Update on Navalny in this thread from the NPR correspondent in Moscow.
For us on MLK Day, this is right out of the Martin Luther King Jr. playbook: Have an angry unjust ruler? Then do normal peaceful things and see if he lashes out with brutality—showing the world who he is.
Navalny: A minute ago I was let out of my cell to meet my lawyers. Now a court proceeding is supposed to take place in this police station. Why here? Why was I not summoned in writing? What's happening here is not possible. It's the height of lawlessness. https://t.co/cdkFyi8yUI
This takes tremendous courage and willingness to sacrifice. You may die. But if *many* people do the right thing and act with courage and without violence, the vicious person will eventually be toppled or at least be remembered as an embarrassment.
BREAKING: @navalny has been taken to Matrosskaya Tishina prison, the place where Sergei Magnitsky was murdered. https://t.co/Luz8WQMYoS
What other countries can do: make it less fun and easy to be enriching oneself by enabling and cooperating with brutal injustice. And associate their names formally with Putin for all to see.
BREAKING: @navalny’s colleague @vashurkov shared the list of eight Russian officials and oligarchs who Alexei thought should be sanctioned under the Magnitsky Act. Alexei prepared this list days before being arrested. pic.twitter.com/adg2Vq2pzL
Gather symbolically and peacefully to ask that justice be done through the law (if it were being administered rightly). And demonstrate for all to see that the leader does not care about just laws. *Eventually* the majority of the people begin to see it.
Navalny's supporters will on Saturday try to repeat a rally in 2013 when they bravely gathered outside the Kremlin walls demanding his freedom after a dubious conviction. Putin is unlikely to cave this time with more at stake and the world watching. https://t.co/fulLkOoWlT
When someone is a dictator, reminding them that many think they are a selfish, lying, coward pierces their self-delusion. And it causes the dictator to choose between either appearing weak by giving in, or inspiring more resistance if he cracks down.
BREAKING: @navalny urges Russians to 'take to the streets'. Protests scheduled for January 23rd. This is Putin’s worst nightmare coming to fruition. https://t.co/Qdzv0aYZNP
"Make sure the undeserving don't get too much!" is not Jesus' way.
I realize managing employees, minimum wage, food theft by employees, distribution of extra food, universal health care, and incentives are complex issues. But it is useful to approach them from the standpoint of a hard-working, food service worker.
YIMBY Let the poor be able to find a place to live in your neighborhood.
Allow room for the poor in your zoning. "'When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap to the very edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest. Leave them for the poor and for the foreigner residing among you. I am the LORD your God.'" — Leviticus 23:22
I don't know why everyone is talking about minimum wage today but here's another tweet coming to my timeline.
conservative: so a janitor should make $15 an hour?
me: yes
conservative: and i guess kids flipping burgers should make $15 an hour?
me: yes
conservative: next you’re gonna tell me that grocers shou-
me: did you just have this list of people you don’t respect ready to go
— mnateshyamalan dot bsky dot social 🤙 (@MNateShyamalan) January 17, 2021
Being a host at Macaroni Grill was mind-numbing and made my feet hurt to stand for hours on the stone floor. Being a golf caddy at a country club was demeaning and humiliating. The only good was the money. (I preferred mowing lawns and painting houses where we had more autonomy).
On the other side, I have been thinking about Cathie Wood who has been the most genius investor the last five years: innovative, collaborative, transparent, ethical. Her video from Friday:
Did you miss our January #mARKetUpdate webinar? Now you can watch the replay! Hear from @CathieDWood and the ARK Team as we talk about fiscal and monetary policy, multi-cancer screening, and ARK’s latest research on Bitcoin. https://t.co/yyUc00QQFH
But she wanted Democrats to lose because of fear high taxes and regulations will drive companies to other countries. She believes in the market, companies, capitalism, and competition to bring positive change. I think her ideas can also be heard while still caring for workers.
In my reading, Martin Luther King Jr., in his later years, from 1964 to 1968, more strongly advocated for economic justice for the poor than for racial justice. But in arguing for the former, he was also addressing the latter. https://twitter.com/AndyRowell/status/1348491861577461760?s=19,
and
With the signing of the Civil Rights Act in June 1964 and accepting the Nobel Peace Prize in December, Martin Luther King Jr. stressed "economic justice."
David Garrow, Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
If you wonder whether racism and economic philosophy are related, just remember slavery. Unrestrained capitalism exploits, abuses, enslaves the worker and reaps profit and riches.
But capitalism's hard work and innovation can be good, if there is care and justice for the poor.
One more argument for conservatives made by @mattyglesias is if you want America to thrive as a country (against China), you want lots of babies to increase the population. And people won't have them if economic well-being is super stressful when you're in your 20's and 30's.
And another viral tweet thread on minimum wage. https://twitter.com/JoshRaby/status/1350582459906351104
What he is saying here is that it is doable for his restaurant if all the businesses do it. (And covid has been terrible for restaurants but that is another issue).
Still pondering economic conservatives fear of taxes, I will also say that I have been skeptical that Republican politicians know what is best for the economy since 2013. https://twitter.com/AndyRowell/status/294821935504838656?s=19
And indeed the stock market tends to do better under Democratic presidents.
👀 Whoa. This is who a lot of us voiced concerns about a week ago when from the pulpit he angrily denounced Tennessee reporters by name for reporting on his presence in DC on January 6 (which he himself had talked about on Facebook live video that evening).
Breaking: @GovBillLee ‘s pastor Steve Berger announces he’s transitioning away from senior pastor. Says it’s been years in the making and is not because of his scrutiny in the media for his incorrect claims that #antifa partially was to blame for riot in D.C. @WSMVpic.twitter.com/77TUnsVp1Z
