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  • I won't hold my breath, but if this gets the Turks to stop bombing Northeast Syria, the ability of the new Syrian state to project power may get the region enough de facto autonomy that full independence isn't strictly necessary in the short to medium term.

  • Ehh, they're laying off the entire administrative side of the government. Should make it relatively easy to set up parallel power structures. What are they gonna do, send the cops they didn't pay this month to arrest you and your collaborators?

  • Probably a handful. But 35% of a congressional district is (in the lowest population district, which this one isn't) is 190,780 people. You can easily get a small town community center full of people who voted against him and didn't ask for any of this.

  • I'm all for sticking it to the chuddy guys who call themselves 'alpha' and behave accordingly. But there's a bit more to it than "alpha wolves doesn't real".

    The scientists who observed the 'alpha wolf' behavior were seeing something: wolves in captivity. Which is something that has an analogous human experience in prison.

    But since there are an awful lot of these 'alpha guys' who have (somehow) never caught a charge, much less spent a stint in prison, maybe it says something about how, maybe, they feel imprisoned on the outside. Like maybe their school, work, home, or social life feels penned in in a way that is not healthy.

  • She also asked that people do things that she specially could not do due to having no authority to enact policy, whereas Musk is interacting directly with levers of power (whether he has any legitimate/legal authority to do so).