@artemis reminds me of Northern Ireland during the troubles, just another day la la la oh there is a row of soldiers with automatic weapons poking through the bottom of the hedges in next door’s garden, and there comes the military helicopter to pick them up again from the field behind. La la la here come the armored personnel carriers with the guy with the gun sticking out the “sun roof”, let’s wave to them for a laugh. It’s just amazing what becomes “normal life” during a civil war.

@artemis One caveat: it is going as planned.The plan was to push and push and push until met by meaningful resistance. Then they back up a bit, establish all the previous pushing as a new normal, and get ready to launch the next wave.It's the Cycle of Abuse. The solution is to recognize the honeymoon that's about to start for what it is and end the cycle.

@artemis No it's not just you

@artemis As long as capital has the ability to move effortlessly while labour is stuck in place, all the profits will be made where taxes are lowest, and all the labour will be done where the protections are weakest for the exact labour that needs doing.You know that threat about the rich leaving if they are taxed? Well, won't help much if they can't go anywhere cheaper.Countries not working together is our biggest hurdle right now. It's everyone's problem. Your's and mine.

I am passing on your words of encouragement to my bro & asking him to share that encouragement with others.If you want to let the people on the ground in Minneapolis know that you see them, you are proud of them, & you support them, it would probably help them to know that the word is getting out even when it's not on the news & that people fucking CARE about what's happening.I'll pass on your encouragement (without identifying information like usernames).

@staringatclouds i also toot alt text if it's something i want to boost. sometimes people add it or something of their own, and then i boost.@artemis

RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/115843726904980879So what do we think? Are wealthy folks committing to really trying to normalize child sexual abuse right now as we are all reeling from reading in painful detail about the cavernous depths of their depravity?Just letting Grok continue with no safeguards sure seems to be a decision to try to force us to accept that children are going to be sexualized & abused, & that's just how it is.