The amount that’s being excused, sanewashed, and just drowned out with other absurdities…
This is why articles of impeachment need to be introduced anyway. They need to do it every fucking day if they have to, every time it’s voted down. it’s not like the House or the Senate is voting on something better. They’re voting on something worse.
It needs to keep being said that there is no sanity and there are no excuses and that something has gone fundamentally wrong.
Love the write-up, well done. These issues are huge, complex, fascinating, and depressing. It’s always worth defending science, and you’re right - this is basically the opposite of a conspiracy. Experts are actively screaming “something is wrong here!”
But, yeah, wow. What a shit take. Psychology is not science, from someone married to a psychologist? Soft sciences aren’t science?
Correct me if I’m wrong, but Charles Darwin’s science was as soft as it gets! He didn’t have p-values, he had pretty birds with funky beaks. One of the most important scientists to ever live, and his masterpiece did not have a single quantitative model.
Just because psychology got irrationally stuck on Freud for so long doesn’t mean it’s not science. We all learn about Lamarckian inheritance and think it’s goofy as shit, doesn’t mean we dismiss the entire field of biology.
How exactly did I miss your point? Was it the part where I linked a list of agitated white people with something to lose, who were fighting for an oppressed minority? Was there some other point that I missed?
Did you read about the agitated white people who were shot and killed defending oppressed minorities? Did that give you more faith in humanity, than stories of Martin Luther King Jr., and John Lewis?
I really cannot stress this enough: please reconsider everything. For someone who doesn’t think like an American, you sure are talking like one.
My entire point was that if people who were “crushed under the boot heel” could still be optimistic about the future of humanity - could still successfully improve the future of humanity - then you can too.
But you, instead, want to hear about white people.
There’s so much randomized “it’s not enough” sentiment on lemmy. We all need to focus the hell up, because responding to every single little thing with “how dare they not do more” is so counterproductive. Nobody will ever do anything.
I’m not even saying this action is progress - but shitting on it isn’t progress either.
That user just suggested that the congressmen should break into an empty room, as if that would do something.
And even if congress was in session… these people are the people that are supposed to sit in congress. They literally belong there. What, exactly, would that accomplish?
That’s the entire point. They were under the boot heel, but still looked up.
To suggest that a bunch of agitated white people would be more inspiring than those historical heroes is… it’s beyond words. It really is.
Please reconsider… everything.
I used to think similarly. The outright hatred, apathy, hostility… its sickening.
But I stand by Mr. Rogers’ message. Look for the helpers.
Humanity has always grappled with its angels and demons. No fictional evil could ever compare to the cruelty and apathy of real humans being real shit. But despite all that, humans keep trying, and have always kept trying.
This isn’t the worst it’s ever been. This isn’t even the worst it’s been here. This isn’t even the worst it’s been, here, in living memory.
If you know someone over the age of 60, you know someone older than the civil rights act.
Even in a life where discrimination wasn’t possible so much as it was fundamental in society, John Lewis and MLK Jr. still had faith in humanity. They still believed in its potential. They still had faith in the face of all of that hatred and ignorance. Faith that a better nation and a better future could be forged in their lifetimes.
And you know what? They were right.
Even today, with all of these threats to return to a time when America was “great”… even now, this is still a better nation than the America of 1963. That is undeniable truth, and it is in large part thanks to heroes like them.
If they could believe in the potential of humanity, I think it’s arrogant of us to disagree.
If you don’t acknowledge the possibility - no, the transparent and obvious plan - to illegally hold onto power at all costs, up to and including another attempted coup… if you won’t even acknowledge the possibility, how exactly do you expect to stop it?
The really interesting thing to me is less the weight and size, more the complexity. Humans love to specialize, and the integration and diversification of megacorps would inevitably reach such a scale that no single human could ever keep up with the various aspects of the business.
We already see this in the modern day, with less-than-qualified administrators and directors giving counterproductive orders to doctors and engineers.
But cyberpunk pushes that even further. How could a single CEO ever understand enough science, tech, and strategy to tell cybernetics research teams what tech they should focus on, netrunner teams what vulnerabities to worry about, and military teams what defenses they should build and ops they should run?
The answer is obvious: they can’t. Not really. They can sign the paperwork that’s given to them, sure. They can give commands, yell at peons, and even fire scapegoats.
But like the King in his throne room, they live in a peculiar state of isolation and faith. Faith that the Kingdom is still there, faith that the captain’s reports are accurate, that the advisors are well-informed. What else is there to do? The King doesn’t have the time to ride around the whole Kingdom himself now, does he? He’d never get anything done!
Cyberpunk takes all that and ratchets it up to 11, where literally silvertongued snakes, futuristic hypergeniuses, and bonafide war criminals compete and kill to see who among them can convince their dystopian sugardaddy to greenlight their pet projects because the CEO thinks its in his own best interest.
How’s does it feel to be a victim of media narrative? Just letting them jerk your chain because you have no chill?
Oh I’m sorry, I paraphrased.
I’ll do anything in my power to thwart the conservatives. If that means upsetting anons I’ll upset some anons.
I bet they feel super thwarted lol
Lol it’s not a very productive response. People are pretty upset about the whole situation, myself included. Your response basically amounts to “I don’t care” and you’re surprised people turn their anger on you?
People can feel as angry as they want about this type of fascist bullshit, and I think it’s entirely valid for people to say “fuck off” when you tell them to calm down and call them an emotional slave to the narrative.
Excellent point. This threshold for action is also affected by the related societal events.
Willfully fracturing the global market, dismantling the largest employer in the country, and violently exiling the ever-exploited backbone of the economy will force those potential disruptions and dysfunctions to the surface much faster than it would have otherwise.
We are about to see a lot of goods and services and fundamental aspects of society that we take for granted suddenly become unreliable, unsustainable, unaffordable, or literally just unavailable.
They were only necessary in the past. Never in the present of future. Now you must always comply with every state as though their rule of law is just and paramount.
This is how it’s always been, in every society and generation. The status quo is always upheld as the common good until it is not.
The ends justify the means. Not an excuse to abandon morality. A lesson in the order of political operations.
The means are never justified until the end.
There are at least 3 different, reliables, sources I know that would have commented on this action and they didn’t. Instead, reddit blew up. I cannot emphasis this enough, reddit is not reliable. I’ve been demonstrating it for almost a year now.
I really don’t understand what point you’re trying to make, or how reddit is involved, or why I should care about your sources.
I read a news article about a judge being arrested, and I commented on it. They were all my own thoughts from my own reading. I think it’s abhorrent that ICE can issue their own warrants without judicial approval, and I think it’s worse that if a judge does not comply with those warrants, she can be arrested by the FBI for “obstruction of justice”.
I don’t really care if I’m not one of your reliable sources. This is yet another example of tyranny in action, and I don’t need to wait for someone else to tell me that I should be pissed.
I may very well be on OPs side but what I see is a lot of dust getting kicked up and that usually means the trump propaganda machine is ramping up.
Alright, I will give you far more good faith than you’ve shown me.
You’re not really giving anyone a lot to work with in this thread, but if you’re done jerking your own chain about us being… what? Slaves to the narrative?
This is just extremely cyclical and unproductive poochie. Your reasoning for questioning the public outcry against the FBI arresting a judge… is because people being upset usually means this administration wants them to be upset?
… And not because they may have - yet again - crossed a line that would upset reasonable people?
All of the following is from the FBI’s side of the story.
A man appeared at court for legal proceedings related to charges of domestic violence. His alleged victim(s) - that is, the people accusing him of the crime - were also present. (This would later be a shocking revelation by the Attorney General as if it was some unusual and dangerous situation)
ICE arrive without proper legal documentation to compel the judge to allow them into her courtroom. They demand to arrest her defendant. She tells them they don’t have the right warrant, and to talk to the Chief Judge. While they do so, witnesses allege she instructs the defendant to leave through the “jury door”, or the door at the back of the courtroom.
The agents realize, and chase the man outside the building and arrest him. The FBI later arrests the judge for obstruction of justice and claims she “misdirected” the agents.
All of that is how the administration themselves have described the story, and I invite you to explain to me why I shouldn’t be furious. Why you think we should be upset about Kilmar instead when the two situations are obviously intrinsically linked.
They are trying to make judges afraid of interfering so that they can keep kidnapping and concentrating people like Kilmar Abrego Garcia. This woman was trying to stop them from making another man disappear.
Everyone has 10 stories about trains being cancelled or buses not showing up. That’s life. Completely irrelevant to the fact that cars give you independence.
So… again… if you have access to a train, a bus, and a car, then one single failure won’t stop you. If you only have access to a car, a single failure will stop you. I don’t know how to make that any more clear. It’s not about a train being better than a car, it’s about only having a car.
But, yes, trains and buses in a functioning mass transit system are insanely more reliable than cars. That’s not just personal experience, though it’s quite an assumption to make! That’s just statistics.
a judge can’t lie to federal agents who are trying to arrest someone in their courtroom. It sounds like she did.
She didn’t give them false information at all, she just told them to go talk to her boss.
And a federal agent can’t try to arrest someone in a courtroom without a judicial warrant. It sounds like they did.
so this isn’t about her ruling against trump, but her directly protecting an individual from ice….
Actually it’s very indirect. The accusation implies that she told ICE agents “he’s over there!” and scattered like a cartoon distraction. In reality, she told them they had no jurisdiction in the court, and that they had to go talk to her boss.
That’s not misdirection, that’s just normal workplace behavior. They don’t have jurisdiction in the courtroom, therefore they were not pursuing justice in the courtroom, therefore it can’t be obstruction of justice to tell them to fuck off.
Thanks! Try not to let it get you down. It’s less a Lovecraftian horror and more like a giant Rube Goldberg-Plinko machine that got way out of hand.
That’s simply not the kind of independence people are talking about.
Yes it is. People praise the car as the ultimate freedom because they imagine that they can take that car anywhere. But the moment they have a problem with their car, they literally can’t go anywhere.
Everyone has a story about how their car didn’t start, or about the mechanic that didn’t actually fix the problem, or how they’re still waiting on a part and can’t fix it until tomorrow. Plenty of people are stuck waiting on the roadside for hours waiting for a tow. Plenty of people are stuck waiting for days to hear back from their insurance company on if repairs are covered or who will pay for it or which mechanic is allowed to do the work.
So? You know what can also derail your day?
Do you… think that’s a gotcha? How many times has your train derailed? Is this a common problem in your life? Don’t you hate it when your employee doesn’t show up to work all the time because his train derailed?
It’s so ridiculously uncommon that it may as well be a rounding error compared to car accidents and incidents.
That being said, it’s not entirely their fault. Something like 80% of young people don’t move farther than 100 miles from home. For the midwest… 100 miles away is just more midwest. One of the biggest, emptiest landmasses in the entire world. Overwhelmingly white. Overwhelmingly undereducated. Overwhelmingly propagandized.
With “new” technologies like the internet, high speed trains, advances in agriculture… farming counties should be in a goddamn golden age. But they’ve always leaned republican, and that means they’ll always be republican, because they’re chronically underfunding infrastructure, education, and healthcare, and so they’re chronically suffering but don’t understand why.
They just know it’s wrong, and it’s always easier to blame somebody other than themselves.
Compound all of that with not meeting anyone new or seeing anything challenging to change their beliefs… and you have that 77%. Their horizons are far, but their world is small and self-contained.
They’ll occasionally realize “oh, this is hurting us” but the truth is they have always been hurting. Pain isn’t new to them. So it’s very easy to convince them that temporary pain will be worth it in the end… even if nothing gets better.