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February 4, 2020
Cool story bro
All right, while remnants of Hillary's campaign apparently still have their paws in an app that "failed" one can't help but be impressed by the center's claims that there's no way this is a conspiracy. The lady doth protest too much, me thinks. Sure, no proof of much just yet, but given that it appears that Bernie is ahead in the popular vote but lost out on delegates, well some people should at least ask wtf? And here we are 24hours after the vote and not only haven't the totals not come in but they don't look to be coming in anytime soon. I mean, it's a quarter million votes. How the fuck can't you count that by now?
Yeah, I don't know either. Incompetence is one thing, but this is another.
When even the likes of Krugman are trying to poo-poo claims of conspiracy, I start to wonder.
Any how, in the meantime how about you read this story of mine published over by the people of bending genres. It's a short one. Another take on red riding hood. Irreverent type. Check it out and enjoy.
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Yeah, I don't know either. Incompetence is one thing, but this is another.
When even the likes of Krugman are trying to poo-poo claims of conspiracy, I start to wonder.
Any how, in the meantime how about you read this story of mine published over by the people of bending genres. It's a short one. Another take on red riding hood. Irreverent type. Check it out and enjoy.
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February 2, 2020
On Shootings
So I talked about the rise in firearm deaths and murders in a post a few days ago. I just remembered this piece by Kilam, a poet here in Seattle, which was quite funny. Worth a read. And you should definitely check out his work if you get the chance.
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February 1, 2020
End of the World
In case you missed it, and with regard to the state of the world, we're inching closer and closer to the end of times. Mainly, for those who've been living under a rock (the informational kind or the religiously zealous, hoping for end times kind) the thing is that with Climate Change and Nukes we're really running towards a kind of cliff, with CC feeding the potential for nuclear war. And yet, for some reason, none of this is being reported as loudly as it should. Why?
Well, for one, people really do want to think that everything is fine and that the status quo is also fine. Look at the AMA the Doomsday clock org did. I should not be surprised that it was immediately flooded, but I am to some extent. After all, Trump just said something about the purveyors of doom. And just like him, the people on that AMA calling them just that, don't bother to read the papers behind that series of thought. Happy land here we come. If you think it, it will happen.
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Well, for one, people really do want to think that everything is fine and that the status quo is also fine. Look at the AMA the Doomsday clock org did. I should not be surprised that it was immediately flooded, but I am to some extent. After all, Trump just said something about the purveyors of doom. And just like him, the people on that AMA calling them just that, don't bother to read the papers behind that series of thought. Happy land here we come. If you think it, it will happen.
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January 29, 2020
Israel
What can one say about the proposed "peace" TrumpBibi plan? Except it won't work? Obviously we have the power (and apparently the crazy section of our country... you know, the ones that want Israel for a second coming) but with all that's happening in the Middle East, I'm under the impression that Trump just wants to bully away. I can't imagine that will ever work, but so far the blowback has been minimal. Am I wrong? Remains to be seen. I simply think that tensions have been heightened (as has the repression) all over the region and it remains to be seen what will happen. The other great powers also matter (mainly China, but also Russia) and how they react to all this.
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Firearm Deaths up?
So I haven't had time to look at these numbers (and can't quite find the original numbers on the CDC site), but it seems they are solid. If you have any other info, please share it. It appears that gun deaths (evenly, across suicides and homicides) have increased after being flat from 1999-2014. So what happened in 2015 that caused the sudden uptick that has continued until today?
I have not seen any numbers on murders themselves (Can someone add them?), but even this article only speaks of a slight uptick in 2015-6 that came down in '17 & '18.
All right, nevermind, just saw this set of numbers from the FBI that indeed show that 2015 was a major inflection point (though these numbers show a plateau of sorts?). The article claims it was only a few cities that were responsible for the rise. Still, below is the rate of murder (from 1999 to 2018).
Unlike the firearm numbers, it would seem that it has a drop from 2008-2014 that the firearms mainly shows as a flatline (some decrease there, but not as obvious there).
I'm not exactly sure what to say about this. Even this map (which shows that the only decreases in firearm deaths from 1999-2017 was in California (and Nevada, though), New Mexico and NY.
So make of that what you will.
But this all matters, and it's important to wonder why things have changed. Note that the life expectancy in America is still going down, and given what inequality is, won't be going up any time soon. But like that chart up there, life expectancy matches what you would expect. Red states, for the most part, have taken on a strict regiment of democide (for their poors, for their minorities) and you see the results where Clinton states (that voted for Clinton) did much better than Trump ones.
Of course, this matters (both the feeling that things are falling apart for some of the country and not for others)
Here in Seattle there was a shooting last week that increased a bunch of talk (and of course, the usual racists of the PNW coming out in droves) of the increase in gun violence (the racists, of course, blaming every liberal and dark person they could, though looking at the map and chart, their entire view is wrong) has started some level of discussion here.
We need to be smart and make sure that the discussion goes in the right direction and the crazy nutters (how many are end of the worlders looking for the apocalypse? I wonder. it's not small).
Indeed, racists were persuaded by Trump because some of this carnage was real (but nothing in their world view was... after all California has improved on many fronts, whatever its problems, and done much better than red states in general), but we need to point people to what's really causing all this rather than saying "everything is fine".
Your thoughts?
Edit: Welp, life expectancy has gone up. 78.7 from 78.6. Which seems too small to say anything, but would match up with the numbers given above (the slight decline in murders could go hand in hand with deaths of despair?). I'm guessing we're not out of the fog yet and it would also seem that there's not any numbers on what this looks like for each state. We'll have to see.
Still, the numbers have stagnated since 2010. That's pretty bad:
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I have not seen any numbers on murders themselves (Can someone add them?), but even this article only speaks of a slight uptick in 2015-6 that came down in '17 & '18. All right, nevermind, just saw this set of numbers from the FBI that indeed show that 2015 was a major inflection point (though these numbers show a plateau of sorts?). The article claims it was only a few cities that were responsible for the rise. Still, below is the rate of murder (from 1999 to 2018).
Unlike the firearm numbers, it would seem that it has a drop from 2008-2014 that the firearms mainly shows as a flatline (some decrease there, but not as obvious there).
I'm not exactly sure what to say about this. Even this map (which shows that the only decreases in firearm deaths from 1999-2017 was in California (and Nevada, though), New Mexico and NY.
So make of that what you will.But this all matters, and it's important to wonder why things have changed. Note that the life expectancy in America is still going down, and given what inequality is, won't be going up any time soon. But like that chart up there, life expectancy matches what you would expect. Red states, for the most part, have taken on a strict regiment of democide (for their poors, for their minorities) and you see the results where Clinton states (that voted for Clinton) did much better than Trump ones.
Of course, this matters (both the feeling that things are falling apart for some of the country and not for others)
Here in Seattle there was a shooting last week that increased a bunch of talk (and of course, the usual racists of the PNW coming out in droves) of the increase in gun violence (the racists, of course, blaming every liberal and dark person they could, though looking at the map and chart, their entire view is wrong) has started some level of discussion here.
We need to be smart and make sure that the discussion goes in the right direction and the crazy nutters (how many are end of the worlders looking for the apocalypse? I wonder. it's not small).
Indeed, racists were persuaded by Trump because some of this carnage was real (but nothing in their world view was... after all California has improved on many fronts, whatever its problems, and done much better than red states in general), but we need to point people to what's really causing all this rather than saying "everything is fine".
Your thoughts?
Edit: Welp, life expectancy has gone up. 78.7 from 78.6. Which seems too small to say anything, but would match up with the numbers given above (the slight decline in murders could go hand in hand with deaths of despair?). I'm guessing we're not out of the fog yet and it would also seem that there's not any numbers on what this looks like for each state. We'll have to see.
Still, the numbers have stagnated since 2010. That's pretty bad:
"Dr. Preston pointed out that the small rise in 2018 merely put the country back where it was in 2010, amounting to nearly a decade of stagnation, rare for a wealthy country."
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January 25, 2020
The Art of Unwar
The
Art of Unwar
is a doc you should check out since I might be in it... i think. But in all reality you should give some love and $ to this doc. Thanks!
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January 15, 2020
A good talk
Thought this was a solid talk. On Iran and other places. Better than you'll see in most places.
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January 11, 2020
Bernie and the Democrats (aka #resistance)
Another good (but longish) video passed on by Norman Finkelstein here. I'll say that the other funniest thing coming out of the centrist "#resistance" cohort of Democrats is that they try to claim Bernie (and "Berniebros") are wrong or anti-colored people or some other stupid view. Thing is, nothing I've seen on the ground shows this.
To actually change DC and confront the swamp (that is, not that which Trump rails against but the corruption and lobbyists and other forms of entrenched, usually corporate, power) after voting for Bernie we will need to continue to stay in the streets and phones and apply pressure so that things actually get done.
Pure and simple.
To that end, Bernie is pretty clear about what he wants to get done and is pretty clear about Climate Change. How about you?
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To actually change DC and confront the swamp (that is, not that which Trump rails against but the corruption and lobbyists and other forms of entrenched, usually corporate, power) after voting for Bernie we will need to continue to stay in the streets and phones and apply pressure so that things actually get done.
Pure and simple.
To that end, Bernie is pretty clear about what he wants to get done and is pretty clear about Climate Change. How about you?
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January 10, 2020
The dumb and dumber MSM and right wing
So it seems that Iran has has admitted to shooting down the civilian plane. First, I'm still not sure why such flights wouldn't be fucking grounded in a time of war, but whatever, I guess it had to leave. But this is what happens when tensions are heightened (see Mad man theories as enacted by Reagan and other idiots and how close they got us to nuclear annihilation but lucky for us they fucking didn't, because, again, systems to detect missile launches weren't good then and probably aren't good now (remember our scare in Hawaii?)).
Second, it's obvious Iran is not ready to be a great power because all the real powers (US, Russia) just deny shit until the end of time.
I also think that in the case of this plane going down, the conspiracy theories were semi-valid, but in the end it was stupidity that did those unfortunate souls in. Again, it's what a lack of information will do to most minds...
For now it seems that Trump has dialed down their rhetoric just a little. But I'm guessing that it won't end just yet. He didn't suffer too much from this latest round of shitty foreign policy round 10 million (not just Trump, because our ME policy is just shite on top of shite). As for those who think this is the end of things... well I wouldn't exactly place a big bet on that.
This link will take you to a worthwhile speech by him. Now, I know things have calmed down for now, but it seems that their end goal is more death by a thousand cuts for US military installations. Yeah, not over by a mile.
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Second, it's obvious Iran is not ready to be a great power because all the real powers (US, Russia) just deny shit until the end of time.
I also think that in the case of this plane going down, the conspiracy theories were semi-valid, but in the end it was stupidity that did those unfortunate souls in. Again, it's what a lack of information will do to most minds...
For now it seems that Trump has dialed down their rhetoric just a little. But I'm guessing that it won't end just yet. He didn't suffer too much from this latest round of shitty foreign policy round 10 million (not just Trump, because our ME policy is just shite on top of shite). As for those who think this is the end of things... well I wouldn't exactly place a big bet on that.
This link will take you to a worthwhile speech by him. Now, I know things have calmed down for now, but it seems that their end goal is more death by a thousand cuts for US military installations. Yeah, not over by a mile.
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January 5, 2020
Can Trump unite Shia and Sunnis?
I mean, he's fucking trying, right? ISIS and Hezbollah hand in hand. Kumbaya, mothafuckas, kumbaya. I mean, I jest, but at this point, mixing the right wing nuts and their "10D chess, we're out of Iraq" mixed logic thoughts (and essentially parroted by talking heads in most places), why not parrot this line?
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