Rights

In the information age we can see all the moving parts. In Israel the far right warring government has decreased women's rights (CNN). War is all about making women unsafe and need protection. In a safe world, women don't need men, and therefore the association would be their option, not a matter of survival. 

Rights are about freedom. The right to vote, to own property, to control over your body. Inequality is about trying to get more for me, by being in the in group. White men supposedly do well. I'm not doing the best, but actually I am quite lucky. It's not really luck, though is it? 

Malicious compliance

 

You want us to release all the file? Well here's all the people he hates. Not sure why he's against Clinton, since he's a centrist, practically a Republican. Just hated his wife, perhaps he's trying to hurt her. 

Trump could have the people who love him spontaneously name things for him, but he's not going to wait for that, he's putting his name on everything he can. He's thinking about his legacy, it's just these things aren't going to stick. Kennedy center is going back to it's old name after he's gone. He's going to die soon and his name is going to be erased because he's just not an American president we respect.

The leadership thing is that you lead by example, and Trump breaks all the laws, and somehow gets away with it, but his followers are surprised they are caught. Malicious noncompliance isn't great.

Enshitification

New example of enshitification. (Previous post on enshitification.)

People don't watch new shows that are good, they're canceled, then they watch them because the algorithm spits them up, and then there's not follow through and resolution because it was canceled because it wasn't popular when it first came out, but people like it as they're cycling through. 

I saw the other day you can pay to get the full Gemini experience, it's already got two tiered experiences.

I'm convinced that Apple takes away functionality with their updates. I used to be able to send links back and forth from computer to phone and phone to computer, but it's gone away. 

This is the great lesson of Trump. Capitalists wreck things and then demand money to make it work again. He's doing it with the government, thank, we don't need that. I feel like this isn't worth boycotting for, I mean it's everywhere and everything. It is making me less materialistic though, so that's good. 

That's just entertainment, but the cuts in government that kill people are worse. 

Images

 

Money in politics has befuddled Americans since the 70's, my who life, why not reverse that?

I think there's a lot of latitude within religions and politics, but to me stepping across the murder, war and other forms of killing is the line I draw. So with Trump's murdering an estimated 400k by his inaction with Covid, and the million he killed by administrative fiat by ending USAID, he's an administrative mass murderer, and to think that's OK is kind of giving up your human card. I see people are of value and just politically saying no to them is administrative murder. So I could never ever imagine it's just a political difference to think Trump is OK. Until we learn to treat all life as precious, we're not really worth anything as human beings. Stop genocides and famine, that to me is bottom line stuff.

Religions don't kill people, people allow themselves to be manipulated through religions to kill people, and that's another problem.

I'm just riffing off this post on Reddit, which honesetly I'm just riffing off the headline.

Is Trump a liar or just has dementia?

He’s freezing on stage

Look at his smile

Today's thoughts

Every unAmerican step takes Trump that much closer to impeachment after the blue wave of the midterms.

Two countries voted no to being against colonialism at the UN, Israel and USA. 

Trump zags when we usually zig, and while that could be good, it happens to not be. America has lost it's exceptionalism and maybe it never had it if it's so easy to throw it away like this. I don't mean to over index with recency bias, but wow. No neutral or good chaos, just bad chaos. 

Everyone thinks he's a big baby for getting the FIFA Peace Prize, a made up award, meanwhile he's murdering people in boats. He's the opposite of peace, and he's an absurd nihilist to push the narrative. He's sent troops into cities, and you're seeing police literally arresting ICE officers. 

His playbook is to create a crisis and to grift to stop it. He's not about leadership or government. And now he's calling affordability made up. He's going down. There's going to be a massive wave in the midterms and he's going to get voted out. What a horrible time and test for democracy. Then they can impeach a few Supreme Court justices. The corrupt legislature have often retired, and hopefully that rights the ship. 

I'm not so hot on Newsome any more. Kelly seems OK. Pritzker is an option. Other people will step forward. I'm impatient to see who is next, and I hope Vance isn't the puppet he's been so far. America are eager for crazy time to be over. 

Neo-Nazis in Arkansas Reddit.

The dark side

The fantasy, aside from massive heart attack and instant death, is that the oompa loompa will lose the midterms, and be impeached in a blue wave.

Things start to turn when Republicans are not challenged in their primaries, and there's no consequence for turning on the pedophile (Archive/Daily Beast).

The press seems to keep pounding on how Pete Hegseth needs to go.

Phil Klay: I suspect the question the administration cares about is not “is this legal,” “is this a war crime,” “is this murder” or even “is this good for America,” but rather, “isn’t this violence delightful?”

Jesse Watters and Megyn Kelly are monster on Fox, they delight in it. 

"An Associated Press investigation suggests that the men Ms. Kelly would like to watch slowly die are often poor laborers: a fisherman, a motorcycle taxi driver, a bus driver, living in cinder-block homes with spotty water and power service, making at least $500 per trip ferrying cocaine, a crime Americans normally judge worthy of a prison sentence rather than a torturous death." (op cit)