Glad we’re no longer calling it “empathy fatigue” that’s just one facet of it. “Burn out” is much closer to what it is.
Glad we’re no longer calling it “empathy fatigue” that’s just one facet of it. “Burn out” is much closer to what it is.
The liberal fear of these concepts and fear of showing these beliefs is part of why establishment liberals have become such bad orators and such weak and unconvincing political parties.
These concepts have to be harnessed, that’s just the nature of drawing in the middle of politics.
Politics is a luxury to focus on, there are huge swaths of work a day people who don’t and can’t focus on it. They need certain messages as short hand for doing the “right thing” - that’s just how politics is, not everyone can afford to live with the burden of political awareness, it’s not necessary healthy.
You have to give the devil it’s dues, and do so willingly and happily. That’s just how political campaigns are under this system.
Patriotism and nationalism has zero place in society.
That’s not true, Bernie Sanders campaign had a wonderfully wholesome and inclusive version of patriotism which they used to great effect:.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nwRiuh1Cug
…and he also talks about his nationalism when deriding the Koch brothers:.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vf-k6qOfXz0
So like most things it depends on when AND HOW they’re used.
Trump reads these motown era lyrics written in 1968 about white people at all his rallies… But he says it’s a poem about immigrants. His rallies get very odd near the end, once the parts about Cultural Marxism and liberals destroying America are over, they ramp up this patriotic yet somber background music and he goes into this pre-written speil about how “they said no one can stop the border crisis, I alone was able to do so, when I built that beautiful wall…”
Somewhere before that, often just whenever he notices the crowd feeling low, he reads “the poem” as he calls it.
All his rallies are like this, it’s like a rock concert cult for geriatric lizard people. It’s very odd to watch, even just on YouTube the sense that it’s a weird ceremony or theatre comes through. It’s like something from a movie, or an alternative reality, but the crowd cheers every time:
On her way to work one morning.
Down the path 'longside the lake.
A tender-hearted woman saw a poor half-frozen snake.
His pretty colored skin had been all frosted with the dew.
“Oh well,” she cried, “I’ll take you in and I’ll take care of you”.
She wrapped him up all cozy in a comforter of silk.
And laid him by thе fireside with some honеy and some milk.
She hurried home from work that night, and soon as she arrived.
She found that pretty snake she’d taken in had been revived.
She clutched him to her bosom, “You’re so beautiful,” she cried.
“But if I hadn’t brought you in, by now you might have died”.
She stroked his pretty skin again and kissed and held him tight.
Instead of saying thanks, that snake gave her a vicious bite.
“I saved you,” cried the woman.
“And you’ve bitten me, but why?
And you know your bite is poisonous and now I’m gonna die”.
“Oh shut up, silly woman,” said the reptile with a grin.
“You knew damn well I was a snake before you took me in”.
So in your opinion, did they just reaffirm something like the presumption of innocence but it’s tailored for someone who’s job it is to sometimes order the deaths of people? So he has “The presumption of immunity” when making otherwise illegal orders, until it’s otherwise determined by a court case, or impeachment hearing? Is that what’s going on?
That’s the plan right, that’s part of Project 2025, to instantiate Unitary Executive Theory to make everything they do legal regardless of courts and impeachment trials.
Honestly, the quickest way out is to officially order the summary executions of the judges who established this new immunity - then pass a second law ordering that SCOTUS must always evenly represent all major parties, one out, one in.
Then get new judges in that will reverse the immunity ruling. That way this sort of problem won’t come up again.
Sometimes the tree of liberty needs to be watered with blood. This is may be one of those times.
Biden should just pass an official law that SCOTUS must be evenly split between major parties.
This couldn’t be illegal to do anymore, as Biden will be immune, as it’ll be an official act.
Hot take (not entirely serious):
Now that Presidents can’t be prosecuted for official acts that are crimes, Biden should enact Project 2025 EARLY give himself unitary executive power, and refuse to leave office.
This would either destroy the country, save the country, or force SCOTUS to reconsider their ruling.
Of course he could just deem the imbalance on SCOTUS a threat to national security, and write an official law saying that all major parties must be equally repressented by the judges on there (a one out, one in law).
That would also work, and run less risk of tearing the country apart.
Her father was an Anthropologist, where as she seems to be more of a Sociologist.
They need more Bernies Sanders, AOCs… And that katie person… I forget their last name.
Yep, car batteries are mostly recyclable.
Probably watch youtube because the mass media has been captured by Capitalism and its political forces.
This is definitely a better memory than remembering James Woods was in this scene.
So you’re arguing that misinformation is fair if a campaign has done anything that can be remotely described as damaging (and you refuse to say what they did that was so damaging).
How could Russia harm them by leaking details of things that are not illegal and therefore (purportedly) entirely acceptable?
By including disinformation? It’s a pretty basic concepts, by lying.
From the Guccifer 2.0 Wikipedia page:
Some of the documents “Guccifer 2.0” released to the media appear to be forgeries cobbled together from public information and previous hacks, which had been mixed with disinformation.[9][10][11]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guccifer_2.0
I’m not sure why so many people are reacting like this to my comments. The Republican Senate Committee was able to accept there was a Russian disinfo campaign, not sure why Lemmy thinks that’s all fine and dandy.
What DNC corruption exactly are you referring to?
The corruption of the electronic was done by Russia and the RNC accepting and not reporting foreign election interference. As per:
From the Guccifer 2.0 Wikipedia page:
Some of the documents “Guccifer 2.0” released to the media appear to be forgeries cobbled together from public information and previous hacks, which had been mixed with disinformation.[9][10][11]
From the Guccifer 2.0 Wikipedia page:
Some of the documents “Guccifer 2.0” released to the media appear to be forgeries cobbled together from public information and previous hacks, which had been mixed with disinformation.[9][10][11]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guccifer_2.0
Could you show what specifically was fake?
I’m not an intelligence agent, so no, I can’t tell you what was and wasn’t faked. You would have to look into the various reports and intelligence findings yourself for that info.
It’s from a bit he does about solar powered planes, but everything is old and tired now, so he’s just skipping parts like a broken record, or mentally degenerating flesh monster finally in its dying stages.