Probably every other frat boy on Kash’s short list for hiring, if not himself.

I mean I think it was an Oxford frat that had a dead pig dick sucking hazing ritual or something. Ruling class is weird.

Well, there is also logistics.

People, like nurses and doctors, do enjoy helping and taking care of people.

But to do that you need a pretty robust logistics system just to get those people to the people in need, and the supplies needed to help.

You got to get the doctor, with the medicine, to the mountain or you got get the person off the mountain, to the doctor and the medicine.

Now you need all kinds of infrastructure, not to mention what it takes to produce the medicine, or educate the doctors and nurses so they’re not just doing bloodletting and snake bites.

why wasn’t support from powerful socialist allies enough to offset it? And why didn’t comparable interference cause capitalist states to fail at similar rates?

Support was able to offset it for a while. The USSR was also a fundamental ally to the US and its allies. That period of time legitimized and stabilized their existence so that the Cold War started on a semblance of parity and balance.

The USSR pushed the world towards industrialization, technology development and the Space Race, but it took nearly 50 years of seige to bring the USSR to dissolution.

why didn’t comparable interference cause capitalist states to fail at similar rates

The interference simply wasn’t comparable. But more importantly the USSR came out of World War 1. The Imperialist capitalist states were already failing and famously there became some fascist states hell bent on destroying all marxism and bolshevism.

Or with considerable support. Current WA governor for instance ran specifically on more cops and expanding the police state.

You should see the kinds of arguments opponents of the Clean Water Act make.

Ranges from “Nature heals all so it is fine” to “Fuck those people for being there.”

I get that, but consider getting a house deposit requires paperwork and financial testing. Skipping or ignoring that paperwork may not serve getting a house deposit.

But it does seem like the person in the article did their paperwork and still ended up being rejected.

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

She came within a tiny margin without endorsement or any campaign help from even Bernie or AOC.

I think she was demonstrably competent, and I wager she’ll be back, too.

While some part of me misses my fortress cubicle and undershelf lamp, complete with pillar obstructing the window so I had just two vertical slits…

I still only did good work there when I was alone in the office, usually before or after most people’s office hours.

Once enough people showed up it just became a daily social event ritual. This was well before covid.

I live in America in a deep blue state. The divide is about as classically pronounced as the railroad tracks here when the trailer parks grow numerous. Representation is deeply gerrymandered.

It’s also extremely militarized out here, with most people being attached to the military bases in some way.

I spent 10 years working on the county level. For a time in a rural red area and for a time in the bluer area. Blue areas tend to be corporate owned and worship police. Red areas are desperately poor and distrust government.

Out here the first point of wealth is to insulate and isolate from politics. So it has always been much easier to discuss politics with the rural poor folks. Free breakfast and childcare is a service that’s appreciated and used.

I don’t even know how to reach the deep blue folks living beyond their gates. Maybe the delivery workers can try to leave fliers.

Raised with little religious zeal in a liberal catholic church. It was just a sort of background thing I ignored most of my life.

At 25 I was at the height of studying comparative religion and evolutionary biology. I saw it all as an integral part of how we have operated as a species, and then I pivoted out of academia and dug clams for half a decade.

I like the good religion can do. But it’s like the state: bridges are neat, but the police patrolling it can really ruin it for everyone.

Last week the Trump admin added a bunch of companies to the list of those accused of using forced Uyghur labor.

Sure enough all week there’s been renewed talk about Xinjiang. They’re trying to get ahead of the midterms, and they got nothing else.

I should probably add there’s also been a community on my instance dedicated to portraying Hexbear, Lemmygrad, and .ml in the worst possible way, usually by taking a single comment or DM out of context. The user running it finally fucked off from the Fediverse just a month or two back.

Since that community is now being run by overt Zionists who are into spreading outright doctored screenshots, hopefully it’ll fall into long overdue irrelevance. If you ever see the term ‘tankie triad’ that’s probably one of them.

Hexbear originated from ChapoTrapHouse fandom which is a part of the so-called dirtbag left that explicitly antagonizes (neo)liberals. They also don’t use downvotes and encourage users to voice their opinions instead.

So every wave of redditor freaks the hell out when they get a handful of hexbear users clowning on some take like it’s a coordinated brigade attack.

Not all communities are run the same way, nor do any intend to do so necessarily.

At a certain point some people are just trying to maintain a walled garden with curated content. Sometimes they can be real shit about it, too. It’s not exactly suited for the Fediverse, but neither are broad, everything-goes communities or ones trying to appeal to ‘everyone’.

Not who you’re commenting to, but for me it’s based on wasting/spending the time to read not only OP’s analysis about the Fediverse, but then looking into their comment history and public modlogs for their ‘perfectly polite’ takes that got them banned.

Which is far more than basing a conclusion on a single phrase.

People wearing the skin of decency usually gives reason for people to fight on social media. And sometimes people do the research so others don’t have to.

The context of the author is valid when judging their content.

A lot of the moderation that causes users public grief are usually just timeouts. Arguments over politics and ideology, etc quite often catch folks a timeout. Folks will debate a two day ban for a week.

And with the Fediverse: many community moderators are also admins of instances.

So with that in mind: moderation policies quickly convert drama between users to drama between instances.

Only thing I could add is that the Piefed dev has thus far been supportive of the Tesseract dev in their blacklisting decisions. But I dunno about this DDOS stuff though.

So that’s the piefed dev… and I’ll assume the two others consist of the most overtly zionist admins in the FHF corporate team? (Wait, I’m sorry “corpasluts”.)

I mean just what is FHF going to do without their CFO? Or will they keep him onboard as a reliable financial manager who just hates the fediverse?

Oh it’s been a fun the last couple of weeks on here, I can tell you that. The vindication feels great.