She was saying it publicly at the time of hearing. And was basically saying “you can’t shut me up!” as the hearing was going on. The sentence is what finally shut her up as she was attempting to erode democracy. She was the example being made because of her loud, unrepentant public statements. It was the right call at the time. Just because the sentence was effective doesn’t mean we should go back and undo the effective sentence.
Every reasonable person knows that. But people aren’t reasonable. The average person is a complete fucking moron. Tack on to that idiocy, you’ve also got years of talk radio, podcasts, and Cambridge Analytica technology in social media affecting their brains and you’re not going to reach them. That’s not to say they can’t be reached, but you’re not going to convince them. There’s not an argument or series of arguments that will reach them. They need to experience things to get out of that mindset. We’re finally seeing that come to pass as layoffs, food and fuel costs are angering people. They’re shaking their heads a little. We will get there. I have no idea how much damage will be done before then. I have no idea what systems are recoverable. I don’t know if there will be too many people in concentration camps, I don’t know if we’re going to have any water or farmable land. And I don’t know if there will be anything worth fighting for by the time enough people decide to fight. I suppose that’s how many of these events play out in history. Authoritarian regimes are temporary by nature. Who survives them and how is always changing.
I’ll take a moment to note some challenges about living and fighting in America. The country is huge. Moving people from one part to another is not trivial. Ask anyone who went to a big concert, or a hot vacation spot how it went and they will always mention the traffic. And that’s just an uptick in people at one location. Doing things en masse requires infrastructure we don’t have. And along with that infrastructure, any given spot has about 3 days of food without trucks. No one area (save for Central California) grows enough of a variety of foods to exist on. The central plains have wheat and corn, the coasts have fruit, the South has livestock. Not only do we only exist for a few days without resupply, the resupply routes are days of constant driving to do so from different parts of the country simultaneously. Most any Western State is the size of European Countries. To get produce from California to Washington DC is like moving it from Spain to Ukraine. Or Ireland to Uzbekistan.
So, tell me, how easy is it for an Irishman to convince parts of the UK, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Switzerland (just kidding, they’d never join anything), Italy, Austria, Greece, Czechia, Romania, Germany, Poland, Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine and maybe even Georgia and Azerbaijan to keep supplying them with food and supplies as they do a general strike with potentially no forceful outcome? Or even that same Irishman to travel to the political seat of Uzbekistan with members of the aforementioned countries in tow in numbers large enough to affect change and make sure people are supplied along the way? You tell me how to make that happen and I’ll do my part in mapping it out.
“All you have to do is convince 150 million adults to sacrifice what little safety and security they feel they have to do a thing they’ve never personally experienced through decades of propaganda. Why are you still sitting there, crying?”
It’s artificial for sure, but I’m pretty convinced it’s part of the tech bros attempting to create their feudal states. I think they’re convinced they just need a bit longer to get AI to be able to replace most workers and overplayed their hands too early this time.
In reality, they created a large force of people who want to tear down the current model where most current jobs (which are just pushing money back and forth or supporting buying and selling in some way but not creating anything) will go away anyway. Only, they’re going to keep their autonomy and power and the tech bros will have none.
If someone would have paid to see Walt’s cock, maybe he would have gone a more innocent route.
“We’re 100% certain the one responsible for destroying the eucalyptus bush is either you or this koala. Why don’t you just admit it now and save yourself some trouble?”
The people with training (I’m against the TSA entirely but I will admit some of them have a good amount of training in respective disciplines) that are not getting paid get to work side by side with completely untrained assholes who are overpaid. This should go well.
My understanding is that it’s a safety issue. Currently, substations have source power shutoffs so any lead-in power source can be easily cut off to replace equipment. But, they’re not set to handle other power inputs in the substation grid. I’ve never fully understood this reasoning as once power is handed off from one substation to the other (to prevent outages) it should be completely dead to do maintenance. It might be my ignorance on it but I can’t see how this is a problem and is likely a method by power companies to reduce solar usage by forcing expensive equipment between the grid and household.
I’m far from an expert, but it seems like if one cloud node goes down, pay hackers to slam everything with bot traffic and the system is brought to its knees.
Only if you bought Cards Against Humanity. They’re giving the money back to the consumer.
This (seemingly) solves some issues in places like Africa where warlords block or destroy delivery systems to remote villages. Also fixes disaster recovery where pipes are destroyed or water systems are contaminated
I’m guessing a guy like that who traded in relationships and secrets would be smart enough to set up a dead man drop in the event he goes quiet for too long. It keeps his life valuable.
There’s still the option that it was a faked death. That much wealth and power, if it could be done, that’s who and when it would be done. I’m not giving it much credence without more evidence, but I’ve got no reason to think that it’s not possible given the series of absurd happenings that morning.
General Mills, maybe
“wait a minute chief, his name’s Christian” “Oh wait. Christian Diaz… My bad, you know what to do”
The number of murders so far is what they’ve been doing while having a certain number of immigrants to still chase down. As that number of immigrants to chase dwindles, their activity won’t. And the number of citizen resistors and ensuing death will increase accordingly. 100 murders is being very, very conservative I feel.
I think the technical term is toilet paper. I don’t know, I’m not very good with legal jargon.
As of yesterday, I think the decisive action has begun. Financially and militarily should the US attempt to invade Greenland.
Do you think that’s RSS you’re reading?