Peter Drake, he/him, LFHCfS 🔥 @peterdrake@social.cleverlibre.org

Scholarship program will send Portland women to technical conferences http://s.oregonlive.com/aZ0DGDM

@Urmothersbtt The dictionary built into my Mac says:

The term Fascism was first used of the totalitarian right-wing nationalist regime of Mussolini in Italy (1922–43); the regimes of the Nazis in Germany and Franco in Spain were also Fascist. Fascism tends to include a belief in the supremacy of one national or ethnic group, a contempt for democracy, an insistence on obedience to a powerful leader, and a strong demagogic approach.

A quote from FDR (via https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt):

Unhappy events abroad have retaught us two simple truths about the liberty of a democratic people. The first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic State itself. That, in its essence, is fascism — ownership of government by an individual, by a group or by any other controlling private power.
The second truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if its business system does not provide employment and produce and distribute goods in such a way as to sustain an acceptable standard of living. Both lessons hit home. Among us today a concentration of private power without equal in history is growing.

Simple Truths message to Congress (April 29, 1938).

No

one

laughs like Darth Maul

No one staffs like Darth Maul

or survives being cut in two halfs like Darth Maul

I am an italicized warrior, but I'm not putting down the weapon. Also, it is on fire.
---
warriors
https://twitter.com/Oatmeal/status/1038832836994719744

Overheard: "I guess it was technically edible, because I ate it." #MRE

Fortunately, we brought a geologist to explain how this is going to go down.

"Two-thirds (68 percent) of American’s [six] who identify as libertarians are men, and 94 percent are non-hispanic whites."

https://www.salon.com/2015/06/10/why_libertarianism_is_so_popular_on_the_right_its_the_last_bastion_of_white_male_dominance/

Also interesting is the comment that "fringe movements tend to be dominated by men". Judging by the photos, the leaders of the National Popular Vote project (https://www.nationalpopularvote.com/about) are all white men. It's fringy in that most people haven't heard of it, but it may succeed in its one very specific goal.

This author spins a disturbing tale of academic gatekeeping. Thoughts?

https://quillette.com/2018/09/07/academic-activists-send-a-published-paper-down-the-memory-hole/

(Link originally posted Mastodon by @rnitsch.)

Go bag contents on display for our Get Quoke party.