@1: What do you mean 'you twitterers'? Think you're above it all? Don't care about our legitimate social, scientific, political, consumer, public safety, weather, etc uses of the most effective one-to-many communication platform the world has ever know?

Twitter is quickly becoming a national security crisis.

Elections in the Americas have all swung left in recent years, including Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Mexico, and the United States.

The lying oligarch-owned US media keeps telling us that everyone wants their faces stomped on forever by abusive, soulless, psychopathic fascists/Republinazis. Oh how will they explain this (hint: quadrupling the right-wing lies).

@ 4,

Amazing that the Silicon Valley brain trust didn’t figure out years ago that millions of people would eagerly sign up to pay $20 a month to have some hate-KKKrazed incels twit “suck it, libs” @ them nonstop.

@3: I'm referring to the technical virtues of the platform, you're talking about the deterioration of Twitter.

@4: Well, if Twitter is driven into the ditch there will inevitably be a better Twitter.

Surprised the Stranger hasn't said anything about that weird purportedly pro-Murray ad that praises her for supporting immigration, trans rights and "critical race theory" and concludes by urging the viewer to "call and thank her." Not sure who it's intended to sway who doesn't oppose her already (it only made me like her more) but clearly intended as a hit piece.

TEN Billion$'re gonna get spent
lining Big Media's pockets
turning Off the low-
Info Electorate
'cause there's
NO Difference
they're All shit
or so they
make it
Appear

Corporate America
laffs all the way to the Bank
profiteering their way to Vast Sums

Hoovering up the Citizenry
leaving it up to Us to
Demonize Fellow
Members of
the"Bottom"
99% Club.

gleeful
they
Are.

happy halloween!

"As of late August, about a hundred people per day are still getting infected in Washington": That presumably is the officially confirmed number, which is about the same as the officially confirmed number in British Columbia. In the absence of systematic testing, the actual number is impossible to estimate very well. However, it's undoubtedly much higher. Earlier this month, the BC COVID-19 modeling group (of reputable scientists such as Sally Otto of the University of British Columbia) estimated the number of new infections per day in British Columbia is around 10,000; see p. 19 of

https://bccovid-19group.ca/post/2022-10-05-report/COVID19group-2022-10-05.pdf

That estimate is based on, among other data, "the rise in frequency of past infections among BC blood donors relative to the frequency of total reported cases since the previous month".

But remember, the pandemic is over!

@11 - Paired with teaching kids to feel guilty because they're white and better to change genders before puberty of course.

@15 God bless you, Blip. But honestly I don't know why you bother. You put forth such earnest effort but they are too stupid for you to bother. The shitbags of this site own it. They only deserve your contempt. And even that is a waste of time.

@15: A lot of mad parents must be bedwetters then, who knows whether they're conservative or not.

@19: Hmm. Well, there is Fox News. But it takes a lot more to get a parent to take off work and attend a school board meeting. They appear quite mad. It's the kind of anger that results from their kid coming home from school upset and confused.

Not specifically, but without a doubt you haven't. There's a lot of superfluous noise around these issues that requires us to dig deeper with compassionate understanding and an open mind, but you'd rather polish stereotypes as you think that provides insight, but it really doesn't.

You think they're making fools of themselves, but they're in emotional pain as parents because their children are in emotional pain. That should be heartbreaking to the observer, not fodder for ridicule.

Fuck SCROTUS and Trump Ho Tiffany Smiley (funded by--who else??--Mitch McConnell).

Seriously. For those who haven't sent in their postage paid mail-in ballots already, vote Democrat like your life depends on it. Because it DOES.

So what's making these parents upset? That they're "unthinking", "can't comprehend history or truth", "spoonfed in a bubble"?

Or how about "willful ignorance"?

Although some have complained about vaccines to school boards, their complaints are primarily in regard to CRT and gender discussions.

All you are doing is just spewing insults instead of using critical thinking yourself, which makes you disingenuous.

@25 So what you're saying is, Black and LGBT+ children should not be made to feel welcome in public schools if doing so requires making straight white children (and/or their parents) the slightest bit uncomfortable.

That's clearly what the parents spewing obscene insults and violent threats at school board meetings are saying. Of course they're angry -- they're losing a long-held albeit undeserved position of privilege, and it feels to them like oppression. I don't mean to ridicule or trivialize their pain by saying this. It's real! But that doesn't make it unjust.