Me three times a day listening to the news or encounting it on social media: Uh... seems bad.
Social media and virality isn't the big thing that changed. Wealth inequality, and the downstream effects of neoliberal defunding of basically all public goods, is the big change. A few stakeholders now wield so much power that mass protests on-par with decades past are less of a counterweight.
seen a lot of these posts the past week but despite following transsexuals all across the US, i haven’t heard of even one democratic ad saying, “we’ll protect trans people.” weird how the gop ads are “trans people are pedophile monsters” & democrats ads are, “actually, we’re better for police.”
Since they discovered they wouldn't suffer consequences for it
If you want younger generations to value hard work, you have to maintain a world where hard work has value and isn’t just a method of exploitation.
Here’s what they say needs to change.
just like Occupy, just like BLM, we keep getting these articles about why protests fade out that don’t mention, or downplay, the effect of getting shot with hundreds of rounds of rubber bullets and gas canisters while politicians of both parties cheer it on
IMO the fear that is unexpressed in the U.S. at this time is that the country can't actually do big things. That the political culture means everyone is a sitting duck. This means that all of us are at the mercy of major forces we don't control with the likelihood that we'll be on our own.
CBS News has all but endorsed Vance. He’s been the most frequently invited guest on Face the Nation for two years running. A news outlet that tells its star guest he can spread misinformation without fear of a fact check, and come back every other week to do it again, is not a news outlet.
CBS News Says It Will Be Up To Vance And Walz To Fact-Check Each Other In Veep Debate In other words, Vance will be allowed to spew a firehose of lies with no pushback from “moderators,” who won’t actually moderate anything because CBS is scared of the right wing reaction.
CBS News says it will be up to the candidates, not the moderators, to fact-check each other.
I think a lot about someone's quip about the heat dome over Portland that was melting rubber off power lines (paraphrased): "What a beautiful infrastructure we built for a world that no longer exists."
