trump : hitlerspeak :: desantis : woke
they both think (well desantis thought) they had an easy cynical formula for persuading, and they pour it on.
but you can in fact be too cynical about the much maligned US electorate, and both of them are.
one of them might still win, because the US system makes every election a weighted coinflip and candidate idiosyncracies can only weight things so far.
but brilliant communicators or propagandists they are not. trump's skills have notably declined.
[new draft post] Pluralism or magnanimity? https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2023/11/13/pluralism-or-magnanimity/index.html
@deshipu each compilation unit should be called a “piece”.
“We want interop so that our users are free to move. So our products compete on the basis of performance, features and price, and not lock-in. This is as basic as the Hippocratic Oath that doctors take.” @dave https://this.how/standards/
if you think advertising incentivized firms to vacuum up all your data, just wait until you see AI.
@admitsWrongIfProven i don’t have any special insight, but i guess i’d say political formations like Netanyahu’s, or AfD’s i guess, tend to be somewhat mire patriarchical then better ones… i don’t think sex predicts virtue, but liberality broadly takes some virtue to sustain, as we are all finding, having a harder time at the moment sustaining it.
@admitsWrongIfProven i just think he’s an absolute catastrophe of a leader, for Israel and the world, and that his replacement, especially if Israel can muster a genuine mandate for a more civilized coalition with a new leader, is likely a precondition to escape from what now are cycles of violence, hatred, and dispossession.
i have come (despite political-science well-actuallies) to be a huge fan of term limits. long tenure leaders are almost uniformly catastrophic.
@admitsWrongIfProven did you think the atlantic piece was that emotional or threatening? i suppose the stories about putative heroes much better than Netanyahu were emotional in their way, but i saw the piece as just correctly pointing out that Netanyahu is a disaster.
@admitsWrongIfProven “go” doesn’t mean die or be assassinated. it means depart from his disastrous position of “leadership”. in a democracy, the power should rest with the public, not shadowy “powerful people”. it is only dictators for whom a question like mine might sound unlikely and mysterious. do you think is Israel so far gone?
@admitsWrongIfProven @bobwyman i’m not quite sure what that means.
by what process, and on what timeframe, does Netanyahu go? https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/11/israel-after-netanyahu/675952/
ht @bobwyman
war is a process whose function is to turn human beings into cartoon villains, or just corpses. https://dair-community.social/@ZekuZelalem/111354815395188085
"When creating an IMAP account… login name and password were being transferred to Microsoft's server. Although TLS protected, the data in the tunnel runs to Microsoft in plain text. Without informing or asking, Microsoft grants itself full access to the IMAP and SMTP access data of users of the new Outlook." from a Google translation of this, in German https://www.heise.de/news/Microsoft-krallt-sich-Zugangsdaten-Achtung-vorm-neuen-Outlook-9357691.html ht Technology as Nature
so much of the telos of the global authoritarian right is the petrostate. liberal economists' "resource curse" is reappropriated as a blessing: control of and proximity to resource rents becomes an enduring basis for hierarchy.
Netanyahu's Israel admires Putin's Russia. "Drill baby drill" isn't really about the implausibility of alternative energy sources, but about their disruptiveness to existing hierarchies if they succeed.
cf #TimSahay interviewing #GuyLaron https://www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/october-war/
if you will make so dark the night,
it is your duty then
to make the morning bright.
politicians paying elon musk to fundraise to me are probably not politicians i’m gonna support.
the two phenomena are alike in some ways but quite different in others.
@failedLyndonLaRouchite (i kind of wanted to bookmark the links. the article points to lots of under-the-radar pro labor actions taken by the Biden administration i want to be able to recall.)
