The US has tried to assert its colonial dominance over the internet, and has acted as though it is its domain since the beginning. That has had a lot of policy implications, and has created a “karma debt” that I think we are only starting to confront.
[WARNING: sexual abuse]
Any group which is generally male-led, maintains strong insider-versus-outsider privacy, and has its own process for adjudicating misbehavior – is going to be a haven of sexual abuse. Period. This applies in retrospect to the US congress, the roman catholic church, police departments, certain buddhist ashrams, some yoga schools, the boy scouts, etc.
Qasem Soleimani had a “bad guy” nickname; he was “The Shadow Commander.”
Trump’s committing crimes against humanity on twitter, which – naturally – allows it. For any who have forgotten, threatening to use military force is the crime of War of Aggression.
A few years ago, several companies started producing luggage that had built-in power distribution systems and high capacity batteries. Naturally, the Department of Homeland Security concluded they looked too bomb-like and banned them from flights. Never mind that I could just as easily put a tactical(tm) battery in my Maxpedition tactical(tm) shoulder bag, and have a rat’s nest of wires in it, the new bags were not acceptable.
I think I’ve figured out Trump’s strategy: he is going to be such a jackass that nothing he does carries the ability to shock anyone, anymore. Once he hits zero credibility, he has nothing left to lose.
Let me postulate that knowledge actually is power. That would mean that intellectual property is a strategic asset: the asymmetry between its pile of intellectual property and other nations’ piles can be converted to potential military force and dominance.
I think it’s pretty progressive that the town of Fair Haven, Vermont, elected a mayor who is a Nubian …
Every year around easter, the christians would sometimes explode into violence, blaming the jews for killing jesus.
When the media report on police crimes, they still use credulous language. What does that say?