It's almost like we have this whole written history to learn from and the people unable or uninterested in learning keep doing the same shit because they didn't know it was tried before.
It's actually kind of mind boggling. Lenin knew this was a thing and took all sorts of steps to correct it, but his mistake was demanding it to improve by force. "We're making your lives better now, or else."
I mean, shit, a big ass group of armed dudes on horses show up in my cold ass disconnected village and they say we need to do x, y, and z to improve our lives or else? Yeah that's sus.
I'm worried these means of carving up the government are going to get the Democrats to capitulate. They will blame Democrats for everything that gets carved anyway, that was always the plan.
The regime needed to be starved of funds earlier this year. Second best time is now. If the supreme court allows the executive to allocate tarrifs as they want, then the branch still gets some means of funding - probably military and ICE.
There is a flaw with their plan. Yes, we will all suffer greatly, but ever increasing tarrifs on imported goods will result in a decrease on imported goods regardless if they are made in America or not. This means that while they might have a good source of funds secured temporarily, the revenue generated is still bound by math. n * ( price of good * tarrif - price of good) = total revenue. As n approaches 0, revenue approaches 0, regardless if tarrifs grow infinitely.
At some point, even the wealthiest Americans won't be able to afford the imported good. If nothing is imported, no money is generated, and the executive has nothing to allocate.
They're definitely aware of this. Hence why they are doing everything they can do to guarantee a 2026 midterm gives them complete control of the house and Senate. They need regular funds back before they can no longer pay ICE and military. That's coming here very soon.
Pam Bondi said 75% of Americans were saved. I laughed, that's 268,500,000 people, then it hit me. I've heard a number of the population that the Heritage Foundation believes is a "good number of Americans."
It was 100,000,000. Current population is 358,000,000. 89,500,000 is way too fucking close to 100,000,000 for it to be a coincidence. Then they started shutting life saving things down rapidly. They mentioned new census.
In another interview or maybe it was writing and I wish I could find it right now, "obviously executions would be a problem for the state, and would meet heavy resistance. Famine and disease happen all the time."
The disease one is obvious. But famine is much more nuanced. Tarrifs. Cutting farmers off from their ability to fund their farms. Cutting the food programs. Inflation in eggs. Think of how vital a source of nutrition eggs are.
This regime wants to make the excess death count higher than Hitler, Stalin, and Mao combined.
It's also why we need to avoid violence and make the regime stumble into itself.
Which is why Chinese and Russia propaganda is attempting to stoke the fire (remember, they eliminated their opposition, so they don't have the same experience inciting violence and they think they do).
They can't let him get to prison, and if they do, they have to make sure his cellmate plays along, or they arrange rewards for the group that takes him down.
If anyone in wherever he gets housed picks up what he did, he could end up leading the greatest prison revolt of all time.
Charasmatic intellectuals with an inherent distaste for authority are the most dangerous people for authoritarians.
IDK he might be a little aware. His constant "deer-in-the-headlights" stare might be that awareness just beginning to form and it generates something remotely similar to fear.
Actually that's a really good post. I didn't know that salt without potassium would make you sick, as the products I used always had an amount of potassium in them.
And listening to our bodies shouldn't be that hard, but here we are lol
I was in a miserable puddle of sensory overload. 15 years after the test I started learning that yeah I'm probably ASD, and there's a strange correlation with ASD and POTS. Neuron magic.
The sweat test was awful. You basically wear your underwear, lie down in what amounts to a glass oven, then they spread sand all over your and you sit still for an hour and bake. Then they take a picture at the end.
And purple means sweat, yellow means no sweat. It shows what sweat glands activated by the autonomic nervous system. Then you have to shower it off and it takes forever.
They were very professional about it though, it was a nurse, a doc, and technician. I guess they were doing multiple tests at the same time, but I never saw other people doing it. Which was a relief I didn't really want to see other purple people
It does help me keep volume, definitely. I found ones called "vitassium". They have 500mg of sodium, 100mg of potassium per pill. That seems to work ok with 3L, so it should help reduce your intake.
It's kind of weird to think about though. All my life I had to listen to my family having too high blood pressure so I got used to not eating salt.
Kirk was outside of the shooter's in group. In Fascism those in the out group need to shut up and get out of the way. It doesn't matter to the shooter that Kirk was an ultraconservative bigoted lunatic, he wasn't conservative enough. Since he was still talking and not getting out of the way, the Fascist believes he has an obligation to fix that problem.
And what's stranger, is that there is no doubt in my mind that Kirk thought the same thing about Fuenes. But they would both agree that if I had any public speaking ability (or any speaking ability for that matter) I would definitely be more important to sanitize first.
Fascists are elementary school boys left without supervision. That's all they really are.
It's almost like we have this whole written history to learn from and the people unable or uninterested in learning keep doing the same shit because they didn't know it was tried before.