Dear New York Times,
Forcing women to give birth against their will is “big government.” Protecting an 88-year-old program like Social Security isn’t. Whether you agree with Biden on the fine points, it’s obvious that he’s trying to save rational, democratic government from the ongoing fascist assault. That’s why it’s so disheartening to see the Times adopt the cynical framing of the fascists, as this headline does.

I very recently learned that the term “boycott” comes from someone’s actual name: Charles Boycott. Boycott was an English land agent who tried, in 1880, to collect unpayable rents from Irish peasants on behalf of an English aristocrat landlord. When he failed to collect the rents, he tried evicting the tenants. The Irish Land League responded with a campaign to ignore Boycott’s orders and isolate him socially and economically.

They not only ignored his eviction orders and threw manure at his process servers, but refused to deliver his mail or sell him food.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Boycott

It was pretty effective—the British government eventually had to deploy a thousand soldiers (naturally, because the state works for the propertied class and none more than the 19th century British state) at a cost of some £10,000 to harvest £500 worth of crops. Boycott had to be evacuated by the soldiers, who even had to drive him out, as no locals would agree to drive his carriage out of the region.

Imagine being cancelled so hard that your name becomes permanently associated with getting cancelled.

"State law generally prohibits these types of police discipline reports from being made public. And there is a federal court order in place that is meant to keep this document secret. ... But the report lays out evidence of corruption at the highest levels of OPD’s internal accountability system. ... We believe the public should have access to this information, especially while the police commission and mayor are deliberating on what to do about the chief."
https://oaklandside.org/2023/02/13/oakland-police-chief-leronne-armstrong-confidential-report-investigation/ #oakland

@juglugs This is essentially what Democrats should repeat every time something is called 'socialist". It is also essentially the framework for countering all of the hot button social "issues" the GOP invents to change the subject, from CRT to Trans phobia. Remind people of all of the hysteria around gay marriage destroying the family.

RE: https://mastodon.juglugs.com/users/juglugs/statuses/109814014069270687