Weak men fear strong women

An anguished question from a Trump supporter: ‘Why do liberals think Trump supporters are stupid?’

Peni Delina Bedard · August 31, 2019  ·  The serious answer: Here’s what we really think about Trump supporters - the rich, the poor, the malignant and the innocently well-meaning, the ones who think and the ones who don’t… That when you saw a man who had owned a fraudulent University, intent on scamming poor people, you thought “Fine.” That when you saw a man who had made it his business practice to stiff his creditors, you said, “Okay.” That when you heard him proudly brag about his own history of sexual abuse, you said, “No problem.” That when he made up stories about seeing Muslim-Americans in the thousands cheering the destruction of the World Trade Center, you said, “Not an issue.” That when you saw him brag that he could shoot a man on Fifth Avenue and you wouldn’t care, you chirped, “He sure knows me.” That when you heard him illustrate his own character by telling that cute story about the elderly guest bleeding on the floor at his country club, the story about how he turned his back and how it was all an imposition on him, you said, “That’s cool!” That when you saw him mock the disabled, you thought it was the funniest thing you ever saw. That when you heard him brag that he doesn’t read books, you said, “Well, who has time?” That when the Central Park Five were compensated as innocent men convicted of a crime they didn’t commit, and he angrily said that they should still be in prison, you said, “That makes sense.” That when you heard him tell his supporters to beat up protesters and that he would hire attorneys, you thought, “Yes!” That when you heard him tell one rally to confiscate a man’s coat before throwing him out into the freezing cold, you said, “What a great guy!” That you have watched the parade of neo-Nazis and white supremacists with whom he curries favor, while refusing to condemn outright Nazis, and you have said, “Thumbs up!” That you hear him unable to talk to foreign dignitaries without insulting their countries and demanding that they praise his electoral win, you said, “That’s the way I want my President to be.” That you have watched him remove expertise from all layers of government in favor of people who make money off of eliminating protections in the industries they’re supposed to be regulating and you have said, “What a genius!” That you have heard him continue to profit from his businesses, in part by leveraging his position as President, to the point of overcharging the Secret Service for space in the properties he owns, and you have said, “That’s smart!” That you have heard him say that it was difficult to help Puerto Rico because it was in the middle of water and you have said, “That makes sense.” That you have seen him start fights with every country from Canada to New Zealand while praising Russia and quote, “falling in love” with the dictator of North Korea, and you have said, “That’s statesmanship!” That Trump separated children from their families and put them in cages, managed to lose track of 1500 kids, has opened a tent city incarceration camp in the desert in Texas - he explains that they’re just “animals” - and you say, “Well, OK then.” That you have witnessed all the thousand and one other manifestations of corruption and low moral character and outright animalistic rudeness and contempt for you, the working American voter, and you still show up grinning and wearing your MAGA hats and threatening to beat up anybody who says otherwise. What you don’t get, Trump supporters in 2019, is that succumbing to frustration and thinking of you as stupid may be wrong and unhelpful, but it’s also…hear me…charitable. Because if you’re NOT stupid, we must turn to other explanations, and most of them are less flattering.

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I’m sure I reblogged this before, but it’s well worth reblogging again.

SO WELL SAID! 👍

We don’t think you’re stupid. We think you’re hateful.

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Seven separate women are challenging the @TN.GOP’s extreme abortion law, saying the government ban endangered their health during a non-viable pregnancy.

State lawyers responded saying these women should not even be allowed to file a lawsuit.

Republican men know nothing about women's reproduction. They make these laws knowing women will die.

Women need to vote every one of them out of office.

VOTE BLUE 🌊🌊🌊🌊

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I was watching this video about the usage of tar in history (it’s in Polish and without subs, sorry), and this part spoke to me

These are the people that make Christianity look bad.

would much like  to point out that the people publishing these articles are trying to needle millennials into treating gen z with the same disgusting vitriol we were treated with.

don’t buy it.

our younger brothers and sisters might eat a tide pod and get us blamed for it, but we have more in common with them than we ever had with boomers or gen x.

they are terrified of the things we can do together. remember that.

Generational politics are a trap designed to distract from class inequality

Like a yummy version of jenga

An anguished question from a Trump supporter: ‘Why do liberals think Trump supporters are stupid?’

Peni Delina Bedard · August 31, 2019  ·  The serious answer: Here’s what we really think about Trump supporters - the rich, the poor, the malignant and the innocently well-meaning, the ones who think and the ones who don’t… That when you saw a man who had owned a fraudulent University, intent on scamming poor people, you thought “Fine.” That when you saw a man who had made it his business practice to stiff his creditors, you said, “Okay.” That when you heard him proudly brag about his own history of sexual abuse, you said, “No problem.” That when he made up stories about seeing Muslim-Americans in the thousands cheering the destruction of the World Trade Center, you said, “Not an issue.” That when you saw him brag that he could shoot a man on Fifth Avenue and you wouldn’t care, you chirped, “He sure knows me.” That when you heard him illustrate his own character by telling that cute story about the elderly guest bleeding on the floor at his country club, the story about how he turned his back and how it was all an imposition on him, you said, “That’s cool!” That when you saw him mock the disabled, you thought it was the funniest thing you ever saw. That when you heard him brag that he doesn’t read books, you said, “Well, who has time?” That when the Central Park Five were compensated as innocent men convicted of a crime they didn’t commit, and he angrily said that they should still be in prison, you said, “That makes sense.” That when you heard him tell his supporters to beat up protesters and that he would hire attorneys, you thought, “Yes!” That when you heard him tell one rally to confiscate a man’s coat before throwing him out into the freezing cold, you said, “What a great guy!” That you have watched the parade of neo-Nazis and white supremacists with whom he curries favor, while refusing to condemn outright Nazis, and you have said, “Thumbs up!” That you hear him unable to talk to foreign dignitaries without insulting their countries and demanding that they praise his electoral win, you said, “That’s the way I want my President to be.” That you have watched him remove expertise from all layers of government in favor of people who make money off of eliminating protections in the industries they’re supposed to be regulating and you have said, “What a genius!” That you have heard him continue to profit from his businesses, in part by leveraging his position as President, to the point of overcharging the Secret Service for space in the properties he owns, and you have said, “That’s smart!” That you have heard him say that it was difficult to help Puerto Rico because it was in the middle of water and you have said, “That makes sense.” That you have seen him start fights with every country from Canada to New Zealand while praising Russia and quote, “falling in love” with the dictator of North Korea, and you have said, “That’s statesmanship!” That Trump separated children from their families and put them in cages, managed to lose track of 1500 kids, has opened a tent city incarceration camp in the desert in Texas - he explains that they’re just “animals” - and you say, “Well, OK then.” That you have witnessed all the thousand and one other manifestations of corruption and low moral character and outright animalistic rudeness and contempt for you, the working American voter, and you still show up grinning and wearing your MAGA hats and threatening to beat up anybody who says otherwise. What you don’t get, Trump supporters in 2019, is that succumbing to frustration and thinking of you as stupid may be wrong and unhelpful, but it’s also…hear me…charitable. Because if you’re NOT stupid, we must turn to other explanations, and most of them are less flattering.

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I’m sure I reblogged this before, but it’s well worth reblogging again.

SO WELL SAID! 👍

And they actually met 😭

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/04/09/solar-eclipse-new-york-teacher/

EXCELLENT POINT! What say you, Congressman Troy E. Nehls to Isaiah Martin's point on the tax breaks you consistently vote for giving the super wealthy every advantage they can afford to easily pay for without any tax breaks?

Most American houses won't catch fire. Why should they pay for a fire department? (358 500 home fires per year, 144 000 000 homes in the United States, average fire rate of .0025% fire rate per year). Public goods enrich the community and obviate public harms. Money is not the measure of a community's economy - money is like electrons. It is not powered through the raw number, but through its circulation. If even a fraction of the 1.77 trillion dollars owed in the US was forgiven, that money could be spent in towns, cities, and communities on goods and services.

The people helping to pay for 'someone else's debt' will likely get a substantial amount of that money back as a dividend paid in the circulation of those funds through their economy. Money paid for goods and services, rather than just to the already wealthy in the form of ruinous usury.

While I could wax on about the public good had by having an educated populace (and it's not just the immediately applicable STEM fields - if you enjoyed media in the last ever, many of those actors, writers, directors, animators, and so forth were educated in those roles as well), consider the value of people thinking new thoughts, from which new industry can spring? Consider how many of them are not free to innovate, because they owe debts that require them to work in fields that they weren't even educated in?

Right now, the average taxpayer is seeing money leave their community, and people whose thoughts and labour could benefit their community not able to do so because of it. The economic impact of debt relief is difficult to calculate, but the dividend in terms of economic stimulation is almost guaranteed to go to areas that the current dividends of maintaining an unpayable debt do.

Put simply... if you want your local economy to grow, help your friends and neighbours. And put the opportunity to learn vital skills, knowledge, and opportunities for growth there instead.

Fires SPREAD

Pandemics SPREAD

Poisoned drinking water SPREADS

So many common public ills metastasize as a function of their mere existence; being able to make a profit off of the resultant suffering does not make the suffering a good thing despite what Capitalism™ tells us.

EXCELLENT POINT! What say you, Congressman Troy E. Nehls to Isaiah Martin's point on the tax breaks you consistently vote for giving the super wealthy every advantage they can afford to easily pay for without any tax breaks?

Note to self