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he had already experienced numerous death threats, i'm sure he wouldn't have been that confused if the shooter had sat him down and explained it to him. but i imagine the shock and flight-or-flight response in any shooting blocks out that level of cognition.

They posted the mugshot of the CEO.

They pulled a Trayvon Martin on the guy. Great stuff. Feel good story of the winter.

my whole life i've confused paul hogan with clint eastwood.

uziq wrote:

my whole life i've confused paul hogan with clint eastwood.

How? Paul Hogan was a passable actor.

looking back, it's sure been a wild month watching people get cautioned and lectured on morality and about their poor taste in memes and dark humor by some of the handwringers among the press, politicians, and their rich handlers with their finger so far off the pulse that they're standing in another building.

one of my favorite parts was listening to the mob movie buffs in my circles speculate on how this was a professional hit and they'll never catch the killer. and then they nabbed some guy at a mcdonald's. marching luigi in the middle of an army of cops like they captured the zodiac killer was also memes.

further belaboring points already made to death, being stingy with the snitch that lead to his arrest because of some bureaucratic technicality is one of several great cherries on top of it all.

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i think everyone's thinking he could've been gone to another country by then. it's probably quite disappointing to the conspiracy theorists, anyway, that it's probably not as convoluted or corporate intrigue as they'd have liked.

The best part is future historians are actually going to have to study the memes.

Dilbert_X wrote:

Its been an interesting year.

The warmup was when that fraudster and his family asphyxiated in a capsized yacht. No-one gave too much of a shit about that.

Then the establishment was surprised when an awful lot of people applauded Mangione.
The general response seems to have been "Nice shot man, let me know when your gofundme page is up"

I think this has been a long time coming. The wealth of the elite has been growing exponentially, for everyone else life has been turning to shit.

Is this what the start of the arab spring felt like? It does seem to be a turning point, but usually we only know some time afterwards.

i've been ascribing basically every political ruction, especially the growing populism, to the effects downstream of 2008. years of austerity on the poor and quantitative easing – technocrat-speak for socialism for the rich – has led us to this point. i can't remember how many times i've mentioned the gini coefficient and inequality to you on this forum over the years. it's a metric with valid criticisms, sure, and shouldn't be relied upon in any real analysis as the single and sole parameter; but generally speaking, massive inequality and sclerotic social mobility is the first sign that mass social unrest, revolution or coup is on its way. "many such cases ..."

returns on capital and assets have far outpaced returns on labour power for generations. and those salaries are captured in more comprehensive tax regimes (i.e. taxed at source) at higher rates of tax than all that slippery, fluid, border-crossing and haven-hiding capital. that has been turbocharged in the years of zero-interest credit for the superrich and public rescuing of dodgy banks. these have been great, rock-bottom interest, basically risk-free years for the white-collar speculators and occasional criminals. if you're born into wealth, you've basically been playing the game on easy difficulty setting; millions beget millions, leverage is plentiful, capital gains taxes low. meanwhile the little people are being told that their worlds-highest-GDP countries can't afford a local library, or a regular bus service, or affordable bills or food.

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I learned from this election that it probably isn't politically worth it to try to help the average person. A bunch of people you want to help don't think they will need help or would receive it. They may even resent the help they do get.

uziq wrote:

they're just as good as any putative elite, in their own mind,

I think you have it backwards. They aren't looking up and aspiring to be the next oligarch. Our culture would be much more optimistic if everyone had the delusion of eventual greatness. People are instead looking around at their community and thumbing their noses at their neighbors.

I think IRT to the coastal elites it feels like the MAGA are trying to rewrite the rules after having knowingly lost the game. They bought into the idea that they needed to do XYZ to become successful. But when they leveled off or couldn't compete at a higher level, they suddenly got resentful and wanted to play a different game.

You mentioned 2008 before. In retrospect a pivotal year for MAGA and the liberals. The black guy becoming president proved correct all the things the right wingers had actually been saying about the importance of education, the law, and institutions. That's why Democrats/liberals/blacks have become such an institutionalist group lately.

I think that is also why there is such a huge backlash against Indians among MAGA right now. Indians are doing well in tech and working within the institutions. A race of people with a spiritual understanding of hierarchy, class, and institutions. And they speak our language better than many of us.