An arguable takeaway is that today’s institutional racism is a SYMPTOM of a caste system built over past centuries to enrich a few (plantation owners) even as it HARMS the Majority whites
Of course money has power everywhere but racism can lock in a hierarchy in ways mere income can’t
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/09/01/america-life-expectancy-regions-00113369
has background to news I see about Red states’ far worse COVID handling; complaints re the CDC & our feeble Public Health system etc
I commend it to everyone—from armchair experts like me; policy-makers; to highly-aware docs and researchers
Hello, @JuliusGoat
I see I am blocked on twitter. Maybe bc I RT’d your Good Guy With A Dinosaur thread, maybe mentioning your substack story. (I can't find my tweet, either)
Maybe you didn't like what I wrote though I was impressed enough to recommend your thread to MY followers. Or maybe a little oopsie
Or maybe New Twitter is cracking down HARD on people who link to substacks (conspiracy theory listed last)
Care to say which did it? Would you unblock me?
For over a year, American officials have been walking back the allegations that Russian & Cubans were attacking us with directed energy beams or other nefarious, but undefined, weapons
Sure would be good to have a TL of the overreaction to our spooks’ suspicions https://mastodon.social/@dwnews_bot/109949835226694749
PSA—“power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely” may get the causation reversed but the correlation can be delightfully written up
I had fun writing this review of Unscripted, by James Stewart and Rachel Abrams: https://adamd.cc/unscripted “Sumner Redstone is as odious a character as I have encountered in fact or fiction. Iago, Charles Foster Kane and Logan Roy have nothing on him.”
If you’re old enough, you may remember those old “Russian women want to date you!” scams
It was easy to laugh them off for what they were
On a sabbatical after Musk shoved an especially dumb piece of RW “enragement” at me, this reminded me of the old, old crappy internet & how easy it could be to have a non-enshittified social net
