Joined this as the welcome stack from paid subscription to Bulwark. Was thinking of upgrading to paid subscription but this helps me make a fast decision to not to. And unsubscribe the free version.
Same. Unsubscribing now. Trying to make people’s utter desperation at top down greed of the gangster insurance industry as a partisan issue stinks to high heaven. I’m out.
I genuinely agree with this but find the way things get called political violence is difficult.
Like I stand against killing insurance executives and Presidential candidates and the messaging that this is the only way. But people stoke stochastic violence against people all the time and it doesn’t get coded as that when someone dehumanizes trans people or Chinese Americans, or immigrants and someone takes it upon themselves to do something about it.
Trying to find consistency on this really is hard. Like people were outraged, and rightly so about protestors following judges home but those same judges found buffer zones to be unconstitutional. Like it would be great to build up civility and private spaces but it often seems a kind of unilateral disarmament.
Weren't we screaming in dismay about Donald Trump's calls to violence a few weeks ago? [big sigh]
I thought Jonah Goldberg also wrote compellingly on this topic.https://thedispatch.activehosted.com/lt.php?x=3DZy~GE6U6LPD577yN~GghJs~q3Ui_f1vu00Y5HJV3KZ650t0Uy.0uRu23Bzj_b3kfYwY6HEJFWh55F
Garbage. Corporations do violence to us every. Fucking. Day.
Joined this as the welcome stack from paid subscription to Bulwark. Was thinking of upgrading to paid subscription but this helps me make a fast decision to not to. And unsubscribe the free version.
Same. Unsubscribing now. Trying to make people’s utter desperation at top down greed of the gangster insurance industry as a partisan issue stinks to high heaven. I’m out.
I’m out.
I genuinely agree with this but find the way things get called political violence is difficult.
Like I stand against killing insurance executives and Presidential candidates and the messaging that this is the only way. But people stoke stochastic violence against people all the time and it doesn’t get coded as that when someone dehumanizes trans people or Chinese Americans, or immigrants and someone takes it upon themselves to do something about it.
Trying to find consistency on this really is hard. Like people were outraged, and rightly so about protestors following judges home but those same judges found buffer zones to be unconstitutional. Like it would be great to build up civility and private spaces but it often seems a kind of unilateral disarmament.
Now do Daniel Penny.
“Now do” is not a litmus test but certainly a tell
Yeah, it's a "tell" you to fuck off with your bootlicking.