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3 Dec

Has anyone watched "The School of Chocolate" on Netflix? It is such a different competition show. No one is eliminated. The bottom two get remedial instruction from the chef/teacher. I have never seen such a kind teacher who cares so much about building up every student.

People should watch just to learn how to be a good person. There is one person who seems a bit negative, but she's someone who would be beloved in the usual cutthroat competition food shows.

Remember polite and quiet chefs were doubted as not having the whatever to run a kitchen on Top Chef. MasterChef is flat out abuse. Her big sin was voting for herself, though really, if you can't vote for yourself, you don't belong in the game.

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@Cajsa

28 Nov

So one of my organizing mentors likes to tell a story about door-knocking in the South back in the early 70s. At the door was a white woman who opened the conversation with a phrase about how glad he wasn't one of the [racist epithet] registering voters. He started to back away

but she added, "but if you're here to talk about that company polluting our drinking water, I have coffee and we can talk." She became an active volunteer and was integral to their organizing to clean up some mess. He told this story many times to argue against excluding white

racists who will be changed by working with Black people on a shared purpose (as he claims this woman was.)

So, one day I asked him, how many Black people did not join because that woman was a leader?

He had never thought about that...

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@Cajsa

27 Nov

https://twitter.com/davidpakmanshow/status/1463292986821914625

Andrew Yang stepped in it during the interview, affirming that if white supremacists were willing to work with him toward his goals, they were welcome in the Forward party. I am not surprised.

https://twitter.com/davidpakmanshow/status/1463292986821914625

Bernie Sanders said essentially the same thing a few 1000 times. Remember his complaint that Democrats don't know how to talk to the working class? He admits they are the most important to him.

This is the problem with people who see our politics as economic, first, last, and always. They are always willing to trade away people on the downside of power to get those WWC votes.

Sticking up for trans rights might cost me some votes, so let them pee behind a tree.

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26 Nov

My best friend was a Warren supporter in the 2020 primary though not the kind who would ever call herself a "Warren Democrat" with its implication of party schism. She and I did not see eye-to-eye on the senator but Warren's constant social media demands for executive orders have

persuaded her more effectively than I ever was. I was never able to convince her that Warren's Manichean worldview was bad for policy and for the country, but she gets it now. If you see every issue through the lens of campaign finance corruption, you misdiagnose the issues.

Money in politics is a serious issue and dramatically distorts policy-making and elections. The worst is the uncontrolled independent expenditures, many made with undisclosed sources via c4s, frequently called "dark money" organizations, but it's seldom quid-pro-quo despite the s

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26 Nov

Maybe it's the experience of being a straight white woman working the majority of my white life in organizations focused on gay rights and anti-racism, but I have very little tolerance for tolerance. Tolerance is not enough.

Yes, there is an agenda.

Take gay rights. Never mind that there still is no ban on housing or employment discrimination, freedom to marry is not enough. None of us are free so long as people merely tolerate LGBTIQA people. They must be liberated from condemnation and judgment.

Take civil rights. First, housing and employment discrimination may be illegal, but it still happens. People may be able to vote, but their right is impinged by regulations, poor equipment, long lines, and other impediments

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24 Nov

The defense attorneys in the McMichael/Bryan trial worked very hard to dehumanize Ahmaud Arbery, gambling that eleven white jurors in Georgia would respond to their othering him at every opportunity. It did not work this time. I am thankful for that, but can't help but remember

If that video had not been leaked, McMichaels and Bryan would never have been prosecuted. The cops and prosecutors saw that video and said it wasn't a crime. But local gossip disagreed, so their own lawyer leaked the video to prove they were right to murder Arbery. Think on that

There was no person in the justice system where this happened that thought McMichaels and Bryan needed prosecution. This was not a leak from someone outraged by injustice but by one of the lawyers hoping to shut down local gossip. If not for that misjudgment, no justice ever.

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