Our carceral model is just holding pens that use time to bleed testosterone, vigor, and social connections out of members of the underclass, particularly men of color, leaving them compliant husks.
ChrisLicht
joined 1 year ago
You just exactly put into words why I find it so challenging!
You are awesome; thanks for the clue-in!
I, for one, appreciate this wax-faced lady stepping forward to provide content during the WGA/SGA strikes!
Dumb question: Does one install the Python model, or access online?
No shame at all!
I was top mod of a 25K sub that closely followed an IRL lolcow trying to become a public intellectual. It was thankless, the monthly user tempests in a teapot were annoying, and dealing with the occasional new junior mod turning out to be a chud was taxing. I did it for maybe six months and then peaced out.
I honestly don’t understand the psychological makeup and social model of the big top mods who do this shit, day in day out, year after year. I assume they’ve got to be making money somehow, or they maybe are bubble-boys.
“Blowing your wad”?
New members, after you’ve gotten acclimated, please consider financially supporting lemm.ee. This place is extremely well run and useful!
We are max three years away from this SC ruling that only “serious” religions are covered.
As irritating as they are, it’s kind of hard to blame them. Most of world beyond their fingers is opaque, and they don’t have the toolset to create clarity.
Our political system, beyond the level of town councils and school boards, is effectively unreachable and it’s subject to ownership by people and forces this pair will never see.
Our economy is so complex that two Chicago and MIT PhDs can argue for a lifetime about one of its tiniest details; to the pair of Trump fans in this piece, the economy entirely comprises the cost of their mortgage, the utilities, and gas. Most of the products and services they use are created by massive companies which delegate little power or ability to personalize at the level at which this pair interacts with them.
Our local newspapers are effectively denuded or gone, and local news stations tend to just package whatever Sinclair sends down the pipe. Remember “all politics is local”? That’s been flipped completely: there is almost nothing local; national considerations drive even school board elections.
Finally, that other estate, the church, is the one that taught them the magical thinking that they eagerly apply to things confusing and mysterious, lapping up simple proto-fascist narratives that eventually bake down to triple parentheses.