Right-wingers are freaking out because a gun-safe manufacturer dared to obey a search warrant and gave up a code to the FBI that granted access to a safe belonging to a Jan 6th rioter. Now they’ve assured people that they will only obey a subpoena and expunge all access codes. Don’t wanna get “canceled!” I thought they were the party of law and order?
People are also getting huffy over political contributions: " The manufacturer’s CEO, Justin Hillenbrand, made political contributions to Obama twice when the Democrat was a first-time presidential nominee in 2008, totaling $4,600, according to Federal Election Commission (FEC) records.
Monomoy founding partner Stephen Presser, who died in March, is listed by the FEC as making countless individual contributions to myriad Democrats, including current Senators Raphael Warnock and Mark Kelly). The company’s max donations over the last 10 election cycles have totaled almost $400,000."
There’s nothing wrong in principle with favoring policies that don’t help you directly. I favor plenty of policies that I am too well off to benefit from because I think they’re the right thing to do.
What sort of twisted moral compass would lead one to believe that the “right thing to do” is to subsidize the rich by fucking over the poor, I cannot say.
They are. They make the laws which they use to order other people to follow. It’s kind of like “other people’s money” but in this case, it’s power over people instead of money.
It’s been almost a year since this thread was active, and I’m going to spend some of my train time over the next 2 days to add to the list. Please help me by adding the FotR which have occurred in the past year.
I’ll start with an easy one:
Taylor Swift is destroying football!
Thank you in advance, and thanks for the suggestions already made.
A Massachusetts bill, which seeks to update state law to redefine who legally qualifies as a parent, passed in the state senate on Thursday and now awaits signature from Democratic Governor Maura Healey to become law.
The Massachusetts Parentage Act aims to ensure “legal parentage equality” for children born to parents “without regard to the marital status, gender, gender identity or sexual orientation of their parents or the circumstances of their birth, including whether they were born as a result of assisted reproduction or surrogacy,” the bill text explains.
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“And they say it’s conservatives who are ‘waging war’ against women: It would also replace the terms ‘man’ & ‘woman’ with ‘persons’ and replace ‘mother’ with ‘person who gave birth,’” author Nancy Pearcey reacted.
“It’s always been about corrupting our language, destroying the family, then taking away our rights & freedoms,” former NCAA swimmer Riley Gaines wrote.
I don’t know if this has gotten widespread enough, but some RWers (headed by Mr. Pillowman) have gotten their panties into a twist over the new Minnesota state flag.
The only whiff of plausibility is that one Islamic symbol is the Rub el Hisb. And you can see that symbol in the flags of some Islamic countries. For example, here is the flag of Azerbaijan.
And here is the new flag of Minnesota.
But it’s not exclusively an Islamic symbol, of course. Here is an older flag of Chile.
Here’s the flag of a German rowing club in Cologne.
And funny enough, this flag was one of the finalists for the new flag of Utah, that bastion of Islam in the United States. Though they ultimately went with a 5-pointed star version:
As usual, just another right wing conspiracy from people looking for the next thing to be outraged about.
It is kinda disgraceful, in addition to all the other ignorant disgracefulness, that those self-identified “proud traditionalist” “American values” types who complain about this star for being “Islamic” can’t recognize a classic Lemoyne Star when they see one (as opposed to the Ohio Star of that Chile flag).
I bet the designer of that Minnesota flag actually researched quilt block star patterns as part of the heritage he was celebrating in the design.
