Scott Boehmer

Tag: Election 2024

  • Rules of Engagement

    1) When somebody hurts you, tell them. When somebody steps on your toes, let them know that they stepped on your toes. See how they react. They’ll tell you who they are.

    2) When somebody seems too unsafe to trust with your pain, set a boundary. If somebody has proved themselves less safe than you thought, but you still think it’s safe to do so, tell them that you’re going to have to withdraw in some way from them. See how they react. They’ll tell you who they are.

    3) When somebody seems too unsafe to trust with your boundaries, leave. If it’s not safe to tell them, or you’re not sure if it’s safe, withdraw from them without telling them. See how they react. They’ll tell you who they are.

    A. R. Moxon

    Rules of Engagement (The Reframe)

  • Lost in the Future

    Modern existence has become engulfed in sludge, the institutions that exist to cut through it bouncing between the ignorance of their masters and a misplaced duty in objectivity, our mechanisms for exploring and enjoying the world interfered with by powerful forces that are too-often left unchecked. Opening our devices is willfully subjecting us to attack after attack from applications, websites and devices that are built to make us do things rather than operate with the dignity and freedom that much of the internet was founded upon.

    Ed Zitron

    Lost In The Future (Where’s Your Ed At)

  • Three big answers (about NC elections)

    What direction is North Carolina headed in?

    The answer: still unclear.

    Carolina Forward Research Staff

    Together, Robinson and Morrow may have publicly established the floor of support that Republican statewide candidates can expect in North Carolina, no matter what. If anything, this speaks even more clearly to how deep political polarization has sunk in.

    Carolina Forward Research Staff

    Though Democrats won a majority of votes for the State Senate (50.1%) and State House (51.1%), Republicans nevertheless held on to their supermajority in the former, and are just 1 seat from a supermajority in the latter.

    Carolina Forward Research Staff

    Three big answers (Carolina Forward)

  • Wind the clock

    What you don’t do is give up. The outcome of this election has exposed to many the realities we didn’t want to see, of just how many people around us openly embrace hatred and bigotry and authoritarianism. Standing up to that can be scary and even dangerous, but it is also right. Beliefs are the things you stand for even when it’s scary, even when it’s hard, even when there might be consequences. And the less danger you, personally, face for standing up for what you believe, the more obligated you are to do it.

    Molly White

    Wind the clock (Citation Needed)

  • American Reality

    The shining possibility of an America living up to its ideals feels washed away by the dark reality of the America that is.