The Evening Blues - 4-25-25
Submitted by joe shikspack on Fri, 04/25/2025 - 3:00pm
Open Thread
Open Thread - 04-25-25 - What Comes After?
Submitted by JtC on Fri, 04/25/2025 - 8:13am
Democracy in the West is withering on the vine. European political parties are jailing their opponents and banning opposition parties from elections. How soon will that happen here in the US?
Democrats put up candidates that no one voted for. Republicans fight to restrict voting rights. Does that even matter when we essentially have a uni-party anyway?
Both sides champion restricting free speech.
Government corruption is rampant and ubiquitous.
The law is used as a weapon. Does anyone really think that the Republicans wont use the same lawfare tactics to stall the function of government against the Democrats when they regain power? If so, then what good is democracy?
If democracy is on life support, what comes after?
The Evening Blues - 4-24-25
Submitted by joe shikspack on Thu, 04/24/2025 - 3:27pm
Open Thread - Thurs 24 Apr - 2025 - What Comes Around Goes Around
Submitted by Sima on Thu, 04/24/2025 - 5:00amWhat Comes Around Goes Around
Long, long, long ago, I worked at AMD (Advanced Micro Devices) when the company first started exporting production to Asia. Us little workers, those of us who ran the machines that made the chips, or tested them, or packaged them up for shipping, us... well, WE were pretty upset. We knew this meant that there would be less jobs, that regular workers would be screwed over and that AMD was going to go from a company that proudly cared about things like keeping production in the USA and workers' rights, to yet another typical American business.
So, TPTB exported shipping to Asia. About this time, my father retired from AMD; he didn't like a lot of these changes. I stopped working there because I was going to Grad school in PA. And... everything we, the workers, predicted came true. Thanks Reagan! Thanks Clinton! Thanks Nixon! And everyone else!
Cartoon from a while back, by John Pritchett
The Evening Blues - 4-23-25
Submitted by joe shikspack on Wed, 04/23/2025 - 3:39pm
OT WE 23 APR 25 ~ Slay a Dragon Day
Submitted by QMS on Wed, 04/23/2025 - 5:00am~
Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist,
The Evening Blues - 4-22-25
Submitted by joe shikspack on Tue, 04/22/2025 - 3:28pm
A Handmaids Tale
Submitted by earthling1 on Tue, 04/22/2025 - 10:12am
Growing authoritarianism here in American is unfolding before our eyes. Deportations and arrests are increasingly done by unlawful or questionable means, with hearings or court proceeding limited or non-existent.
The Evening Blues - 4-21-25
Submitted by joe shikspack on Mon, 04/21/2025 - 3:57pm
04/21 Open Thread - Grounation Day
Submitted by enhydra lutris on Mon, 04/21/2025 - 5:00am
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~~ Bob Marley & Haïlé Sélassié
