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Bernardo de La Paz
Bernardo de La Paz's Journal
Bernardo de La Paz's Journal
July 28, 2020
For example, it is used to get Republicon votes from "poor white trash" by encouraging them to look down on people of colour through Republicon terminology such as "welfare queens".
The latest reincarnation of racism is tRump "Law and Order" campaign complete with secret police assault and battery on peaceful protesters. Combine that with "all lives matter" (but masks don't) plus the attacks on "socialism" and it can be seen as a pattern of division along class and "race" lines.
Race does not exist. Racism does.
Class does not exist in the white America myth. Classism does exist in everyday practice.
For example, restricting availability of women's health services to locations that require driving to or day long bus travel is classism that has racist effects.
Racism is magnified & enabled by classism everywhere, but especially in America
For example, it is used to get Republicon votes from "poor white trash" by encouraging them to look down on people of colour through Republicon terminology such as "welfare queens".
The latest reincarnation of racism is tRump "Law and Order" campaign complete with secret police assault and battery on peaceful protesters. Combine that with "all lives matter" (but masks don't) plus the attacks on "socialism" and it can be seen as a pattern of division along class and "race" lines.
Race does not exist. Racism does.
Class does not exist in the white America myth. Classism does exist in everyday practice.
For example, restricting availability of women's health services to locations that require driving to or day long bus travel is classism that has racist effects.
July 21, 2020
Oh, yeah, hypocrisy and being afraid.
You would think that when they are constantly protesting against masks and gun control on the basis that it is TYRANNY! that they would be against unidentified people in military gear snatching citizens (CITIZENS!) off streets and stuffing them into unmarked vehicles.
But no.
Somehow masks are tyranny but government disappearing citizens is not tyranny.
Why aren't all the militias & "patriots" literally up in arms against Feds kidnapping people?
Oh, yeah, hypocrisy and being afraid.
You would think that when they are constantly protesting against masks and gun control on the basis that it is TYRANNY! that they would be against unidentified people in military gear snatching citizens (CITIZENS!) off streets and stuffing them into unmarked vehicles.
But no.
Somehow masks are tyranny but government disappearing citizens is not tyranny.
July 6, 2020
* End voter suppression
* National standards for access
* - sufficient polling stations
* - vote by mail
* - no onerous voter ID
* End gerrymandering: independent commissions
* Any reduction of big money would be good
* Real efforts to combat foreign interference
* Real ways to fight fake info with real info
Need to support voting rights at the state level through federal action wherever possible.
Ideally, get rid of the Electoral College, but that would require a Constitutional Amendment.
Note: The Voting Rights Act of 1965 did not require an Amendment.
Number one must be electoral reform. Ability to do everything else FLOWS from that.
* End voter suppression
* National standards for access
* - sufficient polling stations
* - vote by mail
* - no onerous voter ID
* End gerrymandering: independent commissions
* Any reduction of big money would be good
* Real efforts to combat foreign interference
* Real ways to fight fake info with real info
Need to support voting rights at the state level through federal action wherever possible.
Ideally, get rid of the Electoral College, but that would require a Constitutional Amendment.
Note: The Voting Rights Act of 1965 did not require an Amendment.
July 4, 2020
And that USA is like an elephant sleeping beside the mouse.
But the economies analogy is only applicable to that, and, seemingly not the last two times, and not to the pandemic. Canada weathered the Great Recession of 2008-9 better than the US, with less public debt. And economically, Canada is doing reasonably well this time around so-far.
As to the meth lab, yeah tRump is breaking bad and has been broken and breaking bad all his life.
Re pandemic, see chart below. Yeah it feels like we had a bit of a bender for two months but rehab is working.
However, the US is like a whole apartment block full of meth heads and a huge dirt cheap batch landed in the courtyard last month.
Yup, these days. Also it is said of economies, America catches a cold Canada gets pneumonia.
And that USA is like an elephant sleeping beside the mouse.
But the economies analogy is only applicable to that, and, seemingly not the last two times, and not to the pandemic. Canada weathered the Great Recession of 2008-9 better than the US, with less public debt. And economically, Canada is doing reasonably well this time around so-far.
As to the meth lab, yeah tRump is breaking bad and has been broken and breaking bad all his life.
Re pandemic, see chart below. Yeah it feels like we had a bit of a bender for two months but rehab is working.
However, the US is like a whole apartment block full of meth heads and a huge dirt cheap batch landed in the courtyard last month.
July 4, 2020
One is per detected cases. That what is usually meant when death rate is discussed.
The other is your figure which is per actual cases. It is the more desirable figure to know but at this point it is inscrutable. The ratio of true cases to known cases varies from time to time and from place to place. It is only estimable after the fact and even then will have bounds of uncertainty around it.
The problem is that the per-actual adds another layer of uncertainty onto the detected figure (which has uncertainty) which is based on an already clouded official death count. A triple layer or triple cloud of uncertainty makes the final figure effectively meaningless.
That is not to deny the OPost figure, is it. There are two death rates.
One is per detected cases. That what is usually meant when death rate is discussed.
The other is your figure which is per actual cases. It is the more desirable figure to know but at this point it is inscrutable. The ratio of true cases to known cases varies from time to time and from place to place. It is only estimable after the fact and even then will have bounds of uncertainty around it.
The problem is that the per-actual adds another layer of uncertainty onto the detected figure (which has uncertainty) which is based on an already clouded official death count. A triple layer or triple cloud of uncertainty makes the final figure effectively meaningless.
July 4, 2020
... I think they will spend a longer time in the wilderness and have a tremendous amount of soul searching to do.
All their tropes and memes and slogans will have reduced power for years to come.
Chances are fairly good that if the Democrats govern well and navigate some tricky waters (climate change, China, fixing wealth & income disparity), then they are likely to have the Presidency for 12 or 16 years.
Perhaps the biggest agenda item will be to reform elections, campaigning and voting to greatly reduce trickery and gerrymandering and voter suppression. It can be done and must be done. That will go along way to tilt power away from Republicons and make the votes more reflective of true demographics.
Yes, I have not thought the looming debacle would end the Repubs but I think they
... I think they will spend a longer time in the wilderness and have a tremendous amount of soul searching to do.
All their tropes and memes and slogans will have reduced power for years to come.
Chances are fairly good that if the Democrats govern well and navigate some tricky waters (climate change, China, fixing wealth & income disparity), then they are likely to have the Presidency for 12 or 16 years.
Perhaps the biggest agenda item will be to reform elections, campaigning and voting to greatly reduce trickery and gerrymandering and voter suppression. It can be done and must be done. That will go along way to tilt power away from Republicons and make the votes more reflective of true demographics.
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