My take: business interests do not in the main care about Pride or DEI. They care about PR.
Among many other domestic terror groups who should be scaring the shit out of us as a nation.
. . . I used to teach this to high school sophomores in World History. To whom is this news?
The motives and politics are absolutely petty. The results are an ongoing nightmare.
"When a hero comes along . . ."
I have a very difficult time imagining an internet that is both interoperable and ranking-free. Now, that having been said, we are well outside my area of expertise here so I'd love to hear from folks who know more than me.
School segregation got reinvented under many other names, including "redlining" and "public housing" and "urban renewal."
The folks in power have numerous strategies available to keep people in their place, as it were.
The loss of public trust in the CDC in particular and public health in general are a huge problem. We'll need a generation or two to fix it.
And where our priorities as a species are when it comes to atrocities like this.
I gotta admit you had me in the first half . . .
I can tell you that an average 2-bedroom apartment was about 600USD when I moved to the city I currenlty live in. Today the cheapest apartment in town is 1300USA/month and getting higher. If I hadn't been lucky enough to buy a house when I did, I couldn't afford to live anymore.
Why do we as a species hate teenage girls so much?