Category: Politics
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Now the Far-right Hates Sports
I’m not a sports fan. I’ve been known to refer to such activities as “sportsball” and I certainly agree with Noam Chomsky’s analysis of professional sports as part of the greater distraction function of capital-owned mass media. The latest trend in far-right insanity still has me scratching my head, though, and honestly, I can’t help…
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Bidenism and the End of the World
The latest IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) report has been out for a while (August 2021), and scientists are continuing to comment on it (the working group portion came out in February). In summary, limiting warming to 1.5C (probably the threshold for keeping advanced civilization from collapsing) requires global greenhouse gas emissions to peak…
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Characteristics of Fascists
Fascism is hard to define. For the time being, we’ve all accepted that it is a bad thing, which makes things even more confusing because no one — not even fascists — wants to claim the label. To make matters worse, there are a lot of fash-adjacent groups (e.g., neoliberals, capitalists) who want to define…
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Gas Prices
The government can do very little about gas prices. If you don’t believe me, please believe this pro-capitalism financial journalist’s opinion: Related: What Democrats don’t get about gas prices by Rick Newman Please note that when he says “the left” he means Democrats, who are not the left. Here are a few facts: Yes, the…
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The Malignant Narcissism of the Biden Administration
When a narcissism looks at you and tries to imagine what you want as a person, they will quite often think that the one thing you’d most like to be doing is serving them. I mean, what else would be more fulfilling to you, right? So, when the Biden administration read a study about how…
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Police Infiltrators
The police think they are the good guys, and that the left, generally, are not just the bad guys, but literally Satanists (based on the fact that Soviet communism was anti-religion). Nevermind that there’s no correlation between being a good person and adherence to any major world religion, but imagine that if your worldview were…
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How Mike Pence Saved America
Let’s talk about Mike Pence and the little procedural change he made that saved the United States of America from civil war or worse (at least for the time being) and inspired Donald Trump’s followers to try to execute him on January 6, 2021. As you know, each state produces “electors” for the US Presidential…
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There are fascist double agents in the Democratic Party
There are at least two fascist double agents within the Democratic Party. I did just use the f-word, so let me explain why I’m making such a bold declaration. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema both oppose the Freedom to Vote Act. OK, that might be completely fine. Let’s take a look at what is in…
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Advice for Democrats
I spend a lot of time here criticizing Democrats, but as one of the two parties that control US politics, I hope they will take some advice on how to move forward given the circumstances we find ourselves in. The following are steps that Democrats can take to stop our country from sliding into fascism…
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Yes, There Are Major Differences Between Democrats and Republicans
There’s an article in Politico by John F. Harris claiming that our new American civil war is based on nothing except two tribes of people deciding that they hate each other. He claims that all other major conflicts in US history were based on a substantive issue, but not this one. Clearly, this man has…