at what point do we declare that a material portion of the global economy consists of a monetized popularity contest?
Helping maintain the thin veneer of civilization
Steve Potts
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Lawyer. Fan of democracy and the rule of law.
Helping maintain the thin veneer of civilization
Helping maintain the thin veneer of civilization
lolgopIf your idea to make JD Vance not look weird is to put JD Vance on TV, maybe find at least one non-weird person to work for you.
Why is Vance so ick?
He just comes off "as incredibly inauthentic," rhetorical scholar @jenmercieca told me.
Ashton PittmanThough she showed up pregnant, bleeding and in pain, emergency room doctors in Texas turned Kyleigh Thurman away, handing her a pamphlet on miscarriage and telling her to “let nature take its course.”
Three days later, the ER finally admitted her. But it was too late; her fallopian tube had already ruptured.
There are at least 100 others like her.
https://www.mississippifreepress.org/over-100-pregnant-women-some-bleeding-or-in-labor-turned-away-from-emergency-rooms-since-dobbs-ruling/
Teri KanefieldMy political statment for the day: Toilet paper is free in schools and elsewhere, so tampons and sanitary napkins should be free.
Adding: I know, I'm a dangerously radical liberal.
Kriszta Satori#BBCNews - Fined for yellow and blue shoes: How #Russian laws smother #dissent
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cw4yv7nv8xlo
#UkraineWar
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cw4yv7nv8xlo
#UkraineWar
Gil DuranThe tech billionaires supporting Trump already have money. Now they want POWER.
This isn't about low taxes or friendly regulations.
It's about radically transforming government into a tech-controlled dictatorship.
They'll get even richer then. That's how it works.
Heidi Li FeldmanThe only way to salvage U.S. constitutional democracy and rule of law is to reform this Supreme Court. Practically, that can only happen if we make sure the Democrats hold the Senate, take the House, and win the WH. Moreover, Biden, our presumptive nominee, must be willing to throw his weight behind the effort. We must work to make all this happen. Some organizations working toward these goals include: 2/
The idea that we decide how our society is organized, we decide what is right and just, instead of having this handed down and told to us by some omnipotent omniscient superior being, is terrifying to many people because of the responsibility that recognition carries with it. And for some it also deprives them of a handy justification to assert a right to power.
BellingcatThe military junta in Myanmar is losing control of large areas due to anti-coup resistance fighters and ethnic rebel groups. Bellingcat’s Pooja Chaudhuri monitors the impact on civilians as the military reacts violently to its territorial losses. https://www.bellingcat.com/news/rest-of-world/2024/06/05/myanmar-military-territorial-losses-war-conflict-human-rights-burma/?utm_source=mastodon
