Culture Warriors category archive
It’s All about the Algorithm on the Disinformation Superhighway 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, psychology professor Azadeh Aalai takes a deep look at how and why conspiracy theories and frauds–what she refers to as “scam cutlture”–thrives on the internet. A snippet (emphasis added):
A Notion of Immigrants . . . 0
. . . Meet the privatization scam.
The Conflicted 0
Via the Las Vegas Sun, Anita Chabria argues that MAGA Republicans are facing a quandary.
They are having trouble agreeing about who to hate.
Here’s a brief excerpt (emphasis added); follow the link for context.
It comes amid the first real rebellion about rampant and increasingly open antisemitism within the MAGAverse, creating a massive rift between traditional conservatives and a younger, rabidly anti-Jewish contingent called groypers whose leader, Nick Fuentes, recently posted that he is “team Hitler.”
Turns out, when you cultivate a political movement based on hate, at some point the hate is uncontrollable. In fact, that hate needs to be fed to maintain power — even if it means feasting on its own.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
Writing at The Sacramento Bee, Jonathan van Harmelen hears a rhyme. Here’s one brief couplet (emphasis added):
Follow the link for the rest of the verses.
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*Mark Twain.
American Stasi 0
Apparently, if ICE arrests the wrong persons because of mistaken identity, they just get to keep them anyway, because they can.
Welcome to the rule of lawless.
American Stasi 0
A federal judge calls out the head of the Trump administration’s military occupation of presence in Chicago for lying in court.
Detail at the link.
And, more news of the American Stasi . . . .
Foxy Shady 0
Fox News falls for racist AI slop.
Why am I not surprised that Fox went for this like a dog for a milk bone?
The Rule of Lawless 0
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s Gene Collier finds Doanld Trump’s SNAP decisions somewhat–er–disquieting. Here’s a tiny bit from his article.
Thus the president defies multiple court orders to feed hungry children, or am I oversimplifying?
You have to wonder at this point why the administration even bothers to retain lawyers, to go into courts, to file briefs, to meet deadlines. Under Trump, Trump is the law. Any legal judgment not in his favor is simply ignored.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Michael in Norfolk decodes de code:
The Disinformation Superhighway Meets
Still Rising Again after All These Years
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SFGate’s Drew Magary tried Elon Musk’s Grokipedia, a would-be competitor for Wikipedia.
Republican Thought Police 0
Mary Trump discusses the Trump maladministration’s attempt to you-will-pardon-the-expression whitewash America’s history. She argues that
Donald Trump wants to make history class white again. His regime continues to attack our education system and limit discussions on race, gender, colonialism, AND the Constitution. Especially the limits it outlines on executive power.
Stray Question 0
Am I the only persons who sees not a little irony–if that’s a strong enough term–in Donald Trump’s sudden embrace of establishmentariarism?
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Ronald Brownstein hears a rhyme from the past in the actions of today’s Supreme Supremacist Court. Here’s a snippet from his article:
But, starting in the 1870s, the conservative Supreme Court of that era unraveled those protections in rulings that culminated in the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson decision that upheld “separate but equal” Jim Crow segregation for nearly the next 70 years.
Today’s Supreme Court majority has not matched that nadir. But the conservative majority on the modern court has steadily retrenched the landmark civil rights protections enacted during the 1960s — a period that historians often describe as the nation’s Second Reconstruction.
Going Rogue State 0
“The U.S. has now murdered 57 civilians in attacks on 14 civilian boats,” said Saul in a post on social media on Wednesday. “A systematic attack on civilians is a crime against humanity under international law. When will other governments speak out?” A crime against humanity is considered one of the most serious violations of international human rights law.
Much more at the link.
Aside:
It appears that we no longer have a society,
We seem instead to have a sociopathy,