We need a theory of gun morality to explain the new data. The only way to stop a bad guy without a gun is a good guy with a gun, but only with a coherent ideology. Good guy with a gun + wacko terminally online ideology is not useful.
I think it's fair to say this will keep happening again and again until it won't, for any number of reasons.
The liberal ~~driller~~ swiftie strikes again.
I enjoyed Lady Vengeance. Beautiful movie, nice pacing and lots of interesting and memorable characters. It had a few clever Park Chan Wook tricks that I always enjoy. Felt like a satisfying way to bring the Vengeance trilogy full circle. However, I will say that it confirms my theory that the 2000s were the worst decade for film, because making the movie slowly fade to a bleak, muted black and white with some color highlights is such a 2005 move. Felt a bit hard to take the bitter-sweetness of the ending seriously with how washed out and dead the visuals were in the third act, especially after the revenge scenes.
George W Bush failed upwards and sideways so far he brought down the world trade center so it's not unprecedented.
Every factory is a JDAM factory under the right oxygenation and pressure conditions.
I receive: Colonizing you to run the semiconductor industry and your undying loyalty and commitment to staying away from making any deals with the regional super power, who I recognize as holding sovereignty over you
You receive: moldy body armors and rusty guns
We need to consider the power dynamics she's under.
Every time jury nullification is used for based reasons, we get a little bit closer to people casting aside civility politics and understanding how power really operates. Uncritical support to the actionists, and those jurors will sleep well knowing they allowed heroes to go free.
Entryism works perfectly well, though: it advances your personal brand, nullifies energy that would otherwise go into building dual power, and gets you a successful career of perpetually failing upwards until you become Nancy Pelosi.
At least in other places it seems like the economy receding or stagnating has led to some measured resurgence of keynesianism or some resistance to neoliberalism in forms that are distinct from fascism, i.e. left wing populism. In the US the only response to the failure of neoliberalism is more neoliberalism, and anyone who wants an alternative is attacked as a stooge for the fascists (who also just want more neoliberalism).
Hexbear Catholic caucus is eating good as always.