1990s PC moral panic and today is that the attacks on campus are no longer rhetorical; conservative legislators are more comfortable using state power to act on this nonsense, praising free speech while shutting it down
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There is only ever one good reason for a politician to use a private plane and thats a killer haircut
If it were me, and my political career included a scandal about using a tax-funded private plane for trips as short as 24 miles, I would simply avoid connecting the topics of "politicians", "private planes" and "hypocrisy" urbanmilwaukee.com/2018/08/23/op-…
On the other hand, Walker's post gubernatorial career is full of such conflicts:
He took money to complain that Dems are seeking unfair redistricting packages when he oversaw possibly the worst gerrymander in the United States politico.com/story/2019/03/…
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Across the country Republicans looked at protests at excessive use of police authority and decided the solution was to criminalize protest
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Apart from criminalizing protest, some other salient measures of current GOP authoritarianism:
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*seeking to overturn elections
*constraining voting rights
*state policing dissenting speech at universities and schools
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20 Apr
Not quite ready for those who will proclaim the verdict to be a miscarriage of justice, but you know it's coming and you know why they will say it.
You, a fool: Hmm - the carceral state maintains structures of power by using state resources to target historically marginalized groups.
Michael Tracey, a genius: actually the carceral state is any punishment of state actors who murder members of marginalized groups.
None of these clout chasers are going to come out and say that it's ok to murder someone in broad daylight. No, no. They are just concerned about due process in the criminal justice system. About media coverage being fair. Thats all it is.
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FL, where the state:
*has made it easy to turn protest against police action into a felony conviction, which will cause protestors to lose voting rights
*the police instruct you how to vote
*you can't talk about this in a classroom because critical race theory is banned
FL, where the state (ok, really the GOP):
*overrode a referendum that saw two-thirds of the public say former felons should get voting rights back but God forbid you talk about race and power in a classroom
If you are a faculty in a university, a proposed new law will survey your political beliefs, and encourage students to record you what you say. The state is narrowing, policing and in some cases criminalizing dissent against abuses of state power.
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This is really great: USCIS is seeking public input on how to minimize administrative burdens for immigrants. Please share widely! federalregister.gov/documents/2021…
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