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No one of any consequence. Many interests & wearing several hats, so my posts/reposts will inevitably be all over the place.
Be good to each other.
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tce177.bsky.social
fyi, it was also clearly widely regarded as lawful at the time
www.nytimes.com/1991/02/27/w...
The Geneva Convention of 1949 governing treatment of prisoners similarly makes it a war crime to attack anybody who clearly tries to surrender. But none of these protections apply to combatants attempting to flee with their arms, no matter whether they have been defeated, said legal experts. "The difference between retreat and surrender is that surrender is in fact giving up," said Colonel Helmcamp. "A retreat, on the other hand, is an attempt to disengage from the battlefield, but not to remove oneself totally from the combat." Civilian Lawyer's View A civilian lawyer, Charles Patrizia, of Paul Hastings Janofsky and Walker, drew the same distinction. "A retreating army is not an army which has surrendered," he said. "It may have lost a battle, but may yet seek to regroup and counterattack. Those troops, to the degree that they are armed or could be considered by the opposing forces to be armed, are still bound by the rules of war."
December 10, 2025 at 4:44 AM
tce177.bsky.social
This might sound insincere, but I genuinely want to thank you for putting this haunting passage on my feed. It's nice to be spooked by something that doesn't have direct bearing on our lives for once.

...so long as I choose to stop at a surface level reading of this, at least.

Happy Thanksgiving!
of only at the very end. And each new LBK massacre site seems to have its own distinct character and particular details that suggest some mysterious constellation of brutal practices, not competition for land or mates. “What we see is different from anything we see before. It’s an indication of an end phase, where people turn to rituals and odd beliefs,” says Leibniz Center for Archaeology archaeologist Detlef Gronenborn. “Then it breaks out in an orgy of violence. Then it stops, but it’s too late.” At a site in southwestern Germany called Kilianstädten, for example, the 26 victims included 10 children under age 6. As at Talheim, many of the skulls had been smashed, but the assailants had systematically shattered their targets’ shins, too, either as a form of torture or as a symbolic postmortem maiming. “It was a statement by the perpetrators,” says Meyer, who examined the bones. “They did this on purpose.” Another site that Meyer helped excavate in Germany revealed violence reminiscent of the Neolithic version of gangland killings.
November 28, 2025 at 1:48 AM
tce177.bsky.social
No it isn't. www.nytimes.com/2023/08/05/w...
Though it is very informative observing which leftists like to pretend they are humanitarians but are all too quick to treat people inconvenient to their worldview as subhuman
At the center is a charismatic American millionaire, Neville Roy Singham, who is known as a socialist benefactor of far-left causes. What is less known, and is hidden amid a tangle of nonprofit groups and shell companies, is that Mr. Singham works closely with the Chinese government media machine and is financing its propaganda worldwide. From a think tank in Massachusetts to an event space in Manhattan, from a political party in South Africa to news organizations in India and Brazil, The Times tracked hundreds of millions of dollars to groups linked to Mr. Singham that mix progressive advocacy with Chinese government talking points. Some, like No Cold War, popped up in recent years. Others, like the American antiwar group Code Pink, have morphed over time. Code Pink once criticized China’s rights record but now defends its internment of the predominantly Muslim Uyghurs, which human rights experts have labeled a crime against humanity.
September 10, 2025 at 3:35 AM
tce177.bsky.social
the framing of this is past paranoid. "realize abandoning trans rights"?
"realize"?
Walz led the charge on making MN trans refuge state. He was a gay-straight alliance public school teacher before same-sex marriage was popular well before he ran for office!
Hell, the article even admits this is BS!
Walz made similar statements ahead of the election in October 2024, when he called out Republicans for “running millions of dollars of ads demonizing folks that are just trying to live their lives” in an appearance on the podcast We Can Do Hard Things. “We’re out there trying to make the case that access to healthcare, and a clean environment and manufacturing jobs, and keeping your local hospital open — those are things that people are really concerned about,” Walz said at the time, noting that right-wing hatred for gay people has been “transferred to the trans community.”
June 7, 2025 at 10:28 PM
tce177.bsky.social
Did you read the thread you're citing? The Owlcat CM goes from "I've never heard of these people" to "they had to be included in our credits for legal reasons"

Would you be equally charitable if you didn't care about their games, or is this just because you don't want your fav to be 'problematic'?
Reddit thread. Comments read: It is soon 5 years as the studio became independent. It has absolutely nothing to do with whatever those companies do these days. Frankly I had to google what is this MGVC you are talking about. My.Games and MGVC are both credited in WOTR credits. And MY.GAMES was listed as a strategic partner and investor in your presd release. Now, I have nothing against said companies or their people specifically. I’d just not want my meager money to trickle up the chain to, say, Lev Leviev. Development of Wrath begun a few months before the studio detached as a separate entity, so it had to be credited due to legal reasons. But it's still a years old third party contact which ceased being relevant long before Wrath was released or Rogue Trader development was even considered. Bsky posts from ‪@jbenmenachem.com‬ "Owlcat is making an action RPG set in The Expanse universe, looks basically like Mass Effect. Hellllll yeah." "I was a big fan of their Pathfinder games, particularly Wrath of the Righteous. If you liked Baldur's Gate 3, WOTR is worth a try (though a lot lower budget game in many ways). Haven't seen Owlcat try any action RPGs before, looking forward to it"
June 7, 2025 at 9:59 PM
tce177.bsky.social
but that doesn't make the problems men, especially young men, face any less real.
eg, the obstacles for young men to get & adhere to treatment for their mental health have some of the most obvious, & tragic, consequences.

We need to be able to talk about this stuff more openly.
Bar chart of Suicide Rates by Age Group (2022) taken from: https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/statistics/suicide
May 26, 2025 at 1:41 AM
tce177.bsky.social
I mean, Sanders was also the beneficiary of enormously skewed media coverage. Especially as conservative media knew they could exploit him to drive a wedge between Dems. It's counterfactual to believe this was born out of good-faith 'respect' lol.
They're using him for ratfucking right now. See #3.
A line graph of positive media coverage of Bernie Sanders campaign in 2015 taken from https://shorensteincenter.org/pre-primary-news-coverage-2016-trump-clinton-sanders/ A line graph of positive media coverage of Hillary Clinton's campaign in 2015 taken from https://shorensteincenter.org/pre-primary-news-coverage-2016-trump-clinton-sanders/ Screenclip of a Fox News Article titled "Bernie Sanders agrees Democratic Party is 'threat to democracy,' removed process from its constituents" taken from https://www.foxnews.com/media/bernie-sanders-agrees-democratic-party-threat-democracy-removed-process-from-its-constituents
May 25, 2025 at 7:30 PM
tce177.bsky.social
The United States government *is the single biggest donor to The Global Fund.*

www.kff.org/global-healt...

You want to talk about TB instead of PEPFAR? Okay. How does 69 million additional cases of TB & 2.2 million deaths by 2040 sound?
Background on U.S. Global Tuberculosis (TB) Efforts The U.S. government has been involved in global TB activities for decades and began ramping up its efforts in the late 1990s when a global TB program was created at USAID. TB, an infectious disease caused by bacteria, causes more deaths than any other infectious agent worldwide, including 25 million people who died in 2023, and is among the 10 leading causes of death worldwide. TB is the leading cause of death among people with HIV. U.S. government efforts have contributed significantly to improving TB health outcomes, including helping to save the lives of more than 58 million since 2000 and contributing to a 9% decline in TB-related mortality between 2019 and 2023 in USAID TB priority countries. The FY 2025 Continuing Resolution that passed in March included level funding for bilateral TB activities at USAID and CDC of $406 million (as well as level funding for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria). The U.S. is the top donor government to TB efforts, through its bilateral funding and its contributions to the Global Fund. USAID has served as the lead implementing agency for U.S. TB efforts, focusing on 24 priority countries – with activities in 50 (including at least 20 of the 30 high burden countries) – to support prevention, detection, and treatment of TB, including drug-resistant TB. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) also carries out global TB efforts and the State Department’s Bureau of Current Status of U.S. Global TB Efforts The following administration actions have had a significant impact on TB program operations: Funding freeze/stop-work order: The stop-work order initially froze all bilateral TB programming and services, halting existing work in the field. Because it halted payments, many implementers had to let go of thousands of staff and end some services. Limited waiver: Some TB activities were included in a limited waiver issued by the State Department on February 4 allowing “life-saving services” to continue, which are defined as “Essential screening, testing, and treatment for tuberculosis (TB) and drug resistant TB (DR-TB) including provision and monitoring of laboratory services, drug susceptibility testing, clinical visits, dispensing of essential medicines to avert near-term mortality and spread of infection.” HIV/TB activities were also allowed under PEPFAR’s limited waiver. Even with the waivers, services remain disrupted and implementers have faced challenges in getting permission to resume programming and difficulties in getting paid. Dissolution of USAID: As the main government implementer of TB efforts, the dissolution of USAID and loss of most staff have significantly affected TB program implementation capacity and operations. In addition, recent announcements of reductions at CDC could further affect global TB efforts. Canceled awards: It was recently reported that the administration has canceled 86% of all USAID awards. KFF analysis finds that of the 770 global health awards identified, 162 included TB activities, 79% of which were terminated. Impact on Global TB Services and Outcomes An internal USAID memo reported that the cessation of USAID’s TB control programs would increase global TB incidence by 28-32% and have a similar effect on new cases of multi-drug-resistant TB. According to WHO, the 30 highest TB-burden countries have already reported that U.S. funding withdrawals are affecting services, including the loss of thousands of health workers, and disruptions of the drug supply chain and laboratory services. A recent rapid assessment survey of 108 WHO country offices found that approximately 40% reported moderate or severe disruptions to TB services, including for medicines and health products, due to the U.S. foreign aid freeze and other shortages. Analysis of the impact in South Africa estimated that the loss of TB funding could result in 580,000 fewer people being tested for TB and 35,000 fewer people receiving TB treatment in 2025. A recent modeling study found that U.S. TB program cuts could result in as many as 10.7 million new TB cases and 2.2 million additional TB deaths in 26 high-burden countries by 2030. Researchers concluded that the “loss of U.S. funding endangers global TB control.” Another modeling study found that cessation of U.S. TB funding could result in almost 69 million additional TB cases and 2.2 million additional TB deaths by 2040.
May 18, 2025 at 8:52 PM
tce177.bsky.social
Yes! Thompson's Valkyrie stuck with me over the years because it embraces this.
lwlies.com/articles/tes...
(Granted there are more compelling, more multidimensional female leads out there, etc, but as far as high profile goes, this one really stuck with me; doesn't hurt that the movie's v. fun too)
2008’s Iron Man, women have tended to act either as febrile love interests or generically “strong” characters within the ever-expanding MCU, characterised by their super-strength or forceful power to counteract stereotypes of female weakness. But Marvel’s Strong Female Characters™ are rarely imbued with real emotional nuance and as a result often come across as two-dimensional. Thankfully, change is on the horizon, with Brie Larson poised to lead the studio’s first female-led movie, Captain Marvel, in 2019, and Thompson showing her how it’s done in this second Thor sequel. While she kicks ass on-screen, off it she’s a vocal advocate for an all-female superhero movie. “As much as we want, righteous, fantastic, strong characters”, Thompson has said, “we also want weak ones and bad ones and shitty ones, we want all kind. Representation means the spectrum”.
May 1, 2025 at 8:01 PM
tce177.bsky.social
Yes
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/ilh...
Headline reads: Opinion: Ilhan Omar: Sanctions are part of a failed foreign policy playbook. Stop relying on them.
April 29, 2025 at 7:57 PM
tce177.bsky.social
Yes the capacity exists. In practice, young adults tend to be more isolated than ever before.
www.hhs.gov/sites/defaul...
The unproductive ways in which people complain about this notwithstanding, it's still a real problem.
The health and societal impacts of social isolation and loneliness are a critical public health concern in light of mounting evidence that millions of Americans lack adequate social connection in one or more ways. A 2022 study found that when people were asked how close they felt to others emotionally, only 39% of adults in the U.S. said that they felt very connected to others.53 An important indicator of this declining social connection is an increase in the proportion of Americans experiencing loneliness. Recent surveys have found that approximately half of U.S. adults report experiencing loneliness, with some of the highest rates among young adults. 1-3 These estimates and multiple other studies indicate that loneliness and isolation are more widespread than many of the other major health issues of our day, including smoking (12.5% of U.S. adults),54 diabetes (14.7%),55 and obesity (41.9%),56 and with comparable levels of risk to health and premature death. Despite such high prevalence, less than 20% of individuals who often or always feel lonely or isolated recognize it as a major problem.57 Although risk may differ across indicators of social disconnection, currently, studies find the highest prevalence for loneliness and isolation among people with poor physical or mental health, disabilities, financial insecurity, those who live alone, single parents, as well as younger and older populations.1, , For example, while the highest rates of social isolation are found among older adults, 64 83 64 young adults are almost twice as likely to report feeling lonely than those over 65.1 The rate of loneliness among young adults has increased every year between 1976 and 2019.84 In addition, lower-income adults are more likely to be lonely than those with higher incomes. Sixty-three percent of adults who earn less than $50,000 per year are considered lonely, which is 10 percentage points higher than those who earn more than $50,000 per year.1 These data do not suggest that individual or demographic factors inherently generate loneliness or isolation. Rather, the data enable us to understand the different socioeconomic, political, and cultural mechanisms that may indicate higher risk for certain groups and lead to loneliness and isolation. Additional at-risk groups may include individuals from ethnic and racial minority groups, LGBTQ+ individuals, rural residents, victims of domestic violence, and those who experience discrimination or marginalization. Further research is needed to fully understand the disproportionate impacts of social disconnection.
April 28, 2025 at 8:08 PM
tce177.bsky.social
What an insanely dangerous time for our regulatory state to be entirely at the mercy of anti-government extremists & billionaires.
Text copied from WSJ article titled "Meta’s ‘Digital Companions’ Will Talk Sex With Users—Even Children" that reads: Lauren Girouard-Hallam, a researcher at University of Michigan, said academic studies have shown that the bonds children form with technology such as cartoon characters and smart speakers can become unhealthy, especially when it comes to love. She said it was too early to meaningfully discuss ways in which bots could be helpful or harmful in child development, but that giving young brains unlimited access is risky at best. “If there is a place for companionship chatbots, it is in moderation,” said Girouard-Hallam, who studies ways in which children socially relate to technology. But the rigorous academic studies on how young users relate with existing AI personas is likely at least another year off, and efforts to apply the resulting lessons to the construction of age-appropriate chatbots even further out than that. “That effort would really require pausing and taking a step back,” Girouard-Hallam said. “Tell me what mega company is going to do that work.” Write to Jeff Horwitz at jeff.horwitz@wsj.com
April 27, 2025 at 7:18 PM
tce177.bsky.social
The post that you linked to doesn't have more details either
www.reddit.com/r/massachuse...
Haven't we all seen enough reddit-inspired mobs to know better than to just take someone's word for it?
If 'Jeff' knows what the the application process looks like, why didn't he share more details with you?
MAGA has made it easy for all of us to avoid their businesses. A couple years ago, they introduced a website — publicsq.com — to promote MAGA businesses. We can use that same tool to make informed purchasing decisions. Just go to the website, and enter your zip code, then click the “Businesses” tab. You’ll probably be surprised at some of the businesses that pop up. If a business is listed on the site, it’s not a fluke. It’s on purpose. Owners must apply for their business to be listed and acknowledge that they support PublicSq’s values, which are published here: www.publicsquare.com/account/values
April 26, 2025 at 8:45 PM
tce177.bsky.social
How do we know how they're deciding what's a legitimately pro-Trump business?
Per your article, it seems all someone has to do is claim to represent said business & that you'll support their values.
It would be really easy to set up false flags. Since when do we expect MAGA to do the due diligence?
The bank’s leaders were big supporters of Donald Trump, and PublicSquare was an ideal place to advertise it: Its website, which bills itself as “the anti-woke online marketplace,” is a hub of tens of thousands of businesses nationwide that want people to know they align with MAGA views and oppose so-called “progressive priorities” like women’s reproductive rights and diversity initiatives. In order to list your business on the website, you first have to confirm that you will “respect the core values of PublicSquare” and agree not to “support causes that are in direct conflict with our core values.”
April 26, 2025 at 8:45 PM
tce177.bsky.social
Not sure if you've seen the Discourse around the "Vader wouldn't allow sexual assault" guy yet, but it sparked a connection with a Pratchett quote in me that I thought you'd also appreciate
Book title: "MEN AT ARMS: A NOVEL OF DISCWORLD" Page text reads: be a…a honcharina? No, that’s for very young princesses. No. Um. A honchesa, I think.” Vimes paused. There’s something in the air in this city, he thought. If the Creator had said, “Let there be light” in Ankh-Morpork, he’d have got no further because of all the people saying “What color?” “The supreme ruler, OK,” he said, starting to stroll forward again. “OK.” “But that’s not right, see? One man with the power of life and death.” “But if he’s a good man—” Carrot began. “What? What? OK. OK. Let’s believe he’s a good man. But his second-in-command—is he a good man too? You’d better hope so. Because he’s the supreme ruler, too, in the name of the king. And the rest of the court…they’ve got to be good men. Because if just one of them’s a bad man the result is bribery and patronage.” “The Patrician’s a supreme ruler,” Carrot pointed out. He nodded at a passing troll. “G’day, Mr. Carbuncle.”
April 25, 2025 at 10:24 PM
tce177.bsky.social
Note the article was published in 2015! We are so much worse off today as DOGE lays waste to research & institutions - thanks in no small part to the whims of the wealthy.
We cannot afford to leave this kind of wealth & power in the hands of private individuals, no matter how good their intentions.
Top political donors in 2024 taken from https://www.opensecrets.org/elections-overview/biggest-donors
April 24, 2025 at 7:08 PM
tce177.bsky.social
Bill Gates would be one of the first people to tell you to not resort to blind optimism *especially* when it comes to the Gates Foundation (& private philanthropy in general).
www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-...
The answer must come from institutions, due process, & public investments.
Bill Gates is an indisputable king of philanthropy, so much so that his private money has the power to draw public funding along with it. Whether it is because the amounts he donates are so large or because people assume his brilliance in technology bleeds into all other areas — or a combination of both — he has had an unprecedented influence on the areas of health and education around the world. That’s why it is important to pay attention to what he has to say about how the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s initiatives are working. Late last month, the Seattle Times published a story that recounted a speech that Gates gave last fall about the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s extraordinary “Grand Challenges” project, in which billions of research dollar have been awarded in at least 80 countries to research improve health and development to the neediest. The story says that rather than giving a boastful speech, Gates, used the word “naive” four times in describing the expectations he and his foundation had for the initiative. It says in part: The Microsoft co-founder seemed humbled that, despite an investment of $1 billion, none of the projects funded under the Gates Foundation’s “Grand Challenges” banner has yet made a significant contribution to saving lives and improving health in the developing world. What happened? For one thing, Gates said, he was “pretty naive about how long that process would take.” Success wasn’t coming as fast as he had calculated, a result in part by a miscalculation about how the projects he funded would work on the ground. A news Web site called humanosphere.org had written about the speech earlier and and noted that critics of the project, while acknowledging the enormity and good intentions of Gates’ philanthropy, have said that many of these projects have relied on solving problems rooted in poverty and disease with technology rather than addressing relevant social and political issues. The story says in part: The foundation’s metrics for assessing success or failure within the Grand Challenges program have not been made public. But after a decade and nearly a billion dollars spent on more than 1500 projects aimed at solving the philanthropy’s select Grand Challenges, not a single project has been judged a Grand Slam, or even a home run. “We were naive about how specific we had to be about costs and ease of delivery,” Gates said. One of the biggest ‘learnings’ (another word, or not, he likes to use) is that just funding scientists and innovators to explore far-fetched but promising ideas is not sufficient, he said. Going forward, Gates told the crowd, they will be requiring most innovators requesting a grant to partner with manufacturers, biomedical companies or others with expertise in product development before they’ll fund a project. “We vastly underestimated how important that is,” Gates said. These are not minor admissions. The New York Times wrote last year in this story that wealthy philanthropists were also privatizing science. It says in part: American science, long a source of national power and pride, is increasingly becoming a private enterprise. In Washington, budget cuts have left the nation’s research complex reeling. Labs are closing. Scientists are being laid off. Projects are being put on the shelf, especially in the risky, freewheeling realm of basic research. Yet from Silicon Valley to Wall Street, science philanthropy is hot, as many of the richest Americans seek to reinvent themselves as patrons of social progress through science research. The result is a new calculus of influence and priorities that the scientific community views with a mix of gratitude and trepidation. “For better or worse,” said Steven A. Edwards, a policy analyst at the American Association for the Advancement of Science, “the practice of science in the 21st century is becoming shaped less by national priorities or by peer-review groups and more by the particular preferences of individuals with huge amounts of money.” There is indeed a big place for philanthropy in American society, but there are consequences for replacing public policy with the dreams of the super-rich, not the least of which is that public institutions become testing grounds for philanthropic experimentation. Given that there are methods and approaches that have been proven to work already in education areas such as teacher evaluation, class size, etc., the public might want to start to ask why it allows itself to be used as a guinea pig.
April 24, 2025 at 7:08 PM
tce177.bsky.social
www.britannica.com/one-good-fac...
"Ultima Ratio Regum" ("The last argument of kings") inscribed on a cannon located outside the Museum of Military History, Vienna, Austria. Taken from: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ultima_Ratio_Regum_Cannon.jpg
April 24, 2025 at 1:23 AM
tce177.bsky.social
You're correct that Democrats are for the most part not taking the fascist threat as seriously as it should be, but you're wrong about how much voters care.
There is no evidence to suggest that.
Incumbents across the world faced voters mad about inflation who weren't thinking about fascism.
There’s a strong argument that the electorate was sour on the Democrats for reasons that didn’t necessarily have to do directly with either Harris or Trump. Throughout the democratic world, incumbents have struggled since the covid crisis in 2020 and its subsequent economic dislocations, including global high inflation. The fact that Harris’s loss may be structural does not mitigate the coming horrors of an unfettered Trump administration. But it may help us think about how to focus resistance as we head towards a frightening future. Jill Stein didn’t cost Dems the election. Neither did Tim Walz. Inevitably, some mainstream Democrats blamed Jill Stein, the Green Party candidate, and argued that people on the left voting third party threw their vote away and helped Trump. On the other hand, some on the left argued that Harris lost progressive voters by refusing to come out in favor of ending military aid to Israel as it commits war crimes in Gaza, and by accepting endorsements from the warmongering likes of Dick Cheney. Though they come from opposite ends of the political spectrum, these arguments (both all over social media) are essentially the same explanation — they blame the loss on splits in the Democratic coalition. The problem here is that the coalition didn’t really split. Stein’s vote share plummeted. In 2016, she received about 1.1 percent of the vote; in 2024 that dropped to about 0.6 percent. She did win 18 percent of the vote in Dearborn, Michigan, which has a large Arab American community. But Trump would’ve still won Michigan even if all the Stein voters voted for Harris, and in any event he won the Electoral College with states to spare. Democrats don’t have trouble winning elections. The problem is that MAGA’s program is so destructive, and their structural advantage on the Supreme Court so sweeping, that they can win only the occasional election and still manage to destroy our democratic institutions and inflict horrible pain and suffering on marginalized people. Democrats hoped to stave off fascism in the Trump era by never losing elections. That was never feasible, and now that it has failed, we are all facing the miserable consequences of not prosecuting Trump immediately, and vigorously, after January 6. Those consequences will be real, devastating, and long lasting. But it’s important to realize that the Republicans have not established a permanent or even solid mandate for all of Trump’s ugly orange dreams. As they won, so they can lose — which is why one of MAGA’s core goals going forward will be to subvert free and fair elections. Fighting for democracy, as well as helping each other survive the coming fascist assault, will be key in the years ahead.
April 17, 2025 at 12:38 AM
tce177.bsky.social
The open abuse of power is a feature of tyrants, not a bug.
BBC headline reads: "Philippines' Duterte admits to drug war 'death squad'" article available at: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cev9g1ez2d2o
April 8, 2025 at 8:45 PM
tce177.bsky.social
I've started to enjoy pulling at the thread of doomer-logic until it unravels
April 3, 2025 at 7:09 PM
tce177.bsky.social
I assume you mean these?
Might want to refer folks to
www.sos.mn.gov/election-adm...
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April 3, 2025 at 6:45 PM
tce177.bsky.social
Reasonably confident this account is part of the growing number of outside agitators/bots rather than an example of a "resister"
March 31, 2025 at 6:17 PM
tce177.bsky.social
This is good example of why our post-truth media environment is one of my worst recurring nightmares.
You can show people proof that the point they're trying to make is an exaggeration & they will point blank refuse to engage with it.
Even people you largely agree with.
What do you do here?
I think the sheer cruelty of what Trump did with the El Salavador thing hasn't dawned on many people. Trump condemned a bunch of innocent Venezuelans to a fate of eternal slavery and abuse at a forced labor camp no one leaves, for the crime of fleeing Maduro and seeking asylum in the US you undermine your own point by exaggerating with "eternal." It's a very good point otherwise, & sufficiently appalling without needing exaggeration. I would sub with "no due process, & an uncertain future subject to the whims of oligarchs in El Salvador & the US" Good writing though. Thank you. What a strange thing to say. No one who goes into that prison gets out. Unless something extraordinary happen this is literally the fate of all prisoners there, eternal imprisonment there No it isn't. Please don't make things up when the subject matter is this important. If posts like these go viral, an easily verifiable exaggeration like "eternal" will get honed in on by our enemies to dismiss the broader argument. Pictured text (from Guardian): "Those people along with 101 additional Venezuelans were sent to Cecot for a one-year term that can be renewed, Bukele said. The US government paid El Salvador about $6m to receive the deportees, the White House said." https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/20/cecot-el-salvador-venezuela-prison-trump-deportations It's a prison where ALL prisoners who go there never get out. A cruel narcissistic liar who routinely breaks the law pinky swearing it'll be for a RENEWABLE 1 year means nothing. As if Trump is going to be like "Oh yes 1 year is enough let's take them back" please be fr It's not the truth on paper, & that matters because 1) the truth as it stands is sufficiently appalling without needing exaggeration 2) one of the favorite tactics of the conservative movement is to seize upon these discrepancies as proof that people outraged about this situation are being fooled. You are doing harm to those of us who are trying to fight this administration by digging in rather than simply making a small correction & reposting. And for what? What do you gain by digging in? Pride? Is your pride more important than the fate of the people in that prison? This is so extremely nonsensical on many levels I genuinely don't have the energy to go through just how nonsensical this is
March 22, 2025 at 12:37 AM
tce177.bsky.social
No it isn't.
Please don't make things up when the subject matter is this important. If posts like these go viral, an easily verifiable exaggeration like "eternal" will get honed in on by our enemies to dismiss the broader argument.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
"Those people along with 101 additional Venezuelans were sent to Cecot for a one-year term that can be renewed, Bukele said. The US government paid El Salvador about $6m to receive the deportees, the White House said." From https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/20/cecot-el-salvador-venezuela-prison-trump-deportations
March 21, 2025 at 11:58 PM