Human Pet Guy, you cannot distinguish kink fantasy from real-life political positions. You are in no position to be claiming anyone is irrational, ignorant, or "indoctrinated".
I always keep this one on hand. It's a TED talk by a venture capitalist who was born in China, went to collage in the United States. He gives a brief overview on how China's governance is structured, and does some light compare/contrasting between it and liberal democracies. I'd suggest it more for someone who's resistant to even considering China a democracy.
Really funny that it has to be couched in personal belief like this. What a strange fellow, he thinks being tired impacts performance! As opposed to. You know. A think anyone who's been tired should intuitively understand.
Seen it described as the world's largest "lossy compression" program. A fan fic author was able to get one of the chatbots to spit out a piece they wrote almost twenty years ago, word for word, by feeding in the first paragraph.
So since there's doubtless millions of versions of this exact conversation playing out for real between couples and tinder matches, this is what the program selects as the most likely response. It's actually really easy to get negative responses out of it, you just have to feed it the beginning of a negative interaction that already exists online.
Nah, Minnesota doesn't have anything to do with it. (er, that i'm aware of...)
The river's mostly fed by snowmelt from Rocky Mountains in Colorado. Major source of water for Navada, Southern California, and Arizona. Water output has been in decline for a few decades and if trends continue (see "Climate Change"), water usage is gonna become a major point of contention between all involved parties.
But the Civil Rights Act did eventually pass - the rage never quite boiled over because it got channeled into realizing something. Even if it was kinda the bare minimum and did nothing to address all the violent state repression that precipitated it, there was at least a clear legal victory that let people feel some relief.
Where is that relief for this? All I see is the pressure getting ratcheted up for a few years, the circle of people who don't feel precarity constricts faster. And when the Dems eventually take office, they'll put the funding back in place^[though, what this does to Minnesota's agriculture in the meantime...]. Pretend like ICE is different now. The usual song and dance. Pressure will get notched down, but nothing is done to fully abate it -- let alone deal with the stress fractures.
Yes, this isn't The Thing that kicks off a big decisive Event in the history books. But its also hard not to see it as a threshold of some sort. There is almost certainly not going to be a direct, legal challenge to federal power... but maybe we see a scattered, piecemeal decoupling. Some states start to develop a trajectory that, in time, becomes increasingly unrelated to that of the overall federal government. Not out of a conscious choice, but simply by necessity and circumstance.
You're absolutely right, the nature of this forum doesn't help. Though I will quickly beat the Organizing Happens Offline drum again.
And I agree that we're squarely outside of neoliberalism's ability to metabolize change into more of the same. But among the frustrating parts of being in the US, we are absolutely gonna talk as though we're still in that era. Each new event is going to be met with, "can't wait till the Trump aberration is over!"; internationally, "Why must [The Other] insist on threatening international rules and norms?!"; and the ultimate catch all, "Why can't [currentYear] just end already?"
That's a pretty good point.
...if you don't mind me asking, what brought you to a four month old post?