stephendaedalus.bsky.social
i got values but i don't know how or why
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and vice versa, the republican court believes that anything a democratic president does is presumptively unconstitutional, even if it past precedent would say otherwise
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i also think that it is only a matter of time before this court rewrites section 1 of the 14th to effectively end birthright citizenship. the 14th amendment is the chief obstacle to a legal regime of tiered citizenship and subordinate castes, and they will not let it stand.
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feels like it could double as an epitaph too
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tbh, i can't do it. i won't do it.
and unless there's radical change, i'm going to work so fucking hard to convince people in my world that they shouldn't do it either.
enough. we need to shrug off this 30-year-cycle of abuse masquerading as pragmatism, gradualism, institutionalism--"moderation."
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it never will come. not with these feckless abusers--the democratic appeasership--running things.
and so i don’t know that i can hold my nose to support the very people who (whether they recognize it or not) are responsible for the abuses, the performative cruelties, visited upon our body politic.
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"after" didn’t come in 2012, or 2018, or 2020. each time, in the face of norm-eviscerating intransigence, democrstic appeasers urge gradualism, institutionalism, the status quo.
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but “after” never comes. “after” didn’t come in 2006, when voters repudiated the party that lied us into iraq; it didn’t come in 2008, when democrats confronted the worst financial crisis since 1928 and responded by ... shoring up the status quo + urging gradualism + protecting financial interests.
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i recognize this pathology, i understand my own role in it (my growing anger and resentment), and i apprehend what is at stake. i understand that the “dutiful” thing to do is probably to hold my nose and give them my support. to make them accountable “after” or “later.”
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the most maddening thing about the dem appearsership is that they're cognizant of their own agency and they relish the trappings of their role
so they tell me i need to support them to stop the abuse they've enabled! this is delicious nihilism: using the specter of harm to maintain the status quo
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eventually, you stop being angriest and most resentful toward the active abuser. rather, your anger and resentment turn toward the person who could’ve stopped it.
that’s where i am. when you witness time and again the disinclination to confront abuse, to take action, that’s what breaks you.
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i grew up with an abusive father and a mother who refused to reckon with the reality of abuse. i don't doubt that she "meant well," by her lights, and i acknowledge that she herself was a frequent focus of physical abuse.
but she's also the one person who could've ended it. at any time.
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rocked a tee from this tour back in the day
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wtaf
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also: the birth of still another expla-scuse as to why these things hallucinate: they're trained on dreck. (maybe at grok they are? e.g., elon's tweets?)
i don't know that musk can wrap his special k-addled brain around this, but hallucination is an irreducible feature, not a bug, of genai as such.
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people who don't just consistently turn out and vote, but who donate time and money.
...and they, the party appeasership, seem to have zero fucks to give.
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i go from the borges source to the foucauldian gloss of this and ... i cannot bring myself to do as F himself did: to laugh. we are living in one of the dumber possible timelines.
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l’image juste
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@rickmclaughlin.com is the band name kierkegaard-inspired?! :)
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to be clear: the constitutional crisis is here and has been here, even if the judiciary doesn't want to recognize it as such.
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@kairyssdal.bsky.social do you think this is working the refs in the sense that it signals possible non-compliance? in other words, defer to potus or we manufacture a constitutional crisis. you don't want a constitutional crisis do you?
feels they've notched so many wins by dangling this threat.
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the coda is that the self-styled paper of record should by all rights be in receivership. its record in this 21st century attests to a pattern of journalistic malpractice: failure after failure of responsible journalism. and @nytimes.com is institutionally incapable of holding itself accountable.
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so you're saying there's a chance
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this ≠ shitposting
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even now he is pathologically incapable of discerning that he is a chump whom bibi is pulling by his nose.
it's nose-pulling all the way down, isn't it? bibi to trump to trump's magacolytes. it's only the vitality, if not the viability, of the republic that's at stake.
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nobody ever talks about the reverse of this: not just the fact that cops are free to hit protesters, but that the context of protest gives them license to indulge in what alex delarge aptly described as "a little of the old ultraviolence." it's not for nothing that alex became a weapon of the state.
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This is going to sound at least somewhat corny maybe, but bravery is almost never what you see in an action movie or read about in a nail biting news article. Those things take courage but that is not what real life is, those moments are few and far between. It takes actual guts to just do what may…
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a note apropos of nothing whatsoever: the field manual says one can mobility-kill an m1 tank by stretching as few as three strands of barbed wire across a road; it recommends ten strands for 100% likelihood of entangling its tracks.
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many of us were okay with this when the people being charged and tear-gassed and beatenbloodiedarrested (it's all one song) were college kids protesting the israeli decimation of gaza. wasn't that just warm up for this?
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The right has infrastructure (networks, algorithms, hyperpartisan media outlets) to strategically (and permanently) frame these events for their audiences while traditional media is still gathering all the facts.