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“You are entitled to your own opinion, but you are not entitled to your own facts.β President Barak Obama quoting former Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan.
When I first heard Obama’s quote, I thought Yes, exactly, you Republicans should quit making stuff up, but the more I look at the acrimony between Americans on the Left and Americans on the Right, the less I think that disagreeing about the facts is the issue. Except, of course, for the extremes, like the far-left wackos who believe that contrails are actually a conspiracy to spray chemicals over the landscape or the far-right wackos who believe Hillary ran a child sex ring out of a pizza parlor basement. Both the Fox News and the New York Times acknowledge that there has been looting at some BLM demonstrations and some police violence but they don’t agree on the importance of either one. Fox News tended to highlight the looting and the New York Times tended to play it down. Both sides agree that protesters have torn down statues on public property but New York Times articles usually have language like controversial statues while Fox News uses language like American monuments, memorials, and statues.
The amount of space and location of specific news on the Fox website is different than on the New York Times website but the facts are pretty much the same. Neither the New York Times nor Fox News is lying as much as curating their version of the news. Everybody knows that Donald Trump cheated with Stormy Daniels while his third wife was pregnant, what value you put on that as to Trump’s ability to run the government or his morality depends on where you are on the right-left scale and that assigned value is often flexible. For example, I think it is pretty easy to make the case that President Bill Clinton having oral sex with an infatuated young woman in the White House is more of a moral transgression than civilian Donald Trump having sex with a Porn Star while in Los Angeles, but I can’t think of anybody on the left who thinks Trump is more moral than Bill Clinton.
But, the Russian Bounty for dead Americans is different in two ways. It is not a morally relative position, politically, at least. It can only be defended against by saying it didn’t happen. Both sides do agree that there are reports of Russians paying bounties to kill Americans but they disagree as to the veracity of those reports. The main headline in the New York Times a couple of days ago wasΒ Suspicions of Russian Bounties Were Bolstered by Data on Financial Transfers while a corresponding headline at Fox News was News that Moscow allegedly offered bounties to Afghan militants who killed U.S. soldiers was first reported over the weekend in the New York Times. However, Fox News did sort of hide the report, I had to click on two links to get to it, buried in the story about the Biden news conference. It was also referenced negatively by Rep. Jim Banks in a clearly marked editorial: Russian bounties to Taliban story may be putting US lives at risk β here’s how. BTW, that editorial was below the fold – so to speak – and below DISTURBING VIDEO: NYC thief chokes, robs woman in broad daylight and American gymnast reveals struggle with body image after 2008 Olympics. Fox News clearly did not want to talk about Russians paying boundaries for killing American troops. As an aside for anybody who is wondering, The New York Times did not have either the disturbing video or the story of the Olympian’s body image. End aside.
To back up for a second, several months ago I got in a conversation with a couple of friends – I don’t remember who – about what would happen if President Trump lost the election and refused to leave office. Maybe President Trump would say that there was massive voter cheating to justify it or something else, but either way, he wouldn’t leave. One of us said something like, “It depends on which side the Army is on” (using Army generically I think). I got a chill just thinking about it, that feeling that we really have become a Banana Republic. But I think it is true if Trump loses and decides to stay what happens depends on who controls the Military. I want to quickly say that President Trump has not lost the election and he has not said he is going to stay and I have no reason to think otherwise.
Back on who controls the Military, I have read several times that the Officers don’t like Trump and the Enlisted ranks do and it sort of makes sense. Two high ranking officers, one a former Marine and the other a serving Army General have already publicly disagreed with the President. Believe me, in the Military, publicly disagreeing with somebody higher in the chain of command is a big deal, especially if it is the Commander and Chief. I can’t think of another time that has happened so I’m going to assume that the Officer Corps will follow the votes.
The Enlisted ranks, however just seem like Trump’s base. But I would be surprised if they would be OK with Trump letting – to frame it in the worst possible way – the Russians pay people to kill American soldiers, or marines or sailors. It is not a question of values, there is no place in our culture, right or left, to say that It is OK to kill Americans and still be considered our friend. The only place that Donald Trump can go is to deny that the Russians paid the Taliban. The default can not be Is it OK under some circumstances? but it has to be Did it actually happen? Donald Trump says “No” and the New York Times says Yes and both want to convince the American people of the truth of their narrative, but, who they really have to convince is the American Military and I think the New York Times version is winning.
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From a Tweet by Arlen Parsa: The signing of the Declaration of Independence painted by John Trumbull with red dots over the slave owners by Arlen Parsa @arlenparsa who self-identifies as Here for justice. An over-thinker, mainly. But my business cards say, documentary filmmaker. Chicago, Proudly, arlenparsa.com
You know, I always wanted to know what it would be like to simultaneously experience the Spanish flu, Great Depression, and 1968 mass protests while Andrew Johnson was president. Tweet by Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver who identifies as Political scientist (US law & policy), Health Policy & Management Postdoc @UCLA, freelance writer, @Columbia Ph.D., Cal bear, @springsteen fiend, @warriors fan Los Angeles, CA mirandayaver.com
What a strange 4th of July. Quarantined at home, watching the wildlife in the backyard, on a warm summer day, our life approaches perfection. But, outside our home, in the world, the pandemic has infected close to twelve million people, killing over one hundred thirty thousand of them in the United States alone. Safe at home, we have visitors two by socially distanced two, we drink good wine, eat exquisite food, and tell ourselves how lucky we are. Outside, mass protests for social justice continue with periodic bursts of violence, usually by so-called “law enforcement”. At home, everything has slowed down making life more conscience, more delicious. 1,391 miles away, in South Dakota, the President of the United States rants about saving Confederate statues of long-dead, slave-owning, traitors while attacking the patriotism of living people but, in my safe, quiet, nest I’ve only heard the vile rant from tinny speakers next to a fifteen-inch screen.
I say “Happy 4th of July” but my heart has become heavy thinking about the Fourth, weighed down by the reality of what life entails for many in our country. The reality of what we are, what we have been since our founding. I was taught – maybe not so much taught, as absorbed by osmosis – that the 4th of July is a celebration of our Freedom and our Liberty and our just general Goodness and Exceptionalism that those great Americans fought for. I knew that some of the men – and they were all Property-Owning White Men – who signed the Declaration of Independence forty four years ago owned slaves but I was able to overlook that horror, that injustice, in my admiration of what they left me, but, it turns out upon reflection, that they only left it to their fellow white men like me. Now, as my eyes are being forced open by the glare of reality – forced open by, among other catalysts, the writings of a long line of Black People – I am starting to look at that Declaration differently.
I think, How could these Declaration of Independence signers be so hypocritical? but the harder question is, How could I have been so hypocritical?so oblivious? I have been so righteous in my ignorance, so superiorly righteous about my country. At my home in a middle-class community, I am safe, as cops, protecting the same White Patriarchy that founded this country, shoot young black men with almost universal impunity. It is the strangest 4th of July, seeing the dichotomy between my life and the life of many of my fellow citizens. It makes me sad and hopeful.
Patagonia is proud to join the Stop Hate for Profit campaign. We will pull all ads on Facebook and Instagram, effective immediately, through at least the end of July, pending meaningful action from the social media giant. Tweet by Patagonia who identifies as @patagonia Weβre in business to save our home planet. Ventura, California patagonia.com
When it comes to efforts to avert catastrophic climate change, Facebook is no ally. They are an enemy. Michael Mann, a climate scientist at Pennsylvania State University as reported on ThinkProgress.
We donβt have a policy that stipulates that the information you post on Facebook must be true…I donβt believe that our platform should take that down, because I think there are things that different people get wrong. I donβt think that theyβre intentionally getting it wrong. Part of a conversation between Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerburg and the Washington Post on why they allowed an altered video of Speaker Pelosi.
I’m ambivalent about Facebook. I love to feel connected to friends who are not in my everyday physical life and I’ve had a couple of friendships that have been greatly deepened over Facebook, but Facebook is a net negative to my wellbeing. A negative that I am drawn to, maybe even addicted to, I want to quickly add. I don’t know if it is a design feature or a design flaw that Facebook promotes fear and loathing, but either way, it does. It shouldn’t and the most unlikely people, the companies that actually spend money on advertising on Facebook, are actually trying to change that.
The first that I saw or heard of it was when Patagonia Tweeted that it was joining The Stop Hate For Profit movement and would not advertise on Facebook or Instagram for the Month of July. On the The Stop Hatewebsite, there are now close to a hundred companies that have joined the boycott, everyone from Verizon to Levi’s to Menlo Jazzercise. I don’t like what has happened to our public discourse and because Facebook is a contributor to that coarseness, it is time I either get on the bandwagon or shut-up. After thinking about it for days, I’m going to get on the bandwagon.
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I am afraid my blog will get lost, and I will lose contact with my Facebook friends but I am more afraid of the direction our country seems to be going and I want to do what little I can to not be a part of that.
This is a good time to question absolutely everything. You want to go back to the same old system? John Boyega @JohnBoyega who self-identifies as Dream and work towards the reality INSTAGRAM: @JohnBoyega
Republicans are the party of LIBERTY, EQUALITY and JUSTICE for ALL. We are the Party of Abraham Lincoln and the party of LAW AND ORDER! Tweet bu Donald J. Trump who identifies himself on Twitter as@realDonaldTrump 45th President of the United States of America
They are very intent on dividing us and stirring up hate and division in our country, we do have an opportunity in the next few months to decide where we want to go and how we unify our country. Representative Ilhan Omar speaking about President Trump and the Republican Party.
