same here. hoping that those who make it through the crucible that is the now become the politically hardened and progressive leaders our children will need.

Watch the wire if you haven't already. It should tell you a lot about the kind of person he likely is, in a good way.

Much much simpler than that. Remember how just a few months ago everything the right didn't like was "woke"? And a few months before that how everything the right didn't like was CRT?

Well, we are here now. All problems are a result of DEI. It really does not matter that it's completely insane to view the world like this. Right wing media has it's current swear word of the month and that word (or in this case acronym) is DEI.

What's super effective about this tactic is exactly what the mayor hints at. It's a way to say the n-word without saying it.

The angle here is the right is a bunch of racist bigots and framing all the ills of the world in terms of that racist bigotry makes their lizard brained viewers happy (well, angry, but at the right people).

Quiet literally how Nazi propaganda worked. Blame all the problems of germany on the jews and the non-jews right wing morons will happily nod along with "yer right, it is the Jews' fault our society is crumbling!" It did not have to make sense or be reasonable. You just constantly plant that fear and suspicion in your dumbass follower's brains.

It’s similar to how they’re using the disaster to decry open borders allowing terrorists in. Meanwhile, the crew on the bridge that died in the disaster, on their night shift lunch break from fixing potholes, was made up almost exclusively of immigrants… everything is just an opportunity to grab engagement for your talking points now, no matter how absurd. The idea that this disaster is being used to fan hatred of immigrants, while the people who were killed were literally hard-working immigrants… it just breaks my brain.

So basically I guess, no surprise that they’re also somehow connecting the bridge to Brandon Scott, and diversity hires (lol, he won an election fuckos, not an HR hiring process). It’s all a part of the unreality we now live in.

Baltimore was one of the cities which suffered the most from redlining and white flight in the 60s and 70s, and has been an anti-civil-rights talking point for racist assholes since then. The city literally ran interstates through black neighborhoods to have an excuse to tear them down, and then refused to sell the property in other areas. Then, when the civil rights act happened, the county worked very hard to set up demarcation boundaries for city services to make sure that the tax revenue from the wealthy suburbs would stay completely separate.

Basically white people in Baltimore were told they had to live near Black people and they threw a massive tantrum about it.

Everyone knows White people are better swimmers

A White mayor would have swam right up to that puppy and sank it instead

a press conference on the collapse gave them the platform to spew their hate, other than that it doesn't seem to have anything to do with the issue.

edit: he's also an incumbent so they've probably been calling him that for his entire previous term already.

It's been scary for the last 100 years. They previously plotted overthrowing and killing FDR in the 30s. And suffered nothing for it when caught. In fact a few got elected to Congress post plot. Since then, they've been the defacto home for American fascism and neo Nazis in general.

Throughout the 50s and 60s they stirred up fascist, anti socialist propaganda. Smearing, and attacking anyone they didn't like regardless of facts or evidence. Ending careers, livelihoods and even a few lives through the persecution.

There's plenty to say about the 70s as well. Though "Nixon" covers a lot. Even as we consistently find out more and more as time goes on. Combined with starting to court their soulmates. The murderous KKK and lynching Dixiecrats post 1964 exodus from the Democrats. Culminating with Reagan. Who also courted extreme, fascistic anti christian fundamentalist "Christian" cults.

It's been a constant terrifying push from them. To which the American public has largely ignored, waffled, and had zero appetite to acknowledge or address. Even as they overthrew democratically elected governments around the world. Jr Bush and trumple orangeskin are just the most recent, less competent legacy of the last American century. And it's fucking terrifying how "normal" it's been.

But yes, it does seem to be a bit more visible to some these days. So that good. Just wish more could see and acknowledge.

You really need to go back to your comment and reexamine repeated use of the word "getting".

If not now, what signal are you waiting for to solidify this thing?

Not enough people have been asking the real question: What was this DEI mayor doing on 9/11? How could he have let that happen? Does he hate America?

(/s shouldn't be necessary, but these days I can't risk leaving it out since reality has become indistinguishable from satire)

Right? I guess by saying the hard N word. I'm so fucking fed up with bigots, I tell ya.

The far-right will signal boost any "minority or woman bad" content without the help of a hostile foreign government.