Candelestine @ Candelestine @lemmy.world

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Apparently this is just some twitter drama? Not exactly Earth's finest left back in that pit, don't let them drag you down. Gotta be strong these days.

Bit of an exaggeration. The Federalist Society is actually a fairly recent phenomenon, historically speaking.

Assuming the shenanigans are what you're talking about, and not the basic principle of conservatives appointing other conservatives when they are in charge. Which, I mean, wtf do you expect? That's not exactly any kind of cleverness.

Yep. Give us a gigantic two-handed war cudgel, literally hand it to us, and then complain when we bludgeon you with it every election cycle until we get the Supreme Court back.

Sounds about right. Not too good at that long-term thinking stuff, are they? Authoritarians seldom are, too focused on image instead of substance, and eventually start falling for their own bullshit.

It frankly just doesn't matter. Either we support the rule of law or we don't. We can't just pick and choose, when picking and choosing where justice applies is exactly what we're trying to stop while we still can.

edit: Christie not understanding this basic idea is related to why he has an R by his name and not a D, incidentally. But at this point I'll take the allies that come to hand, don't care too much about letters atm when fascism is marching. Priorities and all. Trump is a Mussolini, and I don't want to meet his Hitler.

Break the law, get the consequences. Not complicated.

Of course. He can't allow anyone to call him anything that might be dishonorable. That doesn't mean he isn't okay with it though. People can fight against things they like, if it suits their other purposes.

You know, I think he likes the Winnie the Pooh references. He's not a typical authoritarian, Chinese culture is very idiosyncratic, very different from the west. They don't mind contradicting things being true simultaneously, often doing two things at once.

He likes being underestimated while he talks about wanting respect, though. It's an asset. He can't just let people disrespect him of course, but of all the things he could be compared to...

He's a sophisticated, complex man imo. Not some simpleton like our authoritarians. He thinks, deeply.

Uh, no, not true. Justice delayed is justice delayed. Justice denied is justice denied. It almost always gets delayed over something or another, just because proving a case as best you can is difficult and complex, and often changes mid-process.

And you do want proof to be important, justice isn't something you want Kyle Rittenhouse types just winging on their own.

That was justice denied, right there. Delayed is fine sometimes though.

It's important to remember that efficiency is not always what you want most. You want accuracy and precision too, and a balance somewhere between these competing priorities is necessary.

Tbf, there's also philodendrons. That's basically potted kudzu. I think if you took a potted one and threw it out during the winter, it'd just grow right back in. Probably need goats or sheep or napalm to actually kill one. Or maybe be colorblind so you don't see it turning yellow when it needs water.

It grinds slow, but fine. Or so the saying goes. And when they say slow, they mean glacially.

This design is intentional to make it difficult to weaponize, which people did all the time through history. Don't mistake slow for stationary though. Glaciers do move, even if you can't see it if you sit there and stare at one.

I'm with you. I seldom agreed with him, but he opened up some opportunities for me to practice my arguments on someone with different views. Which is helpful, because there's a lot of them. Just not on here.

I agree that covid misinformation is too dangerous to play around with though, it kills our elderly, who don't always have the skills necessary to navigate the modern information space. So, I agree with where this line was drawn. However, I do hope to see the user again, whether they're right or wrong. The Fediverse can most certainly contain us all, and if we could actually accomplish that, I think it'd go a long way towards more broadly combating misinformation in a healthier, more sustainable way.

We cannot shun it into silence though. We need to learn from the mistakes we've made, even the more recent ones. I mean, if anything was going to be shunned into oblivion, it was anti-semitism after WW2. But take a look around... We must adapt, and we can, too. Adapting rapidly is a human specialty.

I don't mind him pushing for diplomatic civility, it's part of his job. But yes, we are slowly sliding towards domestic military conflict, while Xi Jinping laughs all the way to the bank.

That's at least closer to accurate. But a 25 year siege would've starved 99% of the people there to death, maybe ~23-24 years ago. Unless you can think of a way to feed the whole population with that tiny bit of land for a couple decades.

A naval strategy designed to interdict sea transport to a specific area.

Regardless, there is neither a siege nor a blockade that has been going on for anything even remotely close to 75 years. There is a proper siege occuring there, an actual by-the-book one, but it started fairly recently. Otherwise all the people in Gaza would have starved to death a long time ago, since they can't grow enough food on that land to feed them all.

... don't fuck words up. That's what Netanyahu does, be better. A siege is a specific thing.

Uh, no, not really. If you're feeling any kind of anxiety you're doing it wrong. The only time I've ever had to watch the clock is during really, really boring classes and presentations.

Time management has very little to do with what time it is, counter-intuitively. Just like budgeting doesn't really have much to do with the size of your net worth.

Remote controlled zombies...? Alright, that one's pretty badass.

Exactly. And everyone knows the real fastest is to hover in the air for a moment as you pump your legs.

Playing or not, it's a superior way to accelerate from a stop.

Interesting to me how the horse has a more technical sprinting technique.

It leans away from the direction it wants to spin in at first, loading a bunch of weight onto its front legs to shove off powerfully from. The people start leaning in the direction they want to go, away from their plant leg, which probably feels faster, but means their back legs can't get the same push off the first step, basically wasting it.

Propaganda is a quantity over quality game. You're not trying to convince the die-hard supporters of the other side, that's not realistic. You're trying to give informational cover to your own side.

It's like suppressive fire. Is the machine gunner specifically trying to kill the enemy? No, he's sending bullets whizzing overhead to change their behavior. Then his buddies can circle around their cover and very specifically aim at and kill them.

edit: You are right that it's no 5d chess though. It's more like the excuses you'd get out of a young kid. Just flak, intended to get in the way. Fired in quantity.