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A few ‘takes’ from recent headlines
- Here’s a simple rule. If you didn’t support Kaep when he protested police brutality at home, then don’t blame LeBron when he doesn’t protest normal policing abroad. Actually, on second thought, don’t blame LeBron at all. He actually puts his money where his mouth is.
- Speaking of China: it’s not just the cars, stupid. It’s the infrastructure.
- Few things move me further into the Tulsi camp than watching her give massive rhetorical body-checks to people who clearly deserve them. Case in point: Hillary Clinton, who should have known better than to comment on the Democratic nomination after having basically tossed the last election – and certainly should have known better than to call one of the trailing candidates a ‘Russian asset’. Congresswoman Gabbard also has repeatedly called the sitting president a ‘bitch’ for supporting Saudi Arabia in Yemen. Again, completely deserved. She’s a jock, but she sure knows how to pick her fights – it’s a pity she doesn’t support Medicare for All as strongly as she might. As it is, I’m still on-the-fence between her and Bernie.
- EDIT (20 Oct 2019): Beto O’Rourke, Andrew Yang and Marianne Williamson, by defending Tulsi Gabbard against the ‘Russian asset’ smear, have proven that they are at least decent human beings, even if I disagree with much of their platforms. If treatment of ‘outsiders’ is a measure of character, then they have proven that they have it. Cory Booker, Kamala Harris and Julián Castro have revealed that they do not.
- A horrific, genocidal Turkish invasion of Syria is probably not the best time to say ‘I told you so’ about the FSA, which is busy carrying out the dirty work of said horrific genocide. But yes: the supporters of Baššâr al-’Asad (even as the least-worst option) have been right about the ‘moderate rebels’, if not from day one then pret-near close to it. The American betrayal went far deeper than Trump’s quasi-pullout, and few people know that now better than the Kurds themselves.
- What the hell kind of country decides it’s a good idea to shoot more whales when vanishingly few people at all, and certainly nobody in their right mind, wants to eat whale meat? Whales are sentient. It’s long past time for the ‘civilised’ world to stop butchering them.
Weirdest thing I've seen is Clintonbot neo-liberal types are defending Hilary's statements as brave. They give convoluted explanation of "russian interference" by creating/supporting 3rd party candidates and weak antagonists in major parties to "control our elections". The level of conspiracy-thinking mentality is off the charts, but normalized to the point you hear this sort of rabid mania on something like NPR.
ReplyDeleteWelcome to the blog, Cal! And you said it. The level of paranoia and conspiratorial thinking at play among Beltway liberals would be laughable, if the stakes for any hope of democratic input weren't so high. Anything that threatens their total control of the political system must be from an outside threat, and right now the most convenient target is Russian "bots" and "trolls" and "assets".
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