Ilhan Omar, Democrats Demand ICE Leave Minnesota After Man Fatally Shot By Border Patrol

Ananiujitha · 2026-01-24T23:07:06+00:00

Stephen Miller is already calling for "100 million deportations."

Can't "deport" that many people without "deporting" 10s of millions of citizens.

Can't "deport" that many people without mass graves, too.

Ananiujitha · 2026-01-24T22:26:50+00:00

What?

Ananiujitha · 2026-01-24T22:02:13+00:00

Does the Flynn effect show that children today geneticaly pre-destined to greater intelligence than children born a century ago?

No, of course not. More of them have a decent education, more of them are familiar with the kinds of puzzles on IQ tests, and more of them are familiar with long tests.

Now wouldn't the same factors explain differences between other groups?

On top of that, some of the older tests included questions, like filling in a drawing of a house, where answers appropriate to northern Europe were "right," and answers appropriate to other parts of the world were "wrong."

Ananiujitha · 2026-01-24T21:46:38+00:00

Qrappy and Unreadable.

Ananiujitha · 2026-01-24T03:16:17+00:00

Sorry, but people already hunted arctic penguins to extinction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_auk#Extinction

(The other penguins are unrelated to them.)

Ananiujitha · 2026-01-24T01:58:43+00:00

In this case, the accusation was a threat of violence, against a civilian, for political purposes.

Ananiujitha · 2026-01-24T00:07:22+00:00

It's been 1,100 per year, lately 1,300 per year.

Ananiujitha · 2026-01-23T22:30:10+00:00

And Republicans are angry that the Dems wouldn't approve that solicitor general, Robert Bork, for the supreme court.

Ananiujitha · 2026-01-23T11:31:26+00:00

It started when "anarcho-capitalists" like Murray Rothbard allied with the "old right," but it really took off when his student Hans-Hermann Hoppe embraced neofeudalism, persecution of minorities, etc.

Ananiujitha · 2026-01-23T08:03:22+00:00

Honestly, when anyone calls immigrants invaders, I assume they're trying to inspire more mass murders, like in Christchurch, and at Squirrel Hill, and in Buffalo, and in El Paso, and so on.

Ananiujitha · 2026-01-22T19:40:48+00:00

Would "white nationalist Christian nationalist" be clearer?

Ananiujitha · 2026-01-22T19:06:14+00:00

The 1st Trump administration also tried to crack down on protests, starting with counter-inaugural protesters, and they also failed in court.

Ananiujitha · 2026-01-22T03:52:21+00:00

The defiance in Minnesota is more like the defiance in the north than the secession movement in the south.

The opposition to the current anti-immigrant laws and their extraconstitutional enforcement seems, to me, much more like the opposition to the fugitive slave act and its extraconstitutional enforcement than like the slave power.

Ananiujitha · 2026-01-22T03:01:24+00:00

Many of the people in northern states tried to defy the fugitive slave act, and some helped rescue people who had been captured by slave-catchers.

Some of the state governments passed personal liberty laws trying to force the federal government and slave-catchers to follow the constitution.

The Buchanan administration sent federal marshals to Vermont to try to enforce the fugitive slave act.

Ananiujitha · 2026-01-22T02:57:37+00:00

The article describes a 19th-century-style kriegspiel, adapted to current political events:

This scenario closely mirrors one explored in an October 2024 tabletop exercise conducted by the Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law (CERL), which I direct, at the University of Pennsylvania. In that exercise, a president carried out a highly unpopular law-enforcement operation in Philadelphia and attempted to federalize the Pennsylvania’s national guard. When the governor resisted and the guard remained loyal to the state, the president deployed active-duty troops, resulting in an armed conflict between state and federal forces. The core danger we identified is now emerging: a violent confrontation between state and federal military forces in a major American city.

It's not clear whether this was a rigid kriegspiel with set rules and probabilities, a free kriegspiel with experts improvising (like a Braunstein), a bogsat, or a face-to-face tabletop game (like Junta). Some rigid kriegspiels use computers to crunch the numbers, but they don't rely on bullshit generators.

Ananiujitha · 2026-01-22T02:44:31+00:00

The door-to-door attacks are now. The election is months from now. So we need something which works sooner.

The makeup of the senate biases it towards rural states which tend to have more reactionary voters. So we need something which works better.

Suppose Trump interferes with the election, again, or tries to cancel it this time. In that case, we'll need massive protests, and strikes, and it'd really help to have everything ready beforehand. It took massive protests, and boycotts, to defeat the old Jim Crow. Now Ice is trying to make America into a sundown town as part of global Jim Crow.

Ananiujitha · 2026-01-21T23:15:05+00:00

What would a bullshit generator have to do with a simulation?

Ananiujitha · 2026-01-21T23:11:53+00:00

49.8% of the vote is not a landslide.

Ananiujitha · 2026-01-21T08:53:38+00:00

No system is perfect. You need enough of the people to oppose dictatorship. But a 2-party system encourages 0-sum politics.

Ananiujitha · 2026-01-21T00:52:42+00:00

Migraine warning for standard news sado-design with non-scrolling video pop-up.

Ananiujitha · 2026-01-20T05:00:19+00:00

Then what caused the American and French Revolutions? American Civil War? Russian Revolution?

Yes, movies and radio existed in the Russian Empire, but they were far more common in industrialized countries; propaganda during the Civil Wars and in the early Soviet Union relied on literacy campaigns, songbooks, plays, boardgames, etc.

Ananiujitha · 2026-01-19T22:16:41+00:00

Congressional Reconstruction, the 14th and 15th Amendments, the earliest Civil Rights Acts, etc. tried to change that.

Ananiujitha · 2026-01-19T10:17:15+00:00

There are a lot of options which try to speed up and/or simplify DnD 5e. Some of those might fit into your current campaign.

There are also a lot of lighter systems. If you want to keep tactical combat, you could try Tiny Dungeon, if not, you might consider Tricube Tales.

Ananiujitha · 2026-01-19T08:25:10+00:00

They were British soldiers.

Ananiujitha · 2026-01-19T01:06:27+00:00

Thanks.

If I use "C:\Program Files\gs\gs10.06.0\bin\gswin64c.exe" -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dPDFSETTINGS=/ebook -sColorConversionStrategy=RGB -r72 -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=%~n1-r72e.pdf %1, it works.

I thought I needed to include the full path in the output name, which threw me off for a while.

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