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Support the Chomsky et al letter for justice

vendredi 17 juillet 2020 à 02:00

We should support the Chomsky et al letter for justice and open debate regardless of disagreeing with some of the people who signed it.

In other words, if you won't sign a letter whose points you agree with, simply because among the 150 other signatories are a few people that you disagree with passionately on some other specific political questions, you're practicing and fueling the harmful divisive approach of cancellation.

I excoriated J. K. Rowling's unjust lawsuit against readers in 2005, and called for a boycott of Harry Potter in response. She has not apologized so I continue the boycott. Please do not use Harry Potter books or movies (or fan goods) in a way that will give her income.

Nonetheless I am glad that she signed this letter, because her signature will support freedom of speech. I would gladly have signed my name right after hers, despite my disagreement with her on the other issue.

(satire) Baltimore Police Department

vendredi 17 juillet 2020 à 02:00

(satire) *… every member of the Baltimore Police Department was reportedly excitedly volunteering Wednesday to go undercover in a white supremacist group.*

Biden's new climate plan

vendredi 17 juillet 2020 à 02:00

Biden's new climate plan shows that public activism can push him towards doing more for climate defense. We need to push him a lot farther.

The wrecker ordered hospitals to stop sending Covid-19 statistics to the CDC

vendredi 17 juillet 2020 à 02:00

The wrecker has ordered hospitals to stop sending Covid-19 statistics to the CDC and send them instead to a new agency which will keep them secret.

Suggesting that hospitals defy this order.

It would be good if all hospitals did that, but would the CDC accept those data? Even if it did, that doesn't fix this artificial problem. If only some hospitals send data there so, that won't add up to valid statistics about the whole US, or even entire states and cities.

State governments dominated by wreckers are already trying to cover up the extent of spread of Covid-19, and this policy will help them cover up more.

Gross conflict of interest

vendredi 17 juillet 2020 à 02:00

The pertinent inspector general approved a gross conflict of interest by the conman's head of coronavirus task force.

I concur in suspecting that the conman's persistent bulling of inspectors general has intimidated him to back down from his responsibilities. That was surely the intention.

The conman and his family have sunk to promoting companies in exchange for political support.

Who now would dream of making him comply with official ethics rules?

Those rules depended for their force on a system in which corruption was condemned by voters and would terminate a political career. The conman has ripped that up, and that could be the most fundamental damage he has done.