Coming February 6, 2024 . . .
MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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Coming February 6, 2024 . . . MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE by Michael Wolraich Pre-order at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop |
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by artappraiser on Sat, 08/01/2020 - 11:55pm
17k's tiny for Berlin
3.8m population + Potsdam, etc
by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 08/02/2020 - 6:29am
A big number for super spreading, though, certainly beats Trump Tulsa rally.
by artappraiser on Sun, 08/02/2020 - 4:09pm
by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 08/02/2020 - 4:49pm
Dugnab: Norway's social pact
https://blog.usejournal.com/one-word-spared-norway-from-covid-19-disaste...
by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 08/04/2020 - 11:26am
This is exactly what disturbs me the most about divisive protests at this time. Short term supportive peaceful marches were more than fine, they were non-threatening expressions of solidarity. But revolutionary tribal "us. vs. them" encampments are the last thing we need right now much less street attacks on popularly elected local governments, commonly owned property and street fighting.
While the overall attitude of the no mask protest in Germany contradicts "dugnab" it at least seemed a quite peaceful march, at least they weren't causing individual angry ruckuses like is common elsewhere. Feel the same way about pro-BLM, anti-police protesting.
Continuing to have even peaceful daytime marches after initial "message heard and received" though, is stretching it. Especially as there is the more powerful internet to agitate and organize for change.
I don't like the idea of employees we all pay for having to be pulled away to crowd control duties and cleanup when there's a pandemic going on. If it's important to do your protest during a pandemic you can at least do it in daytime and not make it a night after night noisy party or street fighting for months.
Still, no matter how it's done, the mere fact of doing it suggests your protesting takes priority over the pandemic that threatens us all.
Rather than blocking traffic how about getting into expediting essential services everyone needs? It's really that simple. Are the current protesters helping out at food banks the rest of the time?
by artappraiser on Tue, 08/04/2020 - 1:31pm
The opposite of dugnab is tribalism without any common goal: my interests are more important than yours, fuck your burned down barn, my barn and land are more important than yours. Viruses have always loved that about us, that people won't stay home from work or play when they are sick.
by artappraiser on Tue, 08/04/2020 - 1:35pm
We have Norway next to Sweden next to Germany, et al, all taking very different approaches, but largely accepting fuckups and successes, Sweden's deaths being the most problematic. But they're all competent efforts, within margins of choice. The UK Is just Incompetence.
by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 08/04/2020 - 2:37pm
Lockdown in Victoria:
by artappraiser on Wed, 08/05/2020 - 1:37am