It's always so easy to blame women, isn't it?

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@serendip1959 Thanks for explaining. I totally agree.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@NJWookie So say all the journalists who want to maintain that ONLY the Democrats are guilty of engaging in identity politics while the Trump campaign just flooded airwaves with ads attacking trans Americans.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@Badger_AF Indeed. They must have a whole list of heartland diners compiled by now.

[voline@kolektiva.social]

@wdlindsy @inthehands
You figure it out, Blue Maga. I'm done with liberal apologists for the Dem party establishment. Using representation politics as a shield for neoliberal economics and genocide is only tainting anti-racism with the rot.

[pettet50@mastodon.social]

@wdlindsy which is only 30% of the USA eligible voters choose for Donnie.. the other 70% of the USA folks don't want the person.

[mastopoet@h-net.social]

@wdlindsy @chiraag

Neoliberalism is often associated with a set of economic liberalization policies, including privatization, deregulation, consumer choice, globalization, free trade, monetarism, austerity, and reductions in government spending.

[mugsysrapsheet@mastodon.social]

@wdlindsy
One of T****'s nominees for Director Homeland Security said over the weekend that we can avoid "Family Separation" when we #deport "illegals" with citizen family members by simply deporting the entire family.

This will require ignoring the #14thAmendment.

And THEN… once they do that & get away with it… they'll just start ignoring EVERY inconvenient Constitutional Amendment and get away with it b/c you'll no longer be able to #impeach or even INVESTIGATE a sitting president. #Fascism

[remittancegirl@mstdn.social]

@wdlindsy

This kind of pisses me off a little, because there were a shit ton of us to didn't fail to see all this.

And, as much as I respect him, Timothy Snyder is still on X

How does he fail to see that feeding the Musk fascist machine with his content is giving it the veneer of sane discourse?

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@MugsysRapSheet Thank you for these valuable comments.

[phaedral@mastodon.social]

@wdlindsy Reagan broke American journalism by getting the Fairness Doctrine repealed. The current administration is the beneficiary, not the causal agent.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@phaedral Thank you. A good historical reminder.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@Remittancegirl Thanks for making those good points. I myself made the choice to exit Twitter the day Musk took it over, and I have to say, I remain disappointed in the many people I respect who choose to remain there and feed the Musk fascist machine.

[remittancegirl@mstdn.social]

@wdlindsy

It just strikes me as kind of hypocritical.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@Mastopoet @chiraag Thank you. Yes, I know very well what neoliberalism is and what it stands for, and I have long been highly critical of the neoliberal project.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@Pettet50 I'm still looking at the 74,000,000 figure and at Trump winning the popular vote and don't intend to take my eyes off these facts.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@Remittancegirl I do find it disappointing.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@Voline @inthehands Sorry, but when people choose to descend to the level of personal insult and hateful taunts here, I stop engaging them and I mute them. Hope you'll understand.

[remittancegirl@mstdn.social]

@wdlindsy Me too.

There are quite a few of them. And I admire their writing and their ideas, but there remaining on X and contributing to the content generated on the platform kind of jars with their critiques of a lot of things.

[mugsysrapsheet@mastodon.social]

@wdlindsy
HERE'S ANOTHER (disturbing) THOUGHT:

If a sitting Potus can't be #impeached for ANY reason (including violating the #Constitution), what's to stop #OrangeHitler from dumping #Vance (before Vance "25th's" him) and appoint NON-citizen #Musk to the Vice Presidency?

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@MugsysRapSheet With no guardrails, above all at the level of the Supreme Court, I think all kinds of heinous things are now possible.