The “slower” bit is even highly questionable. The competent fascist (Genocide Joe) has been enacting fascist policy far longer and far more effectively than the incompetent fascist (Trump). Including implementing some of Trump’s own failed policies.
It “helps” that all the liberals stay home and don’t bother to oppose it when that vaneer of decorum and respectability is included, of course.
Don’t worry. Next they’ll ban pizza as a Centrism™.
Democracy Now unfortunately succumbed to the liberal brainworms about Russiagate and Ukraine, but otherwise is pretty good. Same with a number of other Pacifica Radio programs.
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I’m just finishing Tax Paperwork Hell, U.S. Edition. Whoever made this game and obfuscated the equations for stat progression is a real fucker, TBH. Do not recommend.
And they didn’t get their demands, either. They got some shitty, watered down, pathetic version of their demands that the Biden administration and the boss-friendly union “leadership” told them they should be happy with.
Within a local commune there might very well be agreements to e.g. access firearms and other weapons only communally. That’s cool, when things are truly run horizontally. I might or might not choose to be a part of such a commune (but IMO it’s a pretty inviting possibility).
My answer regarding state control of weapons of any sort will always, always, ALWAYS be the same: FUCK OFF!
No more than three weeks to live.
True. Like when Obama called in the national guard to violently repress the Ferguson uprising, and put FBI snipers on the roof during Occupy to assassinate organizers/leaders if things got any more radical.
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Yes! I’m right there with you. Working hard on local projects to this effect: cooperatives, mutual aid networks, radical action groups, etc.
I wish I could get further with unionizing my workplace (IWW style). THAT is my point of serious frustration at the moment. But hopefully helping comrades do better in theirs through training, emotional support, etc. is enough for now.
It’s be a good Onion bit maybe, but I think the Democrats will keep milking Trump as the devil incarnate until the end of time. They don’t need him to implement the fascism. They’re more than capable of doing it on their own. In fact, they get far less opposition that way.
They democrats and the republicans are on the same team. They are tag teaming the working class into this outcome so that the working class does not pursue an option different to either of them.
Not only that, but the “ratchet” analogy people use is dead wrong, and it’s dangerous that people keep using it. Biden has implemented a bunch of things Trump couldn’t because courts, Democrats and their fans, and movements strenuously opposed him. The ratchet hasn’t just “stopped” with Biden. It’s advanced on slightly different fronts than liberals and the media want to pay attention to. The Democrats don’t need to keep it from rolling back to the “left” because there’s never any threat of it halting its “rightward” progress.
As far as I can tell. The writing seems to indicate that.
Another quote from her same book furnished by fucking Glenn Beck, if you can stomach that source, with the bit about people convicted of murder:
When we moved in, I was told that using prison labor at the governor’s mansion was a longstanding tradition, which kept down costs, and I was assured that the inmates were carefully screened. I was also told the onetime murders were far the preferred security risks. The crimes of the convicted murderers who worked at the governor’s mansion usually involved a disagreement with someone they knew, often another young man in the neighborhood…
I saw and learned a lot as I got to know them better. We enforced rules strictly and sent back to prison any inmate who broke a rule. I discovered as I had been told I would, that we had far fewer disciplinary problems with inmates who were in for murder than with those who had committed property crimes. In fact, over the years we lived there, we became friendly with a few of them, African-American men in their thirties who had already served twelve to eighteen years of their sentences.
Nathan Robinson wrote about it. He quotes directly from her book It Takes a Village:
Clinton was, however, generous enough to allow inmates from Arkansas prisons to work as unpaid servants in the Governor’s Mansion. In It Takes a Village, Hillary Clinton writes that the residence was staffed with “African-American men in their thirties,” since “using prison labor at the governor’s mansion was a longstanding tradition, which kept down costs.” It is unclear just how longstanding the tradition of having chained black laborers brought to work as maids and gardeners had been. But one has no doubt that as the white residents of a mansion staffed with unpaid blacks, the Clintons were continuing a certain historic Southern practice. (Hillary Clinton did note, however, that she and Bill were sure not to show undue lenience to the sla…servants, writing that “[w]e enforced rules strictly and sent back to prison any inmate who broke a rule.”
See Current Affairs: The Clintons Had Slaves.
I read about it more extensively somewhere else, and I’ll see if I can find it. There was a place where she was also quoted as talking about loving the murderers especially, because they were allegedly even more docile than people who had committed less-violent offenses.
Not quite “ownership”, but reminder that Bill Clinton (and almost-president Hillary Clinton) used prison slave labor in the Arkansas governor’s mansion, and enjoyed it quite thoroughly according to Hillary’s own writing…
TBF some also think that Iraq and Afghanistan were just “regrettable mistakes” or that they might have been crimes, but gee-shucks-oh-well-shrug, that’s just how politics go.
And to be “fair” the orders of magnitude might have been different, but if they look too closely at the process of how the war machine ran, they might have to admit that Democratic presidents have also been war criminals. Like, if they get too uptight about “Bush’s wars”, then right around the corner is the fact that Obama took us from bombing two countries to continuously bombing like seven countries, in the span of a couple years. And similarly for executive authority, domestic spying, deportations, etc.
They can’t afford to be too honestly critical. They just have to pretend that what’s going on right now is different and exceptional, and no: of course it isn’t exactly the same “lesser-evil” choice they’ve demanded you make (or at least accept) over and over and over again for generations!
So IMO some kind of at least vaguely rehabilitative amnesia is actually pretty necessary. It might take a slightly different form with Trump than with Dubya, but it’s still going to have to be there.
I kind of hope so. Because honestly the only likely alternative is that they’re sill running Trump against whatever fascist ghoul of a Democrat they’re dredged up by then, and still trying to get us to accept that B.S. by scaring us with Trump as the “only” alternative. If, instead, Trump becomes irrelevant to the acceptance of some Democrat, then yeah: they’ll Bushize him. No question.
To be fair, networking is hellish for a variety of reasons.
That has nothing to do with it. My company maintains network software for server instances which maintain thousands of simultaneous user connections continuously (and loads of continuous bandwidth). Simple “networking is tough” is not an answer for why it apparently costs this company half-a-mill a month to maintain 32 active connections. There is no good answer to that. It’s just poor management/bureaucracy, including their choice of infrastructure. And labor, obviously.
One of two methods, depending on the meeting, the constituency, etc.:
Plus sometimes a person who volunteers to do temperature checks, remind people if they are taking inordinate amounts of time or are simply repeating stuff that’s already been said, etc. Depending on the dynamics of the meeting (e.g. when most people form a well-knit group who trusts each other to do well) this might be handled collectively instead of with people in the particular role.