I hope you’re right.

Yes, that’s the catch. Maybe we can encourage ridicule directed only at “society-level” behaviours and make it clear that individual quirks are off-limits.

How would you rate the odds of all those things happening in order for your scenario to come true?

You obliquely touched on a pet theory of mine. We s a society have for decades now rallied against public shaming and bullying and that kind of thing, but I wonder if we’ve gone too far with it —antisocial behaviours are left to run unchecked, whereas 100 years ago these people would have been mercilessly mocked to their face every day. Without the fear of that public mockery and ridicule, we get this.

That’s great in theory. How are you going to force foreign actors to do it?

“Russia, stop spamming Facebook with all that manipulative fake garbage”

“Oh OK you only had to ask. Sorry about that”

This all highlights how many loopholes and deficiencies there are in a system that prides itself so much on checks and balances.

I don’t think it’s practical or even really possible to remove all fake content. The safer and far more effective solution IMO is to digitally sign authentic content instead, and assume that anything unsigned is fake.

Right, I forgot he singlehandedly destroyed the USSR, which was a glorious utopia until his leadership and would totally still be around today otherwise. Thanks for the correction.

He’s just trolling us at this point.

Exactly, it’s such a bizarre statement. It’s like saying ghettoes and the holocaust were the same thing.

I was thinking (and presumably xmunk too) of scenarios where the military overthrows the government.

There are lots of examples of purges not resulting in coups, including the most famous purger of recent times, Stalin.

I don’t think that’s really a coup — if anything it’s the same as what Trump wants to do, but unlike Mr. Pizza Hut he isn’t on the right side of history.

Yeah, I’m trying to think of a recent (<100y) example that didn’t result in a junta or other coups, and I’m drawing a blank.

A simple glance at his face tells you all you need to know. He has the Goebbels “I got bullied as a kid and can’t want to get my revenge” empty stare.

A shooting at a university seems pretty unusual by US standards. Aren’t they a bit old for that?

Or the first to be sent to internment camps.

Edit: I just realized you’re talking about Dearborn specifically

Yes, because that’s that the article and topic of this thread is about.

Source? Because my Wikipedia link says this:

The city’s population includes 40,000 Arab Americans. Per the 2000 census, Arab Americans totaled 29,181 or 29.85% of Dearborn’s population

And this BBC article from this year says it’s the first Arab majority city in the US. https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20240429-dearborn-michigan-a-visit-to-the-first-arab-majority-city-in-the-us

Vaxry who got banned from Freedesktop for being an asshat? https://drewdevault.com/2024/04/09/2024-04-09-FDO-conduct-enforcement.html

Rashida Tlaib didn’t outperform Harris because people’s highest priority is Palestine (it really fucking isn’t)

You really don’t think that the city with the most Arabs per capita in the country (and probably all the Americas) had a particular axe to grind about Gaza?