Exponentially more protesters attempted to stop the vandalism than were taking part in it. Property damage was minimal. The restaurants subsequently issued statements saying so and offering their support for the Black Lives Matter movement.

I know because I was on the ground that night covering the protests, unlike Cheong who was tweeting about them from the other side of the planet.

The sad reality is that some people will buy into a story without regard for honesty or facts or the source. They want their beliefs affirmed and they’re prepared to devour any content that confirms their biases.

Charles Koch Attempts an Apology Tour after He and His Father Financed a Political Hate Machine for Six Decades

November 17, 2020November 17, 2020 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

As millions of Americans face eviction, have no money for Christmas presents for their children, food pantry lines stretch for miles, and the COVID-19 crisis escalates across the country, it’s critical to remember the role that Charles Koch has played in turning much of the U.S. into a heartless kleptocracy.

The Nazis were not socialists

October 10, 2020October 10, 2020 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

The Nazis were not socialists

Socialism, for supporters of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party, appeared to substitute Marx’s idea of class war with a race one.

Man tries to claim the Nazis were socialist and gets shut down by a history teacher

THIS IS THE FULL MEMBERSHIP LIST OF THE CHRISTIAN RIGHT’S SECRETIVE AND POWERFUL COUNCIL FOR NATIONAL POLICY

September 3, 2020September 3, 2020 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

THIS IS THE FULL MEMBERSHIP LIST OF THE CHRISTIAN RIGHT’S SECRETIVE AND POWERFUL COUNCIL FOR NATIONAL POLICY

War for Eternity by Benjamin R. Teitelbaum

April 26, 2020April 26, 2020 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

I’m listening to War for Eternity by Benjamin R. Teitelbaum, narrated by Robert Petkoff on my Audible app. Try Audible and get it here: https://www.audible.com/pd?asin=0062978489&source_code=ASSORAP0511160006

How the right is responding to the coronavirus: denial, realism or dangerous contrarianism

April 18, 2020May 4, 2020 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

How the right is responding to the coronavirus: denial, realism or dangerous contrarianism

But there is enough nasty sentiment around to create an opportunity for a third kind of rightwing response to coronavirus.

This response seeks to retool conservatism, reverse liberal internationalism and globalization and use the pandemic as a springboard for global conflict.

Its avatar is Steve Bannon, whose pandemic-focused podcast has been a rightwing standout in a sea of corona content.

[2017] James M. Buchanan: The Architect of the Radical Right

March 3, 2020March 3, 2020 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Either way, the proximate result of Buchanan’s privatizing scheme was to help prolong the stalemate in Virginia. In Prince Edward County, to cite the most egregious example, public schools were padlocked for a full five years. From 1959 to 1964, white children went to tax-subsidized private schools while most black children stayed home—roughly what some politicians had in mind all along. The episode was, among other things, a vivid early instance of the bait and switch, so familiar now, whereby many libertarians seem curiously indifferent to the human cost of their rigid principles, even as they denounce the despotism of all three branches of the federal government.
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