A.R. Moxon, Verified Duck 🦆

If your rules don't include checks and consequences against those who have no regard for the rules, then you don't have rules.

If such checks and consequences exist, and those charged with imposing them lack the will or the ability to do so, then they don't exist.

As we see.

Jan 7, 2023 at 2:09pmWeb
Show threadA.R. Moxon, Verified Duck 🦆Jan 7, 2023
A group of authoritarian supremacists tried to murder their colleagues and overthrow the government 2 years ago, and most of the rest of their team went along with it, and none of them faced any consequence, and we see the inevitable result: they're in charge of the workplace.
Show threadA.R. Moxon, Verified Duck 🦆Jan 7, 2023
It's an *inevitable* result. If you go to your place of work and try to murder your colleagues in a violent takeover, if your department then backs the attempt, if leadership deems that your summary dismissal is a greater infraction against the rule of order than your murderous attempt, you will learn—correctly—that rules do not apply to you, and that you are, effectively, in charge.
Show threadA.R. Moxon, Verified Duck 🦆Jan 7, 2023

The weakness in our system is supremacy.

I think it was because our system was built to optimize for supremacy, and there are many historical and political reasons to believe that.

But in any case, our system has no guard against supremacists, who would rather kill than share.

Show threadA.R. Moxon, Verified Duck 🦆Jan 7, 2023

That these supremacists are willing to own and use and harm and kill all those they believe beneath them in order to establish and maintain their self-perceived domination makes them supremacist.

That our system has no apparent choice but to accommodate them makes us a supremacist nation.

We can change that.

Show threadA.R. Moxon, Verified Duck 🦆Jan 7, 2023

They showed us how to change it; those murderous jackals, those supremacist Republican insurrectionists and their supremacist Republican lackeys.

They changed the game by deciding the game was their own domination and supremacy, and then loving that game more than any rule.

Show threadA.R. Moxon, Verified Duck 🦆Jan 7, 2023

I want to ponder this line of thinking for a while more, but I'll just leave with this thought, and an essay I think is related.

Rules exist to define and accommodate the game—but the game is the point, not the rules.

So what game are we playing?

https://armoxon.substack.com/p/the-respectable-game

The Respectable Game

One last one about the atmosphere. What does it mean to be respectable? Let’s ask it another way: Whose respect do you seek—and why?

The Reframe
Show threadSex Crazed SaltShaker of DeathJan 7, 2023
@JuliusGoat Bill Watterson invented the "game" years ago. I suspect he would be aghast at the level to which the republicans have taken Calvinball.
Show threadRomaqJan 7, 2023
@JuliusGoat They are not supposed to be seated by given their sedition. The entire congress appears to be ignoring the 14th ammendment, section 3. So what law requires penalty for congress violating its oath to uphold the US Constitution and their own laws? This whole thing is absurd beyond absurd!
Show threadDubi KanengisserJan 7, 2023
@JuliusGoat the consequences should have been not getting re-elected. If your voters still want these people in office, you have a different kind of problem.
Show threadA.R. Moxon, Verified Duck 🦆Jan 7, 2023
@Dubikan In a healthy society the punishment for crime is being charged with the crime and facing trial.
Show threadDubi KanengisserJan 7, 2023
@JuliusGoat maybe we're not talking about the same things. I thought you were referring to GOP congressmen who supported and aided Jan6
Show threadA.R. Moxon, Verified Duck 🦆Jan 7, 2023
@Dubikan I was.
Show threadDubi KanengisserJan 7, 2023
@JuliusGoat what crimes did they commit?
Show threadA.R. Moxon, Verified Duck 🦆Jan 7, 2023
@Dubikan Nope. Sorry. No patience for sealioning here. They aided and abetted insurrection and attempted coup on January 6. If you think the only consequence for insurrection should be "they get voted out of office," then you're an exemplar of the point I'm driving at.