The surveillance state has done a great job of conditioning our social response to what amounts to a massive violation of the constitution. Of course nobody cares. The information has been dropped in a way that nobody really understands it, and that is quite deliberate.
From various comment discussions over at Mano’s, I’ve been reminded of Madison Grant’s wretched The Passing Of The Great Race and once again had to think about the historical importance of that remarkably shitty book.
One comment in my post about Joe Rogan pointed out that Spotify does have the virtue of bringing new, unknown, musicians and performers to our attention. There’s truth in that.
I am so full of anger and hatred that it’s 3:00am and I can’t sleep.
I’m going to rant/ramble and not try to make a neat argument this morning. I need sleep and coffee and it looks like I may be snowed in again and I want to get to the shop and make some wood chips before the roads are impassible.
Content Warning: Blood, Despair
I found this years ago; I don’t know who did the original or where it’s from, but it captures something.
How’s the defunding going?
The right of a woman to an abortion did not depend on the Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade. It was won before that decision, all over the country, by grassroots agitation that forced states to recognize the right. If the American people, who by a great majority favor that right, insist on it, act on it, no Supreme Court decision can take it away.
I learned about this because it was mentioned on the Unintended Consequences podcast.
Looks like the Europe edition of “Syria, the overthrow.”