Everything is connected to hate

There is one more British Arrow commercial I want to mention. I didn’t mention it a couple days ago because it isn’t on the British Arrow website and I had forgotten about it. It was brought back to mind today. Since you can’t see it and I don’t remember a lot of details you will only get an overall description.

We see a face. It tells us right off it is computer generated, an avatar of the internet. It is asked what is connected to everything. The answer: Hate. The avatar proceeds to quickly go through a long list of things people describe as hating as images of those things are displayed over and around the avatar. A lot of people use social media to describe or promote their hatred. A lot of different kinds of things are hated by someone or another. So, yeah, hate is connected to everything.



Hunter of Daily Kos responds to a Washington Post article in which various GOP lawmakers whine about the federal deficit. The beginning, a bit of the middle, and end of Hunter’s message:

Can we please, please finally stop with this nonsense that Republicans are upset by deficits? At all? Even in the slightest?
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The closest we come to the actual core point is from Senate Appropriations Committee chair Richard Shelby, who rather bluntly declares that we need to slash "entitlements" and if we can't do that, screw it, no point trying. Yes, there you go. We might as well have stopped there, that being the best encapsulation of the last fifty years of faked deficit nonsense from Republican big spenders. Take him at his word and go home; there’s no sense worrying about deficits at all if it’s not in the context of cutting aid to the poor.
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Give it up. Just stop. Quit with this ever-gullible nonsense, this pamphleteering for a cause that self-promoting "deficit hawks" have never, when in power, used for any other purpose than to hurt children, seniors, and anyone else who dares ask for a bit of help that could instead be used by the ultra-rich to purchase private yacht-launched submarines or whatever the latest better-than-you trend is among the people who own their Republican lawmakers outright. Just stop already. We’ve had a long damn year and do not need to hear this nonsense.

Ben O’Keefe, in response to the stories about candidate Pete Buttigieg meeting with donors in a wine cave, tweeted:

There are 607 billionaires in America.

There are 328,000,000 people in America.

Right now those 607 people have more access and power in our democracy than the 328m combined.

This isn’t about the dollar amount that people donate; it’s about what they get in return.

Candidate Elizabeth Warren has challenged Mayor Pete. O’Keefe is on Warren’s side. In another tweet he shows an image from the Warren campaign that says, “Billionaires in wine caves should not pick the next president of the United States.” O’Keefe adds:

When you’re accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression. This isn’t about “purity tests.” This is about corruption. @ewarren is taking on corruption and you bet corrupt people are going to do everything they can to stop her—that’s how you know it’s working.

I understand privilege is something people high in the social hierarchy construct as something they are allowed to do and those lower in the hierarchy are not. It is a way of saying see how much better my life is compared to them! So when equality comes along and removes that privilege these people lose a way of oppressing others. To them that lack feels like they are being oppressed.