RationalWiki:What is going on in the blogosphere?/July 2021

July 2021
Bill Maher says that Tokyo Olympics are "out-woking" the Oscars, proving that cancel culture is "an insanity that is swallowing up the world" Why neoliberalism needs neofascists.

No, billionaires won't "escape" to space while the world burns. We're currently not technologically advanced enough to sustain human life outside the planet without the constant labor of thousands of scientists and engineers France is not the "bastion of free speech" it claims it is, courtesy of Amnesty International. [https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3xw3x/new-research-vindicates-1972-mit-prediction-that-society-will-collapse-soon MIT predicted in 1972 that society would collapse in the 21st century. New research shows that we are unfortunately on schedule]. However, this "collapse" means an eternal economic depression due the economy's inability maintain record profits indefinitely. It does not mean the end of civilization or the apocalypse E-cig maker, Juul, purchased an entire issue of a scholarly journal, the American Journal of Health Behavior, and had every article therein written by somebody on Juul's payroll. Why the left should welcome the revolt against Cuba’s dictatorship Trump sues eighty-one million voters for banning him from the White House (Satire from The New Yorker) The Rise and Fall of the Ultimate Doomsday Prepper The war they call peace: On the tenth anniversary of South Sudan and the failure of the UN-sponsored 2018 "peace deal" The best feminist you've never heard of: He-Yin Zhen E pluribus unum: the Biden administration implements its own immigration reform How a medieval Croatian city invented the concept of government-imposed quarantine during the Black Death. How the CCP sold out the international communist movement. According to a study by Arizona State University, Gen X’s and Millennial evangelicals are increasingly questioning the political strands and moral viewpoints of the movement, and many are opposing the conservative culture war. On the fallacious nature of the human nature "argument" against communism. How Pro-Trump Local News Sites Keep Pushing 2020 Election Misinformation – an insidious network spreads Trumpism by masquerading as local news.