Don't forget, she also delayed FEMA rescuers for 3 days in the Texas flood, because she decided she has to personally sign any spending over $100k... And then she didn't. For 3 days
He's a co-owner, the other guy (and CEO) is the former cop
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It's not real, so empathy is not required. Cartoons often have horrifying implications if you look too closely, because they're not trying to represent reality
If you're putting yourself in the place of the mother pig, you're zoomed in to far. The absurdism is in the situation
Think of it this way, if the reason for the child dying was making some parallel to something real, like splitting the family due to deportation... That's something grounded in reality, it would be horrible
But there is no situation where doctors turn children into meat as a service. The premise is absurd. There's no danger a real person would ever go through this, this is pure fancy
The mother's reaction isn't to laugh at her pain, it's to let us sit with the moment and let the joke land
Well, not anymore. Now we don't have coordinated rescues... Even in Texas, the Fed took 3 days to provide support, because it all has to be signed by Christi Nome and apparently she was busy
So... Maybe do show up? Who knows at this point. But ideally, with an RV or camping equipment, because where are the victims and professionals going to stay
In major cities, sure. Even smaller ones will have Indian places. But they're proportional to the amount of Indians in an area
Because there's a big difference... Everyone can go to a Chinese restaurant and confidently order. Everyone knows what sushi is, even if some people don't eat it. Thai foods are less known, but the menus are very Americanized, so you go once and you get the idea
I know the good Indian restaurant back home, but I only know the dishes by color. Lots of naan and wet dishes... They were good, but I couldn't tell you what they were. And if the sign says Indian food, I don't know what they serve. So I've only been to the one place
Vindaloo and curry? That is everywhere, but I've never had an Indian version of it. The British spread vindaloo and curry spread itself
I think Chinese food spread was more organic, they helped each other immigrate, shared recipes, and acted almost like a franchise in how new restaurants were chosen in unserved areas and given a general playbook
And then the Thai government did it more formally, Korean culinary movement copied the success (or maybe the other way around)
But that's a response to "they took our jorbs!". It's a reframing for immigrants targeted at the reactionaries. But it is the reality - immigrants, particularly undocumented or agricultural visa recipients, are the bedrock of our society
It's terrible that they are in such unethical conditions. It's terrible that they have a carve out for child labor for seasonal farm workers. The entire power dynamic is akin to indentured servitude at best
But what we have to do is give them legal status and protections first.
They are not working the worst jobs because that's what we tell them they can be, they're working the worst jobs because they're extra exploitable
Oh I totally agree with that... Just that these kinds of morbid people are drawn to death already. And only a fraction of them could deal with causing the death directly, especially en masse
But they're outliers, they don't make up the rank and file of Nazis or ICE. There's no amount of ideology that makes a person like this... They're basically high functioning serial killers, people who both want to watch (or participate in) people being tortured to death, but also have the executive function to do it in quasi legal ways
I mean yeah, radicalization is real, violence is real
But there's a world of difference between violence and suffering. They're full of hatred. They get off on the violence.
There's not many people who can look at someone starving and feel nothing. There's not many people who could start rescuing someone, then go "oh sorry, you're black so I'm not going to finish digging you out"
I'm not even appealing to their better nature, I'm saying it's genuinely traumatic. People get PTSD even from rescuing people in a flood.
I just don't think most of these fucks have the stomach to see their ideals play out in front of them
They're having trouble recruiting brownshirts. Sure, there's a wave of them who joined eagerly... Initially. But once all the wannabe cop rejects signed up, it's gotten a lot harder to convince people. They cover their faces for a reason... We all know there will be consequences on some level
We will see a lot of attrition as this goes on and they're tasked with progressively more horrible things. It takes training to dehumanize a group, and even then everyone has some degree of cruelty they can inflict (directly) before breaking
I'm sure they're going to try... But if they're coming in with supplies, they've got to give them out. If they've got chainsaws, they've got to clear debris
You can't just larp around a disaster area, not only is it hard to do as a human, survivors are not going to take kindly to it to say the least
Maybe they're just going to go camping nearby and take some pictures. But if they do try to actually help, they're find to see things that tend to bring out the humanity in people
Yeah... But I say let them try. Let them try to brush over people they can help, to their face
It's not so easy to look them in the eyes. The suicide rate among concentration camp guards, and even the SS (who were picked for fanaticism), was insane
If they actually go and try to help, a lot of them are going to realize something. It's easy to be a fascist in the abstract, it's not so easy to confront the logical conclusions of fascism directly
Well it's because FEMA, the national guard, and the army core of engineers would descend on the area like ants, and they would tell people "don't help, you'll get in the way, donate supplies over there if you like and go home - we need the local hotel rooms"
But when you cut disaster relief... There's literally just parents out there searching for their children, they're not turning anyone away
You can talk to an llm at any moment of any day. They will engage with you endlessly. They're becoming the front end for search, and at some point might become the primary interface for your device
It's a huge problem if they manage to make it a propoganda tool, and that's the goal here
Don't forget, she also delayed FEMA rescuers for 3 days in the Texas flood, because she decided she has to personally sign any spending over $100k... And then she didn't. For 3 days