But to allow evil to be done by being pacifist, I suppose that some mental gymnastics help wash one’s hands of any responsibility for their inaction to prevent or stop such things? BTW, refusing to kill or cause harm as a conscientious objector is not the same as pacifism.
Those in charge will handwave away the job losses and blame some other factor for the economic downturn other their own shortsighted greed while they cry for their bailouts.
The slow death of living in a post-nuclear world. Terrifying in its hopelessness. You don’t actually see the destruction from the nuclear detonation, only people slowly dying. I know there are other films like Day After or Threads, but in those they depict the epicenters of the bombs destruction, not the slow death outside of the worst hit area. I found it crushing in a way that the other movies didn’t match.
Yeah. There‘s two kinds of people that need to be dealt with in a revolution. The ones that need to be removed, like the corrupt leadership, and the people telling the revolutionaries to stop because “we need to stop the violence and have peace” or whatever.
The former is obvious. The latter because they want to reestablish existing systems because they benefit from them. To dismantle them would be to harm their status. So you wind up basically letting “bygones be bygones” and just sweeping the corruption that cause all the problems under the rug in the name of peace while it continues quietly in the background. Nothing changes except the surface level view, the shitty people just try to stay below the radar.
So yeah, the “pacifists” are often just as bad, not because they’re actually against harming the corrupt people in the regime, but because they’re against harming their comfort zone. They’re protecting the status quo.
That has absolutely nothing to do with taxing Bezos. Unless, of course, you suggesting that rich people like Bezos would hold the country hostage over their billions.
The only way that‘s going to happen is to get rid of the vast majority of our politicians. The republicans are fine being fascists, the dems are fine with losing to the fascists as long as they get reelected.
Oh, it’s worse in the US, but it also varies wildly by State. Boston roads are defined by the most negative possible combination of local knowledge, horse buggy trails, and fuck you. New York? Turn lanes can fuck right off, let’s make sure one car can block an entire lane of cars trying to pass by. Also, let’s cram as many secondary roads into one short highway as possible that is the only way to go a certain direction so that it’s at a near standstill for 15 hours a day. Make sure it’s under construction for every 9 out of 10 years. Oh, and that’ll be $8 toll for the luxury of the experience. Texas? Make each direction on a highway 6 lanes wide with everything from scrapyard clunkers and 10 foot tall brodozers going 80 mph, and they‘ll shoot you if you say anything. Midwest? Hope you have good suspension to cope with all the potholes and missing chunks of bridges. California? 14 lanes wide and at a dead stop in traffic.
Last breath? It’s the Balrog whip coming up and snatching Gandalf off the bridge in Khazad-dûm. They’re taking everything they can down with them and much of it is completely irreparable. It will never return. The rest will take decades to repair, assuming the damage hasn’t altered our government so badly that we’ll become Russia 2.0 with nothing but one shitty authoritarian after another treating the country like their own fiefdom to be exploited among oligarchs.
Some reports have trump pulling in over 1.4 billion dollars for himself this term so far.
According to Google, all presidents over the last 100 years in office including trump’s first term added up together made 22 million dollars.
Dude is fucking the world and raping this country for money on his way out. He absolutely doesn’t give a fuck, he’s gonna be dead soon so he’s setting everything on fire.
I don’t follow individuals, no one person is worth that, I don’t do that kind of allegiance or need to interact with a crowd of sycophant followers. So that eliminates a lot of social media right away. Threads, substack, instagram, whatever. Not interested in individuals.
I was on reddit for over a decade. Towards the end the subs became…meaningless? Reposts, bots, hive mind, karma whoring, and generally if you weren’t first to post you got zero interaction at best, at worst someone just wanted to disagree with you and downvote. Ask a question and you were stupid for not knowing the answer. Not worth it, and them came all the API issues, forcing the app, getting rid of Victoria, quarantining some subs while letting shitholes like T_D carry on… death by little cuts.
I much prefer forum-like settings, where most everyone can participate with everything and the Fediverse offers that. So here I am. Yeah, it’s not perfect, defederating is a thing, some servers are ideologically heavyhanded, it has some similar issues with users and mods as the other place, but at least the stupid Karma whoring isn’t a compounding factor.
I still use some facebook groups for hobbies, they just don’t exist here or have zero activity. But that’s about it for my social media.
Used to. Had to have the radio going on low or a fan running during the summer. Not anymore. Any chance you’re adhd? Sometimes The noise in the head is hard to shut off so you can sleep.
All makes sense, of course. If I want a “pretty” non-structural print PLA is always a top choice. Fine, smooth, easily bonded with CA glue. ABS is a lot more finicky, but strong.
I don’t know what’s worse, him or the idiots that engage in the mental gymnastics to say he’s right.