Huntn00 @Huntn00@talkedabout.social

@GottaLaff

They may be proud, but they're not smart

Black leaders nail #RonDeSantis' #racist ass to the wall for creating the climate of bigotry and hatred that made the Jacksonville mass shooting inevitable, while the spox of his rapidly tanking campaign claims the shooting has been "politicized." https://apnews.com/article/jacksonville-desantis-racist-republican-shooting-haley-scott-9bba89577ae8d0571e1d19b6a947fef5?utm_source=newsshowcase&utm_medium=gnews&utm_campaign=CDAqDwgAKgcICjCE7s4BMOH0KDCvi8AC&utm_content=rundown

Notes to the folks who are scared that Trump's trial(s) will lead to violence by the white supremacists:

The white supremacists want you to be scared, and the white supremacists have already been violent on Trump's behalf.

Fuck the white supremacists. Fuck being scared.

#uspol

Will Bunch on #bothsidesism at the #NYTimes:

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/will-bunch/107490/journalists-need-to-cover-the-2024-election-like-it-might-be-the-nation-s-last

South Carolina college student fatally shot trying to enter wrong home – police https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/28/university-of-south-carolina-student-shot-wrong-home?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

“Portions of these manifestos detail the shooter's disgusting ideology of hate. This shooting was racially motivated and he hated black people.”

~ Jacksonville, Florida, Sheriff T.K. Waters

#Florida #racism #shootings #violence #WhiteSupremacy

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/ryan-palmeter-guns-jacksonville-shooting-b2400605.html

still humid and hot
I cannot deny desires
for the grace of rain...

#575prompt - grace

#MastoPrompt - deny

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ART
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Seeded stalks bend down
John Barleycorn hangs his head.
Summer's end grows near.

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"NEVER SURRENDER!" Except when I did. Just now. In Georgia.

Excellent piece on the Michael Oher story. "White savior syndrome" is very strong in RW Evangelical circles, which describes the Tuohy family. When this movie came out I was writing for CCM magazines, and one of my editors asked me to do a story on the film, which I declined. The story they wanted was one about how a rich white Christian family saved a troubled black kid and wouldn't that just solve all of our problems if more rich, white Christian families did the same?
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/26/opinion/i-have-a-pretty-good-idea-why-michael-oher-is-angry.html

Trump Cries: I Can't Go To Scotland To Golf

https://crooksandliars.com/2023/08/trump-cries-i-cant-go-scotland-golf?utm_source=social&utm_medium=twitter&utm_content=78626

@selzero @Huntn00 @Radical_EgoCom

It's just amazes me that human decency, morality, and human rights are lumped into compromise. #uspolitics

Jamie

@Huntn00 @Radical_EgoCom

I am just sick of being told we have to compromise when it comes to:
- Climate change
- Feeding children in poverty.
- Protecting the sick from bankruptcy.
- Investing in adult education for a skilled workforce.
- Increasing the value of labour so it returns more than the value of risk taking.

While trillions in subsidies are signed to Halliburton etc for some shareholder payday.

This is not the compromise I am interested in.

Please don't lump me in with "liberals".

I feel like we aren’t talking nearly enough about DeSantis (FL), Abbott (TX) and Kemp (GA) using or threatening to use state laws that allow for the removal of local elected officials for significant misconduct to replace Democrats with their Republican cronies on the flimsiest of pretexts, and without any due process. DeSantis already replaced 2 prosecutors, it’s how TX took over the Houston schools, and Kemp is threatening Fani Willis.

@Huntn00 @Radical_EgoCom

Revolution does not have to be violent.

@Huntn00 @Radical_EgoCom

The insulting part: 2 things and I believe we have a Stockholm Syndrome blindness to them.

1- Normalizing the right by compromising on things.For example. Obama should have gone all out and put in place a universal healthcare system. He should have pushed the system to it's limits in the same way the right is doing about abortion. But he caved to corporate pressure. This compromising with the philosophy that human health is an economic resource is barbaric.

@Huntn00 @Radical_EgoCom

I don't want to be liberal. I'm a socialist.

@tofugolem@mastodon.social @Huntn00@talkedabout.social @StillIRise1963@mastodon.world All true. For me the weirdest piece of that whole puzzle is that the police have their own union. It's like they admit that it works, it has a purpose, for them. But then they want to get the benefits of unionization for themselves while at the same time denying those benefits to others.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/multiple-people-killed-jacksonville-store-shooting-mayor-102589687 Waters said the shooter, who was in his 20s, used a Glock handgun and an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle with at least one of the firearms painted with a swastika. He left behind writings that led investigators to believe that he committed the shooting because it was the fifth anniversary of when another gunman opened fire during a video game tournament in Jacksonville, killing two people before fatally shooting himself.

The shooting happened just before 2 p.m. at a Dollar General near Edward Waters University, a small historically Black university.