Category: Politics
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The Crisis of Masculinity in America
Related: The Washington Post is very worried that American women don’t want to marry Trump supporters by Dartagnan (Daily Kos) So, as you may have read in the above article, the Washington Post is very worried that American women don’t want to marry Trump supporters. It’s essentially one of neoliberalism’s common anxieties — that something…
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Muslims v. LGBTQ People
There’s a popular meme among right-wing people that basically says that liberals and LGBTQ people are both idiots for supporting Muslims in any way because Muslims hate and oppress LGBTQ people. This meme has been especially popular lately due to the conflict going on in Israel/Palestine, and part of this iteration of the meme is…
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Using selective facts and variant definitions to craft propaganda
There’s this thing going on right now in Israel that is getting a lot of media attention, and a disproportionate amount of that has been focused on Mia Khalifa, an entertainer by trade who is not very skilled at crafting a nuanced political message. It simply is not her area of expertise — that’s OK,…
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Can US fascists be redeemed?
Since Barak Obama won the presidential election of 2008 (or perhaps since Reagan), US conservatives have been becoming progressively more openly right-wing. I continue to wonder if there really is such a thing as “conservatives” or whether a conservative is just a fascist who is less strident. Democrats certainly believe that conservatives exist and continue…
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Yes, Trumpism is Fascism
Take from beloved liberal centrist Robert Reich: Trumpism is fascism, Donald Trump is a fascist.
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Grimes and Techno Fascism
Back in 2012, when Grimes’s first big hit Oblivion was released, people thought it was a subtle critique of two aspects of toxic masculinity; one being the way men make the world inherently dangerous for women, and the other being the way men will point this out as a method of controlling women. When she…
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Stupid People Calling Stupid People Stupid
Congress, am I right? Here’s a video of a Republican repeatedly calling Democrats stupid because of the Biden administration’s decision to ban pistol braces because the ATF has determined that they are almost always being used to convert a pistol into a short-barreled rifle. Yes, a pistol brace could be used by someone to help…
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Extremism, violence, and the false equivalency between white hate groups and antifascists
The word “extremism,” much like the terms “common-sense gun control” or “assault weapon,” is a term thrown around quite causally these days, with a lot of assumptions about its meaning. I spent some time online looking for definitions of “extremism” and at first didn’t have much luck; Merriam Webster defined extremism as: “the quality or…
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“No Labels” and the False American Center
I sometimes feel like I’m beating a dead horse, but it is clear that Americans do not understand how right wing their politics are, and that “centrist” can be a very deceptive concept. Here it is again: The Republican Party is far-right (fascist). The Democratic Party is near-right (not great, but mostly not fascist). Neither…
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Climate Change: How Governments Will Respond
The whole reason I’m writing essays on this website now is because in 2004, I stumbled upon the following article on the internet: Now the Pentagon tells Bush: climate change will destroy us by Mark Townsend and Paul Harris in New York (The Guardian) Once I’d read it, I realized that the Powers That Be…