HeyJaredThe Progressive Primer
One-of-a-kind perspectives on social justice, racism, sexism, and design disasters. Serious. Witty. Frank.
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Dead Man Voting (opens the original)
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Brazil, 2024. A man had died 4 hours earlier, apparently on the ground. Instead of calling a funeral home, someone somehow placed his still-warm body into a wheelchair. Then his niece wheeled his cadaver into a bank and pretended he was still alive, to cash in on him.She wanted to force his signature on a loan. The morbid video shows her telling him he needed to sign, and him not responding. She shoved a pen into his hand, but his fingers wouldn’t close around it. Because he was dead.His niece i
Dictator Bans Smiling at "Great" American State Fair (opens the original)
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Somewhere in Pyongyang sits a Ferris wheel, barely moving, with no riders. Because fun is banned in North Korea, lest your neighbor report you for smiling at something other than a photo of Dear Leader.Well, here in ’Murrica, we have Donald Trump and his state fair. The pathetic attendance and visible yawns at Trump’s “Great” “American” “State” “Fair” has been treated as a joke, but that’s the point. He wanted it to be boring.It wasn’t accidentally joyless. It was </s
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