There are pretty sex offenders and ugly ones in every generation. Since US society used sexuality as a device of control the way dangerous cults do, we produce a lot kids who think human beings only have sex through coercion or opportunistic vulnerability (e.g. drunk girls at parties.)

So it makes for a lot of potential sex offenders.

Maybe some day we’ll toss abstinence only sex ed into a blast furnace and start teaching kids about consent.

But then we’ll realize that click-wrapped TOS on our devices and hardware are bad-faith contracts we’re coerced to agree to. And that just wouldn’t do for our shadowy capitalist masters.

Three of them are boomers who argued that spousal rape is not a crime (a controvery in the 1970s, when NAMBLA was active and child marriage wasn’t given a second thought) and the other one is trying super hard to be literal Himmler (though he’s earning enough Heydrich points to break the machine).

Observe that this very same demographic is still trying to hold onto power as they lose their faculties.

I think that’s why Epstein suffered an unfortunate prison accident. Some very vippy VIPs are in the list.

I didn’t think Epstein kept a list, rather I figured a multinational cadre of investigations bureaus uncovered paper trails linking VIPs by the dozens and Epstein (and his parties of trafficked children) and that is the alleged list.

Since the US DoJ and DHS are captured, it’s up to the rest of the international community to see justice done. And since King Fucking Charles has had proximity with Epstein, its awkward for the industrialized world.

Dirt on Charles would be enough to launch an army of ninjas and fixers, alone. And since his connection with Epstein has been white washed, that gives cover to anyone else also connected to Epstein that would be awkward to the First World (the industrialislzed western bloc).

The regime has insured Epstein didn’t kill himself will be the next Jet fuel can’t melt steel beams or It was the guy at the grassy knoll for years to come.

I had previously thought if he wanted to show he was worthy of being God Emperor, he could nationalize event distribution of Football (or some other favorite sport), and create a universal food program, and then a lot of Americans would have cause to be chanting his name.

But the insipid and the apathetic run thick as London fog in the White House.

We can talk about specific Jewish figures in Hollywood but that absolutely doesn’t make them a unified front.

Behind the Bastards did a two-parter about How The Liberal Media Helped Fascism Win noting that liberal Jewish-owned newspapers sided with NSDAP against their Jewish working-class brethren, because the newspaper owners were more aligned with the ownership class, and the Nazis were anti-communist and anti-unionist already.

In psychology, it’s called attitude polarization, where we ignore data that conflicts with an ideology while accepting data that confirms it. It’s a known common human bias.

Scientists train themselves to accept new data as challenging old presumptions (that maybe the old model is false, or simplistic and some unconsidered noise is affecting observed data)… at least when they’re doing real science. Failure to do so, and to cling to older models, is how old dudes get tagged as hidebound reactionaries. And even Einstein couldn’t square his feelings regarding Heisenberg probability models of quantum dynamics.

TIL about prompt bleed, and that it has a name.

Isn’t Grok the LLM that recently had a crisis over white power conspiracy theories that it inserted randomly into responses?

President Trump has ordered the White House host a UFC match.

If Trump wasn’t Mr. America before, he is now.

It’s the dream that we all share. It’s the hope for tomorrow. (Fuck yeah!)

This goes really well with the news that Shigeru Ishiba’s wife, Yoshiko spent two hours with Trump pretending not to comprehend English so as to not have to engage him.

A lot of vengeance is due Leonard Leo.

The whole Federalist Society is due a third-act housecleaning montage.

Or a third-season pre-season finalé season-climax montage, if you prefer.

The thing is what I wish for immigrants and refugees, I wish for absolutely everyone.

But I see fascism, autocratic tyranny and the hoarding of wealth and power as sickness rather than character flaws.

New parties are useless at the federal level so long as elections are First-Past-The-Post. Even the Ross Perot’s Reform Party in 1992 and 1996 only served as a spoiler for the Republican party, and his was an immensely strong attempt at forming a new party, featuring a reasoned platform which Perot showcased with charts every night on television.

This is why Musk’s America party is laughable, even if he really, really meant it, and offered a platform of sound governance.

While Sanders caucuses with the Democratic party, and they make him sit at the kids’ table with AOC and the other Socialist Democrats, he has been able to get a lot of legislation in or blocked with skilled use of Senate procedure.

But the current situation is well beyond even his powers of procedural mischief. We can’t rely on officials or left-wing news media to save the US from oligarchy and eventually monarchy.

Violent or non-violent, we’ll have to do it ourselves, and it’s almost certain that if we pressure them nonviolently (say with massive demonstrations or with a general strike), then Trump will try to do January 6th once again, probably with more guns and explosives. He’ll certainly bring out his ICE Stormtroopers (now in fancy armor) and try to invoke the military.

So we need to expect a fight, and preferably do what the lords did with John of England, make it super clear that he is out-manned and out-armed and will be given no quarter, if it comes down to violence. (Even the Magna Carta took a few tries)

27+ dead little girls at Camp Mystic has shown us it’s ugly already, but non-violence makes it more difficult for bystanders to dismiss the resistance as terrorists. (FOX News, etc. will paint us as terrorists anyway.)

I don’t know how we get to an organized general strike at speed (usually it takes years, and we don’t have years), and there are groups like indivisible that are trying. I don’t know if it’s enough, especially once ICE gets its massive infusion of equipment, manpower and fancy trenchcoats.

Remember the meme about everyone could have a 32 hour work week and three-day weekends (and a productivity boost) but the billionaires are opposed?

Well everyone could have post-scarcity communism but the billionaires are opposed.

Not really. Our as I use it implies I, personally, am from the US and that I feel I have some responsibility as a participant in US society (at least, in my case, northern California society).

Contrast using it’s to refer to the US state or their indicating I’m on the exterior.

Just as your can mean possessed by you personally or possessed by you, collectively our pronouns can be versitile and ambiguous.

I was writing in good faith, but it is always up to you whether you can trust that.

ETA: I don’t know the injury rates or the school-to-professional pipeline of association football, which is highly celebrated in throughout the rest of the world. I do know FIFA experiences high levels of corruption and labor exploitation as NFL or AFL, so there are still reasons for society to regard its sports leagues less. Hominids be hominids, I guess.

Meanwhile 77 million Americans really let the Djinni out of the bottle in November.

Maybe every story is Pandora’s jar.

And yet mainstream media has been hesitant to point out dog whistles at least since the George W. Bush administration (circa 2001).

In 2008 some folks noticed Sarah Palin spoke exclusively in dog whistles.

I was going to say, a TBL stripe would fit right in.

I do understand there are some mores (or taboos) that we commonly will find a rationality for, even when there isn’t a logical reason for it. A big one is the emphasis of high-contact sports programs in our education system. A lot of lives get ruined (and a few ended) every year to gridiron football injuries in the US, and yet it is difficult to imagine ending football programs in our high-schools and colleges (even if to switch to sports that involve less risk).

There was a study about instinctive mores, featuring the story of Julie and Mark (an adult sister and brother who go camping, have sex, decide not to do it again, but are not harmed by the encounter), and not only did subjects assert such a coupling was morally wrong, but would seek out reasons to justify their belief, even if it didn’t fit the specific circumstances. Similarly, it’s a common assumption that gay sexual relations between relatives is taboo, even though the commonly understood purpose of the proscription (to avoid conceiving children with birth defects) is not actually possible in the relationship.

For this reason, some social problems that exist (such as the social isolation of boys and young men that puts them at risk of turning to the alt-right) that we are disinclined to address (I’ve heard the sentiment before: sure, they’re suffering, but fuck those guys ) because we have a collective drive to see those issues in a specific way, such as holding contempt for teenage boys as a demographic, even when we know it will drive them into organized hate groups.