Category: the state
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unintended consequences
Unintended consequences are the only consequences that really matter besides the consequences you feel because of the actions of someone else doing stuff outside of your control. When Putin invaded Ukraine it caused the EU to un-hook from Russian energy, which was, in retrospect, not nearly as difficult as they had been telling themselves because…
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psy-op
Asymmetric Warfare is a doctrine. It is an effective doctrine. It is effective because the cost of offensive action is low and the cost defensive or responsive action is high. Skirmishing using Asymmetric Warfare is small – it can be indistinguishable from a Lone Wolf or an angry mob. What these small-scale actions have that…
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send an email…
I think that seeing idiots try to use the tools you use all the time (and take for granted) is maybe more depressing than seeing them try to use tools that you don’t know about. “take 15 minutes at the end of the week to write me an email that I can read in 5…
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occupying the space of opposition
It has been 31 days since Donald Trump took office and began to keep his promises to systematically destroy the United States for the benefit of those who need no help amassing power and riches, and in that time there has not even been token resistance from the Democratic Party. Instead of wielding the same…
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A different approach
As the twice-impeached felon in the White House goes about his work, he has decided upon a number of policies that are crass, blunt, cruel, and of questionable legality because he and the people he surrounds himself with are impatient, ignorant, and immoral. But the thing is, buried deep within them, some of the policies…
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a more accurate political spectrum
As we once again struggle to talk about what is happening in the White House it is important to understand that our customs regarding how we talk about politics, politicians, and political power are taxonomically flawed. The use of a Right = Conservative, Left = Liberal dichotomy doesn’t fit with the use of a Conservative-Moderate-Liberal…
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Discretionary power without accountability
Convicted felon Donald. J. Trump was in a New York City courtroom today where he was sentenced to bear no burden and suffer no penalty for cooking the books during his 2016 presidential campaign to hide from regulators and voters how he paid off a porn star to hide from voters that he’d had an…
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Tariffs only work if …
Tariffs only work if they raise prices of imported goods above the cost of domestic goods because the purpose of a tariff is to create space in the competitive landscape for domestic producers to grow and prosper by raising the cost of the imported good so that domestic goods can undercut them on price in…
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My American Trauma
This is about what happens when you are wrong about who you are, how you see yourself, and what you think that means when conceptualizing yourself, the world, and your place in that world.
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I hung up on my mother
I hung up on my mother today because she was trying to make an argument justifying why ~20 million Joe Biden voters didn’t show up for Kamala Harris because she wasn’t competent. There are many, many reasons why this happened, and none of them have to do with the competency of Kamala Harris compared to…