RationalWiki:What is going on in the blogosphere?/December 2019

December 2019
My semester with the snowflakes. Faith, Family and Folk: or how "socially conservative leftism" will never be the answer to right-wing populism The Whiplash Decade: a series of articles that look at how the 2010s evolved from wary optimism to cynic rage Christianity Today, the evangelical publication founded by Billy Graham, endorses the impeachment and removal of Donald Trump. Trump rails against the magazine, re-defining the usual definitions by calling it far-left!! If you're fed up with the all the bad news, here's 50 ilustrations of the best news of 2019 It's a little late for this article to be in the blogosphere, so here's an interview talking about what the left and the right get wrong about Islam. The UK chose barbarism, so now what? Pete Buttigieg is even worse than he seems A list of all the species that became extinct during the 2010s. Man as Machine: A look at automation, the utopian potential resulting from it, and its ultimate human cost America never stood for freedom An article talking about how evangelicals are falling for Trump. (Unfortunately, this thing is paywalled - ETA: perhaps only paywalled in US? viewable OK from New Zealand) [https://itsgoingdown.org/what-will-spark-the-next-insurrection-in-the-us-probably-everything/ What will spark the next insurrection in the US? Probably everything] How the cops during the latest tragedy fucked up horribly Josh Owens, a former video editor for Infowars, recounts his experience working for Alex Jones and how he grew disillusioned with Jones' conspiracy worldview. (Paywalled. Short version: Jones' on-the-air hysterics and machismo aren't an act. He really is that unhinged. He also instructed his employees to flat-out make stuff up for the sake of sensationalism.) It's been fifty years since Black Panther Party comrade and visionary Fred Hampton was assassinated by the FBI. Decolonizing games: Analysing dominant cultural mores in video games and how they affect narrative and gameplay, specifically with an emphasis on decolonization and presenting alternative narratives versus the dominant one about exploitation and eradication. Jack Merritt, the first named victim of the Nov 29 London Bridge attack, would be "livid" his legacy has been used to further an agenda of hate