Hate Sells category archive
Guilty! Guilty! Guilty! 0
Trials, not to mention convictions, on the charge of seditious conspiracy are rare, but four leaders of the they-call-themselves Proud Boys beat the odds and were found guilty.
At the Inky, Philadelphia activist Gwen Snyder details the years of harassment she has endured from the they-call-themselves Proud Boys. This was how it started; follow the link for full account.
My downstairs neighbor was home, out on our building’s porch for a smoke break. The far-right gang members approached him, demanding to know if I was there.
He didn’t know, he told them. They demanded that he tell me to stop writing about their racist activities and posting members’ names on Twitter. Then they plastered a sticker with their logo onto my front door. They placed more around the neighborhood for good measure.
Image via Balloon-Juice, which has commentary.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
At NJ.com, Lisa Davis takes a deep look at the efforts of Republicans, particularly in the South, to pretend that history isn’t. A snippet.
Read the whole piece for her reasoning.
The Crash the Economy Dummies 0
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s Gene Collier has some questions about today’s Republican Party:
Follow the link for his answer. (Hint: He is less than sanguine.)
Aside:
Today’s Republican Party is a vile and loathsome thing willing to sacrifice the honor and integrity of the nation on the altar of faction.
Self-Implication 0
Florida Man, in his own words . . . .
Decoding de Code 0
The Detroit Free Press’s Keith A. Owens decodes de code of de day: “anti-woke.” The short version: it’s a war against history and fact. Here’s a bit from his article:
The entire piece is worth your while.
Republican Family Values 0
Roy S. Johnson marvels at the petty cruelty directed towards young trans “influencer” Dylan Mulvaney by the party of mean for the sake of mean. A snippet:
I mean, really. Bigots must be out there livin’ large if they have time for this.
A Question of Identification 0
Sam and his crew discuss an exchange between Matt Walsh and a college student who had to unmitigated gall to question him. First, they air the edited version as released the Young America’s Foundation, then a longer version, and critique the differences.
Commentary from the Majority Report’s Youtube page is below the fold.
Twits on Twitter 0
Yet another lying twit careens down the Disinformation Superhighway.
Suffer the Children 0
One more time. That’s not scripture. That’s Republican policy.
A Shot at a Beer 0
We are a society of stupid.
Aside:
I don’t like Bud Light either, but that’s because, as far as I’m concerned, it’s not beer.
Guinness is beer.
Republican Family Values 0
I was not aware that “mean for the sake of mean” was a family value, but apparently it is.
American Establishmentarians 0
A Navy veteran speaks out against what he refers to as Florida Governor DeSantis’s “religious fascism.”
As I mentioned earlier, today’s Republican Party seems not to care much about the United States Constitution, particularly the bit about “make no law respecting an establishment of religion.”
The Twitter Fails 0
Rebecca Watson dissects the deception buried in Elon Musk’s and Matt Taibbi’s “Twitter Files.”
. . . or you can read the transcript.
Parallels 0
Thom discusses how Hitler rose to power by exploiting fear, bigotry, and hatred.
Aside:
Speaking of culture warriors . . . .
This New Gilded Age 0
Michael in Norfolk sums up the strategy. A snippet (emphasis added):
