The name is giving "bad Malthusian"

You just collapsed your own wave-function right in front of us all. I pray it goes back into superposition for you and gives you a chance to try again.

Just because historians haven't yet given the beast a name, it acts and growls just like like exactly what it is, and "civil war" is exactly what some members of the federal administration want, as you might read in their brazen proclamations about re-interpreting the constitution along a hundred dimensions at once.

https://www.project2025.observer/en

The local and federal authorities are at a complete standoff right now. When's the last time you recall a local government essentially asking the court for permission to deploy its national guard to enforce a restraining order against the federal government? All while said federal government was openly conducting sloppy pseudo-urban-warfare in broad daylight?

I urge you to pay attention.

I'm paying attention, just not buying into administration wanting a civil war.

Won't happen.

Regardless, would you agree that we're watching a constitutional crisis unfold? The stability of case law is being completely undermined.

I won't defend certain current practices, you are trying to shoehorn me into a yes/no answer to fit me into a side. I won't play that game.

The French revolution was also extremely brutal. People idealize it but it actually sucked. The obscene political betrayal and corruption by "revolutionaries" themselves was awful and abuses lasted for multiple generations.

The French revolution isn't a good revolution to aspire to, no matter how satisfying it might feel to fantasize about it I assure you in hindsight your childrens' children would weep if that's what happened to you in the U.S.

Not saying justice isn't due: on the contrary we need to lean even further into this energy, to metabolize it. Not trying to preach either btw. Your rage is valid, trust me I have my own.

It really is sadism, the punitive urge. I'm noticing relatives of mine hesitate to condemn what's happening, and I know that same hesitation from their righteous anger in exacting authoritarian attitudes about other more mundane things. The difference here now is that we're talking about an authoritarian takeover of the government.

Much worse

Funny cause in the long run shareholders are just as effed as the rest of us, so this is not protection

In the long run, we're all dead. So shareholders might suffer the same fate, but they're more comfortable before we all drown.

Their comfort is hollow and false

If they can afford the oxygen tanks, their comfort is slightly better than the rest of us. It's what makes America great again!

It depends. If you're someone like, say, Trump, then truly nothing matters because you're far too old to care. You can pretty much burn the whole world down and suffer zero consequences.

This is one of the biggest downsides to letting the most old, and "wise", among us run the show. They have no incentive to help future generation or even current generations.

You're right. I should've said "Short-term Thinker Protection Agency."

The old truism remains true today. A society becomes great when old men plant trees to cast shade they will never sit in.

Good thing the FDA is fighting back by suggesting people eat more pork, beef etc

Anyone using it with Niri?

I use thunar with niri and some of the taskbar applets for bluetooth etc in waybar

This is just inflammatory