dansezlajavanaise @dansezlajavanaise@wonkodon.com

The issue isn't just that football is a violent sport. Many sports are violent.

The issue isn't just that there was an on-field heart attack. Happens. More and more since Covid. People confuse "Omicron doesn't attack the lungs as much" with "Omicron is mild."

The issue is the callous indifference that the mostly Black players are handled with.

The most dangerous form of football in terms of fatalities is college spring football. So called "strength and conditioning" coaches work kids to death

Normalizing prison rape is rape apology.

Rape is wrong, and shouldn't be normalized, even if it happens to the worst posible person.

Rape joke are a normalization of rape.

@QasimRashid the federal governement needs to stop handing out #corporate #welfare without giant strings attached.

@QasimRashid
Stock buybacks ought to be illegal (as they were pre-Reagan)

Stock buybacks after a gov handout ought to be an immediate jail term.

@rysiek @mhoye There are period and fertility trackers that people were using online. Then Roe got overturned. That info was never anyone else's business, but now that it could be weaponized against people in many states, nobody should be able to access it without an individual's express, unpressured permission.

If, as conspiracists claim, there is a secret cabal of globalist new world order illuminati who clandestinely control everything, I’d just like to say they’re doing a fucking terrible job of it.

Instead of: no one wants to work anymore. Try: no one wants to be exploited anymore.

“Did you know that of $100 spent in a chain store, only $13 stays in the local economy? Of $100 spent at a locally owned store, $48 stays in the local economy.” A reminder of just one of many reasons to #ShopLocal as you do your last-minute #Christmas shopping. Especially when you support your local downtowns and main streets.
HT @JasonThorne.

#MerryChristmas #gifts #shopping #economy #MainStreet #Downtown #Hamilton

... who should & shouldn't be allowed to vote, who is or isn't going to hell, who is or isn't fully human ...

... but his kids must nonetheless smile, treat him with respect, and hand their impressionable children over to him. Hey, they're just "political opinions."

...it speaks to features of the reactionary personality. Grandpa should be able to opine freely on which groups do & don't deserve basic rights, which bits of science are & aren't valid, whether half the human species should be allowed to control their own reproductive systems...

This is a famous political definition of conservatism:

"Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: there must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."

But I also think ...

@dansezlajavanaise @libertybella Quoting posts

This holiday season Twitter fires 4K workers, Amazon fires 10K workers, & Facebook fires 11K workers—all while US Billionaire pandemic wealth increased an absurd $1.7T.😳

A reminder that billionaires don’t create jobs—they exploit workers. Tax billionaires. Unionize workers.
#twitter

Always good to remind yourself where you are.

Jerry Blackwell - Special Prosecutor Who Helped Secure Conviction of #DerekChauvin for the murder of #GeorgeFloyd Sworn In as Federal Judge #BlackMastodon #Law

https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/special-prosecutor-who-helped-secure-conviction-of-derek-chauvin-sworn-in-as-federal-judge/

Washington Post will be creating their own instance. They will add #mastodon accounts to journalist profiles.

Institutional #journalism embracing the #fediverse is important.

#commodon #journodon @communicationscholars

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