Thomas
@thomasratliff.bsky.social
Oklahoma goes to DC! Feminist Leftist working in service of and community with the unhoused.
I was an outsider to journalism when I first became part of a "newsroom". So I was a little shocked to see good journalists working at our leftist alt-news outlet citing NYT and WaPo as good standards. Then I realized they just hadn't been exposed to much besides the NYT-FoxNews false dichotomy.
January 4, 2025 at 11:17 PM
I was an outsider to journalism when I first became part of a "newsroom". So I was a little shocked to see good journalists working at our leftist alt-news outlet citing NYT and WaPo as good standards. Then I realized they just hadn't been exposed to much besides the NYT-FoxNews false dichotomy.
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Been sharing this a bunch, seems relative. Half of your net income on dubious insurance claims is sinister
December 4, 2024 at 5:09 PM
Been sharing this a bunch, seems relative. Half of your net income on dubious insurance claims is sinister
Yes! This is the obvious alternative explanation when some well-meaner starts explainering all the "wealth generated" by the "geniuses" of US industry post-WW2.
"You mean, after that moment when the US dressed itself in the dying husk of western European colonial exploitation of the global south??"
"You mean, after that moment when the US dressed itself in the dying husk of western European colonial exploitation of the global south??"
November 30, 2024 at 7:34 PM
Yes! This is the obvious alternative explanation when some well-meaner starts explainering all the "wealth generated" by the "geniuses" of US industry post-WW2.
"You mean, after that moment when the US dressed itself in the dying husk of western European colonial exploitation of the global south??"
"You mean, after that moment when the US dressed itself in the dying husk of western European colonial exploitation of the global south??"
I like you already!
But I don't know that this is so cut and dry. Animals and plants are quite prone to selfish violence.
Yes, there's also cooperation in nature! Tho still often in service of meeting material needs. I wish humans were innately good, but I don't think it's true.
But I don't know that this is so cut and dry. Animals and plants are quite prone to selfish violence.
Yes, there's also cooperation in nature! Tho still often in service of meeting material needs. I wish humans were innately good, but I don't think it's true.
November 29, 2024 at 10:56 PM
I like you already!
But I don't know that this is so cut and dry. Animals and plants are quite prone to selfish violence.
Yes, there's also cooperation in nature! Tho still often in service of meeting material needs. I wish humans were innately good, but I don't think it's true.
But I don't know that this is so cut and dry. Animals and plants are quite prone to selfish violence.
Yes, there's also cooperation in nature! Tho still often in service of meeting material needs. I wish humans were innately good, but I don't think it's true.
But of course. Since far Left analysis (materialist, feminist, anti-racist, anti-colonial, queer) is the most salient analysis of power structures humans have yet devised.
November 29, 2024 at 6:06 PM
But of course. Since far Left analysis (materialist, feminist, anti-racist, anti-colonial, queer) is the most salient analysis of power structures humans have yet devised.
US Leftists particularly suffer this fate since US capitalism prefers any other part of the spectrum of perspectives (center left, center right, far right) to the far Left, and thus excludes those perspectives above all others.
November 29, 2024 at 6:04 PM
US Leftists particularly suffer this fate since US capitalism prefers any other part of the spectrum of perspectives (center left, center right, far right) to the far Left, and thus excludes those perspectives above all others.
Right on! And often people who are saying *But what about..." have been watching the bigger discourse, as driven by forces more powerful than they are, distraught over certain terrible under-covered concerns.
November 29, 2024 at 6:02 PM
Right on! And often people who are saying *But what about..." have been watching the bigger discourse, as driven by forces more powerful than they are, distraught over certain terrible under-covered concerns.
We've mastered suspending a life in a state of hellish prison, often for decades, instead of hellishly ending it.
November 29, 2024 at 4:38 PM
We've mastered suspending a life in a state of hellish prison, often for decades, instead of hellishly ending it.
Worrying about Whataboutism is making the claim that the person who brought up the topic gets to keep the conversation on that topic just because it was the first topic brought up.
Fine in a structured debate, totally irrational in a conversational space.
Fine in a structured debate, totally irrational in a conversational space.
November 29, 2024 at 4:35 PM
Worrying about Whataboutism is making the claim that the person who brought up the topic gets to keep the conversation on that topic just because it was the first topic brought up.
Fine in a structured debate, totally irrational in a conversational space.
Fine in a structured debate, totally irrational in a conversational space.
November 29, 2024 at 3:33 PM
This is an especially valid argumentative mode when the whatabouter has less power than the initial statement maker. It still has that ad hominem quality in that it questions whether the initial statement maker is choosing what to focus the debate on poorly. But that can be quite useful to question!
November 29, 2024 at 3:25 PM
This is an especially valid argumentative mode when the whatabouter has less power than the initial statement maker. It still has that ad hominem quality in that it questions whether the initial statement maker is choosing what to focus the debate on poorly. But that can be quite useful to question!