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Why the National Guard took so long is an interesting question but the more important one is why didn’t the FBI, etc notice the absolute state of the maga-verse in the weeks leading up to Jan 6th? All their plans were out in the open, even I knew what was going to go down and I’m just a random internet person on the other side of the world not the NSA or whatever.
They had weeks to prepare but instead got caught with their pants down. It was completely negligent. Heads should roll.
Yeah that’s pretty much it. Then that gets amplified by recommendation algorithms and toxic social media ecosystems, of course.
IMO getting a bit into the psychology of why people want to believe this crap is pretty key. Narcissism, cognitive bias…
Check this out https://github.com/rimu/no-qanon. Go into the ‘sources’ folder and start clicking around. A lot of the disinfo sites are in separate files but https://github.com/rimu/no-qanon/blob/master/sources/default.txt contains most of them in a big disorganized pile.
Also take a look at https://www.reddit.com/r/QAnonCasualties/ to understand the human cost at the individual & family level.
Google “Alt-right pipeline” to learn about how they’ve intentionally crafted a radicalization process. Also see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P55t6eryY3g.
Both those guys are banned instance-wide on the instance I run.
Disinfo research was a hobby of mine for a few years so I have zero tolerance for it.
I couldn’t see it in the article so perhaps you can tell me what laws they’re being encouraged to break?
time being purely a consequence of entanglement. It states that the only reason that an object appears to change over time is because it is entangled with a clock.
Wtf. Which clock is this?
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You’re looking for meaning where there is none. Fascism does not want to make sense, it very intentionally rejects reason and logic. To fascists, force and power is the only real politics. Few people really grasp how deep the nihilism of it is.
The chaos is an end in itself.
You don’t. Their minds are closed.
There are a huge mass of people who don’t normally vote who are much easier to sway.
Fake Jehovah’s Witness
To fascists, hypocrisy is a virtue:
https://hac.bard.edu/amor-mundi/hypocrisy-and-fascism-2018-08-12
They NEED to demonstrate their hypocrisy in order to signal to their supporters that the nasty shit they promise to do to The Other (immigrants, gays, whatever) won’t be done to their supporters.
Then try harder. If the receptionist at his building is enough to stop them then they’re shit at their jobs.
Stacking the supreme court has benefits far beyond any single issue.
I’ve seen a vanload of tourists happily taking pictures of sheep on more than one occasion. New Zealand.
The faircode model assumes that contributions from random outside people are minor and that the bulk of the work is done by the founder(s). To the founders there is little actual benefit from being an open source project, anyway. I can understand the attraction of the model in that situation.
My ideal OSS project would be receiving a steady stream of contributions from a wide variety of people without an elite sub group that considers themselves to be “the authors”, which would be obviously unsuited to the faircode model. Sadly few projects achieve that and are largely the work of one person.
IMO it depends on the situation/project.
You might want to discuss this in one of the communities at https://ani.social.
I enjoyed this book on sociopathy in society https://www.amazon.com/Sociopath-Next-Door-Martha-Stout/dp/0767915828
I’m not 100% sold on the contagious idea but certainly every latent socio and narc has had a masterclass in recent years which would tend to embolden them.