capnrickysully.bsky.social
Did army stuff. Then federal stuff. Now do mountain, coffee, fire, EMS stuff
“Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?"
“A Russian zombie state, if you can keep it.”
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I think people emulate movies every damn day.
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Just going to point out, once again, that he could have prevented the california ng from being called up to support ice by issuing title 9 orders. newsom is a coward who has done nothing to stop this shit, only acting to profit from it.
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These people operate in the gray areas. When it’s not gray, they make smoke. The rank and file and commanders may all question an order but in the end they rely on the JAGs to tell them what is legal. The argument will be that they thought the orders were legal. A truth for some. A cover for others.
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They canned the senior JAGs early for this reason.
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also far more likely to let them continue doing it without serious blowback.
They can, so they will.
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I know. And also much more siloed. Walled off into easily controlled bubbles. Don’t assume that maga world will ever see or hear the stuff you are. We are all living in different realities now.
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I would totally see their green zone inside LA to be chosen for having lots of bars or coffee shops lol.
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All protesters please carry an American flag with you. From the videos, the truth will be visible. Troops shooting at Americans holding American flags in solidarity. No violence. Just be in the way.
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I wouldn’t count on oligarch algorithms to save us.
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A big reason they’re using the guard.
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The point is to scare, but the value broader than the upcoming protest. The point is to show the entire world that the military is loyal to him.
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The current state of federal ID requirements: facial recognition being used to suppress protests. The security state will always use the tools we give them to control us.
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No. There is no tactical or strategic value in massing forces in DC right now. If there is a geographic component to this crisis, it’s urban-rural. They would also need a ton more equipment than they are.
There is political value in showing the world that the military is loyal to him though.
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Maybe do a podcast with Pete Hegseth?
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The obsession with tracking us across every domain is already ubiquitous and growing. Overt and subtle forms of control, surveillance, and manipulation already abound. What is being done about any of it? Why wrap a bow around it and hand it to them?
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we’re even willing to acknowledge the problem. Assuming we don’t grow to accept the new normal (like we did with credit scores). Once our privacy goes, we won’t get it back. I promise you that.
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We can’t even implement new gun laws after toddlers have their faces shot off. This is what i meant when i said it’s easy wave off and dismiss likely abuses. We always assume we can build protections in but the reality is that for most issues we have to wait until enough harm has been caused before
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Ok. Show me where we’re doing that. Show me where we have been able to roll back harmful systems and reform them without decades of harm, congressional hearings, court battles long after they were normalized.
We are still waiting for reforms to address existential threats that are very real.
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That’s a great example of how abuse gets baked into a system and normalized. The people excluded from those services are rarely considered in these kinds of debates. It’s a problem we’ve known about for decades and never resolved. We ignore the exclusivity so we can focus on the efficiency.
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All your examples are fair. I would stress that while they may not rise to the level of abuse, access is certainly something we can talk about. Access to those services is not universal. A subset of the population does find itself excluded, usually because they’re indigent, or can’t produce ID.
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I’m not suggesting you are proposing any singular system of tracking. My assumption is that such a system is inevitable with a centralized ID. I could be very well be wrong.
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risk and promising to correct as problems arise. We can’t even regulate the use of our personal data across the Internet in 2025 but we’re supposed have confidence that we can rein in bad actors in once they get a taste of total control? I don’t share that confidence.
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You’re right. They are separate problems. But I would ask you, in all seriousness, to ponder what other systems achieve the standard you just set? For what systems/tech have we been able to properly anticipate and mitigate abuse? Or even retroactively correct? Americans are notorious for dismissing
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I’ll admit that I don’t think real ID rises to the level of centralized ID tracking. Yet. It’s just a set of minimum standards for states. Not a big deal.
But nor can I state that the juice of ID tracking writ large is worth the squeeze of the hassle, risk, and abuse that often comes with it.
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At its worst, it enables granular, automated individual management of all people. It ties every piece of data about us into an easily managed package. Social, political, and efficiency scores to go with our credit scores. Your life in SEO format.
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Terrorism? Criminality? Unified data?
Can we not trust Montana?
Does Texas want to know what book I checked out from the library here in CO? Does DHS?
ID verification is, by definition, a control. At its most innocent, it’s a system to establish trust in a single direction.
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That’s true. But we’re talking about a totally centralized system along with a culture of widespread corruption, malice, and deregulation. A system managed by states, while more cumbersome, offers some firewall protection.
What is the real problem centralized ID tries to solve though?
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They are decentralized specifically so they cannot be controlled easily.