More like a dog klaxon.

The perspective I subscribe to is that access and abundance has outpaced the average persons ability to choose. By which I mean, their talent at choosing. An overall inability to make quality decisions. I would say the issue really grew some teeth in maybe the 50’s and has been accelerating more or less exponentially. The art of exploiting this inability to choose first starts getting real traction in the evolution advertising. Getting people to buy cans of beans and cigarettes was the larval form of a much more sinister science of mass manipulation. The internet definitely threw gasoline on the fire. And now no one knows what is quality, or true, or nutritious, or sustainable, or important. The average person is completely overwhelmed and operating on a low-level fight-or-flight type reasoning. Unfortunately I don’t think there is a short term solution. People need to start learning at a very young age explicitly how to not be a mark. Which is antithetical to the wealthy and politically connected people whose bread and butter is hoards of unscrupulous consumers of products and rhetoric.

Obama, of course.

He himself is a walking talking terrible consequence.

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.

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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.

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Looks like that was changed just a few hours ago.

But yes. I watched Leon and was absolutely blown away by how blatantly pedophilic it was. Like, truly disturbing, completely inappropriate. I don’t know how Besson has escaped unscathed by the court of public opinion. Portman was sixteen in that movie and he had her singing happy birthday in her underwear, imitating Marilyn Monroe. Leon sits in bed with her and she caresses her exposed midriff while talking about how she loves him and how it feels warm in her stomach or some shit. Sixteen, man. There was an entire movie production crew there and no one fucking thought this was abusive to compell a child to do? I enjoyed Fifth Element just like everyone else, but knowing now what I know about Luc and his fucked up history, that shit’s cancelled, man. And all the actors in that movie are on serious waiver.

“Besson’s second wife was actress and director Maïwenn Le Besco, whom he started dating when he was 32 and she was 15 after having met 3 years earlier. They married in late 1992 when Le Besco, 16, was pregnant with their daughter Shanna, who was born on 3 January 1993. Le Besco later claimed that their relationship inspired Besson’s film Léon (1994), where the plot involved the emotional relationship between an adult man and a 12-year-old girl (played by then 12-year-old Natalie Portman).”

“An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.”

― Nicholas Butler

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.

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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.

The computer may not be shitty, but the government that consistently keeps computers teetering off the edges of desks, perched precariously over buckets of water sure is. These types of “unprecedented” individual events are actually part of a blaring collection of events, which when viewed together comprise a blinking neon trend. To be fair though, the cause of this trend has only very recently been identified in 1896, so politicians haven’t had adequate time to prepare.

The world will guaranteed suffer. Not needlessly though, it is quite by design for the benefit of billionaires and their politician henchmen. While the rest of us grovel and die, and supplicate and debase ourselves for table scraps, they’ll be dynamiting the planet into their image.