by achrilock
It’s just cosmopolitan privileged brain rot, same as ever. As bad as rural backward brain rot but worse because these should supposedly know better. Israelis get to murder 40,000 people, without consequences or even official recrimination, because they are the in-group deserving of privilege. They get your tax money and they get to control your elections and your whole security apparatus because they are the in-group deserving of privilege.
Democrats get to do the same things Trump did because they are the in-group deserving of privilege. Urban wealthy elites get to drive even the BS dem fantasy agenda because they are the in-group deserving of privilege. Blue MAGA morons with stupid star trek memes and Red MAGA stochastic crypto throwbacks get left alone and anyone paying attention gets silenced or marginalized, because the in-groups deserve privilege.
Morality, politics, race, gender, none of that even matters. It’s the pretty, likeable, go-along-to-get-along-at-any-price corrupt cabals versus the disposables. It’s a transactional, tribal arrangement, with tribes holding representation within power structures or among gatekeepers coming out ahead of people basing their actions on objective observation and morality not derived from authority.
Colonialism of minds and thus control of practical outcomes. It’s not about taking and holding territory, anymore. It’s about taking and holding minds, particularly young ones, in a struggle to preserve disproportionate comfort for dying people in a dying global system.
So, it’s the same as it ever was, but it’s devolving as a viable social system because it’s happening very quickly, thanks to our instant communication capabilities (we don’t even have the evening delay we’d all get in a high school). But what it will lead to is a repeat of 2016. Maybe not tomorrow. Maybe not next cycle. But everyone is making the same mistakes, being the same small kinds of people. Nothing’s changed. 1968 ass lol.
| https://theintercept.com/2024/08/20/dnc-protesters-hospitalized-police-violence-chicago/ | More Than 70 DNC Protesters Arrested, Including Several Journalists |
“Chicago police carried out mass arrests at a pro-Palestine march outside the Israeli Consulate during the second day of the Democratic National Convention, taking 72 people into custody on Tuesday evening, including several journalists, according to legal observers.”
| https://theintercept.com/2024/08/20/dnc-democrats-gaza-genocide-silence/ | Democratic Party Unites Under Banner of Silence on Gaza Genocide |
[…] “Since Harris accepted the presidential nomination, the administration approved a $20 billion weapons sale to Israel, without any conditions. If this is “working tirelessly” for an end to the fighting, Harris is bad at her job.”
Yesterday’s multiplayer vid. First match was a wash out. The second match on this reel, however, is absolutely epic. Clever plays all around. Games like that one are why I play RTS, so thanks, guys! And finally got my first multiplayer win in Sins2 ^^
Pontypool is absolutely the best zombie movie I’ve ever seen. And I’ve seen a lot of zombie movies.
| https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/17/campus-protest-rules |
‘A police state’: US universities impose rules to avoid repeat of Gaza protests |
“Universities across the US are planning tougher rules to restrict protests when students return from summer vacation, an effort to avoid the chaos of last semester when demonstrations against Israel’s war in Gaza led to police crackdowns on campuses nationwide.”