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Journal by fustakrakich
Joe Manchin stands as firm as Jabel-al-Tariq
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The Charade in DC will run until November 2022, at least
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Kirk to Enterprise -- beam down yeoman Rand and a six-pack.
(Score: 2) by BK on Thursday April 08 2021, @07:53PM (16 children)
Should McConnell and the Rs have abolished the filibuster in 2017? Or was it OK then?
...but you HAVE heard of me.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Thursday April 08 2021, @08:07PM (14 children)
The Republicans DID abolish the filibuster, for Supreme Court nominees.
So like usual they are being complete hypocrites.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 08 2021, @08:40PM (13 children)
Interesting how fusty goes on at length about every tiny thing the Democrats do and then excuses his lack of Repubican coverage as "they're hopeless why bother?" I'll grant him this, he learned from all the criticism that he must work harder at pretending to be both-sides-objective while constantly trashing Dems as the problem. He switched up his tactics, leaned his posts a little more left, and has continued his agenda without losing a beat.
He doesn't want liberals and conservatives to actually come together and solve problems, he wants liberals to look bad for not solving problems and conservatives to not take any further PR hits. He can admit Repubicans are shit, because even Runaway and TMB say so, there is no danger to his occasional trashing of Republicans.
If he was honest he would be highlighting both party's corruption in order to unify conservatives and liberals against the two party nonsense. If we banded together and dropped the more contentious issues for a short bit we could make progress.
However, conservatives don't want to make things better, they want to stop all change and progress and they realize the demographics are against them. So the hardcore Conservatives will never work with any liberal which is why we get all the trolling, bad faith arguments, and propaganda journals from fusty here. Every fraction of a percent increase in disaffected liberal voters is a win for them.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 08 2021, @09:02PM (4 children)
You can complain about fusty's fair and balanced coverage until the cows come home, or you can just read DNCMonkey if you want the latest spin on Republicans. Wrongdoing by the Biden administration and the Democrats should be acknowledged, since most media outlets are giving them a pass.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Thursday April 08 2021, @09:18PM (2 children)
How many posts have you seen defending Cuomo's alleged sexual harassment?
Vs.
How many posts have you seen defending Gaetz's alleged sex trafficking? (here's about 20)) [soylentnews.org]
Just more both-sides bullshit...
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Thursday April 08 2021, @09:31PM
Yeah! Why do you keep bringing that up? There is no *both sides*
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 08 2021, @09:47PM
Cuomo's alleged sexual harassment didn't matter until after he stopped being useful as an anti-Trump spokesman. Sorry ladies, I don't care what he said to you years ago. Reelect Cuomo.
Gaetz is guilty of having bad hair and being anonymously smeared by the media. If he actually did anything wrong, it will come out soon enough.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 08 2021, @09:43PM
"fusty's fair and balanced coverage until the cows come home"
Were you unironically trying to invoke the Faux Newz bullshit catchphrase? It is nice to have my theory validated, the rightwing nutters with TDS & BDS just love fusty journals!
(Score: 2, Touché) by Runaway1956 on Friday April 09 2021, @03:52AM (7 children)
Which party sneaked that Critical Race Theory into required government employee training? No R approved of that shit, I'm sure.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Saturday April 10 2021, @12:33AM (6 children)
What even *is* "critical race theory" anyway? Can you explain it? And if you do, and I go look it up later, will I find a substantially different definition?
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2, Touché) by Runaway1956 on Saturday April 10 2021, @02:37AM (4 children)
Yeah, when you cut through the shit, critical race theory says that "White man guilty! Black man innocent! Brown men are suspect! You OWES US motherfuckers!"
Among all the crap in there, you'll find that tired old refraind "Only white people can be racist". Then it goes on to inform you that "All white people are racist!"
If you want the finer points, you'll have to look it up yourself. I read through it, and it's a Kafkaesque runaround that starts with the conclusion that white people are evil, and you can probably never redeem yourself. Those who work really hard to redeem themselves might be fit to serve the black man.
They have turned genuine white supremacism on it's head, changed white to black, and they call it "justice", or "equity" or some half assed stupid term. It is precisely what I have bitched about, ranted about, warned about, all along.
You'll love it, from your unique "cross sectional" position.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Saturday April 10 2021, @12:12PM (3 children)
I'd be interested in seeing what happens when these lenses are applied to a place where white people aren't in power. China, for example. This sounds to me like most modern racism falls out of whoever happens to be in power, so it's only an innately white problem in places like the US. In Japan, for example, this argument works precisely the same except with the native Yamato people; in China, same again, except it's Han supremacy rather than pale-Caucasian supremacy (ask the Uighurs!).
This also hints at possible solutions: since racial and economic injustice are inextricably linked, it follows that fixing the economic disparities would go a long way toward cutting down on the actual racism.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 11 2021, @03:59AM (1 child)
This applies to most any situation. The group in power (no matter their skin color) gain more than the "others" (of some other skin color) who are not in power.
That gain flows, largely, straight from simply being "in power".
But for someone wanting to find "racism" around every corner, and attempts to define anything they don't like or agree with as "racist" it is trivially easy to construct arguments for why those "in power" are racists using only that differential in "gain" that flows not from racism, but from simply being the ones "in power". And this is where the current power lies in the new woke's miss-use of racism in the manner they have been using it. They have, likely by accident, stumbled into a way to, for the most part, simply shutdown debate about any of their wants by simply labeling anything and everything that is not sucking up to their pre-ordained beliefs as racist.
It won't take long (but it will take too long as well) before their cries of "racism" will have gone the same way as "the boy who cried wolf" from the children's fable. They are so over-using the racism "shutdown debate" card that everyone who had been listening will have become numb, and it will lose all of its power when that happens. And the sad part is they will have set-back any real work to deal with any leftover racism from years ago for a significant time period in the process. Doing immense damage in the process to the goals they want to gain.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday April 11 2021, @04:45AM
Racism is one manifestation of this power differential since the power flows often break across racial lines. This is an inevitability since there wasn't *that* much mass migration before 500 years ago or so barring cases like the Vikings and Spaniards. And outward characteristics, all out of proportion to the tiny DNA changes that produced them, tend to set people on edge. It's a very ape-like way of looking at things and people.
Sorry, but I am *not* on your side here, nor am i saying what you think or wish I was saying. Outgroups are always going to be underpowered, and race and racial characteristics have always been an excuse the ingroup uses to make an outgroup. That is racism in its simplest, easiest to understand form: creating an outgroup based on race, however it is the ingroup is defining race.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Sunday April 11 2021, @05:59AM
No, don't! [uighur.nl] It doesn't relate
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 11 2021, @09:10PM
https://newdiscourses.com/2020/06/reasons-critical-race-theory-terrible-dealing-racism/ [newdiscourses.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 11 2021, @12:04PM
Why would they? Their only serious goals are to serve corporations by obstructing the occasional good thing the Democrats do and pass tax cuts for the rich. The filibuster enables the former, and the latter can be done via budget reconciliation. They can also screw over women and minorities by packing the courts with authoritarian lunatics.