Dune and Foundation would be a wonderful way to enjoy 2021.

I’m seriously looking to reorg my tv watching budget and I’m thinking about buying an AppleTV and putting my streaming stuff on that.

As long as I can get Hallmark movies as an app on AppleTV for the wife… I should be golden…

Sleep is huge…as I can attest with my sleep issues.

Changes how weight is gained, doesn’t allow for proper digestion, evacuation of toxins, changes hydration, recovery… just everything.

Probably the best thing Ariana Huffington did with her stint at HP was to bring the value of sleep into the national conversation.

It’s not “you can sleep when you’re dead”, but more along the lines if “if you don’t sleep, you’re dead”

I wonder since he’s been a Ram for a year does anyone have any info on his weight and how he fits into the Rams picture going forward?

watched the whole thing and dude’s the GOAT.

Bottom line, he’s killing it, speaking truth unapologetically.

You knew this was gonna be different when corporations were racing to put out press releases that sounded like they were written by Angela Davis or Ta-Nehisi Coates instead of some PR flak.

I mean the language was direct and unequivocal.

The Dems are so damned busy with their woke performance improv… I dunno what even to say about that.

But yeah. I think when the videos hit social media and the police otherized EVERYONE at those protests… that changed people’s minds.

Cops were unrepentantly hurting young white women, macing kids, shooting white teenagers in the head with rubber bullets, attacking white press members from the US and foreign journalists in addition to all the heinous shit they were doing to black people.

Just like the Rodney King video showed what black people knew to be their reality all along.

I think it’s just now sinking in that all this talk of class, which honestly was brought to the fore by Bernie as much as anyone, that people are starting to see where they REALLY are and it ain’t in the privileged position they thought.

Even white privilege can’t supplant class privilege. Ain’t that some shit?

I really hope this keeps going.

I just worry about a co-opting in the next few months as the eviction crisis looms. Trust me, that’s gonna be potentially a bigger bomb than this as MILLIONS are being evicted… Gonna be awfully hard to keep things on track when that happens.

Yeah.

It is very easy to succumb to despair in these times, but two things prevent me from doing so.

1) This shit is all by design. I really do think that this excessive and very public violence is meant to overwhelm people and have them retreat due to mental, physical, emotional and spiritual exhaustion. I really do think the powers that be are sick and tired of pretending that they aren’t in charge, are tired of having to answer to a process and much like public education see what we have as too much freedom, too much democracy, too much information which is why we see such powerful and sustained attacks on everything which informs viable self-determination. And fuck that if I’m gonna give in to these assholes.

2) So many people especially Zoomers are jumping into this fight with both feet and I’ll be damned if I’m gonna not do everything I can to support them. All they may need from me is my mass as they hope to create gravity for their movement. Well, I can do that. I can elevate their cause and I can be the change that they seek. I can’t lead and I’ll be damned if I get out of the way, so follow it is.

I honestly have said for some time now that if we held an election about whether to remain a democracy or not and EVERYONE had to vote up or down, that much like Brexit, the down with democracy would pass. I ESPECIALLY felt that way when Obama was President and all the centrists and shitlibs not only fell asleep, but were pissed about anyone trying to wake them up to the atrocities going on.

This is why I don’t trust the centrists and liberals with anything on principle. They are more concerned with being able to go back to sleep than to fix the structural problems. It’s like the roof is leaking and they only give a shit when the water is falling on them. They don’t care when someone else is getting wet, nor do they care about the damage to the house. And that bullshit is frustrating as hell, but we might as well use them while we can.

Anyway, I really feel strongly that I cannot give in to despair as long as there’s someone fighting.

In my MMOs that I play, a party would be in a Raid (20-40 people) or a dungeon (4-5 people) and against a boss, there would be times when everyone, but one person was dead. Sometimes, instead of giving into despair, that person would continue to fight…and win…alone against a big boss. I’ve had those moments where it seemed that we’d all die and have to start over, but I kept fighting, going through my rotation, keeping my guard up and avoiding damage and winning the battle.

These mostly young-uns are fighting the big fight… honestly, as close to a civil war as we may come especially with Trump in the White House and they’re winning. This the same generation that due to being separated from having anything, are free from undue loyalties, free from unlearned prejudices, free from uninstilled dogma. They’ve brought Trillion dollar corporations to heel and are changing politics as we speak. A single tweet that goes viral can seriously damage a company’s bottom line for an entire year or more, end a politicians career or start a movement.

There are days where I just can’t… but I realize it’s not up to me. Boomers and GenX fucked it up in so many ways and this Gen is fighting the fight that we should have fought. I mean, the fact that this country wasn’t shut down by either the Rodney King beating (let alone that trial) or Sandy Hook demonstrates our failure.

This is what happens when you find that genie lamp and sarcastically wish for Armageddon…

Yeah, I feel you, WV.

And in the community, young black people aren’t too happy with their older relatives. The frustration runs deep.

Yeah, there are former white supremacists who’ve come out and said a) that the plan going back to the early 80s was to infiltrate white society…”trade boots for suits”

There have been numerous accounts that the infiltration has gone beyond their wildest dreams where now the police effectively ARE a white supremacist organization with even black, hispanic and asian cops engaging in what amounts to blatantly white supremacist activities in an unquestioning fashion.

Oh and the humans are fucked. The planet will be fine, but humans may survive in a different way than we live now, but history won’t look on us kindly. Presuming humans survive.

he’s right.

Even a conviction of all 4 on all counts isn’t even a beginning.

Unless the system is changed, all of this is anesthetic.

WV, I dunno that “black people” didn’t vote en masse.

There was massive voter disenfranchisement BY the DNC in a way that would make Texas Republicans proud.

Black people under 45 overwhelmingly voted for him.

Why? Well, older folks of every demo get their news from the MSM and the MSM basically was blacking Bernie out while shit talking him 24/7.

So, older folks trusted the news that blasted him constantly.

I mean, propaganda works, right? Younger people are more active and there’s better info out there now IF YOU WANT IT. The system didn’t dumb down black people, they try to dumb down everyone.

Those who have any sort of informational checks and balances chose Bernie. Those who relied on the state propaganda of the MSM chose Biden.

In that respect, it wasn’t a racial question.

It feels like the entire world is just fucking tired of the whole neoliberal economic model.

They see that the “fairy tale of eternal economic growth” as Greta Thunberg so aptly put it is just that, a fairy tale.

I think we’re finally seeing some class solidarity because Wall Street got greedy and decided to mine other, wealthier, whiter communities to fuel that economic growth.

When people start to feel that class solidarity, they react to racial events like this in a much more homogenous fashion.

I’ve said for a long time that the reasons why protests in other countries work is that the people aren’t fucking around. The French, in particular, make it very clear that “hey, we cut off your heads before and we’ll do it again. Do what we want or we’ll replace you…one way or another”.

America tried the tepid way, but after being ignored for so many years, looks like that’s over.

How about this?

Part of the reason cops feel afraid for their lives is that a) they’re out of shape, b) white and are scared of black people and c) don’t have the adequate non-lethal training be it Krav Maga or BJJ to subdue people.

I had the occasion to talk with a CRASH cop, short, stout Korean dude who would FUME at the lazy cops who would shoot instead of scrap.

Yeah, it’s dangerous, but that’s why they get paid and are given larger protections under the law. Harming a police officer is an aggravating factor.

I’ve seen videos of cops doing it exactly right and plenty of videos of them doing it exactly wrong…like, in every way.

There are differences in the behaviors and beliefs of cops who draw only as a last resort and those cops who draw and unsafely their weapon even before they can fully examine the situation.

I’ve yet to see a single person who’s about this issue in good faith EVER criticize a cop for engaging in good faith, even if that ended in death.

The problem is that Dylan Roof killed 9 people and was gently taken into custody. He went to jail without a mark on him.

Chauvin murdered Floyd, who he’d known for as much as 17 years due to working in the same place after hours, by literally choking him to death…in broad daylight…while being filmed.

How about the police need to justify any use of force as opposed to the people having to PROVE that they did nothing to provoke violence against them by police.

Also, are we gonna talk about provocation? It used to be that one had to threaten or endanger a cop in order to justify violence. Now? Just tell the cop to fuck himself and he’ll bring all the violence he can muster AND with the support of the state UNLESS the citizen can prove that the violence is unjustified.

The TL;dr in this is that this isn’t the time to make the “most cops are good cops” argument.

Good cops would have intervened in all this bullshit long ago… even if we just start with Rodney King… And they fucking don’t. It’s almost unheard of for a police officer to support the citizen over the fellow cop EVEN IF THE COP IS ENGAGED IN ILLEGAL ACTIVITY.

So yeah, rather than shoot people in the extremities ala Barnaby Jones, maybe..Oh, I dunno… actually de-escalate and if needed engage in non-lethal measures?

I wonder if we’re gonna reach a tipping point among the police where the thin blue line finally snaps.

In chess, the pawns are sacrificed. It’s time the police see themselves as the pawns they are and push back.

I appreciate the solidarity (presuming it’s authentic), but as Zooey points out, system change doesn’t happen just because cops finally take a knee…

Still so much work to do.

Did Biden seriously say that we need to send police to the Barnaby Jones School of Winging People???

Fuuuuuck…

— Màxkhuwe🌹 (@Mackeyser) June 1, 2020