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- Doxxing and callouts on Beehaw politics
Hey folks. I just want to check in with the community about a post that was recently removed. My intention is absolutely not to create drama or stir anything up, but I'd like to make sure you all understand my reasoning for removing the post. Also, I'm aware that I'm not as good at articulating these kinds of things as some of our folks, so don't expect a classic Beehaw philosophy post here.
The post in questions was a link to a twitter thread providing evidence of the IRL identity of "comic" "artist" stonetoss, who is unquestionably a huge piece of shit and a neo-nazi, or at least something so indistinguishable from one that the difference is meaningless.
The post provoked some discussion in the Mod chat and several of us, myself included, were on the fence about it. I understand that there are arguments both for and against naming and calling out people like stonetoss. I find arguments in both directions somewhat convincing, but ultimately the thing that a number of us expressed was that the act of calling someone like this out and potentially exposing them to harassment or real-world consequences for their views might be morally defensible, it didn't feel like Beehaw was the right place for it. We really want Beehaw to be a place that is constructive and kind, and that this type of doxxing/callout didn't seem to fit our vision what what we want Beehaw to be. At the same time, we're all very conscious that it would be easy for this kind of thinking to lead to tone policing and respectability politics, and that is also something we want to be careful to avoid. All this to say that I made what I think was the best decision in the moment for the overall health of !politics as a community, as I saw it.
On a personal note, I find that our Politics community is one of the communities that is most prone to falling into some of the traps that Beehaw was created to avoid. That's very understandable - politics are something that cause real and immediate harm and stress in a lot of folks' lives; they're complicated, contentious, and often make us feel powerless. I'd like to remind folks as we move into the general election season in the US, though, to remember the founding principles of Beehaw when discussing these topics, no matter how stressful they may be: remember the human, assume good faith in others, and above all, be(e) nice.
Thanks,
TheRtRevKaiser
- Donald Trump may "reignite" inflation, Nobel Prize-winning economists warnwww.newsweek.com Donald Trump may "reignite" inflation, Nobel Prize-winning economists warn
A coalition of 16 economists warned that Trump may "reignite" inflation if he wins the presidential election.
- After Macron’s Gamble in France, History Is Repeating Itselftruthout.org After Macron’s Gamble in France, History Is Repeating Itself
The French left is making the same wager it did before fascism gripped Europe. What will happen as the center collapses?
- Key Democrats allow US sale of F-15 jets to Israel in $18 billion dealwww.cnn.com Key Democrats allow US sale of F-15 jets to Israel in $18 billion deal | CNN Politics
Two key congressional Democrats have given their approval to allow the Biden administration to proceed with what is believed to be the biggest weapons package for Israel, expected to be worth more than $18 billion and include some 50 F-15 fighter jets.
Just in case you thought maybe the Dems had finally seen the light after Rafah. Nope! How about even more bombs for Israel?
- Ocasio-Cortez Calls on Congress to Crack Down on Supreme Court Corruptiontruthout.org Ocasio-Cortez Calls on Congress to Crack Down on Supreme Court Corruption
The Supreme Court’s corruption has created a “full-blown legitimacy crisis,” Ocasio-Cortez and Raskin warned.
- It's not just vibes. Americans' perception of the economy has completely changed.abcnews.go.com It's not just vibes. Americans' perception of the economy has completely changed.
Why Americans feel bad about the economy even though economic data is strong.
- Roger Stone Caught on Tape Discussing Trump’s Plan to Challenge 2024 Electionwww.thedailybeast.com Roger Stone Spills Trump’s Plan to Deny Election Loss Again
Self-proclaimed “dirty trickster” Roger Stone was secretly videotaped at Mar-a-Lago during a remarkably candid conversation.
- Saudi Arabia Drifts Away from Washington and the Dollar | Mises Institutemises.org Saudi Arabia Drifts Away from Washington and the Dollar | Mises Institute
Saudi Arabia considers de-dollarization as closer relations with Russia, Iran, and China create new incentives to break with old alliances and deals with
- More people turning away from news, report sayswww.bbc.com More people turning away from news, Reuters Institute report says
News avoidance is now at record high levels, the Reuters Institute's 2024 Digital News Report says.
- ‘It’s God’s plan’: Mike Lindell intends to ‘deputize’ Trump voters for Election Daywww.rawstory.com ‘It’s God’s plan’: Mike Lindell intends to ‘deputize’ Trump voters for Election Day
MyPillow CEO and election-denier Mike Lindell told conservatives this weekend he was going to deputize them as part of "God's plan" for former President Donald Trump's Election Day victory. Lindell addressed Trump supporters at the Turning Point USA People's Convention in Detroit on Sunday, when.....
The pillow guy is apparently advocating that people commit election fraud in order to throw doubt on electronic voting machines. It's astounding how brazen they are about trying to steal the election.
- The World Isn’t Deglobalizing. It’s Reglobalizingwww.worldpoliticsreview.com The World Isn’t Deglobalizing. It’s Reglobalizing
It isn’t accurate to call the current shifts in the international order “globalization” or “deglobalization.” Instead, it’s “reglobalization.”
- Supreme Court strikes down Trump-era ban on rapid-fire rifle bump stocks, reopening political fightapnews.com Supreme Court strikes down Trump-era ban on rapid-fire rifle bump stocks, reopening political fight
A Texas gun shop owner challenged the ban, arguing the Justice Department wrongly classified the accessories as illegal machine guns.
- The Christian right is coming for divorce nextwww.vox.com The Christian right is coming for divorce next
Some conservatives want to make it a lot harder to dissolve a marriage.
- Supreme Court unanimously strikes down legal challenge to abortion pill mifepristoneabc7chicago.com Supreme Court unanimously strikes down legal challenge to abortion pill mifepristone
The Supreme Court has preserved access to a medication that was used in nearly two-thirds of all abortions in the U.S. last year.
- Older voters are abandoning Donald Trump [Newsweek]www.newsweek.com Older voters are abandoning Donald Trump
According to a new poll, the former president is losing the support of voters aged 45 and older.
- Alito Caught on Tape Whining That His Corruption Was Exposed | The New Republicnewrepublic.com Alito Caught on Tape Whining His Corruption Was Exposed
The Supreme Court justice accused ProPublica of unfairly targeting him and Clarence Thomas.
- Who Is Favored To Win The 2024 Presidential Election? | FiveThirtyEight Forecast Goes Liveprojects.fivethirtyeight.com Who Is Favored To Win The 2024 Presidential Election?
538’s 2024 presidential election forecast model showing Democrat Joe Biden’s and Republican Donald Trump’s chances of winning.
- This is a question from the N-400, U.S. Application for Naturalization. Good question? Still valid, or a holdover from the cold war?
Sorry about the picture quality, laptop screenshot.
- A Majority of Voters Backing Biden Are Mostly Motivated by Stopping Trump — Polltruthout.org A Majority of Voters Backing Biden Are Mostly Motivated by Stopping Trump — Poll
Only 27 percent of voters who plan to vote for Biden in the 2024 election say they genuinely like him as a candidate.
- Wahl-O-Mat Matches Your Position Against Political Parties Positions (EU Elections)
Today, we had European elections in Germany.
We have the Wahl-O-Mat, a state-funded service, where you can answer 38 questions, and then match your positions against a selection of or all political parties that could be elected. It then shows you how much overlap (a percentage) you have with the various parties and their answers to those questions.
I find this to be a very important and useful tool for citizen information.\ Campaign adverts are shallow and colorful PR. Broad slogans.\ Individuals are not necessarily what the broader party policies are and how they vote. Personal sympathy can even be misleading in that a sympathetic person may not hold the values and positions you do.\ Voting for a party, I think their program and stances should be the primary decision factor. (Alongside assessment of whether you can trust them of course.)\ It obviously and drastically shows you misconceptions about parties and your alignment, and shows you parties relevant to you that you may not have known about before.
Do other countries have something/things like that too? A tool to match personal stance against political parties' stances? [In a concrete and up-to-date way.]
- I have an important announcement to make!
Sorry if I disturb your regular schedule, I just want to remind you if you're an European citizen like me to go out there and vote for your representative in the European Parliament. If you're Romanian as well, like me, go out there and vote in the local elections as well so we can kick those comassed corrupt assholes in the but. They can't steal as much as we can vote!
Muie PSD! Muie PNL! Muie AUR! Muie SOS!
- Joe Biden’s Cruel Border Shutdown Follows in Clinton and Obama’s Footsteps Tootheintercept.com Joe Biden’s Cruel Border Shutdown Follows in Clinton and Obama’s Footsteps Too
Joe Biden’s executive order to place draconian restrictions on border asylum-seekers owe a lot to Donald Trump — and Clinton and Obama too.
- Can State Supreme Courts Preserve—or Expand—Rights?www.newyorker.com Can State Supreme Courts Preserve—or Expand—Rights?
With a lopsided conservative majority on the U.S. Supreme Court, progressive activists are seeking legal opportunities in state constitutions.
Archive.is link needed please.
- Republicans block bill to protect contraception access as Democrats make election-year pushapnews.com Republicans block bill to protect contraception access as Democrats make election-year push
Senate Republicans have blocked legislation designed to protect women’s access to contraception. They argued Wednesday that the bill was just a political stunt as Democrats mount an election-year effort to put GOP senators on the record on reproductive rights issues.
- GOP support for allowing felons to be president rises after Trump conviction: Poll
> Fifty-eight percent of GOP voters said in the new survey convicted felons should be allowed to become president if they are elected. YouGov noted that just 17 percent of Republicans held that opinion in April.
> In February, 34 percent of GOP voters said criminality was among their least desired traits. Now, 19 percent say the same.
Incredible.
- Trump Threatens To Sue ProPublica For Reporting On Payouts To Witnesses In His Various Caseswww.techdirt.com Trump Threatens To Sue ProPublica For Reporting On Payouts To Witnesses In His Various Cases
ProPublica has quite a scoop of a story, highlighting how various witnesses and potential witnesses in the long list of lawsuits Donald Trump is facing, suddenly, coincidentally, seem to be getting…
- Jurors in Hunter Biden's federal gun trial see the document at center of the case for the first timeapnews.com Jurors in Hunter Biden's federal gun trial see the document at center of the case for the first time
Jurors on Tuesday got their first look at the document at the center of Hunter Biden's federal gun trial.
If you want to see weaponization of the courts against a political opponent, THIS is the case to look at.
The ATF Form 4473 is the Firearm Transaction Record and has a list of checkbox questions which, in a normal country, would not be questions at all, but a bullet point list of disqualifying criteria, such as (shortening for clarity):
- Are you buying the gun for someone else?
- Are you a citizen or legal alien?
- Are you a convicted felon?
Rather than simply saying,
- You cannot purchase the gun for someone else.
- You must be a citizen or legal alien.
- You cannot be a convicted felon.
This is done in order to create a criminal charge of Making a False Claim if one of these is not fulfilled. Note that for many of these, you will in fact fail the background check (FBI NICS system) and be unable to even purchase the gun, such as if you are not a US Citizen or Green Card holder, but you could still have just become a criminal based on your 4473 answers.
Most of the questions are very 'reasonable' in their objective, but then you reach question 21f:
> f. Are you an unlawful user of, or addicted to, marijuana or any depressant, stimulant, narcotic drug, or any other controlled substance?
At first glance this is pretty straightforward: possession of an illegal drug is a crime, so of course you can't buy a gun if you admit you're committing a crime!
But note, it also calls out addiction. Being addicted to something is not illegal, and is not even the same as being intoxicated, but is grounds for rejection under this. Moreover, that addiction can be to legal controlled substances as well, and still run afoul of this question.
And who decides if you are addicted to something? That's not spelled out here, and can be determined by a doctor either before or after arrest for this.
This is extremely unusual for courts to retroactively pursue, especially years later. That Hunter Biden is being pursued on this is 1000% only happening because of Republican pressure, in order to smear Biden so they can try to equate his family to Trump's, in their corruption.
Then again, many laws (especially around drugs and guns) were put in place to target minorities and
Leftistsnon-Conservatives so this is really just the law being used how it was intended. - The Ugly History of Dual-Loyalty Charges - Ilhan Omar recently deployed an accusation that’s been used against religious minorities for years.www.theatlantic.com The Ugly History of Dual-Loyalty Charges
Ilhan Omar recently deployed an accusation that’s been used against religious minorities for years.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/16414235
> The Ugly History of Dual-Loyalty Charges Ilhan Omar recently deployed an accusation that’s been used against religious minorities for years. > > Interesting article, showing how treating Muslims as non-loyal to a country is the same bullshit already done against Catholics, Jews and other religions in USA.
- Donald Trump suffers triple polling blow in 48 hours after guilty verdictwww.newsweek.com Donald Trump suffers triple polling blow in 48 hours after guilty verdict
The former president's guilty verdict in his Manhattan hush money case spells trouble for his campaign, according to recent polls.
- GUILTY ON 34 COUNTS
You crooked motherfucker
- Joe Biden issues Supreme Court warningwww.newsweek.com Joe Biden issues Supreme Court warning
Biden has said he will appoint progressive justices to the Supreme Court if he wins a second term in the White House in November.
> President Joe Biden has suggested he will appoint progressive justices to the Supreme Court if he wins a second term in the White House in November.
> "The next president, they're going to be able to appoint a couple of justices... Look, if in fact we're able to change some of the justices when they retire and put in really progressive judges like we've always had, tell me that won't change your life," he said during a campaign rally in Philadelphia on Wednesday.
- Trump is conditioning MAGA for the next stagewww.salon.com Trump is conditioning MAGA for the next stage
Those who resist or are not sufficiently supportive will be punished
- ‘A dying empire led by bad people’: Poll finds young voters despairing over US politicswww.semafor.com ‘A dying empire led by bad people’: Poll finds young voters despairing over US politics | Semafor
A new survey may help explain Joe Biden’s recent struggles with the under-30 set.
- New Louisiana law will criminalize approaching police under certain circumstancesapnews.com New Louisiana law will criminalize approaching police under certain circumstances
Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry has signed legislation making it a crime to knowingly approach within 25 feet of a police officer while they are “engaged in law enforcement duties” after the officer has ordered the person to stay back.
- Why is Nikki Haley scrawling genocidal messages on Israeli bombs? | Moustafa Bayoumiwww.theguardian.com Why is Nikki Haley scrawling genocidal messages on Israeli bombs? | Moustafa Bayoumi
Haley writing ‘finish them’ on an Israeli bomb is everything horrific about the US elite’s morally empty foreign policy
> ...on Tuesday, the former Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley was all over social media for a picture taken of her during a visit to Israel. In the picture, Haley – the one Republican who had been frequently lauded for her smarts on foreign policy – is seen squatting down in front of a row of Israeli artillery shells, likely provided by the United States, with pen in hand. “Finish them,” she wrote on one of the shells.
> The evidence indicates that Nikki Haley can write, but one must wonder if she can read.
Amazing jabs by the author aside, the cruelty and the callousness and the bigotry displayed by those deadset on supporting Israel is both astonishing and horrifying.
> What makes this genocidal unity of Democrat and Republican all the more horrific and rage-inducing is that, despite the war-mongering messages emanating from America’s politicians and media pundits, all the polls repeatedly show that the American people want a ceasefire in Gaza, not a genocide. One of the latest surveys, a Data for Progress poll published in early May, found that seven out of 10 likely voters “support the US calling for a permanent ceasefire and a de-escalation of violence in Gaza”. This position was endorsed by majorities of Democrats (83%), independents (65%) and Republicans (56%).
> The [Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention] concluded their position this way: “Humanity has a choice: Either we decide that our children can all be killed whenever a superior force alleges that ‘terrorists’ are among us, or we decide that under no circumstances will we allow these superior forces to lay waste to our world any longer. We each must choose and act accordingly. The watershed moment is now.”
> The Lemkin Institute exhibits the kind of moral clarity that we must demand from our leaders. If we don’t, the Nikki Haleys of this world will be signing more than bombs. By endorsing the genocide that the people don’t support, these politicians are also signing the death certificate of our own democracy.