We all hate losing, but we need to keep some kind of realistic perspective on the stakes and the game.
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We all hate losing, but we need to keep some kind of realistic perspective on the stakes and the game.
When a cop shoots a black person, it takes about 20 nanoseconds (if that) before the defensive reaction sets in and that person’s background is trawled through, looking for possible reasons that they might have been a bad person who maybe deserved to be shot. Because a bad, meth-smoking, counterfeit-carrying person somehow deserves a humiliating death face-down on concrete while they cry for their mother?
As you can tell from my posting the other day, I am sick of Georgia’s desire to both steal elections based on apartheid policies, and complain about the social and political consequences for doing so. [stderr]
The reports are in on the shooting of Michael Forest Reinoehl, the ‘antifa-adjacent’ who shot a “patriot prayer” streetfighter and was gunned down in return several days later.
When I read Robert Coram’s Boyd [wc] I was fascinated. Here was a fellow who appears to have been two things: 1- a strategic genius and 2- a really fast thinker. Coram (and others, including Chuck Spinney) have long held Boyd forward as a innovator who re-invented the art of war, but I respectfully must disagree.
I’m going to be a bit waffly in this posting, because it’s about something where some facts appear to be in dispute, leading to disputable conclusions. Also: psychologists are involved, which I believe increases a level of epistemological background noise, without adding much, if anything, in the way of things we can treat as facts.
I get neo-fascist emails so that you don’t have to. Normally, I just delete them using my blisteringly fast keyboard skills – literally, I hardly notice that they appear and are gone, except I sometimes see a little subliminal flicker and think “I’m going to pull that out of the trash bin and have a look at it.”
US corporate bankruptcy laws are tuned to make it easier for polluting companies to walk away from their mess, wash their hands, and move on.
I’m not going to build out an exact time-line of events because it would be a waste of time.
I am really on the fence about this one.