2,000 INMATES GLOOMY

I didn’t realize how long the NYT had been like this.

It looks like it would split the Democratic vote too. Which suggests a lot of Democratic voters (like pretty much all Republican voters) don’t have the first clue what’s going on.

Do they realize that without health science there will be no staying alive?

Well yes. I didn’t bring that in but individualism is the propaganda of capitalism, designed to set workers against each other while keeping them preoccupied with “expressing themselves” through consumption. Dress this up as rugged individualism, tell them it’s weakness to need or accept help, add a dash of the American Dream (as you mention), and you get a proudly compliant population who will aggressively resist all attempts to self-organize in their shared interests or redistribute wealth. That’s been the USA at least since Reagan, and probably for most of its history.

Learning the killing doesn’t have to happen is the entire point of socialization, and we just don’t teach that to humans anymore.

We don’t teach it to Americans any more. Some places still understand what society and social responsibility are. But Americans have been subjected to the propaganda of toxic individualism for too long.

I see what you mean, but science is objectively beneficial to a country, no matter what they think. Another way to see your point is that defunding science is only an own goal if Trump means to serve the USA. If he means to serve other interests while enriching himself and keeping popular in the short term, then it’s going according to plan.

40% of Americans would support a party founded by the world’s richest man whose very first instinct when Trump won was to triumphantly perform two Nazi salutes. WTF, USA?

Demanding mass punishment of Jews is a distinctly sub-optimal response to Laura Loomer advocating Nazi genocides.

Jewish people might have learned thatass murder is bad.

Just FYI, you have a typo: “ass murder” instead of “mass murder”. It changes the sense a little.

The USA does have some oil, so what they said is true: by now the USA would be bombing the USA for money freedom.

They stand up for him in the most feeble, token way, once they’re sure it won’t affect the outcome. Then they’ll regretfully run Cuomo.

They used to like to preach about how others should take personal responsibility. But it never rubbed off on them.

And it sounds like mainstream Democrats are aligning with Republicans on this. What a surprise!

MAGA’s razor:

Just assume it’s both malice and stupidity.

Deranged paranoid fascist liar. Loved by tens of millions.

Senior Democrats would much rather have a Republican who serves the rich than a socialist who serves the people.

He is already responsible for dozens of children dying of measles in Samoa, although he won’t admit responsibility.

It doesn’t matter what color someone is, who they fuck, or what God they follow. It doesn’t matter if they’re disabled physically or mentally. Everyone deserves exactly what they need to be on a level playing field with everyone else. Everyone deserves safety, security, and everything they need to survive. Right now, PEOPLE are struggling. Yes, because others choose to degrade them for whatever reason, and we should focus on that, not what they’re being degraded for.

I think if you’re being persecuted daily for being trans, for example, it’s going to be important to you to call out those who attack trans people, and to stick together with other trans people to fight for your rights. Your identity as a trans person is important because it’s their pretext for oppressing you and it’s your solidarity as a community in fighting that oppression you experience together. Sure, in a sense it’s quite right to say “hey, in the end we’re all just people and we should get past all this identity stuff.” But in reality the only people for whom that move is available in a political context are those with the luxury of not being oppressed for who they are.

The White House has framed the upset victory by Mamdani, who could become New York City’s first Muslim and Indian American mayor, as evidence of uncontrolled migration…

And by “uncontrolled migration” they mean “brown people getting uppity and not knowing their place.”

Ideally it wouldn’t matter. But when people are treated badly because they are not white or not cisgender or not straight, identity becomes a necessary and important tool for unity and resistance. Identity is a political thing.