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July 5, 2020
This twitter thread is a brutal takedown on the what passes for the conservative movement these days
Fair warning - there is some whataboutery about the left that is bollocks in this content... BUT you really want to read this. Fucking hell - background Bret Stephens the far right wanker wrote a shitty column basically parroting the far left danger to America theme that is the next new thing from the actual nazi's, yadda yadda. Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom who is not exactly a known liberal (because he isn't even!), even though he contributes to MSNBC, had a few things to say in response... which I have put into one image for ease of reading cause it is such a long thread...
https://twitter.com/RadioFreeTom
BIFF. BAFF. UPPERCUT. BOOM.
July 4, 2020
When I first read about this I thought, the ignorance it burns and all of the ironies, but of course my first reaction to a news story is not always correct and on further reflection, that is giving these racist imperialists a get out of goal free card. After all if they are that stupid, they cannot be held properly accountable. In fact, they knew exactly what they were saying. This is deliberate. This is in your face racist imperialism. They are foul. Their belief in their white supremacy is as out of control as it is ridiculous... this is the 'master' race? My arse.
Going to hazard a guess that these racist nasty fellows who shouted at First Nation protesters to go back where they came from can probably trace his American lineage back to the late 19th or early 20th Centuries when peasants from across Europe came to find a new life in America, but he has the white supremacist nerve to be blatant in his racist imperialism. White racist male privileged supremacy at its most toxic.
The deliberate racist imperialism, it burns...
When I first read about this I thought, the ignorance it burns and all of the ironies, but of course my first reaction to a news story is not always correct and on further reflection, that is giving these racist imperialists a get out of goal free card. After all if they are that stupid, they cannot be held properly accountable. In fact, they knew exactly what they were saying. This is deliberate. This is in your face racist imperialism. They are foul. Their belief in their white supremacy is as out of control as it is ridiculous... this is the 'master' race? My arse.
Going to hazard a guess that these racist nasty fellows who shouted at First Nation protesters to go back where they came from can probably trace his American lineage back to the late 19th or early 20th Centuries when peasants from across Europe came to find a new life in America, but he has the white supremacist nerve to be blatant in his racist imperialism. White racist male privileged supremacy at its most toxic.
July 4, 2020
They are the same men who think they should rule the world, never mind that their fragile and toxic ego's makes them the worst kind of decision makers. They do not think that the rules apply to them. They think they are the kings of the world, they are invulnerable and that is what makes them so dangerous to the rest of us.
Of course in this febrile atmosphere of the right wing turning the pandemic into a culture war, because of course they did, Elan discusses how these horrid levels of toxic masculinity as being turned into something even more dangerous with men (and some women) demonstrating a super spreader mentality, because they can. As Elan says It gets worse: not wearing a mask hasn’t just become toxic masculinity, it has become a form of weaponised masculinity.
Fundamentally wearing a mask should just come down to common sense, and maybe that is why these men are acting like such dicks. They have never had to develop that survival instinct that comes down to common sense cause they are pampered spoilt gits who lived a life of white male privilege, so screw the rest of us. There is a great line from this article that says For men like this, ego itself has become a figurative – and, they seem to believe, literal – shield. Yep, this is exactly how they think. Of course, back in land reality where the rest of us live, we know their toxic ego will not save them from Covid-10 but it is yet another way they can kill the rest of us. Yay! 👀
Full article here: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jul/03/covid-19-masks-men-masculinity
Toxic masculinity in times of pandemic kills all of us...
Priya Elan writes in the Guardian yesterday about how face masks are the condom of the face. He draws parallels with the behaviour of a certain type of man when the Aids epidemic was raging and how they refused to wear a condom during sex, even though it was proven that a barrier sheath could protect against the virus and save people dying a horrible death. Sound familiar? It is this same type of man who today refuses to wear a face mask... as Elan points out in The data is in: men are too fragile to wear Covid-19 masks. Grow up, guys...
This week Scientific American called masks the “condoms of the face”, arguing that the struggle to get men to wear masks during this pandemic has parallels in the struggle to get men to wear condoms during the rise of HIV. While it seems strange to compare something you’d wear so visibly in public to something worn privately in intimate moments, the analogy underscores how some men’s notions of masculinity are intertwined with a corrosive mix of petulance, indestructibility and, ultimately, privilege. The article cited research showing that “masculine ideology” is associated with rejection of condom use.(Emphasis Mine)
They are the same men who think they should rule the world, never mind that their fragile and toxic ego's makes them the worst kind of decision makers. They do not think that the rules apply to them. They think they are the kings of the world, they are invulnerable and that is what makes them so dangerous to the rest of us.
Of course in this febrile atmosphere of the right wing turning the pandemic into a culture war, because of course they did, Elan discusses how these horrid levels of toxic masculinity as being turned into something even more dangerous with men (and some women) demonstrating a super spreader mentality, because they can. As Elan says It gets worse: not wearing a mask hasn’t just become toxic masculinity, it has become a form of weaponised masculinity.
Fundamentally wearing a mask should just come down to common sense, and maybe that is why these men are acting like such dicks. They have never had to develop that survival instinct that comes down to common sense cause they are pampered spoilt gits who lived a life of white male privilege, so screw the rest of us. There is a great line from this article that says For men like this, ego itself has become a figurative – and, they seem to believe, literal – shield. Yep, this is exactly how they think. Of course, back in land reality where the rest of us live, we know their toxic ego will not save them from Covid-10 but it is yet another way they can kill the rest of us. Yay! 👀
Full article here: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jul/03/covid-19-masks-men-masculinity
July 3, 2020
To my American Friends, Happy Independence Day from the country who really won the war!
Hope you have a safe and glorious time; however, as you celebrate your Independence Day, I have to insist we Brits really won the war. You see, looking back, all our religious right wing nuts headed over to the Americas for the freedom to establish a puritan land post Cromwell, where they could burn witches, condemn any free thought and lead a land based on the bible. Granted the founders were truly clear that there should be separation of church and state, but that did nothing to stop those religious loons being the arseholes they were and are. And so we really won the war, as all those nuts that could have infected British society with their loonery ended up in America instead, and the result is these religious right wing nuts holding a gun in one hand with the bible in the other, crying about having to wear masks and discriminating against pretty much everyone cause Jesus and Trump. We have our problems, but thankfully that is not one of them. Thanks America, you may have won the actual war, but thanks to the American religious right and their stooge in the White house, we won the culture war! Hehehe.
Truly though, have a great holiday 
July 3, 2020
[link:https://secondnexus.com/gail-welch-mississippi-elections-blacks|]
Not THE BLACKS! Shock horror.👀 Surely the Elections Commissioner should be encouraging voter registration events? Huh. I am not one for calling for people to be sacked for being racist dicks, but when you are a racist Elections Commissioner in a state that has up till today danced a very complication black voter suppression tactic, in that context - then this racist needs to be told to take a seat.
Mississippi Elections Commissioner Accused of Racism After Complaining 'the Blacks' Are Having Voter
Registration EventsThat was more than evident in a recent Facebook comment from Gail Welch, a Mississippi Elections Commissioner.
Welch expressed concern that "the blacks" were having too many voter registration events. Mississippi has the highest percentage of Black Americans in the country at nearly 40% of its population, but due to centuries of unjust voting laws and jurisdictions, the Black vote is largely suppressed, thus necessitating massive outreach for voter registration.
Attitudes like Welch's, especially when helping oversee elections, is a large part of that problem.
Welch expressed concern that "the blacks" were having too many voter registration events. Mississippi has the highest percentage of Black Americans in the country at nearly 40% of its population, but due to centuries of unjust voting laws and jurisdictions, the Black vote is largely suppressed, thus necessitating massive outreach for voter registration.
Attitudes like Welch's, especially when helping oversee elections, is a large part of that problem.
[link:https://secondnexus.com/gail-welch-mississippi-elections-blacks|]
Not THE BLACKS! Shock horror.👀 Surely the Elections Commissioner should be encouraging voter registration events? Huh. I am not one for calling for people to be sacked for being racist dicks, but when you are a racist Elections Commissioner in a state that has up till today danced a very complication black voter suppression tactic, in that context - then this racist needs to be told to take a seat.
July 3, 2020
[link:https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/boris-johnson-take-knee-black-lives-matter-protests-a9599301.html?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1593764242|]
In the least unsurprising news of the week the Prime Minister has confirmed that he is a white rich male pale and stale racist wanker... His substance is terribly unsubstantive. Save Churchill's Statue and put a very right wing person who has actively dismissed the notion of any systemic racism in the UK in charge of 'fixing' the BLM problem. Of course he would not take the knee.
Boris Johnson says he would not take the knee: 'I don't believe in gestures'
Boris Johnson has said he would not take the knee, a symbol of support for Black Lives Matter protests, saying he does not believe in “gestures.”
Speaking on LBC on Friday morning, the prime minister said, “I do not believe in gestures, I believe in substance.”
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Mr Johnson told LBC radio host Nick Ferrari: “I don’t want people to be bullied into doing things they don’t necessarily want to do.”
Citing the fact that some officers in London allegedly felt coerced into taking the knee because their colleagues had done so, the prime minister said he believed the police should not make the gesture.
Speaking on LBC on Friday morning, the prime minister said, “I do not believe in gestures, I believe in substance.”
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Mr Johnson told LBC radio host Nick Ferrari: “I don’t want people to be bullied into doing things they don’t necessarily want to do.”
Citing the fact that some officers in London allegedly felt coerced into taking the knee because their colleagues had done so, the prime minister said he believed the police should not make the gesture.
[link:https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/boris-johnson-take-knee-black-lives-matter-protests-a9599301.html?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1593764242|]
In the least unsurprising news of the week the Prime Minister has confirmed that he is a white rich male pale and stale racist wanker... His substance is terribly unsubstantive. Save Churchill's Statue and put a very right wing person who has actively dismissed the notion of any systemic racism in the UK in charge of 'fixing' the BLM problem. Of course he would not take the knee.
July 3, 2020
[link:https://www.newstatesman.com/world/2020/07/maps-show-just-how-disastrous-uss-coronavirus-outbreak|]
Emphasis mine
You need to click on the link and scroll down to zoom in on the US map to look at it on a more granular level. The rates right now are shocking. Gotta tell you Trump is so bad he is actually making Boris look competent - and we at this point have had more excess deaths per 100,000 of the population than anywhere else... How the Trump administration has handled in pandemic in comparison to say Markel who he had the fucking nerve to call fat and stupid (all of the ironies), should be shoved in the face of this administration every single day.
The maps that show just how disastrous the US's coronavirus outbreak is
Stephen Jorgensen-Murray has created an astonishing visualisation of the catastrophic acceleration of Covid-19 infections in the US, which we build on here with his permission. Applying the threshold set by the German government for the triggering of local lockdowns – 50 cases per 100,000 residents in a week – to various countries, including Germany, the UK, France, Italy and the US, gives us a snapshot into quite how disastrous the US's outbreak is compared to that of other Western countries. Not all of these administrative units are exactly equivalent, though they do give an indication of where the worst outbreaks are on a local level.
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But cross the Atlantic and take a look at the US, and the outbreak is off the scale. There are 1,094 areas, collectively home to about 52 per cent of the US population, that exceed the 50-cases threshold. Almost the entire territory of Florida is shaded red. The worst affected area is East Carroll Parish, in Louisiana, where the rate of infection is 1,210 per 100,000 people.
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But cross the Atlantic and take a look at the US, and the outbreak is off the scale. There are 1,094 areas, collectively home to about 52 per cent of the US population, that exceed the 50-cases threshold. Almost the entire territory of Florida is shaded red. The worst affected area is East Carroll Parish, in Louisiana, where the rate of infection is 1,210 per 100,000 people.
[link:https://www.newstatesman.com/world/2020/07/maps-show-just-how-disastrous-uss-coronavirus-outbreak|]
Emphasis mine
You need to click on the link and scroll down to zoom in on the US map to look at it on a more granular level. The rates right now are shocking. Gotta tell you Trump is so bad he is actually making Boris look competent - and we at this point have had more excess deaths per 100,000 of the population than anywhere else... How the Trump administration has handled in pandemic in comparison to say Markel who he had the fucking nerve to call fat and stupid (all of the ironies), should be shoved in the face of this administration every single day.
July 3, 2020
Good grief. Seriously? They need to KNOW that once Trump is gone that they will never be able to go to that place again where they nominate a random fuckwit nazi boogaloo from the TeeVee. Or if they do they will not win. Not right now, peoples memories last longer than 4 years when you have lived through Trumps 2020. Anyway, do they really hate America this much? Tucker frigging Carlson as potential republican Presidential nominee. Oh well, if the republican party even survives as a thing after November - Carlson would be a gift to the democratic nominee... he says stupid and racist things every single day but without the 'charisma' that Trump apparently has in the eyes of the cult...
What if you really like Trump's pro-Putin foreign policy, but worry that Trump isn't racist enough
https://twitter.com/davidfrum/status/1278827334343241728What if you really really like Trump’s pro-Putin foreign policy, but worry that Trump isn’t racist enough?
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Alex Thompson
@AlxThomp
· 10h
NEW: GOPers--from Trumpers to more establishment types--are buzzing about a Tucker 2024 run.
@ltthompso: "he’d be formidable"
@RichLowry: "he has an opening"
Sam Nunberg: “If Biden wins and Tucker decided to run, he’d be the nominee”
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Alex Thompson
@AlxThomp
· 10h
NEW: GOPers--from Trumpers to more establishment types--are buzzing about a Tucker 2024 run.
@ltthompso: "he’d be formidable"
@RichLowry: "he has an opening"
Sam Nunberg: “If Biden wins and Tucker decided to run, he’d be the nominee”
Good grief. Seriously? They need to KNOW that once Trump is gone that they will never be able to go to that place again where they nominate a random fuckwit nazi boogaloo from the TeeVee. Or if they do they will not win. Not right now, peoples memories last longer than 4 years when you have lived through Trumps 2020. Anyway, do they really hate America this much? Tucker frigging Carlson as potential republican Presidential nominee. Oh well, if the republican party even survives as a thing after November - Carlson would be a gift to the democratic nominee... he says stupid and racist things every single day but without the 'charisma' that Trump apparently has in the eyes of the cult...
July 2, 2020
Zoomers can make or break the purple states. I would love to know what the plan is to get these glorious trolling Agolf Twitler teens to the voting booth. If there is not a plan there needs to be one post haste.
The TikTok generation can be the revolution we all need
Zoomers can make or break the purple states. I would love to know what the plan is to get these glorious trolling Agolf Twitler teens to the voting booth. If there is not a plan there needs to be one post haste.
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