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Aside from being illegal, none of that is helpful. If the entirety of ICE quit tomorrow it’ll not curb the 100 other antidemocratic behaviors of the Trump government.
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I would extend this to "it's the disinformation that's ruined civic life". We've always had the rapacious, the "fuck you, I've got mine", and the power-hungry. It's only marrying this with the ability to so effectively fragment voter groups with bullshit that's got us here.
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I've followed Nepal, and certainly social media has been credited with connecting young people during the Arab Spring and in the periodic protests in Iran. Kind of like any tool, it's what you make of it. That said, I'm taken with Scott Galloway's criticism ("tobacco of our generation") and agree with Jonathan Haidt that it's super harmful for kids, in particular. It's hard to deny that the world online increasingly doesn't resemble the real world, and that's problematic when so much time is spent there.
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The Democratic Party (any coalition group, really) is what you make of it. Your "silent public" will need to get involved. It's that simple. On a deeper level (I'm going to keep beating this drum), there's a cultural rot that's exacerbated by social media and siloed online communities and that needs to be addressed. I'm not sure this needs to be the test of everything, but is there any respect in which social media has increased domestic tranquility in order to form a more perfect Union? I'm re-touting my own idea from a different thread, but I also think the public needs to be calling for a Constitutional Convention. There's actually a lot that the public agrees on that can't be enacted because of antiquated law made too difficult to update. It's also a "big project" that's right in line with the values the Democratic Party claims to represent and it's clear they need a message more compelling that protecting norms.
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I’m not sure that’s a reason for hope-severe sprains can take longer to heal than smaller breaks.
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The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
LCHorn replied to Horn Dog's topic in Cloak Room
I was trying to rein myself in, because this is a good topic for discussion and there's probably five other ongoing threads that would make a better home for it, but just to quickly address your post, I'm using church attendance in the same overall bucket as any social group as described in Puttnam's "Bowling Alone". It's not that they are religious, it's that it's a community not purely based on socioeconomic traits and encourages mixing of different personalities, political preferences, and there's good scholarship that the community takes the edge off extremist beliefs. FWIW, the Enlightenment had to reckon with your concern about faith versus secular values, and that tension heavily influenced the founding fathers. I think Jefferson would say that religion doesn't open the mind to falsehood, but that many professed believers who's minds are already open to conspiracies and fantasy are more forgiving of the mystical as an explanation for things they can't comprehend. Taking it back to social media, the voter who believes that Jesus saved Trump from assassination no longer has a neighbor or fellow congregant who gently dissuades him; instead he's found a group on Facebook or X that is reinforcing his beliefs. What should be really scary is that these people are fundamentally lonely, and are going to be the very first community emotionally dependent on an AI that is too novel and unregulated to have much sense of what comes next. -
Texas Football 2025 - Careening Towards the Abyss
LCHorn replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
Adding to this, the Sark offense appears to really rely on satisfactory blocking at the X and Y receiver positions, particularly with how many screens and swing passes are in the playbook. -
The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
LCHorn replied to Horn Dog's topic in Cloak Room
I don't think they really want it; it's not spiritually nurturing, and the fact they are addicted to it is linked to the demise of the social bonds that previously made for a more culturally homogeneous group, at least on the biggest issues. We could address the those issues (urban/rural divide, failure of the economy to sufficiently deliver happiness, increasing inequality, dehumanization in the face of technology, even a decline in church attendance or support for alternative lifestyles if you want to validate conservative critiques), but the one that touches or has infected everything is social media. I listened to about 10 minutes of Pod Save America this morning as the boys decried violence and called out hypocrisy on the right, but they kept ignoring the elephant in the room--if we can't unite around some basic shared truths (like dishonesty is disqualifying, or that evidence based decisions should prevail in conflict resolution), you can't govern except by fiat. This is getting wildly off-track from enjoying the dildo of consequences, but personally I'd have a lot more fun laughing at the harsher ironies if I felt like Democratic leadership were prepared to actually deal with the big problem and not live in a fantasy land in which too many voters reject enlightenment. -
Eh, the profit motive isn't the problem. There's plenty of money to be made as the voice of the resistance (hell, Fox would probably say it's even more lucrative than being part of the mainstream). The problem is the Dems and aligned groups keep thinking this is on the far end of normal, but still normal.
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He had a good run and his body of work will live on. Cheers Bob.
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Texas Football 2025 - Careening Towards the Abyss
LCHorn replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
I realize it’s folly to rely on high school recruiting evals for a player in year four, but I’d really like to know what upside Stroh is offering over Neto. It would seem like experience would at least teach the more senior player to at least execute the blocking scheme. -
I think it’s obvious they really would have liked another year with Williams but that doesn’t explain weak shit interior play for three years running. If it was released that DJ Campbell was actually deaf and couldn’t hear snap counts it would help explain a lot. Those Bama lines that got Sark and Flood the Texas jobs were mostly recruited under Brent Key, who’s clearly a badass.
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Slight correction-Talarico falsely believed that VOTERS want to elect someone who, morally speaking, is “good”. And it’s not totally unfounded, but it’s at odds with a GOP that has the high ground on “good” with older low information voters and the MAGA/MAHA/young low information voters have been fed a diet almost purely of empty, showbiz and social media calories for so long that they can’t tell sincerity from bullshit, expertise from idiocy, and lies from truth.
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Sarah Eckhardt should run for the seat.
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