stabby_cicada

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[–] stabby_cicada@slrpnk.net 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

That makes a certain amount of sense. Cartels go after the families of snitches, so I imagine this guy wanted them safe in the US before he cooperated.

[–] stabby_cicada@slrpnk.net 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Community buy-in is more important than efficiency in projects like this.

"The process started with the community-based participatory planning," WFP program policy officer Bakalilou Diaby shares in the video. "By the end of this process, it was agreed that one of the major action is the land reclamation or land recovery project."

At first, it took some time to convince the community that the regreening of the degraded landscape was even possible, but after learning about how to improve the land, "the people believe and they are convinced, and they are also committed," says Diaby.

Sure, these projects could be done more efficiently by one construction company with heavy machinery, but that takes dollars these dirt poor areas don't have (and I think Trump's bullshit arbitrary defunding of USAID is an object lesson for developing countries not to rely on foreign charity for anything important, among many, many other reasons why foreign charity is bad for development). So local people need to know how to do it with local resources in order to expand the projects to new areas.

Just as important, local communities need to support and maintain these projects in the long run, and sweat equity is a great way to build commitment.

[–] stabby_cicada@slrpnk.net 13 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Wouldn't a law that exempts a law enforcement agency from constitutional limits be an unconstitutional law - and therefore an illegal law - and therefore not lawful?

[–] stabby_cicada@slrpnk.net 28 points 5 days ago (6 children)

The early 2000s Republicans are the same people as 2025 Republicans.

Some of them changed their beliefs. They moved right - or were moved right by an incredibly effective decades-long propaganda campaign.

And some of them didn't change their beliefs at all - they're simply more emboldened to express beliefs that weren't acceptable twenty years ago.

Give it twenty more years and Democrats will be where Republicans are now.

[–] stabby_cicada@slrpnk.net 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)
 
 

“Trump, degrowther,” the leftist journalist Doug Henwood commented online last week. He was being facetious, of course (...) Making personal sacrifices, short-term or otherwise, is foreign to Trump’s nature. And yet, for political reasons, he has been driven to ask Americans to accept some limits on their shopaholic tendencies.

“What he is doing is fairly unprecedented: explicitly saying that he is willing to pay an economic price in terms of growth in order to protect something else that he thinks is valuable and important,” Daniel Susskind, an economics professor at King’s College London who is the author of the 2024 book “Growth: A History and a Reckoning,” told me in an e-mail. “Until now, Trump has tended to deny that tariffs come with any sort of price attached.”

What Trump thinks is important is very different from what everybody on slrpnk thinks is important, I'm sure. But just the idea of a mainstream American politician saying "we don't need to buy all that stuff" makes me feel strangely positive?

[–] stabby_cicada@slrpnk.net 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Which is why groups that aren't targeted should be out there being supportive IRL and making it safer for targeted groups. Strength in numbers.

[–] stabby_cicada@slrpnk.net 6 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

I'm a big fan of IRL, personally.

[–] stabby_cicada@slrpnk.net 11 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

The plan is to argue that only two consecutive terms bar someone from running for a third term, and have the Supreme Court's Republican majority rubber stamp it, so Trump can run and Obama can't.

[–] stabby_cicada@slrpnk.net 19 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)
  • has a podcast where he fawns over conservative guests like Steve Bannon and Charlie Kirk
  • borrowing talking points from Jordan Peterson about "bro culture" and a "crisis of masculinity"
  • wants to "solve" California's housing crisis by jailing unhoused people
  • thinks "social issues" like transgender rights and due process for immigrants are distractions from the real issues (like tariffs)

Newsom has generally been pivoting conservative over the last few years, most commenters think in preparation for a 2028 presidential run, and has turned it up since Trump was elected.

[–] stabby_cicada@slrpnk.net 3 points 3 weeks ago

The American people aren't stupid. They're poorly educated and brainwashed by propaganda.

When a kid without developmental disabilities gets to 12th grade and still can't read or write his own name, we don't blame the kid for being stupid - or at least we shouldn't - we blame the parents and teachers. The kid was failed by the people who had the responsibility to teach him.

Same with politics. Voters don't have degrees in political science. They make the best decisions they can based on the information they have. Biden presided over the worst economy for the poor and middle class and the biggest wealth transfer to the ultra rich in my lifetime, Harris told voters "I'm not going to do anything different from Biden but Trump will destroy America so vote for me", Trump told voters "I know you're hurting, Biden and Harris failed you, and my policies will help you", and voters made the best decision they knew how to make.

Which was a stupid fucking decision. Granted. But the lion's share of the blame has to go to Biden, Harris, and their enablers. They were the experts. It was their job to keep America from making that stupid fucking decision. And they failed America.

 

"*Nihilistic Violent Extremists (NVEs) are individuals who engage in criminal conduct with the United States and abroad, in furtherance of political, social, or religious goals that derive primarily from a hatred of society at large and a desire to bring about its collapse by sowing indiscriminate chaos, destruction, and social instability."

On the positive side, I've got a new term for Trump, Musk, Thiel and the rest of the burn-it-all-down crowd.

 
 

The most important thing people can do to start addressing the climate crisis is to start talking about it, the Texas Tech scientist says.

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David Hoffman, London, 1973

 
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