What a difference a Supreme Court can make, eh?
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What a difference a Supreme Court can make, eh?
Harder than it looks apparently.
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No amount of money/capital alone can generate emotional stability. We see this every time an oligarchy forms, no?
Again, even if the usual suspects hate what's happening, they hate Black people more.
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They want their eugenics SO bad, but not enough to massively increase socioeconomic opportunities. Same old self destructive tendencies as always.
"Defiance" is weird phrasing, but whatever.
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I heard Dem candidate for GA Governor Derrick Jackson proposing a State lvl PRO Act at a recent Q&A
Like, forever?
These people don't actually care about crime stats, that's just an excuse they use to exhibit control over masses they consider unruly.
People actually want this fam, just not for it to happen to them personally. Simple as that.
Since the beginning.
So much more of the US population is pro-authoritarianism than is assumed to be. Hopefully we can organize enough anti-oligarchy energy to overcome that, but our desire to control strangers at the expense of even our personal liberties is dangerously high.
This dude needs to be handled in the streets.
Let's give up all our freedoms and futures for the sake of crime statistics. Typical from the same people who have always welcomed the erosion of civil liberties for the "commoners". This is why it's a class war; these people don't care about most of humanity.
You know what would also reduce crime? Putting a gun to everyone's head at every hour of the day; that's the logic of this interviewer.
Nowhere in this questioning is information on how LOCAL PEOPLE FEEL ABOUT OVER POLICING AND MASKED AGENTS ABDUCTING PEOPLE. As it always has been, the usual suspects are obsessed with "crime" numbers in places they don't even live in, no matter how destructive it is to communities.
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I really want to see the newest interpretation of the Project Cadmus argument. JLU did an excellent job.
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That's the issue. The Southeast has all the best unhealthy food.
You are DISRESPECTFUL!!! I do hope you eventually get to experience good pie though. Are you in the South?
Yup, evil is everywhere. But so is compassion.
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I feel that. I wish I could move us all out the country. We're doing a lot of organizing down here in the meantime. If electoral democracy still exists in a reasonable sense by next year, I fully expect GA to at least get a Dem Governor.
That's demonstrably false, as I am involved with many people and orgs that are doing both. There is goodness on Earth, obviously
Or both could be happening simultaneously?
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You bout to get primaried into oblivion. The only memory people will have of you, if there is any at all, is of utter failure and disappointment. Congratulations!
THEY. DON'T. HAVE. PRINCIPLES. They follow whoever hurts their enemies the most and logic backwards from that.
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I'm asking for everyone to join in prayer....
Gotta give Repub Congress some time to make it a new law, or the Supreme Court time to rule Trump is God.
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Unless...
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Oh, I see. Totally fair. I'm very much a "death of the author" kind of person, so I'm always placing art into a broader context outside the author's intent. Authors are also humans within a social medium, so I'm sure their stories are influenced by metanarratives unintentionally.
"Conservatives" are not the only other community that exists. They are over-indexed within all Western governments, media, leadership, etc. Their comfort has already been prioritized in most spaces of socioeconomic influence, and that cannot grow ad infinitum. They've had an entire epoch.
Like, they take and indoctrinate children away from their native spaces rather than trying to understand those native spaces more and assist them long-term. The Jedi have always done this throughout the whole series, for example.
That's fair, but that's still based on my interpretation of the Jedi Order's behavior holistically. I agree they are labeled and written as "the good" in the series, but that's not what I see portrayed by them (which is why I find the Acolyte to be accurate). Does that make sense?
Are people unfamiliar with the Second Amendment, or...?
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Instead, the characters simply retreated into the same binaries they were in at the beginning of the film, despite the huge critical analysis the film takes us through. This Jedi vs Sith, light vs darkness, obvious good vs obvious evil binary is one of the weaknesses of the Star Wars films.
Kylo Ren, for reasons I still do not understand, kills his master and then simply continues the same mission as his master at the end of the film. What would have truly represented evolution would have been for him and Rey to unite and dismantle The New Order after destroying its leadership.
The film seems to wrap itself up by doing an oversimplification of making Rey (and by the extension the Jedi Order) obviously good simply because she is in opposition to what Kylo Ren is doing.
I really appreciate this conversation and your responses, but am not willing to type beyond this response I have (really sorry). My biggest criticism of The Last Jedi is exactly what you're referencing to. I think Luke was correct to abandon the Order, and Rey should have evolved beyond the Jedi.
Individuals cannot redeem a system, only reform can. And the Jedi Order was destroyed rather than reformed.
You are referring to individuals within the Jedi Order and a written code. I'm referring to a systemic critique, which Luke made, and the purpose the Order holistically served (as displayed in The Acolyte and the prequels).
Take a gun into that studio then, no?
She's trying to provoke us, and I hope it works to her ultimate detriment. She's an anti-human
This would serve not only to finally display a rhetorical escalation against the administration and its allies, but would also trap Republicans into having to push back on the Second Amendment (their supposed favorite). Boldness is necessary against shamelessness.
At this point, Dem electeds who understand what we're facing should start reciting the Second Amendment during all their media appearances and press conferences.
Trump and his people chose to attack her, after failing with Powell, for a reason.
Many of us thoroughly enjoy the app but don't have his megaphone to project how we feel, and we don't necessarily assume how most others feel about the app just from our interactions. We should all be weary of over-indexing our perspectives, and it seems many struggle with this.
I understand. I'm just saying that he maybe could just be more humble and not constantly make grand statements about the overall condition of the Bluesky user experience with his massive profile based solely on his experience.
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This is one of the problematic characteristics of online billionaires I think. They believe themselves to be very self-important because of their monetary value and perceived success, and therefore over-index their perspective on too many things. Maybe Cuban just needs some humility?
Maybe Mark Cuban specifically just isn't as likable to most people as he believes himself to be? Are many others besides him complaining about conversation degradation here? Like, isn't this where scientists are flocking, for instance?
I doubt we'll get any more after all the bigoted pushback from the usual suspects.
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Yup, they were largely a police force for the Republic, but with a literal religious doctrine. Dangerous stuff.
It's such a shame The Acolyte got cancelled, because it was also delving into this critique of the Jedi Order.
See how Mace Windu didn't trust Anakin and was ready to end Palpatine immediately (and would have if he had not been betrayed), while the rest of the Jedi were all confused and unsure of how to respond π
REALLY makes you question the Jedi, the more you think about it. It's why The Last Jedi is my favorite.
Some people don't value souls.
OOOOOOHHHHH, is he waking up!? Is he finally understanding the risk to all of us, including his family, matters more than Trump's balls?
He's indeed a reality TV star.
Their hatred is a derangement. They sacrifice their children to it. Nothing is too low.
They want her to blatantly assist in the project SO bad. She literally was all over the Harris campaign.
That's hopeful. Would love some certainty π
But what about if the Supreme Court rules the Voting Rights Act is unconstitutional (this is definitely coming in the next Supreme Court term)? If Red states eradicate massive amounts of mandated minority districts, will a Dem House majority be plausible (assuming voters don't wake the fuck up)?
For sure. She's clearly trying VERY hard to make some lemonade out of this, which isn't really worth it. She's also not Black Republican lvl of problematic though, to me, which is an unfortunate description I'm seeing as an outcome of this.
In the year of our Lord 2025, they STILL don't understand the basics!?!? It's much worse than I thought π
But I also continue to be critical of how uncurious the population is and how easily we're manipulated by sensationalism (it's why Trump is President in the first place).
I completely agree, she needs to be more aware of public perception in this age of flashy headlines that explode across social media (hopefully the backlash she's surely getting is something she'll internalize).
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Damn...
The good thing is that their god-king seems to be failing in health and is elderly.
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The stupidest people want SO badly to appear intelligent.
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It really wasn't as bad as what's being broadcast, at least to me. I watched the whole press conference.