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A voice in the wilderness.Imagine if you can: outraged Democrats shouting loudly denouncing Republicans for lies, obstruction, violating Constitutional rights, tearing down institutions of democracy, all that shit and more. Not in the safety of some...
by prophet
on Fri May 13, 2022 at 10:20 AM PDT
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The most effective weapon Republicans currently have in the midterm messaging war isn't individual terms such as "groomer," or "pedophile," or "cancel culture." Nor is it the wave of legislation they are pushing through chambers across the country to...
by Kerry Eleveld
on Fri Apr 22, 2022 at 04:49 PM PDT
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For over half a decade, the Western world has grappled with the discontents of modern, globalized civilization. The notions of “free trade” and “maximizing productive efficiency” had led the West to sell its jobs and its factories to low-wage nations...
by dratler
on Thu Mar 10, 2022 at 02:10 PM PST
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In 2016 when K1 (can I still use that designation when ‘the kid’ is 23?!) started University, I joined a newly-formed facebook �Meta parent group and a few months later in a move that will ...
by brillig
on Mon Nov 15, 2021 at 07:00 PM PST
with 36 Recommends
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There’s anger on the streets, and it’s not just drivers outraged about traffic blocking their path to the comfort and convenience promised in commercials. As the pandemic slogs on, prolonged ...
by greenandblue
on Sun Sep 05, 2021 at 03:00 PM PDT
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“The Moral Equivalent of War” was an essay published in 1910 by William James that was simultaneously (a) a condemnation of war, (b) an acknowledgement of war’s deep integration into the human psyche, and (c) an appeal to humankind to...
by rmartin1241
on Sun Feb 14, 2021 at 05:50 AM PST
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Do you remember Debbie Cox, the abomination of a Ford County Kansas Clerk cum chief election officer? She tried to subvert the will of Kansas voters in 2018 by moving the one polling place for that entire majority-minority county...
by grim determined indolent
on Tue Aug 18, 2020 at 11:12 AM PDT
with 1 Recommend
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You’re browsing the internet, perhaps on social media. A post catches your eye…
OMG!!! SOMEONE DID SOMETHING HORRIBLE!!!
I AM OUTRAGED AND YOU SHOULD BE TOO!!!!!1!!1!!!
You go to comment, ...
by brillig
on Tue Jul 21, 2020 at 07:00 PM PDT
with 32 Recommends
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When activist Tamika Mallory joined a roster of celebrities and social justice advocates Friday at a news conference in downtown Minneapolis, it wasn’t to advocate for turning the other cheek, and it shouldn’t have been. The tens of thousands of...
by Lauren Sue
on Sun May 31, 2020 at 07:32 AM PDT
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George Floyd, R.I.P. There he was, with his hands chained like a slave, helpless and no threat to anyone. There he was, flat on the ground, with his torso wedged between the asphalt and a tire. There he was, with a rogue cop’s knee on his neck,...
by dratler
on Sat May 30, 2020 at 01:12 PM PDT
with 1 Recommend
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This diary takes a look at how the dangerous, right-wing propaganda machine has created the partisan environment and given us Trump. The information below looks at the overall history of how we got to where we are. Because of the power of...
by greatlyconcerned
on Mon Dec 09, 2019 at 11:06 PM PST
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I honestly haven’t checked the paracosm yet to see into just how thick and frothy a lather they’ve worked themselves up over Professor Pamela Karlan’s utterly innocuous mention of the given name of the Grand Nagus’s youngest child in yesterday’s...
by GrafZeppelin127
on Thu Dec 05, 2019 at 06:18 AM PST
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Good morning. I’ll admit it, I watched all of them, every bit of the impeachment hearings. I even left the sound on when the republicans “Spoke”, it’s that important. I watched the people ...
by KLWhite
on Fri Nov 29, 2019 at 03:10 AM PST
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Good morning. I need to really mind the courtesies this morning because I’m going to be talking about rage and the reasons for it. Being courteous helps stop me from giving into what is becoming a white hot inferno. I mean, I spend enough time in that...
by KLWhite
on Sat Nov 09, 2019 at 02:14 AM PST
with 292 Recommends
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Many have talked about the out-sized role of outrage in the modern political scene. Generally it is blamed on social media, which I think is true enough. However, I had an episode with my wife the other day that may point to some pre-existing outrage...
by soupbone60
on Thu Oct 10, 2019 at 07:15 AM PDT
with 3 Recommends
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Open a newspaper (if you are old school), or go to your favorite news and information website and what do you see? Nothing but things the current administration is doing that outrages you—locking ...
by Mark E Andersen
on Sun Aug 25, 2019 at 06:00 PM PDT
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I missed most of the hearing today but caught this link and it was awesome. When dems stand up to these bullies and remind them that WE the People are who legislators represent, then we get somewhere. No more of this, my good friend, crap. People...
by Vetwife
on Fri Jul 12, 2019 at 03:19 PM PDT
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I just saw a horrifying story on Hardball. Some congressmen went to a border camp and when they held a press conference after their visit, they were confronted with chumpista protesters. When they asked the CBP officials to move the protesters back,...
by lxxf
on Tue Jul 02, 2019 at 05:43 PM PDT
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Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin has, once again, managed to demonstrate his absolutel lack of compassion and couth as he voiced disgust over winter weather school closures across the Bluegrass State this week. In a Tuesday interview with Terry Meiners, a...
by Jessica Sutherland
on Wed Jan 30, 2019 at 04:44 PM PST
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“Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster" - Friedrich Nietzsche
After last weekend's fake rage-bait story on Catholic MAGA kids disastrously backfired on us just as I warned people it would, I looked for some...
by AndrewR9
on Sat Jan 26, 2019 at 09:55 AM PST
with 11 Recommends
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