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@ben The polls thing is part of it but...
Its easier to disappear people at airports. No one knows each other, everyone is anxiously in transit and airplanes are on standby to traffick.
People aren't concerned enough about now. This moment. This cruelty.
Its different than a community with neighbors and a sense of shared pride and community.
@InkomTech @mullvadnet Just adding this to the thread because Ashton is questionable at best: https://youtu.be/wgN3HA1AI3Y
These folks really do need to be scrutinized more as they bring their money and fame into policymaking.
@meganL @cstross AI thrives because everyone has been convinced that they must seek personal success and cut all costs to maximize personal profit.
Meanwhile, the type of work that meets that bar is rare and rarely of a quality that drives sales.
Creative folks need creative friends, this has always been true. Authors who want to save time and money in that arena are depriving themselves of a deeply enriching life. Nevermind thieving from others, they steal from themselves too.
@peter In his book, Hegseth thinks we lost the wars in the Middle East because we weren't allowed to commit war crimes. He thinks that war crimes are stays on power rather than the warnings of ultimate doom that they are.
A war crime is "don't put your hand on the hot stove, you'll burn yourself" but he thinks there's some winning secret there.
*edited a typo
@peter *Character limit neccessitated brevity and lack of clarity.
What I mean is that, the mindset of folks like the shooters I mentioned is present in a lot of grown men like Hegseth. They outgrew schools but they still apply the ideas in manifestos (I've read Rodgers' because it happened at my school).
And now they're in politics and the military.
They go after the helpless and vulnerable because it makes them feel strong. Like they're proving a point.
@peter Behind the Bastards covered Hegseth's book last year in an episode. In the book he lays out exactly how he'll run things and why. Its a useful episode.
The thing people still refuse to reckon with is that Hegseth, Elliot Rodgers, & Harris and Klebold, and all the other violence of recent decades come from the same place. The same toxic, hurting, loser position of "if only I did this, I'd win, I'd show them".
We didn't solve school shootings but we should have. Now these boys are men*.
For folks who might be having a rough time, here's some #cats
I will note that its just one cat in the shot.
