I hear you. In a country as awash in guns as this, I wonder if it makes sense to speak of them as a militarized police. It’s more a militarized society. My humble hypothesis is that Miller was counting on a guardsman being killed and was probably stupid enough to say it to someone at one point.

Sadly my post has brought out ill advised thinking. I doubt most (any?) National Guard want to be patrolling a city or town in the USA because Stephen Miller is scared of his shadow. The President and his advisers and cabinet are responsible for this death. The guard should be sent home.

Possibly, but because NG are not trained for law enforcement they are at greater risk in civilian environments precisely because they have little practice with threat assessment in civilian spaces. The situation is common and for that very reason makes NG lack of training problematic.

Well I believe you think so.

I’ll let you ponder for a while why that’s the dumbest thing you have put on social media.

I always think that Vance looks like an Edvard Munch painting. Can’t think why.

I tend to go more bacterial.

Uggg…. I feel very very very seen

Can I agree with you and also suggest that this is an arena in which we humanists sometimes behave detrimentally for our fields? I think we all who can should seek to create funded positions for others.

I think so many of us find it exasperating that we cannot quite see what the nature of that fear is and how it is constituted, reenforced, and reproduced.

as a frame would be wise at this point. Why do they think as they think? What are the source of their concerns? How have they arrived as their notions of risk management? Why do they think they know what autism is? And so on. There’s a huge amount of fear and rugged individualism as a shield here.

So much medical history and medical sociology focuses on the common good that is vaccination. While there has been interest and study of anti vaccination movements, I feel like we do not understand it well enough as a structure within healthcare inequalities. I think deep relativist positioning…

His whole autobiography is in the tranche of 30,000 pages. Inquiring minds would love to know why.

Widener is my definition of heaven, especially when you go all the way down and walk through the tunnel… at that point you are just far enough away from every human being on earth to feel happiness. My own concussion book took shape there.

Agreed. And also, some percentage of us are rapidly acquiring nofuckstogiveitis about pitchforks, tar and feathers, cat o nine tails, and other forms of punishment.