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and I don’t see how knowing would make that any different for me.

It would confirm you’re a claimant with valid damages caused to you, legally speaking, for which you could then seek civil remedy directly from the various different culpable parties, even if criminal prosecution isn’t coming.

Demilitarization is just a (admittedly big on account of how counter to the long running paradigm it would be) single step.

The next 5 presidents will have a lot of work to do over the next 20 years…in the as of now extreme hypothetical thought exercise where the country is steered towards actually being an honest member of the global community.

This hypothetical can’t even happen as long as the fascism is on active display mind you, so that means it would have to be thrown back into the shadows (most likely imo) or finally fully eradicated (I fucking wish).

But after all that, the next 20 years of US history would need to be a lot of demilitarization, a lot less meddling in the affairs of other countries with the sole goal of “How does the US come ahead of absolutely everyone?” and a hitherto unknown for practically the entire country’s history period of “What do we negotiate to make a better world in which the US thrives because the world was made better?”.

In addition to a lot of work and money spent to recoup any semblance of soft power back, and a lot of loss in easy political wins.

The soft power can’t even begin to pretend to be restored without a lot of spending on public education and I don’t just mean schooling for children.

Extensive outreach to deprogram the ‘might is right’ and other assorted fascist/racist bullshit out of the population would be required, because it’s easy as shit for other countries to see when there’s no political will in the American people to force its leaders to carry through with something.

Fuck, I could stay here all day, but it’s also kind of depressing. It’s not impossible, none of it.

But the hurdles to fix this fuckery? Hella.

Maybe with some dragon gold hoards in the people’s Treasury, and some nice and fancy dragon scale armor, it would be easier. Grinding boss fights for XP tends to make the journey easier 🗡️.

That probably should be one of the earlier steps and sure would show the world some commitment.

Are you my former boss?

We all know Florida is one of the hottest and most humid places in the country. It’s a form of torture, likely to cause death

Plus also literally mosquito food in a place with encroaching new fun mosquito borne illnesses, as they’re trapped in a cage without any sort of protection. Absolutely deliberately cruel and unusual.

It would be pretty trivial for their backend system to interpret the images server side and build an identification profile for each vehicle. This way, even if you remove your plate, your vehicle can be identified.

They already are.

That’s what Nightshift/OS whatever the fuck they changed the name to, the law enforcement portal that makes use of the camera feeds and cross references with/across the various law enforcement databases, empowers.

The publication briefly mentioned it obliquely, but the article is about the camera software itself and they’re being remarkably restrained in their reporting. To avoid legal challenges perhaps.

I don’t see any reason the global south should get involved.

When has the global south ever gotten the choice to not be embroiled in the empire’s machinations?

At least be consistent in your thoughts.

ASD 🤝 ADHD like:

Thank you Stamets, for standing up for what needs to be said and trying to further general education on this.

• I addressed the realpolitik in my last sentence re: black sites.

• You seem to overestimate the acumen of the current members of the praetorian guard, in a way that is out of sync with their recorded performance lately.

• The hypothetical presented has the perpetrator instigating a physical altercation in a moment of passionate rage, whereupon the perpetrator has placed themselves in an unfavorable position from which there is not enough time to avoid consequences.

Whether the Secret Service risks shooting their charge to kill the hypothetical reporter on the spot or does their actual job and throws the sack of lies over the back of a strapping agent is not a part of the hypothetical.

In such a scenario, the victim may be dead, but the perp, does not escape the classical (maladjusted) but natural response to saying shit like what is regularly produced with impunity, to another human being. The elderly perp.

It doesn’t matter how big or tough you are. It does not matter what is legal, what is right or wrong, or any other factor. The victim would be dead, and the perp would be immune.

You’re looking at the whole hypothetical exercise the wrong way. Despite its cathartic construction, it’s not about how big or tough.

The enemy cannot be considered neither overwhelmingly strong nor inconsequentially weak.

To say either one in absolutist terms is to play word games, rather than approaching a fight how it should be approached.

Honest estimation bound to context is required to “Know thy enemy”.

He could be found not guilty due to Presidential action all day long for not committing assault and battery for all I care.

So long as the boxing champ working for AXY news or whatever is also found to have acted in self defense in accordance to their jurisdiction after their reflexive and mighty right hook starts a needed constitutional crisis.

The courts can handle the absurdity.

Not that the presidential immunity is ok at all, far from it.

But there’s a vital distinction between “Can’t be charged for anything while performing Presidential duties” and “Anyone who exercises a legal right that crosses unto the protected person has that legal right deactivated”.

Which…yes, pretty much is defacto currently for 99/100 things that any aggrieved party could claim as a grievance committed by the US. Gov, currently and effectively, I’m aware.

But unstoppable force meeting immovable mouth?

I feel codifying that too deeply would be a legal bridge too far.

Not for decency but because what it means for the puppeteering interests. The reporter would be more at risk of ending in a black site than a courtroom, imo.

It would be even more hilarious than that.

Assuming he couldn’t just TACO and leave the encounter at the first opportunity anyways.

He’d be trying to one-up the exchange but he’s neither smart enough for genuine roasting quips, nor half as crass as an instigator could be.

Just constant sad old man energy “No you’s” while getting dunked on.

Would take him like 30 seconds of genuinely facing vocal opposition he can’t simply pay to have stop, before he folds and completely narcissists-implodes into full body tantrums his physique can’t cash.

Probably one 3AM rant away, maybe two at most.

At least it seems like they might be marginally more materially useful this time around in that it’s not just protesting but actual coordinated attempt to aid increase voter turn out.

Whether or not they’re a box or two behind by focusing on the ballot box…eh, I guess I’ll continue expecting and preparing for the worst but hoping for the best I guess.

The commenter you replied to, basically described basic human-ing for you, and why it works and has always worked, in the past.

Your rebuttal is focused on…the Internet as an object of stagnant sociocultural jamming, is that right? I think that was the gist.

I won’t engage that directly at the moment, as it could just as easily be insight with poor communication skills behind it, as it could be a strange conspiracy theory, as it could be propaganda meant to deflate and discourage.

All equally plausible places to come from, because you keep repeating the same bits and not going deeper.

We should be choosing lower effort and maximizing for effect. Protests are high effort low effect. Online culture jamming is low effort, high effect. It is logic to anyone who thinks about this honestly

What is a low effort-high effect action you believe we should be taking?

On the same token, if your tactics to achieve a strategy which you’ve yet to share are sound…what are high effort and low effect actions we can force the opposition into making?

Really makes one wonder…How many fucking data points do these assholes need telling them we’re too fucking broke for their game and want their heads on pikes?

I look forward to when they’re replaced with Dig Dug to find the hidden Trumpcoin wallet from the bunker with the three corpses inside a serving cart.

Hey! Some of us sociopaths don’t give a fuck about titles, position, and power!

In times of abundance we just happily feign whatever is in the best interest of being able to happily feign, which usually helps out the tribe and that’s why we got to keep making enough babies to pass that along.

Ethics and morality are complex/expensive, no doubt about that. Everything you said (except equating all sociopaths with the same angles of sociopathy) is true, no question.

Luckily, our selfish drive to get back to the comfy and unassuming does tend to result in…headaches for the other, less integrating members of the worst of humanity class.

We’re outnumbered though and can’t tell precisely when it’s time to stop trying to feign along and go dispassionately tear apart the obstacles standing between us quietly living in the metaphorically cave near the village and basking in the sounds of a happy society whose periphery is all we need to get by.

🧮📐🦍…So if we assume chud is worth 16B…he’s an investor so…ok let’s assume 4.3ish surging daily…86400 seconds in a day so with the max penalty and the offset…

A $38,816,439 daily bleed. About 25 days to lose a cool billion, not bad.

But some of these rapist dragons have paid that much just to avoid wealth taxes that would about equal that.

Nah, make it bigger. It should hurt him within the week, same as losing a paycheck does to most of us.

No harm done, and I certainly understand a thing or two about failing to communicate myself in a way that is parse-able by others and retains my intent. I understand that all too well.

As for broken arrows: “A Broken Arrow is defined as an unexpected event involving nuclear weapons that result in the accidental launching, firing, detonating, theft, or loss of the weapon.”

The nuclear powers all have way too many embarrassingly stupid ones on record, given that you’d expect nuclear weapons to be the literal most important thing with the literal most stringent procedures for handling.

There was one in NM in the 50s with some limited contamination exposed in the local area, and I thought that’s what you were referring to.

Wikipedia has a neat list of both broken arrows (military accidents) and civilian ones, involving nuclear technology.

The racism is just the lead in for class-ism.

Yes. That is also implied in my comment, under a careful read. The progression is the same and has been there in the US forever.

Their dream model is:

Immigration - > Opposing Ideologies - > Racism -> Ethno state -> Enforced hierarchy on the remaining population

Every single one of those steps are all enforcing class division. There isn’t any other war besides class war.

But the mechanisms the fascist leverages to achieve it don’t include them screaming it out, for obvious reasons.

Racism, is what made the centrist be okay with MLK’s assassination. His beginning to move the message from the racism cover story employed by the system, to the class-division foundations beneath, the reason he was killed.

I’m not entirely sure how to interpret your on fire analogy, except to agree that everything is indeed on fire?

Also pretty sure you’re referring to a broken arrow incident with the AF thing? Yeah, there’s literal and metaphorical nuclear bombs out there waiting for the fire to reach them, I can dig that.

They’re not compatible, under the current paradigms. You’re not wrong, imo.

But neither is the commenter you’re replying to.

It ain’t going away, and as it is (in every respect from function to marketing to access) ‘AI’ is currently absolutely poisonous for mental development, no matter the age.

But that’s not inherently married to the way it will always be used.

Imo, the ban should be in place all the way in K-12, for no less than 5 years, and some resources devoted to enable school districts to engage the necessary mechanisms to assess how to marry the use of AI technology into educational use, with an actual thorough process in place to assess how and if it can be done in a manner beneficial to educational goals.

It’s not enough to have a techbro declare it the best thing in the world for learning, a child development psychologist declare it the worst thing to exist, and an education expert sitting between them looking anguished.

They need to all be locked in the same room, metaphorically speaking, and honestly arrive at a form that is meaningfully impactful to student outcomes (if one can be found), before it’s something that schools should attempt to use within the curriculum.