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Last Notes npub1nmwh363fuya9an4l92p7c7k5rpg8hg6pmcjs908czfsh9349cuhqs7xaks Ciggy Bringer of Smoke lmao, this is my entire TV powerblock these days, all the treks! npub1nmwh363fuya9an4l92p7c7k5rpg8hg6pmcjs908czfsh9349cuhqs7xaks Ciggy Bringer of Smoke Well, it was a big affirmation march and I appreciate it not having to 'work' with hyper awareness and teaming up with medica-y-care folks, but I am so goddamn restless and every single non risky thing feels like a waste of my flavor and appetites. I do think some folks are being ridiculous about suggested over-opsec for No Kings, and affirmation marches in general. The point is 'how many of us are there like this even' and that includes daring to not give a shit if they can be made and then 'talked to' by suits, or just whisked away one day, or whatever The State will do with it. Theres always going to be disagreement on what to do, how to do it, but i really do think if it isnt your bag and not your spec, youre not doing them or yourself any favors recommending May 29th Protocols for something decidedly not May 29th 2020 in so many ways. Its about matching the vibe in general and individual takecare with offers to others for masks etc. This is if youre not gonna go grognard hardass anyway on the what to do and how to do - if theres only a handful of things that will do and nobody is doing them, thats a real fucking way of backseat driving people towards it by starting with their kit, like theyd be future comrades if the state wont nab em for this today? Even if their kit and signage signals an ideological gulf that kit doesnt fix? Anywho, this is actually about backseat driving for the most part anyway. Let people cook even if you know its kinda meh. npub1nmwh363fuya9an4l92p7c7k5rpg8hg6pmcjs908czfsh9349cuhqs7xaks Ciggy Bringer of Smoke That statue's proportions are hilarious npub1nmwh363fuya9an4l92p7c7k5rpg8hg6pmcjs908czfsh9349cuhqs7xaks Ciggy Bringer of Smoke i honestly believe that firmer vocational tracks from college to stations of power, with the sociotechnlogical advent of the internet cleaving and shaping social cohorts, is partially in play here npub1nmwh363fuya9an4l92p7c7k5rpg8hg6pmcjs908czfsh9349cuhqs7xaks Ciggy Bringer of Smoke One example for laughs, plz, I beg npub1nmwh363fuya9an4l92p7c7k5rpg8hg6pmcjs908czfsh9349cuhqs7xaks Ciggy Bringer of Smoke Me: '90% of entities in an ecosystem do wrong when left entirely to their own development devices, so is there a point to scorekeeping who has done the worst in private comms?' You: "Sounds like you're excusing 90% of entities and want to be one yourself" npub1nmwh363fuya9an4l92p7c7k5rpg8hg6pmcjs908czfsh9349cuhqs7xaks Ciggy Bringer of Smoke They might be blaming an ecosystem because its an ecosystem problem 90% of entities botch on purpose. npub1nmwh363fuya9an4l92p7c7k5rpg8hg6pmcjs908czfsh9349cuhqs7xaks Ciggy Bringer of Smoke Oh shit, oh no, Beka... Borderlands guns are real now. npub1nmwh363fuya9an4l92p7c7k5rpg8hg6pmcjs908czfsh9349cuhqs7xaks Ciggy Bringer of Smoke It's almost like a tell they consider Fascism legitimate power to negotiate with for some ~*odd*~ reason npub1nmwh363fuya9an4l92p7c7k5rpg8hg6pmcjs908czfsh9349cuhqs7xaks Ciggy Bringer of Smoke It really is the gift that keeps on giving (for those of us that neither like PSL nor Starbuck's PSL, we couldn't write a more funny confusion) npub1nmwh363fuya9an4l92p7c7k5rpg8hg6pmcjs908czfsh9349cuhqs7xaks Ciggy Bringer of Smoke Okay, good, because one thing that drives me bonkers is when partisans run around flailing over being "Outflanked", like the crack squad of Council Communists of The Democratic Party totally had one pulled over on them while they slept or something... npub1nmwh363fuya9an4l92p7c7k5rpg8hg6pmcjs908czfsh9349cuhqs7xaks Ciggy Bringer of Smoke Beka, pay you a buck for every time you've seen the word 'outflank' or 'outflanking' used in the last week, promise to buy me a sundae with the exchange? npub1nmwh363fuya9an4l92p7c7k5rpg8hg6pmcjs908czfsh9349cuhqs7xaks Ciggy Bringer of Smoke The larger collective refusal to eat shit on this material fact to keep the mythos intact is all part of the cultural replication of America and I fucking hate it. Its like trying to 'move on' from an abcess by caking 10 lbs of makeup on it and applying an Old Glory tattoo - sepsis walking. npub1nmwh363fuya9an4l92p7c7k5rpg8hg6pmcjs908czfsh9349cuhqs7xaks Ciggy Bringer of Smoke The thing about it is that once you put a pin on the American Spirit being 'you can buy your way to more liberty' the whole American Project clicks but also explains every abberational and exceptional thing about the larger economic structure, political structure, like this country is a fucking racket calling itself a nation state, bound by a culture that was mostly informed at its inception by slavers and merchants who hit a limit of buying their way out of monarch's rule. npub1nmwh363fuya9an4l92p7c7k5rpg8hg6pmcjs908czfsh9349cuhqs7xaks Ciggy Bringer of Smoke So the artsy folks are continually botching the presentation of an Ecumenopolis cause... Can we get one on to explain themselves? npub1nmwh363fuya9an4l92p7c7k5rpg8hg6pmcjs908czfsh9349cuhqs7xaks Ciggy Bringer of Smoke It would probably piss some small amount of 'hackers' off to do something grand thats not hacking and getting media to report it as 'local man hacks datacenter with semi truck' npub1nmwh363fuya9an4l92p7c7k5rpg8hg6pmcjs908czfsh9349cuhqs7xaks Ciggy Bringer of Smoke Driving Mac Trucks into datacenters and insisting im brute force hacking them into failure npub1nmwh363fuya9an4l92p7c7k5rpg8hg6pmcjs908czfsh9349cuhqs7xaks Ciggy Bringer of Smoke The notion is kinda John Wick Itis where its like...okay...a flourishing underbelly that evades purposeful detection but is discoverable by those searching for a home, with millions of people on it...like, cool thought, but I dont think it can exist. npub1nmwh363fuya9an4l92p7c7k5rpg8hg6pmcjs908czfsh9349cuhqs7xaks Ciggy Bringer of Smoke The audacious incompetency is the thing that gets me. npub1nmwh363fuya9an4l92p7c7k5rpg8hg6pmcjs908czfsh9349cuhqs7xaks Ciggy Bringer of Smoke i think its precisely because they did exist and Former-Liberals-cum-Leftists are such materialist dweebs in search of a deductive silver bullet, theyd rather ride pine than repeat a supposed mistake twice. npub1nmwh363fuya9an4l92p7c7k5rpg8hg6pmcjs908czfsh9349cuhqs7xaks Ciggy Bringer of Smoke 'Another Goofy popped out within seconds.' And it's like...they got auxiliary goofies at the ready, but no fucking plan to keep the current goofies from the need immediate goofy relief. Just incredible lines throughout this anecdote. npub1nmwh363fuya9an4l92p7c7k5rpg8hg6pmcjs908czfsh9349cuhqs7xaks Ciggy Bringer of Smoke Look no further than Professional Athletes Who Generate The Entire Reason Anyone Even Does The Ancillary and Auxiliary Spend Around Sports and how the sheer amount of labor compensation rules them out of proletariat, even if they're getting fucked over on the value they produce for the entity. It's a great test on structural affinities taking precedent over face value affinities, and there's a little racist tic to all of this shit where white ass managers and managerial wannabees and general serfs who worship power will invoke how 'in the real world, the pro athletes wouldn't get anywhere close to their 47% or so share of revenue before costs, they should shut up' and its like...they should shut up cause all they're doing is affirming class relationships through the proxy of sports, with racial animus being impetus. I fucking love sports and loathe many sports fans. npub1nmwh363fuya9an4l92p7c7k5rpg8hg6pmcjs908czfsh9349cuhqs7xaks Ciggy Bringer of Smoke the bitter irony is a 'natural disaster' could advance the impetus despite the externality, almost making it seem like you're better off being 'blameless weather' than an motived person to accomplish things. npub1nmwh363fuya9an4l92p7c7k5rpg8hg6pmcjs908czfsh9349cuhqs7xaks Ciggy Bringer of Smoke Its a starting point to get folks asking what they can do, and Id be fibbing if I said atrocity hadnt motivated me, but its more complicated once you get it. Theres a group of women in my neighborhood that hold a vigil for the children of gaza and its like, i love them and theyre doing the thing they think will help but its like, im already affected, I need the 200 level courses on how we sabotage boeing and maersk so Israel doesnt get weapons, ya know? npub1nmwh363fuya9an4l92p7c7k5rpg8hg6pmcjs908czfsh9349cuhqs7xaks Ciggy Bringer of Smoke Part of the issue is that there is a threshold of atrocity where it reabstracts itself into something you cant do anything about. I was just griping about how bearing witness doesnt do enough after a certain point but alienate - my angle is more on the 'what do we do about it' and the answer being 'bear more witness and drag others into it' and that being demotivational if you already have been shaken by it - no, you want an outlet to fight back, not pass along the worst things youve ever seen. npub1nmwh363fuya9an4l92p7c7k5rpg8hg6pmcjs908czfsh9349cuhqs7xaks Ciggy Bringer of Smoke Amen Sister, and it can be a huge pain in the ass to collect all that info if its in disparate places, buuuuuuut, if you ever need that hardcopy to phonetree your way through things, you'll be glad you did it and maintained it when you need it. npub1nmwh363fuya9an4l92p7c7k5rpg8hg6pmcjs908czfsh9349cuhqs7xaks Ciggy Bringer of Smoke "What are we gonna do if the internet gets shut off?" Rejoice, then realize our longstanding atrophy, then start at square one with the old school methods that everyone before the internet used to some effect of utility greater than anything I've fucking seen since 1995. npub1nmwh363fuya9an4l92p7c7k5rpg8hg6pmcjs908czfsh9349cuhqs7xaks Ciggy Bringer of Smoke Goddamn, seems like I just need to do enough to become a domain authority so that I become an omnidomain expert on everything, and people just say I proved shit I alluded to, like soy sauce and yellow mustard being a keen combo npub1nmwh363fuya9an4l92p7c7k5rpg8hg6pmcjs908czfsh9349cuhqs7xaks Ciggy Bringer of Smoke It really makes it hard to stomach other bagels, even other good local ones, cause you just know what is possible and the locals ones aren't it. npub1nmwh363fuya9an4l92p7c7k5rpg8hg6pmcjs908czfsh9349cuhqs7xaks Ciggy Bringer of Smoke RIP Lil Queen!!! https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/114/565/377/418/006/904/original/87e1db586ba54012.jpg npub1nmwh363fuya9an4l92p7c7k5rpg8hg6pmcjs908czfsh9349cuhqs7xaks Ciggy Bringer of Smoke All true, but it's like, that's an acute near term horror I'd only be half sorry to observe happening with my own two eyes in realtime. Like there's no denying that if it were strong enough and wide enough, it'd probably unravel human societies buuuuuuuuuuuuut... On the whole, we're back in a pre-1840s technological ecosystem which is slightly after our current ecological nightmare started waddling with a log of coal in its diaper. npub1nmwh363fuya9an4l92p7c7k5rpg8hg6pmcjs908czfsh9349cuhqs7xaks Ciggy Bringer of Smoke A Carrington Event would be very bad for us in the near term, and probably be very good for the planet in the long term. Personally and very selfishly, I wouldn't mind computers never working again. npub1nmwh363fuya9an4l92p7c7k5rpg8hg6pmcjs908czfsh9349cuhqs7xaks Ciggy Bringer of Smoke The fussiest fucking droid in the galaxy and one that just beeps and whistles and does shit as it needs to be done. Don't tell Han the odds on that one! npub1nmwh363fuya9an4l92p7c7k5rpg8hg6pmcjs908czfsh9349cuhqs7xaks Ciggy Bringer of Smoke Honestly, I have thought about this so many times and how easy it might be to impersonate a role I already hold, and just get enough access to deploy something nasty, but of course I overthink the whole thing and want a ticket number it insert myself between and want the SOP document so I can really blend in. Overkill, but it's my dayjob I'm good at so... npub1nmwh363fuya9an4l92p7c7k5rpg8hg6pmcjs908czfsh9349cuhqs7xaks Ciggy Bringer of Smoke Spit in mouth, not kinky, I wanna see if it works like that on my coffee/weed stains. npub1nmwh363fuya9an4l92p7c7k5rpg8hg6pmcjs908czfsh9349cuhqs7xaks Ciggy Bringer of Smoke *takes of keffiyeh to reveal face tattoo of keffiyeh* npub1nmwh363fuya9an4l92p7c7k5rpg8hg6pmcjs908czfsh9349cuhqs7xaks Ciggy Bringer of Smoke To put a blunt point on it...seriously, the people that rooted for the fucking cops against us in 2020 want us to trust them, be with them, just hoping they won't call the cops even as their organizational unit for these protests 100% have and will if you make an actual fuss with some teeth? npub1nmwh363fuya9an4l92p7c7k5rpg8hg6pmcjs908czfsh9349cuhqs7xaks Ciggy Bringer of Smoke Mars Attacks without Slim Whitman As Savior! npub1nmwh363fuya9an4l92p7c7k5rpg8hg6pmcjs908czfsh9349cuhqs7xaks Ciggy Bringer of Smoke So the 3 body problem is a macguffin npub1nmwh363fuya9an4l92p7c7k5rpg8hg6pmcjs908czfsh9349cuhqs7xaks Ciggy Bringer of Smoke Someone owes me 10 bucks if Rod Beck was the pilot. npub1nmwh363fuya9an4l92p7c7k5rpg8hg6pmcjs908czfsh9349cuhqs7xaks Ciggy Bringer of Smoke Students Against Administrative Cowardice forms overnight npub1nmwh363fuya9an4l92p7c7k5rpg8hg6pmcjs908czfsh9349cuhqs7xaks Ciggy Bringer of Smoke Ahp ahp ahp I don't see "Ciggy Logic" which is actually borrowed heavily from 'Aesop and Son' which is basically 'Unconventional form fitting solutions that are wrong to expectation but solution none the less' npub1nmwh363fuya9an4l92p7c7k5rpg8hg6pmcjs908czfsh9349cuhqs7xaks Ciggy Bringer of Smoke Liberals are going to be out 500 million dollars from their own donation pockets before they go 'oh shit' and then they'll be like 'ah well, sunk cost, Newsom is actually decent' npub1nmwh363fuya9an4l92p7c7k5rpg8hg6pmcjs908czfsh9349cuhqs7xaks Ciggy Bringer of Smoke there is something to a 'let em do as they will within limits because we can more capably soft contain events announced as events' rather than face an insurgency that just goes for it without any warnings. npub1nmwh363fuya9an4l92p7c7k5rpg8hg6pmcjs908czfsh9349cuhqs7xaks Ciggy Bringer of Smoke Don't organize a thing, just do a thing and get away with it over and over then, got it. npub1nmwh363fuya9an4l92p7c7k5rpg8hg6pmcjs908czfsh9349cuhqs7xaks Ciggy Bringer of Smoke i wonder when first uptakes like that happen - when were you like 'there really is something to this' after a first or few impressions. I had that with Bach and it was a ton of sources exposure but yeah, church itself with the pipe organs doing Bach service and a half, and Wendy Carlos' seminal album. There really is something to it, hahaha npub1nmwh363fuya9an4l92p7c7k5rpg8hg6pmcjs908czfsh9349cuhqs7xaks Ciggy Bringer of Smoke See, toons as this cultural lexicon of the writers and animators is amazing for basically capsulating what was known and referential for future generations. Intentional or not, it does it where the range of reference gives you an idea of the team and what captured their fancy and intrigues. Bugs as Valkyrie on the cartoonishly proportioned horse always got me, but I also got a payload of 'this is opera, this is a specific kind of Germanic Opera' and its like, whether youre fan of Wagner or like Bugs in drag cause there has never been coyer, its a cultural artifact of appreciation and reference. npub1nmwh363fuya9an4l92p7c7k5rpg8hg6pmcjs908czfsh9349cuhqs7xaks Ciggy Bringer of Smoke same same same same SAME npub1nmwh363fuya9an4l92p7c7k5rpg8hg6pmcjs908czfsh9349cuhqs7xaks Ciggy Bringer of Smoke now Im intrigued! npub1nmwh363fuya9an4l92p7c7k5rpg8hg6pmcjs908czfsh9349cuhqs7xaks Ciggy Bringer of Smoke Beka, can we take a sidebar on 'vocational training as individual self saving device in a society' and how sizzle industries come and go as the word gets out that they provide a superior self saving, then get flooded with new fish who heard the word, and are now stuck in a hierarchy with low turnover? Cause I got Docs, Lawyers and Software Devs on my list now. npub1nmwh363fuya9an4l92p7c7k5rpg8hg6pmcjs908czfsh9349cuhqs7xaks Ciggy Bringer of Smoke thats why in professional circles Im a Quaker known as Best Possible Problem Solver npub1nmwh363fuya9an4l92p7c7k5rpg8hg6pmcjs908czfsh9349cuhqs7xaks Ciggy Bringer of Smoke Would that be Bijal? npub1nmwh363fuya9an4l92p7c7k5rpg8hg6pmcjs908czfsh9349cuhqs7xaks Ciggy Bringer of Smoke yeah! I was seeing arial coverage tonight where its just growing and glowing and growing. Some folks on the news absolutely led with 'staring into hell' feelings of shock and loss npub1nmwh363fuya9an4l92p7c7k5rpg8hg6pmcjs908czfsh9349cuhqs7xaks Ciggy Bringer of Smoke I do gotta say, 2025 opening domestically with what looks like the mouth of hell revealing flaming tooth after flaming tooth as it consumes parts of LA... Is a wee bit literary fablish npub1nmwh363fuya9an4l92p7c7k5rpg8hg6pmcjs908czfsh9349cuhqs7xaks Ciggy Bringer of Smoke It is kinda bananas Israelis are going abroad to boast about how much theyre getting away with genociding and love it with the Israeli State then having to deploy localized propaganda and extraction to incident, and some pathetic Liberals are still the only ones left with a line nobody believes npub1nmwh363fuya9an4l92p7c7k5rpg8hg6pmcjs908czfsh9349cuhqs7xaks Ciggy Bringer of Smoke I get it to some extent even as a dude - anything about partisan/underdog struggle is instantly resonant, partially putting myself there already but also expecting far more harrowing and dramatic shit to happen in the future. It's a kind of 'this is how it might go and you gotta brace for this potential if you couldn't previously imagine it', and we can now half imagine it. npub1nmwh363fuya9an4l92p7c7k5rpg8hg6pmcjs908czfsh9349cuhqs7xaks Ciggy Bringer of Smoke line up a couple jobs in non profit social services, theyll be insurrectos with a heart in 2 years npub1nmwh363fuya9an4l92p7c7k5rpg8hg6pmcjs908czfsh9349cuhqs7xaks Ciggy Bringer of Smoke For a second I was like 'what is the Ghost Busters Baddie doing with a small dog' and then I was like...wait a second....wait a freaking second, this is Silence of the Lambs shit. npub1nmwh363fuya9an4l92p7c7k5rpg8hg6pmcjs908czfsh9349cuhqs7xaks Ciggy Bringer of Smoke Makes sense in doing whats needed to be somewhat functional but I still can only see someone with a sack full of onions being clobbered entirely by the door opening on them as they walk up the stairs. Nevermind clumsily falling down the hole. Itching to see if that door can be reframed like 4 feet to the left or something. This just aint gonna sit right with me, lol. npub1nmwh363fuya9an4l92p7c7k5rpg8hg6pmcjs908czfsh9349cuhqs7xaks Ciggy Bringer of Smoke Absolutely losing it how they'll construct a kind of 'skirt' but a flush cellar door was too much of an engineering feat, unlike the hard skirt. npub1nmwh363fuya9an4l92p7c7k5rpg8hg6pmcjs908czfsh9349cuhqs7xaks Ciggy Bringer of Smoke OH. MY. GOD. (this is a particular type of shitpost I admire) npub1nmwh363fuya9an4l92p7c7k5rpg8hg6pmcjs908czfsh9349cuhqs7xaks Ciggy Bringer of Smoke The past 4 years have only really emphasized that pols aren't bound by anything people think they're bound by, and we spend a helluva lot of time metagaming what agents (we don't actually influence very much by any vector or conduit) should do, and then coming up with some plays to put pressure on them to do it (using a set of presumed incentives we think matter to them but don't seemingly do matter in outcomes or actions) npub1nmwh363fuya9an4l92p7c7k5rpg8hg6pmcjs908czfsh9349cuhqs7xaks Ciggy Bringer of Smoke When talking about politicians and what they do or should do, I don't need to have that convo. That should reasonably be between you and the pol, except you purposefully are gated away from that shit so you're left to banter with me who is not going to play along in some one sentence idea of what pols should do. npub1nmwh363fuya9an4l92p7c7k5rpg8hg6pmcjs908czfsh9349cuhqs7xaks Ciggy Bringer of Smoke Working on shutdown expressions to end a conversation, and trying to condense 'you need to talk to people actually involved with this, pity then that they refuse to talk to you, so you wound up with me instead and hate it' is not happening. npub1nmwh363fuya9an4l92p7c7k5rpg8hg6pmcjs908czfsh9349cuhqs7xaks Ciggy Bringer of Smoke Really, the only longevity is replication of idea to any medium that exists, including cultural consciousness so a specific recording might not exist, but the song lives on. Yeah, I got scare stories about the longevity of tape and CD back in the 2000s and it's really kind of interesting how ceaseless replication across medium is the trick, not preservation on specific mediums. So when are we playing Greensleeves on our recorders? npub1nmwh363fuya9an4l92p7c7k5rpg8hg6pmcjs908czfsh9349cuhqs7xaks Ciggy Bringer of Smoke desolation npub1nmwh363fuya9an4l92p7c7k5rpg8hg6pmcjs908czfsh9349cuhqs7xaks Ciggy Bringer of Smoke *me pointing at you off in the distance as you do your thing* "That there is a bonafide engineer, stand back and appreciate for a moment" npub1nmwh363fuya9an4l92p7c7k5rpg8hg6pmcjs908czfsh9349cuhqs7xaks Ciggy Bringer of Smoke Now starting a campaign on masto to tell the fixated masto dweebs to post better content than masto fixations because garden variety social media users dont wanna read that shit and wont. One Carmelo Anthony gif would do better numbers than 'heres the problem with masto and the fediverse comeptitively in the ecosystem' npub1nmwh363fuya9an4l92p7c7k5rpg8hg6pmcjs908czfsh9349cuhqs7xaks Ciggy Bringer of Smoke Writing "Why Quakers Make Good Anarchists" tongue in cheek to raise the question of why cohorts outside of aware and actualized secular Anarchism somehow do just fine by themselves and others outside of themselves and seem to like one another more. npub1nmwh363fuya9an4l92p7c7k5rpg8hg6pmcjs908czfsh9349cuhqs7xaks Ciggy Bringer of Smoke Ben, if you ever want me to see photos of you on the primary campaign trail as I know you will be there, you have got to be able to differentiate opinion from statements of fact and rap with me in a way that will actually get me to vote. Because when you are on the campaign trial, you're not talk like this for very long. Just advice from someone that has been there and used the campaign tack when volunteering for the campaign in official capacity. npub1nmwh363fuya9an4l92p7c7k5rpg8hg6pmcjs908czfsh9349cuhqs7xaks Ciggy Bringer of Smoke That cohort isn't all that, they're just an obstinate bloc that doesn't know how to ask for help it think it doesn't need, in a coalition environment, today, July 5th 2024. And you're like 'actually theyre right about this even if they put a wet paper sack over their head and need all of you doubters to help everyone in the world right now' You can keep trying to drive this back towards thee actionable, but I will keep telling you why its not good tack. There's a lotta days till november, you got the time to talk about the why more than the what. npub1nmwh363fuya9an4l92p7c7k5rpg8hg6pmcjs908czfsh9349cuhqs7xaks Ciggy Bringer of Smoke And to my first response about asymmetry, The Democratic Party acting as waystation for the status quo, while trying to be the vehicle of resistance and better is not going to do any of it as a unit. Centrists et al have spent my entire life (40 years) basically daring others to help them in the way that Tom Sawyer procured help with whitewashing the fence. npub1nmwh363fuya9an4l92p7c7k5rpg8hg6pmcjs908czfsh9349cuhqs7xaks Ciggy Bringer of Smoke People don't show up to vote precisely because of what centrist assholes are doing? And this group actually is way beyond the focus of those you are daring to try. npub1nmwh363fuya9an4l92p7c7k5rpg8hg6pmcjs908czfsh9349cuhqs7xaks Ciggy Bringer of Smoke I'm giving you the skinny on why nobody on the supposed outside believes you and your rhetoric on this. I mean, how close are you to Bowman's district? Maybe go talk to folks that pushed him through once about how theyre feeling today on the credibility of this whole thing. npub1nmwh363fuya9an4l92p7c7k5rpg8hg6pmcjs908czfsh9349cuhqs7xaks Ciggy Bringer of Smoke This all amounts to a dare to take over a party by a smaller demos in voting share. I dare Centrists to actually not light their hair on fire given full run of the table and make better choices on their own, because they out of hand reject that anyone else knows what the fuck they're talking about, by virtue of not already thinking like they do. npub1nmwh363fuya9an4l92p7c7k5rpg8hg6pmcjs908czfsh9349cuhqs7xaks Ciggy Bringer of Smoke I think you're both wrong about this in different ways starting with assumed symmetry between Parties from the top leaders to the bottom base in what they're about and how they move. npub1nmwh363fuya9an4l92p7c7k5rpg8hg6pmcjs908czfsh9349cuhqs7xaks Ciggy Bringer of Smoke I learned about truancy? I enjoyed that until they came looking for me and then everyone but me had a cow about it. But couldnt have learned about that without the hard forcing venue... I actually learned cheekiness outside of it, Heheheh npub1nmwh363fuya9an4l92p7c7k5rpg8hg6pmcjs908czfsh9349cuhqs7xaks Ciggy Bringer of Smoke Indeed we will, and my experience from CHOP/CHAZ is that there wasn't a predicate enough understanding of how this all can go before showing up as the thing to do. Basically, the cohesion that brought us together in June had started coming apart by the end of July and a kind of coda on that was in September with a huge turnout to a bad beat on a march and that being pretty much that. I will never stop thinking about how much some folks coulda used a breather in their own back yard rather than summoning themselves to my neighborhood where whatever is supposed to resemble organizing in the way we hope for was hit or miss and started generating more misses as more folks didn't hang. Or get chewed by the attempts to organize and find their folks. Some of us even at the time and as it came to a close were somewhat adamant that there had to be some elemental decentralized and distributed action because the moment had kinda passed and nothing was really working with all eyes on us at all times because it was the place to be. In my mind, I keep turning over 'something for anyone wherever they are and without others' to maybe be a way to pre-seed situational and operational awareness and cognizance when the fires of ire woosh in once again? npub1nmwh363fuya9an4l92p7c7k5rpg8hg6pmcjs908czfsh9349cuhqs7xaks Ciggy Bringer of Smoke 2020 woulda been a fruitful proving ground for any number of atomized plays in support of larger, segregated by geography/social scene/social anxiety and paranoia itself Now is this the antithesis of the thrust of organizing? Only if it's the terminus and not the opening to validate effort and find others. npub1nmwh363fuya9an4l92p7c7k5rpg8hg6pmcjs908czfsh9349cuhqs7xaks Ciggy Bringer of Smoke If there was ever the need for a practical atomized partisan zine to making plays including linking up with larger or playing in turn with larger, it's now, given conditions. What can one partisan do in resistance that wouldn't be more forceful with a dozen? That needs to be found for those that are not going to chart it themselves for the first time, a neophyte. npub1nmwh363fuya9an4l92p7c7k5rpg8hg6pmcjs908czfsh9349cuhqs7xaks Ciggy Bringer of Smoke Even if Biden didnt get away with it, the consequentialist framework calls it good and whatever weak kneed Liberal Narrative exists can rot. npub1nmwh363fuya9an4l92p7c7k5rpg8hg6pmcjs908czfsh9349cuhqs7xaks Ciggy Bringer of Smoke "What if we lose our cool and things get out of hand fighting back, and we become who we say we oppose" SHUT THE FUCK UP PERSON WHO IS LITERALLY GOING TO HIDE THE REST OF THEIR LIVES EXCEPT TO VACOUSLY TALK ABOUT MORALITY AND ETHICS THAT NEVER ONCE WILL BE TESTED BY THEMSELVES FIRST HAND npub1nmwh363fuya9an4l92p7c7k5rpg8hg6pmcjs908czfsh9349cuhqs7xaks Ciggy Bringer of Smoke Theres no flattering way to put this but every single day is basically the drag down fight in They Live where Liberals, in their only form of resistance they know, will not put on the fucking glasses to see. And when they do finally, its soooo buffoonishly jarring because 10 minutes of not being a confident know it all to lord over everyone else who wont get with the program was a bigger pain than arguing about it. npub1nmwh363fuya9an4l92p7c7k5rpg8hg6pmcjs908czfsh9349cuhqs7xaks Ciggy Bringer of Smoke Rational or not, it really is profoundly nonsensical that the party that steeps itself in Serious Administration and Management of The State, selected a perfectly Democratic Party Politician to be next in line, and faced with moments that would call on her to take over the driving wheel, the party finds itself incapable of doing such. For reasons mentioned here and beyond. npub1nmwh363fuya9an4l92p7c7k5rpg8hg6pmcjs908czfsh9349cuhqs7xaks Ciggy Bringer of Smoke Yo, I got your order of 'predicate calamity to spur my participation in formulation of new ways' hot n ready. where should I place it? npub1nmwh363fuya9an4l92p7c7k5rpg8hg6pmcjs908czfsh9349cuhqs7xaks Ciggy Bringer of Smoke Someone asking aloud online why clearance rates have gone down as forensics have improved and trying not to Kool-Aid Man through their wall with 'Sounds like a lot of innocent people got ramrodded through the courts with bullshit charges to pin a murder and kayfabe clearance, ooooooh noooooooo' npub1nmwh363fuya9an4l92p7c7k5rpg8hg6pmcjs908czfsh9349cuhqs7xaks Ciggy Bringer of Smoke how bad must one be to get dunked on by Sam? SAM! npub1nmwh363fuya9an4l92p7c7k5rpg8hg6pmcjs908czfsh9349cuhqs7xaks Ciggy Bringer of Smoke LMAO, Democrats just think I'm some asshole crank when I talk about their about operational bereftness, but noooo, see, anyone who understands the English of 'Political Party' to any other anglosphere Liberal Democracy doesn't get how Democrats actually are one. npub1nmwh363fuya9an4l92p7c7k5rpg8hg6pmcjs908czfsh9349cuhqs7xaks Ciggy Bringer of Smoke There's an italo song for that! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAJIkQMuu4I npub1nmwh363fuya9an4l92p7c7k5rpg8hg6pmcjs908czfsh9349cuhqs7xaks Ciggy Bringer of Smoke I'm super curious now! I haven't had any specific food reactions, although 2 beers is automatic night night for me now, but that might be age plus not drinking much anymore. The weirdest one right in the aftermath was losing a significant patch of facial hair in a tight spot to become as smooth as an egg, for like 3 months. I shaved every other day during that time cause it was THAT pronounced. Luckily it grew back so I can shave once a week and look decent. npub1nmwh363fuya9an4l92p7c7k5rpg8hg6pmcjs908czfsh9349cuhqs7xaks Ciggy Bringer of Smoke Nation State is having a crisis it can't explain the cause of, goes to see a doctor about it. Doctor asks them some qualifying questions and then comes up with a treatment plan - to whoop this crisis, the Nation State must become a Liberal Democracy. The Nation State breaks down in tears "Doctor, I am already the best example of Liberal Democracy to ever exist!" npub1nmwh363fuya9an4l92p7c7k5rpg8hg6pmcjs908czfsh9349cuhqs7xaks Ciggy Bringer of Smoke Lmao, so Icelanders would treat me better as unilateral member of far flung audience than actual foreigner there... You poindexters sure have a curious logic about yourselves. npub1nmwh363fuya9an4l92p7c7k5rpg8hg6pmcjs908czfsh9349cuhqs7xaks Ciggy Bringer of Smoke lmao, wife is gonna love this one, she's always bringing home cool rocks with no place to put them. npub1nmwh363fuya9an4l92p7c7k5rpg8hg6pmcjs908czfsh9349cuhqs7xaks Ciggy Bringer of Smoke I mean, most of us that have tried to get out there and shake a leg have varyingly bad experiences where it clearly wasn't 'it' despite the sign and self promotion they were 'it' and more. But even so, that hasn't stopped the trying one way or another, and for Liberal speakers to a Liberal audience who want there to be some kind of cordoned of neutral venue where politics does not interject... They absolutely need to be pushed off the fence (and caught by us, can not just push them or shake the fence and expect them to fall over here) and to actualize their role and potential doing the crummy bummy self organizing we're already engaged in. Consistently, partisan methodology is played on the table by the partisan ideology, and Liberal apolitics is trying to play the game with less than half a hand. npub1nmwh363fuya9an4l92p7c7k5rpg8hg6pmcjs908czfsh9349cuhqs7xaks Ciggy Bringer of Smoke jfc, what is this even?! npub1nmwh363fuya9an4l92p7c7k5rpg8hg6pmcjs908czfsh9349cuhqs7xaks Ciggy Bringer of Smoke Between the Google Glue and Michael Schumacher, it's kinda clear those models have eaten nothing but shitpost and fancanon. npub1nmwh363fuya9an4l92p7c7k5rpg8hg6pmcjs908czfsh9349cuhqs7xaks Ciggy Bringer of Smoke Stick this in me twice. Making demands at all seems like some kind of 'we are serious' predicate but all it does is accelerate the end game, by henpecking the demands, dawdling around them, and letting the eager to cash out to then cash out. My theory is, you make a fuss until something is offered and then you reject it, automatically and reflexive-like, so the other side gets that it isn't about power figuring the exact placability sweetspot to screw around with but something else actually.