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Last Notes npub1qj7zr3n6xdme79xsrrtfl6tpvnhggt46sascv4ewrdfw0phjjynspcxqvd V Yeah, it could have been much worse, and a lot of effort went into preventing it from being much worse. npub1qj7zr3n6xdme79xsrrtfl6tpvnhggt46sascv4ewrdfw0phjjynspcxqvd V "Secretly"... he was trying to disrupt them openly, with the threats, legal cases, disenfranchisement andvoter suppression pushes, massive redistricting efforts, last-minute changes to voting in several states, spreading conspiracy theories... npub1qj7zr3n6xdme79xsrrtfl6tpvnhggt46sascv4ewrdfw0phjjynspcxqvd V We have tried - repeatedly - to welcome them back into the fold. After the civil war, after the civil rights movement, After the KKK, and jim crow. npub1qj7zr3n6xdme79xsrrtfl6tpvnhggt46sascv4ewrdfw0phjjynspcxqvd V Lincoln's failure here, referring to welcoming the confederates back, and letting bygones be bygones, after they did a treason and started a civil war to try to keep enslaving people. And letting them then undermine reconstruction, build the jim crow south, and keep their supremecist slaver ideology alive. npub1qj7zr3n6xdme79xsrrtfl6tpvnhggt46sascv4ewrdfw0phjjynspcxqvd V I would just like to point out, the US fascist party has been building their 'red wall' since around 2010 - this whole neonazi movement having been a decade straight of rage-pissing themselves about a black man being president - and then managed to break the wall in less than 2 years of this presidency. npub1qj7zr3n6xdme79xsrrtfl6tpvnhggt46sascv4ewrdfw0phjjynspcxqvd V I don't buy for a minute that they don't have the votes to impeach. All the nazis left standing just watched their entire fascist movement implode so severely they lost fuckng *Kansas* - they will happily throw him under the bus to try to drag themselves out of the pit he lead them into. npub1qj7zr3n6xdme79xsrrtfl6tpvnhggt46sascv4ewrdfw0phjjynspcxqvd V Most americans I've heard talking about corruption don't even seem to be aware of just how much cheeto-dust hitler and his oligarch buddies have been stealing from them with the crypto scams and shit. npub1qj7zr3n6xdme79xsrrtfl6tpvnhggt46sascv4ewrdfw0phjjynspcxqvd V Bombed their government, assassinated their leader, blew up an *entire girls' school*, destroyed a lot of civilian infrasructure, blockaded their port, years and years of sanctions, broke multiple agreements, bombed them *during negotiations*. npub1qj7zr3n6xdme79xsrrtfl6tpvnhggt46sascv4ewrdfw0phjjynspcxqvd V Yeah, "Outside the margin of error" is... one of the most confident statements you can get out of a data nerd... npub1qj7zr3n6xdme79xsrrtfl6tpvnhggt46sascv4ewrdfw0phjjynspcxqvd V 50M is a new record, for a midterm, I think npub1qj7zr3n6xdme79xsrrtfl6tpvnhggt46sascv4ewrdfw0phjjynspcxqvd V not sure about vi dying out, it (or some variation of it) is still installed on everything, but, I wouldn't be surprised if new users are drifting to nano while vi becomes more a thing only the programmer and techy sorts bother with. npub1qj7zr3n6xdme79xsrrtfl6tpvnhggt46sascv4ewrdfw0phjjynspcxqvd V Yeah, nano is honestly a pretty reasonable option to use as a primary editor nowadays, doesn't have all the fancy bits of emacs or the vi family, but, it has quite a lot of the ones that actually matter. npub1qj7zr3n6xdme79xsrrtfl6tpvnhggt46sascv4ewrdfw0phjjynspcxqvd V The fork of microemacs he is known for is from the 1987 version of microemacs - so, before pico (parent of nano) split off of it, even. npub1qj7zr3n6xdme79xsrrtfl6tpvnhggt46sascv4ewrdfw0phjjynspcxqvd V Yeah, Still kinda pissed that it came down to their own gross incompetence, rather than, y'know, shutting the entire country down until they were dragged out of their offices in chains, and that despite the overwhelming incompetence it's still not 100%. npub1qj7zr3n6xdme79xsrrtfl6tpvnhggt46sascv4ewrdfw0phjjynspcxqvd V "roughly $20 billion lower than anybody had previously expected, including, it seems, OpenAI itself." npub1qj7zr3n6xdme79xsrrtfl6tpvnhggt46sascv4ewrdfw0phjjynspcxqvd V Honestly I can't tell how much of it is just astroturfing, and how much is people legitimately joining the eugenicist cult and trying to do missionary/conversion jobs for it. Like, a lot of these sorts pop up into communities they never engaged with before, do their "But the pedofash slopbots are good actually" song and dance, and either turn the community into a nazi bar, or get banned. npub1qj7zr3n6xdme79xsrrtfl6tpvnhggt46sascv4ewrdfw0phjjynspcxqvd V That we've had, like, 3 of the largest protests in US history, how the siege in Minnapolis/St. Paul turned out, etc. is hopeful - The People - a couple armies worth, at least - are not happy, especially the young ones who are in good enough shape to be out on the streets and throwing dildos and shit, so, whatever the hail-mary turns out to be, there's at least some signals that it won't go unopposed. npub1qj7zr3n6xdme79xsrrtfl6tpvnhggt46sascv4ewrdfw0phjjynspcxqvd V Would be nice if it were more clear one way or the other. I think the uncertainty makes it more stressful. It looks a lot more hopeul than it did, even just this time last year, but, it's fucking stressful to have the lives of basically everyone I care about in the country hanging on how a dice-roll turns out. npub1qj7zr3n6xdme79xsrrtfl6tpvnhggt46sascv4ewrdfw0phjjynspcxqvd V yeah, there's been plenty of talk of 'No ICE at the polls' legislation, npub1qj7zr3n6xdme79xsrrtfl6tpvnhggt46sascv4ewrdfw0phjjynspcxqvd V That they are floundering so much this election cycle, despite the giant flashing signs telling them the answers in all directions, is... uh... not encouraging. npub1qj7zr3n6xdme79xsrrtfl6tpvnhggt46sascv4ewrdfw0phjjynspcxqvd V Like, not even getting into some of the Nth order risks of, like, your child's data being harvested and weaponized against them before they're even old enough to know what any of that means, just, entrusting one of the known-least-reliable technologies available, who's main purpose is to generate bullshit and propaganda, with anything relating to your kid seems.. like a remarkably bad "Someone should call CPS about it" degree of negligence... npub1qj7zr3n6xdme79xsrrtfl6tpvnhggt46sascv4ewrdfw0phjjynspcxqvd V ... How the fuck do you wake up and decide "Y'know, I'm gonna have the notoriously unreliable slop and propaganda generator automate taking care of my literal human child." and not for a moment pause to realize how horrible a parenting decision that is... npub1qj7zr3n6xdme79xsrrtfl6tpvnhggt46sascv4ewrdfw0phjjynspcxqvd V Yeah, but this also likely means we're entering into the "Cornered a rabid autocrat" phase of this, which means he'll probably do even more stupid and destructive shit, with even less concern for the consequences, as it sinks in that it is now 'do or die' for his coup. npub1qj7zr3n6xdme79xsrrtfl6tpvnhggt46sascv4ewrdfw0phjjynspcxqvd V If it was 'irrational anger' why direct it at some preteen girls? why was it only *some* of them - the ones who already avoided those students - who suddenly treated them worse? npub1qj7zr3n6xdme79xsrrtfl6tpvnhggt46sascv4ewrdfw0phjjynspcxqvd V I was still in school and a lot of what I remember in the aftermath of 9/11 was a bunch of people in my family suddenly being much more openly racist than they were - not more racist, just willing to say it in public now - while a some (but not nearly all) of the people at school - other white students, but, even some staff, basically overnight, started treating my muslim classmates like shit, which really only got worse in the years following. npub1qj7zr3n6xdme79xsrrtfl6tpvnhggt46sascv4ewrdfw0phjjynspcxqvd V I've seen the same 5$ mark; do you know of any where someone has explained why they think that is where the line is, though? npub1qj7zr3n6xdme79xsrrtfl6tpvnhggt46sascv4ewrdfw0phjjynspcxqvd V "Don't vote for a candidate trying to kill you" applies just as much to the dems as it does for the GOP. npub1qj7zr3n6xdme79xsrrtfl6tpvnhggt46sascv4ewrdfw0phjjynspcxqvd V The harms associated with it have shifted significantly - but a lot of organizations, and the legal system, are trying to treat it as the same or at least "close enough" to what was happening previously. npub1qj7zr3n6xdme79xsrrtfl6tpvnhggt46sascv4ewrdfw0phjjynspcxqvd V A lot of the problem is that the fair uses they are using to defend this were not competing with the original creators in their own field.. npub1qj7zr3n6xdme79xsrrtfl6tpvnhggt46sascv4ewrdfw0phjjynspcxqvd V Yeah, I've been a bit distant from the news, but, I still check a handful of sites daily and somehow didn't see this? the fuck? npub1qj7zr3n6xdme79xsrrtfl6tpvnhggt46sascv4ewrdfw0phjjynspcxqvd V It's also why every nazi, fascist, authoritarian, despot, or otherwise horrifically evil person in power globally wants your kids to never take their eyes off the fucking screen. npub1qj7zr3n6xdme79xsrrtfl6tpvnhggt46sascv4ewrdfw0phjjynspcxqvd V yeah, there was a push for a general strike, and then stuff got quiet. npub1qj7zr3n6xdme79xsrrtfl6tpvnhggt46sascv4ewrdfw0phjjynspcxqvd V Worked much better than the last 50 years of elections did, worked better than so many phone calls and emails that the inboxes of most representatives in the country are permanently full, worked better than fucking anything else that's been tried with maybe one exception. npub1qj7zr3n6xdme79xsrrtfl6tpvnhggt46sascv4ewrdfw0phjjynspcxqvd V ... Ah, that makes more sense. npub1qj7zr3n6xdme79xsrrtfl6tpvnhggt46sascv4ewrdfw0phjjynspcxqvd V ... "Fundamentally unenjoyable"? npub1qj7zr3n6xdme79xsrrtfl6tpvnhggt46sascv4ewrdfw0phjjynspcxqvd V The solution to the problem seems to be about the same either way... throw them and their boss in a volcano. npub1qj7zr3n6xdme79xsrrtfl6tpvnhggt46sascv4ewrdfw0phjjynspcxqvd V When a bunch of experts on fascism started fleeing the country, any excuse to ignore that it's fascism left with them. npub1qj7zr3n6xdme79xsrrtfl6tpvnhggt46sascv4ewrdfw0phjjynspcxqvd V They also seem to care at least a little about having a habitable planet, and don't have a large, politically-powerful cluster of people trying to actively bring about the end times by starting a holy war in the middle east... npub1qj7zr3n6xdme79xsrrtfl6tpvnhggt46sascv4ewrdfw0phjjynspcxqvd V Okay, yeah, I would definitely fuck that up and just... empty the bag into the pitcher, that seems way more intuitive to me, lol. npub1qj7zr3n6xdme79xsrrtfl6tpvnhggt46sascv4ewrdfw0phjjynspcxqvd V Lol, I have never actually had to interact with one - I don't fuck with milk either way - so no idea what the protocol is for actually using one. npub1qj7zr3n6xdme79xsrrtfl6tpvnhggt46sascv4ewrdfw0phjjynspcxqvd V Clearly the milk in bags thing is cause for war though, that's just blasphemous. npub1qj7zr3n6xdme79xsrrtfl6tpvnhggt46sascv4ewrdfw0phjjynspcxqvd V but it's also... the sort of thing some oil CEO would name their bullshit "think tank"/oil lobby front. npub1qj7zr3n6xdme79xsrrtfl6tpvnhggt46sascv4ewrdfw0phjjynspcxqvd V Yeah, it would not be surprising if it's fake, it just caught me as a suspicious organization name, because... I've never heard of it, but the name looks "close enough" to the World Economic Forum that I could see it being easily-misread or some bullshit from the slop bots. npub1qj7zr3n6xdme79xsrrtfl6tpvnhggt46sascv4ewrdfw0phjjynspcxqvd V seriously, this organization is not showing up when I search for it, the article provides no link or citation, and the person they cited shows up with like... social media profiles for someone working in the oil industry, and articles all citing this same 'analysis' that none of them seem to link to. npub1qj7zr3n6xdme79xsrrtfl6tpvnhggt46sascv4ewrdfw0phjjynspcxqvd V The fuck is the "Forum of Economic Activists"? I'm getting like no search results trying to figure out what this organization their source founded like... actually is? npub1qj7zr3n6xdme79xsrrtfl6tpvnhggt46sascv4ewrdfw0phjjynspcxqvd V Didn't bin laden talk about it in his letters and interviews too? npub1qj7zr3n6xdme79xsrrtfl6tpvnhggt46sascv4ewrdfw0phjjynspcxqvd V ... Tech bros taking a page from the terf playbook? (This is just reminding me of the 'TERF is a slur' bullshit.) npub1qj7zr3n6xdme79xsrrtfl6tpvnhggt46sascv4ewrdfw0phjjynspcxqvd V (I'm in the range where I'd prob get sick and/or die from it and I'd still leave it at "Yeah, we deserved that." if the US tries to invade/annex canada and they jsut nuke DC and solve a bunch of global problems all at once.) npub1qj7zr3n6xdme79xsrrtfl6tpvnhggt46sascv4ewrdfw0phjjynspcxqvd V ... I wonder how long it would take canada to get themselves a nuclear weapon or two... iirc they don't currently have any, but, they're likely in one of the better positions to fix that in a hurry... npub1qj7zr3n6xdme79xsrrtfl6tpvnhggt46sascv4ewrdfw0phjjynspcxqvd V They somehow manage to be consistently worse than most gas stations for just, like, a cup of black coffee. npub1qj7zr3n6xdme79xsrrtfl6tpvnhggt46sascv4ewrdfw0phjjynspcxqvd V This is very much a "Creating a problem for the new tech to solve" case, near as I can tell. npub1qj7zr3n6xdme79xsrrtfl6tpvnhggt46sascv4ewrdfw0phjjynspcxqvd V Most of the search engines have gotten worse, too, so it takes significantly longer (and more fucking around with keywords, excluded terms, required terms, date range specifications, etc. etc.) to try to find anything useful from them, and filter out the ever-growing pile of SEO-bait slop. npub1qj7zr3n6xdme79xsrrtfl6tpvnhggt46sascv4ewrdfw0phjjynspcxqvd V Outspent by 16x and lost anyway. It's like 1am so I'm not gonna look it up, but, how often in US history have this many candidates outspent by this much, just to lose anyway? npub1qj7zr3n6xdme79xsrrtfl6tpvnhggt46sascv4ewrdfw0phjjynspcxqvd V Watching over the last 2-3 years, as a lot of journalists and writers completely lose any voice, or style has been... interesting. npub1qj7zr3n6xdme79xsrrtfl6tpvnhggt46sascv4ewrdfw0phjjynspcxqvd V ... Also, when has a people *ever* risen up against their government, to help the people of *another* country? npub1qj7zr3n6xdme79xsrrtfl6tpvnhggt46sascv4ewrdfw0phjjynspcxqvd V Wait ... which is the one that might have been for another reason? npub1qj7zr3n6xdme79xsrrtfl6tpvnhggt46sascv4ewrdfw0phjjynspcxqvd V Y'know, I'm starting to think that, just maybe, cheap underwear isn't actually worth occasionally bombing a girl's school over. npub1qj7zr3n6xdme79xsrrtfl6tpvnhggt46sascv4ewrdfw0phjjynspcxqvd V Honestly, bring some pink fuzzy handcuffs to every public appearance, and run on the "Vote for me, I'll arrest the pedophile myself if I have to." platform, and I probably won't even look at the rest of the platform. npub1qj7zr3n6xdme79xsrrtfl6tpvnhggt46sascv4ewrdfw0phjjynspcxqvd V Most of them don't even seem to bother mentioning that there was... no sign of an attack. npub1qj7zr3n6xdme79xsrrtfl6tpvnhggt46sascv4ewrdfw0phjjynspcxqvd V ... I get the impression a lot of people don't really get *why* so many cultures end up building civilizations around active volcanoes. npub1qj7zr3n6xdme79xsrrtfl6tpvnhggt46sascv4ewrdfw0phjjynspcxqvd V Yeah, Scared makes sense, scared is a perfectly legit reaction to people getting murdered in the streets by the government. Most of the people out protesting and trying to resist this shit are scared too. That's kinda how this works. npub1qj7zr3n6xdme79xsrrtfl6tpvnhggt46sascv4ewrdfw0phjjynspcxqvd V Even if you read the whole article, there were a couple times I had to stop and re-read a section, just, because the tone does not at all match what they're saying, and it set off that "No, I must have misread something..." response. npub1qj7zr3n6xdme79xsrrtfl6tpvnhggt46sascv4ewrdfw0phjjynspcxqvd V Also just, dropping in the last paragraph, that she will be ensuring that, if elected governor, she gets to appoint her replacement in the senate from the transition, as if this is perfectly reasonable behaviour, for someone who is actively covering for the bankers helping run an international child sex slave ring. npub1qj7zr3n6xdme79xsrrtfl6tpvnhggt46sascv4ewrdfw0phjjynspcxqvd V ... So we doing a ground invasion then? Because, so far, they haven't even been able to escort ships through the strait, let alone annex anything. npub1qj7zr3n6xdme79xsrrtfl6tpvnhggt46sascv4ewrdfw0phjjynspcxqvd V Most universities take plagarism more seriously than sexual assault, regular assault, drugs, vandalism, really just... anything. Even just a false accusation of plagarism can cause migraines for the accused & related institutions. npub1qj7zr3n6xdme79xsrrtfl6tpvnhggt46sascv4ewrdfw0phjjynspcxqvd V Also, as much as they've made a show of supporting Israel and their shouting about antisemitism ... The like nazi-on-the-street level understanding seems to be that the US jewish population will be relocating to Israel - all of them, whether they want to or not. npub1qj7zr3n6xdme79xsrrtfl6tpvnhggt46sascv4ewrdfw0phjjynspcxqvd V but, even despite that, I have had to interact with far more nazis than I am comfortable with, and I've seen a lot of them mention in various ways things like npub1qj7zr3n6xdme79xsrrtfl6tpvnhggt46sascv4ewrdfw0phjjynspcxqvd V Yeah, I think they're just... too selfish and greedy to recognize that sharing like that would be useful for maintaining popular support among their in-group; which... I'm honestly relieved about, because it means the less dedicated followers are starting to get that sinking "why isn't my life improving from this?" feeling. npub1qj7zr3n6xdme79xsrrtfl6tpvnhggt46sascv4ewrdfw0phjjynspcxqvd V A lot of them are willing to accept living in a boot, so long as their hated target-demographics end up in mass graves. npub1qj7zr3n6xdme79xsrrtfl6tpvnhggt46sascv4ewrdfw0phjjynspcxqvd V Like, the philosophical implications of the perspectives of lunatics, madmen, etc. is already a pet topic-of-interest for... possibly obvious reasons to anyone who knows me, npub1qj7zr3n6xdme79xsrrtfl6tpvnhggt46sascv4ewrdfw0phjjynspcxqvd V From a "Reads way to much philosophy" perspective, the fascist metaphysics and epistemology is a little fascinating to me, in that it can function at-fucking-all, npub1qj7zr3n6xdme79xsrrtfl6tpvnhggt46sascv4ewrdfw0phjjynspcxqvd V ... I wonder how hard it would be to turn trump tower into a defenestration museum/gallery... you could arrange the defenestrations for the nazis to align with group tour times. There's certainly enough of them to keep it operating for a while on that schedule... npub1qj7zr3n6xdme79xsrrtfl6tpvnhggt46sascv4ewrdfw0phjjynspcxqvd V Is "The bitch" you, or the cat, in my hypothetical reaction? npub1qj7zr3n6xdme79xsrrtfl6tpvnhggt46sascv4ewrdfw0phjjynspcxqvd V Meanwhile, the republicans are openly the "Make Pedophilia Great Again" party... npub1qj7zr3n6xdme79xsrrtfl6tpvnhggt46sascv4ewrdfw0phjjynspcxqvd V Also, they know damn well they're losing all over the fucking place, especially in traditional dem strongholds - npub1qj7zr3n6xdme79xsrrtfl6tpvnhggt46sascv4ewrdfw0phjjynspcxqvd V The establishment candidates have more funding, name recognition, endorsements - that it was a close race is still a loss for the establishment. They may be taking a victory lap over it, but, winning by less than half a percent, with significantly more spending & institutional support than their progressive opponents? npub1qj7zr3n6xdme79xsrrtfl6tpvnhggt46sascv4ewrdfw0phjjynspcxqvd V One of the downsides of using journalists in your fashy schemes, is, it's literally their job to write about it, npub1qj7zr3n6xdme79xsrrtfl6tpvnhggt46sascv4ewrdfw0phjjynspcxqvd V Considering it seems confirmed that the "decoy" plane had like 100 people more important than trump himself could ever hope to be on it, I imagine this is an attempt to control the narrative about what happened since, like, as soon as the journalists on the plane found out they were bait, there was gonna be an article somewhere about it. npub1qj7zr3n6xdme79xsrrtfl6tpvnhggt46sascv4ewrdfw0phjjynspcxqvd V Just as a confirmation; I found it cited as coming from https://program.dsausa.org/#demand-end-war-machine npub1qj7zr3n6xdme79xsrrtfl6tpvnhggt46sascv4ewrdfw0phjjynspcxqvd V Yeah, I thought it was odd that he always seems to have at least 2 flags in frame for every shot, but, now that you mention it, he does seem to just have *everything* on display, all the time... npub1qj7zr3n6xdme79xsrrtfl6tpvnhggt46sascv4ewrdfw0phjjynspcxqvd V Yeah, so pro working class and genocidally racist are conflicting positions to try to maintain. npub1qj7zr3n6xdme79xsrrtfl6tpvnhggt46sascv4ewrdfw0phjjynspcxqvd V (yes, not all latinos are blue-collar-workers, but, the sorts of jobs the nazis like to highlight - construction, manufacturing, farm-workers - get a growing share of their employees from the growing latino population in the US. npub1qj7zr3n6xdme79xsrrtfl6tpvnhggt46sascv4ewrdfw0phjjynspcxqvd V Also... latino folks are like, the fastest growing blue-collar-worker demographic in the country - even *with* the mass deportations, because most of them were already citizens anyway - so, you *can fucking not* be pro-worker while also saying fuck the "mexicans" (which usually means "anyone their white ass can't differentiate from a mexican" and thus includes most of an entire continent-and-a-half worth of people groups) npub1qj7zr3n6xdme79xsrrtfl6tpvnhggt46sascv4ewrdfw0phjjynspcxqvd V Either way, my point isn't that the nordic countries are perfect - or even close - they have a lot of the same sorts of problems, they just have them alongside better social safety nets and programs that are comperable to the sorts of things the DSA is pushing for here, and, while it's not at all a cure-all, it's clearly working out better than the US's efforts to go full-nazi about it. At least until the local nationalists get those programs shut down. npub1qj7zr3n6xdme79xsrrtfl6tpvnhggt46sascv4ewrdfw0phjjynspcxqvd V Poorly, but the US has a government-sponsored paramilitary doing that systematically, in addition to the nationalist groups doing stochastic terrorism like the nordics have been dealing with for a while. (Unless I missed an update and sweden has a gestapo of it's own now or something.) npub1qj7zr3n6xdme79xsrrtfl6tpvnhggt46sascv4ewrdfw0phjjynspcxqvd V More emotion over an old man's fucking vacuum than over any of the humans he and his collegues have gotten killed in the last 90 years. npub1qj7zr3n6xdme79xsrrtfl6tpvnhggt46sascv4ewrdfw0phjjynspcxqvd V Apparently Finland, Norway, Sweden, are hell on earth, miserable stalinist dystopias, depite being better than the US at *checks notes* ... every measurable indicator of happiness, well-being, and freedom. npub1qj7zr3n6xdme79xsrrtfl6tpvnhggt46sascv4ewrdfw0phjjynspcxqvd V "Prickly for an optimist" is, to be clear, not meant as a criticism or complaint; just trying to summarize how your usual style comes off, because like... a lot of (most of?) the shit you write is already in the vein of 'here is an effective path out of this', which... if the doomers are looking for something to be hopeful about, what more do they want from you about it? npub1qj7zr3n6xdme79xsrrtfl6tpvnhggt46sascv4ewrdfw0phjjynspcxqvd V I don't even know how to reply to a lot of the doomer sorts, like, offer some hopeful message or point out a path to a better world (which is kinda your default; you're a bit prickly for an optimist, but, you tend toward a realistic-optimistic messaging at least - that there *is* a path out of this shit), and they tend to argue against it, npub1qj7zr3n6xdme79xsrrtfl6tpvnhggt46sascv4ewrdfw0phjjynspcxqvd V Honestly, there's a not-insignificant part of me being vocal about shit now (and for the last however long under however many names), that is motivated by making sure there are records that some of us were actually against the fashy bullshit. npub1qj7zr3n6xdme79xsrrtfl6tpvnhggt46sascv4ewrdfw0phjjynspcxqvd V If anything, the gov't needs a reminder of why the ruling class decided for a few decades after the WW2 to keep handing scraps and civil rights and such out... npub1qj7zr3n6xdme79xsrrtfl6tpvnhggt46sascv4ewrdfw0phjjynspcxqvd V It's even a common justification for racism - comparing humans that are considered "lesser" to non-human animals, under the base assumption that humans are in some way exceptional, has been a common theme of racist framings of other humans, npub1qj7zr3n6xdme79xsrrtfl6tpvnhggt46sascv4ewrdfw0phjjynspcxqvd V Yeah, I'm not saying humans don't do that, I was arguing with your specific framing of it being a distinctly human thing. Trying to somehow elevate humans above the rest of the world doesn't help fix the problems we are dealing with, it perpetuates the elitist anthropocentric attitudes that justify burning the planet down, destroying ecosystems, driving other species (and ourselves) extinct. npub1qj7zr3n6xdme79xsrrtfl6tpvnhggt46sascv4ewrdfw0phjjynspcxqvd V That's an idea taken directly from observing bonobo behaviour. npub1qj7zr3n6xdme79xsrrtfl6tpvnhggt46sascv4ewrdfw0phjjynspcxqvd V with inter-species and inter-group conflicts this gets even more apparent; from sparrows mobbing hawks to hyenas chasing lions away from a carcass... npub1qj7zr3n6xdme79xsrrtfl6tpvnhggt46sascv4ewrdfw0phjjynspcxqvd V Collective action against abuse/in-group members is not at all a uniquely human quality... npub1qj7zr3n6xdme79xsrrtfl6tpvnhggt46sascv4ewrdfw0phjjynspcxqvd V Shocking that the 'tell voters they are wrong and don't actually want anything to change' approach seems to be failing. npub1qj7zr3n6xdme79xsrrtfl6tpvnhggt46sascv4ewrdfw0phjjynspcxqvd V How is she even still on the ballot? Is her 3% just from mail-ins? npub1qj7zr3n6xdme79xsrrtfl6tpvnhggt46sascv4ewrdfw0phjjynspcxqvd V The news outlets are doing their "Make it as stressful as possible to follow the live results" thing, but, unless detroit goes hard for Stevens, I don't see where else she picks up the numbers to catch up? npub1qj7zr3n6xdme79xsrrtfl6tpvnhggt46sascv4ewrdfw0phjjynspcxqvd V Can be generalized to the entire government. Legitimacy flows *from* the public; if the public does not recognize an authority as legitimate - then it is illegitimate. No matter what the laws, constitution, or misc. other bits of paper and agreements might have to say about it.
