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Wednesday, November 20, 2024

Malcolm Turnbull has accused Rupert Murdoch's News Corp of eroding democracy in the US and Australia by dividing people and undermining institutions with lies and populist rightwing ideology. read more


Thursday, November 14, 2024

Elon Musk lived in apartheid South Africa until he was 17. David Sacks, the venture capitalist who has become a fundraiser for Donald Trump and a troll of Ukraine, left aged five, and grew up in a South African diaspora family in Tennessee. Peter Thiel spent years of childhood in South Africa and Namibia, where his father was involved in uranium mining as part of the apartheid regime's clandestine drive to acquire nuclear weapons. And Paul Furber, an obscure South African software developer and tech journalist living near Johannesburg, has been identified by two teams of forensic linguists ... read more


Sunday, November 10, 2024

The cost of imprisonment -- including who benefits and who pays -- is a major part of the national discussion around criminal justice policy. But prisons and jails are just one piece of the criminal justice system and the amount of media and policy attention that the various players get is not necessarily proportional to their influence. In this first-of-its-kind report, we find that the system of mass incarceration costs the government and families of justice-involved people at least $182 billion every year. read more


Wednesday, November 06, 2024

The influence of Christianity has declined in America in recent years, but a Gallup poll published in March showed that 68% of Americans still identify as Christian. In 2020, 71% of white Americans who attended church regularly voted for Trump. In 2016, white evangelicals made up one fifth of all voters ' and they overwhelmingly supported Trump over Hillary Clinton (77% to 16%). According to the Pew Research Center, 85% of white evangelicals favor the GOP in 2024. In recent years, many evangelical voters have moved from backing a particular candidate or party into Christian nationalism. (Christianity Today defines Christian nationalism as the "belief that the American nation is defined by Christianity, and that the government should take active steps to keep it that way.") But God, Trump and the Republican Party are not synonymous. North Carolina event, Guillermo Maldonado, a pastor from Miami and longtime Trump ally, told attendees this election wasn't just about American politics. read more


Saturday, November 02, 2024

A group of more than 70 House Republicans introduced legislation this week that would make elements of the 2017 Trump tax cuts permanent, delivering a huge windfall to the rich and choking off more federal revenue at a time when Republican fearmongering over the national debt is at a fever pitch. read more


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"Another thread where the far left triples down on not learning why they lost, and insulting those they need to convince to come around to their side."

Most of us know we will never convince Trump voters. They don't consider arguments or facts; they just listen to right wing propaganda and believe as if it the Gospel truth. It has been this way forever. America has always had large numbers of poorly educated people who right wing demagogues can easily get to believe anything they want. Not too long ago it wasn't Trump; it was George W. Bush and his insane invasion of Iraq. Same people defending Trump today were defending Bush back then. Nothing really ever changes. The names change and the topics change but it is always the more educated trying to convince the less educated who are being manipulated by some snake oil salesman on radio or TV. And those snake oil salesmen demonize the other side using emotional pitches appealing to feelings about religion, their sense of somebody getting something for nothing, patriotism, etc. Right now it is tariffs and deporting migrant labotors and both ideas will be disastrous for our economy. And you're wrong, we know why we lost. Trump's voters want to "shake up government but their ideas for doing so will just create economic disaster. Bush did the AME THING AND it caused the worst rexession since 1929! Now Trump has some simplistic ideas about tarriffs and deporting immigrants. Tarriffs will just make everything more expensive and midwest farmers are already alarmed that Trump will deport the labor they need to plant and harvest their crops. Same stupid merry go round of stupid people looking for simplistic solutions to comple issues. If that sounds condescending well get over yourself, it's still the truth.

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