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What is Woke? Depends on Who You Are Asking

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Thu, 14/11/2024 - 01:28
What is Woke? Depends on Who You Are Asking

Simple question for you, what is woke?

To liberals woke equates with the advencement of and/or equality of people of color.

To the vast majority of conservatives–but not all–woke is a dogwhistle, hell, it’s probably a straight out whistle about the transgender ‘agenda.’

Although the media will probably never report how much influence all the transgender scaremongering had over the election–I imagine it had a material impact.

The entire transgeder issue is the ultimate in idenity politics failure.

Laughing No More

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Thu, 14/11/2024 - 01:00
Mr. Insecurity picks a Fox News host for SecDef Donald Trump proved critics right again on Tuesday. All this time I thought one of strongest motivators for Donald (Mr. Insecurity) Trump’s was to get the world to stop “laughing at us” (him). It’s considered one of the reasons he ran for president after sitting through some skillful mocking at the 2011 White House Correspondents’ Dinner. “Saturday Night Live” comedian Seth Meyers and President Obama (Did you know he’s Black?) both roasted Trump as unserious. “Donald Trump has been saying he will run for president as a Republican — which is surprising, since I just assumed he was running as a joke,” Meyers jabbed as Trump sat stone-faced. “That evening of public abasement, rather than sending Mr. Trump away, accelerated his ferocious efforts to gain stature within the political world,” wrote Maggie Haberman and Alexander Burns after the 2016 Super Tuesday primaries. “And it captured the degree to which Mr.

Rules for Our Cranberry Bog

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Thu, 14/11/2024 - 00:00

Tired of apple picking and morally opposed to pumpkin patches? Welcome to our cranberry bog.

Founded in 1616 and then founded again in 2017, Giving Thanks Cranberry Bog is a family-owned and -operated bog. Located in the Midwest region of the Northeast, our bog offers an array of beloved bog-based activities for friends, bachelorette parties, and children of divorce.

Cranberry collection takes place daily from sunrise to sundown. But after 4 p.m., the bog is adults only, as the cranberries start to ferment. Thursday is Ladies’ Night. Sunday mornings, we’re closed to dredge the bog.

You must be vaccinated against hepatitis and leptospirosis. The rats use the bog as their bathroom. The city forced us to deal with our large predator problem, but we’re left with a surplus of rats. You want one?

No Band-Aids. No recent wounds or diarrhea. No history of broken bones. (Like dolphins, cranberries are sensitive to that sort of thing.) No visible moles. That has nothing to do with health codes; we just don’t like how they look.

If This Is Not Genocide, What Is?

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Wed, 13/11/2024 - 23:52

Since the onset of Israel’s exterminationist war on the people of Gaza thirteen months ago, Francesca Albanese, United Nations Special Rapporteur for the Occupied Palestinian Territories, has acquired international renown as a public chronicler, legal anatomist, and political opponent of genocide. Appointed to the role in May 2022 — the month Israeli forces assassinated Palestinian-American […]

Nonbank lenders as global shock absorbers

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Wed, 13/11/2024 - 20:00
David Elliott, Ralf Meisenzahl and José-Luis Peydró Capital flows and credit growth are strongly correlated across countries. Macroeconomic evidence suggests that this ‘global financial cycle’ is largely driven by US monetary policy: expansionary policy by the Federal Reserve drives increases in lending globally, while contractionary Fed policy leads to a tightening of global financial conditions. … Continue reading Nonbank lenders as global shock absorbers →

if you ate a red grapefruit thank RADIATION

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Wed, 13/11/2024 - 19:00
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Moving to Canada (not)

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Wed, 13/11/2024 - 16:15
After Trump’s second election victory, lots of Americans are talking about emigrating, most commonly to Canada. This happens with every rightwing election win[1], but nothing ever comes of it. With the real prospect of indefinite Trumpist rule, the issues are more serious, but it seems unlikely that much will happen. But why not? It’s fairly […]

“A deep bench of idiots, freaks and wannabe tough guys…”

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Wed, 13/11/2024 - 11:30
John Oliver on Trump’s cabinet short list: Talk of who will fill President-elect Donald J. Trump’s new Cabinet has already inspired rampant speculation, and a chart of potential picks from CNN revealed “a deep bench of idiots, freaks and wannabe tough guys,” according to John Oliver. “That chart f—ing sucks,” The Last Week Tonight host said Sunday. “It looks like a ‘choose your fighter’ screen where the only thing they’re fighting is the arc of the moral universe. It looks like an advent calendar where every circle opens up to a tiny piece of literal shit. It looks like a game board for Guess Who? Oops! All a–holes.” No doubt about it. I totally identify with this rant by Oliver. No it is not easier. It’s horrible:

A five-minute scroll

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Wed, 13/11/2024 - 10:18
British surgeon Nizam Mamode describes how Israel’s quadcopters target children and Norwegian physician, Dr. Mads Gilbert speaks out on 400 days of genocide. Israel, meanwhile, has passed laws allowing children under under the age of 14 to be jailed. Sarah Schwartz of the Jewish Council of Australia speaks out on the false reporting of weekend Continue reading »

Wait For The Data

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Wed, 13/11/2024 - 10:00
I don’t think people realize that exit polls are just polls. They’re good, as polls go, because they ask a lot of people what they think and what they voted for on the day of the election. But it takes several months for the numbers crunchers to adjust and analyse the data alongside the actual results and it is often substantially different than what we thought on the morning after the election. Anyway, Ryan Cooper at the American Prospect suggests that we put our hair shirts in the closet for the time being and deal with the fact that half of the American public has no idea what they’re in for: Now that Donald Trump has won, again, a furious debate on the left side of the political spectrum has erupted, as Democratic Party factions jostle for position by casting blame on everyone but themselves. For my part, while I can’t help but have some suspicions, it will be six months before we have detailed data on where demographics actually landed, and at time of writing California is not even done counting. Any serious conclusions are premature at this point.