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On Sunday, MSNBC’s Mehdi Hasan spoke with Jason Stanley, a professor at Yale University and the author of “How Fascism Works,” and discussed Trump’s frightening Veterans Day rally speech, where he called his detractors “vermin” within our country that...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Mon Nov 13, 2023 at 02:10 PM PST
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“Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists." That quote from George W. Bush shortly after the September 11 attacks has stuck with me. It is a statement that is very frustrating as it demands a simple black and white view of things. Yes,...
by Izixs
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on Sat Nov 04, 2023 at 01:40 PM PDT
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Jokes don’t tend to try to persuade. They try to hoodwink, to get one over; then they reveal the hoodwink. There is some sequential indication that what had come before had been a put-on. The revelation is part of the joke. Even practical jokes,...
by novapsyche
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on Sun Oct 08, 2023 at 08:41 AM PDT
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— — One of the main reasons I took up “blogging” here so many many years ago: was to contribute to the perpetual rhetorical battle, occurring around the water-coolers of America. A place where votes are often lost or won, by means of a common debating...
by jamess
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on Wed Sep 27, 2023 at 05:15 PM PDT
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In the article “The demon-deity Maga: geographical variations and chronological transformation in ancient Egyptian demonology,” John Rogers noted that, in these archaeological texts, the reciter uses grammar to “embody” the enemy so as to control it:...
by novapsyche
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on Fri Sep 15, 2023 at 12:44 PM PDT
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Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s chance of winning the Republican nomination for president is next to nil. That being said, Christie is doing the one thing every single candidate facing ...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Wed Aug 09, 2023 at 02:11 PM PDT
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Florida governor�and raging anti-education autocrat Ron DeSantis is still running for president. In recent weeks, the DeSantis campaign has run into some predictable problems: People don’t really ...
by Walter Einenkel
336 comments
on Thu Aug 03, 2023 at 11:40 AM PDT
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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis in the last few days has taken to larding his rhetoric with references to plans for mass slaughter, regional news outlets New Hampshire Public Radio and Florida Politics reported. NHPR covered the candidate's three-day...
by Clio2
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on Wed Aug 02, 2023 at 09:37 PM PDT
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Stochastic terrorism operates through the mechanism of plausible deniability. The person issuing the call to action—the call to violence—can later disclaim whatever he or she said by denying that any call was given at all. The person responding to the...
by novapsyche
332 comments
on Wed Apr 12, 2023 at 07:00 AM PDT
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Asleep to anything except the demands of the special interests and the big corporations and the ultra rich. Yet they win elections because… they control 80% of the mass media. Asleep to widespread public support for curtailing access to assault...
by boblite
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on Tue Feb 21, 2023 at 11:47 AM PST
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I happened to be flipping through the News reel section of YouTube and saw that there was a clip of Biden giving remarks about gun violence, just earlier in the afternoon. I didn’t know he was scheduled to give remarks on gun violence, I thought. I...
by novapsyche
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on Thu Dec 08, 2022 at 12:23 PM PST
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They found the weapon in the attack on Speaker Pelosi’s husband. Please share Lalo Alcaraz cartoons!
by laloalcaraz
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on Sun Oct 30, 2022 at 11:46 AM PDT
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The right-wing-o-sphere has spent most of the day figuring out the angle on a (very likely) right-wing MAGA Big Lie-believer who attacked and seriously injured House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s 82-year-old husband Paul Pelosi with a hammer. The attack took...
by Walter Einenkel
139 comments
on Fri Oct 28, 2022 at 05:04 PM PDT
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A spokesman for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi released a statement Friday morning announcing that her husband, Paul Pelosi, was in the hospital after “an assailant broke into the Pelosi residence in San Francisco and violently assaulted” him. Since the...
by Rebekah Sager
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on Fri Oct 28, 2022 at 01:27 PM PDT
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It's spooky season! Cue Fox News' manufactured racist outrage over fictional drugged Halloween candy The infamous Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels once said, “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it,” and Fox News is keen to take advice from an actual Nazi anytime they have the chance. That’s...
by Rebekah Sager
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on Fri Oct 07, 2022 at 09:54 AM PDT
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Fox News’ answer to the concept of intelligence and decency, Tucker Carlson, went on his show last night to make a case for violence against teachers and the LGBTQ+ community in a long-winded, strangely rapid, and tightly wound rant against all things...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Tue Sep 20, 2022 at 10:28 AM PDT
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Lately, the theme of invasion has reached fever peak over in conservative circles. Two weeks ago, CNN reported that Mark Finchem, an Arizona state representative endorsed by Trump, touted “conspiracy theories that the Mexican Army was making incursions...
by novapsyche
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on Tue Sep 06, 2022 at 01:54 PM PDT
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Many people have already characterized the devotion to the Second Amendment (“gun rights”) and to the NRA in general as somewhat cultish. That the GOP has been in such lockstep with the NRA over so many decades, running interference for them in the...
by novapsyche
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on Mon May 30, 2022 at 10:48 AM PDT
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I’ve either been offended, at minimum insulted, by Republican hateful language and rhetoric often lumping Democrats, ALL Democrats, painting us with the same broad brush. We’ve all heard about it before, you know… Democrats like killing babies bc...
by B obby Boucher
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on Wed May 25, 2022 at 03:42 PM PDT
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On Tuesday, Right Wing Watch posted a video of the chairman of the Oklahoma Republican Party, John Bennett. If you don’t know, Bennett is running for the safely red seat in Oklahoma’s 2nd District against conservative CEO Chris Schiller. Bennett is...
by Walter Einenkel
101 comments
on Wed Apr 27, 2022 at 11:08 AM PDT
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