Category: Politics
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It’s Time to Forget 9/11
Remember the Alamo? That historic battle where brave Americans fought against the evil Mexicans and tragically died? Well, that’s not accurate. Actually, they were a bunch of assholes fighting to maintain slavery. …the legend of the Alamo is a Texas tall tale run amok. The actual story is one of White American immigrants to Texas…
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Electoral Politics: Current Conditions
Just now, I see that popular sentiment has pressured Biden to ask for Democrats to end the filibuster in order to put the right to abortion into law. I don’t think that nullifies the overall spirit of this post and I don’t think it will make one lick of difference in the long term, but…
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Fascist Dog Whistles in Missouri Political Flier
Some of our members have received a flier in the mail from a Lee’s Summit area politician who is running for the fourth district seat in the US House of Representatives. He says that he is running for “Congress,” presumably to keep from confusing his constituents with the details of how the US government works;…
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The Proud Boys of 2021 and the Potempa Murder of 1932
In the United States, the events of 6 January 2021 are fresh again, with live hearings scheduled to be broadcast on several networks later today. Earlier this week, the Department of Justice brought sedition charges against Enrique Tarrio and 4 other Proud Boys, which, along with charges brought against Stewart Rhodes and the Oath Keepers,…
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The Other Fascists
The American left is largely focused on racist fascism, and tends to treat racism as both the primary driver of fascism and it’s natural source. That isn’t wrong, but it also is not the way most American fascists are experiencing their own belief system, so it is deficient in terms of coming up with solutions…
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US Collapse Looks Increasingly Likely
It’s fairly obvious that American fascists are using an effective diversity of tactics to bring down the dominant (liberal) society in the US, including terrorist acts by shock troops, hamstringing the US legislature, and undoing democracy via the Supreme Court. Yesterday, we discovered that the 5th Circuit Court is also occupied by fascists. I’ll let…
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The Terrorist Attack in Buffalo
Monday night, I attended a vigil for the victims of the terrorist attack in Buffalo that killed 10 people and injured 3 more (one seriously). The organizers felt that asking for justice for the victims was appropriate; even though they certainly weren’t wrong about that, it seems extremely unlikely that anything resembling justice can happen.…
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The Many Flavors of Conservative
The “political spectrum” as we usually see it is specifically designed to make it seem like a free-market libertarianism is the best political system. It puts “social” on the horizontal axis and “economic” on the vertical axis. Of course, you realize that economics is just another kind of power (and that all power is ultimately…
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The Constitution: Originalist vs. Structuralist, States Rights, Flaws in Roe
Originalists vs. Structuralists There are basically two active sides in the debate over what the Constitution says about things like abortion rights, sexual behavior rights, marriage rights (including same-sex and interracial marriage), voting rights, and so forth. On one side are the Originalists who contend that we should go with the intent of the authors…
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It was Alito.
When investigating a crime, it is always a good idea to ask, “Who benefits from this crime?” I’m not sure if the leak of Justice Samuel Alito’s initial draft majority opinion on overturning Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey would qualify as a crime, but the person who stands to benefit the most…