- Items from Facebook about MAGA conflation; John Kenneth Galbraith; and conservatives’ lack of a sense of humor;
- How legislators in North Carolina left homes vulnerable;
- Fact-checking the debate, Vance’s irritation that he was fact-checked, and how Republicans consistently lie and misrepresent more than the Democrats;
- Vance wrong on climate change, and conspiracy theories about Hurricane Helene;
- Yet another example of Fox News doing what it does best.
Three items from Facebook.
Public post by Don D’Ammassa, 30 Sep 2024:
A year or so back, I mentioned that various things we take for granted – social security, disaster relief, roads, etc. – were actually socialist. Our society is a mixture of socialist, capitalist, libertarian, and other concepts. A fairly well respected writer whose background is in the sciences objected that these were not socialist because they were good things. I can’t even begin to explain how sad that is.
Comments to this echo my thoughts about how most people don’t actually know what these words mean and conflate them all as ‘bad’: