big thanks to Gmail for dumping my new Guardian subscriptions into my promotions inbox for some reason 🙃
good to know the US isn't the only country punishing politicians for the decisions of capitalists and basically voting for "I hate everything, burn it all down"
OH MY GOD THIS IS SO REFRESHING TO SEE IN MY INBOX, UNABASHED JOURNALISM HOW I MISSED YOU
as a progressive: no. if you are a progressive with any brain cells, you know it's a long slog, and you know standing still is better than tumbling backwards. I am not going to start cheerleading for the Cheneys but either they bring no votes with them, in which case progressives need to turn out for Harris, or they bring some votes with them, in which case progressives NEED TO TURN OUT FOR HARRIS. there is 0 reason for progressive to feel "alienated" or not vote for Harris.
eat a dick, bezos, we see right through you
also journalism SHOULD be biased, TOWARDS THE TRUTH. towards INTEGRITY. I do not want a fourth estate that regards lying dictators and sincere public servants with the same indifference.
@dietotaku In my entire career I never spoke about politics. I knew I had customers who had strong feelings both ways. I surmised the best course of action iwas to stay like Switzerland, because the people that are going to get angry from that maneuver is the smallest subset in the Venn diagram.
@MidnightRider was switzerland right to stay neutral in WW2? perhaps taking a principled stand is worth the cost of pissing off a larger chunk of the venn diagram?
i rely on journalists to state facts, even when those facts are unpopular. i rely on journalists to defend human rights, even when those rights belong to a tiny minority.
I (1997-2010) lived (barely) in Switzerland; my apartment was +/- 200m from the French border.
My landlord (upstairs) was a great, old man (RIP: died ~11y ago at 94 or 96.
He had two WW II stories:
A. Saving Jewish refugees by rowing them across the lake to Coppet (4km traverse) at night;
B. Volunteering in the Swiss Army to join a rescue mission, to bring back two Allied pilots shot down in the Juras mountains:
~ in winter
~ thigh-deep snow
~ bright Moon.
My hero
We had a French neighbor living around the corner: she was Jewish. She adamantly declared that my other neighbor (André & shared a garden with them) were "war pigs".
Whilst André saved lives, the "T" family would row refugees halfway across the lake, kill them with a paddle, dump bodies overboard, then return with the "heavy suitcases" (implying "family valuables").
I believed André 100% ~ whether the woman's stories were true were impossible to verify.
Bad blood?
@zenmudprod That is one amazing tail thanks for posting that.
Best 12y "decade" of my life...
♥️💙💙💙♥️
@zenmudprod I have been to Italy. I would like to see Europe again. I don’t know if that’s ever going to happen but I may open it.
@MidnightRider
Had very close friends in Milano, and she inherited a family "townhome" in the Appenines town of Pavullo-nel-Frignano... (sigh); we bicycled in every direction from that base.
(2002-2006)...
Even rode past a sign indicating a monument or memorial for the "10th Mountain Division" ~ brave patriots who came home and "created" many of the ski resorts I've loved (Vail, etc).
@zenmudprod I called on the 10 nth mountain division. I did everything I could to make sure their imaging, especially the mammograms they were doing had integrity.
@dietotaku Myself I don’t rely on journalist for anything, they are just part of the machinery, a puppet show. As for Switzerland, I can’t say. I will tell you I had to deliver a result to keep my job and if I hadn’t had that job, I would have nothing because I barely have anything left now that’s the reality of life.