…I…had a post…sorta…but…nobody can see it because it…uhhh…went away…so…there will be one…but for now…this is just keeping the faith that something will be along to take its place?
[…for clarity…now that there is in fact something that just about fits the description beyond just the part above this…I just left that there…any implication in its accompanied context that it’s converted to suggesting I may churn out another of these today is at worst accidental…although…given that I had whole other post I was going to post before some part of the chain of miracles required for that to take place decided to pull the rug on that one…&…if anywhere still had a copy of that…at best it might…intersect…what wound up under this…so…it wouldn’t be hard to imagine in a few ways…even if you wouldn’t think there was an obvious point of intersection between any of what follows &…finnish pre-school…for just one of the things the one I don’t got meandered through…&…I can’t exactly tell you if this is better…but…maybe it’ll help if you think of it like making pancakes…like…proper pancakes…crêpes…the first one is basically a sacrifice to the pan…after that it’ll let you actually make the things?]
…I…well it’s not that I have no words…but…the words I have…are not…helpful?
There was a physician present. I don't know how. While waiting for the ambulance they would not let the physician render aid.
…I…don’t think somehow it’s worse this time because it was a white lady…the other people who have died as a result of this shitshow weren’t somehow less of a tragedy…but…it wasn’t more tragic that there was a war in ukraine than gaza, either…that’s…not how that works…but the way some of this works
There are a bunch of fake pictures of protests among my friend networks on other sites. They are really, obviously AI, but I understand how in all the pressures at the moment you can see it, have a feeling, and hit share.Instead: go to local news. Here’s my outlet I write for. There are others.
SHUT THE FUCK UP (Walz is readying the National Guard in case of "unrest," which traditionally means protesters…but might not mean that this time)minnesotareformer.com/2026/01/07/w…
…less than 24hrs between that lady saying the thing & one of the good tims saying that…&…it’s objectively nuts to think that a governor calling out state troops to potentially counter the roving squads of faceless goons that nominally-pseudo-anonymously represent the federal administration…could happen…so for it to happen & seem like it could pass for a “good thing”…must surely be beyond-crazy
"Nuance" meaning "cops encountered a situation regular Americans deal with every single day and responded with murderous gunfire"
…they didn’t even have to consult the kalshi markets
That's not even bothsidesing, just a few paragraphs of "the ICE account *could* be right *therefore*."Kinda surprised they actually used the active voice for the shooting instead of the usual "the woman appears to have been struck by bullets somehow involving an officer" exonerative tense.
…&…that one isn’t talking about the CNN thing…go on…have a guess
As you listen to DHS and ICE offer their excuses and justifications for murdering an American mother in cold blood, a quickly-forgotten reminder from Chicago: www.usatoday.com/story/news/n…
Meanwhile the NYTimes both-sidesing into epistemic oblivion
…that ritual thing…is…cold…but…pretty accurate
Another. This "dangerous" Mexican immigrant lived in the United States for 20 years, was a father, and had no criminal record. And they shot him dead. In September.www.nytimes.com/interactive/…
…they don’t know…& seem to be even less interested in…how to unfuck their bullshit…& they are backing themselves into places they only see themselves having moves nobody should be getting to make…&…the stakes & the principles involved make it seem like that has to be cataclysmic…but…fundamentally…we shouldn’t need all the scary & tragic stuff to deal with a bunch of terrified children…these people are scared out of their minds…that’s how they’ve lived their whole lives…& their minds are…stunted…but…& I say this with no shortage of respect for the guy…tim walz…is nobody’s idea of a radical
…that is in contention for one of the most radical things the radically fucking insane tinpot fantasist has come out with & I swear I haven’t even heard “the news” mention it…meanwhile they probably had to put putin on an IV drip to replenish his…in these dr stangelove times…precious bodily fluids
…in fact…if you could somehow find all the people who got a happy feeling when they took that in…that might be one of them wheat/chaff kinda deals
And here’s me who once upon a time thought, ‘Okay but what if people SAW it happening then they’d believe and act’
and we can have it in 4k and they will still shoot you in the face and you’ll still be dead.
There are people who still don’t understand that you can do everything right–you can do everything they tell you–and you will still be shot in the face.
This happens to the best of us. The kindest. The most law abiding. Philando Castile.
Everything is threatening to a paranoid bigot. A twelve-year-old child. The mother of a kindergartener. A school nutritionist. Your car is a weapon. Your wallet is a weapon. Your body is a weapon. Even when your back is turned. Even if you run.
We cannot fix the problem because we are not the problem and we did not create the problem. The problem is the person holding the gun and person with the power to hire him.
…&…no, I don’t really think that when people take themselves to the places they do to make the protests they do…they “know” that could be the last thing they ever do…but…I do know in a lot of families they have to teach their kids the same lesson about everything from traffic stops to…trying to be helpful when you’re “intimidating” coded…for the same reason…they’ll be wrong…but you’ll be dead…it’s…barely even a trope or a meme because it’s been an unavoidable reality for swathes of the population for so long it’d be like saying everest has rizz or something…it’s been an unmissable part of the landscape for longer than any of us have individually been alive…longer than you’d have to go back to the earliest knowledge critters it makes sense to say were us ever grasped…but…some things about it…are still the sorts of things that ought to have the sort of…valence…it would if while you were watching the news from the couch a full-on truck-as-in-trucker-as-in-the-snowman-not-the-bandit obliterated your 4th wall & stopped right in front of you where the TV used to be?
After the assassination of Melissa Hortman it’s not hard to understand why a woman in Minnesota would be afraid of a man in a mask who says he’s a cop.
I’m seeing a lot of people predict that “the right wing media is going to turn this story for Trump” and “they’re going to work overtime to make America forget this” and you should tell that to all these people out there in Minnesota in fucking January. This can matter. This will matter.
…ask the people bulk-buying whistles & working rotas for where to brandish those the same way the lollipop lady worked the crosswalk when school let out…&…no offense lads…but…I’ve never meet a bunch of “organizers” that even managed to organize *themselves* into an organisation that did anything of much use to anyone else that didn’t have a bunch of load-bearing ladies in that matrix…either way
it takes a lot to rouse the militant spirit of normie america and turn bourgeois liberals into de facto revolutionaries. but it’s not a hypothetical. it’s happened before in this country. and every time it does, the country is fundamentally and irrevocably changed by it.
…not in a “you light the torches & I’ll break out the pitchforks” human mob wave blanketing the land & sweeping the evil from their lofty perches to be brung down to size & down all the pegs…& then maybe beat on a little with the pegs…assuming those are maybe on the order of a belaying pin…I mean…maybe that’d be the natural arc of that narrative trajectory in a story…but…stories are like euclidean math…you can get away with thinking it’s just like the real thing with all the convenient assumptions removed or otherwise accounted for in enough instances that to loads of people that’s true…but…it isn’t…so anytime you need to work numbers that matter in the real physics sense…those won’t match the nice ones that juggle pretty…so…chad has a point
oldhead advice from an oldhead.
every couple years, newcomers to the movement think “THIS is finally it, the moment when the dam breaks and the whole system is overthrown”
and when it doesn’t happen they lose patience and get disillusioned and drop out of movement work
gotta build for long term
…but…in that sense…the movement is always starting & will never be big enough or far enough along to measure up…& in better times that don’t know they’re better times…you can almost measure that in the raw numbers of people who don’t need to bother
Really fun group discussion over on Twitter about what “murder” actually is. Learning a lot!
…&…even if…where you are…you still don’t…at least in a taking-your-life-in-your-hands-to-take-to-the-frozen-streets-for-the-sake-of-others-unlike-you kinda way…if you somehow found your way to this digital backwater…it’s not exactly credible to me that you can avoid noticing this one
Looking back, everyone will one day realize that all that woke stuff was right. Unfortunately, being right won’t erase the suffering.
…I mean…talk about reaching the parts the other beers can’t…like carlsberg claimed to back in the day…when the carling ads went further than the levis lad in the laundrette…& we took…oh, so much shit…for granted
i really do think this is an inflection point
imagine getting cooked by Thomas Chatterton Williams over your policing takes
…but…they should be shocked…it’s fucking shocking…so is, like, a truly bewildering surfeit of their shenanigans…but…apparently the bar is that something needs to make more of an impression than cletus-sacks-the-capitol-day…so…fuck…I dunno what to tell ya?
it is true that it should not matter that the murder victim was a white, middle-class, U.S. citizen mother, but it is also true that it does matter and that the story reaches people who might not otherwise be reached as a result.
…anyway…this isn’t really how I tried to get this to turn out the first time but apparently that made the online loa angry or something because nobody will ever get to compare that effort to anything…unless the loa are…like…real…in which case…who knows…maybe they weren’t even mad…maybe they just needed something to read & I ought to take it as a compliment…seems…unlikely…but…stranger shit crops up more days than not in these interesting times…anyway
…some stuff is maybe complicated…or nuanced…or…whatever
The guy calmly blasting a protestor in the face w chemicals while his colleagues appear unperturbed and media calmly stand around—so, you know, a clearly non-dangerous moment—has “BORTAC” on his vest.That’s CBP. The guys who make ICE look well-trained and disciplined.
…or really get the lead out & swing me a pendulum I can call a plumb line
Better yet, disestablish all of DHS, and undo the nightmarish idiocies that we created in a panic 25 years ago. Reestablish the INS, get rid of ODNI, fix the damage from the Patriot Act, etc.
…some people I guess are just more naturally concerned so they didn’t have to wait until the investigations that came *after* the contracts…&…maybe…some of those people…didn’t understand that to be the way due diligence worked…even for government work…but…I could…translate that into what it seems to be saying…&…more than likely if palantir ever crawled this webspace & I had…they would tag me as an enemy of the tech-state-arts…which apparently is what we’re doing now that the state of the art is that there shouldn’t be any art in the state that isn’t artifice
This is what people on Fox are like. People watch Fox because they like this.
Never mind that this isn’t the definition of doxing in the first place, but you can’t dox a federal employee. If you’re a public servant, your identity isn’t “hidden.” It’s on public records. People can access those public records.
…another of the things I got around to in “the one that got away” was a whole string of stuff off bluesky about people who are…”christian”…or “catholic”…presenting…or self-identifying…or claiming to represent in a speak for/as kinda way…not knowing their sunday school shit…mostly with reference to a lady who isn’t catholic but can school them on that stuff well enough people who don’t know that about her think she either is or must have been raised as a catholic…anyway
A GOP official snapped a creeper photo of a trans woman using the bathroom. She was charged with violating a Texas law banning recording in bathrooms.She sued and has gotten slapped down in multiple courts.Elon Musk, the CEO of a child porn site, is supporting her.www.chron.com/culture/arti…
…how does the one thing go about “& ye shall know them by their deeds” or whatever?
…I mean…he’s not the kind of catholic JD purports to be…but…something, something…moneylenders…something
…even without breaking the book out to check the wording & cite chapter & verse…I…could go all day, as the saying goes…if…as the poet had it…I had world enough…& time…but…in comics-speak…I have the angry part down…eternal fires of a thousand suns & whatnot…but…I can’t dial in the *right* hulk for the job in hand?
Which Hulk? There are various versions of Hulk that have different levels of intelligence. Doc Green started out at least as smart as Banner (but has been losing intellect). Professor Hulk had all of Banner’s intellect (and was, essentially, just Banner in Hulk’s body). Joe Fixit had normal level of intellect. World War Hulk was not Banner-level but was relatively smart, clever, and a skilled tactician- even at his most angry he remained of at least average intelligence.
…look you can read the comics…or any number of wikis…or…there are podcasts & videos & all manner of people & places that can explain all the bits that you’d need to know to know who amadeus cho is…but
…that might take a while & arguably you could skip it because mostly what I’m getting at is I’m no amadeus cho…any more than I’m a banner candidate…except for the angry thing…&…we could do with that amadeus angle
Doesn’t Amadeus Cho claim at some point that even Green Hulk actually has supercharged intelligence and uses it to avoid doing collateral damage in his rages?
Basically the idea is that the entire time Hulk is Hulking out, Banner is inside the head running a bunch of physics simulations with some supercharged intellect to figure out where and how the debris will fall and subtly nudges hulks actions to avoid killing anyone.
…&…best I can manage is to hope that collective anger has the stopping power of a hulk in the face of the out-of-context threat composed of a thing I don’t understand how you call a party…& that enough people get the right kind of angry for that to be the way that goes without all the plot armour
…but…personally…at this point the best I can do is hope to clear the bar of sounding more benign than…this guy?
Again, the US president, his government officials, and supporters, are all lying to you about what happened here. This video clearly demonstrates the vehicle was not driving towards the ICE agent.
…burning your ships by way of a statement of intent went down big in the days of a famous wooden horse with the riders on the inside…but…generally speaking…doing it while you’re stuck in or on the thing out of reach of shore & out of your depth…seems…counter-productive…unless the sacrifice is all that you’re interested in, I guess…which maybe is why nobody really likes gods…even the ones who earnestly claim to love theirs…so…like…I get it…the angry part speaks to me in what feels like my natural language as of so long ago I honestly can’t even remember…but…I dunno…a while back a guy called dan simmons did a run of sci-fi books that hooked me in for the long haul even though I was kinda sure going in that those weren’t the bits that would play out the way I’d have liked to see…& sure enough somewhere along the hyperion to endemyion axis it all got a little pat pretty much like I figured it might…early doors there was some neat stuff in what amounted in the end to an extended preamble…I wouldn’t necessarily expect all the keats crowbarred into the thing would have the same appeal to others as it did to me…but the part about a biblical story & its implicit logic vis-à-vis the underlying dynamics of the relationship…might…so…short version
…being willing…for the sake of the unknowable deity…to murder…as an instrument of praise…the son you know as only a parent can…is what said deity *requires* by way of bona fides about how ride or die you are about all-in on the anything-you-say…it’s like a condensed version of job’s whole book…taking the raw end of the deal on the strength of your unbreakable faith in the face of the opposite of rewards…is how you know you’re on the right path…that’s…baked in…everyone knows the story…everyone knows what it means…but if it means to you what it always looked like it meant to me…you’re a walking, talking crisis of faith…or…a bunch of other ways to say a damn nuisance of a child…I mean…for someone…once upon a time…it maybe also meant you were terry pratchett…or douglas adams…& maybe that’s a big part of why we would-to-be-merry few miss those dudes the way we do…&…whatever I might think about all that in the abstract…I struggle to begrudge others the solace of their faith…even as I routinely begrudge the substance of the things many espousing a faith-excused rationale for something unholy in every sense qualifying on the grounds that they take solace from that
…& the whole judeo-christain &/or secular world does tend to ante up with the idea that it represented moving beyond the superstitions of folklore…without necessarily examining what that might have been doing in its time(s)…just because it sounds a little…woo woo…doesn’t mean treating every little thing like it has some sort of animating spirit at its essence the way…yokai work…or the scandies roll about rocks that might move themselves in valleys that remember glaciers & ice ages & such…or…people other than tolkien feel about how it might go if a bunch of redwoods got mad enough to stomp about a bit
…I dunno…angry is…hard not to be…but…angry is loud?
…& the sense in which if you listen right the world can tell you all kinds of ways it could be working without all the parts we wish we didn’t have to contend with…kinda only works if you get to the being quiet & not disturbing your surroundings stage as a starting point rather than a far off fondly wished for dream…so…you know?
…try to find some…at least pockets of something that might pass for peace of mind…for your own sake…but also kind of for all of ours…because none of this gets better if the whole world goes off half-cocked at once…& none of us are much good to ourselves or anyone else if we cook off like a live round on a bonfire…however much the flaming-headed angry guy from inside out is…all of us all of the time it feels like most days in a way that shows no particular signs of currently considering relenting…so…different strokes for different folks…but…by way of a sort of one-fits-all placeholder that maybe is a bad fit for everyone
…as acronyms that are a little cute go…I’d admit to being partial to that one…no disrespect to the folks that went with mind.org & skipped the acronym thing (afaik)…but…Campaign Against Living Miserably…you could pick worse words to live by…but…calm.com…isn’t those people…& does want to offer you an app…so…I really only mean placeholder in the sense of MBSR is kinda what they call it when you try to get scientific method about the benefits of quiet contemplation to your overall composure & it’s been called that for a while because the people that have tried to do that have tended to find then can reproduce some pretty positive outcomes for participants…sort of the way they did a whole study one time with people with insomnia & exposure to those lights that simulate daylight to look at how to adjust the circadian rhythm…& it wasn’t until they were compiling the results they found out another way to chart the thing that they seemed to find worked might have been to pay attention to which side of the building faced the dawn…since patients sleeping in those rooms saw faster & greater improvement than the ones who only got the plug-in sort…anyway…c.a.l.m. is a thing…&…they seem like good people
…also…since they have that covered…maybe it’s okay I get angry…here…so that I can seem…calmer…to people who have to contend with me in other places…hope so, anyway…since that seems to be what I got…&…I’m not altogether sure I like to think about how this goes if this place goes away & I have to find somewhere else to put that?
My understand is that Orlando Jones made the Ananzi speech his own. Made the next producer feel real uncomfortable and he didn’t want that racial anger in “his” version of Murrican Gawds so he got rid of Orlando.
I’m not surprised about Planantir, but I’ll tell you something… despite all the oppressive counter intelligence schemes, the side that put up the surveillance system usually lost.
…somewhere around the borrowing stuff others said because I don’t trust myself not to get carried away by how fucking insane it makes me…between about this part
I'm so delighted that I complied with the Online Safety Act, blocking an accessibility feature on my site from UK users to 'protect the children' while Elon Musk's site can just generate CSAM with total impunity.
No one *licensed* anyone to make CSAM of their kids, and the tech company that provides both the production technology and the distribution system should be prosecuted out of existence.
Can someone hire Diane Morgan to do a Cunk reading of that Klobuchar post?
…let’s call it “expanded”
This is gonna do numbers in my department’s PhD slack chat
…on these?
The teen douchebros who thought Joker and Rorschach were the heroes grow up to be the men who think the Melian Dialogue sounds butch and badass.
Athens sowing: "The strong do what they will and the weak suffer what they must"Athens reaping: "We're the weak who suffer what they must?! WTF! That's not fair!"
THUCYDIDES: In my book I invented the Melian Dialogue as a cautionary tale
DIPSHITS TALKING ABOUT IR WHO WANT TO SOUND SMART: At long last, we have done the Melian Dialogue from the classic book Don’t Do the Melian Dialogue
…this would be easier if those embedded…because this is like a…sub-clause kinda exchange, i guess you could call it?
The Melian Dialogue has a similar role to the Clausewitz quote about “politics by other means” – it exists to give a bit of frisson and even sexual pleasure to morons who have never read those quotes in context but who are still desperate to sound smart.
At any military base in the country you can find newly commissioned 2LTs who cannot tell their asshole from a hole in the ground but who could recite the “politics by other means” quote and then look at you like a dog expecting a treat.
…that gets this response
Ok this pisses me off because don’t they always invert the quote to “war is just how we accomplish our political goals“ from “if you’re thinking about war, please sit down and see if you can explain to a rubber duck what you actually hope to accomplish by getting people killed”
People who fancy quoting the Melian Dialogue ("the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must") ignore the fact that Thucydides was clearly portraying this as the kind of hubris that squandered Athens' primacy and paved the way for a devastating peer war that it ultimately lost.
The lesson isn't meant to be "oh wow, those hard-headed Athenians really kick ass". It's "dude, if you keep shoving people around like that, someone's going to shove you back".
I mean, it should have been hard to make a case for the SPARTANS being champions of political freedom, but the Athenians somehow succeeded.Now insert "Chinese" for "Spartans" and "Americans" for "Athenians".
…& that’s all off the first of the pocket pair that didn’t embed…but underwrote the banger that underwrote the one about doing numbers that underwrote me referring to that before realising none of the damn things showed up to make me not sound like I’d lost it…because it’s that kind of day, I guess?
Had a flash of inspiration
…which turned around this one that was part of a string of things that did embed the first time
"the strong do what they want and the weak suffer what they must"- quote from polis about to suffer what it must
…& gave me a grin in the midst of all the madness you kinda have to start hoping only seems like it has a method accidentally…on account of how fucking stupid most of its moving parts are…rather than being the worst case version of the shit that is very much for real happening right in front of a lot of people who don’t rightly see what they can exactly do about it other than take it on the chin & try not give in to the temptation to carve out a comfort zone in which it doesn’t seem like its happening…so…ironically…that was maybe the thing I thought I was starting with before I wound up with this whole wall’o’text exercise in making the punchline not funny because you wrote a whole essay about the damn joke & it died mid-autopsy…man…how the tables have turned…I had a whole-ass row with a teacher once about how making my fellow pupils write 2.5k words on the underlying humour of three lines of dialogue in the context of a play acknowledged to be a classic tragedy in several senses…was maybe the most shining example of that sort of exercise I expected to live to see…so I guess I know I lived long enough to become the villain in my own story?
[…that should be embedded via the link for the image but I’ve also stuck a copy in the library that would work with a deadsplinter URL that hopefully does right by the account that made it without going against their position on their posts embedding on a no-harm-no-foul basis?]
…by way of these
You guys thought I was joking when I said Banana Wars and constabulary operations are back on the menu. Congrats to the USMC for the opportunity to embrace their heritage, I guess.
I was listening to @thebulwark.com's Next Level podcast today and they were thinking through the chance that Trump actually tries to seize Greenland and there was a @jvl.bsky.social sort of 'I kinda hope he does it to drop the mask entirely' and I just cannot scream loudly enough: No, You Do Not. 1/
You *very much* want to preserve the chance the mask holds just long enough to get a different president.If that mask drops, Trump breaks NATO & Europe recalculates the tail risks that we are all too rich & pampered to think about – the ones with body counts denominated in millions – go way up. 2/
Because after that, you won't be able to put Humpty Dumpty together again in a situation where even the fiction of Humpty Dumpty – of a broad alliance of rich and free countries committed to the liberal international order – averts conflicts and saves lives. 3/
…because…until or unless there cease to be tides & shores & the sun keeps showing up & going away as the world turns…there’s going to be an “& then…”
i basically agree with this but also think we underrate the risk from them pulling shit that makes them consider “hey, maybe we should break liberal governance”
One of the few pleasures I think we're going to have over the next year is the spectacle of younger administration members realizing the ride's going to end, that they still have decades in front of them, and that they may have to spend all those years running from things they did.
…they say the UK has “an unwritten constitution” by contrast to the US one…& some folks kinda mean that the way the hymn pledges to that “other country”…as in
And there’s another country, I’ve heard of long ago,
Most dear to them that love her, most great to them that know;
We may not count her armies, we may not see her King;
Her fortress is a faithful heart, her pride is suffering;
And soul by soul and silently her shining bounds increase,
And her ways are ways of gentleness, and all her paths are peace.
…but…plenty don’t…or reform wouldn’t be a thing & you’d have never heard the name farage
Commons women and equalities committee to stop using X amid AI-altered images row
…or…in the UK’s case…seemingly enough of “the media”…even in this atomised fragmentation of a multimedia landscape…for this to be broadly an accurate assessment
I can’t get over all the journalists and centrist pundits who sneered that “Twitter isn’t real life” when it was full of weird leftists but now insist it’s a vital window into the public mood when the entire site is Nazis, illegal porn, bots, and Belarusians calling themselves “Iowa MAGA Farm Guy”
thinking about how long leftists were blamed for making twitter inhospitable for MPs who are refusing point blank to leave now it's full of nazis and child porn
2025 brought us panslopticon (social media), to keep enshittification (the current state of things) warm2026 brings us the tyranny of the clicktatorship
…&…anyway…I know this clearly ought to have been a post…but…not only is it still technically shorter than the time it was a post that never was…after I went & said the [thing] at the top of the post it seemed like making another post appear might actually seem like following through on a threat in a way I was trying to suggest would be an overly harsh way of looking at an unintentional cascade failure that I’m currently in the position of referring to as “how my day’s going”…so…for the record…the parts of that post that remain AWOL also made up the parts that would intersect via common components with the one that ended up taking their place…in such a way that this was about where the tangent swung from the palantir angle through to the one that was going to do numbers in the department slack chat…pivoting on a fulcrum of the other end of the old saying to take a swing at the suggestion that the fight being fought on multiple fronts across n-dimensional topologies…can get you a line of sight from what that memorandum says about the NATO end…at the same time as you can read the same statement in what they said the other day about the plato end of the “the history of the western world runs from plato to NATO” rule of thumb
Finnish children learn media literacy at 3 years old. It's protection against Russian propaganda. Conversely, Trump disbanded all efforts to identify and black Russian disinformation campaigns and is actually bolstering and promoting them.
Interview with Swedish philosophy professor Martin Peterson who can't teach Plato at Texas A&M:"I have chosen texts by Plato with some care, which I know discuss, e.g. homosexuality.But it's Plato. It is of course completely absurd that a philosophy institution would not let anyone teach Plato."
…way back when I was young there was a sort of…acknowledged routine, I guess you could call it…not sure if anyone could lay claim to coining what I came to think of as the thing boiled down to its bare-bone state…but…that pretty much went
1st guy: you startin’?
2nd guy: you askin’?
1st guy: I’m askin’
2nd guy: I’m startin’
…the part after that it your classic “let’s take this outside…”
…things like that are hoping to start something so they can take their issues out on the guy that would kick all their asses if the world worked the way those segal films they like so much do…&…I dunno…maybe that isn’t how that looks to people that don’t have my implicit biases…but…in the words of obi wan…from a certain point of view…based on a specific piece of prior art…you could maybe make a case for that mentality…according to these proud exponents of the white-pride that can’t show its primary face but pitches fits if you call *them* two-faced sons of bitches you wouldn’t piss on if they were on fire like a burning bush in the land of their good lord…is…per the boondocks…cultural appropriation
…&…the struggle is real…but I’m pretty sure those are the moments your mother had in mind when she tried to impress upon you the importance of not giving the fuckers the satisfaction
…denying them that part arguably “won” the civil rights argument for all the stuff they so desperately need to dismantle in hell’s own rush job?
Oppressed people who don’t have much firepower are going to do what oppressed people do. Insurgency.
The US (especially since 1950) has never been good at dealing with insurgencies. All your tactics are geared towards overwhelming force/firepower and area denial. Winning hearts and minds is downright impossible when your leaders (military and/or civilian) don’t give a shit.
Winning insurgencies require a lot of boots on the ground and limited dependence on firepower as well as money, and a plan to get out eventually.
…&…not to be unduly flippant…but…even as big a dog as the US federal government & its extensive military & military-adjacent vectors for the use of force in broadly all available spectra…when you’ve thrown about this many woof tickets…even that dog doesn’t have the numbers to cash those in for their imagined trophy set of the jaws of victory
…the allusion to classical greece is…a much better fit than any of the “winning” rhetoric & actions they view as keeping up the momentum of their drive to vanquish their foes in the culture wars by evicting those views from the overton window to make room for all the blue skies there…aren’t…in the wholly impoverished universe of the tiny-minded they want to condemn all of us to live in like some fucking phantom zone kneel before zod fucking cosplay until all the tipping points are tipped all the way over into the unrecoverable kind of civilisational capsizing crescendo of certifiable crack-head-cracker-that-cracked cascade failing us all into something nearer brawndo irrigation than the death of grass
…&…I was always the sort that had to check the dates because I never seemed to remember those…but…like…the bits I do remember about all the history include quite a few of those mistakes we supposedly pat ourselves on the back for learning from…more often than not on account of how those seem like they could be about any time before, during or after the examples we call historical
…but…if we don’t start getting the numbers of people who still don’t get some shit “we” knew upwards of a thousand years ago down in the long-tail & out of the bit of the bell-curve they use for the shape of the jar…I…don’t fancy our odds, tbh…&…that’s a problem for me because there’s kids I like a lot who are going to be around for longer than I expect to be…shit…some of them kids *have* kids…so…for preference…I’d like to find my way onto team #fancyourodds just as swiftly as someone could see their way to showing me how to get there?
…speaking…loosely…of the sort of collateral damage that shows up like catching stray rounds when trying to put out the fire at the ammo factory
I spoke with an Iranian ex-pat friend today. She mentioned that this is the first time she though the regime might fall, and she's 53. I confessed I'd had similar new thoughts a day before as well.I think there's a better than 50-50 chance the regime is cooked.
…but…we all know what they mean by a punchable face…&…this is the glass jaw on the head of this thing
Lmaooo hell yeah go get em. Tell them to try and stop you. You know why he can say this shit out loud? Because absolutely no one has stood up to him. And we had him on a recording asking those dudes in Georgia to find him 11000 votes. And he’s back in the White House and not in jail. So.
Asked “if there were any limits on his global powers, Mr. Trump said: “Yeah, there is one thing. My own morality. My own mind. It’s the only thing that can stop me.”@nytimes.com http://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/u...
…& the foreground:backgound [small]+[in your face]:[big]+[far away]…uhh…trump l’oeil…is fully of father ted proportions…but…one of these things is…just like the others
There’s already enough footage to charge him. And the state govt should *force* the federal govt, if it’s determined to go down this route, to actually physically bar access to state authorities with orders to arrest Jonathan Ross.
Make him unable to go out in public w/o being targeted for arrest.
FBI claimed jurisdiction and is barring access to the murderer, the weapon, and any body cam footage.
…I’m leaving out the part where everybody knows who did that now…&…some other stuff
I doubt any of that is needed for a conviction, let alone an indictment.
It would normally be. They just want it to be federal so Trump can pardon him. Then they can send yet another signal that this administration is going to reward this kind of action.
Security forces in Iran are now firing on protesters in cities like Tehran and Khorramabad. In Tehran, demonstrators reportedly set fire to the headquarters of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
…&…things reminding people of things that some people are too young to remember
I remember people talking 20 years ago of all the protests they were holding, and wondering if they were accomplishing anything. I fear we are getting to the same point again these days.
Are protests actually having any impact? Or are they going to ramp up the rhetoric and violence in response?
…& what the voices of experience sound like when they tell you who they found themselves to be
As Brazilian, a thing I noticed is the more people gather the more the protest has effect. People in power must fear commom people. We are the majority and we have to show it.
…but…for the eleventy-umpteen-th time…if they even once stopped to genuinely think about…let alone contemplate on other-than-contortionist-contemporaneously-configured-ret-con-conservative terms…the fetishised focus of their supposed dominion in written form…they are…straightforwardly…anti-consitutionalists…the way the antidisestablishmentarians…on account of the anti- part…are arguably more commonly referred to as the british establishment even unto these days when the past is the future again…&…funny story…the disestablishment the establishment was anti wasn’t its own disintegration, per se…it was sticking to their guns about the church & the state & the monarch being the mundane world’s nearest equivalent to the actual holy trinity…none of that separation of church & state newfangled nonsense that got fashionable on the continent & the colonies never shut up about…exhibit #howishisjawstillintact
JD Vance: "It was a legitimate law enforcement operation. We were going door to door to try to find criminal illegal aliens and deport them from the United States … say a prayer for that agent … he deserves a debt of gratitude."
…because…&…this isn’t necessarily me saying it even if it for damn sure is me thinking it a lot of times for a day that isn’t over yet
That’s highly illegal. The government cannot go to someone’s house without a warrant or probable cause.
…some 101 level textbook shit…&…I dunno…back in the day they talked a big game about how “you’re only cheating yourself” if you don’t do the work…which includes the homework…& the background reading…& learning your numbers…&…& & &…ad functionally infinitum…but…fuck me if it don’t seem like the same people I heard get told that for a score of years a few score of years ago are cheating fucking all of us into an early fucking grave…for shits & giggles & bragging rights & shiny things that they get all magpie about
…& I might be starting to revist what I thought were some settled views I had about the way it sounded to me to hear advocates for the continued use of corporal punishment on children when I was one of those who would have seen turnabout as fair play when the cane was in the other fist…so to speak
…I…guess I didn’t expect to live a life that would one day make me identify in an empathetic sort of way with the mother superior that won’t take their filthy stolen money…about the switching…grown men or the kids they used to be when that hurt more…all it takes is a mental image that’s like the baby muppet version of the stephen miller spitting image puppet that lives in my head like a snapchat filter?
We've put together a frame-by-frame analysis of the shooting of Renee Nicole Good, at the same time that Vice President JD Vance held a press conference stressing that what you're going to see in this video did not happen.
…or…does that get cancelled by the absolute immunity that is absolutely not the law the way that asshole is making out to be laying down the shit he’s out there talking?
my immediate thought is they are sending vance out to eat shit for the administration
…bunch of wish-casting “a wizard did it” ass trifling fuck-knucklers
The gaslighting is not just off the charts – it's in whole another galaxy.But, this is also a sign of desperation.He knows. They know – except for their MAGA core just watching their edited frames, everyone else knows the objective reality.
JD Vance supports murdering American citizens. He's made that perfectly clear today. If he's willing to defend the murder of Renee Good, he would defend your murder, too.
…not that the press-facing parts are the parts that necessarily top my list for why these people should spend the rest of their miserable stinking lives getting spat at by every stranger on every street
Also it makes him sound like a bigger pussy than these maga guys usually sound like/are even; if u watch the video, you’re saying this allegedly big tough strong ICE man had reason to be scared of the kind of gentle turn and movement you’d make in a Kroger parking lot
We are in an unprecedented moment. ICE is being directed to act this way, while top federal officials are stating overt lies before any investigation has even begun.When agencies police their own misconduct, trust collapses. That’s why Minnesota state investigators must be involved.
NOTUS:Dem House Rep Steven Horsford:“They called the local sheriff; they showed up and were going to arrest me. These are the same people that I’m supposed to call to coordinate security or to do support when I have a town hall.”www.notus.org/democrats/me…
It would appear that uncritically funding the people that hate us so much that they mint coins commemorating body counts instead of listening to the people who said that the institutional rot within the police is so deeply engrained that they represent a danger to us all has mysteriously backfired.
Anyway ICE was filmed desecrating Renee Nicole Good’s memorial & doing violence to people who found that distasteful. Might be too soon to say if this falls into some kind of pattern of behavior if you’re the stupidest motherfucker on earth.
Yesterday a guy on here said that if you really think about it we have no choice but to throw billions of dollars in the gestapo’s direction because not doing that could potentially be worse.
Some people have said that they think I misinterpreted what he said & offered their own interpretations but none of those interpretations were the same at all.
So at best he’s the worst fucking communicator on the planet.
At most realistic I understood exactly what he meant.
One of the things that genuinely shocked me as I read through surveillance logs for the police is how much of their energy and attention is dedicated to shutting down vigils and other ceremonies of remembrance.
…try trading stories with the ladies in the UK that tried to do the vigil thing the time the guy that raped & murdered the one lady was a serving police-officer…while we’re debating the state monopoly on the sanction of violence intersecting with the remembrance of things they’d institutionally prefer to be forgot faster than old acquaintance for the sake of auld lang syne…the king is dead…long live the king…for the rechercher sake of les temps perdus & all that noblesse oblige pro patri mori-ing…or what david simon got a bunch of actors to sell under the strapline “the dickensian aspect”
…the victorians did a job so good on the bits of london that you can’t see from the street level that a city orders of magnitude larger than the one atop which they built coasted on that for so long that eventually doing something about the parts you’d call plumbing in a domestic context fucked up so much shit that headlines were borne on a wave of calculated losses to the economy…true story…&…the founding fathers framed some fine sentiments that were admirably future-proofed…against their foreseeable futures…but…even kansas isn’t in their kansas anymore…any more than I’m dorothy or there’s a yellow brick road with a fake wizard at the end of it in an emerald city
an amendment that would've banned this activity specifically passed the House unanimously a few years ago and then mysteriously vanished during backroom talks between Dem & Rep leaders
New: we’ve obtained material explaining how an ICE surveillance system, called Webloc, works. Draw shape on a map, see all phones available there, follow them home. All without warrant
The tool uses commercially sourced location data from smartphones. Typically this is collected through code in normal apps, or the online advertising process. Data then provided to ICE via the Webloc tool where users can search specific areas for phones https://www.404media.co/inside-ices-tool-to-monitor-phones-in-entire-neighborhoods/
Location data from phone companies requires a warrant. But ICE believes this data doesn’t, because people give it up “voluntarily.” That’s according to this internal ICE legal analysis shared with us. Ignores that people don’t know what apps are tracking them https://www.404media.co/inside-ices-tool-to-monitor-phones-in-entire-neighborhoods/
Here’s the sort of thing Webloc can do:
– zoom in on specific phone, see where else that device has been locally or around country
– click a ‘route’ button to see the specific route
– click a nighttime button to see where at night; their likely home
…&…apparently…at least for today…I am feeling salty the way the fucking oceans do…maybe tipping in a dead sea direction…so…probably stands to reason some stuff appears to be able to float to the surface of my mind that under normal circumstances would sink without trace & not even a ripple because even the calm version is…choppy?
a) fuck yeah, this is the kind of thing that needs to be happening worldwide and is not coincidentally the sort of thing that will actually blunt Reform UK's momentumb) can we preemptively ban all the transphobes who are going to flood over here, please
…to…or from…that “certain point of view”…that thinks what they’re looking at should always & forever be the only thing on the sharp end…& that counting that among the many certainties that certainly cement them in the place you’d think of as the blunt end of the instrument they’re all about driving to the hilt…from the…rhymes with…rommel
"It would be hard, but not impossible, to try the ICE shooter on state charges and obtain a state-law conviction that Trump couldn’t wipe away. It might seem like the longest shot in the world, but honestly, we have to try something, anything, to stop this — not just in Minnesota, but everywhere."
…while you keep fucking stabbing yourself in your own backbone & claiming to be driving your points home for the home team?
Democrats will continue to vote for Republican judges (like this guy, who refused to say who won the 2020 election) until Democrats are punished for voting for Republican judges
…if the ballpark isn’t enough of a clue for you to know what game you’re in…maybe you don’t belong on the field of play…& I say that as a dues-paid lifetime denizen of the cheapseats…whether or not the iceman cometh…or we get sick of waiting for godot…cometh the hour…what we don’t need is more amateur hour & less if’s worth of unforgiving minutes that cannot be caged within the hardening cold bonds of the dying sunlight on the garden as the sonnets & birds descend upon the earth that compels them…but…that can’t be about this stuff…in that louis’ lines the line is “cannot beg for pardon”…double-or-quits-ed up to “not expecting pardon”, even…not…beg, borrow or steal & all is pardoned…unless you have a problem with the problem’s idea of the solution…in which case crucifixion is too good for ’em
…at this point if I were daniel I’d be planning to ask the lions if it’d be ok if I crashed in their gaffe because dens are cozy & I’m not trying to start any shit because none of my beef is with them or their kith & kin
…can we make it be friday already, please…or better yet…petition daniel craig to make “ladies & gentlemen – the weekend…” into the new war of the worlds maiden broadcast…the hero we need & all that?
…oh &…there’s playing games…as in stupid games, stupid prizes
Can't wait to hear from @amyklobuchar.com again about how important getting prices down are as she distracts from aiding and abetting the people who murdered one of her constituents.
…& there’s…having game…like the game the one guy wasn’t aware the one pol’s social media person had…who…works with the social media team who…seem to have kind of a boss for a boss…game-wise?
Mamdani: Today is an incredible win for working people. We’re talking about a $1.2 billion commitment to make universal childcare a reality. What today’s commitment shows is that working families will no longer have to choose between the city they love and the family they want to raise.
…but…that amy maybe isn’t the only person overlooking some parts of the picture?
theres so much horrible shit about the murder of renee good, but there is something deeply terrifying about the way everyone from media to politicians have erased her wife from the story. ive seen far more mention of her late husband than her wife who was sitting next to her when she was murdered
…another of the things I got around to in “the one that got away” was a whole string of stuff off bluesky about people who are…”christian”…or “catholic”…presenting…or self-identifying…or claiming to represent in a speak for/as kinda way…not knowing their sunday school shit…mostly with reference to a lady who isn’t catholic but can school them on that stuff well enough people who don’t know that about her think she either is or must have been raised as a catholic…anyway
…how does the one thing go about “& ye shall know them by their deeds” or whatever?
…I mean…he’s not the kind of catholic JD purports to be…but…something, something…moneylenders…something
…even without breaking the book out to check the wording & cite chapter & verse…I…could go all day, as the saying goes…if…as the poet had it…I had world enough…& time…but…in comics-speak…I have the angry part down…eternal fires of a thousand suns & whatnot…but…I can’t dial in the *right* hulk for the job in hand?
…look you can read the comics…or any number of wikis…or…there are podcasts & videos & all manner of people & places that can explain all the bits that you’d need to know to know who amadeus cho is…but
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskScienceFiction/comments/3k42gu/marvel_how_intelligent_is_the_hulk/
…that might take a while & arguably you could skip it because mostly what I’m getting at is I’m no amadeus cho…any more than I’m a banner candidate…except for the angry thing…&…we could do with that amadeus angle
…&…best I can manage is to hope that collective anger has the stopping power of a hulk in the face of the out-of-context threat composed of a thing I don’t understand how you call a party…& that enough people get the right kind of angry for that to be the way that goes without all the plot armour
…but…personally…at this point the best I can do is hope to clear the bar of sounding more benign than…this guy?
…monkey see
…monkey do
…burning your ships by way of a statement of intent went down big in the days of a famous wooden horse with the riders on the inside…but…generally speaking…doing it while you’re stuck in or on the thing out of reach of shore & out of your depth…seems…counter-productive…unless the sacrifice is all that you’re interested in, I guess…which maybe is why nobody really likes gods…even the ones who earnestly claim to love theirs…so…like…I get it…the angry part speaks to me in what feels like my natural language as of so long ago I honestly can’t even remember…but…I dunno…a while back a guy called dan simmons did a run of sci-fi books that hooked me in for the long haul even though I was kinda sure going in that those weren’t the bits that would play out the way I’d have liked to see…& sure enough somewhere along the hyperion to endemyion axis it all got a little pat pretty much like I figured it might…early doors there was some neat stuff in what amounted in the end to an extended preamble…I wouldn’t necessarily expect all the keats crowbarred into the thing would have the same appeal to others as it did to me…but the part about a biblical story & its implicit logic vis-à-vis the underlying dynamics of the relationship…might…so…short version
https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenChristian/comments/1ace3rc/issue_with_the_story_of_abraham_almost_killing/
…being willing…for the sake of the unknowable deity…to murder…as an instrument of praise…the son you know as only a parent can…is what said deity *requires* by way of bona fides about how ride or die you are about all-in on the anything-you-say…it’s like a condensed version of job’s whole book…taking the raw end of the deal on the strength of your unbreakable faith in the face of the opposite of rewards…is how you know you’re on the right path…that’s…baked in…everyone knows the story…everyone knows what it means…but if it means to you what it always looked like it meant to me…you’re a walking, talking crisis of faith…or…a bunch of other ways to say a damn nuisance of a child…I mean…for someone…once upon a time…it maybe also meant you were terry pratchett…or douglas adams…& maybe that’s a big part of why we would-to-be-merry few miss those dudes the way we do…&…whatever I might think about all that in the abstract…I struggle to begrudge others the solace of their faith…even as I routinely begrudge the substance of the things many espousing a faith-excused rationale for something unholy in every sense qualifying on the grounds that they take solace from that
…& the whole judeo-christain &/or secular world does tend to ante up with the idea that it represented moving beyond the superstitions of folklore…without necessarily examining what that might have been doing in its time(s)…just because it sounds a little…woo woo…doesn’t mean treating every little thing like it has some sort of animating spirit at its essence the way…yokai work…or the scandies roll about rocks that might move themselves in valleys that remember glaciers & ice ages & such…or…people other than tolkien feel about how it might go if a bunch of redwoods got mad enough to stomp about a bit
…I dunno…angry is…hard not to be…but…angry is loud?
…& the sense in which if you listen right the world can tell you all kinds of ways it could be working without all the parts we wish we didn’t have to contend with…kinda only works if you get to the being quiet & not disturbing your surroundings stage as a starting point rather than a far off fondly wished for dream…so…you know?
…try to find some…at least pockets of something that might pass for peace of mind…for your own sake…but also kind of for all of ours…because none of this gets better if the whole world goes off half-cocked at once…& none of us are much good to ourselves or anyone else if we cook off like a live round on a bonfire…however much the flaming-headed angry guy from inside out is…all of us all of the time it feels like most days in a way that shows no particular signs of currently considering relenting…so…different strokes for different folks…but…by way of a sort of one-fits-all placeholder that maybe is a bad fit for everyone
https://www.calm.com/blog/mindfulness-based-stress-reduction
…as acronyms that are a little cute go…I’d admit to being partial to that one…no disrespect to the folks that went with mind.org & skipped the acronym thing (afaik)…but…Campaign Against Living Miserably…you could pick worse words to live by…but…calm.com…isn’t those people…& does want to offer you an app…so…I really only mean placeholder in the sense of MBSR is kinda what they call it when you try to get scientific method about the benefits of quiet contemplation to your overall composure & it’s been called that for a while because the people that have tried to do that have tended to find then can reproduce some pretty positive outcomes for participants…sort of the way they did a whole study one time with people with insomnia & exposure to those lights that simulate daylight to look at how to adjust the circadian rhythm…& it wasn’t until they were compiling the results they found out another way to chart the thing that they seemed to find worked might have been to pay attention to which side of the building faced the dawn…since patients sleeping in those rooms saw faster & greater improvement than the ones who only got the plug-in sort…anyway…c.a.l.m. is a thing…&…they seem like good people
https://www.thecalmzone.net/
…also…since they have that covered…maybe it’s okay I get angry…here…so that I can seem…calmer…to people who have to contend with me in other places…hope so, anyway…since that seems to be what I got…&…I’m not altogether sure I like to think about how this goes if this place goes away & I have to find somewhere else to put that?
My understand is that Orlando Jones made the Ananzi speech his own. Made the next producer feel real uncomfortable and he didn’t want that racial anger in “his” version of Murrican Gawds so he got rid of Orlando.
…funny you should mention that part…I was just trying to come up with an excuse to add this?
I’m not surprised about Planantir, but I’ll tell you something… despite all the oppressive counter intelligence schemes, the side that put up the surveillance system usually lost.
…somewhere around the borrowing stuff others said because I don’t trust myself not to get carried away by how fucking insane it makes me…between about this part
…&…say…this part
…I went long on a thing that
…let’s call it “expanded”
…on these?
…this would be easier if those embedded…because this is like a…sub-clause kinda exchange, i guess you could call it?
…that gets this response
…but also itself spins off from
…& that’s all off the first of the pocket pair that didn’t embed…but underwrote the banger that underwrote the one about doing numbers that underwrote me referring to that before realising none of the damn things showed up to make me not sound like I’d lost it…because it’s that kind of day, I guess?
…which turned around this one that was part of a string of things that did embed the first time
…& gave me a grin in the midst of all the madness you kinda have to start hoping only seems like it has a method accidentally…on account of how fucking stupid most of its moving parts are…rather than being the worst case version of the shit that is very much for real happening right in front of a lot of people who don’t rightly see what they can exactly do about it other than take it on the chin & try not give in to the temptation to carve out a comfort zone in which it doesn’t seem like its happening…so…ironically…that was maybe the thing I thought I was starting with before I wound up with this whole wall’o’text exercise in making the punchline not funny because you wrote a whole essay about the damn joke & it died mid-autopsy…man…how the tables have turned…I had a whole-ass row with a teacher once about how making my fellow pupils write 2.5k words on the underlying humour of three lines of dialogue in the context of a play acknowledged to be a classic tragedy in several senses…was maybe the most shining example of that sort of exercise I expected to live to see…so I guess I know I lived long enough to become the villain in my own story?
[…that should be embedded via the link for the image but I’ve also stuck a copy in the library that would work with a deadsplinter URL that hopefully does right by the account that made it without going against their position on their posts embedding on a no-harm-no-foul basis?]
…by way of these
…rounded the curve somewhere in the region of these
…because…irony of ironies…I didn’t run face first into that fucking memorandum madness until…after
…I’d caught myself nodding along to these
…because…until or unless there cease to be tides & shores & the sun keeps showing up & going away as the world turns…there’s going to be an “& then…”
…& that was already yesterday’s news before I even started in on today…so to speak
…they say the UK has “an unwritten constitution” by contrast to the US one…& some folks kinda mean that the way the hymn pledges to that “other country”…as in
…but…plenty don’t…or reform wouldn’t be a thing & you’d have never heard the name farage
…or…in the UK’s case…seemingly enough of “the media”…even in this atomised fragmentation of a multimedia landscape…for this to be broadly an accurate assessment
…&…anyway…I know this clearly ought to have been a post…but…not only is it still technically shorter than the time it was a post that never was…after I went & said the [thing] at the top of the post it seemed like making another post appear might actually seem like following through on a threat in a way I was trying to suggest would be an overly harsh way of looking at an unintentional cascade failure that I’m currently in the position of referring to as “how my day’s going”…so…for the record…the parts of that post that remain AWOL also made up the parts that would intersect via common components with the one that ended up taking their place…in such a way that this was about where the tangent swung from the palantir angle through to the one that was going to do numbers in the department slack chat…pivoting on a fulcrum of the other end of the old saying to take a swing at the suggestion that the fight being fought on multiple fronts across n-dimensional topologies…can get you a line of sight from what that memorandum says about the NATO end…at the same time as you can read the same statement in what they said the other day about the plato end of the “the history of the western world runs from plato to NATO” rule of thumb
…& I know for a fact that isn’t just in my head
…so…if anyone’s interested in the slightest?
…damn…I clean forgot something that obviously showed up in the first draft
Let the new arms race begin!
https://truthout.org/articles/will-the-us-and-russia-abandon-nuke-restraints-when-new-start-treaty-expires/
“nothing makes a man so cruel as the sense of his own superiority.”
https://hartmannreport.com/p/renee-nicole-good-is-dead-benjamin-514
Hmmmm…
Fuck off Nazis!!!!
…way back when I was young there was a sort of…acknowledged routine, I guess you could call it…not sure if anyone could lay claim to coining what I came to think of as the thing boiled down to its bare-bone state…but…that pretty much went
1st guy: you startin’?
2nd guy: you askin’?
1st guy: I’m askin’
2nd guy: I’m startin’
…the part after that it your classic “let’s take this outside…”
…things like that are hoping to start something so they can take their issues out on the guy that would kick all their asses if the world worked the way those segal films they like so much do…&…I dunno…maybe that isn’t how that looks to people that don’t have my implicit biases…but…in the words of obi wan…from a certain point of view…based on a specific piece of prior art…you could maybe make a case for that mentality…according to these proud exponents of the white-pride that can’t show its primary face but pitches fits if you call *them* two-faced sons of bitches you wouldn’t piss on if they were on fire like a burning bush in the land of their good lord…is…per the boondocks…cultural appropriation
…&…the struggle is real…but I’m pretty sure those are the moments your mother had in mind when she tried to impress upon you the importance of not giving the fuckers the satisfaction
…denying them that part arguably “won” the civil rights argument for all the stuff they so desperately need to dismantle in hell’s own rush job?
Oppressed people who don’t have much firepower are going to do what oppressed people do. Insurgency.
The US (especially since 1950) has never been good at dealing with insurgencies. All your tactics are geared towards overwhelming force/firepower and area denial. Winning hearts and minds is downright impossible when your leaders (military and/or civilian) don’t give a shit.
Winning insurgencies require a lot of boots on the ground and limited dependence on firepower as well as money, and a plan to get out eventually.
…&…not to be unduly flippant…but…even as big a dog as the US federal government & its extensive military & military-adjacent vectors for the use of force in broadly all available spectra…when you’ve thrown about this many woof tickets…even that dog doesn’t have the numbers to cash those in for their imagined trophy set of the jaws of victory
…the allusion to classical greece is…a much better fit than any of the “winning” rhetoric & actions they view as keeping up the momentum of their drive to vanquish their foes in the culture wars by evicting those views from the overton window to make room for all the blue skies there…aren’t…in the wholly impoverished universe of the tiny-minded they want to condemn all of us to live in like some fucking phantom zone kneel before zod fucking cosplay until all the tipping points are tipped all the way over into the unrecoverable kind of civilisational capsizing crescendo of certifiable crack-head-cracker-that-cracked cascade failing us all into something nearer brawndo irrigation than the death of grass
…&…I was always the sort that had to check the dates because I never seemed to remember those…but…like…the bits I do remember about all the history include quite a few of those mistakes we supposedly pat ourselves on the back for learning from…more often than not on account of how those seem like they could be about any time before, during or after the examples we call historical
…but…if we don’t start getting the numbers of people who still don’t get some shit “we” knew upwards of a thousand years ago down in the long-tail & out of the bit of the bell-curve they use for the shape of the jar…I…don’t fancy our odds, tbh…&…that’s a problem for me because there’s kids I like a lot who are going to be around for longer than I expect to be…shit…some of them kids *have* kids…so…for preference…I’d like to find my way onto team #fancyourodds just as swiftly as someone could see their way to showing me how to get there?
Pete Hegseth: SEE! I was right all along!
In reversal, U.S. loosens guidance on alcohol
…speaking…loosely…of the sort of collateral damage that shows up like catching stray rounds when trying to put out the fire at the ammo factory
…but…we all know what they mean by a punchable face…&…this is the glass jaw on the head of this thing
…& the foreground:backgound [small]+[in your face]:[big]+[far away]…uhh…trump l’oeil…is fully of father ted proportions…but…one of these things is…just like the others
…I’m leaving out the part where everybody knows who did that now…&…some other stuff
…anyroad
…stuff…happening…things…being said
…&…things reminding people of things that some people are too young to remember
…& what the voices of experience sound like when they tell you who they found themselves to be
…but…for the eleventy-umpteen-th time…if they even once stopped to genuinely think about…let alone contemplate on other-than-contortionist-contemporaneously-configured-ret-con-conservative terms…the fetishised focus of their supposed dominion in written form…they are…straightforwardly…anti-consitutionalists…the way the antidisestablishmentarians…on account of the anti- part…are arguably more commonly referred to as the british establishment even unto these days when the past is the future again…&…funny story…the disestablishment the establishment was anti wasn’t its own disintegration, per se…it was sticking to their guns about the church & the state & the monarch being the mundane world’s nearest equivalent to the actual holy trinity…none of that separation of church & state newfangled nonsense that got fashionable on the continent & the colonies never shut up about…exhibit #howishisjawstillintact
…because…&…this isn’t necessarily me saying it even if it for damn sure is me thinking it a lot of times for a day that isn’t over yet
…some 101 level textbook shit…&…I dunno…back in the day they talked a big game about how “you’re only cheating yourself” if you don’t do the work…which includes the homework…& the background reading…& learning your numbers…&…& & &…ad functionally infinitum…but…fuck me if it don’t seem like the same people I heard get told that for a score of years a few score of years ago are cheating fucking all of us into an early fucking grave…for shits & giggles & bragging rights & shiny things that they get all magpie about
…& I might be starting to revist what I thought were some settled views I had about the way it sounded to me to hear advocates for the continued use of corporal punishment on children when I was one of those who would have seen turnabout as fair play when the cane was in the other fist…so to speak
…I…guess I didn’t expect to live a life that would one day make me identify in an empathetic sort of way with the mother superior that won’t take their filthy stolen money…about the switching…grown men or the kids they used to be when that hurt more…all it takes is a mental image that’s like the baby muppet version of the stephen miller spitting image puppet that lives in my head like a snapchat filter?
…will the hits ever *stop* coming…while leaving these sorts of ripples?
…can we say…A/B test?
…or…does that get cancelled by the absolute immunity that is absolutely not the law the way that asshole is making out to be laying down the shit he’s out there talking?
…bunch of wish-casting “a wizard did it” ass trifling fuck-knucklers
…the lot of them
…not that the press-facing parts are the parts that necessarily top my list for why these people should spend the rest of their miserable stinking lives getting spat at by every stranger on every street
…can I get a “states’ rights”?
…or…whatever
…try trading stories with the ladies in the UK that tried to do the vigil thing the time the guy that raped & murdered the one lady was a serving police-officer…while we’re debating the state monopoly on the sanction of violence intersecting with the remembrance of things they’d institutionally prefer to be forgot faster than old acquaintance for the sake of auld lang syne…the king is dead…long live the king…for the rechercher sake of les temps perdus & all that noblesse oblige pro patri mori-ing…or what david simon got a bunch of actors to sell under the strapline “the dickensian aspect”
…the victorians did a job so good on the bits of london that you can’t see from the street level that a city orders of magnitude larger than the one atop which they built coasted on that for so long that eventually doing something about the parts you’d call plumbing in a domestic context fucked up so much shit that headlines were borne on a wave of calculated losses to the economy…true story…&…the founding fathers framed some fine sentiments that were admirably future-proofed…against their foreseeable futures…but…even kansas isn’t in their kansas anymore…any more than I’m dorothy or there’s a yellow brick road with a fake wizard at the end of it in an emerald city
…&…apparently…at least for today…I am feeling salty the way the fucking oceans do…maybe tipping in a dead sea direction…so…probably stands to reason some stuff appears to be able to float to the surface of my mind that under normal circumstances would sink without trace & not even a ripple because even the calm version is…choppy?
gaslighting aside….. can we please stop with the please pray for shit?
thats for religious people
aint nothing christian going on here…
im agnostic and offended on their behalf
…to…or from…that “certain point of view”…that thinks what they’re looking at should always & forever be the only thing on the sharp end…& that counting that among the many certainties that certainly cement them in the place you’d think of as the blunt end of the instrument they’re all about driving to the hilt…from the…rhymes with…rommel
…surely…stop calling for shirley
…while you keep fucking stabbing yourself in your own backbone & claiming to be driving your points home for the home team?
…if the ballpark isn’t enough of a clue for you to know what game you’re in…maybe you don’t belong on the field of play…& I say that as a dues-paid lifetime denizen of the cheapseats…whether or not the iceman cometh…or we get sick of waiting for godot…cometh the hour…what we don’t need is more amateur hour & less if’s worth of unforgiving minutes that cannot be caged within the hardening cold bonds of the dying sunlight on the garden as the sonnets & birds descend upon the earth that compels them…but…that can’t be about this stuff…in that louis’ lines the line is “cannot beg for pardon”…double-or-quits-ed up to “not expecting pardon”, even…not…beg, borrow or steal & all is pardoned…unless you have a problem with the problem’s idea of the solution…in which case crucifixion is too good for ’em
…at this point if I were daniel I’d be planning to ask the lions if it’d be ok if I crashed in their gaffe because dens are cozy & I’m not trying to start any shit because none of my beef is with them or their kith & kin
…can we make it be friday already, please…or better yet…petition daniel craig to make “ladies & gentlemen – the weekend…” into the new war of the worlds maiden broadcast…the hero we need & all that?
…oh &…there’s playing games…as in stupid games, stupid prizes
…& there’s…having game…like the game the one guy wasn’t aware the one pol’s social media person had…who…works with the social media team who…seem to have kind of a boss for a boss…game-wise?
…but…that amy maybe isn’t the only person overlooking some parts of the picture?
…all the money in the world apparently can’t clue you in to the part where people don’t hate you because you’re a white man
…it’s literally everything else that makes you you that we fucking hate elon