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yeah but he had to get all our attention for his 2028 run

most of the dipshit “the eye is to perfect to have evolved” people also have cheap optics on their rifles. something to think about

the real terrorists are dressed like the terrorists used to be. they badgeless, cover their faces, and operate on a regime of kidnapping.

i’m talking about the feds if anyone’s not picking it up

100%. black women especially

see, but they’re not competent. further, they don’t care. most of these ai companies are snake oil. they’re selling you a solution that doesn’t meaningfully solve a problem. their main way of surviving is saying “this is what it can do now, just imagine what it can do if you invest money in my company.”

they’re scammers, the lot of them, running ponzi schemes with our money. if the planet dies for it, that’s no concern of theirs. ponzi schemes require the schemer to have no long term plan, just a line of credit that they can keep drawing from until they skip town before the tax collector comes

we didn’t learn about blair mountain. this is a great tragedy. my elementary school serves an old mining community. my farm growing up had an entrance to the old mine on it. our teachers had an old miner come in to talk to us about how it used to work and the environmental impact. he started telling us about how he volunteered for the civil war, got on a train to head north to fight before they shuffled him out of the room. they said he was old and confused. it took me 20 years to realize he was telling us the realist thing anyone had ever told us. there was a living monument to what it takes to make the world better in our classroom, right in front of me. he’d taken a lever action rifle, got on a train, and headed to blair mountain. he was ready to die. he told his wife and his children goodbye because he didn’t want his children to be abused the way he was. he didn’t know if they would ever see him again, but he knew if he did nothing the world would remain static, and the status quo would be sustained.

the outcome of that battle was weekends. we have weekends where we don’t have to work because of him and men like him. that’s what it took to get that basic dignity given to us. and i’m sure it weighs heavily on him that he survived. that he saw so many of his friends cut down by the pinkertons. if he were alive today, i wonder what he’d think about the pinkertons filling in for the striking hospital police in town. perhaps i’m glad he’s not alive to see the inheritors of the world he and his friends built through their own bloodshed voting to undo all that, to go back to how it was before.

but it’s also an inspiration. our grandfathers and great grandfathers fought fascism because it’s what they had to do. now in the name of them, and for me and you, i’m gonna fight fascism too.

which was the style at the time

the problem will be the implicit biases of the lawmakers

i grew up in Virginia and we had an entire year in our standards of learning dedicated to learning about Nat Turner and John Brown. we might not anymore after that parents’ rights group in loudoun county brought the phrase “critical race theory” to the national table

every technology has had positive and negative. some get weaponized by the powers that be more effectively before the people can ensure safeguards. even the wheel has been a tool of the oppressor while making our lives too comfortable. of late, the powers that be have gained more through technological advancement than the people. i want to see a world where we can invert some of this power stream. after all, it’s us, the people, who discovered these advancements, built these wonders, and now find ourselves increasingly imprisoned and controlled by violence

possibly more dangerous because they’re what you turn to when you’re really out there. out where spotify doesn’t reach but you still don’t want to be alone with your thoughts. it’s like how it’s important to pay attention to what’s in the walmart discount dvd bin. for a lot of people that is what they have access to because no one else makes themselves available. having infinite connectivity has isolated us more than it connects us.

even now, i’m guilty of this. i’m outside. a honey bee polinates a sunflower. do i talk to anyone here? no they’re all busy with their own conversations and i’m just waiting for a phone call. so i let these cracks in this fractured reality remain as i go online and simulate connection with all those who see this text.

in that experiment with the baby monkey, the wire momma with the milk, and the terry cloth momma with the heater, we are all the baby monkey clinging to the falsified social experience while missing out on the nutrients we need.

the powers that be know this and manipulate it

propaganda works

infinitely. also, not having your seatbelt buckled makes you easier to carjack

editors write titles, not journalists. the article wasn’t written by a moron just because the title was

What do you have against S.V. Dáte, one of the only journalists who asks the powers of this country real questions?

the biggest thing left wing organizing can do is give people a sense that they are cared for and safe. it doesn’t have to be patrols, though it has gotten far enough that you may have to use your bodies as barricades that won’t let the fascists through. the more likely thing you’ll want to do in counter organizing is give people in need food. people are simple. we will think of whoever feeds us as being our saviors and salvation. you want to make sure people don’t join a right wing paramilitary? give them food. talk to them. listen to what they’re worried about. soothe their pain.

right wing politics are all about control through power. left wing politics are all about liberation through coalition building to resist that power.

because all of the media is captured

diplomatic immunity is something else. it’s that diplomats aren’t bound to know all of the laws of the country they are residing in. for example, if i’m a diplomat for the US, and i make a right turn on red in Prince Edward Island while conducting official business, i may be pulled over, but not ticketed.

what’s happening here is military protection escorts as is done for all heads of state visiting another country. especially in this case since they will be flying over international waters and Putin is a wanted war criminal

most car doors are easily defeated by a car jacker so long as the car jacker has elbows to use for breaking the window. the reason your doors lock when you start moving has more to do with that statistics show that locked doors are less likely to pop open in a collision, leading to more effective crumple zones. many cars that lock above 10 mph automatically also automatically unlock when stopped. i’ve always felt the old school solution of “car goes into drive, doors lock” was fine and that all these automatic systems add unnecessary complexity.

traitors