Go talk to Jimmy the Fish down at the docks. He has a few jobs that need takin' care of.

It's almost like random redditors backed by a non-profit suck at organizing. They don't know who is at their protest. They don't know how many people there are on their side. They don't know who is running security, they probably never considered having organized security. They just let randos show up and stake over marshaling duties.

Early hedging against degrowth.

Edit: There is a Breitbart article (fictional editorial?) about this: (Warning: Right Wing Media)

Today, in the year 2064, as we look back over the last 50 years, it might seem as if the Abundance Revolution was inevitable, since so much wealth was involved. After all, it was wealth just waiting to be unleashed.

James P Pinkerton writes an editorial from the future about the Abundance Revolution, which takes place in 2014 and is caused by Cliven Bundy's take over of federal land under Obummer. That event was cattle farmers (years before Yellowstone) who didn't want to pay grazing fees, took over a national park and made a Chud version of CHAZ with militias and everything. They wanted to kick off a civil war, if you read their writing and listened to their hopes and motivations.

Here is how James describes the animus for the Abundance Revolution:

Yet paradoxically, on the eve of the Abundance Revolution, many of America’s leaders, on the right as well as the left, were preaching a strict doctrine of overall austerity.

Indeed, as we look back and study the events of 2014, we can see the results of the Green elite’s ideologically-driven effort to squelch even the relatively small amount of prosperity that Americans were then enjoying. That is, it was the Green elites who unwittingly opened the door to the Abundance Revolution and the fantastic increase in wealth that Americans have since realized over the last half-century.

It is, essentially, a reaction to climate change. Specifically the idea that to curb and survive the effects of climate change, we have to stop eating beef/meat, stop using ICE cars, turn over ranch lands to make solar farms, etc.

It also hits home for real estate developers and people (read: industries) who don't want to dump chemicals into natural waterways:

Yet beginning in the 1970s, the federal government’s approach to land management changed dramatically. Whereas once Uncle Sam had supported development where possible, through dams and other kinds of infrastructure, the new federal policy was the opposite: The Greens, gaining control of federal policymaking during the 1970s, saw federal ownership of the land as an opportunity to stop any sort of development or economic growth. And a key tool for the Greens was the Endangered Species Act (ESA) of 1973. ESA represented a radical expansion of federal power: In the past, the national parks had been set aside to protect endangered species; yet after ESA was passed, the entire country became, in effect, a national park. As a result, in any location where activists could identify an “endangered species,” they could squelch development. And so enforcement of ESA became a kind of racket, in which clever biologists and litigators could team up to block any sort of development and take effective control of any land.

Yet as a reminder of the wisdom that power begets hubris and then nemesis, it was overreaching on the ESA’s power that led to the Battle of Bunkerville; Bundy and other ranchers in Nevada were pushed off their land to protect the desert tortoise, a species that could easily have been protected–if that were really the issue–in zoos or nature preserves. But instead, the Greens got greedy, and that led to the moment when Bundy drew his famous Line in the Desert.

So in addition to acute climate change reaction, you have an underlying chronic crankery against the EPA and environmentalists. Because by protecting endangered species, that land can't be acquired by beef farmers or industry or real estate.

The third triggering incident came on April 18, 2014, when the Barack Obama administration announced that it was delaying, yet again, any decision on the Keystone Pipeline. This move was widely regarded as cynical pandering to a sect of Green billionaires, led by the infamous Tom Steyer of San Francisco. The Obama administration and many Democrats seemed happy enough to bow to Steyer’s wishes in return for campaign cash, but in this instance, the pandering was so flagrant that the decision blew up in the administration’s face. While the liberal media were happy with the Keystone decision, the legacy press was no longer powerful enough to sway public opinion. Instead, the struggle for public opinion was swayed by activists who took to alternative and social media to make the case in favor of Keystone–and against the Reign of Steyer.

It wouldn't be the Obama era without a dash of Koch-backed oil anxiety.

I don't know where it's at now, but it started in libertarian opposition to degrowth. That's why it's called abundance. They want to project the idea that everything (especially oil) is plentiful and accessible. There is no limit to land or water or any resources, just government regulators and environmentalists holding everything back. So when forms of degrowth become necessarily, these people will violently oppose it. They will be the ones guarding Peter Thiel's AI companies' coal power plants.

Libs get their Law & Order fetish fulfilled and they get to blame it on trump. Here is Gavin basically telling people that they better be peaceful or the troops he didn't send will hurt them. He's reassuring everyone that there are plenty of cops. This is a threat to normal people and an assurance for his class.

No chicken, no chicken. You're the chicken.

Some 60 year old CIA guy walks into a Chinese university dressed like a tiktok zoomer. He tries to bring up Uyghur genocide during a math lecture. The professor tells him to leave. He pulls out a piece of paper saying the professor has be nice and answer his questions or the US will sanction China.

At least that's how it plays out in their heads.

I enjoyed it all. The only thing I don't like is that a Star Wars show seems to be the only way to get a high-budget story about actual empire. Maybe Coogler's X-Files will go into the deep state more than the original.

The Force Awakens, Jurassic World, Birdman, Antman, Financial Crisis in Greece, Rat photographed carrying pizza in NYC subway, Narcos, Oscar for Fences, White & gold or blue & black dress, gambo thrones, measels outbreak, true detective s2, 30 republican candidates for president, gawker lawsuit, mr robot, colbert gets the tonight show, celebs died, the martian, superbowl shark, deflategate, sportsball, black panther, mgs v, katniss everdeen, nwa biopic, mad max

So can you show Hexbear becoming more misanthropic or do you just feel that's what is happening because it makes you feel misanthropic.

I can laugh at wrong people and still have hope for humanity.

>kamala gets a badge before extra-judiciously beating someone

that tracks aactually

The fool-proof, 100% guaranteed way to make sure Trump can't do anything is to either gulag him or kill him. Until libs start suggesting those as serious political solutions to their problems, they are not playing to win. I'm not going take them seriously as players. That has to be at least on the boundaries of real, live on TV, political discussion when it comes to fascism. If you're not willing to go there, then you're not interested in problem-solving.

This is mystical nonsense. Kind of like how ancient peoples explained nature using deities. It's just that people use bunk 17th and 18th century pseudoscience instead of gods.

Humans want enough. They don't naturally want more than others. It's the structure of society that creates greed. Greed is not a spirit inhabiting the bodies of individuals who then shape society to be greedy. It's a dialectical process between the base and the superstructure. It's not magical feelings stored in our DNA.