Here’s another thing of beauty from Ken Burns, a man with an unsurpassed understanding of world history.
Doesn’t the banning of books scare the hell out of anyone who might have read Fahrenheit 451 or 1984?
If left to its own, the censoring of ideas dashes our hopes for a free and sustainable civilization.
It’s no secret that anti-vaxxers are putting everyone else at risk, and here’s someone who’s taking this quite seriously. Good for him.
This type of pressure is the only mechanism that can possibly motivate those who reject science to comply with what it means to be a member of civilized society during a pandemic. Let’s do what the U.S. military has done to protect its 1.3 million active duty personnel: remove those who refuse to be a part of fighting a life-threatening situation.
As we’ve discussed previously, this is representative of how completely stupid almost half this nation is, and how corrupt these congresspeople are.
If you’re wondering why there is massive resistance to vaccinations, climate change mitigation, etc., look no further.
Rand Paul wants campaign donations, writing: I’m officially announcing my campaign for reelection to serve the people of Kentucky – and the whole liberty movement – in the Senate for another term.
What a joke. I guess this hateful, ignorant BS works in KY. Try taking it to a state that isn’t in the bottom five in education/literacy, healthcare, and income.
This is excellent.
Obviously, it could apply to a great number of phenomena in our current world, but the imperative to mitigate climate change comes immediately to mind.
This may be funny, but it’s an imperfect analogy at best. The first two characters are actually damaged by those threats. The third refuses to believe the threat exists.
What Ken Burns says here is spot on.
Accepting the fact that the United States has committed atrocities and continues to perpetuate injustice is something we should all confront and do our best to correct.
I was lucky enough to attend a talk Burns gave a few years ago, and I encourage everyone to try to do the same.
This is kind of funny, but seriously, it’s hard to imagine that this is “a thing” in Canada. We Americans think of Canadians as urbane and genteel folks.
What’s next? Denmark First?
Here’s a meme that, IMO, accurately depicts the GOP platform.
The beauty here, is that if you can keep ’em poor, sick and stupid, you can do whatever else you might like, e.g., repeal regulations that protect the environment. Stressed out people don’t have the emotional (or financial) bandwidth to protest.
Though this agenda would be repulsive beyond words in any other country in the developed world, almost half of Americans eat it up with a spoon.
Of course, actually winning elections with these policies requires making voting difficult for people who may have different thoughts, but that’s part of the agenda as well. Putting people under duress and driving them into apathy has the side benefit of keeping them away from the polls.
It’s one, neat, coherent package of hate and suppression.
Of course. Take the case of Ryan Kelley, pictured on right, who organized militias and stormed the Capitol. Now he’s running for governor of Michigan.
I was about to write a post to the effect that domestic terrorists don’t make good gubernatorial candidates. Then I realized that treason is not the deal-breaker it used to be when Julius and Ethyl Rosenburg died in the electric chair in 1953 for having plotted against the U.S. government.
