It’s almost a pattern… are they the target of some psyop, or are they just so attuned to looking for conspiracies that they went down the wrong rabbit hole without noticing?
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Glenn Greenwald has always had a soft spot for the far right.
From a purely abstract and legalistic standpoint, it’s possible to make a case, as Greenwald has, for a Jewish attorney to defend the civil rights of a militaristic anti-Semite and neo-Nazi. And from the first news story I read about his involvement, I understood this. The ethical case, however, is not so clear. After all, Hale’s group was primarily engaged in the business of depriving minorities—particularly blacks and Jews—of their civil rights through hate crimes, threats, and intimidation. They saw spreading such hate as one of their own rights.
So, from where I sat in Montana, spending time with the frightened victims of WCOTC thugs, someone who was defending their ability to use the levers of the legal system essentially was enabling their “right” to deprive other people, vulnerable people, of theirs. More to the point, in a world in which there are myriad opportunities to defend genuinely needy, innocent people being wrongly deprived of their civil and free-speech rights, I struggled to understand why any humane and capable attorney would devote their efforts to defending neo-Nazis’ rights.
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“The greatest excuse to not read a book is to own it.” – Anthony Burgess (IIRC)
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That … actually makes a lot of sense. “No library deadline? It can wait.”
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Whoa….now that I think about it, I haven’t seen one single pregnant woman among the residents of my housing development since I moved here in December, 2020! Not one! I’m sure the fact that I live in a 55+ community is purely unrelated.
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Oh I get that. I guess what I mean is that was a bizarre thing for her to say.
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When I was living in an apartment, and did my laundry, it always seemed like when I was carrying the full baskets back to the elevator, one would open even before I pressed the button. Nice!
So I decided to test it by keeping a log.
It turned out that it was happening far less than my memory accounted for. I think that when I had to put down the baskets, push the button, and wait, it was the usual thing, and my memory was glossed over like the daily commute. When it did open, it was memorable.
It was good to know, but I was sad to lose my imaginary elevator friend.
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At this point, almost nothing the opportunistic hate-mongers spew from their deceitful lips surprises me.
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I was raised the same way. But, you know, giving them your seat literally makes them less visible. 
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I’ve had like half a dozen colleagues become parents in the past two years (at a 100 person company). Maybe it hasn’t occurred to dr. Wolf that how many pregnant women you see day-to-day depends a bit on your age bracket?
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I’m moved by the determination of this mom in doing the right thing.
There’s hope in this world after all!
Tangent 0 (in topic): I was recently in hospital, and I had a very pregnant young woman in my same room (yes, mixed rooms in Sweden, at least where I was).
Tangent 1 (departing, but related): as a teenager, I remember the mother of a friend secretly buying an Encyclopaedia for her kids (3 brothers in middle to high school age), due to the unreal stinginess of the father.
Tangent 2 (OT FTW!): English is not my native tongue: is “vaxed” OK to use in the normal sense? I had the impression it brought some negative connotation (as: mostly used by no-vax crowd).
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Speaking for Australian English speakers, it depends.
- If it’s used on its own without obvious reference to any particular vaccination (Covid, MMR, HPV, whatever) then it’s probably being said by an anti-vaxxer, when they mean to imply impurity, sheeple, etc.
- If it’s used with reference to a particular vaccine, either directly or from context, then it’s quite informal and not negative. “Hey, you got that gig in the tropics. Are you vaxxed for yellow fever?” or “Are you vaxxed for the tropics?” are both neutral.
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I’m currently relistening to the interview Doug Rushkoff did with Naomi Klein. It’s a pretty good conversation about what klein describes as her doppelgänger Naomi Wolf, all the weird shit that that would entail, and her book about it.
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From my long experience as an academic librarian I can confidently say “book out late? It’s because you are not reading it, not because you are reading it”.
Return it, start again, feel better.
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I am way past possibility of pregnancy and I avoid going anywhere now. Not just threatened unvaxed as my immune system slows down, but I have a strong aversion to the paranoid, always angry idiots wandering around grocery stores armed like they are heading for combat. It should be fairly easy to grasp why heavily pregnant people might not be frothing at the bit to go out and be seen. They aren’t as quick and flexible as they were before pregnancy. Harder to dodge trouble fast enough.
Also, most of us are doing more shopping online. Dining out? Why put on pants if you can get meals delivered?
Fewer people? WTF? I do have to venture out for groceries and such, and know full well traffic is getting worse by the month, and even people not carrying guns seem to be driving with hostile intentions. Red lights? Nah, just an excuse to floor the pedal.
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Sadly, all true for my area as well.
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Yeah. Road killings soared during lockdown and the really bad behaviour that people indulged in on empty roads has continued as the roads clog up. So more deaths after years of decline.
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Looks human, smells human… but do you really know until you cook and taste?
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Mine in 2022. And she was heavily pregnant prior.
Hope you are enjoying your grandkid as much as I am!
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