Noble Jeff Flake knew about this incident which, in and of itself, would make someone's appointment to the *Highest Court in The Land* somewhat questionable
And, I'm not going to tell anyone how to act, but I will say that Hershman is doing the right thing now, at personal cost, so I personally appreciate that
Basically Jeff Flake knew about
-2 credible sexual assault allegations against Kavanaugh
-1 credible workplace harassment allegation--including physical fear!
-Kavanaugh's own belligerent & mendacious behavior during his hearing
And he voted yes!
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I know I shouldn't be surprised, but I'm always kind of shaken when I see US leftists 1. take a US-centric view on domestic affairs in other countries &/or 2. side w/ oppressive regimes over regular citizens & protesters just b/c the government is "communist" or "socialist"
Multiple things can be true:
-The U.S. embargo is bad
-Trump's sanctions made it worse
-Anti-Cuban rhetoric has been used for U.S. nationalistic purposes
-The Cuban gov't has also screwed over the Cuban people for reasons unrelated to U.S. actions
-The Cuban gov't is oppressive
It really is shocking to see ostensible leftists side w/ governments over protesters. The protesters aren't necessarily "right wing." They want food & medicine & electricity. And they have been beaten & imprisoned over the past week. 1-5 deaths are estimated.
I wrote for @johnastoehr about the trope that colleges are descending into a kind of authoritarian conformity of social liberalism. The reality is academia is hardly “monocultural” & certain GOP ideas are antithetical to the project of education itself. editorialboard.com/p/theres-room-…
Writers from across the political spectrum love to opine about the death of "debate" on campuses, especially when it comes to conservative ideology.
But no one ever tells us which conservative views are being omitted & why exactly they are worthy of intellectual inquiry
Let’s be clear about a few things: 1. Certain forms of “intellectual conformity” are not actually bad 2. Coherent non-batshit conservative belief is well-represented in academia 3. A lot of current GOP *political* thought is antithetical to the entire project of education
When you hear about "mass graves" in Canada, just know that those "mass graves" are also called cemeteries & they are on "school" grounds where children were brought after being forcibly removed from their homes & beaten when they spoke their Native languages. Calm down, libs
Last week, in response to one of these arguments, I asked, "Why weren't the graves marked?" and people were like, "UMM, at one site they were marked & then a priest got mad at a local tribe and bulldozed the cemetery so not *nearly* as bad as you say"
"What they want to see is genocide, not the truth"
Maybe if you're a journalist & you don't know who Olivia Rodrigo is, you could look her up on google & see she's popular enough to have gone platinum. You could then write a story on the crisis of low vax % in young people & how some are being hospitalized w/ Delta in the U.S.
I realize the subtext of "LOL I'm so old" is funny, but it gets less funny after the 100th tweet expressing the same sentiment and becomes negative-funny when it becomes a twitter trend that eclipses the very serious underlying topic.
See, here's a story:
-Young people aren't getting vaccinated in sufficient numbers
-Some republicans have attacked health officials over outreach to teens
-White House reaches out to a person who is popular w/ teens to be an ambassador
-GOP parents freak out
I keep seeing people say that if conservatives' don't get vaccinated, it's their own problem. That's not how it works. Every human body gives the virus a chance to mutate & thus a chance to become vaccine evasive. If this happens, it will be a problem for all of us.
It's not like scientists would have to start from Square 1. But they'd still have to figure out how to modify the vaccine, get approval, manufacture, & then distribute the vaccine. I'm not sure why kind of trial/safety data the FDA would require.