The revolution wont be like the French revolution, itll be like the Handmaids Tale.
A massive return to conservatism that manages to create a capitalist first theocracy loosely following American Calvinist principles (you have money because you are gods chosen, you are poor because you deserve it, for the poor here is this underclass to blame your problems on so that you dont aim your murder at the rich).
I don't think it'll work out like that, simply because my fellow Americans are still too used to being towards the top of the economic food chain. When the poor can no longer afford the bare minimum necessities and the middle class can no longer prop up their lifestyle I think people will get really, really mad. Like what happened with the healthcare CEO but on a much larger scale.
They've already been trying to sell some of the Calvanist dogma by trying to soften the blow of tariffs which by all indicators has been a massive failure of a messaging avenue, which is why they've moved towards trying to just ignore it instead.
Many of them will get really mad at whoever the person to blame points the finger at, regardless how plausible. But what good does getting really, really mad do, against a government with a functioning panopticon and an effective monopoly on force?
Until now, there has never been a time in human history when an oppressive government had the technical means to effectively surveil and control the population en masse in an automated fashion. It doesn't help that they have a monopoly on advanced weapons, lethal drones, and armed goons. As George Orwell put it: "If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face — forever".
Definitely agree. Kids are not prisoners and will react predictably if you try vainly to lock them down. Theyll find vpns, save money for their own phone, barrow a friends ipad, google the simplest way to jailbreak a cheap IoT device, or any of dozens of ways to subvert lockdown.
Or worse the kid wont be subvertive. Theyll be supplicative, submissive, and compliant.
Maybe just spend a few less hours in the office or on netflix and develop a trust filled relationship with your child, prempting the biggest threats with candid conversation about sex, drugs, risk analysis, and the fact that as a parent we broke all those rules too.
> Kids are not prisoners and will react predictably if you try vainly to lock them down. Theyll find vpns, save money for their own phone, barrow a friends ipad, google the simplest way to jailbreak a cheap IoT device, or any of dozens of ways to subvert lockdown
This all actually seems like good lessons to me. Well, except simply borrowing a friend's ipad. But I guess even just making a close enough friend who trusts them to lend an ipad is still a good skill
I don't know. Maybe kids can benefit from having some artificial boundaries that make them think outside the box and put in effort to overcome
It's funny how people become irrational whenever Trump or this admin is involved. Could this 'immune response' be clouding their thoughts in a way that actually harms their own interests, paradoxically advantaging the 'other side' they seem to fear/dislike?
I have a theory that Trump-hatred (or TDS) is primarily an expression of Boomer values from a majority of the Boomer demographic. Trump seeks to advance the current and future US generations, and Boomers want to maintain their perception of their own socioeconomic dominance, at the cost of all others and all subsequent generations, in a world whose advances they are jealous of. This is then propagated into the coddled or suppressed adult children of Boomers, who then implicitly adopt and express the TDS of their parents, for the draw/inheritance or just the approval - even tho it goes against their own interests!
you're not wrong at all. but then you also have to remember both parties work the exact same way with different colors.
you're right about both the other side as well as about yourself in exactly the same way.
it's not even projection, it's literary the same thing. you could describe yourself and all other t supporters with your text above and change one or two words to account for the color change. but the important parts remain static.
Labeling criticism of Trump, hyperbolic sometimes sure, as a mental health disorder is extremely cult like behavior. Like North Korean level indoctrination.
I've seen this phenomena at two universities. Its gross, dystopian, and eye-opening... unless you're a student who just went through a bingeful finals week and now have to move at extremely short notice.
1) Usually because they can't take it with them. A lot of students fly home, some don't have drivers license, and/or the cost to ship it third party exceeds the price of the items. It's also laziness, but I pin it mainly on practicality and cost.
2) They do, and at Santa Barbara I saw groups gathering, knowing the move-out days, to pick it up. These were migrants, homeless, and thrifty individuals. A lot of the stuff is still in its original packaging, as the parents of the student bought well intentioned but impractical gifts that never even got opened. A lot of room for better organization, but mostly folks just don't care, they're so caught up with finals and getting home that it's very far back in the list of priorities.
3) Picking through trash is a uniquely de-humanizing experience. Its one of the few things that makes me stop walking even in high-homeless areas like the Tenderloin, because I can't even imagine what it feels like to be picking through trash for items to sell, or particularly foodstuffs.
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