#fear-mongering

[intelligentchristianlady]

A Serious Question

Dear Donny,

If the USA is an evil, crime-ridden, corrupt, failing nation in decline, as you say, why do people still want to come live here? And why in the world do you want to rule it?

[magdolenelives]

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[disgruntledseagull]

The thing with these epidemic scares is that they never give you precise enough information to make any sort of a judgment.

What percentage of the fatalities were infants or the very elderly?

What percentage of the fatalities were very poor?

What percentage of the fatalities did not receive medical attention in the early stages of the disease?

The higher those percentages climb, the lower the impact of whatever the disease is going to be on the local North American population.

This of course isn't trying to say anything about the impact of such a disease overseas, especially in very poor areas with very little medical infrastructure, but simply to say that it is hard to know what the numbers we are getting mean in a local context.

Now on the other hand if you were saying that 900 people have been infected and 30 had died and their distribution across socioeconomic and age categories was random, I might be concerned about how it would impact North America.

As it stands however, we don't have those probably very easily supplied answers, so we are left to wonder.

I wonder why? :/

[beyond-the-political-spectrum]

Remember folks...it’s only “socialism” if it’s invoked as part of a fear-mongering trope to help right-wing ideologues get elected.  Every other time, it’s considered “federal aid” or tax-cuts for the rich to pay for program cuts that benefit everybody else (corporate socialism)!

[projectqueer]

No evidence of higher crime rates in transgender-inclusive spaces

"This study finds that the passage of such laws is not related to the number or frequency of criminal incidents in these spaces."

[ladythatsmyskull]

An immigration and paranoia tale from 1954 that feels like it resonates today in 2018.

Keep Out! published in Marvel Tales #122 (April 1954). Only credits are for the art possibly by Al Gordon and Joe Kubert.

[pointless-letters]

If they ever need to include the phrase “completely and utterly missing the point” in a dictionary, they should just use a picture of this letter.

[pointless-letters]

DOUBLEPLUS UNGOOD: The Daily Express goes full "Airstrip One" today talking about Brexit. Victory Gins all round!