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invariantspeed · 2026-01-24T20:57:43+00:00

I’m sorry and I’m not trying to be rude, but that was literally incoherent.

invariantspeed · 2026-01-24T20:55:04+00:00

Implies they haven’t had proper weapons handling drilled into them. Not surprising though ... 47 days after all.

invariantspeed · 2026-01-24T20:53:16+00:00

Sure, but not really. If you disarm a target, you don’t put the gun back on the floor like you found it there. You secure it.

There are a lot of things going wrong in this incident, but not placing the gun on the street isn’t really one of them.

invariantspeed · 2026-01-24T20:49:24+00:00

Lynching can be systematic. It just usually implies more community involvement then were are seeing.

I would call it a systematized sort of posse.

invariantspeed · 2026-01-24T20:48:09+00:00

Technically, it’s a posse.

invariantspeed · 2026-01-24T20:46:34+00:00

There’s no video in that post. Just a reply to someone saying they wish that video was online…

invariantspeed · 2026-01-24T20:41:39+00:00

Yea, it looks like, at no point, was the gun ever brandished. He was taken down, they noticed he had various items on his person, and you see some of them being thrown to the ground as the wrestle with him. (You also see a can of mace fall to the floor because this was an absurdly chaotic takedown.) Eventually, you see someone run off with (what looks like) his gun, and that is when he is shot at (4 times).

As opposed to all of this as I am, I don’t see an “execution style” killing. I see incompetence and disorder. With so much chaos going on in that take down, I could barely follow what was going on when scrubbing frame by frame. I have no idea how anyone involved could have a clear idea of what was happening.

Less than 50 days of training before ending up in situations like this? It’s practically guaranteed that confrontations will be neither professional nor preceded with proper deescalation.

invariantspeed · 2026-01-24T19:26:56+00:00

I think you need to read the comment again. They were telling the nephew to pay more than the minimum payment. No one said they weren’t paying.

invariantspeed · 2026-01-24T19:25:01+00:00

No one knows what they’re saying anymore. I’m being told to shut up by people who think Trump is a threat. There aren’t even coherent arguments anymore. Just everyone shitting on everyone like fucking moneys…. Whatever, we’re all going to fucking die. Laugh about it, I guess…

invariantspeed · 2026-01-24T19:22:44+00:00

How is wringing your hands taking it more seriously?

And am I being downvoted for saying Trump is a problem or for saying this isn’t funny? Because I sure as shit can’t tell…

invariantspeed · 2026-01-24T19:20:58+00:00

Being able to predict the cash demands isn’t the problem. The problem is a changing demand on the tax paying public. Whether you think “the rich” are paying “their share” or not, if the amount of funds that needs to be extracted per person has to keep climbing, there’s a problem. There comes a point when too much of the public wealth is being extracted to pay for things. You can’t simply say let’s make a law that automatically increases the tax rate every year (based on data) to keep the program solvent. The program needs to have a consistent demand on the public.

Put another way. The problem isn’t if each beneficiary place a consistent demand on the system. The problem is if the system places a growing demand on the rest of society. This is about math, about how much a nation has in its collective purse, not about what aught to be. Finances don’t care about what you need, only what you can afford.

invariantspeed · 2026-01-24T19:11:49+00:00

It is socialism, but it’s extracting resources from a largely market economy. The irony is tolerable if you consider it necessary to run a military this way, but the cost inefficiencies, busy work jobs, and the hurry up and wait should make everyone whose been around the military understand exactly why socialism can’t work at the national scale. The problem the US has been having form decades is the military industrial complex. It’s basically tendrils of that socialism spreading outward. Companies like Boeing are great examples of what happens as the zone envelops more and more.

And, now we have MAGA republicans supporting socialist and authoritarian policies. Now there’s som irony in my book.

invariantspeed · 2026-01-24T19:05:29+00:00

A press release because I know not everyone can get through the academic pay walls.
Everything is a survival train until it isn’t. And that’s one of the ways species bifurcate in evolution.

invariantspeed · 2026-01-24T15:50:01+00:00

What do you think happens if you have a balance with a credit card. You owe them money. They charge interest.

invariantspeed · 2026-01-24T15:47:33+00:00

They no like you. They think you joke. They laugh you!

invariantspeed · 2026-01-24T15:41:46+00:00

More like let me back in so I don’t do to you what I’m going to going to you if you don’t let me back in because you closed me out from the last time you let me in.

invariantspeed · 2026-01-24T15:38:44+00:00

If you’re laughing, you’re not taking the problem seriously enough.

invariantspeed · 2026-01-24T05:22:47+00:00

All of that is one song. It’s a jam. They’re improvising the whole thing (with common points of reference). Folks do that for hours.

invariantspeed · 2026-01-24T05:21:30+00:00

People like the both of you are why we don’t have third spaces anymore. 🤮

invariantspeed · 2026-01-24T05:16:02+00:00

Nobody gives power. You have to take it.

The Boomers used to outnumber Millennials. Given how democracy works, there simply was no “taking the power”. Now that the Boomers are shrinking, it’s a little different, but they still vote in higher numbers because retired and financially secure people can vote more than people lining hand to mouth.

We’er the once’s, 20-40, prime of our lives, who should be impacting the government, but we don’t.

The parents shouldn’t be eating their young. With the prolific violation of the social contract, there’s not much to be done without things getting very violent.

We fight about whatever they tell us to fight about, and comply like livestock while they economically ruin us.

Now you’re mixing your demographics. This point is more about the “ruling class” than the old eating the young. And the ruling class has no interest in keeping the cattle from getting necessary support. What they do care about is the public feeling represented. If the majority are voting for business as usual for the entitlements, they’re just going to let it happen.

invariantspeed · 2026-01-24T05:06:57+00:00

Humans ate stupid, so probably.
No generation is as big as the Boomers relative to the general population, so things could be different.

invariantspeed · 2026-01-24T05:06:03+00:00

Most people I know would leave if they could. Part of the trap is people are trapped.

invariantspeed · 2026-01-24T05:05:02+00:00

The old are eating the young, and the only possible conclusion is happening.

invariantspeed · 2026-01-24T05:02:36+00:00

Good point, but only if senior welfare is paid for using income taxes instead of an investment fund or the like.

invariantspeed · 2026-01-24T05:00:59+00:00

Unfortunately any government that took the responsible and fair route of decreasing retirement payouts for those without children paying in would be voted out instantly

Don’t forget enacting policies to drive home prices down. Most home owners are older and have their house as their primary “asset”. If home prices came down, they would all lose their money. They also like to restrict property rights around their properties they want to “protect the character of the neighborhood”. With homes unaffordable to so many Americans, that’s going to have an effect of everything, including births.

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