Saturday Roundup: Living in Ghana, Trump the untouchable, Silicon fascists and F**king Mondays!
The week that was.
In case you missed it, here’s what we published this week on The Banter!:
The second part of my series on living in Ghana in the early 2000’s (read the first part here):
Living In Ghana Part 2: Accra, Mama T, And The British Class System Abroad
by Ben Cohen Part 1 of this series can be read here. (Note: I have changed the names of the volunteers. Everything else in this story is true) I arrived at Kotoka International Airport, Accra at night time, exhausted from a lengthy journey that included a layover on the tarmac in Lagos, Nigeria. As the steward…
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Bob Cesca’s evisceration of Donald Trump’s abuse of the American legal system (now unlocked):
The Untouchable Trump
by Bob Cesca WASHINGTON, DC – He keeps getting away with it. Donald Trump continues to exploit loopholes in the system to escape the law – a system he’s planning to tear down, ironically. The United States is, as we’ve all discussed, a nation of laws. Between the U.S. Code and the Constitution, there are myriad guardrails against criminality, tyranny, and…
Justin Rosario takes on Silicon Valley tech bros fantasies of turning America into a fascist dictatorship:
Silicon Fascists
by Justin Rosario Silicon Valley has a fascism problem. To put it a little less delicately, a lot of very rich men (they’re always men, naturally), find democracy to be deeply offensive and think a little less of it would be great for America. And by “a little less,” I mean “none.” And by “great for …
My roundup of the most interesting stories of the week:
F**king Mondays: Drake the "Colonizer", Trump's Nine Lives and Sinister Hamas Motives
Welcome to another edition of “F**king Mondays!” In the roundup today: Antisemitic rap beefs Even as a fan of Hip Hop, I’ve never been particularly interested in rap beefs. They mostly seemed like planned marketing gimmicks modeled on the (very real) Tupac and Biggie dr…
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