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• Commented on We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus
  Massive overweening authoritarianism != fascism OTOH, fascism == massive overweening authoritarianism. "Necessary but not sufficient," I think the phrase is....
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  Y'know, if they just used the word "share" instead of a silly picture, then everyone would know what it means "People who don't speak English" aren't exiled to somewhere beyond the reach of modern technology, you know....
• Commented on We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus
  Thoughts? The flash as Dan Hon explodes will be visible on the moon....
• Commented on We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus
  Maybe I'm overly cynical, but if the Remain side had won (by a similarly narrow margin) I don't see the Brexiteers saying "well that's sorted then" and leaving it alone. Someone* powerful wanted Brexit for their own reasons Yes, certainly!...
• Commented on We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus
  I tend to think that the outcome of the Brexit referendum was down to a significant protest vote against austerity. That. Another block were doing the optimism thing: on being asked "do you want to keep doing what we're doing,...
• Commented on We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus
  Massive overweening authoritarianism != fascism...
• Commented on We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus
  This led to Thatcher and the shift to monetarism; the shift to fascism was fairly minor until Blair The National Front: founded 1967. The BNP: founded 1982. Blood & Honour: founded 1987. Combat 18: founded 1993. BNP wins first election:...
• Commented on We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus
  Which they will hate, which is the whole point. Ah ok, I follow now. I was thinking life impact when you were concentrating on perceived aggravation; sorry for the misunderstanding! Your final paragraph contains the obviously correct solution, but the...
• Commented on We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus
  The evident solution is to replace fines with community service work, because 100 hours means as much to a billionaire as it does to a homeless person (personal time is the only thing money can't trivially buy more of). Time,...
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  Oddly, the parents were required to attend. They were really nice people, but must have been way out of their comfort zones. I'm assured the place is better now, but given the % of their students who went to public...
• Commented on We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus
  To ruin the joke: the Waltons as in the descendants of the founders of Walmart, who until recently were still majority stakeholders....
• Commented on I should blog more, but ...
  Self-involved parochialism is a human constant, but I wonder if possession of a particularly high intensity of it could be used to diagnose imperialism: "when the View of the World from 9th Avenue not only rings true but feels natural...
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  One of the things that struck her were that almost all of her classmates thought to become rich they'd have to move to the US. I wonder if they realized what the odds of becoming rich were, as compared to...
• Commented on We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus
  Arianespace is successfully innovating in one space, at least: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canopée...
• Commented on We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus
  Ditto, age ~23, and not so much "bored" as "aggressively uninterested" - to this day it is the only book I remember actively* giving up reading. *There are plenty I've put down fully meaning to come back to and haven't...
• Commented on I should blog more, but ...
  letting all the ugly, crazy, cruel shitstorms play out and leave it up the EU (especially the French) to do something Do you remember hearing about Al-Qaeda in the Maghreb, about the same time Da'esh got rolling? Did you ever...
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  Apologies, you're right. I let my cynicism jump ahead of my knowledge. The prospective grounds for objection are different and not quite as copper-fastened: The Norwegian Data Protection Authority also said it "strongly doubts whether Meta's proposed consent solution, which...
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  I have to wonder just how many dozens of people across the EU are going to sign up for the $15/mo Facebook which will be ad free? Given the immediate DPA reaction of "nice try sunshine," possibly every single one...
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  And show me a shred of evidence that any member of Hamas has been killed by the bombing. They're all in their tunnels, safe. https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-air-strike-kills-senior-hamas-leader-family-members-hamas-media-2023-10-19/...
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  Given the IDF supporting the illegal settlers in the West Bank attacking Palestinian villages right now (let's start a two-front war, why don't we?) Start?(Article is from August.)...
• Commented on I should blog more, but ...
  Your last paragraph and especially your last sentence: absolutely, 100%. At best semi-connected to your points, but the editor of Jewish Currents tries to get started getting started reckoning with what's happened: https://jewishcurrents.org/we-cannot-cross-until-we-carry-each-other...
• Commented on I should blog more, but ...
  Infelicitious phrasing - that's "visible progress via political processes" and "engagement in electoral politics" - two separate things which combined to draw militant organisations away from violence, not a one-feeds-the-other process....
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  And, as someone else noted, the coup that took place thereafter? My point was Hamas (and 2006 Hamas voters) did give "free and fair elections" a try and might feel they were not allowed succeed. Pigeon pointed out in comment...
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  Now, my fantasy is the UN offers to a) take over the hostages; b) hold free and fair elections this year, with UN peacekeepers (I sorta like the idea of Vietnamese troops, since they have no skin whatever in the...
• Commented on I should blog more, but ...
  "Young men need guard rails, they need a girlfriend and a job to tell them they need to put on a shirt and get to work" So it's women's fault? What a fucking shock....
• Commented on I should blog more, but ...
  Indeed jihad may well also fail to do what you want; but it is at least more likely to do something, and even if it's not a good something it still beats carrying on with no change in the situation...
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  The line that Greg has been taking here is gratuitously ignorant and mean-spirited, even for Greg. Sectarianism covers a multitude; anti-theist sectarianism is a moderately rare beast, I'll grant....
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  Britain was very much behaving as a colonial power in Mandatory Palestine, including using the old tactic of preferring a small group to control the majority of the population. The Arabs were using many of the same tactics that the...
• Commented on Pushing it back
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head-Smashed-In_Buffalo_Jump...
• Commented on Pushing it back
  Anyway, let's approximate hand-copying a bible to a year's work. And we know that the original Gutenberg bibles sold for roughly 100 florins, or three years wages for a clerk. Cheaper than a manuscript bible, but not hugely so. Most...