Defining yourself in opposition to something is still being anaclitic on that thing, isn’t it? I certainly think so. And men who believe they hate what they really fear they need are of limited interest, I find.
Con: we're under attack, and the waiting is insufferable. Pro: as the attacks become more direct, the number of possible responses collapse into a mere few and abundantly clear choices. The sinpler the choices, the easier it will become to ubify. The well worn Mike Tyson quote about everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face cuts both ways. Sometimes you punch the wrong guy. And nobody can take on multiple guys simultaneously. We are smarter than they are, we have greater numbers than they do. We can absolutely punch back.
If America is a car, MAGA is refusing to do routine maintenance and using that money instead to buy tacky plastic hubcaps, weather stripping, air fresheners, steering wheel covers, and stickers. By the time they're done we're going to be a half painted car with a seized engine and negative equity, with a bunch of metalized plastic crap attached to it and mismatched tires.
Not only are they form over function, but they have terrible taste.
Why would they physically invade when they're already extracting what they want from us remotely? They'll no sooner physically invade our land than a farmer would invade the barn where they keep their cattle. Why take by force what you are being freely given?
And as a side note, I am able to fix very little, but we stand a fighting chance to fix a great deal more together.
Quite the opposite. I'm saying America is over and soon something new will be built in it's place. And it's up to us to make sure it is an improvement over what it replaces.
The bad news is that we've (the sane, the empathetic, the introspective, the curious) already lost what was America. Trump's reelection is more like the rimshot following the actual punchline. So that battle is lost. It's painful but we can't dwell on it like a dog licking a hot spot. The good news is a new battle is brewing. I have no doubt that the current state of the government is unsustainable, wether by design or through incompetence. It's a near certainty that major calamity is on the horizon. Illness, war, terrorism, climate, social upheaval, something catastrophic will happen. It is going to happen and it will demand leadership and governance to overcome, and the fourth reich will not be capable of rising to the occasion. They will botch it, and the nation will be shattered. Historic levels of national reorganization will need to occur. Implied rules will need to be made explicit. This is where the next fight really is. They got to play offense for as long as democrats were a boogie man. Well, they hold all the cards now, so they will be soley to blame for the trainwreck. They will try to weasel out of it, but we can't let them. We need to keep them cornered, and we need to be ready to snatch back the tiller when the rough seas knock that fat bastard down onto the fucking deck. Then we need to bust out the plank and throw a going away party for his whole rogues gallery. Then we need to find shore again and fix our damaged ship.
Ideally, in the near future he will undergo some sort of transformation that would render a third term a physical impossibility rather than a legal one.
Well, even if defense spending were slashed, the current oligarchy is gutting health, education, environment, and occupational programs, so those "savings" won't be reallocated to anything actually beneficial to society. We'll be lucky if that money even stays in the country. We're basically witnessing an estate sale for a deceased America.
Of course I condemn violence. But there is only one reliable cure for a dictator. If something tragic were to happen to a dictator, any dictator, the people would likely benefit and rejoice. It may not be polite, but it would be civilized. And for better or worse, the person hypothetically responsible would be immortalized in the annals of history.
It's more like he's setting many small fires. They need to be put out, but they keep growing in number and stretching our resources out. He can just casually walk from spot to spot and set a fire that continues to burn while he walks off to set another. He can set the fires faster than we can fight them. He can set them more easily than we can fight them. And if we don't fight them they will grow out of control. He is truly malignant, both in the sense of malevolence, and as virulent.
I recently got a Boox Go 6. It's just a really simple android tablet with a paper type display. So whatever android reading app you use you could probably run it. Strictly in terms of privacy I'm not sure if it's uniquely well suited. But I would expect it's better than Kindle or Kobo.
Conveniently enough, this quote is actually taken from an endnote.