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    SamAndreas said:
    It's not a "best seller" best seller. It's below the top 100 in the category of books.

    It's a best seller in the narrow category of Political Conservatism and Libertarianism. Which is to say it competes well with Ann Coulter's books.

    Here's a review of it that caused me to laugh out loud:



    Western Doughty
    3.0 out of 5 stars This book made me realize I'm attracted to men.
    Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 19, 2023

    Josh Hawley exudes latent homosexual tendencies and now after reading the book, I'm here for it. Flame on, Josh!
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    Now, we’re in a semantics contest. It’s a best-seller in the context of political books which means enough people found it interesting as opposed to being a complete dud that didnt sell anything.
     
    Saintman2884 said:
    Now, we’re in a semantics contest. It’s a best-seller in the context of political books which means enough people found it interesting as opposed to being a complete dud that didnt sell anything.
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    It's not a semantics contest. It is that the book is listed as a top seller in a very narrow category. And that people bought a copy doesn't mean they found what was written in the book interesting, just that the book was bought. And we don't even know who bought the copies.

    And speaking of semantics, The New York Times is very much the authoritative keeper of the list of best selling books in the U.S. Saying a book is a "best-seller" very much implies it is listed in the NYT list as a best seller. Which Manhood isn't, unlike say, Michelle Obama's book "The Light We Carry", which is listed as #4 in the non-fiction + e-print category, which does make her a a best-selling author, and she can say her book is a best-seller. Crawley, not so much.
     
    Reminder that Epoch Times is a foreign disinformation vehicle that is associated with a cult.

     
    Saintamaniac said:
    She actually says, and I quote, "like right here (pointing to her desk), this would be a globe if I was a normal person". If you were a normal person, you wouldn't be on a video making a fool of yourself.
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    SystemShock said:
    It's not a semantics contest. It is that the book is listed as a top seller in a very narrow category. And that people bought a copy doesn't mean they found what was written in the book interesting, just that the book was bought. And we don't even know who bought the copies.

    And speaking of semantics, The New York Times is very much the authoritative keeper of the list of best selling books in the U.S. Saying a book is a "best-seller" very much implies it is listed in the NYT list as a best seller. Which Manhood isn't, unlike say, Michelle Obama's book "The Light We Carry", which is listed as #4 in the non-fiction + e-print category, which does make her a a best-selling author, and she can say her book is a best-seller. Crawley, not so much.
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    But enough people bought it within a certain category that it was considered something close to a bestseller. Plus, it was marketed as being a political book, whereas Michelle Obama’s book was an autobiography and is included in a much larger category of books.

    Sometimes, it’s all about marketing and who your intended audience is you’re trying to reach.
     
    Okay - this Target outrage is coming into focus. Lol. It’s a Pride collection, and some adult swimsuits have a tuck pocket for trans women who haven’t had surgery. 🤦‍♀️ So not all swimsuits and not children. MAGA idiots.

     
    MT15 said:
    Okay - this Target outrage is coming into focus. Lol. It’s a Pride collection, and some adult swimsuits have a tuck pocket for trans women who haven’t had surgery. 🤦‍♀️ So not all swimsuits and not children. MAGA idiots.

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    Good grief, people have issues. :covri:
     
    MT15 said:
    Another one: Higgins is a trash representative. (LOL, just now noticed autocorrect put “trade”)

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    That’s not battery, but that’s definitely an assault. It’ll probably be a misdemeanor, but that could be a criminal assault. Higgins could also be civilly sued for that. I hope Higgins is charged, because that is unacceptable, and it needs to be punished.
     
    MT15 said:
    A Nazi named Sai Varshith Kandula wasn’t on my Bingo card, that’s for sure.

    www.cbsnews.com

    19-year-old Missouri man arrested in U-Haul crash at White House security barriers

    Video from the scene showed officers confiscating a Nazi flag.
    www.cbsnews.com www.cbsnews.com
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    It’s an interesting phenomenon for sure
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    …….For people of Latino descent like Garcia, who self-identified as Hispanic, the allure of rightwing proto-fascist politics comes from a complex and contradictory cocktail of misinformation within Latino communities, the presence of authoritarian influences from their countries of origin, and a proximity to whiteness in the US that relies more on dominance over people than one’s skin color. In this world, violence is an apt political response to threats to such dominance.

    “Part of what we’re seeing – not just in the militia groups, but all across, including a clear upsurge of people of color voting Republican party – is that there’s not a necessary connection between racial identity and your beliefs,” Daniel HoSang, professor of ethnicity, race and migration and American studies at Yale University, says.

    He added: “It is complicated. It means disentangling your presumptions around race and political identity. We had an entire civil rights movement that was grounded on combating laws that were racially segregative. Now, we’re at a moment where it’s a bit more muddy and requires more nuance.”

    Garcia, who was killed by police, wore a patch on his chest that read “RWDS”, which stands for “Right Wing Death Squad”, a nod to glorifying violence and an allusion popular among far-right and extremist groups to violence by Central and South American paramilitary groups against communists and what they saw enemies on the political left from as far back as the 1970s, the Associated Press reported.

    The Anti-Defamation League found posts on Russian social media of Garcia with neo-Nazi tattoos and misogynist language, including those used by “incels”, a subculture of men who blame women and society for their inability to form romantic connections, a phenomenon that federal law enforcement sees as a rising threat that could escalate to violence, often against women.

    “White supremacy itself is not just about membership, about who is and isn’t white,” says HoSang, co-author of the 2019 book Producers, Parasites, Patriots: Race and the New Right-Wing Politics of Precarity. “It comes with a politics and ideology of division … It’s also their beliefs about the nation and of the role of violence in enforcing that hierarchy.”

    Unlike the white supremacists who rioted in Charlottesville in 2017, men of color attracted to white supremacist ideologies believe less in a white ethnostate and more that the state has failed them in the past and it will take violence to suppress threats and restore their perceived sense of order, HoSang says. Scholars have described their connection to these extremists as the “multiracial far right”………

    www.theguardian.com

    The allure of fascism: why do minorities join the far right?

    A white supremacist ideology would appear to be antithetical to people of color, but there’s a perverse logic at play when they join extremist groups
    www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
     

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