#right
"Right knows no boundaries, and justice no frontiers; the brotherhood of man is not a domestic institution."
- Learned Hand
#quote #QOTD #quotestoliveby #Right #Justice #Brotherhood #BeingHuman
Have you ever wondered how Hebrew conveys directions like 'right' and 'left'? 🌟
Unlike English, where 'right' and 'left' often remain the same regardless of context, Hebrew has distinct words for these directions when indicating movement.
In this short yet valuable lesson, we'll explore the Hebrew words for 'right' and 'left', and delve into their usage in different contexts.
#right #left #directions #jewish #israeltravel #israeltrip #birthright #israel #hebrew
“I would like not to be a hermit,” she said. But, she added, “I am not a victim in any of this. I did what I did & I knew what I was getting myself into.”
If anything, becoming a #target of the #right after publicly disclosing what she had learned in the #WhiteHouse was perhaps the least surprising thing that #Hutchinson had encountered over the past 3yrs.
The #Christianright’s #wishlist for #Trump is way #worse than you #think
At the polls, the #Christian #right provides the #electoral #muscle to make the #judicial #takeover a #possibility.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Politics #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Homophobia #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-christian-right-judges-2024-election-rcna111340
I wonder if the #notion
"#Free =/= #Permanent " holds #water
It kinda feels, asif, if something doesn't cost you, you have no #right to #complain when it is gone ..
#StuffAlcea
#Right... I've got 93-goes #Today to #NailIT...
#WishMeLuck...
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#Law is concerned with #freedom, the worthiest and holiest thing in man, the thing man must know if it is to have obligatory force for him.
— [#Hegel’s Philosophy of #Right, § 215 – Ethical Life / Civil Society / Administration of Justice / Determinate Law](https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/works/pr/prcivils.htm)
(Probably as a result of their efforts) The #Koch network’s position has become increasingly popular in recent yrs. Once broadly supported by #academics & #judges on the #right, #Chevron is now #anathema to many in the #conservative #legal movement.
And there’s no more prominent convert than #ClarenceThomas.
The #right still doesn’t grasp what #pronouns are, as this #hilarious incident shows.
Since realizing #trans #people exist, the #religiousright struggles with a vital part of our existence: #pronouns. What are they? Are they contagious? What's #they/#them? Will they replace my child with a goblin?
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Entertainment #Gaming #Religion #Hate #Bigotry #Transphobia #EmptyThePews
“Of practical #wisdom these are the three fruits: to #deliberate well, to #speak to the point, to do what is #right.”
- #Democritus of Abdera - The Symmetry of Life
I hate #bottledwater. Something #natural we all should have as a #right is a polluting economic #commodity.
This new #law only slows the #theft of our #water, but I’m proud of #California for at least trying.
#Italy - Doing or playing #sport is about to become a constitutional #right (article in Italian) https://www.ansa.it/sito/notizie/topnews/2023/09/20/lo-sport-entra-in-costituzione-ok-definitivo-della-camera_19c36b73-c205-44e8-ac49-c0b00012f6e5.html #rights
#Liberal #Liberals #Conservative #Conservatives
#Left #Right #Center #Centrist #Centrists
#Moderate #Moderates #Politics
#Progressive #Progressives #Libertarian #Libertarians
#Political #green #ProgressivePolitics
#humanrights #civilrights #antifascist #antifa #Politics #PoliticsUS
#socialist #socialism #science
#democracy #secular #spirituality #evolution
#humanism #Humanist #atheism #atheist #skeptic #antitheist #christian
“Can’t govern, don’t want to govern,” said Rep Rosa DeLauro of CT, the snr #Democrat on the #Appropriations Committee, characterizing the demands of the #extreme #right in the #House as, “if you don’t make the cuts we want, we shut the place down.”
These two stories should be enough for any #American to decide on the next #POTUS.
#Trump issued an executive order (& plans to reinstate it) enabling him to arbitrarily fire #workers without cause:
https://masto.ai/@Nonilex/111070374504331973
#Biden uses the power of the Presidency to back #WorkersRights, the #right to #strike when treated unfairly & the right to #CollectivelyBargain as a #Union for improved #WorkingConditions & #FairWages:
https://masto.ai/@Nonilex/111070526379773939
#Biden said he was dispatching 2 of his top aides — the acting #labor secretary, #JulieSu, & a top #economic adviser, #GeneSperling — to #Detroit to help the parties return to the #bargaining table.
“Let’s be clear, no one wants a #strike. Say it again. No one wants a strike,” President #Biden said in remarks from the #WhiteHouse. “But I respect the #workers #right to use their options on in the #CollectiveBargaining system, & I understand the workers’ frustration.”
Keir Starmer’s right-wing stance is not a smokescreen. Here’s how you can tell | Vox Political
https://voxpoliticalonline.com/2023/09/15/keir-starmers-right-wing-stance-is-not-a-smokescreen-heres-how-you-can-tell/
#Keir Starmer #right #wing #smokescreen #election #ploy #lie #falsehood #child benefit
The #school tried to #protect trans #students but the judge claims that the teacher's #religious #rights are more important than the #Constitutional #right to #equalprotection of the law granted by of the #14thAmendment.
Others Wrong 5
Realizing that both you and others you believe are wrong are right grows you further.
#believing #right #wrong #viewpoint #growth #innergrowth #insight #wisdom #life #mindfulness #hope #politics #religions #SocialMedia
"Wow!" 💯 #Right
#MetPolice #pays ‘#substantial’ #damages to #women #arrested at #SarahEverard #vigil.
In a statement the women’s #solicitor, #RachelHarger, said: “I am glad that the #Met have finally #acknowledged that those who attended the #vigil had the #fundamental #right to #protest the #murder of #SarahEverard by a serving #Met #officer
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #UK #London #Police #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Misogyny #Homophobia NoPoliceAtPride
Bloomington council votes down proposed law against camping, storing property in right-of-way
#BloomingtonIN #CityCouncil #Unhoused #Homeless #Right-of-way #Obstructions
I don't think you can meaningfully #change the views of the extant parties to move them closer to where your beliefs land on the chart.
Anyone see an easy, direct way of fixing this?
All I can see at the moment is a possible starting #step. Stop #talking about "#left" vs. "#right" politics. #Help people who are interested in politics #understand the #Pournelle #chart, and how to place their own belief systems on it.
#Criticize the #media for using the left-right shortcut.
14/x
Apologies, as this will be a bit #rambling, but it will come back to #Canadian #politics, I promise.
First, the #categorization of #political views along a single left-right #axis is almost #useless. This has long been known, and alternatives exist that present a much more accurate picture, but the traditional #media is #addicted to "#left this" and "#right that" and is lazy, so they'll probably never get better.
One #alternative was developed by Jerry #Pournelle.
1/x
[Podcast] Welcome to the #AntiWoke #Economy
A fledgling #parallel #economy has emerged on the #right, #hawking everything from #coffee to #vitamin #supplements to #antiabortion #proteinbars. But can a #business #movement born of #political and #cultural #grievance be #viable long term?
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Conservatives #CancelCulture #Religion #Hate #Bigotry #Discrimination #Racism #AntiSemitism #Xenophobia #Homophobia #Transphobia #EmptyThePews https://newrepublic.com/article/175456/alt-right-anti-woke-economy
"The #original piece is always #right https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iWqCSO98jU
But eventually most of these issues are likely to be resolved by #SCOTUS, & the court’s 6-member #Republican-appointed majority has generally ruled in ways that favor the #conservative #social-policy priorities reflected in the #redstate actions. That inclination was most dramatically demonstrated in last year’s #Dobbs decision, when the Court overturned the #constitutional #right to #abortion.
As Covid-19 Cases Tick Higher, Conspiracy Theorists Stoke New Fears - A late-summer rise in Covid-19 infections is bringing with it a wave of conspiracy theori... - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/11/technology/covid-19-uptick-conspiracy-theorists.html #right-wingextremismandalt-right #vaccinationandimmunization #fringegroupsandmovements #rumorsandmisinformation #coronavirus(2019-ncov) #kaiserfamilyfoundation #conspiracytheories
Not #left vs #right but #humanist vs #supremacist. Great read by @JuliusGoat via @edroso
https://armoxon.substack.com/p/if-you-want-to-be-friends-then-why
#California #Assembly Declares August the First #TransgenderHistoryMonth in the #Nation.
“Many Californians remain unaware of the #real #lives and #experiences of #transgender #people, even here in California. This #lackoffamiliarity has been #exploited by those on the #right to #attack the #trans #community
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Education #History #Representation #Culture
Let's stop thinking in #left and #right. Let's start thinking as #people. Allowing the #planet to die because of #fossil lobby is not what people want. Allowing people to go without #healthcare and die cannot be the idea of a safe and stable society. Allowing children to kill each other in Stockholm or Brussels because of persistent #inequality and #poverty and a vibrant drugs market is not what people wish. It seems that inaction is bought by lobby. Let's start building #stability.
Quoting Dan Hind in @openDemocracy
“But a 2024 @UKLabour govt committed to the #Blair-#Thatcher status quo, which refuses to meet the #UK’s accumulating crises with a programme equal to it, will only aid a nativist and authoritarian #Right that offers its own, hallucinatory solutions.
Our likely trajectory, absent fundamental reform, is one that discredits the centre-left in government and empowers the extreme right in opposition.
In these circumstances, our best option at the next general election must be a mobilisation that puts as many ecosocialists and sincere left Keynesians into Parliament as possible. Our priority should be to maximise the number of MPs willing to argue for replacing Thatcherism with a new green and democratic settlement.
Once we grasp that, the question then becomes technical: how?”
[..]
“If we can create the means for voters to communicate among ourselves in pursuit of our shared interests, if we then act with some fraction of the right’s energy and daring, with some fraction of their budget, we can begin to create a new economic and political settlement before the old impoverishes and demoralises even more of us. If we wait meekly for a #Starmer landslide, we will get nothing, and deserve less”
#LabourLies #StopStarmer #RedTory #EcoSocialism #Election2024
🔴 #BOYCOTT_IBM 🔴
Time to pay IBM a visit folks.
They have been #manipulated by #GREED and not taking into consideration you and your families right to personal privacy and protection?? 🛡️
🌎 We the PEOPLE CANNOT AND WILL NOT #TRUST ANY #GOVERNMENT OR #BUSINESS_ENTITY WITH ILLEGALLY OBTAINED PERSONAL OR BUSINESS DATA WITHOUT CONSENT OR #PROBABLE_CAUSE!
We the people require #full_disclosure of where this technology will be DEPLOYED in order to give notice to the masses to avoid these #SURVEILLED_AREAS LIKE THE 🐀 #BLACK_PLAGUE ----BC IT IS!
We demand full disclosure and transparency of this technology being illegally imposed on its citizens whom choose their right to remain anonymous (OUR GOD GIVEN #RIGHT!)
KEEP YOUR #GREEDY NOSES OUT OF OUR BUSINESS!!
IBM promised to back off #Facial_Recognition — then it signed a $69.8 million contract to provide it??
#BETRAYAL AGAINST THE #GENERAL_PUBLIC FOR #PROFIT!
The company denies its new government deal enables ‘general purpose’ #biometric #surveillance.
#Human_rights_advocates disagree??
* A VIOLATION OF PERSONAL & BUSINESS #PRIVACY_RIGHTS!
* A VIOLATION TO PERSONAL & BUSINESS #SECURITY_RIGHTS!
* #ILLEGAL #FINGER_PRINTING W/O #CONSENT AND/OR #PROBABLE_CAUSE!
(a biggy)
https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/31/23852955/ibm-uk-government-contract-biometric-facial-recognition
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#Transphobic #Sorority Sisters in #Wyoming fails to force #national #organization to #ban #trans #women from being #eligible for #membership.
“Defining ‘#woman’ to be #inclusive of #trans #women is #KappaKappaGamma’s bedrock #right as a #private, #voluntary #organization, and one this #court may not invade,” he wrote.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Wyoming #HigherEducation #TERFS #Hate #Bigotry #Discrimination #Transphobia #TERFFails
https://www.intomore.com/impact/sorority-sisters-fail-to-ban-trans-women-from-membership/
A new tool in the fight to save the planet?
Many democracies do, in theory, guarantee their citizens the #right to clean #air, #water, #farmland, #forests and other #natural #resources.
The idea of getting #judges to enforce this guarantee in more places is not unreasonable. Governments would merely be held to promises they’ve already made.
The Montana ruling, for instance, rests on an explicit promise in the state’s constitution
(And a 6th-century Roman doctrine.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/09/01/climate-legal-action-rights-young-people/
To Insert a Citizens '#Right' in the laws of a State
is historically always a long difficult process
needed after decades of abuse
but
erasing a 'Right' is a blink of an eye
(as demonstrated by the laws promulgated in the #MAGARepublican States in #USA)
Regaining the lost Right (if possible ) is a difficult long process
So
>Always fear those who are ready to take away 'Rights'<
because those who do it, believe they have the authority to deprive others of their rights
bad people. (asshole).
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We #Might be #FakeNews, #MisterDen... Or, a #Prophecy... #OneOrTheOther...
We can still have a #Biscuit, #Right...?
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Labour’s ‘boil a frog’ tactic is pulling the party away from voters but towards rich donors | Vox Political
https://voxpoliticalonline.com/2023/08/30/labours-boil-a-frog-tactic-is-pulling-the-party-away-from-voters-but-towards-rich-donors/
#Labour #Keir #Starmer #lurch #right #wing #politics #Vox #Political #Mike #Sivier
This is #JustinPodur talking about the war knowledge the left the right and the liberals.
It discusses the BS horseshoe political spectrum diagram amongst others.
'The “liberal” is “supporting” Ukraine, which seems to practically mean supporting the destruction of a generation of Ukrainians ... The small anti-war left are accused of “supporting Putin”'
@volpeon@is-a.wyvern.rip #Why even drink tea #in the first #place?
There's another option. Oh #yes, #there's another. #And #he #is #jolly, #and he is #big.
He is #the #JOLLY GREEN #GIANT, that's #right! I'm all about #green #beans #now #because let #me tell #you something about #tea. It's too sweet. Why not just #drink #a #soda #which isn't #good #for you, #huh? Why not #slug #down some Sour Patch #Kids #which #are just pure #sugar? And that's #not #good #for anybody!
If you want #pure #nutrition, you #have to get #the deliciousness #that is #Green #Giant green #beans.
And this is actually a fact about #my childhood #when it #came down #to #getting vegetables, #for, #you #know, as the #side #dish for #your meat #and #two #veggies. #We would #have #some meat and then #we would #add #tea and green #beans and- let #me tell you something. #The tea might have been #okay, but the #green #beans was #where #the #real #nutrition came #from, and #let me #tell you something #about the Green Giant. #He's #got big #juicy green #beans.
Something #that I #can say #with confidence #is #that #I #love #jolly Green Giant's #green #beans, #which is #much more #palatable than #green tea.
This #goes down smooth, #I #can #drink that all day. #Low-calorie #and #filling #and #chock full #of #vitamins #and minerals just #for #you, #picked #right #off #of #the jolly Green Giant's beanstalk. #And #now #that I'm #thinking about #it, #I'm pretty sure it wasn't #green tea that #was #there #throughout #my #entire childhood. They wouldn't be #there #for #anybody that needed them.
It was #the #jolly #Green #Giant. #I remember being embraced #in his #jolly green #arms... I'll #tell you #something, Green #Giant knows #fresh.
@kirschner Wonderful book. Gave it as #Christmas present in German last year. Not only about the importance of free software but also #creativity, #right to repair and #democratic protest. #community.
Assuming you had your tongue firmly in your cheek when you wrote that sentence, watching the rise of the so-called “Christian Right” in the #US from across the water in the UK is both utterly mystifying & extremely frightening!
For me their politics is reminiscent of Taliban/ Handmaids Tale territory in its extremism - and, as ever, their influence has been spreading to the UK for decades via significant cash injections to like-minded folk over here!
Suggested viewing on YouTube
Empire Files: Chris Hedges & Abby Martin - Trump, #Fascism & the #Christian #Right
Lots to think about in this extract from Naomi #Klein's latest book, charting her cultural "doppelganger", Naomi #Wolf, from #liberal media darling to hard #right #conspiracy theorist. We need to reflect seriously on how people have been pulled into this alternative reality (which Klein calls a "Mirror World), which includes old fashioned Nazi and harmless sounding "alternative health subcultures usually associated with the green left" who have thrived on #COVID fears
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/aug/26/naomi-klein-naomi-wolf-conspiracy-theories?CMP=share_btn_tw
#afd #right-wing extremism #fckafd #nazisout #afdban
That the Nazis are our enemies, my God.
We didn't need, please, Hitler's seizure of power to know that.
For at least 4 years that had been completely evident to anyone who wasn't mentally ill.
That a large part of the German people stood behind it,
yes we knew that too.
-Hannah Arendt on Hitler's rise to power in 1933
As up-to-date as ever.
The denial of the danger and then the shock at elections.
Stand Tall, Vote for All: Women's Reproductive Rights Are On The Ballot! 🗳️ Wear your voice, defend our choice! Last night's debate was not a debate it was a travesty. Do not let the crazies take anyone's rights away! https://leftarrowtees.com/if-i-wanted-the-government-in-my-uterus-t-shirt/ #Abortion #right #pro-choice #politics
#TravisIkeguchi the #California #PrideFlag #Killer Had #Hateful #Online #Presence
#Experts have #warned for months that the increase in #Hateful #antiLGBTQ+ #rhetoric pushed by those on the #right would lead to acts of #violence targeting the #LGBTQIA #community
https://www.advocate.com/crime/california-pride-killer-online-history
“Reading ‘Tyranny, Inc.,’ I kept wondering how Ahmari had gone from conservative cultural crusader to genuine economic populist and, more important, whether any other social traditionalists could make the same leap.”
This is why when #Hatemonger and #TERF #JoannaCherry decided to bring her #Transphobic #hate and #bigotry to the #Fringe #Queer #people #objected. No one has a #right to #perform, she is always welcome to take her show and #stage and #perform it elsewhere.
https://www.thenational.scot/news/23718593.joanna-cherry-felt-hostility-stand-staff-fringe-event/
Access to #knowledge is a #human #right
https://engineuring.wordpress.com/2023/08/14/access-to-knowledge-is-a-human-right/
"restricting knowledge behind paywalls is a violation of #HumanRights. In other words, #Sci-Hub never was merely a ‘pirate website’ but a website with a #political #agenda, fighting for a more #just #society"
"Now they [#Z-Library] want you to sign the petition to join their fight for free knowledge as a basic human right"
#scihub #zlibrary #epistemology #ethics #science #philosophy
Sign the Petition
@futurebird @evan ✅ I reject today’s “#left” and “#right” political tribes as they suffer from the same fundamental errors in #philosophy: they accept the futility of #reason and the #morality of #altruism.
As an #Objectivist, I am politically a radical for #capitalism and feel no qualms about expressing that.
I do, however, choose my battles at work, online, and elsewhere.
#Judge #shutsdown #Hateful ##parents’ attempt to #ban #trans #students from #Ohio #school #bathrooms.
#Parents in #Ohio don’t have the #right to #challenge a #trans-#inclusive #school #bathroom #policy
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Ohio #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Hategroups #RepublicanParty #Religion #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Transphobia #EmptyThePews #ThePartyOfHate
https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/08/ohio-school-bathroom-policy/
@JamesBaker What would be interesting is to see how #Consumers can enforce their #GDPR-based #Right to have their data expunged that they may have accumulated prior to the ToS changes.
Cuz I know a lot of people that want that to happen!
I hope @maxschrems of @noybeu takes a closer look at #Zoom's #ToS.
The #policy as it stands #protects #transgender #students and others from #targeted #harassment based on their #innate #characteristics, which would include #deliberate #misgendering in the case of #trans #people.
Judge Marbley ultimately #disagreed, #concluding that the #USConstitution does not contain a #right to #misgender and #bully #trans #students.
I can #PersonallyAttest that #MyIvyLeagueDegree did #Secure a #SixFigureSalary...
#IT's #OK; #IT was only #One of #ManyDegrees... And, #IT was a #PostGrad... I've got a #FewOfThem...
And, I #TurnedOutNormal, #Right...?
But, I am a #TerribleTypist...
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#TheNormal: Warm Leatherette
What do #ParentalRights give #parents the #right to do?
Absolutely nothing outside of their own families. That includes their attempts to dictate to other parents what their rights allow them to do.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Censorship #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Homophobia #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate
https://www.nj.com/opinion/2023/08/what-do-parental-rights-give-parents-the-right-to-do-quigley.html
"A counter-revolutionary zeal and desire for vengeance is what characterizes both Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis, a self-perception as prophets of American Reconquista fuels both Christopher Rufo and Nate Hochman. They are all, in their own minds, extremists in defense of a particular kind of liberty – their liberty to dominate."
~ Thomas Zimmer
#right #RightWing #Trump #DeSantis #extremism #PoliticsofDominance #authoritarianism
https://thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/rightwing-dreams-of-american-reconquista
"They need us. We don't need them:" The fall of #Twitter is making the #trolls and grifters desperate | #Salon
"The escalation of shock value tactics, on both the #right and the pretending-not-to-be-right political classes, are likely rooted in the same cause: The slow motion collapse of Twitter, now rebranded "#X," under the leadership of Tesla CEO #ElonMusk."
@CatHat That tracks for #Mastodon. I’ve seen just as much #racism here as on #Twitter. And the topic of #ableism, I think I’ve seen MORE than on Twitter (that whole “anti-car movement is disturbingly very anti-disabled). #Islamophobia is about the same, except it comes more from the #left, since the #right gets #defederated.
@ph00lt0 @GrapheneOS Eeyupp, and the #CSSF has personnel just to deal with :paypal: alone.
Which is kinda remarkable as for a tiny state like #Luxembourg I hope that #PayPal generates enough #tax revenue to offset aditional staff just do handle complaints about them.
Remember: a #BankingLicense is a privilegue, not a #Right in the sense that regulators "#MustIssue" or even "#ShallIssue" them...
At least that's what I can tell without violating NDAs with former employers...
His campaign forced Sinead O'Connor to scrap a 1997 Jerusalem concert. Now he is a Cabinet minister
#Death #threats forced Irish pop singer #Sinead #OConnor to call off a peace concert in Jerusalem in the summer of 1997. At the time, a young man named #Itamar #Ben-#Gvir took credit for the campaign against her.
Today, he is Israel’s national security minister.
The transformation of Ben-Gvir from a fringe Israeli extremist trying to take down O’Connor’s coexistence-themed concert to a powerful minster overseeing the Israeli police force reflects the dramatic #rise of #Israel’s #far-#right
Le Pen’s far right party served as mouthpiece for the Kremlin, says French parliamentary report
Dogged by accusations of proximity to the Kremlin, Marine Le Pen’s #far-#right #National #Rally party had hoped to clear its name by setting up a parliamentary inquiry to #investigate #foreign #interference in #French #politics.
But a draft report on the committee’s findings, which was leaked to the press this week, shows the move backfired spectacularly, finding instead that Le Pen’s policy stances sometimes echo the “official language of Putin’s regime”.
The #religiousright, the #moralmajority, #evangelicals, and white #Christiannationalists have, throughout the #history of the #UnitedStates, used #religion to further #personalgreed, absolve themselves of guilt for #heinouscrimes, and force their #morals and world view on an entire population. Let's break down all the ways the #Religious #Right has ruined everything, and how white #Christian #nationalism poses an existential threat to our #democracy.
#Privacy is a #HumanRight in the same way and to the same extent #FreeSpeech is a human #right. Neither obligates others to either keep your secrets or publicize your broadcasts.
In a #political #era of “#parentalrights,” #Texans raising #trans #kids say new #law strips them of their #right to make decisions about #medicalcare for their #children.
#Parents of #transgender #kids say #SB14, blocks their ability to #support their #children
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Texas #TransKids #Parents #Allies #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate
https://www.texastribune.org/2023/07/17/texas-transgender-health-care/
OMG, I just had a run in with Google Assistant. I called a customer and the automated Assistant asks what I'm calling about. (Oy vey, I hate talking to computers!) Then it tries to ring the person. They don't answer. Then it switches me to voice mail. How. Annoying. And. What. A. Waste. Of. Time. Google has become a societal virus. #Google #Virus #GoogleVirus #DoNoHarm #LOL! #Right? #BringBackRotaryDialPhonesAndPartyLines!
I wish #doctors #websites would stop using those stupid #signature boxes where you need to use the mouse to sign your name. I’m #left-handed but I use a #right-handed #mouse (that’s how I was taught) and it’s a real pain in the ass to try to sign my name with the mouse. I just had to sign like that about 15 times for a #developmental #pediatrician. You’d think they’d know better. Just let me type in my damned name, for fuck sake. I have zero patience for this stuff. #autism #adhd
@daringfireball @gruber “Is the goal of the #Fediverse to be #AntiCorporate?”
A lot of instances are set up explicitly so, and there are many vocal users both on those instances and elsewhere.
Dip into posts on #politics or #economics (or even as an undercurrent to a lot of other posts) and you’ll find some very extreme #lefitist and #AntiCapitalist rhetoric. It can seem like the fediverse skews far-#left the same way “#AltTech” platforms skew far-#right.
#ChastenButtigieg #Condemns #AntiTrans #Movement, Urges #Loud and Proud #Pride #Celebrations.
“It’s okay to revel in their misery,” he said of those on the #right who #oppose #LGBTQ+ #rights
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Pride #PrideMonth #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Homophobia #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate
https://www.advocate.com/people/chasten-buttigieg-book-event-interview
Simon Tisdall rehearses 2 old (but still problematic) Q.s for the #left:
Is the Left more interested in fighting with its allies (& itself) over the vanity of small differences, opening the door for the #Right to win #elections?
Is a move to the right (centre) merely validating the very rightest positions that the left should be fighting against?
What Tisdall, perhaps, downplays is the issue of #media ownership & its sharing of the political agenda.
Hundreds of American and Canadian right-wingers want to move to Russia to live in a new purpose-built settlement, according to a Moscow-based lawyer who provided no evidence for his claims.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/xgwdew/russia-maga-colony
#russia #maga #Conservatives #VladimirPutin #right-wing #TuckerCarlson
Headline: #Amazon may be removing #tshirts supporting #trans people's #right to own #guns. The shirt proclaimed "Trans Rights or Else" with four rifles in the colors of the transgender Pride flag.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQIA #Amazon #GunRights #Hate #Bigotry #Discrimination #Transphobia
3/ #capitalism at work, so it doesn't need to be exclusively a #left or #right action.
Additionally, it can be attractive to folks who don't care about how a company treats their employees. Why? Because their self-interest is in:
- getting a quality product
- receiving ongoing support for that product
Especially at scale it could become a large motivator. You know, that company we bought x from (lets say a car, for no reason 😉)? They are headed to the crapper b/c folks aren't buying from
Why We’re #Suing to Protect the #Right of #Incarcerated People to Receive Physical #Mail | #ElectronicFrontierFoundation
"This #lawsuit also marks #EFF’s commitment to stopping the current trend that seeks to #privatize aspects of the #carceral system for #profit as well as strip #privacy away from incarcerated individuals. Another such practice is charging exorbitant fees for people to make phone calls to family members—a scheme that #Connecticut has just made illegal."
I knew that Jordan #Peterson was a charlatan, but there were a few things about him that I didn't know:
1) He's a doctor of #psychology. As a mental health professional, may I just openly say, "Ew." Yes, he's very good at empathizing with you and in gaining your trust. We literally learn how to do that in school. Weirdly, psychopaths and narcissists also learn to do that rather successfully, only we also learn how to help people find their way in a confusing world (not very hard if you just take the time to listen to someone and reflect on what they say). Is he inspirational? Sure. But the quality of a person's thinking has nothing to do with how inspirational they are.
After all, many people find Donald #Trump very inspiring.
2) He is a simple man with just one hypothesis that he expresses as fact: human beings and #lobsters respond to #serotonin in the same way. Because this is true, he says, then the #pyramid #hierarchy, with one person or group at the top, is the natural state of humankind. If you noticed a leap in #logic there, yeah...so did every other reasonable person on the planet. His cultists must have missed it.
Also, it turns out that biologists are well aware that invertebrates and vertebrates respond to serotonin in opposite ways, so that's interesting: how Peterson's entire #worldview is based on a falsehood. It turns out, Peterson is not a #biologist. Who knew?
3) Because hierarchies are a #natural part of lobster society, then they are a natural part of human societies too. Please ignore the fact that lobsters don't have societies. Peterson would appreciate that.
Furthermore, because hierarchies are a natural part of a human society, then hierarchies with one group or individual at the top are natural to human society. Please ignore the fact that throughout the #history of the fucking planet, humans and non-human animals that collect into social groups have built many different types of hierarchies, including several where #women rule collectively at the top (e.g., lions). Peterson would appreciate that.
Further-furthermore, because pyramid-based hierarchies are biologically entrenched, we must eschew any attempt by the #left to modify our societal structure. It exists, and therefore it is good. Please ignore the fact that of #capitalism and the #patriarchy, both of which are #systems that Peterson thinks are natural parts of the human psychology, the first of these to come about (patriarchy) is no older than #agriculture.
Weirdly, lobsters don't grow their own food. It's almost as if #humans...at some point...must have evolutionarily pulled away from lobsters. (Namely, back when we were all worms.)
4) The role of the left is to speak for the naturally (and appropriately) disadvantaged folks at the bottom, according to Peterson. Just to speak, by the way. We shouldn't do anything about it. The role of the #right appears to be to remind us that hierarchies exist and therefore we should do nothing about our current one. And then, the left should say, "Oh. Yeah... That sucks." And we're done!
ALL OF SOCIETY'S PROBLEMS ARE SOLVED! HOORAY!
5) Everything that Peterson says is fucking word garbage. He will literally talk for hours and say nothing, but he knows how to sound super profound. He's little more than a narcissistic self-help guru who believes that because he has a PhD in one subject, he's qualified to speak on all subjects.
This, by the way, is never true. It's why Ben #Carson, late renowned neurosurgeon, knew nothing about Egyptian history and wound up dying of sycophantism by purposefully catching COVID to own the libs.
I can see why Peterson is popular. I'd be #popular and rich too, if I had that #cishet #white #male #confidence to say whatever bullshit popped into my brain as if it were unadulterated #truth. And if I were enough of a psychopath to not care about who gets hurt by my shameless grifting.
Anyway, if you thought this post was long, you'll love this video by my buddy Cody: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSNWkRw53Jo
Lol this made me laugh
We can laugh about this right 😶
I’ve been writing about the right wing’s efforts for an #ArticleV convention for years. But this is the clearest description of what the #right plans to do. #Koch #libertarian #UtopianNightmare
Supporters of Brazilian far-right ex-president Jair Bolsonaro have stormed Congress as well as the presidential palace and the Supreme Court. His backers have refused to accept leftist Lula's election victory.
After hours of chaos, Brazilian police have retaken the National Congress building after pro-Bolsonaro protesters stormed the building. Police are still in the process of clearing rioters from the Supreme Court headquarters and Planalto presidential palace.
Brazil's Chief Justice Rosa Weber on Sunday said the country's Supreme Court will work to ensure that "terrorists" were made an "example" of.
Supporters of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro stormed the National Congress building in Brasilia earlier on Sunday.
Hundreds of people invaded the building, calling for military intervention to overthrow President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. Lula was inaugurated one week ago.
Supporters of the former president refuse to accept that the populist autocrat lost his bid for reelection, claiming the election was stolen.
https://www.dw.com/en/brazil-bolsonaro-supporters-storm-national-congress/a-64320440?protocol-flip=0
https://www.npr.org/2023/01/08/1147757260/bolsonaro-supporters-storm-brazil-congress-l
#brazil #insurrection #Jan6 #Jan8 #farright #right #politics #terrorism #domesticterroism #Fascist #fascism #CapitalRiots
Anyone out there get too #hot if they lay on their #right #side and too #cold if they lay on their #left #side? #ehlersdanlos #Dysautonomia #pots #cerebrospinalfluidleak
The far-right, increasingly just becoming the right, has now attempted an unsuccessful coup in both the US and Germany. Yet again, Qanon was at the heart of the storm of lies and hate. How much longer can democracy keep relying on luck?
#farright #right #republicans #germanpolitics #germany #uspolitics #uspol #politics #trumpism #qanon #trump #donaldtrump
Predictably, conservative pundits are labeling Faiz Shakir's essay in #NYTimes as #black vs #progressive
In a nutshell, Shakir says it's a mistake to replace Iowa with South Carolina in the primaries
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/05/opinion/iowa-caucus-south-carolina-primary-democrat.html
Of course, wedge politics by the #right is an expected strategy. But neither side should fall for it
Shakir is simply wrong because he characterizes it in the context of winning a state in the #general election, not a #primary
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@rbreich It's a good time to point out that many workers that are vital to the economy still don't get sick time. Sick pay should be a #Right not a #privledge