feralrobots.bsky.social
Cis straight borderline-elderly middle-class white man.
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But if a few people in masks start lighting stuff on fire? Then you have news. This creates an *enormous* attentional advantage towards the most violent and chaotic kind of protest.
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wait were folks accusing faine of "doomposting" over that?! that's so f*ing weird.
(also, yes.)
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She literally LEAD WITH '"woke" mania' in paragraph 1! She told us her deal & then wasted thousands of words of our time!
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Ranked choice is good. But don't count on it to save the day. Still need to keep awareness that the machine wants someone the machine thinks it can control* (e.g. Cuomo).
Also don't count it out if it fails us in this case (there's a good chance it will).
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*it can't.
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If you study the successful rebellions and resistance and civil rights movements of the past, you will note that “people who spend their time publicly bumming out everyone around them by emphasizing how totally fucked everything is” do not play a central role, or indeed, any role at all
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Seems to confirm attendees at Trump's Fort Bragg speech were selected based on political allegiance.
I.e.: Trump's speech at Fort Bragg was a #Potempkin framing excercise, trying to instill feelings of helplessness.
(TBC Saideman is NOT trying to go along.)
saideman.blogspot.com/2025/06/how-...
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There are manual fire extinguisher handles inside the driver's compartment and on the outside of the tank's hull, located just behind the NBC overpressure system on the left rear of the hull. Pulling this handle results in firing of the engine extinguisher bottles and a shut down of the engine.
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She lead with '"woke" mania' in paragraph 1 so I'm gonna guess there's a lot of stuff in her activism journey she's not telling us about.
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"A legal patchwork dark and drear
May steal the rights I hold so dear.
I stumped for Trump, the libs to piss--
But whoa--I didn't vote for this."
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Just last week finished reading @spitfirefilly.bsky.social's _Eagle Days_ (German perspectives on the Battle of Britain) which believe it or don't has some really relevant passages.
E.g. here's a German citizen disgusted by crackdowns on freedom - but going along for the good of the country:
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Also TBC: Yes, even if it IS some kind of Potemkin framing exercise, it's still REALLY concerning. Just not 'end of days' concerning.
bsky.app/profile/prof...
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Seems to me some good question to ask & discuss very publicly would be things like:
How were soldiers selected to be seated in-camera?
Who gave them those flags to hold up?
Was there any coaching or prompting? (If not, why wasn't it needed?)
etc.
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I guess that depends on who's defining 'cringe', & at what point in time.
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& TBC we should not look to the military to save us.
Sure, ask soldiers not to follow illegal orders - but know that most of them will. Know that people resigning in protest mostly won't go on to lead resistance cells.
Know also, though, the SA were already inside the house, at ICE, DEA, CBP, etc.
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...man that musta hurt.
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Has he ever had any?
'Insights', sure, but they're not novel. They're the same ones every long-con grifter has.
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So it feels like they want people to rise up peacefully and make their dissatisfaction heard on kitchen table issues, with discipline but not enough discipline people won’t provide silly quotes, while being sure they never reference their heritage.
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I recall similar complaints around Occupy.
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If someone tells me they're 'adamantly apolitical', I immediately assume they're bullshitting me. (& maybe themselves.)
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It also struck me that one of the things going on is that some of teh control elements are now rendered INSIDE THE OUTER CURVE OF THE CORNER RADIUS. & not only that, but with their centers above the bottom end of the radius!
It makes them look unbalanced.
It's just...wrong!
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my serious answer to that is hard for me to articulate but it relates to Miller's profound dedication to the cult of white supremacism via creation of an authoritarian state.
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There are legal arguments for that, but he'd have a good chance of beating them in court.
Elephant in the room is volunteer-SA hunting down his family to do them harm.
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“I’m apolitical” I say, sitting at the cash register of my store that sells t-shirts with political slogans on them
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D'oh. Yeah that would make more sense; I didn't pick up the mirror frame artifacts.
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Is there something on those things that HASN'T been recalled yet?
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IIRC Elon didn't want to have any wiper at all - had some weird fantasy about it not needing them or something because of special glass?
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Pontiac had a minivan some years back that had 2 wipers mounted so they swung up to the outside like that. It looked very disconcerting, but I gather it worked OK. (Resting position was down.)
But TBC Cybertrucks have only 1 wiper, swinging up & to the right, apparently.