Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has been imploring his colleagues for decades to gut a crucial part of the iconic Voting Rights Act that prohibits practices denying Blacks, Hispanics and other racial minorities an equal right to vote.
This Uncle Tom, Steven Candie, house n***** is a first degree motherf*cker
Every single value they claim to support is a hollow lie that exists for their own enrichment and power, and it’s so starkly plain from every single policy they push when they have power I can’t fathom how people don’t see it. I especially cannot believe that even now we have people who cannot see it.
I feel like I’m in a world where 90% of people can’t read and have never watched the news sometimes, because it’s that blatantly obvious to me.
On election day there were people googling whether Biden was running. The average reading level is 4-6th grade. Most people get their “news” from social media…
To your first point, there was a story about the alarming number of searches for “did Biden drop out” but it didn’t mention that this would have included searches like “when did Biden drop out” and “why did Biden drop out.” So it was a half true and half clickbait.
Regardless of exact phrasing it shows how disconnected those people feel they are from politics. Biden dropping and Kamala coming in was months before election day there was plenty of reporting across networks about it.
People who get their information from watching the news on TV are probably worse than people who don’t get information at all.
People are going to shout that it’s Fox News that’s the problem, but the reality is all of the major sources of TV news are owned by billionaires. You’re just choosing what style boot you want on your neck.
Unfortunately, to be informed and intelligent requires a small ability to rationally evaluate information. It’s not always difficult to determine the truth, but most people can’t or won’t try.
His early career arc is kind of bonkers. He was one of only a small handful of black law students at Yale, and graduated with honors. But he had trouble finding a job after graduation, because the racist mid-70’s law partners thought he only got his law degree because of affirmative action. He ended up blaming Yale for giving him a worthless degree, when he wouldn’t have gotten into Yale at all, no matter how talented he was, if it weren’t for affirmative action.
If he had blamed the systemic racism in the profession instead, we might have had a very different Clarence Thomas.
man with career he would not have without civil rights, opposed to the concept of civil rights, also unable to stop watching porn at work
The “fuck you I got mine” mentality which drives every conservative.
Every single value they claim to support is a hollow lie that exists for their own enrichment and power, and it’s so starkly plain from every single policy they push when they have power I can’t fathom how people don’t see it. I especially cannot believe that even now we have people who cannot see it.
I feel like I’m in a world where 90% of people can’t read and have never watched the news sometimes, because it’s that blatantly obvious to me.
On election day there were people googling whether Biden was running. The average reading level is 4-6th grade. Most people get their “news” from social media…
To your first point, there was a story about the alarming number of searches for “did Biden drop out” but it didn’t mention that this would have included searches like “when did Biden drop out” and “why did Biden drop out.” So it was a half true and half clickbait.
Regardless of exact phrasing it shows how disconnected those people feel they are from politics. Biden dropping and Kamala coming in was months before election day there was plenty of reporting across networks about it.
What an interesting misuse of semantics for cope purposes
People who get their information from watching the news on TV are probably worse than people who don’t get information at all.
People are going to shout that it’s Fox News that’s the problem, but the reality is all of the major sources of TV news are owned by billionaires. You’re just choosing what style boot you want on your neck.
Unfortunately, to be informed and intelligent requires a small ability to rationally evaluate information. It’s not always difficult to determine the truth, but most people can’t or won’t try.
You have to realize that by the very nature of being on Lemmy, you’re vastly more informed than the average voter.
If the only news you consume is from Fox, you wouldn’t be able to see all that stuff.
His early career arc is kind of bonkers. He was one of only a small handful of black law students at Yale, and graduated with honors. But he had trouble finding a job after graduation, because the racist mid-70’s law partners thought he only got his law degree because of affirmative action. He ended up blaming Yale for giving him a worthless degree, when he wouldn’t have gotten into Yale at all, no matter how talented he was, if it weren’t for affirmative action.
If he had blamed the systemic racism in the profession instead, we might have had a very different Clarence Thomas.
Bro is a failed Catholic priest candidate. His entire life is trying to uphold the systems of oppression, it is maddening.