HalloweenSnarry
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HalloweenSnarry
17d ago
nobody gets more than 1/220 of the fault if nothing happens, which isn't a lot of fault.
Eh, I think the more that a bill's vote becomes a close thing (or is forecasted to be a close thing), the proportion of fault for a given congressperson can rise in accordance with how decisive their vote could be. At least, this is how it works with both legacy and social media.
HalloweenSnarry
17d ago
My possibly-naive guess: those clusters were being used for crypto-mining before that took a nosedive a few years ago, and weren't just sold off.
HalloweenSnarry
19d ago
If we were to go with your framing, perhaps Romney and his fellow old-style Republicans did presume the Deep State would work for them and not Obama, because they had good heuristic reasons to believe so at that time.
HalloweenSnarry
22d ago
But at the same time, is it not true that the fighters of the Syrian Civil War were an utter minority compared to the total population of the country? And yet now the old government is gone and the country may well be in utter chaos that dwarfs the civil war.
What I'm saying is, don't discount the potential of the left in inciting a civil war, the critical mass needed for a social breakdown may be smaller than you assume.
HalloweenSnarry
22d ago
Isn't the term "custodian?"
HalloweenSnarry
28d ago
Oh man, I think I saw the trailer for that, and it looked like the kind of crappy 80's cheese I love.
HalloweenSnarry
28d ago
I imagine the fantasy is a job that's hard, but very rewarding, with a side of camaraderie.
HalloweenSnarry
1mo ago
99.9% of people don't use injection molding machines or arc furnaces or aluminum recyclers or CNC machines or welding robots or etc., doesn't stop those things from having an impact on your life.
HalloweenSnarry
1mo ago
I seem to remember that the Drug War of old included an element of "it's your own fucking fault, just don't do drugs" and it still failed horribly. Is your contention that we just didn't try hard enough, that we just never had anything as persuasive as "You'll Cowards Don't Even Smoke Crack"?
HalloweenSnarry
1mo ago
I imagine this is likely to come from OnlyFans-type sex workers, who have a different dynamic to brothel employees and club dancers.
HalloweenSnarry
1mo ago
Yeah, but among who? I am skeptical the left will suddenly cancel the Maoists because of some shifting valences.
HalloweenSnarry
1mo ago
Wait, really, everyone just changed their tune about this? When did that happen, and how?
HalloweenSnarry
1mo ago
I suppose that makes sense, given how costly WWII was, though I also thought that MAD worked because everyone understood that warfare in the atomic age would not resemble WWII.
HalloweenSnarry
1mo ago
Yeah, if West, an otherwise free man, had his franchise taken away from him, that would seem like news worth bringing up.
HalloweenSnarry
1mo ago
So, the difference is pretty much down to how much a state is considered to be contiguous/coterminous with its people, rather than being in a separate and implicitly-adversarial relationship?
HalloweenSnarry
1mo ago
I believe LibreOffice/OpenOffice's Word equivalent can do em-dashes, too, if you type -- and another word right after it.
HalloweenSnarry
1mo ago
Fuck, I love using those, too. I hate that AI's co-opted it.
HalloweenSnarry
1mo ago
Shoutouts to Kontextmaschine's Reactionary Readings of Beloved 80's Movies.
HalloweenSnarry
1mo ago
As TequilaMockingbird pointed out, "degrowth" refers less to market statistics and more to the literal expansion of the "physical economy:" less power generation, less manufacturing, less consumption, etc., stemming from a belief popular among eco-minded progressives that syncretizes socialism and envrionmentalism into a desire to return to the state of nature where Man is theoretically more fulfilled and healthier, and in doing so, heal the Earth from the damage caused to it by civilization.
Now, of course, you can still be cheeky and say that Trump will accomplish the same things anyway, which I can't bring myself to dispute, but I would also like to register, per my recent posting history, that I truly do suspect that the setbacks to global capitalism will not spell the end of civilization.
HalloweenSnarry
1mo ago
Substack?
HalloweenSnarry
1mo ago
Okay, then, that's something else, and that seems to explain a lot if you actually are from Latvia. As an American, I am way more amenable to arguments that we are suffering from success, and to some extent, our nation likely barely suffered the kind of privation experienced by Eastern Europe.
HalloweenSnarry
1mo ago
Food is to survive, what makes life worth living are other things that is not food.
Yes, but some might argue that numbers on a graph are not what makes life worth living.
I think using the example of a formerly-communist country is misleading, and that there is a minimum level of prosperity in absolute terms, not relative, wherein people can be satisfied. Did Latvians suffer in the post-Soviet scenario you described, or were they still happy despite a lack of industrial capacity?
HalloweenSnarry
1mo ago
I would think the disparity in reaction here is because the upper class are expected to behave better than that, to rise above vice, and they often try to avoid disabusing the public about such a notion.
Consider the meme of pedophile Catholic priests: these are the people who are supposed to be your spiritual leaders, and while all humans are fallible under Christian doctine, molesting boys is a level of sin that one could otherwise not believe a holy man would stoop to.
Maybe it's some sort of hardwired primal instinct. If we gravitate towards hierarchy, we also gravitate towards expecting more out of our social betters.
HalloweenSnarry
1mo ago
I dunno, I think both left and right have been directionally-correct in that the economy is not the end-all-be-all of civilization. Plenty of societies in the past didn't give as much consideration to economic growth, yes, but they seemingly didn't really need it.
The way you wrote this post, I genuinely cannot tell if you are being sincere, because, at risk of mod intervention, it sounds like an alien value. If anything, I think it's the opposite: there are other values that allow us to have economic power, they are what lead to an economy and not strictly the other way around.
We are at this point, and you are concerned, because some of the very values that enable the economy are themselves weakened and endangered.
I wouldn't say that's intelligence, per se, but evolutionary instincts doing what they're supposed to.
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