It is kind of hilarious when you think about it that Capitol was deliberately left undefended, and the doofuses who support Trump couldn’t even pull off a coup that the average kindergarten class could’ve made good on.
Fail hard and fail early, I guess.
I'm still not sure we're doing enough to reckon with how close we came this week to livestreamed mass assassinations
— Alex Fitzpatrick (@AlexJamesFitz) January 10, 2021
It’s because people don’t want to believe it. But it was close — if the serious guys, those with guns, bombs and zip ties, had made in a few minutes earlier it’d be a very different world now.
Pelosi and Pence would probably be dead, and likely dozens of others. The US would be under martial law and would stay that way for a while.
Just got lucky, is all. Won’t happen again.
Your daily reminder that the insulin I’ve used for 24 years, Humalog, has gone from $21 a vial to $275 a vial with no changes to the insulin or even the packaging. That’s a 1200% increase on a hormone every human requires to live, but my body can’t make. I die in 48 hours w/o it
— Laura Marston (@Kidfears99) January 10, 2021
According to centrists and much of the right, this is just the way things must be for…reasons. And anything else is impossible.
Never mind that literally every other country in the world manages to do better than this. It’s just How It Is And Must BeTM.
this is an old and hallowed humanitarian studies lament, but good god almighty i wish half the breathless emphasis was put on teaching world history that some stem subjects get
— Bo Bolander (@BBolander) January 10, 2021
Teaching STEM doesn’t teach people to think, just do equations and be “productive.” Teaching history in a critical and intensive way would lead people to thought, and for capitalism that would be a very bad thing indeed.
I am just stunned there are some saying we need to just move on from Wednesday's events when all the documented evidence shows there were determined people—some of them carrying nooses—potentially minutes away from carrying out public executions of our elected representatives.
— Dustin Volz (@dnvolz) January 9, 2021
Most of those insurrectionists were opportunistic and comical doofuses, but there were some serious people there who intended to commit grievous offenses. They just didn’t get in fast enough.
Next time — and there will be a next time — they will be more organized.
Covid-19 was always going to resurge in winter. With people cooped up indoors, low temperature and humidity, crappy ventilation — that was just what was going to happen.
Lockdowns in most places won’t do much about this, except on the margins. No reason to torture people for little gain.
night taking an interesting turn. just chopped some jalapeños and accidentally touched my dick
— Huge, Delicious (@PrettyBadLefty) January 10, 2021
One time years ago a girlfiend and I ate some very spicy food at a Mexican restaurant and then returned to our hotel.
I immediately went down on her in the heat (heh) of the moment. This, it turns out, was a very bad idea. Needless to say, that did not go well. It quickly involved statements like, “What are you doing? Everything is burning down there!”
Ah well. Live and learn. (She was fine after a bit.)
do blue state libs have some kind of disease that make them dream up Byzantine rules for every conceivable situation or what https://t.co/cMGkjErQdl pic.twitter.com/apPArim4Cr
— ryan cooper (@ryanlcooper) January 7, 2021
Over-education and neolib propaganda, and the refraction into human minds of the rise of the algorithm.
Keeping “ataxia” and “ataraxy” straight is harder than one might imagine.
By the way, under the First Amendment, incitement to violence is not protected speech. Not that Twitter et al. banning anyone has anything to do with the First Amendment, really, though there is an argument (that I myself have made) that these are the new public commons, and should be treated as such.
That’s a totally different discussion, however.
Trump and his Nazi cosplay nincompoops incited violence and nowhere in the US or under the First Amendment is that protected speech. That is well-established in law and custom and is not even controversial.
Well, except with dipshits. But fuck them.
I wonder how much of the “liberal” fear of and simultaneous obsession with sex leads to their weakness in other areas?
I bet a lot.
My primary takeaway from the past few months is that everyone who dunked on the Transition Integrity Project in 2020 owes @brooks_rosa one hell of an apology.
— Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) January 9, 2021
Indeed.
The thing about emergency and backup plans is you don’t need ’em…till you do. A lot of people in my field learn this the hard way, though it really applies to any field.
But I learn the easy way: by watching others fail, and not doing that.
Why can’t more people?
If all these denunciations, resignations, and Twitter bans would have happened after Charlottesville, there wouldn't have been at attack on the Capitol. Everything being done now should have been done years ago.
— nate bowling (the mask goes OVER your nose) (@nate_bowling) January 9, 2021
I mostly agree with this. The press and tech companies coddled this behavior, Trump, and the far right for four years because it made them all scads of money.
The Disphit Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Coup was the result.
Don’t like the truth, get off my fucking blog and fuck you.
Not surprising. PCs then didn’t restrict you from doing what you wanted to do and were just a lot more fun.
Now, computers and related are just consumption lumps. Then, you could truly use them as a “bicycle for the mind.” I miss those days even if many things are better now. These days, we wear the handcuffs and though they are golden and soft, they are still handcuffs.
Journalists are going to have to learn that if (a) a vaccine is ~95% effective; (b) millions of people are getting the vaccine and (c) covid is widespread, someone getting vaccinated and later getting covid is not even *close* to being a story. https://t.co/r3bl86Ch0e
— James Chalmers (@ProfChalmers) January 8, 2021
Ayup.
If 500 million people get a 95% effective vaccine, then (even ignoring the complexities of what “effective” means here) that indicates that 25 million fucking people will still get symptomatically sick.
Just simple math, dipshits.