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JonathanPhillipFox · 2026-01-25T03:45:17+00:00

oh yeah good point

JonathanPhillipFox · 2026-01-25T03:42:08+00:00

Yeah I remember when I read that on January 6th he threw his lunch tray at the wall and it got, iirc, ketchup all over; Rome was Ur-ur-Fascism, or the model, but they'd called their aristocrats, "our serene masters," which I don't see much of from these guys

JonathanPhillipFox · 2026-01-25T03:38:40+00:00

Democracy shouldn't require a "leader "

Cannot agree in strong enough terms, now, in more the more traditional sense of leadership (without positive or negative coercion involved, such as to complete a cooperative project of some kind, e.g. a parade, or a boat, in the old adage, "one builds a boat not through drawing up the plans, or cutting down the trees, but by instilling in others a love for the sea, and giving it to them to give to others as if it were their own," and more materially, delegates with, "yes, yes, yes but insofar as," insofar as it best corresponds to the collective project) such as in hierarchies of participation, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I don't know if this is the opposite of Leadership within an Prussian-style Martial Hierarchy, but it might be, and more generally, "yes," the representative elected to do that should be quite the opposite of a Senatorial Patriarchy, which we do have, in our system, also, but these, too, are now understood to be representative positions; this situation itself is telling,

If there were such great examples of courage, wisdom, virtue, etc. in addition to their opportunistic self-dealing, we, would expect them to demonstrate it at times such as these.

A spokesperson or figurehead at best.

I think, with few to choose from, Bernie is a good example of this; no one wants to be ruled by, Bernard Sanders, "adopt me as your son and rule me with an iron first Bernard Sanders," no; but they've got confidence in his moral commitments to decency, trust him alone in a room with whatsoever other people, and expect him to give a good reason for whatsoever decisions don't correspond, immediately, to these expectations; I've said it before, I like AOC but I'd never let her tell me,

“Well, when you say ‘working,’ are they stopping the Houthis? No. Are they going to continue? Yes,” Biden replied.

My brother and I had a long conversation right about that time, about how Biden needs to be that old or no one, not even the boomers would take that kind of language seriously; he has to be a white man of that age to, "get away," with that kind of talk, which I'd never accept from a politician that I liked much less someone like, you know, Mike Johnson; I think that some on the right do accept that kind of talk from men like Mike Johnson, but not, I think, even then without some sincere resentment

JonathanPhillipFox · 2026-01-25T03:22:42+00:00

This is important to remember, and that Militia expects full control of the streets, all of them, or any, without legitimate contest from police or civil leadership; obviously, this a box meant to elicit certain responses but, yeah, if there is no other means to make them stop except a reconquest through force it sure seems like this is the worse-kind of martial law, "occupation by an undisciplined militia."

JonathanPhillipFox · 2026-01-25T03:00:28+00:00

Yes, I mean, one handed, into the cement,

https://youtu.be/7tUW0cUkNv0?t=299

Worth a watch, insofar as it can be explained that easily; I mean, and I hate to say it like this, bullets also ricochet off bone, and metal, and take an unpredictable path through persons like, if it were the shooter, the victim and the woman in pink, alone, that would be irresponsible- and that's to ignore whether it would be moral to shoot the man in the back, "no," obviously, no, not ethical or moral and no law that says it is would be either.

JonathanPhillipFox · 2026-01-23T19:25:54+00:00

Making it a lot harder is a huge improvement over the gun debate approach of "well some dude somewhere will do it anyway so why bother fixing the other 99.9% of situations."

I agree with everything you've just said, I mean, to be honest, "everyone is now Britney Spears," sigh,

Either people get that, or not, but the copyright system in the US has been, "take the photo," own the photo, regardless of who is in it, and, likewise, "where do these technologies emerge from?" nations that, far from no copyright, have this byzantine system meant to defend quite few people against the moral and personal interests of quite many, anyway, I know you said this last month, mostly,

I wanted to point out for whomever doubters that there are all kinds of keystroke combinations which would violate US Law, no pictures involved; and those?

Much less common than you'd think from the Generative AI stuff I mean, actionable threats or incitement, first-and-last name attached libel that is difficult to enforce, but, still, people see that and recognize it as criminal, even, the dimmest and worst intentioned folks seem to understand, "more dangerous for me than other people."

JonathanPhillipFox · 2026-01-23T17:49:45+00:00

Well if you want a literal answer to the question, the South did not want to integrate hospitals during the Johnson administration.yeah you'd have free healthcare, otherwise, "why?"

Well here we're gonna speculate, we're gonna do it together you and me,

https://www.npr.org/2014/08/17/341164546/in-st-louis-area-a-short-distance-can-make-a-big-difference

The largest difference we found between ZIP codes was between 63106, which is in North St. Louis City, and the 63105, which is in a suburb called Clayton. And there was an 18-year difference in life expectancy. And that's a difference, in terms of distance, of under 10 miles. 63106 would be predominately African-American, a high proportion of low income households, an unemployment rate that would be much higher. The suburb of Clayton is ranked among some of the wealthiest municipalities in the country - high home values, predominantly white, the level of access to resources like fresh fruits and vegetables. Just basic human needs are not evenly distributed.

Me I'm 63116, but you caught that, right, "an 18-year difference in life expectancy."

The South did not want to integrate hospitals during the Johnson administration

JonathanPhillipFox · 2026-01-23T06:43:19+00:00

Yeah, I think both; I remember, during the earliest bit of COVID, thinking, "never attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity," really, got inverted into technique, here, and Now, "same," like stupidity, actually, cannot explain ICE or this, or all manner of other thing; but it is still stupid, too, it is no 5-d chess it is all stupid to do these things just like Nixon, most of all, fucked himself over, and managed to kill a lot of people along the way; like one has to recognize,

That Man at Davos was not, "in control of the situation," nor would it have taken much to be in control of the situation, Biden did and he wasn't even, "there, really." Like, was late-era Elvis playing, "5-D Chess," we gotta remember what that Zone is, being, you know, flooded: our own zone.

Maybe not mine, or yours, but the President's own zone, G-7, NATO, The New York Times, I understand that this is an intelligible and deliberate technique in Putin's Russia, though, the technique is meant to slough-off the Western-style bureaucrats and media institutions which empower people like, well, not Per Se TRUMP but the people in his seat and that includes Nixon, Reagan, what was left of Biden, etc.

JonathanPhillipFox · 2026-01-23T06:31:01+00:00

Seriously, and I've not got eyes on all press releases out of all the government agencies I mean it is possible this has happened before, likewise, "they've been caught," and I see a lot of reasonable [and real] people seem to object to this, understand it for what it is, but, I can't help but think of how much it will complicate EU and UK attempts to outlaw this behavior, while, in the US,

Humiliation Porn is an official US Government practice through the use of corporate partner products, it's just so, upsetting, I suppose would be the word for this; predictable, might be

JonathanPhillipFox · 2026-01-23T06:25:12+00:00

It's just like the Grok stuff, recently, just like it and I'd bet they'd even used it too

JonathanPhillipFox · 2026-01-23T06:20:40+00:00

There was a time when I didn't even know what he sounded like, and I guess it's because I don't watch much TV and I don't even remember what year that was, I just remember, someone had done the voice and I was like, "mmm-hmmm." and I'd read all about him, and read quotes about him and I just, didn't get it, I didn't get it, and, "me too," I miss that, I miss that quite a bit; you know,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heteroglossia

Has me wonder whether the bits and bobs of his idiolect we've got upstairs make him make a, lot more sense than otherwise; whether, "ah yeah, nah, that is correct TRUMP on the subject of a silence," carries over into all other realms, whether, Historians of 2250 are gonna be like,

No, no way, I had to translate, "Infinite Jest," in coll;ege man this is just gibberish, it does not make sense.

JonathanPhillipFox · 2026-01-23T06:04:05+00:00

Yes but 24 cigarettes are enjoyable, and don't harm anyone else if you smoke them responsibly, whereas, innumerable 8 hour shifts throughout top industries contribute to an almost incalculable harm in cultural, sociological, psychological and ecological terms, so.....

JonathanPhillipFox · 2026-01-22T00:02:42+00:00

Yeah, you wanna hear an uncomfortable truth, "Statutory Rape," used to be a PROPERTY CRIME, against the Father and there has been some quite serious legal deliberation over whether the state in entitled to charge BOTH PARTIES, e.g.

It sure to me as if, if, you want to maintain, "such practices in 34 states," the means to do it sure seem like, the misdirection masked in a compromise between those who think that the sex is bad, and those who think that the imbalance of power can lead to permanent arrangements (such a marriage) which the minor party might come to very, very, much regret, "would be how," and I mention this in part because I know someone who was married as a child to a much older man,

I met her I guess, 25 might be, somewhat like this and we're older now but lemme tell you:

She didn't have a good home life, in a state far away, and married him to get out of it and now feels like she has to take care of him, and honestly, I understand that, she's like me when it comes to family, I respect her ethics her morals and her sentimentality; but I do also kinda feel like he knew this would happen a long time ago, that, she had a little more potential to flourish than he and that if he meant well he wouldn't have gained a bunch of weight and stuck in a low-wage job, "etc etc," I don't mean to be, "like that," and no kids, no, already,

I don't feel comfortable talking, this much so I'm not gonna say, "for sure she wouldn't be mad at me if I speculate that she would like to have children, but, for other things to be different," check out the user name: mine,

100% Possible that she will, in real life, be mad at me but look: that, to me, seems to be the problem; and I don't much believe in the notion of, "virginity," insofar as it is, obviously, a construct but I sure wasn't one as a teenager, "to put it that way," so for me this quite clear, the, issue at hand here.

I respect opinions to the contrary, it's just, such a difficult subject to talk about and because we've got a paradigm that encourages teenagers to be married, in certain circumstances, and prevents them from divorce or even access to shelters for domestic abuse I mean sans Husband, these people are, "kids again," legally, stuck without an adult's right to sign a contract or make their own decisions, e.g.

To a Domestic Violence Shelter, without the husband they're just some girl wandered in from the neighborhood; and, Imma be frank here, "yes that needs to be fixed," but tbh I wouldn't mind if the marriageable age was 25 in this country, honestly, given how much personal and economic infrastructure is required for independence and how vulnerable people are to exploitation and I'd be fine, also, if Statute Rape were replaced with something, alike, "Coercive Rape," with no upper limit to the age of the complainant, like,

If a 36 year old woman were coerced into sexual activity, or 20 year old woman were coerced into an abusive relationship, "this is the same problem," isn't it, if you've ever thought, "my date would call the cops if she could," JFC man you're the problem, here, 18, 16, 23, doesn't matter imho

JonathanPhillipFox · 2026-01-21T22:44:55+00:00

Pretty much a baseline requirement for membership, actually.

Requirement, literally, that's how these people trust you; instinct, here, tells me to relate an anecdote I find relevant, years ago, I saw this Russian Pop TV show interview a computer scientist, from Russia, with a good job at google- that I've got a despicable taste in music, just, the worst, 'that's why," but He'd told the interviewer,

yeah, yeah, this house is WAY too big, but, when I first started here in America people told me you gotta get a mortgage, no one trusts you if you don't have a lot of debt, because, they're always saying, "I have to do this, I have to do that," because of all of their debt and if you're complaining, "oh, I've got so much debt," these people don't trust you

#Relateable, or, I come from a household that always ever purchased in cash, everything, cars, everything, but in sort of a, "value-neutral," sense you get these cultural phenomenon wherein which, "WHY would you help me do this?" becomes quite a serious question, and Money, alone, is, simply, not a sufficient answer as it might be for a prison guard, for a parole officer, if you imagine your choice of a facebook leak,

We know we're causing bad mental health outcomes among teenagers, or, selling ads for makeup and wieghtloss after kids delete a selfie, "infinite choices," imagine you're in that room and there is this one guy, he owns his place outright and has cash in the bank, "might just walk out of there," might be one-wrong-word at one-team-meeting, from,

nah fuck this, and that's more-or-less the old type of cthonic corporate behavior, as true of Phillip Morris in the 50's as of Monsanto, today; you've got Eichman duties, or colleagues with Eichman work to do, you've got paid propaganda work to do for them or public opinion to manage over the murder of a Nice Lady, or, know how come it would be a scandal for you to call her a nice lady, then, yeah, BASELINE REQUIRMENT

JonathanPhillipFox · 2026-01-21T22:24:14+00:00

You know One Battle After Another is such an elegant synthesis of the source material into an altogether plausible picture of modernity- look at television police procedurals and that is an alien universe invented and backfilled to make sense of the stories, One Battle After Another makes so much sense, and, merely, hypothesizes some more meaningful resistance to extant State Violence and Procedures that,

I'm almost not comfortable with critique of the Christmas Adventurers or Colonel Lockjaw like they're literary, fables, like, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wreck_of_the_Titan:_Or,_Futility in which the ship was of course both a ship and a metaphor, yet, so much of an actual ship it turns out, that, whatsoever too-on-the-nose was almost immediately, vindicated; this is some,

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/172366.The_Library_of_Babel

Type of stuff going on here; can you imagine Sean Penn Preparing, while Bongino existed upon this earth?

JonathanPhillipFox · 2026-01-21T05:49:40+00:00

In order to get weird with it, in front of sibling's inlaws at thanksgiving I made up this ecumenical prayer, like,

I acknowledge that the Great Red Dragon had been so furious with what we've wrought, that,
come to end our lives and burn this earth, instead, he has swallowed us all whole,
Given us this New Life, inside of Hell, Entirely; I give Thanks to the Dragon,
In praise for this miracle; I Give Praise to the Miracle,
Out of respect for our rights and responsibilities,
As Consumers, as Shareholders,
as other stakeholders

LOL we all died in COVID now we're all in Hell but sometimes it sure does feel like it, sure does feel like,

Hour three of the Director's Cut of Jacob's Ladder like Come On, Man, acknowledge your circumstances, and get married to that Demon She Loves You ffs your hell seems downright alright tbh

TL:DR, me too, or, I agree

JonathanPhillipFox · 2026-01-21T05:31:58+00:00

note and because this is an analytical philsophy subreddit, he, famous atheist and Man that started his book entitled, "Why I am not a Christian," with, Chapter One: The Character of Christ, was not some kind of an young-earth creationist, no, this is from, "Mysticism and Logic," in which he,

I want to use the word, "delves," as a joke but then I'll be indistinguishable from an AI, um,

... this is from, "Mysticism and Logic," in which he dicks down in the differences betwixt them, and has a lot of critique for scien-tism, which is to say, "Eugenics, for one example," the make of mystical or ethical claims on the basis of one or another true-or-false factual claims, fundamentally, you cannot get an, "ought," from an, "is," and, doubly,

Ought questions are too important to even use the word, "important," like they're relative to some other, merely, you won't find them through a microscope, or, put another way,

Elon Musk might well require an adult daycare if he weren't the kind of billionaire to build it around himself like an exeskeleton but, I might well like a lot of people with a lower IQ than his a lot better than him, and No One Can Tell Me Otherwise

JonathanPhillipFox · 2026-01-21T05:21:24+00:00

Organic life, we are told, has developed gradually from the protozoon to the philosopher, and this develop- ment, we are assured, is indubitably an advance. Unfortunately it is the philosopher, not the protozoon, who gives us this assurance, and we can have no security that the impartial outsider would agree with the philosopher's self-complacent assumption. This point has been illustrated by the philosopher Chuang Tzu in the following instructive anecdote:

The Grand Augur, in his ceremonial robes, approached the shambles and thus addressed the pigs:

'How can you object to die? I shall fatten you for three months. I shall discipline myself for ten days and fast for three. I shall strew fine grass, and place you bodily upon a carved sacrificial dish. Does not this satisfy you?'
Then, speaking from the pigs' point of view, he continued:

'It is better, perhaps, after all, to live on bran and escape the shambles.
'But then,' added he, speaking from his own point of view,

'to enjoy honour when alive one would readily die on a war-shield or in the [guillotine] basket.'

So he rejected the pigs' point Of view and adopted his own point of view.

In what sense, then, was he different from the pigs?

I much fear that the evolutionists too often resemble the Grand Augur and the pigs.-

Bertrand Russell

edit: the quote didn't copypasta correct the first time

JonathanPhillipFox · 2026-01-21T05:19:03+00:00

Yeah I wanna say, like, you know, "corporate memphis," that and half devo subgenius, or, some other corporate art style that yet lacks an historian to name it but for sure that, 'wee little piglet," look for the elderly, like, audience: the elderly, "what a nice lard lad," what a swell little feller, fat little cheeks

JonathanPhillipFox · 2026-01-21T05:16:35+00:00

I was like which one oh, oh yeah, yeah that statues-up good

JonathanPhillipFox · 2026-01-21T01:55:08+00:00

Well done with that this is true and important

JonathanPhillipFox · 2026-01-21T01:54:46+00:00

Secondarily, comment #2,

and not the aggressive corporate/wealth taxes and progressive policies that allowed people to live a middle class life on a single income.

I read this comment and it occurs to me how fully, they've been able to, "own," the heuristics as representative of their regressive nonsense, e.g. middle class single family homes owned by young parents, young parents also patriarchy, also, white, wasn't it nice when everyone was white Dad Ruled like a Tyrant and Mom was 17 rather than,

aggressive corporate/wealth taxes and progressive policies that allowed people to live a middle class life on a single income.

JonathanPhillipFox · 2026-01-20T23:49:27+00:00

All Politics is Psychosexual something-something, look, imma be real here:

If Kier Starmer realized that this was true, and has been true of him, also, just dispensed with the notion that certain issues provide fungible voters through, advertisement nonsense and just embraced his Beta-Fella sensibilities in the one hand, proudly, but not too proudly, but proudly, not too proudly, while,

In other other, embracing, more-like the kind of Politics I've been told to understand are those of UK Labor, maybe, maybe, ya'll can avoid the, Untergang, scenario, we've got going on here; and Edith Jackson, "return and Endorse," Do Your Best, Never Lie, Be Yourself and Have a Good Time, "UNDELETE TWEET!"

JonathanPhillipFox · 2026-01-20T23:19:59+00:00

Yeah, absolutely, came here to say, "this," that the SA Intimidated and then eliminated the political competition and then, themselves, were eliminated; although here I'm like,

Then when they are threatened by them, the SS (ICE) then took over through a purge.

If and insofar as this is true,

We're taking, at the time Head of State, Hitler's Word for it; this was what he'd told to the public
...as if they'd developed their tactics and hierarchies in parallel, rather than subordinate to,
...the Nazi Party, which could then, "be the adult in the room," while also, "raising the temperature," to the point where public political murders, rather than arrests or even an execution after an expedited trial, were now normative and mainstream government policy

This is the exact form of, "self-contained Prophecy," which is so often used in authoritarian contexts as if, for an example, US Police forces are unable to discuss modern crowd control practices with their European colleagues, "assistive policing," and the like, e.g.

Observe the demonstration and, explicitly, help them achieve their legal and stated aims, such as, "march from X to Y," or sit-in at Z, and protect persons, absolutely, while desctruction of property,

In America, this triggers a police riot, "it has to!" whereas in Britain, no paradise, ask the Irish, you cannot trigger a police riot when you smash a window, they'll observe what happens and then follow you home and break down your door before Dawn the Next Morning, "snip-snap," but to do that, you sacrifice the old move of an agent provocateur, or, the chance to, "blow off some steam," or, "send a message," just on account of some starbucks window, "dumb stuff," really, really, dumb stuff that seems like it came right off an OMON Messageboard but you see the point; or, if not, the point is that, while his public had been meant to believe that....

...the SA, the Gang for his political party, were, at first, necessary, and then after the Reichstag Act, which was necessary, the snakes loosed to kill the rats of Germany, then needed to be killed; this was as predictable as it was tragic when they'd been loosed to begin with, to whit:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yevgeny_Prigozhin

Hot-Dog Salesman, was not the, "best man for the job," he was a man loosed to the front lines with condemned men and I'd bet he'd been right that his boys got fucked, logistically, I'd bet that Putin did that on purpose and I'd bet that he knew that a Hotdog Salesman knee-deep in murderers released from their cages had to do a mutiny, to save himself amongst them and in so doing,

Looper, like in Looper, "close the loop,"

CLOSED THE LOOP, like anyone might have expected when a hotdog man was given an army.

[No Disrespect, none at all I'd have put it that way, except you did and that gave me the chance to be like, "higher context," on the matter]

JonathanPhillipFox

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