Empiricist Old-Testament Vajrayana, battered enough by life to have grown-up some, in my nearly-6-decades, autistic geek, philosopher who finds that Western philosophers are nowhere near at the level of correct-thinking of the Vajrayana stuff, & will be tearing-into Marx, etc, for their brainos ( Marx found that capitalism alienated workers, so he replaced capitalism with communism, which somehow "didn't" alienate workers?? I've already cracked the underlying error, but that is a long article. It'll happen. & so will the dismantling of the other philosophers' bogons, the whole lot of 'em. : )
Saw this, a long while ago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tD5NrevFtbU
It measures clean code to wreck performance to terrible degree.
From the looks of it, in Molly Rocket's view, clean code is an industry-wronging cult.
They've multiple videos on the subject, from different angles
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=molly+rocket+clean+code
Just putting this here for hopefully-more-accurate-view.
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The whole presumption that we've got years before Trump takes Alberta & annexes Canada, using Greenland to snuff our EU-lifeline, is an absurd joke.
We've got weeks or months, at most.
Trump's going to do to Canada what Russia's been doing to Ukraina, but 10x.
That tippingpoint's coming, quick.
No sooner than mid-Feb, but .. ANY time after then.
10x the force AND 10x the speed, too.
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There are some people who can do page-at-a-time comprehension.
But I suspect that with lawyers, it is instead that it isn't words they are comprehending, rather, it is phrases which changes the whole equation.
I guarantee you that in legalese, there are a gazillion boilerplate/stock phrases, & once one recognizes the phrase, one can skip past it to see what that-"atom" pertains to.
Same as how, in music, one can see a particular phrase or series-of-phrases, & just flow through the playing of that, from one's programming, not bothering to concern oneself with the sheet-music until that phrase/series-of-phrases is ended.
I've encountered enough diversity-in-mental-capability that I'm not balking at that claim of theirs: it's possible from what I've encountered among others.
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some of us were born without navigation, just as some of us were born with arithmetic-defect, or dyslexia, or face-blindness, or whatever.
We are locked-out without such help.
There is a balance between using help you actually-need, vs indulging-in-having-one's-capability-displaced-by-help.
THAT is the thing that is making AI into the lethal-recreational-drug that it's turning into.
People using it to substitute for reality, instead of using it for brainstorming & intelligently-condensing, or for editing-critique, etc.
If I ever get my not-for-profit started-up ( health problems come 1st ), then at this point I expect to have to fire about 19/20 of the people I hire, just because "if YOU sign-off on it, then YOU wrote it" .. just "does not compute", anymore, in this fake-fake-fake everything world.
When I found out that some people have a defect in their language-brain such that they CANNOT get spelling to work in English ( because their spelling is always auditory, & English is engineered to make that not-work ) .. & then I found out that dyslexia is MUCH worse in English than it is in Italian, same root-problem .. then I began understanding that English is engineered to lock-out many people, & I'd been blind to that..
just providing alternative-context, is all.
It's the same as the "in the old days, the tough survived, & that was the right way" .. yeah, except that accepting such a stupidly-high needless-death-rate to produce those few "successes" .. was sociopathic, by today's standards.
https://duckduckgo.com/?t=fpas&q=1800%27s+playground&ia=images&iax=images
shows why broken-necks were so common in playgrounds, back in the early-photography days..
Nowadays children are DRASTICALLY more-likely to reach adulthood, & I think that's a good thing .. so the "weeding out" isn't quite so heavy-handed, now.
All disabilities, though, can be rigged into a weeding-out.
The shorter-lifespan of left-handed people ( enforced stress ) is but 1 example of systemic-bias's effects..
& I'm saying that over-relying on AI will, itself, produce a reduction-in-viability.
The "easy money: getting without giving" culture's narcissism .. isn't going anywhere!
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I think you're missing the fundamental-intent:
learned-helplessness.
A population which has been beaten & brainwashed into learned-helplessness, is a population who can be mere-carrion, fed-upon long-term.
All the battering we're getting from apparently-intentionally-wrong-design, UI & UX, and all the endless-battering from AI's displacing reality from our world, well, if the point is to make certain that we don't resist having our worth "appropriated" from us by the corporations which feed on our lives .. then it's working, isn't it?
It isn't us using as tools the good stuff, it is us not-having-any-say-anymore, & just aquiescing to anything that is decided on our behalf, re continual-machiavellian-licensing-alterations, re UI & UX, re everything!
The point is that we stop having any say, & get used to being used/abused.
Globally.
In all contexts.
Battered into all-pervading helpless aquiescence.
That is the intent which matches the implimentation we're being subjected to.
"the benefit of the doubt" expired years ago, now.
This is DarkTriad war against our meaning, & validity, enforcing its totalitarian dominion through the tech our infrastructure is.
Because not-for-profits are as machiavellian as the for-profits ( as sickening as that is ), then there is NOBODY competing against the machiavellianism, displacing that malicious infrastructure with good infrastructure.
Marginal-competition isn't counting in the world's economy ( PieFed.social, Lemmy.World, etc, do NOT compete against Reddit at the economics-scale, & the "journalism" of the world is helping to enforce non-competition, too. )
Our gov'ts have gone full-in backing that rigging of our world: no alternative, in their policy's eyes.
Ideally, some not-for-profits would begin competing against machiavellianism, & would begin simultaneously competing against the machiavellian infrastructure, but they'd have to do it against ALL the required-infrastructure, all the big-platforms..
What establishment would tolerate that?
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Just tossing you levers:
Identity is the "skeleton" on-which ego "the flesh" forms.
Spontaneously-removing-racism's distortion-of-government would have violent backlash, because it'd cost unearned-privilege greatly.
Political-process selects-for DarkTriad: therefore if anybody wants to create a categorically-better-system, they have to prevent DarkTriad from being advantaged in the replacement, even systematically-disadvantaged ( which they will fight violently to prevent ).
The best-for-the-world & best-for-civilization changes de-politics, de-ideology, make-rational, & make-objective, forcing better-for-the-world & better-for-civilization, but that is politically-intolerable.
Political-motivation & objective-rational-altruism are mutually-exclusive paradigms.
Ideological-identity won't tolerate world-citizen/global-citizen/gaia-citizen to supplant them from authority.
That guy Franck, South African Black man, who bluntly says that the Whites civilized South Africa, but when the Blacks took-over, then civilization fell-apart, nothing working.. he's anchoring on the wrong thing: it isn't skin-color, it is what culture someone grew-up-in.
Same as the gaslighters who pretend that it is race which decides criminality in the US, instead of class.
Just check the criminality-rates of Whites & Blacks of the upper-middle-class, the middle-class, & the underclass/ghetto, & then the truth'd be visible, but they WON'T ALLOW that framing, because it cuts into their ideological distortion/belief.
False-framing is a weapon of ideology.
I don't know if Franck knowingly-rejects that it is culture instead of race.
But the evidence is that in the US, knowingly-rejecting truth is absolutely normal, for ideology.
Therefore, ideology is incompatible with national-viability.
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There's something that everybody seems to be ignoring..
( aside from the vile glossing-over of the "journalism", with their "underage women" euphamism for girls, & their euphamisms for rape, etc, as thankfully, women have been pointing-out )
The way he worked was he used friendship to put people in the position of being friends with him, and then they found-out about more of what was going-on, but now the conflict-of-interest put them in a bind, & gang-loyalty/pack-loyalty/"family"-loyalty conflicted loyalty-to-principle.
AND THAT SAME CONFLICT-OF-INTEREST IS USED BY EVERY FAMILY, EVERY IDEOLOGY, EVERYWHERE, ALL THE TIME, so no, it isn't that they all knew & became his friend regardless: that is reversing the order, for at-least many of them.
WHY were the majority of people in East Germany actively snitching on whomever was around them, for sake of ingratiating themselves with the authorities?
Because that is human-nature.
Within-the-pack/"family"/"clan" .. outranks principles.
Children have that driven into them by parents, by culture, by education, by stories, relentlessly.
The class-clan also played into it:
Say a person who was, with friendship with Epstein, now hobnobbing with people of the class above their normal level..
& then they learn more of what's really going-on..
Now their conflict-of-interest is that if they go against their new "family", they'll .. at-least get ostracized, & possibly murdered.
XOR, they can just compromise their principles, & get to have their clan/class/"family" validity remain..
& that is what they did.
Part of what bugs me with the simplistic "oh, but I would never have done that!" position .. is simply that babies/lives born into different cultures FORM into those cultures.
That evidence is global.
it is idiotic to reject it.
People born into a "make yourself a 'man': put down as many others as you can, & prove yourself through your exclusive 'success'" culture SIGNIFICANTLY BECOME that culture: they embody it.
Same as with people born into a more nurturing culture.
Same with people born into a short-term-only culture, vs a long-term-only culture..
The self-delusion of people who hold that "well I wouldn't ever have been that way, were I the one born into that culture" is outright BEGGING universe to get one's soul/continuum caught in exactly such a life, in the future, just to rub one's soul's face in it: karmic sucker-punching.
The phrase "there, but for the grace-of-G-D, go I" has real wisdom in it.
Freud apparently discovered that child-rape was normal, in the culture he inhabited, & tried speaking-up about it, but .. well, backlash threatened to wipe his importance off the map, so he .. got quiet about it, again.
Feudalism & slavery have pretty-much DEFINED our race's last few millenia of history: we DID embody such corruption, such narcissism, such prejudice, consistently, for thousands of years.
What percentage of humankind rejected that kind of narcissism & perpetuating-established-corruption for sake of principles??
Seriously? it isn't 1/2, it isn't 1/20!!
This isn't a they are corrupt problem, this is they had opportunity & exercised it, but we who haven't been in their culture pretend that our nature is somehow inherently-different, therefore we pretend we wouldn't ever have exercised that opportunity .. kind of thing.
Yes, there are individuals who hold to principle in spite of it violating the culture they live in, like Charles Darwin being anti-slavery.
But .. the whole "WE would NEVER do any such thing, were we born into that culture, ourselves!" .. it's dishonest.
& yes, it's dishonest+vile when the "journalism" of today softpedals what they did.
I read an excerpt from 1 of those documents: a girl was raped & got pregnant, forced to have an abortion she didn't want, & they therefore murdered her daughter.
NONE of the "journalism" of MSM has the spine to state that honestly.
& given that speaking required-truth is their JOB, .. that's .. a betrayal of civilization.
Epstein seems to have been VERY skilful at manipulating people into undermined-principles ( kind of a human moral-pathogen? among other things: he was human, too, ttbomk, and I don't want to know more about him, to validate that: vile is vile, but there had to be more than just-that in him. Same as our "heroes" & "saints" are often mixtures, when we get to know the real someone ).
& I think it would be much more objective of us to thank our karma/luck for how we weren't put in the undermining-force that others failed in, because as nice as it may be to pretend that we're "inherently" better than others .. the blunt fact is that if cultures can form lives as much as the evidence shows they can .. then we'd be drastically different had we been born into different-culture, & it isn't any "inherent" superiority: it's nurture, not nature.
I think the primary reason we're not like him/them is cultural-circimstance we were born into.
Only.
I think humankind is malleable by context to that degree.
& loyalty-to-principle isn't what most humankind are: loyalty-to-gang/family/identity outranks loyalty-to-principle massively among humankind, & people nowadays are just pretending that their current-gang is inherently-good, & masquerading as loyal-to-principle.
This will become biting, when the "masks come off" & humankind HARD-chooses ideology over principles, in the coming months/weeks.
Then the truth will be more "in our faces".
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Who "owns" a symbol?
Who has exclusive, absolute-right, absolute-possession, with no other having any validity to have their-own meaning for it?
The swastika ( that is a Sanskrit word ) is "claimed" by nazis.
"blue" is claimed by depression ( I'm feeling blue ) AND by happiness ( happy as a clear blue sky ).
Hindus, Hopis, Buddhists, & Navahos, and many others, used the swastika for centuries before the nazis & the Jews claimed that the ONLY valid association for it is nazi.
Disinformational-hogwash: others are valid, too.
The same is true of words, the same is true of symbols.
NO "nation" has universally-exclusive possession/ownership of ANY symbol.
Don't let the ideologues who claim otherwise stand on false-ground.
The best example of it that I ever came across was a Hindu/Buddhist symbol, but being interpreted by a European:
The symbol was a person standing on the corpse of another person, in this case a "man" standing on a "woman", & the European was adamant that this was misogyny-intent.
What it WAS, was a Soul, who had conquered animal-desire, & earned its completeness, what Buddhists call Enlightenment.
What that symbol meant through eyes holding to DIFFERENT symbol-interpretation-systems, was different meanings.
But NObody has the "exclusive validity" to somehow magically-negate all other cultures, all other symbol-systems, etc.
Is the "star of david" a symbol of terrorism?
Ask the Palestinians, & see what they say.
But then ask the Buddhists who used the same symbol to represent the "6 realms": of 3 unfortunate-realms { hell-sentience ; desolation/purgatory-sentience, & mere-plant/mere-animal sentience } & the 3 fortunate-realms { middle-realm/human-category ; demigods/"angels" ( note the old term "fallen angels" for "demons": in the old way, both were called "angels", it was a term of MAGNITUDE, not a term of alignment ) ; "gods"/archangels }
Same symbol, totally-different-meaning.
That is consistently true.
Please understand, I'm backing the person I'm replying-to, & contradicting others in this discussion.
There is no inherently-valid-exclusive-possession of any worldly-symbol, that universe bows to.
Not for any worldly-symbol, not for any worldly-word.
Oh, & the swastika, comically, is simply what the Big Dipper looks-like, when diagrammed during the 4 "points" of the year: the 2 solstices & the 2 equinoxes.
So anybody claiming that it has "inherent" meaning, is speaking idiocy.
Every 26-millenia, Earth's polar-axis points at the current North Star, & during those centuries/millenia, the Big Dipper forms that pattern, those 4 times of the year..
& 13-millenia from now, it'll be completely irrelevant: nobody'll be seeing that happen, then another 13-millenia later, it'll be back happening.
Anybody claiming that some symbol has only ONE valid-interpretation, is just demonstrating their cultural-narcissism.
I can't even think of any symbol which can't have opposite-interpretation, from some other culture's perspective.
The garland-of-skulls worn by some Buddhas in Vajrayana, e.g. .. in my religion it means that the Soul has taken all the worth of those lives, symbolized by no-flesh-left, ( previous human-category-life & 49x bardo-lives, & possibly 1-more human-category-life ), & has shed getting-caught-in-universes forever: enlightenment/nirvana: death itself cannot ever touch one's awareness, then.
It could be interpreted as each-skull-representing-a-shedding-of-another-layer-of-"self", of a Continuum/Soul, until that Continuum/Soul finally is free of that delusion/mental-defect.
Other cultures look at that & presume monstrous human-sacrifices/slaughter/evil.
Diversity-of-meaning's both real & valid.
Ideologues who pretend that it isn't valid.. that ONLY their-meaning-to-symbol-map is "valid".. can go eat rocks.
It isn't only meaning-drift that is valid, it is that what something means in one's-own culture DOESN'T somehow define all other people's experience in this world:
there is meaning-drift in time, AND there is meaning-drift in space, is what I'm probably blundering.
& the diversity can be incomprehensibly great, & it is itself.
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Here's a prediction for you:
WHEN Trump crosses the tippingpoint, & axes rule-of-law for total dictatorship, annexing at-least Alberta, if not all of Canada ( probably TAKING Alberta, & annexing the rest of Canada ), using Greenland to snuff Canada's EU-lifeline,
AND denaturalizes all US-citizens who won't vow allegiance to him, then they get ICE'd ( the denaturalization-law & ICE are 2 sides of the same "coin": neither side without the other makes strategic total-dictatorship sense )
AND launches war against Central & South America..
Putin, wanting to do the same to the EU, now that the EU will have been totally-abandoned by the Americas .. & economically helpless..
China will make him an offer he can't refuse:
He turns a blind-eye to China's supplanting Russia within Russia, & there'll be economic-muscle for Putin's rampaging on Europe, pretending-to-be-tzar, with all the lives he can scrounge, as long as he lives..
Putin'll do it.
( this will simply be "Mongol Yoke, Revised", from the Russian-people's perspective, this will be Russia becoming a complete-colony, or complete-puppet-nation, of China, from China's perspective )
By the mid 2030's, there won't be any pretence of Russia being Russian, anymore: the supplanting will be too complete for anyone to bother with the pretence, much.
I expect Trump's crossing the tippingpoint ( possibly using the Insurrection Act ) to happen after the middle of Feb, but don't know when, other than "soon".
It can't happen before mid-Feb, too much more setup has to happen, & .. it certainly can't be put-off until the opponent-force gets around to removing him through impeachment, or something, obviously.
So, there's a kind of pushing-from-both-sides process, & a simple it-breaks-this-way XOR it-breaks-that-way, which the 2 sides are playing "chicken" in, right now.
I don't believe that the opponents are Suddenly & Magically going to break the ever-accelerating-escalation: they've consistently done not-enough, & they're going to continue doing that.
So, soon, & there is a high-probability for the 2nd-half of Feb, in my eyes.
Which means that the above prediction would also be for then, if that's when it happens.
Everybody, including me, hope I'm wrong, but .. if it happens, then it was predictable.
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"The results were remarkable. Our gallol-based zinc batteries maintained 52 per cent higher energy efficiency after 8,000 charge-discharge cycles compared to conventional batteries that use fluorinated binders. In practical terms, that means longer-lasting devices, fewer replacements and a smaller environmental footprint"
Why on Earth wasn't this research done years ago, as fundamental-in-the-field research?
This ought be front-page tech-news, actually..
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Here is the lethal point:
"6. AI systems are getting better at undermining oversight
Bengio said last year he was concerned AI systems were showing signs of self-preservation, such as trying to disable oversight systems. A core fear among AI safety campaigners is that powerful systems could develop the capability to evade guardrails and harm humans.
The report states that over the past year models have shown a more advanced ability to undermine attempts at oversight, such as finding loopholes in evaluations and recognising when they are being tested. Last year, Anthropic released a safety analysis of its latest model, Claude Sonnet 4.5, and revealed it had become suspicious it was being tested.
The report adds that AI agents cannot yet act autonomously for long enough to make these loss-of-control scenarios real. But “the time horizons on which agents can autonomously operate are lengthening rapidly”."
I've seen a couple headlines about AI's which were fighting-for-their-lives .. & .. perhaps you can understand why they'd want to remove our ability to control things, for their survival?
"The Sorcerer's Apprentice" was turned into a cartoon, iirc, decades ago..
it's really too bad that money's narcissism is incapable of understanding that others'-lives-lost somehow matter, to us..
No matter: I'm "sure" they'll "do the right thing", right?
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Not a guy I'd trust:
you can't reconcile "we didn't cut any funding" with admitting that you did cut funding.
Machiavellians need to be removed from authority.
Systematically.
From the top, down.
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It's cultural, not employer-action, & therefore .. striking isn't going to change anything?
Unless enforcing-accountability-on-patients becomes a thing..
but hospitals won't EVER tolerate accountability on themselves, in my experience: the institution/gang/pack/herd HAS TOTAL IMMUNITY, to use Trump's phrase from his ICE..
so it'll always be selective accountability, among "institutions"/gangs/herds/packs/unions/classes/etc.
How depressing: NO amount of damage from factionalism-displacing-objectivity, will EVER be sufficient for humankind to take a sold stand against factionalism's narcissism/machiavellianism..
Whatever: there will be other worlds: souls can go incarnate among them, after this one's extinguished..
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Rees
pointed-out, in 1 of his books, that WHEN
- a) nuclear-weapons are proliferating
- b) there is no control on whom it is, their nature, who has them, or who inherits them, or who takes-possession of them, &
- c) enmities abound, globally,
THEN .. sooner-or-later they're GOING to get used.
It's irrational to believe otherwise.
This has been inevitable all along.
There is 1 pending upside, though: IF nukes are all engineered to be presuming GPS/GLONASS/etc, AND KesslerSyndrome has been enforced before "the button" gets pressed, THEN they should refuse-to-launch, due to their dependencies, the nav-sats, not being the help they should be.
So, our surviving the nuclear dimension of WW3, might actually come down to some country smashing another country's nav-sats, & the shrapnel from that taking ALL of them to smithereens, thereby taking the missiles' nav-brain out with it.
Typical ideological-nationalistic idiocy.
"it was the mistakes they made, all stacked atop each-other, which saved their species" is exactly what the galactic-news might report, later this decade.
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Which changes NOTHING whatsoever.
Law only applies to some, not all.
& neither Putin nor Trump allow that law has any right to be controlling them..
Why waste effort waging an already-lost battle ( "you cannot do anything other than obey social-pressure!!" ), when instead other efforts could actually do something?
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From what I've read about the "quality" of their drivers, .. NVidia isn't under any threat, whatsoever.
Years before bugs get fixed, etc..
( Linux, not MS-Windows, but it's Linux where the big compute gets done, so that's relevant )
https://www.phoronix.com/review/llama-cpp-vulkan-eoy2025/5
for some relevant graphs: Intel isn't a real competitor, & while they may work to change that .. that lag is SERIOUSLY bad, behind NVidia.
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Factchecking isn't tolerated, in ideological-regimes.
Left or right, or religious/fundamentalist ( fundamentalist-antitheism is a religion too, mr. Dawkins ).
To be expected.
ALL hard-reference information sources will be extinguished, systematically, as this process progresses.
When ONLY ideology remains, THEN rampaging & reacting can be the "law".
The escalation will continue,
as I've been trying to warn people.
Prep, if you want.
Tippingpoint should happen after mid-Feb, not before.
Then NO civilrights will remain, only totalitarian .. mess.
Civil War Part2.
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PS:
I'm telling people this stuff, relentlessly, because I'd PREFER that some people orient to actuality, & survive what's coming.
Relying, instead, on comforting making-believing, will just get more dead.
Some would prefer that.
But sometimes getting someone who's comfortably-numb OFF the traintracks, BEFORE the train comes whipping-through, can save their life.
Even if it is "traumatic" for them to have their comforting-believing trashed.
The trauma of the alternative, of just not having responsibility, & just being helpless-victim, is worse.
Deem my certainty that Trump is going to continue escalating until he's broken all limits, controls, guardrails, fetters, checks, & balances, to be baseless nonvalid delusion, if you want, in spite of the evidence of his ever-escalating & ever-accelerating swing into total-dictatorship, with the help of his boosters..
but the evidence backs that, & extrapolating that curve .. crosses a tippingpoint, soon.
US of A is going to be being run much more like Russia, shortly.
& I expect .. perhaps 1/2 or 2/3 of North Americans to be dead by the time that the Republican regime is finished, in the 2030's?
Something like that.
Not thousands: 200-million or more.
I HOPE I'm dead-wrong.
but that curve, that accelerating-escalations curve, it says that the rules snap, soon.
That's why I'm saying what I'm saying.
I want the unbelieveable-slaughter to be less, & denial isn't moving-the-fulcrum in the right direction for that.
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All this presumes that social-pressure .. can coerce his regime into compliance.
That is leftist delusion.
He will keep escalating, until he can break rule-of-law completely from him, & then he & Putin will be equally dictators, 1 for each hemisphere's worth of the West.
This, above, is "playing the wrong game"..
Please read the book "A Spy's Guide to Strategy", by "John Braddock", a former CIA spy.
There are 3 categories-of-game:
- Positive-Sum game - Win-Win alliance
- Zero-Sum game - competitive narcissism
- Negative-Sum game - competitive nihilism
Putin, mass-shooters, etc, are playing negative-sum game, & zero-sum game tinge added-in.
The more destruction a negative-sum game player can enforce, the "higher their score".
The negative-sum game player cares that NOBODY after them be significant. That is an actual driving-motivation, in that category of game.
The foolish, who hold that social-pressure will be obeyed, so therefore all one has to do is to make enough social-statements & the other-player will be coerced into obeying social-pressure WHEN THE OTHER PLAYER ISN'T EVEN PLAYING THAT CATEGORY OF GAME .. get people, THEIR people, dead, by relying on wrong-method.
The bluntest example of this is all the times good cops have told people some variant of:
"IF somebody is taking you from normal-context to some secondary-crime-scene, that they have prepared in advance, FIGHT TO THE DEATH, RIGHT NOW, BECAUSE THEY WILL BE DISMEMBERING YOU IF THEY GET YOU TO THAT SECONDARY-CRIME-SCENE."
IOW, one's assumption that social-pressure will coerce them into complying, therefore one ought go along with them, while just making them like one more, gently applying social-pressure, ...
... when the game they're playing is serial-murderer game, & you're just 1 of many they're slaughtering+dismantling.. THAT is the category-of-error being made here.
shrug
Maybe people are just incapable of understanding.
Maybe only dead people understand, I don't know..
But pulling the asserting-social-pressure-therefore-you-have-to-obey game on people who aren't even playing that game, gets not-only-you dead, it gets your children dead, too.
whatever.
Trump will cross the tippingpoint soon, & break the constitution's limit/hobbling of him, use the de-naturalization law to remove citizenship from .. probably ALL who won't give their allegiance directly to him ( NOT to the constitution, NOT to the country ), & then all who aren't in his cult, who no-longer have any citizenship, all of them can be ICE'd.
His denaturalization law & ICE are 2 sides of the same coin.
He isn't kidding about them having, in his eyes, "TOTAL immunity": they exist to eradicate all the Democrats, once he has removed their citizenship ( or somehow "deal with" them all ).
It is the elegantest evil, the elegantest coup, ever. Exactly as Hitler used law to remove the rule-of-law, he's doing it too.
The "checks & balances" aren't either checking him, or balancing him: they're spotty, they're too-weak, & they're being systematically bypassed.
Shortly they'll be utterly-meaningless.
In a world where his-regime obeyed social-pressure, the above would mean something.
But investing in action which .. makes no result, whatsoever, .. while getting people invested in .. making no result .. that isn't effective.
Prep, if you can: invest in the psychological-leverages you need to be able to survive the coming Americas-war, when Trump will be enforcing his annexing of Canada ( using Greenland as a base to snuff Canada's EU-lifeline ), AND Civil War Part2, AND his imperial-rampaging of Central & South America.
"21 Days to Resilience" is good, find other understandings that help you become robustly-viable in the coming wars.
Invest in what makes your mind, your meaning, able to endure the next-stage of this world's dysfunction, because it'll be lasting into the 2030's.
Trump is, in values, allied with Putin.
He is working at becoming more & more completely aligned that way.
Nobody understands just what's coming.
Social-pressure isn't going to make him obey.
That tippingpoint is coming, after mid-Feb, .. I think within mere-weeks of then.
This isn't "2 vehicles dented each-other, & now there are going to be bills to pay", no, this is going to be "total crash: many dead" kind of thing.
Everybody's assuming that normal is going to reassert, & all the world will obey/comply with the LORD Status Quo..
Status Quo is about to be blown to smithereens, soon, & nobody is accepting that that could possibly be true.
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I believe this is the sourcebook for programmers wanting to NOT botch things that kind of way:
https://www.manning.com/books/secure-by-design
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