https://twitter.com/BRyvkin/status/1694880086812487733?t=6UxVq5ziPDa_Hym9udavTw&s=19
I’m not sure what he’s talking about but I’m more certain than ever that going cold turkey on the MSM news coverage was a brilliant decision on my part. I used to love the news, people. I watched those 100% news channels all the time. But then I stopped and never looked back.
I even know the exact date I quit. March 14, 2020.
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The very practice of publishing “mug shots” is an oddly American thing. It’s like a more primitive society where justice involves dragging criminals out in front of a crowd, so they will be humiliated, and anyone else thinking about it will be intimidated.
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Twitter is unreadable tonight. Everybody decided to post this “mug shot” for an incomprehensible purpose. After scrolling through a couple of dozen of them, I couldn’t take it anymore.
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I’m still mulling over the 114 dead 1100 missing stat. Like, please please let that be 1100 people displaced into their relatives’ and friends’ garages, or fled back to the mainland, or camping at the local KOA because their house isn’t livable, and just not yet accounted for.
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“please let that be 1100 people displaced … just not yet accounted for”
A lovely thought. But since the ‘right’ people were in charge no one will face any consequence for this massive failure of local government.
If they were trying to get people killed I’m not sure what they would do differently but they’re under the protection of the shining elites and so… oh my god! Did you hear the latest about TRUMP???????
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Everybody is complicit, though. Yesterday, absolutely everybody with a following posted and reposted the Trump mug shot. Hundreds of these photos, one after another. I have not seen any movie star, any extraordinary beauty get this treatment. This is what people care about, and it’s weirdly sexual. It’s all just very weird.
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This is one of the perks of using multiple image/video blockers on my browser. I haven’t seen a single one!
I recommend it!
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Apparently a road was barricaded and evac traffic was turned back toward Lahaina. People who ignored the cones and ran the barricade, made it to the next town and are now talking about it in video clips here and there. The ones who dutifully obeyed aren’t giving interviews.
After the hurricane we had a crazy number “missing” just because of communications being down, and something like 20,000 people displaced. Really chaotic. Actual storm deaths for our county were… 4? I think we may have lost more people to chainsaw accidents in the weeks following, than were killed directly by the storm.
But I think Lahaina is a smaller area, and the more days go by the scarier that number gets.
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Trump’s photo isn’t a typical police “mug shot.” Ordinary crooks get a cheap black-and-white photograph with a placard under their chin showing their name, date of birth, and case number.
For Trump, this color photo is more of a glamour shot.
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“this color photo is more of a glamour shot”
It’s a campaign poster…. and genius at that.
dems are too stupid and/or crushing on him to realize they’re just strengthening him
repubs are too stupid to realize they have no party any longer without him
historically one of the two main parties should have been fed into a paper shredder a few years ago with another taking its place but were stuck with more decay and dysfunction until that happens
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I’ve seen young women post photos of the K-pop stars they adore. This has a similar vibe but more intense.
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Apparently, for many people any photo of him would be a glamor shot.
And then they say that this is a youth-obsessed society that doesn’t respect old age. This is completely untrue. A man in his late seventies is the #1 sex symbol of the whole country. Whoever heard of such a thing?
OK, Russia’s in the same situation. But that’s it.
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We are truly a gerontocracy.
You can gripe it’s the Boomers who won’t let go of the levers of power until they die.
But if the younger generations had any balls they’d have wrested those skeletal hands away a decade or more ago.
The problem is that nobody else wants that job.
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” problem is that nobody else wants that job.”
A big problem…. a couple of years ago in Poland the current mayor of Warsaw was run as a last minute candidate for president from the main opposition party (after their initial choice, a fine and intelligent politician, was bombing very badly in the polls).
He lost but it was much closer than anyone expected and there were lots of calls for him to go national in a bigger way toward party leadership but he hemmed and hawed and now we have Donald Tusk (former EU president) leading the opposition instead in the current parliamentary elections…
Tusk is fine but he’s old while the mayor is much younger and more dynamic which is what’s needed….
So…. what you said…..
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IMO this is one of many reasons it’s time to do the “Czech divorce” thing in the US. Things at the federal level are just too big to be run on a human scale anymore. It’s not just that GenX and millenials aren’t as motivated by politics as our parents. It’s that the job has changed. The population is much larger, the federal government has taken on more and more powers/responsibilities, and I don’t think it’s possible to have a truly representative government at the federal level anymore. The feedback loops are broken.
Snip the country up into four, five, six allied nations… we might could do it again. Not expecting it, mind. Just… I can understand why no sane functional person wants to be president, and very few even want to go to congress… even though that used to be a somewhat reasonable and civic-minded thing to do.
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“Snip the country up into four, five, six allied nations…”
In theory I agree… the system is broken and getting brokener. Representative forms of government don’t scale up over very large populations and/or phsyical areas which is why really big countries already are or are rapidly evolving into authoritarianism….
Something like a North American Union (sort of like older versions of the EU) would be a good goal… the problem is how to get there from here.
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https://twitter.com/BjornIronSkull/status/1694468343560798237?s=20
https://twitter.com/BjornIronSkull/status/1694468345104363990?s=20
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