Once again. If this is what we know... what on earth is happening that we dont know about?
The thing about incompetence is that, if one fuck up was this bad because the right person found out. How many times has it been brushed aside by someone without the means?
Its always going to be worse than you could ever dream of. We are still so early into 4 years its terrifying.
As a side point. This is also proof that the moon landing is real and the earth is round. But functioning brains already knew that...
Ill be back here trying to talk to my neighbor first like the rational human being i am.
get to it. Times wasting to kill em all. Lets be honest. You've only got one attempt before they come to gun you down in response, so be efficient. I bet you can get a couple before they drop you like a dog. Label you a psychopath and a radical. Hell you can even be a terrorist.
Meanwhile i can plant little seeds and talk to hundreds of people. Change hearts and minds over time.
Bring people to my cause.
I dont think that this is a refutation of the two party system at all. I think this is a rebalancing of the system in likes to the tea party surge of the kid 2000s.
It isnt a rebuttal. Its a response. as much as the democratic party hates it, it still is well within the status quo and thats why schumer will hang his arms on the cross so to speak. Hes the willing and able party pariah. It is manufactured.
And thats why im worried it isnt enough.
Its why im angry still.
I also known that this is just enough cognitive dissonance to maybe turn someone...
Its a matter of "if they can turn on a dime, you can too".
I get that they are doubling down. I also get that this is the first disconnect they have had with mainstream media in eight years. And maybe that is my in.
I understand that it is a small shift, but honestly, its the first shift ive seen in many of them in almost a decade. Ill take it.
You are a literal years ahead of the curve when it comes to lasting change.
Be a martyr if you want. I dont care.
But if we didnt follow behind luigi, we arent there yet. So shoot someone and get gunned down. Be my guest. You first.
Have you even done the bare minimum of protest before advocating for fucking violence? Are you lazy or just an armchair antagonizer?
To be perfectly clear, being prepaired and being in shape is good for you. Do that.
But lets look at history. Look at the civil rights era for reference.
Being in shape and well armed doesnt do shit.
It took one unarmed black lady not moving on a bus to be a nexus. after dozens had already done the same. It was on purpose. It had organization.
Look at how long it took after that before the black panthers marched on the capital with guns and congress got so scared to push firearm reforms, but somehow was not be the nexus of change.
They didnt care abour busses. and being armed doesnt do shit. Organizing does. Protest does.
The nexus wasnt firearms. It was people getting together and protesting every way they could. For literal years.
As a prolific gun owner myself, i dont hold any faith in them. My faith is in something coalescing into a movement. And that movement isnt firepower. You cant beat the united states military and the complex it built anyways.
But you can change hearts and minds. it takes organization. Protest will always be better. Love your neighbor and be a nuisance until you change their heart.
That being said, guns are also an option, but if it takes less than a decade of this bs to get you to shoot someone, you just wanted to shoot someone to begin with. And as much as i own and use guns and, somewhat ironically, abhore violence, im not going to be the person to change your mind if thats what you are set on.
Trump doesnt need to manipulate much. I live in deep red country. They are upset that fox has "completely changed" and they want to go to newsmax instead.
They are soooo fucking close to getting it.
But the propaganda seed has already been planted.
I mean im an adult that can contextualize the geopolitical reasononing behind why this is a bad deal without relying on heavy handed amerocentric hypotheticals.
To be clear, I never disagreed with your point. I just think that your comparison was dumb. And honestly, using alaska is even worse.
I dont know why you need a comparison in the first place. You already have the actual event to look at. Its in eastern europe. And they are in a war.
To that point, lets be real, even the united states doesnt really care about new mexico. Crimea in this argument has actual economic value.
Honestly any square foot of what russia has stolen from Ukraine has so much more economic value in comparison to new mexico, its hardly a realistic comparison.
I get what you are saying. But taos vs a warm water sea port is such an insane comparison. Its so much worse.
Albuquerque? Let em have it. Santa fe? Please.
I agree on principal. And i agree with you 100% on your sentiment. In fact i got downvoted and fought pretty hard on lemmy to try and hold judgement on the people affected. (And by pretty hard i mean i said something that people slightly objected to. I did nothing really)
I also have, through local interactions, found that the particular community involved are in complete willful ignorance about this subject.
They dont care.
Seminole isnt far away from me. Local buisinesses here where i am are directly connected. They were traveling there literally this weekend. Ive interacted with the community involved and they say it is a no issue or fake news. Its all coolaid all the way through.
They dont care. Its gods will.
My standards on judgement still hold, but in my experience the evidence at this point is not anything that exonerates any of them in the slightest...
Its all cult mentality. But this time it isnt rfk and trump. Its just hardcore religion and blinders.
Canada and mexico will absolutely crater first if pushed. Canada can maybe afford it short term and make trump blink first. They have a better position.
Sheinbaum, for all the credit ill give her for not being a complete stooge like a good portion of the world expected, is in a much tighter predicament. I want her to go toe to toe. She has showed she isnt a puppet. But i dont think she can afford to hold out as long as necessary. Politically or economically.
Surely short term stock acquisitions are not really what is happening right now, right?
This (relatively) small fry market manipulation is 100% elons M.O. it's how hes done business when not fleecing the fed for cash. Its why he was forced to buy twitter for fucks sake. but they arent really taking the short term discount acquisitions over the long term, are they?
If they are... Its... just so stupid.
If it is something else, let me know.
I dont see any more straw man arguments in my arguement than you have in yours.
When there is evidence for why the kid wasnt vaccinated, i will amend my public opinion.
Until the reporters or an agency can say definately that the kid died because the family was antivax, i will withold my judgement. Until then, they are a sad statistic in an embarrasing resurgence of a shitty disease.
Odds are very good that you're right, and im appalled that this is happening. but im not condemning them until i have actual evidence. And there is nothing wrong with withholding that judgement.
And that is my point.
Inference in this case is only reinforcing your preconceptions and bias. There is no hard evidence in this article.
Wait.
Hold up...
i get what you are saying.
We dont like "the others"
They are "the enemy"
"They arent like us."
"They should burn for their beliefs and what they do to the rest of us. "
"They hurt our communities."
"They sicken our people."
Your inference is reductive and crass. It is the excuse of homophobes and racists and facists across the god damn world.
But you didnt realize that at all, did you?
You are so caught up in being right and villifying a community with no actual evidence, that you forgot that there are sick and dying children.
It also doesnt say that the kid was the child of anti vax minnonites. It doesnt say that they were poor, or the closest hospital was 45 miles away and they had no car. It doesnt say they were a recent immigrant. That seams like easy ammunition for the right. Would be an easy way to demonize people if it were.
It doesnt say any of that.
It could have been. But you dont know. And neither do i.
Once again. If this is what we know... what on earth is happening that we dont know about?
The thing about incompetence is that, if one fuck up was this bad because the right person found out. How many times has it been brushed aside by someone without the means?
Its always going to be worse than you could ever dream of. We are still so early into 4 years its terrifying.
As a side point. This is also proof that the moon landing is real and the earth is round. But functioning brains already knew that...