On the brighter side, though: The Onion Says It Has Bought Infowars, Alex Jones’s Site, Out of Bankruptcy https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/14/business/media/alex-jones-infowars-the-onion.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Z04.Wiwi.UMUgUSO1vzUW&smid=url-share
And: Jury awards Abu Ghraib detainees $42 million, holds contractor responsible https://apnews.com/article/abu-ghraib-civil-trial-iraq-virginia-3a2841ec2892fb111b4e26a70e761208 A friend of mine is abject. I try to console her and fail, almost surely because I'm a middle class white man. Her retort always comes back to the idea that no matter what the stupid "arc of the moral universe" will eventually do, in the meantime many people (some of whom are her personal friends) will suffer and die needlessly. I regard this as yet another adverse effect of individualism. Yes, individual Americans will suffer more under a[nother] Trump admin. But look around, suffering is not the exception. It's the rule. The suffering of an individual organism is not merely some hallucinatory side effect. It's the mechanism of action, despite what the gaslighting Pinker-esque Utopians say or write in their hopium-ridden books and press releases. If an individual is *not* suffering (or is delusionally ignoring it), they're part of the problem. So despite the brighter side above, I'll leave us with this one: At Seattle’s Boeing Field, Real-Time Video Offers a Rare Glimpse of America’s Troubled Deportation Flights https://www.propublica.org/article/seattle-boeing-field-ice-deportation-flights On 11/14/24 04:16, Santafe wrote:
This article (apologies for paywall; I don’t know how to send an open version) https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/13/opinion/matt-gaetz-attorney-general-trump.html is another example of missing the point, I think. It’s all about messaging, and the campaign of demoralization. The puzzle that the trumper inside-group spends their time on is “What is the loudest way we can say I wipe my ass with your `rule of law’?” So it is important to pick the lowest, both in terms of depravity and incompetence, to put as lords over the best, to prove that they can’t get out from under it. I don’t think I “feel” anything about this, except that it is very important and I would like to understand the response to it. At the end, only effectiveness gets you back under a living circumstance you consider acceptable. Eric
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