To my way of thinking, whether or not the suspected assailant was directly motivated by Trumpism, the Trumpian shift from racist dog whistles to a marked increase in brazenly bigoted attacks on assembled crowds (as well as mob violence against protestors at his own rallies beer hall putsches) is responsible for normalizing hate crime.
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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-climate-change-thunberg-idUSKBN1YY0PV?utm_source=reddit.com
Asked what she would have said to the president if they had spoken, Thunberg said: “Honestly, I don’t think I would have said anything because obviously he’s not listening to scientists and experts, so why would he listen to me?
“So I probably wouldn’t have said anything, I wouldn’t have wasted my time,” she said.
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I get the feeling that 'muricans really don’t care or even pay attention.
trump’s hate’n and wall’n and dissing the libs so they’ll vote for him again regardless.
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There are a LOT of farmers who voted for Trump who are really pissed at him. Subsidies or not, at the end of the day farmers want to grow things and sell them to people. The tariffs really screwed that up.
I can say from direct experience that flat sales over the past two years in high-tech products have reduced hours for skilled production folks, many of whom voted for Trump, and they know exactly why and who to blame. Whether they will vote with their (thinner) wallets or not, many working people know the economy is not good right now, and that’s due to Trump’s mismanagement.
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Take cover! Rage tweets incoming!
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One big problem right now is that while the tariffs are hurting consumers, farmers, manufacturers, and small businesses, Trump is known as a friend to big business (his ‘tax cuts’ overwhelmingly helped rich people and business owners) and Wall Street, so 'muricans still have one big number they can refer to that’s printed daily in every newspaper and in a ticker at the bottom of every news broadcast:
So until that chart starts trending back down, it gives the impression of a booming economy.
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Smart girl. I wish more would follow her lead.
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I know this neighborhood, and it’s rather diverse:
For those marginally familiar with the history of civil rights in the ATL, the Jewish community was also targeted for their support, including the bombing of a synagogue in 1958 on Peachtree street:
And let’s not forget the lynching of Leo Frank in 1915 by the elite of Marietta, which caused an exodus of some of our Jewish citizens back them.
There are at least 3 synagogues just up the road there, including an orthodox synagogue. many of the women who attend there also go to the same gym I sometimes go to, including my yoga teacher.
I hate this time line.
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The more things change…
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There’s a tweet storm on the horizon. Batten down.
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A coal plant would never done that! Thankfully no coal mine in history has ever hurt anyone.
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So much this. I grew up in WV and coal mine disasters were a fact of life, before you even get into the environmental disaster that imperils so many many more. Miners were (and are) treated as replaceable and interchangeable parts, of no individual value.
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IKR
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The pettiness knows no bounds
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It’s been burning from long before the European invasion; no one knows exactly when it started, but they estimate that it was around 6,000 years ago.
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An update on those flyers… apparently the antisemetic flyers were not being distributed, but were mistakenly sent by one person who thought they were being distributed, when in fact they were just historical documents that one of their friends were studying (an older person who had taken a class on antisemitism earlier), so that’s good:
The Islamophobic ones were indeed being handed out, in that neighborhood, however. So, again, this was an Islamophobic event, but turns out not a antisemitic one.
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50% less awful than I thought it was? I’ll take it.
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Nah. Just because it’s just one group instead of two, hate is still hate. It’s not 50% less hate. It’s still 100% deplorable.
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