Roy Cohn's Rules for the Unscrupulous, according to one documentary: “Deflect and distract, never give in, never admit fault, lie and attack, lie and attack, publicity no matter what, win no matter what, all underpinned by a deep, prove-me-wrong belief in the power of chaos and fear.”
Delay, delay, delay is not in there explicitly. Perhaps it is a Trumpian riff.
https://digbysblog.net/2023/07/11/if-its-trump-its-got-to-be-bullshit/
Just lost an hour browsing portable wind turbines. I'd love a small vertical unit I could rig to run the fridge after storms take out the power grid again. (Full disclosure, I've two solar arrays charging a whole house battery backup already, but hey it's fun tech to look at and why not have a backup plan?)
This is my regular nitpicky post that "walled garden" is really a terrible metaphor for "corporate controlled monolithic media environment."
People put up walls around gardens largely to keep things like deer and sheep out. In a lot of places, if you want flowers and vegetables, you have to have walls.
Mastodon is much more like a lot of walled gardens (IN A GOOD WAY!) than the big socials.
If you want a metaphor for what the big socials do and are trying to do, the word you want is "enclosure."
You're welcome!
…So let's recap:
— Native Americans have no right to the water that was stolen from them;
— No college can consider race in admissions… unless they're military schools;
— The 1st Amendment protects "Christian" web designers from having to make hypothetical webpages for fictitious gay weddings
— People not actually materially harmed by debt relief can sue to block it, because reasons;
— And the cops can keep killing whomever they so choose, whenever they want.
Do i have all that right, J.R.? Hell of a legacy you got going there.
Everybody else: Time to consider your Sincerely Held Beliefs; it's Malicious Compliance, from here on out.
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