Comments by "18rabbit" (@18_rabbit) on "The Bulwark"
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middle aged male yank myself and i'm quite concerned, even severely. However i knew something was turning dark around '14ish, could feel it deeply. Then '16 happened and it was plainly obvious. But many of us liberals and centrists won't tolerate much more Trumpism generally and any intentional dismantling of what is already a quite lean federal system that made life relatively quality vs the distant past. We will resist like our futures depend on it, for obvious reasons. These ppl in the new WH are neo-reactionaries and some are clearly incompetent, which means the intention of DJT is kakistrocracy, ie rule by the least qualified, bcuz the goal is simply throw chaos and sand into the gears. It's an actual potential natsec. crisis therefore, and our highest military officials better have done good research on that factor, bcuz this is how rolling coups do work in an open society like ours. We are individualists who will not tolerate what DJT is attemping, and if necessary we will shut the economy down entirely, thru mass ongoing NV civil disobedience, the only tool that changed anything in the 20th century!
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UTTERLY AGREE with u! Imho it's actually far more enboldening than DJT's 'stand by stand down' stmt, bcuz DJT was responding to a situation and is buffoon-like and not intelligent as even modest intelligent ppl probably realize, but Elon is intelligent and wasn't responding, ie forced to do the salute, he did it on his own in a very interesting way actually, with much more gusto and elegance actually than most 3rd Reich folks often did. The swooping to the side style he used is one of the classic dramatic variations that Hitler himself and his very top brass used, i've seen it many times on recordings. More importantly, to us americans of middle age at least, nazi sentiments are plainly deeply unacceptable socially. Thirty years ago the nazi marchers had to be pretty careful and were scorned widely and probably physically hounded oftentimes here in the Pacific Northwest, where i'm from. In any case, they're soon going to 'find out' how much we normies will not tolerate them further, as part FAFO.
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bingo rama! Indeed it ironically isn't about neglect of infrastructure, laws, etc. This is physics and an incredibly useful way to explain physics for ppl not familar w/ science. In uni/college i took Water & the Environment which includes hydrology etc. Naturally the western U.S. is the best and most fascinating example of the complexities of water management. I'm middle aged and have only ever lived in CA for six months but bcuz wages were very good for the seasonal firemen/workers way back when, but i did other work instead, easier on the lungs. Most of the fires that have happened in the past decade were impossible to avoid, actually, from what i understand. Going forward, i suspect there will be new ideas in the management of the interfaces of residential areas and zones-of-brushlands/forests, etc. But even any version of that would not have prevented these fires this month, and these are likely the only unimaginably expensive fires, on paper at least: But to me, i don't care about that part of the cost, i care about how dangerous these particular fires were to safety, which fires like this always are.
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its a myth bcuz it was during DJT WH that both inflation got brewing & cooking & supply chain issues in particular becamea huge issue. Many of us knew that who follow biz world closely, including shipping world. Toyota was already having issues, including hits to quality bcuz of supply chain in all liklihood. Bottom line, in the USa, inflation is not something the society can handle, unlike many other countries that have mitigating factors like social safety nets or gray market economies or shadow economies. Trump caused chaos that he does not deny, that was his intention, and that has a ton to do with the supply chain (china included) , as well as domestic american moods, habits ,practices. That's how inflation and prosperity-issue, work! Read more about econ and u will see. Easy to connect the dots, though not easy to quantify in real time.
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dn't be depressed about the fact that the avg human being defaults to primitive atavistic idiocy when they are either: confused, distressed, lazy, entitled, or just oppositional-defiant, or deeply ignorant, or blendings of all these and more. It's not something for normal folks to be 'depressed about'. But the way to end that feeling is to volunteer for the Dem's and do their call center work. U do it from home i guess, so it's very easy and safe. We HAVE to do something more this next yr election campaign period. This is not a normal year when we can wing it. DJT has said he would be president this time in order to 'do vengeance' on behalf of this voters and that he would cancel the constitution! He's telegraphed every major thing that he's ever done in gvt, and even what Scotus would end up doing, ie overturning RoeVwade! He predicted it a few yrs before, literally very specifically, as if he literally knew he'd be able to get the exactly far-right activist judges in to make it happen. And that's what happened in 2022, the year that ended our rational precedent-based legal system over its entire legal history, i.e at least 150 yrs, if not 250 even maybe. (fyi, precedent re Roe was expressly stated in cases just five yrs ago! So this overturning was a radical activist thing, NOT the way courts have EVER dealt with major cases or social issues. There is a soft grand social radicalization and subervsion of our open/free way of life where ethics were the rule and norm. In medical ethics, no one can be compelled to use their body to sustain life of another! I.e pregnancy cannot be compelled and abortion is a right, in medical ethics. These ultra rightwing nuts are trying to undermine the social fabric of these United States and it's up to everyone to write to every congress person and to talk with relatives friends, and to protest as if u worry the mouth breathers will come to kill your own self and /or family etc, bcuz , ya know what, there's some intimations of that too!
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Sarah, i'm not exactly sure what your idea is re the Elon nazi salute but i mostly disagree w/ u on that: attention span right now is very short due to the obvious big event of the new Admin but this salute will be remembered for sure, particularly bcuz it's permanent now and there'll probably be a moment in future where the new ultra RW aspects come up, and maybe germany votes in the Afd more, which is looking pretty likely with the spring election, and then Elon is remembered the same week he met w/ Afd woman leader he had his moment of glory giving speech at inauguration and did a clear cut salute, and note he did frontal, then turned around and saluted the wall. But his initial frontal is a bonafide type of actual 3rd Reich salute; that side angled one is one Hitler himself did ,and some other very high level officers did as well. A lot of us who are middle aged men now r geeks wrt WW2 and Third Reich, ww2 was what we were steeped in as kids, though Vietnam war as well, in retro very soon after it. Culturally our gen is steeped in war and war analyis/constrasting in particualr (ww2 vs Vietnam, the war that truly divided the nation profoundly).
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yeah they will try and they/civilians have millions, literally , of those assault rifles, in the hands of ppl whose values are not good and clearly not christian. So yeah , we're up against it, but most of us will..not..let our country be dismantled as they are trying to do by any means necessary: for now they r trying to use legalistic means like the Nazi's literally did in the early '30's, and when that doesn't work, which it won't, their 'loose cannon' ppl will start blowing things up. We can stop them. Mobilize! And if trump gets in, there must be sitins around WH permanently, and we need ten's of K's to march on WH every few weeks or months, etc etc
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yep! i knew this would happen to many ppl during this now 8 yrs running subversive attempt to destroy the epistemiology of reality or social reality. They will not win, under ANY circumstances, as long as enough of us stand up strong! If DJT gets in and starts doing what he's stated, 100's of K's of ppl will sit-in, stand-in, work-stop, etc etc. This country will not tolerate this vile and literally treasonous behavior. What DJT is doing is clearly destablizing to national security, as we JUST saw in Israel, which had been THE most secure country on the planet. 18 months of severe social division due to the ultra-right gaining power there suddenly and trying to neuter an entire check-balance on the executive, caused the country to look weak and terrorists strike only when a superior force looks weak. So sorry for your heart attack and hope u heal well. I'm a straight white middle aged male and will fight and die for LGBTQ rights, FULL rights of every type, and i'm wiling to die for it
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