#Politics Listening to a livestream feed from an Alabama radio station. They claim that African-Americans will vote en masse for #Trump in November because "Democrats are about to ban menthol cigarettes."
(Which would be a pretty neat trick with Republicans in the House majority.)
Turns out the truth is that nation's oldest group representing Black physicians just sued the FDA because the agency had *not* banned menthol cigarettes.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/02/health/menthol-tobacco-fda-lawsuit/index.html
#Politics "Trans actors should be banned from playing trans people because acting means playing something you're not."
Good lord, this talk show host is an a**hole.
"We're taught that white people are evil but black people are not."
#Politics "Liberal actors are functionally illiterate."
I'm waiting for a ballgame to begin, which is why I'm listening to this livestream, but good lord it's easy to see how people addicted to this garbage get poisoned by it.
@WordsmithFL Dear Alabama, that's what the south actually did! I've visited one of the mansion museums, I saw the proof.
@WordsmithFL Just wait till the GOP writes a law that women have to get men snacks and sandwiches during the super bowl and it passes!
@MidnightRider For years, my wife had to stay in the kitchen while her last husband and his drunken friends watched the Super Bowl or NASCAR. It was only after she left him for me that she realized how repressed she'd been.
Now I can't shut her up. That one is on me. 😉
@WordsmithFL You shouldn't want to! All people, all equal, all should breathe free! We're all dying after this !
She’s a lucky woman.
@WordsmithFL TBH, Stephen. I thought making continuous left turns was unbelievable, a revelation, the most fun ever; But I was 7 and learning to shift in the back lot.
@WordsmithFL I've really begun to think that the majority of these "beliefs" are held for performative and/or financial reasons. Not only did the Internet give almost everyone in the first world a way to have their voice heard and to reach multitudes but it also amplifies confirmation biases to an extent never before seen in history. Your listening right now is proof positive. This guy will "radicalize" some portion of Americans whereas before it would only have been a limited no. of Alabamans.
@hallmarc Yeah, it's all about the ratings. The same with #Trump, the same with #FoxNews. You build a dedicate base with a demonstrable propensity to buy the product you're hawking.
I read an article recently that Republicans have pretty much tapped out the small-dollar donors because Trump milked them dry. The big-dollar donors know w loser when they see one, so they're not sending him money any more.
"We're taught that some people are evil."
@WordsmithFL this is what we get after 40 years of diminishing support for education and critical thinking skills. Organized religion as the unquestioned backbone of communities has also played no small part.
#Politics "We live in a culture that denies the difference between men and women." 🙄