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MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
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Interesting movement. Twitter feed here
Couple of recent tweets:
Every human being has inherent dignity and inherent worth. https://t.co/h3MnkAhUnG
— Vote Common Good (@VoteCommon) September 15, 2018
“It’s important for people to know that being religious doesn’t always equal being conservative,” says @GinaOrtizJones, a Democrat running to flip a red Texas district. https://t.co/VdyxMUect4
— Elizabeth Dias (@elizabethjdias) September 14, 2018
The intra-Palestinian meeting in Moscow has precedent
— Hanna Notte (@HannaNotte) February 29, 2024
Russia's hosted such meetings in the past, most recently Feb 2019
Russia has long lamented the US' "monopolization" of the peace process & tried to carve out a niche for itself: mediating among the disunited Palestinians/2
Here's what I told them: https://halginsberg.com/vote-for-jill-stein-again/
Controversial Brazil law curbing Indigenous rights comes into force https://t.co/pCoDg05irX
— Gareth Harris (@garethharr) December 28, 2023
Location: U.S. Embassy and residential compounds
Events: Heavy gunfire is occuring around the area of the U.S. Embassy and residential compounds adjacent to the Trutier area of Tabarre. All Embassy personnel have been instructed to remain indoors and shelter-in-place until further notice. All others should avoid the area.
Actions to take:
- Avoid the area;
- Avoid demonstrations and any large gatherings of people;
- Do not attempt to drive through roadblocks; and
- If you encounter a roadblock, turn around and get to a safe area.
By The Editorial Board @ Bloomberg.com, December 8, 2023
A mass expulsion of Afghan migrants could destabilize the region and fuel radicalization. The West should pressure Islamabad to change course.
All eyes on #Chad right now
Chad has two internet trunks coming into the country: One from the Red Sea via Sudan; the other from Cameroon. Not possible for the totality of the country's internet network to be shut unless done centrally. A lot of rumors swirling; few facts. https://t.co/N6bDJZ2ixO
BREAKING: Three loss prevention employees in Macy’s across the street from Philadelphia City Hall stabbed, one of them has died from stab wounds, @PhillyPolice sources tell me. Police converged on the store as the three workers were rushed to Jefferson Hospital. pic.twitter.com/4U1eKycL4W
Former US Ambassador Arrested, Charged With Working As Secret Agent For Cuba https://t.co/LDwo4ZJI1K
— HuffPost (@HuffPost) December 4, 2023
[Chapter I news is HERE, Oct. 7 til today]
You don’t get it.
— George Deek (@GeorgeDeek) December 2, 2023
It’s not about an UNRWA teacher who held an Israeli kid hostage in his house.
It’s all about how for 75 years you have destroyed the future of generations of Palestinians, including my family.
My cousins in Arab countries are still not citizens - not even the… https://t.co/nv6anubGhc
Note 'Community Notes' attached to UNWRA's statement.
Imperialism for me but not for thee?
It's wild that Venezuela is now holding a vote on whether 2/3 of Guyana actually belongs to them! Analysts suggest that Modoru may want military action to pump up his sinking popularity.
Could we have a war in South America?!?
"The people who live in Essequibo are largely… pic.twitter.com/QvMEjkkgwy
The lack of a cohesive delegation has allowed attention-seeking lawmakers to act on their own.
McCarthy: “You have [Rep. Matt] Gaetz, who belongs in jail…”
Gaetz: “Tough words from a guy who sucker punches people in the back. The only assault I committed was against Kevin’s fragile ego.”https://t.co/LctPuz6Pcf
By Martinn Pengelly in Washington DC for TheGuardian.com, Nov. 30
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tells Ryan Grim life in Congress ‘completely transformed’ after Democratic leader stepped down
"Both the AU and the intl community place more weight on whether elections are held than whether they are free and fair. Sanctions/expulsions occur when there is a coup but not necessarily when elections are rigged or if an “institutional coup” occurs." https://t.co/m9dNimJP0D
— Cameron Hudson (@_hudsonc) November 28, 2023
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Comments
this is an interesting one, too:
by artappraiser on Sun, 09/16/2018 - 2:49am
by Peter (not verified) on Sun, 09/16/2018 - 10:25am
Peter, how do you define "commie".
Jesus certainly said to take care of the poor & crippled and diseased & weak, to love one another, to turn the other cheek, "as you do to the least of my brethren you do to me", and noted that wealth & worldly things is an impediment to what heaven gives.
Jesus' passing out the loaves and fishes was an inspiration for this selfless sharing among brothers & sisters.
His fasting was seen as breaking the want of even food, to focus on more important ideals.
One of the Temptations was to be worshiped as the greatest of all time, the vanity of fame, and he resisted that.
He turned over the tables at the market that signified using holy property for crass merchandising.
He was approachable by all, did not pull rank over the sinners and lepers and whores.
He was into forgiveness and openness.
I don't know what you got out of the Bible, but think twice before you go on one of your larks on this topic.
by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 09/16/2018 - 10:39am
by Peter (not verified) on Mon, 09/17/2018 - 10:26am
Don't be an idiot. Extreme center? Woot! If there's a god, he/she/it's prolly is on everyone's side, and there are no Stalinists in America so STFU. Youre just throwing out a bunch of shit disturbing words with no meaning because youre a provocative asshole.
by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 09/17/2018 - 11:43am
The idiotic agitprop, it's such a mystery why. It's like a comic or rapper who is super lousy and keeps trying despite audiences full of boos.
by artappraiser on Mon, 09/17/2018 - 12:02pm
Trump’s Evangelicals are comfortable with working for a racist and excusing kidnapping babies. It is hard to tell the difference between Trump Evangelicals and heathens.
by rmrd0000 on Sun, 09/16/2018 - 10:59am
The Trump disciples who comprise the Republican Base:
by NCD on Sun, 09/16/2018 - 11:52am
The “Common Good” means ignoring the concerns of black voters
The common good is a practice that ignores black voters.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/black-voters-are-so-loyal-that-their-issues-get-ignored/
by rmrd0000 on Sun, 09/16/2018 - 12:02pm
If you believe that The “Common Good” means ignoring the concerns of black voters, you might as well start work on your own country right now that doesn't allow anyone but blacks, because "the common good" is the basic principle of democracy.
Must mean that the blacks that are advertised to be speakers and musicians at the tour events and have put their faces on the Twitter page, according to rmrd, they are traitors to what he calls "the black community"?
For everyone else, from the NYTimes article, their current goal:
by artappraiser on Sun, 09/16/2018 - 12:42pm
p.s. repeating a comment I put on rmrd's "Identity Politics" post, no need to get into theory and principles, really, there's the urgency of reality:
you need to identify this, let it sink in real good:
and do look at all the states on Nate's graph. These Common Good people are doing a really smart thing, really smart. All they have to do is turn just a few.
by artappraiser on Sun, 09/16/2018 - 12:53pm
The reason Abrams and Gillum won Gubernatorial races was that they rejected.outreach to Republicans
Abrams opponent lost because she was trying to attract Republican voters. Abrams focused on the base and Independents.
The Democratic base is agreeing with the need for identity politics
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/02/democrats-are-changing-thei...
by rmrd0000 on Sun, 09/16/2018 - 2:15pm
by artappraiser on Sun, 09/16/2018 - 1:43pm
Made me think of Doonesbury yesterday: http://doonesbury.washingtonpost.com/strip/archive/2018/9/16
by AmericanDreamer on Mon, 09/17/2018 - 12:11pm
hah, yeah, makes me think the human race may not survive everyone creating their own vocabulary after they get done creating their own narrative...
by artappraiser on Mon, 09/17/2018 - 12:22pm
by artappraiser on Mon, 09/17/2018 - 3:18pm
by artappraiser on Mon, 09/17/2018 - 3:54pm
Here's hoping they flush the scoundrel Ted Cruz. Go Beto.
by AmericanDreamer on Tue, 09/18/2018 - 10:19am
Yeah, cross fingers. People forget Texas has not always been the right-wing conservative Republican state it is branded as by many now. For example, there was Ann Richards as governor followed by George W. Bush, who only pandered to the right wing while complaining about them behind their backs.
by artappraiser on Tue, 09/18/2018 - 5:48pm
Yes, it's possible for things to change very quickly. I'm not making a prediction. I don't know how it will turn out. But not just Texas, remember just 10 years ago democrats had 60 votes in the senate. Anything is possible.
by ocean-kat on Tue, 09/18/2018 - 6:48pm
I see from recent polls Cruz is ahead something like 9 points, but that is a quite doable margin when you've got momentum like O'Rourke has at this point in time, and given that they are going to have debates--if I recall reading that correctly. Which brings me back to the post topic, mho, all he has to do in debates to avoid reversing momentum is "common good, common good, common good". And let Cruz pander, as he has been doing, to old timey rural tribe, with anti-elite anti-urban tropes like coastals eating soy barbecue. Even Trump MAGA is not that troglodyte, this is after all the birthplace of Tex Mex cuisine, most people, even in Texas don't eat just meat and potatoes any more.
Sure wouldn't want to have a beer with Cruz?
by artappraiser on Tue, 09/18/2018 - 10:23pm
on the local level:
by artappraiser on Wed, 09/19/2018 - 8:15pm
smart guy:
“Don’t weaponize race,” Gillum warned over the weekend.
by artappraiser on Thu, 09/20/2018 - 1:47pm
This is not a “both sides do it issue” This is Republicans launching racist attacks. A column in the WaPo asks why white racists feel so comfortable in the GOP
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2018/09/20/why-do-all-...
There is nothing that Gillum can do about the racism in the GOP. The Republicans allow these people into their ranks. They are now reaping the whirlwind.
by rmrd0000 on Thu, 09/20/2018 - 2:35pm
that's because he's smart enough to not take the bait coming from trolls, unlike you and your tribal buddies who would prefer to eat it all up and fight them damn racists, ramp it up, have another civil war, splinter the country to death, have racial sectors, all because of Trump trolling. Hate begets hate, even phony troll hate, eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind.
by artappraiser on Thu, 09/20/2018 - 10:03pm
Reality check:
I, along with my tribe, am making comments online in a blog post. The tribe plans to combat the white supremacists (aka GOP) by voting in November. We call racists exactly what they are. Regarding a possible Civil War, it will be the white supremacists who start shooting. Georgia Gubernatorial candidate held a campaign event where white supremacists showed up and yelled at female veterans. One of the men is a former felon who called for killing black women and children on sight. These are thugs. So far, no one has been hurt, but these thugs are ready to do physical harm. There is nothing that either Gillum or Abrams can do in these situations. The violence is completely in the hands of the white suprmacists.
https://www.theroot.com/shoot-them-on-sight-stacey-abrams-campaign-haras...
Lives are in jeopardy and you are telling those under attack to be calm. You have no plan to offer true aid.I view your position as akin to a person at a BBQ who sees a house on fire and begins arguing about the potato salad. This is where the nonsense spouted by Fukuyama, Appiah, and Williams leads you. You see the racist attacks and your advice is to ignore them. The best approach is to shine the light at the roaches and let them scatter. We need to name the supremacists and publicly shame them. We need to tie these evil people to the party that let them into their ranks, the Republicans. White supremacists don’t need identity politics to hate and do harm. What will you say when someone is hurt because we ignored the thugs?
by rmrd0000 on Thu, 09/20/2018 - 10:50pm
Don't know that I agree 100% with this, but it is worth a read and a thought or two about new possible "common good" coalitions:
by artappraiser on Thu, 09/20/2018 - 11:48pm
Somehow growing up Sunday School was more important than the big preacher lecture in the main chapel, the little circle where we actually talked about stuff.
Meanwhile my school is planning its reunion next month and no one has bothered to talk to me in the 5 months since they figured out where I was - high school trends continue. (Let me guess that I won't get 65 girls to defend me againste rhose axe murder charges, but it is mildly amusing to see the ole gang yuck it up like back in the cafeteria)
Long way of saying yeah, maybe church balances school. Waiting for the Mean Girls/Heathers rebuttal.
by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 09/21/2018 - 1:20am
Joshua Johnson of NPR, his 1A site based @ Washington DC's WAMU:
by artappraiser on Sat, 09/22/2018 - 2:13pm
looking hopeful, some indicators that some "common good" voting rather than partisanship might happen:
by artappraiser on Sat, 09/22/2018 - 2:20pm
empty dupe due to code problem
by artappraiser on Sat, 09/22/2018 - 2:33pm
The tribalism vs. globalism generation gap in the UK, a picture worth a thousand words:
by artappraiser on Sat, 09/22/2018 - 2:33pm
Identity Politics Does Not Continue the Work of the Civil Rights Movements
By Helen Pluckrose & James A. Lindsay @ Aero Magazine, Sept. 25
by artappraiser on Sun, 09/30/2018 - 6:38pm
by artappraiser on Sun, 09/30/2018 - 6:41pm
I don't really see either BLM or MeToo as "identity politics" - they're movements by victims of murder/violence and rape/subsequent harassment & job discrimination. Sure, the crime victims in each have a certain M.O., but to me it's not "oh, let's sympathize with blacks and women" so much as "hey, let's help this huge number of crime victims". If Parkland High were an all black or all female school, it wouldn't much change the anti-gun response.
by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 02/17/2019 - 12:59pm
From special IDENTITY CRISIS issue of Spiked Review, September 27- 28, 2018.
[Spiked is a publication centered in London, England. From their about us page: Launched in December 2015 and edited by Tim Black, the spiked review is dedicated to the long-form – the essay, the interview and the in-depth review. It aims to provide a vital space for some of the most interesting minds out there to give full vent to their ideas and insights.The spiked review is nothing without the intellectual verve of its contributors. They all share a common commitment: to shed light.]
My problem with black identity; Remi Adekoya on the danger of racial politics.
By Remi Adekoya
Racism fatigue. Is it time to turn away from raciology?
By Diran Adebayo
‘We need to think of ourselves as Americans’ Sheri Berman on how identity politics harms democracy.
By Shari Berman
by artappraiser on Sun, 09/30/2018 - 7:17pm
A reminder that Russian trolls goal is to stoke Identity Politics in order to get Americans to distrust and fear one another. We know that trolls on social media are trying to sow discord. Here is a visual guide to their strategy. Emma Cott/The New York Times
by artappraiser on Sun, 09/30/2018 - 7:38pm
The identity politics argument boils down to what ethnic minorities have to do in order to receive empathy from the white majority.This seems to be about respectable Negro 2.0. While a subset of people focus on identity politics, a majority of the country realizes that Donald Trump as encouraging white nationalists, a much bigger problem
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/401779-poll-majority-of-amer...
The push for civil rights continues unabated.
Black women are running for office in record numbers
https://www.essence.com/festival/2018-essence-festival/luvvie-ajayi-blac...
Work is being done to energize black voters
http://time.com/5389711/black-women-voters-2018-midterms/
Work is being done to combat voter suppression
https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/how-to-fight-voter-suppr...
https://www.lwv.org/voting-rights/fighting-voter-suppression
I don’t see evidence that the push for civil rights is being hampered by individual discussions about identity politics.
by rmrd0000 on Sun, 09/30/2018 - 7:58pm
How is it you can't realize that you're part of the subset that focuses on identity politics.
by ocean-kat on Sun, 09/30/2018 - 8:12pm
I never said that I did not see identity politics as a necessity. I see white supremacy as the big danger. I think Trump encourages racists. I see the ink wasted criticizing identity politics is a diversion. The reason that blacks, Latinos, Asians, women, and LGBT organize is that they are combating white supremacy.
I separate white supremacy from being another form of identity politics because I see it as the reason marginalized people have to organize. I also see white supremacy as intransigent whereas subsets of Identity politics groups can work together.
by rmrd0000 on Sun, 09/30/2018 - 8:59pm
Chinese Supremacy has 1 million Uighurs in lockup and buying/building a global network of dual use naval ports. What's whitey got?
Kinda like when people say it was a mistake to give guns and stingers to the Mujahadeen who brought the $600 billion a year Soviet army to its knees - cuz like right, who controls Kabul is more important than nukes and tanks and the Iron Curtain in Europe.
Perspective, buddy - take a breath. Even those white supremacists are held in chec by a ton more white & other non-supremacists. If nothing else, enjoy global warming which will burn all of them up.
by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 02/17/2019 - 1:21am
Whitey has a white supremacist in the White House with support of 40% per 538. Whitey has a rigged judicial system.
The idea of identity politics began with the idea that groups who were marginalized by society and fought for their rights would also fight for the rights of others. The Combahee River Collective, where the phrase originated said the following:
https://newrepublic.com/article/144739/liberals-get-wrong-identity-politics
Identity politics from marginalized groups would led to freedom for others. White identity politics is selfish.
Martin Luther King Jr. described how fighting for rights for lack people directly led for fighting for the rights of others.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/martin-luther-kings-powerful-defense-of-identity-politics-from-birmingham-jail
Try something as simple as removing symbols of white supremacy like Confederate statues and flags and watch the backlash. Take a knee to protest police violence and watch it turn into an assault on the military. Whitey is doing okay.
by rmrd0000 on Sun, 02/17/2019 - 8:51am
Screaming that everyone of one majority race is responsible for the actions of a small subset with the same color of skin = brilliant tactic to get their votes, doh, why didn't anyone think of it?
by artappraiser on Sun, 02/17/2019 - 12:02pm
The Democrats are focusing on so-called identity politics. The Democrats won seats in the House.
Ralph Northam is beginning his healing tour at Virginia Union this week. It is going to be all about white privilege. He will explain how he has black friends but didn’t know blackface was bad until he became governor.
by rmrd0000 on Sun, 02/17/2019 - 11:05pm
Right, they won over all those white suburban women with Republican husbands that gave them the House with identity politics: NOT.
by artappraiser on Mon, 02/18/2019 - 1:29am
The important thing is that the democrats did it by expanding the numbers of suburban women who voted. None of them were Trump voters that flipped to democrats because anyone who voted for Trump is irredeemably racist and it's a waste of time to try to get them to flip.
by ocean-kat on Mon, 02/18/2019 - 12:13pm
And what's more, I bet they are the type that is excited about pure candidates who don't have any nasty photos in their college yearbooks and can really talk the talk about white privilege. Bet they don't care about silly things like health care, local schools and the cost of college, but care about hashing out what's really important: who has been the most victimized in this country's history. Which Trump has laid bare by taking to Identity Politics wholeheartedly. Let the discourse begin, in every campaign: we come last because we have white privilege! Whoever says that gets their vote! (Also, they want some socialism if it can be fit in...)
by artappraiser on Mon, 02/18/2019 - 12:53pm
More seriously, after seeing this reminder, comes to mind if you are smitten with and absolutely have to do Identity Politics of some kind, the suburban swings tribe really seems to be where it's at for the foreseeable future in the national races:
by artappraiser on Mon, 02/18/2019 - 3:20pm
C-SPAN had separate segments featuring Fukuyama and Appiah. Both men had little to offer regarding solutions to what they see is a major problem.
by rmrd0000 on Sun, 09/30/2018 - 8:49pm
A pastor simpatico with "common good" movement just got a MacArthur genius grant:
William J. Barber II, 55, pastor and social justice advocate
"Building broad-based fusion coalitions as part of a moral movement to confront racial and economic inequality."
by artappraiser on Thu, 10/04/2018 - 5:09pm
by artappraiser on Sat, 02/16/2019 - 8:22pm
Edit to add: not that I agree with him in any way that professional basketball well serves the metaphor he is using it for.
by artappraiser on Sun, 02/17/2019 - 3:49pm
People keep talking about voting for the common good but that seems to be a rather low bar. We have corporations who are working not just for the common good but going above and beyond. Our government can do better!.
by ocean-kat on Sun, 02/17/2019 - 5:37pm
All depends on what your definition of "uncommon" is.
by artappraiser on Sun, 02/17/2019 - 7:59pm
Tribalist Identity Politics vs. the common good in Britain:what Suzanne Moore says in this piece @ The Guardian "Are the Gang of Seven Right to Split from Labour?":
by artappraiser on Mon, 02/18/2019 - 1:11pm
Bad media, bad questions, bad media. Might as well bring back O'Reilly to ask about Merry Christmas vs. Happy Holidays:
Just say no to culture wars. Or perhaps this commenter says it best:
by artappraiser on Mon, 02/18/2019 - 8:27pm
The ultimate anti-tribal "common good" guy liberal:
by artappraiser on Sun, 03/17/2019 - 4:10pm
ancient words of wisdom:
Schol. bT ad Il. 9.63
“Athemistios: like wild beasts, lawless, the way the Kyklopes distribute laws to only their children and wives—they preserve what is just for those related to them."
ἀθέμιστος: θηριώδης, ἄνομος, ὅπου καὶ Κύκλωπες θεμιστεύουσι „παίδων ἠδ’ ἀλόχων” (ι 115), οἱονεὶ τὸ περὶ τὴν συγγένειαν φυλάσσουσι δίκαιον.
Zenobius, 3.77
“In a time of civil strife, even a complete bastard gets ahead”
᾿Εν δὲ διχοστασίῃ καὶ ὁ πάγκακοςε τιμῆς ἔμμορ
by artappraiser on Mon, 09/30/2019 - 4:54pm