Flagged by anti-masker…

Arcata CA

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In a post the anti-masker claims he gets hundreds of replies.. here in Humboldt. Really!? Come on, man. Who the hell does this guy think he’s kidding. Less than 10 people read any given craigslist political post. The same 8 or so people posting and reposting the same info over and over. And that’s in metropolitan areas. I have no doubt it’s far less in Humboldt. Posting gives you a feeling of power and control and that your opinion is being heard and making a difference, but it’s not --less than ten, and often nobody but you, reading what you post. Meanwhile, other political sites have postings and followers in the tens of thousands. This guy’s post lies between pervert seeking hand job and crackhead who lost her phone in old town. So I have to ask—- who the hell does this guy actually think he’s reaching!? Craigslist only continues to allow political posts and R&R as a way for Google to collect information to better target products. S-U-C-K-E-R! With regard to the absurd and erroneous assertions in the op’s post; burkas, blacks at the back of the bus, and the persecution of jews are not an accurate comparison to mask mandates. Women are forced to wear burkas because of their gender, blacks were forced to the back of the bus because of the color of their skin, Jews were persecuted because of their ethnicity. None of that compares to the science based health benefit of wearing a mask. The guy’s analogy is rather offensive when you consider the way women in Muslim countries have been treated for refusing the burka (beaten, tortured, murdered), or how blacks in this country have suffered during their struggle for civil rights (4,500 hung in acts of racial terror between 1865 and 1950), or the slaughter of 6 million Jews during the Holocaust. You have to be one ignorant sob to view mask mandates as being anywhere near similar. It’s not even in the same ballpark. Besides, this guy already claims that he and his pals don’t even obey mask mandates. That’s not the definition of tyranny, my friends. I fail to see how wearing a piece of cloth over your face, for 10-20 minutes at a time, is a slippery slope to losing your human rights? The law already requires us to wear clothes in public. Is the op apposed to wearing pants too? We already have laws in this country that exist to protect society as a whole; have to stop at a red light, can’t drive 100 mph down the highway while sipping on a bottle of Jim Beam, have to keep your child fastened in a car seat, among others. I fail to see how any of these “mandates” has led to the loss of our human rights. The op’s statement about the KKK being a Democratic organization is just flat out false. The Ku klux klan was founded in 1866 by ex-Confederate Soldiers in Tennessee, and their first leader was an ex-Confederate general. The number of Democratic and Republican politicians who have been members of the kkk throughout history is split right down the middle. Before civil rights the south was, by enlarge, Democratic. But the Southern Republicans of today would have been the Dixie Democrats pre-Civil Rights. They merely changed their party affiliation when Nixon was elected. THAT IS THE ONLY THING THAT HAS CHANGED. Those state’s core racist ideological beliefs HAVEN’T changed one iota. It was Nixon’s “southern strategy” to appeal to racist Democrats who resented the party’s liberal northern and western wings and to use racism to convert them into southern Republicans and thereby win a majority of electoral votes in the south. Democrats in the north and the west never wanted to own slaves or disenfranchise blacks. They were drawn to the party because of its strong support of labor and the working class. The Republican Party, in the wake of civil rights, decided to court Southern white voters by capitalizing on their racial fears. Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater first wielded this strategy in 1964 and Richard Nixon perfected it in 1968 and 1972, turning the solidly Democratic South into a bastion of Republicanism. Furthermore, the kkk was complicit in helping Nixon do this. Just google, how the kkk helped Nixon win with his “southern strategy.” You’ll get plenty of articles on the topic. Moreover, sociological studies have found that between 1960 and 2000, counties in the south with a historically strong Klan presence, show a 3.4 percent increase in Republican voting compared to non-klan counties. Democrats depended for a century on the Southern Jim Crow states, which is why Republicans were dominant in presidential elections in the late 19th and early 20th century. That all changed with the Great Depression when Democrats aligned with poor farmers and workers to create a formidable labor-based majority under FDR (He was elected to four terms! before a 50s constitutional amendment initiated by Republicans limited presidential terms to two).  Since racism in America was pretty widespread, the Dems stayed in power through the 30s and 40s by appealing to the union working men (and they were all men) in the north while holding on to its Jim Crow white cracker vote in the south (which wasn’t hard because blacks were not allowed to vote in most southern states). By the late 50s this was getting to be a problem: trying to support progressive Demos in the north while depending on southern anti-Republican (i.e. anti-emancipation) Democrats in the south.  The 1960 ticket of John Kennedy (northern liberal) and LBJ (Texas senator) underscored this tension. (To show the difference between then and now, Kennedy won the 1960 election by 100,000 votes and paper-thin electoral state margins, but Nixon conceded the next day). After Kennedy’s assassination, LBJ, while he waged war in Vietnam, became a flaming domestic liberal: passing the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and creating Medicare…By 1968 Nixon was running again for President and trying out the “new” Republican “southern strategy” by which he campaigned through the south as a (wink, wink) “conservative” candidate (i.e. racist).  Despite the fact that Alabama Governor George Wallace was also running for President (and took five southern states’ electoral votes) Nixon’s point was made and by 1972 the South went almost completely Republican in Nixon's landslide whipping of liberal Demo George McGovern (who barely won two northern states!). Strom Thurmond changed his party registration from Democrat to Republican. It was a big deal. If Jimmy Carter hadn’t been governor of Georgia (and therefore took several Southern states in the 1976 election following Nixon’s impeachment), a Democrat would not have won. Sure enough, Reagan picked up Nixon’s southern strategy in 1980 by opening his presidential campaign in Jefferson, Mississippi (where three civil rights workers were murdered in 1965). He complained about “welfare queens” and “shiftless unemployed” (which everyone understood to mean black mothers and black men) and swept Carter out of office in another GOP landslide. Republicans dominated presidential elections until 1992 when Bill Clinton (another southern governor—Arkansas) broke the solid south open again. And if Ross Perot hadn’t run in that election and pulled votes from George H.W. Bush, Clinton would not have won. Really, it wasn’t until Barak Obama that the Demos successfully reassembled a coalition that could appeal to both urban voters and rural farmers impacted by the Great Recession. And if the Demos had stayed home (as they did with Hillary), the Republicans would have been guaranteed a win. However, social media has changed everything now. Rump, with his dominance of the GOP, has demonstrated what a soulless carnival barker can do if he can tweet to an audience of 66 million Americans his most foolish and stupid thoughts. They believe him because they all think they are having personal contact with a celebrity!  When Rump left the White House, I had no doubt that he would put together an entertainment and “news” operation in an attempt to sustain a high celebrity visibility via social media. If Q-Anon can succeed in this environment then anything’s possible. Were it up to me Mark Zuckerberg would be tried and shot for treason.  When the op suggests that dems are the party of racism, I can only wonder about what part of Democratic policy he is referring? The voting rights act? You really have to have your head up your ass to believe blacks in the south could vote prior to 1965. The Voting Rights Act of 1965, signed into law by LBJ, aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote as guaranteed under the 15th amendment to the US constitution. It is considered one of the most far-reaching pieces of civil rights legislation in US history. How about Medicare? Or affordable health care? I’ll bet those “hard working” crackers in those red states are happy to collect Medicare and Social Security. I’m sure many of them are covered by some version of Obamacare too. Red states draw on government sponsored social programs more than any other region of the country. I also think it’s important to note that the US was the last developed nation to stop slavery. Ending slavery never came from any deep moral compunction among Americans at the time. America just knew that if it wanted to continue to trade with the rest of the developed world, slavery would have to be abolished. The op’s remarks about Biden and the Dems being responsible for inflation and high gas prices is also absurd. The president has never had the power to singlehandedly cause a rise in prices, especially within mere months. By the same token, the White House can only do so much to tame the market. The president has no control over what oil companies do. Companies produce at their will to meet market demands. The simple fact is that gas prices dropped in 2020 because of the pandemic. People were traveling less so demand was low. As a result of low demand oil companies began to slow production. The oil market rallied on news of successful Covid-19 vaccine trials in the last months of 2020 and demand came roaring back in 2021 as countries began lifting lockdown restrictions. But production hasn’t caught up as quickly as demand, which is why Americans are paying more for gas today compared to 2020. I know repugs love to claim that the cancellation of the XL pipeline is what caused fuel prices to rise, but that’s just not true. Again, that kind of economic cause/effect does not take place over the span of mere months, or even a few years. It would take decades, if at all. There are also considerable differences between oil from Alberta’s tar sands and conventional oil that must be considered. For starters, extracting oil from Alberta’s oil sands, which contain bitumen (tar), a dense type of petroleum, takes a lot of energy. Most of Canada’s tar sands oil is trapped beneath boreal forest — only 20 percent of the oil is located near the earth’s surface, where it can be easily mined, which means the forest must be cleared for the most intensive mining. The majority of the oil is mined by injecting hot water into wells 75 meters below ground to liquefy the oil for pumping, which is why tar sands oil has a reputation for being among the dirtiest types of oil. The pipeline extension would also have disastrous impacts for communities in Alberta: A lot of the water used to help extract oil from Alberta’s oil sands comes from the Athabasca River. Studies have linked leaks from oil sands pipelines like Keystone XL to significant degradation of nearby land and water resources. A major concern is tailing ponds, the product of toxic waste from mining in the tar sands that can sicken communities and wildlife that depend on the land to survive. Biden is not trying to shut down the oil industry, but he is trying to move toward alternative fuels. We all know that fossil fueled powered vehicles are not the future. It will take decades before gasoline and diesel powered vehicles are gone. But Biden is a wise man for embracing the future. Just as diesel trains replaced coal powered trains, alternative fueled vehicles are the future and will be replacing combustion engines. Just as cell phones made land lines obsolete, and smart phones made cell phones obsolete, alternative powered vehicles will be replacing old technology. Every auto manufacturer in the world realizes this. Every auto manufacturer in the world is presenting full lines of electric vehicles. Just as nobody is preventing you from cooking on a campfire rather than a stove, nobody will force you to give up your gasoline vehicle. If you prefer antiquated technology, you are welcome to keep your land line and you ar welcome to keep your gas vehicle. Lastly, people are not “abusing the system” by flagging this guy. I know the op often makes this claim in his posts, but it’s not true. It’s a violation of the CL TOU to post the same thing over and over again. It’s called spamming. Now go ahead and flag this one! It’s what you projecting hypocritical conspiracy maga nuts do best.