How did the French Revolution end? Actually quite well for the French eventually. As did (eventually) the Russian Revolution for the Russians.
What tends to get missed when concentrating on the reigns of terror and the "upset of the natural order" is the conditions before the revolution. Yes, the "people who matter" suffer a lot, but those histories don't tend to be written by the former serfs who would have had even more generations of being basically slaves to look forward to.
The point isn't to add a new right-wing voice to the din. The point is to remove a "left-wing" voice.
Nobody listening to a "not-quite as right wing" (because describing CBS as "left wing" could in less dire circumstances be laughable) voice is almost as effective as viewers listening to one channel more of the same MAGA propaganda.
Or Aristophanes. One of his favorite characters (as in, fellow Athenians he lampooned) was gay and in that play cross-dressed to spy on the conspiring women.
It's getting to the point where to predict what will be permitted in the US, just ask the Taliban...
It’s getting close to the point where the government can capitulate completely
They won't. It's a matter of "principle". (Not what most of us would consider a principle, but still something fundamental to the administration.) They're authoritarian. The crime is now less trafficking and more "saying no to us".
Resistance is unforgivable - much worse than merely committing a crime or two.
Actually, it makes Marie Antoinette look positively caring. More like if her reply to "The price of bread is too high. The peasants are starving" was "Meh. Starving to death? Self-solving problem."
So this clown is a member of an administration hell-bent on closing down the EPA and allowing industries to dump pollutants into water and the atmosphere. All of which doesn't seem to cause him any concern. Instead his concern for pollutants seems to stop at "if scientists have studied it, found it to be non-harmful or beneficial, then that's a flashing red conspiracy alert, right"?
"...our police investigators, they don’t have access to data"
Perhaps the police investigators could resort to... investigating?
After encryption, what next?
"Criminals are meeting each other in parks and discussing future criminal activity without witnesses. Private conversations make investigation by police difficult, therefore we propose that everybody wear a microphone and transmit all conversations (unencrypted of course) for our police investigators to examine at their leisure..."
Fun fact: Nazis said to be anti-capitalists, as that was a Jewish thing.
Actually, Nazis were anti-communist as it was 'a Jewish thing'. Read all about the Anti-Comintern pact some time. Eventually it was the impetus for Germany declaring war on the US, and hence the US consequently deciding that maybe they didn't like Nazis so much after all.
I'm wondering if the ISPs are panicking due to the current and projected increase in the size of the low income sector. It might not reduce their profits too much now, but given the current direction of the US that sector is going to be growing rapidly.
gets reduced into disrepair and malfunction such that it gets sold back to the private sector
I'm not sure how much of the history of the past 50 years you've been told about, but it's not the public enterprises in 'disrepair and malfunction' that get sold to the private sector. This is something that has never ever happened.
The private sector has only ever wanted to purchase public enterprises that they can immediately gut and get a payout on.
Tiktok had the entire damn US government majorly spooked for…Being chinese
Tiktok is Singaporean-traded. With a Singaporean CEO. I'm not denying that the Chinese government couldn't lean heavily on ByteDance, nor that the company is responsive to Chinese sensibilities and self-censors to some extent. But a lot of US companies also have Chinese investors.
Personally, I'm amused by how much the US seems to be looking at China and saying "Yeah, we'll have some of that!" Over the years I've seen reports of companies opening up subsidiaries in China and having Chinese Party members make the foreign owners an offer they can't refuse, buying the subsidiary for a bargain price with the alternative being prison. Now we see a similar (sell to one of our billionaires or we'll shut you down) scam being pulled off in the US.
"Progress"...
Judge Otis Wright? Well, damn! There's a name from the past - remember Prenda Law?
Now I am nostalgically remembering the smell of mountains of popcorn...
That they are taking legal action over it suggests not.
I would imagine that when there's an obvious culprit to blame for the damage, the insurance company would insist that you attempt to get the repair/replacement cost from them first before they'll pay out on the claim.
It's only a matter of time before "the building had solar panels on the roof, which we decided could only be there in order to power lamps for a hydroponic setup".
The biggest concern is that Kaspersky is effectively an espionage agency of the Russian government and is backdooring systems at their behest.
That's a pretty major charge. Do you have evidence to support this? Because nobody else does.
As with Chinese cars, Kaspersky's true sin is a lot less criminal: It outperforms its US competitors, therefore needs political support to tilt the playing field back the way it should be tilted.
"In 2023 and 2024 alone, multiple members of Rumble’s sales team sent emails to GroupM seeking to have GroupM purchase advertisements on Rumble’s platform"
Translation: Our salespeople made unsolicited calls (emails) attempting to sell advertising to GroupM. They hung up (deleted the messages).
Conspiracy!!!
Well, I'm off to compile a list of corporations to cold-call, offering my word of mouth promotional services for a high fee. Ignore me at your peril!
Public Schools have always been casually likened to government ‘prisons’ — so the presence of armed cops (aka ‘School Resource Officers) to control the unwilling inmates is not really a conceptual anomaly.
You realize that other countries' schools are not 'government prisons', right? Having cops on site to patrol schools and arrest children is not normal in a first-world nation. Your use of the word 'normal' here actually refers to a decidedly abnormal state of affairs.
Oh, you mean that Alfred Bester. I initially thought that it was a reference to the author of The Demolished Man - which it was, but of course at one remove.
Re "Another "French Revolution"
How did the French Revolution end? Actually quite well for the French eventually. As did (eventually) the Russian Revolution for the Russians. What tends to get missed when concentrating on the reigns of terror and the "upset of the natural order" is the conditions before the revolution. Yes, the "people who matter" suffer a lot, but those histories don't tend to be written by the former serfs who would have had even more generations of being basically slaves to look forward to.
The point isn't to add a new right-wing voice to the din. The point is to remove a "left-wing" voice. Nobody listening to a "not-quite as right wing" (because describing CBS as "left wing" could in less dire circumstances be laughable) voice is almost as effective as viewers listening to one channel more of the same MAGA propaganda.
Or Aristophanes. One of his favorite characters (as in, fellow Athenians he lampooned) was gay and in that play cross-dressed to spy on the conspiring women. It's getting to the point where to predict what will be permitted in the US, just ask the Taliban...
Actually, it makes Marie Antoinette look positively caring. More like if her reply to "The price of bread is too high. The peasants are starving" was "Meh. Starving to death? Self-solving problem."
Huh?
So this clown is a member of an administration hell-bent on closing down the EPA and allowing industries to dump pollutants into water and the atmosphere. All of which doesn't seem to cause him any concern. Instead his concern for pollutants seems to stop at "if scientists have studied it, found it to be non-harmful or beneficial, then that's a flashing red conspiracy alert, right"?
Pity the poor police investigators
Fun Facts
Reason for panic
I'm wondering if the ISPs are panicking due to the current and projected increase in the size of the low income sector. It might not reduce their profits too much now, but given the current direction of the US that sector is going to be growing rapidly.
Being Chinese
Judge Otis Wright? Well, damn! There's a name from the past - remember Prenda Law? Now I am nostalgically remembering the smell of mountains of popcorn...
Re: Correct, but not the entire picture
Well, obviously
School Cops
Oh, right...
Oh, you mean that Alfred Bester. I initially thought that it was a reference to the author of The Demolished Man - which it was, but of course at one remove.