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Feb 6 4 tweets 1 min read
Very few people in the media will support any sort of consequences for abhorrent & 'offensive speech, even the consequences of you & I deciding not to subscribe to their platform. Why? They see themselves in the same place. They imagine themselves being boycotted.
Ana Kasparian & Marianne Williamson make their living by getting people to listen to them, so any consequence that involves NOT listening to someone scares the socialist out of them & they become grubby capitalists who only care about their own income stream.
And of course, with Kasparian, you get the usual progressive denial of racism as the central organizing principle of America. These are class-not-race folks because they believe the errors of someone who never experienced US racism rather than actual history and experience
For them, the working class is all that matters and by working class, they don't mean the majority who are women and people of color, they mean white men.

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Feb 6
If an artist deciding not to stream their music on Spotify is really "the most despicable efforts in [a] lifetime" then what is the answer. Do Jon Steward and Saagar Enjeti, et. al. want artists to be forced to stream? Should we consumers be forced to subscribe to Spotify?
I mean, everyone is using their free choice as artists and consumers. There is no government involvement here. But these men so desperate to protect Joe Rogan think we don't have the right of free association, to disassociate if we choose. Jon Stewart & Saager Enjeti etc
Saagar Enjeti are upset that artists are willing to risk loss of income to disassociate from someone who is killing people with misinformation and adding to the racial animus in the world with blatant and unabashed racism. Enjeti says its the most despicable thing in his lifetime
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Feb 3
I like Below Deck but there were a few major failings this season. No white person has any excuse for using the racist epithet or its adjacent form used in rapping, even if they are rapping. No white person has any excuse ever. Not even to tell a story about someone saying it
And a Black person who is offended by a white person using that word does not have to forgive that person, no matter how many times they apologize. That can be a permanent bar to any relationship with complete justification.
But Rayna should have had the wherewithal to tell Heather she is not forgiven and will never be forgiven. That's a perfectly justifiable reaction and she has no need to forgive her.
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Jan 17
This shit drives me nuts. If government were run like a business, it would be bankrupt. Government does not pay executives several million dollars. The president is paid $400,000. The administrative cost of Medicare is 1.4%. For private insurance around 15%.
The reason we spend more and get less than we used to from our government is we privatized a lot of it so it costs more and does less. A military contractor gets paid $100K to do what we pay our own soldiers to do for $30K. Ross Perot became a billionaire on government contracts
Business is profligate and wasteful. Let's stop with the "run like a business" bullshit. It's the same with nonprofits. Government and nonprofits cannot afford to waste the kind of money corporate America wastes.
Read 6 tweets
Jan 14
So, I just binge-watched Anxious People on Netflix with my best friend. It's the first time we have ever watched an entire series from start to finish in one go. Usually, we watch at most 2 episodes. But this was so engaging. Comical and heartwarming, too.
I often watch foreign police series because American series lionize violent and brutal policing and seldom promote the value of serving the public. Foreign police often do not habitually carry guns, etc. But this story was very different.
There is a bank robbery but it failed and the robber ran into a building where there was an Open House, taking the people inside hostage. The investigation was trying to figure out how the robber escaped. The cop was certain that in some way the hostages knew more than they said
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Jan 11
My former sister-in-law used to read these anti-choice bedtime stories that would tell about this kid who grows up to win the medal in this or that, discover the cure for cancer or diabetes or whatever...and they always ended, "but this did not happen because he was aborted."
Anyway...

These stories present abortion as costing the world x, y, and z. But no one ever considers the children who are not born because there was no abortion and that they might accomplish because they are welcome and wanted.
Considering her mother, it's not surprising my niece carried her rapist's baby to term & raised him. She should not have. She always expected him to be a bad boy and so he was. He's in prison now for some burglary in pursuit of money for drugs.
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Jan 10
Prosperity Gospel preaches that the poor are poor because they are unworthy, that they do not love God enough. The rich are rewarded because they are good Christians. In a way, the American health care system often feels like Prosperity Gospel, which is at heart, eugenics.
The quality of the health care someone can access is dependent on how good a job they have, how valuable they are to the economy. Yes, we have the ACA and it redresses the balance to a degree, but copays and deductibles still put health care out of reach for many
While Prosperity Gospel is a malignant mutation of traditional Christianity, it fit so well with the whole mythology of "Protestant Work Ethic" and Horatio Alger, etc. it spread like wildfire, even infecting the nonbelievers via New Age bullshit.
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