Posts by brianonbarrington@mastodon.world
(DIR) Post #AUa2DNMRujazvCaG48 by brianonbarrington@mastodon.world
2023-04-12T15:34:15Z
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@aljazeera One of the nice things about Mastodon is there are no Russian troll-bots here to explain why “beheadings are self-defense, NATO’s fault, and yet never really happened in the first place… by the way why aren’t you reporting on this fake story from Russian state propaganda?”
(DIR) Post #AUdokFofpuvSGRAu5A by brianonbarrington@mastodon.world
2023-04-14T11:27:58Z
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@stopgopfox Setting aside the fascist “replacement” rhetoric for a moment, would the good fascist politician explain what he has done to make his state an attractive destination for Americans to move to?
(DIR) Post #AUx9ODCSKkLWrFaZuq by brianonbarrington@mastodon.world
2023-04-23T18:45:29Z
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Another day, another Texas mass shooting with multiple teen victims (9 and counting)https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/04/23/us/texas-shooting-after-prom/index.html
(DIR) Post #AVHy8GyjUwluleWeTw by brianonbarrington@mastodon.world
2023-05-03T20:21:43Z
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@KimPerales On the flip side, it eliminates all leverage that the Rethugs have over PBS in the state. They can only eliminate funding once. When the station survives and then thrives, all relevance for the state government is removed.
(DIR) Post #AVr98hqHsdC0vVJf0a by brianonbarrington@mastodon.world
2023-05-20T19:39:45Z
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@dibi58 Rather, Europeans are providing munitions to a democracy defending itself from an unprovoked war of aggression by a fascist colonialist dictatorship. Good for them.
(DIR) Post #AVr9ekCycRO9WzCp6G by brianonbarrington@mastodon.world
2023-05-20T19:45:45Z
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@KimPerales The "hunting with dogs" thing is a direct reference to slavery, and reminiscing for the days when conservatives claimed to own people.It *always* broils down to a demand for white supremacy with these losers. They know they are stupid, lazy and less than mediocre in most things... the racist dialectic and fantasies of exterminating their enemies are the fantasies they cling to in order to preserve their deluded entitlement.
(DIR) Post #AVrTB7y9i5MfcVQciW by brianonbarrington@mastodon.world
2023-05-04T16:05:02Z
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News Alert: Enrique Tarrio GUILTY of seditious conspiracy against USA, faces up to 20 years in federal prisonhttps://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/proud-boys-seditious-conspiracy-trial-verdict/
(DIR) Post #AVzdTfsKwL0mnSrusK by brianonbarrington@mastodon.world
2023-05-24T19:18:31Z
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@StillIRise1963 @Crystal_Fish_Caves Thank you for saying this. So many people seem oddly ignorant about the fact you just stated. I'd imagine having a typical straight white American man live the life of a Black person, or queer person, or Latino person, would be eye-opening indeed.
(DIR) Post #AVzdTh0AkgsEI3XgjA by brianonbarrington@mastodon.world
2023-05-24T20:26:49Z
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@StillIRise1963 @Crystal_Fish_Caves I have seen affluent white people have a full-blown meltdown temper tantrum over simply being asked to consider whiteness as a form of privilege. I can't imagine what they'd do in the face of being asked to live as a Black person does in our society.
(DIR) Post #AVzdTiGA4jG2Bw1yHw by brianonbarrington@mastodon.world
2023-05-24T20:50:05Z
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@casserolefood @StillIRise1963 @Crystal_Fish_Caves Jane Elliott was my awakening on this. I watched one of her videos when I was still stuck in white fragility 20 years ago. She asks a room full of white people that if they think Black people are equal in society, raise their hands. Most do. Then she asks them to stand up if they would be okay with being treated the way Black people are. None of them stand, and she calls them out on it. That moment was my awakening. I am grateful to her.
(DIR) Post #AVzfTtVGTIwwyHJFDc by brianonbarrington@mastodon.world
2023-05-24T20:33:58Z
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@Crystal_Fish_Caves @StillIRise1963 Another related thought -- America *loved* Nazism in the era leading up to WW 2. American industrialists like Henry Ford wrote antisemitic screeds -- Ford was honored with a Nazi award for his activism. There were numerous "Hitlervilles" in the USA governed by Nazi ideology.And, of course, the Nazis themselves drew on segregationism in the USA to inform the Nuremberg Laws. The only reason we claimed to have rejected Nazism was because the Nazis attacked.
(DIR) Post #AVzfTyNeL2pU66mjXk by brianonbarrington@mastodon.world
2023-05-24T21:08:43Z
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@outeast @Crystal_Fish_Caves @StillIRise1963 Plenty of American "conservatives" react with great enthusiasm to authoritarian ideas from both Nazism and Soviet communism. There was a funny/scary video of a man reading quotes about politics, government and society to a MAGA crowd to rapturous applause and hoots of approval until he revealed that the quotes were from Goebbels, Lenin and Mussolini.
(DIR) Post #AW3RLb8CGzs2wsVdFQ by brianonbarrington@mastodon.world
2023-05-26T17:57:12Z
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@TonyStark Their goal is entirely outcome-based; seize power and use it to impose their authoritarian will on the majority. Until they are permanently banished from politics by voters -- and have their policies totally repealed by a newly elected majoritarian government -- they are viewing themselves as successful... and it is a reasonable view.
(DIR) Post #AWEGfcNltbaCkcbn7I by brianonbarrington@mastodon.world
2023-05-31T23:13:04Z
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@daedalus When the fine is less than the profits made, it's an investment.
(DIR) Post #AWGVP2luPnHvIlNCfg by brianonbarrington@mastodon.world
2023-06-01T23:56:21Z
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@mekkaokereke A significant part of the old boys’ club hates the idea of someone who is so *not* part of the club getting paid well for value delivered. They wish to wrap themselves in the narrative of DEI while remaining closed at the top to people outside of their small affinity groups.
(DIR) Post #AWX49HwGrUbgdJnl20 by brianonbarrington@mastodon.world
2023-06-10T00:58:45Z
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Imagine considering supporting a candidate for high office who is facing over 70 counts of criminal indictments, including spreading top secret military information to unauthorized foreign parties, and thinking “hmmm I am behind this guy.”That is the truly wretched and dismal state of the current Republican Party.
(DIR) Post #AWehDNIaT4U7hZ3XfM by brianonbarrington@mastodon.world
2023-06-13T17:22:38Z
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@KimPerales You know things are pretty desperate when your argument is “but there are 33 bathrooms, that’s real security!”
(DIR) Post #AX0BW6YArTukss8w9A by brianonbarrington@mastodon.world
2023-06-23T22:20:28Z
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We could be seeing the start of a Russian civil war. Prigozhyn’s statements on the war being a “racket to fund the Russian elite” could be an attempt at gaining broader support as well as an exit strategy for Russia should he succeed in taking the Kremlin. This is a very big story and we will see a lot of new info coming out over the next 2 or 3 days.
(DIR) Post #AX0BWADPEdg8FcSPKa by brianonbarrington@mastodon.world
2023-06-23T23:07:31Z
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@SameGirlie @GreenFire Reaction from KGB/FSB HQ: 😱😱😱
(DIR) Post #AX9fuoNSnMvIry900e by brianonbarrington@mastodon.world
2023-06-28T15:58:16Z
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@mekkaokereke Sub-mediocre people like Trump have careers built on the excellence of marginalized people whose ideas and work they appropriate and rebrand as their own.It’s a big feature of western business and the reason why so many everyday people believe that Steve Jobs invented the iPhone and Elon Musk invented the electric car, when in truth neither had any of the technical skills required to do so, and branded the work of others as their own.