librarycommoner.bsky.social
My ADHD brain sampling a weird intersection of doomscrollable interests. Do people still use capital letters? I'm just barely literate in Korean.
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We'd not just have the largest GDP, we'd be the richest country on all sorts of measures, *while having saved* tens or hundreds of millions of lives from immiseration and death.
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Today closes with ICE looking like biggest pussies on earth. Less than 100 Paramount Angelinos kept ICE agents trapped at a stand off for 8 hours. The civilians were unarmed and only called ICE agents names.
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if your putative allies — local cops — decide that the unrest just isn’t worth it, you’ve lost face. if your goons are impotent in the face of the crowds, you’ve lost face. (2/?)
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and if you call out the national guard and tell them to, against their training, their mission, and likely the intuitions of the service members, use force against protesters, there is a good chance you are on the path to losing face, with no other way to escalate. (3/?)
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I have no doubt Miller thinks he can just kill everyone who disagrees, or kill enough of them that everyone else meekly falls into line. This is not because he is a savvy and calculated operator. This is because he's a fucking idiot.
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I think this is it which seems less bad (but still bad) than what those first tweets would imply
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Like, objectively, this is still a bit south of the LA riots.
Also, now that I'm actually looking into this, it seems the events that happened were that the protestors blocked a street with the barricade, ICE's cars formed up, the people behind it scattered when it became clear they'd charge 1/2
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(Your standard reminder: if you were born before 1987, there is a good chance you never got the second dose of the MMR vaccine that improves the efficacy of the measles component a few critical points. Get your immunity checked with a blood test or just get a MMR booster.)
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lol, this livestream =D
"can you fly back and pan and pan to the bad guys again, sorry homeland security"
It's the producer speaking, unclear if he knows he is on tv. And it is freaking FOX! =D
www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4e_...
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This whole dynamic where if some commentary or criticism gets coded as liberal (subcoding: feminine) it can just be dismissed, out of hand and sneeringly by all power structures is reaching a breaking point. We're seeing the same dynamic play out with AI.
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This is the 1950s america I want to return to. Just 3 generations ago, a person could have a 900sq house, six children, 3 TV channels, a nasty casserole for dinner, and a bowl full of amphetamines on the counter, all on a single middle class salary. What happened?
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I’m an artist, man. Quality is a thing we sneak into people’s consumption like parents putting broccoli under cheese. You think most people care if it goes away?
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Yeah, a big part of the reason people keep turning to chaos is because the Imperium is so horrible and chaos often isn't lying when they offer the downtrodden a better deal.
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If witches are not real, burning people at the stake for witchcraft is abhorrent backwards superstitious bigotry. If witches are real, my issues re: stake burnings are more process oriented and centered around evidence, due process, and proportionality.