Their continued refusal to acknowledge that it was a crime, and the normalization of criminal conspiracy and use of political violence to chill efforts to hold people accountable... all amounts to organized crime masquerading as legitimate politics
LOL I just remembered that some folks in the anti-covid-vax/maga category have been referring to the mRNA covid vaccines as 'the cancer vaccines' based on disinformation that they would 'interact with your genes' and 'give you cancer in 2 years'
Seeing this headline [Moderna’s mRNA cancer vaccine works even better than thought] I had to look to see if it was the cancer-targeting vaccine or some mouth-breathers talking about the covid ones 😅
It's so frustrating that this sort of drivel ends up being elevated as serious politics.
I mean really, all they've got at this point is fear and anger and reactivity to anything that might be a change, and he's just charismatic enough to play them into wanting him to be their King.
Removal of black history classes completes the erasure of generations of racial terrorism against black people, of course they want that.
A policy of denying racial inequity and preventing the truth from being told about it is the very definition of structural racism.
No, it isn't. That's bullshit, a talking point designed to get you to give up on supporting it politically.
But do you know what would help it in actuarial terms? 2 things:
raise the federal minimum wage
remove the cap on income subject to the social security tax
When suppressing wages became a bipartisan affair, it hurt Social Security just as much as it did workers on the low end of the wage scale.
Iranian teen ~~injured on Tehran Metro while not wearing a headscarf has died, state media says~~ was murdered for not wearing headscarf but AP can't quite bring itself to call it murder
Fixed it
Translation: "we did the thing you suspect so don't investigate pretty plz"
It's wild to me that public resources like water are given, not sold, to corporations like Nestle- who then go on to lobby for less public spending on water systems, and who mass-produce those shitty bottles that end up everywhere.
Charge them royalties for taking water from springs, make it cheaper for nestle to buy water from a utility.
"Lady sobs because she imagined things that don't happen"
This kind of performative rhetoric, invented to assign wicked or demonic qualities to your scapegoat, is not a new thing. It's just a retread of the blood libel, the red scare, the lavender panic, reefer madness, and today's bathroom panics. All of them were lies told to justify violence and the criminalization of things that could be used to persecute their targets.
It's cute how if Ukraine fights back that risks nuclear war, but when Russia invades a sovereign country it doesn't
I'm gonna go with: don't send cops on welfare checks. Send somebody competent to respond to mental health challenges, preferably someone not wearing a police uniform (after all, at this point a lot of folks think "unaccountable killer" when they see that uniform and there's honestly reason for that).