Re: Fwd: Arriving in the US from Australia during Covid was like walking through the looking glass

Posted by Steve Smith on Dec 08, 2020; 4:34pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Fwd-Arriving-in-the-US-from-Australia-during-Covid-was-like-walking-through-the-looking-glass-tp7599788p7599804.html

Fellow (mostly) Liberalish, professionaI-class Elite(sh) FriAMfriends-

Ioffer this with a grain of capsaicin-salt to rub in the wound of our modern existential dilemma:  meaning that what with Chris Hedges' familiar depressing snark, not everyone might be able to afford to read the following...  Reader Beware:

the Collective Suicide of the Liberal Class

I find it rather sobering and something worth studying as the raging voice of the Whitelash Evangelical Right returns to an angry grumble...  "we the woke/enlightened/etc" need to police our own bought-out corruption in the same way many of us stood back and marveled that nobody curbed the worst excesses of (for example) Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld and then more transparently Trump et-al.  

I don't subscribe to the full snark of Hedges, but that doesn't mean he is wrong (just snarky?).   I'd be just as happy to let those who eagerly invited Biden/Harris into the White House revel in the pushing back of the Authoritarian Right before I started trying to kick the feet out from under the (comparatively benign?) newcomers, but then I'm not Chris Hedges.

RE: SpaceX... I don't think there will be room on any of Musk's rocket ships for anyone (except him or other bazillionaires) over 40...

- Steve

It’s enough to make one get up and leave!   (Launch in 7 minutes?)

 

https://www.spacex.com/vehicles/starship/index.html

 

From: Friam [hidden email] On Behalf Of David Eric Smith
Sent: Tuesday, December 8, 2020 3:54 AM
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Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: Arriving in the US from Australia during Covid was like walking through the looking glass

 

One of the commentators spun quite a good turn of phrase.  I think I want to write it here so I have a record and can go back and find it when I want it:

 

The pandemic is like a mirror held up to society showing the ugliness of the powerful, the beauty of those trying to fight it, the naivety of many believing dogma and rumour ahead of science but most clearly reflected, is the pain and hopelessness of the poor

EricS

 

On Dec 7, 2020, at 6:16 PM, Tom Johnson <[hidden email]> wrote:

 

Oh, how I wish Americans weren't so stupid.

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From: Dorothy Bracey <[hidden email]>
Date: Mon, Dec 7, 2020 at 3:15 PM
Subject: Fwd: Arriving in the US from Australia during Covid was like walking through the looking glass
To: Tom Johnson <[hidden email]>

 

depressing

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Dorothy H. Bracey -- Santa Fe, NM US 

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From: Sylvia Tiersten <dedlinesyl@...>

To:

Date: 12/07/2020 3:19 AM

Subject: Arriving in the US from Australia during Covid was like walking through the looking glass

 

 

Read the comments too. It’s all pretty chilling. One of them that really got to me is:

“I can’t begin to imagine what it’s like to be Canadian and have the US as a neighbor.” 

 

Sylvia


Arriving in the US from Australia during Covid was like walking through the looking glass
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/dec/07/arriving-in-the-us-from-australia-during-covid-was-like-walking-through-the-looking-glass?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other


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