I hope you’re not serious.
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He is not competent, but may be if we round up him and his billionaire buddies, they can pay for competent people to fix it.
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In Tiblisi, for months they marched in tens of thousands against a “foreign influence” law.
In everyone’s favorite love-to-hate country, before 10/7, millions marched for months against the judicial review law that effectively would have crippled democracy there.
Here?
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We have a hard line against promoting, suggesting or inciting violence here. Anywhere even close to that line is not acceptable.
No need for argument or negotiation on this.
Thank you. Happy Valentine’s Day. Have a good weekend.
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That doesn’t mean anything on the actual merits, just an inclination that she doesn’t need to shut down L. Ron Muskard NOW NOW NOW on the basis of an extremely limited record. Preliminary injunction will still go forward in a week or two (guesstimating).
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I think you should go *************, you ******* legal nihilist.
I’m entirely serious. Judge Chutkan should save us all from Elon and the Dogebros. She has a case in front of her that could do exactly that.
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But that seems meaningless in the present environment.
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Your “seems” is not reality. Not yet.
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Thenget on with it. The country is bleeding out. There is no time to waste.
I have not been approached to represent anyone negatively affected by doggey or trump. I do not chase ambulances, and I am not admitted to practice in DC anyway.
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If you’re interested to see what Fed employees are saying about this clusterfuck, may I suggest going to Reddit’s r/fednews. There are daily posts with the impacts felt by agencies across the federal government and the impact this hatchet approach is having on the safety and well being on our own folks, and the international distrust that is encoded into this illegal and blatant disregard for historical norm, breaking standards that have held us together as a nation and world power, At this time, it may seem as if we are fucked, but there are good guys fighting the good fight. My fervent hope is that they prevail.
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Access. That’s the pressure point. That’s why all the big tech powers have sought to build exclusive environments for users. Credit card companies, by their own design, were left vulnerable to PayPal, and mobile pay. Hotel and innkeepers, and city governments, through their own design, made themselves vulnerable to the AirBNB model. Peer-to-peer sharing of music files destroyed the music business, again by misdirected enforcement of property rights, leaving us with shitty platforms like Spotify and Apple Music. It’s why the same bad-faith players – Amazon, Apple, Alphabet and Meta – keep ending up in European competition court.
You can have money, a job, property, and great taste, but it’s useless without access. Without the gatekeepers of surveillance capitalism. To date, the press has only discussed these people as “techbros” or “Silicon Valley Mafia”, but what they really all share is a desire to control chokepoints, which partly explains this article.
Chokepoints in the past have usually been discussed in government contexts, but it was what experts from both the public and private sectors were told to work on. So it is not unusual that the same realizations emerged in the private sector.
Access can also be paired with one of the most powerful human emotions, shame. Unless you are a psychopath, you experience shame. Things like being turned away at the disco are a form of public shaming, even if it is pretty easy to shake off. Our Puritan ancestors were experts in public shaming rituals (scarlet letters, etc.). Much of Trump’s day goes to shaming; he can even shame by omission as he did with Keith Kellogg earlier this week. Neurologically, exclusion and shame are similar feelings, which may be the great discovery creating this new Gilded Age. As shame is the kryptonite that prevents most private people from seeking to wield access pressure, the leaders of this class tend to sociopathic or psychopathic behaviors. Thiel is down with genocide, Musk delights in the mental torturing of civil servants, and now we have a new guy on the scene, Joe Gebbia, whose company has devastated the home-ownership dreams of younger generations around the world and ruined even great cities like Paris, Genoa and Barcelona. In the old days, religions were in charge of doling out shame and access, but that too seems to have been privatized.
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You don’t read my posts, but I’ll just say this…
No judge or jury or lawyer is going to save us from anything ever again until the American people decide they’ve seen enough of this shit. End of story.
Nobody will do anything unless they KNOW they have the backing of the MAJORITY American people.
Justice in this country has collapsed down to a pile of smoldering ash. It started with the appointment of Merrick Fucking Garland and the corrupt FBI.
Reality is a tough business.
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Innumerable comments, to make the CensorBot happy:
Not to mention the nuclear missiles.
Actually, most of the response stuff is handled by government contractors, not NNSI.
Lessons learned? “Marching” does nothing but give the participants a little exercise and fresh air … until the tear gas and other irritants fly. Not to mention rubber bullets, truncheons, and fists. Why doesn’t the Left know how to do anything but these feckless public performances? “Occupy Wall Street” (for what?? we haven’t figured it out yet!) was the lowest ebb.
Well, I quit when you got into that spree of just posting tiny black screenshots of assorted Xits etc without comment. Thanks for writing your own commentary, in text! (And yes, I know you aren’t talking to me.)
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I think Trump and Musk are just hovering up all the information they can now as fast as they can (before they are slowed down). They will leverage this information later. I think a lot of the shiny crazy things they are doing are distract us, and demoralize an opposition, and to make them personally feel very insecure and unwilling to push back.
This is why quick action is imperative.
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And I think you don’t know how federal courts work.
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You should have quit before you started.
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And I don’t think you understand how social and political change works.
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They don’t.