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DareToEatAPeach

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I'm Karma: Word wrangler, spin doctor, agitator. I'm all about books, street art, politics, writing, web design & your new favorite band. Mod for San Francisco Writers Conference Discord, web mistress cwc-berkeley.org. Writing a memoir, like everyone else.

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DareToEatAPeach @karmabennett.com · May 19

My publishing starter pack is nearly full...that means it's time to expand my lists. I never start with enough lists and have to go back and add people I already follow. If that's you, ping me about a list of mine you should be on. For now here's the starter pack.
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DareToEatAPeach @karmabennett.com · 1d

These Americans feel it's an insult to Jewish history to use that term if the camps aren't explicitly death camps. They are wrong, not you. But we should not be debating "are they death camps?" That framing positions all concentration camps as death camps. Which is historically inaccurate.

DareToEatAPeach @karmabennett.com · 1d

Even the people I'm referring to don't feel that way. They feel like we are different and better because actual Nazis declare the death camps as a matter of policy. They feel like our camps will be better run and not devolve into death camps.

DareToEatAPeach @karmabennett.com · 1d

I don't think that at all, which is why i regret that you took offense. You are making this about you, as if my intent was to judge you. That was never the case. I feel like you're not taking my point because you're on the defense.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 1d

Read more about our upcoming Trapper Keeper-inspired issue over at @sfgate.com

www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/a...

Award-winning SF magazine goes all in on '80s and '90s nostalgia

The award-winning publication spent years on the design.

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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 1d

Well, an acquaintance who relies on the ACA marketplace for insurance just received a notice explaining that their fee for coverage will be rising. Right now they pay $180 a month. The new price?

$2733.15 a month.

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DareToEatAPeach @karmabennett.com · 1d

No. I'm saying that making "they kill people" the standard of badness is not a high enough standard.

Concentration camp has *always* been a euphemism. They've *always* lied about the conditions. Americans don't understand that, so they use death camp as the standard to be avoided. Not good enough.

DareToEatAPeach @karmabennett.com · 2d

It seems like people in DC could stand outside of Mike's house and wherever he goes and play videos of such incidents on repeat. And others could video tape him texting to said videos, as proof that he had finally seen them.

DareToEatAPeach @karmabennett.com · 2d

Looks like we can dust off all the "papers please" comics from WWII, and retire all the jokes about how Americans were above such abuses of human rights.

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DareToEatAPeach @karmabennett.com · 2d

I appreciate that we are on the same side here and regret if you took my criticism for judgment. I think it's so important that we emphasize that these are concentration camps regardless of whether they are death camps.

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DareToEatAPeach @karmabennett.com · 2d

We can't have evidence that it is a death camp yet because it's not yet built. Debating the point cedes ground to those who still think it's not a concentration camp. Rather we need to emphasize that these are the same old arguments always used to justify interments.

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DareToEatAPeach @karmabennett.com · 3d

Image source: subversas.com/are-detainme...

Quote is from this article, which every American should read slate.com/news-and-pol...

Image of quote: As one of the few journalists permitted to tour the government’s new internment camp, about 40 miles from the southern border, the New York Times correspondent tried to be scrupulously fair. Forcing civilians to live behind barbed wire and armed guards was surely inhumane, and there was little shelter from the blazing summer heat. But on the other hand, the barracks were “clean as a whistle.” Detainees lazed in the grass, played chess, and swam in a makeshift pool. There were even workshops for arts and crafts, where good work could earn an “extra allotment of bread.” True, there had been some clashes in the camp’s first days—and officials, the reporter noted, had not allowed him to visit the disciplinary cells. But all in all, the correspondent noted in his July 1933 article, life at Dachau, the first concentration camp in Nazi Germany, had “settled into the organized routine of any penal institution.” from Jonathan M Katz’s article in Salon, “Not Every Concentration Camp is Auschwitz”

DareToEatAPeach @karmabennett.com · 3d

Image source: subversas.com/are-detainme...

Quote is from this article, which every American should read slate.com/news-and-pol...

Are the American Immigrant Detainment Centers Concentration Camps?

What Is a Concentration Camp? Most dictionaries define “concentration camp” as a space for separating a politically undesirable group, usually with degraded living conditions. In this sense, the terms...

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DareToEatAPeach @karmabennett.com · 3d

NY Times, history repeating.

DareToEatAPeach @karmabennett.com · 3d

Concentration camps have a history beyond the Nazi death camps, and even those weren't started as such. We need to push back on the idea that every concentration camp is a death camp. That implies it's ok if camps are *only* for neglect and slavery. This is horrible even in the best-case scenario.

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DareToEatAPeach @karmabennett.com · 4d

It's as if conservatives see military expenditures as jobs programs--clutching pearls, what will become of the soldiers if we cut the military--but can't apply that same logic to *anything* else.

DareToEatAPeach @karmabennett.com · 4d

Fantastic point.

It's wild how conservatives understand the need for economic growth but fail to connect how reducing government programs is a contracting of same economy.

Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 5d

Not only is it going to be a hunger crisis, it's going to be a farm crisis. All those gallons of milk bought from dairy farmers, all the produce, all the on sale ground beef and packs of chicken that are paid for by SNAP are subsidies to farmers who don't qualify for commodities subsidies.

Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 5d

DareToEatAPeach @karmabennett.com · 4d

I don't know much about the Torah but i know way too much about Tarot. Under all the medieval Catholic art and the astrological symbols, the basic card meanings come down to numerology, and that numerology is based on the Tree of Life from Jewish mysticism.

So yeah, it's Torah 🐢 all the way down.

DareToEatAPeach @karmabennett.com · 5d

Just gonna drop this into your algorithm

open.substack.com/pub/strangep...

An Anti-Algorithm Media Compendium for Literary Folks

Our ultimate guide to short fiction, essays, cinema, music, magazines, newsletters, podcasts & long-form video | PART 1

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DareToEatAPeach @karmabennett.com · 5d

No Imax is filmed on different cameras such that it fills the entire field of view. I don't like it because I don't care for stuff happening in my peripheral vision. Also harder to get a good seat, always feel too close or too far.

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DareToEatAPeach @karmabennett.com · 7d

Next time a rural conservative complains to you about the dangers of #SanFrancisco tell them Berkshire Hathaway disagrees. www.ktvu.com/news/bay-are...

San Francisco named among the safest cities in the world

A new survey names this Bay Area city, targeted by Donald Trump as a crime-ridden "mess," among the safest in the world for travelers.

www.ktvu.com

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DareToEatAPeach @karmabennett.com · 8d

A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn

DareToEatAPeach @karmabennett.com · 8d

Oh wow this for me too, so many years ago. And shortly after Emma Goldman's autobiography.

DareToEatAPeach @karmabennett.com · 8d

This looks not quite as miffed as you sound. I wonder what Ed sounds like when he's not mad as hell at LLMs. Maybe quite sweet and sonorous when ordering tea. Can we get tipsy titillated unperturbed Ed some day?

DareToEatAPeach @karmabennett.com · 8d

I tracked a lot of those job losses. Papers seldom cut sports section so at some they'd have 3 editors for amateur sports but like "call Jim for movies, music, gardening, opera, books." As if the guy into tulips and opera was also best to pick album of the year.

Aaron Cynic @aaroncynic.bsky.social · 8d

Also each one of these was its own full-time job that you made a living off of. You could just...do that one job and pay the rent/bills. You weren't going to get rich, but you didn't have to have one or two (or more) extra side gigs just to meet basic expenses.

Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 8d

I think a lot about how most big-city newspapers used to have a a couple of movie critics, a theater critic, a few book critics, an architecture critic, a music critic or two, an in-house cartoonist, at least two or three foreign correspondents, a fashion writer, and a whole staff of photographers

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DareToEatAPeach @karmabennett.com · 9d

Contemplative reading for our next expedition 😂 @harlinhayley.bsky.social