knightly the Sneptaur @ knightly @pawb.social

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It's a distant shot and the moment of impact is obscured from view, but you can clearly see chunks of propeller blades spinning through the air while the remnants still attached to the helicopter don't appear to rotate at all.

Edit: Oh wait, it lands upside down so those are the skids. Duh.

And I cheer them for it, but a momentary expression of righteous anger against the injustice of our ruling order does not constitute a successful movement for systemic change.

The people who own this country allow us to protest peacefully because they can easily channel all that energy into a political structure designed to diffuse it and any non-peaceful protests stand out so much they can easily be brought down by the intelligence services before they get any momentum. That political structure has been falling apart since Nixon and the violence they dish out to suppress protest has escalated to the point of sending college kids to torture camps without due process on nothing but an accusation of thought crime.

Suffice it to say, I'm too cynical to have much faith in the most domesticated culture on the planet. Americans will not turn out to cause problems in unignorable numbers until the government gives in, we'll follow the course of that old poem until they come for us and there is noone left to speak up.

And they aren't, at least not in any way that matters.

The Hands Off protests are only permitted because they have no impact. They even schedule them on a Saturday so that nobody who works at the places being protested at will be inconvenienced, and they very deliberately leave the genocide in Palestine out of it because they're organized by Indivisible, which is aligned with the Democrat party.

The video on this one was so weird, like the transmission suddenly and violently locked up, snapping all the prop blades in half.

The constitutional crisis has been underway since inaguration day, but the wheels of justice grind slowly so there is some delay between getting knocked off track and the inevitable trainwreck.

I can't even tell what you're saying here or how it relates. Are you saying that militarized police in the US have intimidated people to the point that they're unwilling to rise up against an oppressive government?

Yes. They literally cracked skulls during the BLM protests. We're looking down the barrel of the worst economy in U.S. history and not even 1% of the country bothered to get out of the house on a Saturday to protest. 90% of Americans do not watch or read the news. Many were surprised that Biden wasn't on the ballot in November, and many more haven't noticed Orange Monday wiped out their 401(k)s yet.

Sadly, I've been boycotting them since 2022.

Impossible, sadly. I'm incapable of being diplomatic with folks who would see queer folks like me pushed out of polite society and can't actually represent more than a third of the country because my neurotype places zero value on social hierarchy. I'd probably end up reverse-Luigi'd within a week for trying to de-privatize healthcare or prosecuting crypto scammers as operating illegal banks or banning the production of forever chemicals.

This is entirely doable, but you may need to do some manual network configuration.

Alternatively, they could get useful resolution if they had a telescope the size of the solar system, something that's doable with interferometry.

Maybe once they recognize the union and give them everything they ask for. 'Til then they get none of my money.

Dang.

Tariffs are normal, they encourage a strong local economy that doesn't get screwed over by a dominant economy that decides to use the trade relationship against the local economy

But America was that dominant economy, right up until the tarrifs were imposed. Now it's more like we're brexiting ourselves.

There might be an issue with the latest version of Proton Experimental, try loading the latest GE-Proton from GloriousEggroll and selecting it as your compatibility option.

One hundred and thirteen times a second, nothing answers and it reaches out.

Perhaps

gentle trumpet noises

"I knew it, when do I get to start hormone therapy?"

True, and indicative.

The mythical golden age of the past is a core component of fascist ideology.

If the rising tide doesn't lift all boats then it can't be said to be a golden age, merely a gilded one.