[What to make of the GOP debate, human rights for Juggalos, and
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DISPATCHES FROM THE CULTURE WARS – AUGUST 29, 2023  
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_ What to make of the GOP debate, human rights for Juggalos, and more
culture clash _

, Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer; Photo: Getty Images/Fulton
County Sheriff’s Office

 

* A Tale of Two Election Workers
* Dog Whistles at the GOP Debate
* A Bubbling Brew in Tacoma
* Democracy is Feminist
* Texas MAGAts Out to Lasso Cities
* Juggalos — An Oppressed Cultural Minority
* Longtermism
* Keeping Lake Michigan at Bay
* Why They Think Climate Crisis is Unbelievable
* Hip Hop at 50

A TALE OF TWO ELECTION WORKERS
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By James Risen
The Intercept

Ruby Freeman and Misty Hampton had a few things in common. They were
both from Georgia, and both were election workers in their hometowns.
But their paths sharply diverged when Donald Trump began to push his
fraudulent claims that he had won the 2020 presidential election and
pressured officials in key swing states, including Georgia, to
illegally change the outcome.

DOG WHISTLES AT THE GOP DEBATE
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By Jordan Tama, Brian Kalt and Calvin Schermerhorn
The Conversation

After weeks of speculation over who was going to participate, eight
Republican candidates seeking their party’s presidential
nomination appeared on stage together in Milwaukee on Aug. 23, 2023,
for the first debate of the 2024 election season. Without Trump, they
were able to spend their time talking about issues and not simply
fighting off attacks by the indicted ex-President.

A BUBBLING BREW IN TACOMA
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By Hannah Krieg
The Stranger

Something is in the air in Tacoma. Lifelong community organizer and
democratic socialist Jamika Scott soared through her August primary
for Tacoma City Council. On top of that, the young Tacoma chapter of
the Democratic Socialists of America collected almost double the
number of signatures required to get their Tenants’ Bill of Rights
on the ballot.

DEMOCRACY IS FEMINIST
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By Jennifer Weiss-Wolf
Time

Women’s Equality Day was initially a way to express the belief
that a democracy in which “half the population is
subordinated—politically, socially, economically—is not a true
democracy at all.” 50 years later, we must be clear that women’s
autonomy, well-being, and rights are inextricably tied to the
integrity and durability of our democratic systems.

TEXAS MAGATS OUT TO LASSO CITIES
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By John Pfaff
Slate

The deeply conservative Texas Legislature wants to effectively deny
cities—the state’s large Democratic-leaning cities, Houston, San
Antonio, and Austin in particular—the ability to pass local laws and
regulations in eight major policy areas. And it does all this in a
bill that is 10 single-spaced pages long, nearly one page of which is
legislative findings, not actual law.

JUGGALOS — AN OPPRESSED CULTURAL MINORITY
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By Joe Wilkins
Jacobin

Juggalos, the intense Insane Clown Posse fanbase, have long been
targeted by police, including in a dubious federal investigation under
the legacy of a Red Scare law. The group’s crime, it seems, is its
very existence as a visible working-class counterculture.

LONGTERMISM
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France 24

Silicon Valley’s favourite philosophy, longtermism, has helped to
frame the debate on artificial intelligence around the idea of human
extinction. But increasingly vocal critics are warning that the
philosophy is dangerous, and the obsession with extinction distracts
from real problems associated with AI like data theft and biased
algorithms.

KEEPING LAKE MICHIGAN AT BAY
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By Siri Chilukuri
Grist

In the wake of Lake Michigan’s encroaching water, South Shore
residents have organized their neighbors and prompted solutions by
creating a voice so loud that politicians, engineers, and bureaucrats
took heed. After years of tireless work, folks in this community have
convinced the city to study the problem to see how bad this damage
from climate change will be — and how fast they can fix it.

WHY THEY THINK CLIMATE CRISIS IS UNBELIEVABLE
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By Giancarlo Pasquini, Alison Spencer, Alec Tyson and Cary Funk
Pew Research Center

To better understand the perspectives of those who see less urgency to
address climate change, Pew Research Center conducted in-depth
interviews with 32 U.S. adults who hold this view, including some who
do not believe there’s evidence that the Earth is warming. Language
describing climate change as a crisis and an urgent threat was met
with suspicion by many participants.

HIP HOP AT 50
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By Jason England
Defector

I’ve been with it almost every step of the way, and have witnessed
hip hop less as conqueror than conquered. At best, it was absorbed
into the world—and here the “world” means mainstream America.
Hip hop _assimilated. _And that always comes at a cost.

* Georgia
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* 2020 Presidential Election
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* Ruby Freeman
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* Misty Hampton
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* washington
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* Tacoma
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* Democratic Socialists of America
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* Jamika Scott
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* texas
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* Greg Abbott
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* Death Star
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* Juggalos
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* Insane Clown Posse
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* longtermism
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* artificial intelligence
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* flooding
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* chicago
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* Climate Change
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* THE RIGHT
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* Donald Trump
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* Fascism
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