Politics 2021

[Buster's Uncle]

If no random events trigger -never a great bet- beyond the cat's medical needs this afternoon, I've just given up on my daily routine for the moment -it's a stage I go through as I enter manic and start accreting projects- and may, tonight, get around to the old man's sons breaking sticks, Rome, Mussolini, and how those all come together.

[Geo]

You should adjust your custom title: "through fair elections, I"

[Buster's Uncle]

So let it be written; so let it be done.

Edit: done w/ a copy-paste, 'cept for capitalizing.  There's an idea there for a dumb fun forum game; Write Buncle's New Custom Title.

[Buster's Uncle]

Random events did trigger and it's Draz' fault.  The cat took a lot longer than I'd hoped, too.  Useful forum business that doesn't show yet, however, has been conducted.

[DrazharLn]

I think this article by Glenn Greenwald (bigshot journalist, lawyer, activist, broke the Snowden story) is a really good perspective on the dangers of what looks to be a new domestic war on terror in the USA. https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-new-domestic-war-on-terror-is

It's easy, even over the pond in Europe, to be carried along by the massive propaganda machine of US politics and I find it refreshing that Greenwald never seems to be sucked in and consistently advocates for a truly liberal platform (I think he is a libertarian socialist), and against both ruling-class parties.

[Buster's Uncle]

Liberals Screaming on Twitter swear up and down that he is basically at least fash-curious.  I've seen a lot quoted that sounded very bad...

[DrazharLn]

I haven't personally seen anything awful from him, and I think it's pretty unlikely given that his husband is a socialist politician. I think lots of people get upset with him because he is a very big fan of free speech and because he hates the Democrats almost as much as he hates the Republicans.

More recently, people got upset with him because he kept pointing out the flimsiness of the Russia conspiracies, but I think he's right there, too.

[Buster's Uncle]

I do not just trust the LSoTs, and simply do not know enough for myself to want to defend that hill.

I do not, though, hate the Democrats NEARLY as much, and that there's some of that freakin' bothsidesism that's undermining decency and civilization by normalizing Big Lies and actual Fascism you may have heard about going on.  There is simply no comparison.  Keith Obberman used to call it 'false moral equivalency' before both-sides caught on - the former being even more on the nose/apt, if not as pithy.

-Posted from the https, and let's see if it's marked unread or I can go strait to bed.

[Buster's Uncle]

Somebody had to post that he's gone in 45 minutes.

You realize we sorta don't HAVE a president for a few minutes between noon and however long the oaths take?

[Buster's Uncle]

God Bless America.

[Geo]

Somebody had to post that he's gone in 45 minutes.

You realize we sorta don't HAVE a president for a few minutes between noon and however long the oaths take?

Do you mean to say there's a lull in responsability to handle the contents of the nuclear football? 

[Buster's Uncle]

I don't know if I'm wrong about past times, but the President was sworn in well before noon.  My mistake.

He still wasn't actually legally president until Noon.  Constitution.

[Geo]

It figures.
Well, the deed is done. Best of luck with the present one.

[Buster's Uncle]

God Bless America.

[DrazharLn]

I think Biden is just another representative for the ruling classes and government establishment. I think he will undo only the most blatant injustices added by [Sleezebag] and do very little about the long-standing issues, but I would love to be proven wrong and see him adopt more of Bernie's platform.

Without that, the USA will almost certainly remain a disgrace in terms of greenhouse gas emissions per capita, criminal justice, and economic equality. For climate, especially, there is very little time left in which to change path. The pussyfooting gradualism and empty rhetoric of the Obama era won't be enough to achieve anything of note there.