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Our classmate Pat skipped class to be an extra in this!
True Stories: How the Talking Heads made suburban Dallas weird
https://www.chron.com/culture/tv/article/david-byrne-true-stories-texas-20228539.php
Vladimir #Putin personally authorized the #Salisbury poisoning of a former Russian spy on #UK soil, the British government’s top #Russia official, Jonathan #Allen, said Thursday.
J D #Vance’s speech at the Republican National Convention was all but indistinguishable from the claims of the #John #Birch #Society in the 1970s.
Senior Birch leader #Gary #Allen (father of Axios executive editor Michael Allen) wrote in his 1971 book, "None Dare Call It Conspiracy", that
a group he called the “#Insiders,” consisting of “power-seeking billionaires,”
sought to 
squeeze the middle class “to death by a vise.”
This would be done by pursuing a strategy of tension:
the Rockefeller and Ford Foundations would channel money to Students for a Democratic Society, the Black Panthers, and a whole sordid host of New Left organizations to stir up trouble in the streets
“while the Limousine Liberals at the top in New York and Washington are Socializing us.
WE ARE GOING TO HAVE A DICTATORSHIP OF THE ELITE DISGUISED AS THE DICTATORSHIP OF THE PROLETARIAT.”
The hidden hand of the Insiders, he said, lay behind the radical tumult of the late 1960s and early 1970s, all at the expense of the American middle class.
Crucially, although "None Dare Call It Conspiracy" included anti-capitalist elements,
it was still profoundly hostile to socialism and communism,
-- with Allen at one point arguing that both ideologies were simply different terms for monopoly capitalism.
Bircherite producerism did not prevail in the 1970s,
either within the contested space of American right-wing politics or national policy.
“Woke capital” is used essentially in the same way as “the Insiders,”
and not just by J. D. Vance.
#Andy #Olivastro, the director of coalition relations at #Heritage, defined it as “a top-down anti-democratic movement . . . on the part of some of the biggest and most important names in American business . . . to change the definition of capitalism itself.”
The only major distinction between “woke capitalism” and the Insiders is that Allen insisted that the core goal of the conspiracy was power as such,
whereas “woke capital” is more interested in ensuring liberal and left-wing social policy.
Nonetheless, today’s right-wing critics of neoliberalism are fundamentally embedded in the same political tradition.
Thankfully, Vance, one of the most unpopular vice-presidential candidates of the past fifty years,
is a poor messenger for his Bircherite economic politics.
https://jacobin.com/2024/07/vance-trump-gop-john-birch
Die #Bäume wiegen sich im Wind,
der #SilentSunday neigt sich gen Abend,
so leise wie er gekommen ist,
so still geht er zu Ende.
Ich wünsche #allen später eine gute und #friedvolle #Nacht.
The #trees sway in the wind,
the #SilentSunday bends towards #Evening,
as quietly as it came,
so quietly it comes to an end.
Later, I wish #everyone a good and a #peaceful #night.
#fotografie #photography #Gedanken #thoughts #mywork
Statt über eine #Stromsteuerreduktion oder einen #Industriestompreis nachzudenken, sollte lieber dieser Vorschlag aufgegriffen werden und via #KFW dann mit günstigen Krediten die Wirtschaft ermutigt werden, entsprechend viele Solaranlagen auf Gewerbeflächen zu installieren:
Das spart den #Unternehmen #Stromkosten und hilft #allen Bürger:Innen dabei, weil die #Strompreise durch steigende Produktion sinken können.Diese Nachbesserungen könnten im parlamentarischen Gesetzgebungsverfahren für das Solarpaket umgesetzt werden, das voraussichtlich im September 2023 stattfindet. Um die Photovoltaikausbauziele nicht nur in diesem Jahr, sondern auch in den nächsten Jahren zu erreichen, müsse der Zubau an Solaranlagen vor allem auch auf Gewerbebauten stärker beschleunigt werden, betont Körnig. „Hier wirken sich stark gestiegene Kapitalkosten bremsend auf die Nachfrage aus.“<< https://t1p.de/zwmub
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@GrueneBundestag@gruene.social
@BlumeEvolution@sueden.social
@SWR2Wissen@ard.social: Wie wäre es mit einem #Podcast zu der Frage, wie viel Potential #Gewerbeflächen / #Gewerbedächer bei #Solaranlagen und ggf. anderen erneuerbaren Energien derzeit haben?
“Council member [Dave] Shafer has just won the Guinness Book of World Records in hoop jumping.”
Earlier, our Special Investigative Correspondent on #Extremism @stevanzetti asked #Texas Republicans to condemn the nazi beliefs of the #Allen shooter. Here's how one of them, finally, responded:
https://www.texasobserver.org/dave-shafer-allen-shooter-extremism-lgbtq/
#news #politics #USpol #Republicans #GOP #MassShooting #Fascism #homophobia #LGBTQ+
Happy #Newstodon Friday, a day when we highlight great publications on the #Fediverse and some of our most important stories.
Let's re-share this story by @stevanzetti, who asked #Texas Republicans that represent #Allen if they would disavow the ideology of last months shooter. We'll have an update to the story next week (one pol responded to us) but it's a sign of how normalized #extremism is within today's GOP: https://www.texasobserver.org/allen-shooting-republicans-extremism/
“You have to ask yourself why it’s so important for politicians and figures with large cultural influence like #ElonMusk to try to either ignore this or suggest it’s not true,” Michael Edison Hayden of Southern Poverty Law Center said. “It should be a no-brainer to want to distance yourself from things like incel misogyny or a purely hateful ideology.”
.@TexasObserver's #extremism correspondent @stevanzetti has done important work here, reaching out to #Texas #Republicans and demanding they disavow the nazi beliefs of the #Allen shooter. Not a single one would do so.
Stories like this are important as they force us to confront the fact that key tenets of #fascism, such as hypermasculinity and extreme nationalism, are becoming mainstream GOP positions. Also, highlighitng the dangerous idol worship of figures like Tim Pool. Great work by Steven Monacelli that should be widely shared:
https://www.texasobserver.org/allen-shooting-republicans-extremism/
“We invite all elected officials … to speak out against #racism and extremist ideology and all forms. We think they have a real responsibility to do that.”
On the one-month anniversary of the #Allen shooting, Special Investigative Correspondent @stevanzetti reached out to the 15 elected officials who represent constituents in the town. Not one Republican would condemn the shooter's beliefs: https://www.texasobserver.org/allen-shooting-republicans-extremism/