I can see that, but you can always focus on meeting in person. Just use tech to vaguely call meetings.

Plus he’s an incredibly influential media personality. 20 million people give a shit about what he thinks.

Locally

Civilization is basically just bureaucracy integrated over population. Some people figure out how to game the system via the chasm of abstraction between; that’s a function of any sufficiently complex system, look at the speed running community

But ultimately, civilization is just people. All the bureaucracy placed on top of it is just a collection of systems made by people to coordinate themselves. A lot of the dark theatrics are the result of the population becoming so vast that even at the lowest levels, the bureaucracy is distant and abstract. That abstraction alienates people from one another, so they only really know how to interact through the lens of that bureaucracy

The optimism is that you can engage your community. You can meet your neighbors, learn their trades and share yours, start a group chat. You can organize barter networks, childcare rotations, handyman services, mutual aid.

You can join local political groups. Start local political groups. Go to protests and meet people in neighboring areas. Network.

You can promote candidates for local office, and encourage others in your network to do so. You can run for local office, and encourage others in your network to do so. We’ve seen what the other side is offering so far as administrative competence, you think you’re worse?

Go to local events. Talk to your neighbors. Organize with your neighbors. The big system is very top down in its perspective, but it’s really ultimately dependent on the composite people. You can organize the people from the bottom up, and get your friends in nearby neighborhoods to do the same.

If all the neighborhoods are organized, bloodless revolution slides quite comfortably into the realm of plausible futures.

Possibly, or possibly he’s just looting everything he can while the music’s still playing

Hopefully those accusations turn out to be accurate

Bookmark the stuff that warrants a bookmark.

Close the stuff I’m not as interested in as I thought I’d be.

Group remaining tabs by subject (books, articles, products, etc. I have a system).

Close redundant tabs in groups.

Well, the tanks are replaced with ICE vehicles

Fingers crossed hoping this was always the plan

What’s the opposite of a helper?

Clearly they meant Non-Alcoholic

By “misspent”, are you referring to those deposits?

Look into the kabbalistic concept of tzimtzum, it’s an interesting take.

Is that why Jews say “la chyme” before they drink, since it’s going into their stomach?

What about Keynesian-style pizza?

Someone else suggested that the rise in belief in human goodness is a function of the rise in belief of human incompetence. When you start recognizing that people frequently do stupid bad things not because they are bad, but because they are stupid, your heart softens a bit with regards to their intent.

Anti-abortion is a great example. The majority of anti-abortion people genuinely believe that a zygote is an innocent human life, and terminating it is literally murder. If that’s what they believe, why wouldn’t they do everything in their power to stop it? People are murdering innocent babies!

The more you get to know people, the more you start believing in Hanlon’s razor. Most of the “bad” people aren’t bad, they’re just good people with stupid beliefs.

At least you save money on shoes

Maybe there’s a god above

But all I ever learned in love

Was how to shoot at someone

Who outdrew ya

Y’know, if anywhere was going to have an ATM machine, it would probably be Costco

“We must forcibly suppress the people who say we’re authoritarian”

It’s the immigrant mongrel thing. Outside America, it isn’t unusual for your ancestry to be that of your home country for dozens of generations, or maybe halves. Inside America, that’s basically only just full blooded Natives, most everyone else is a hodgepodge of several countries.

Is just a way to kinda keep track of all the various ancestries.