Good thoughts about good read from my favorite scientific data analyst cat, but on pol side of things

there are a number if things about which i disagree with glen greenwald, but i think he's a man of intellect and principle.

this article is excellent.

more of the "left/right" dichotomy is a stirred up and deliberately intensified conflict to pit those who need not be fighting against one another than many seem to realize. red is fine. blue is fine. it's the black box you need to fear.

in a world where individuals have rights and privacy, left and right need not fear or fight with one another.

but it is in the best interest of the authoritarians for team donkey and team elephant to live in fear of one another and to constantly inflame both with endless hobgoblins and purported threats. this creates "emergencies" that allow for the assumption of "emergency powers" which, in turn, tighten the authoritarian tourniquet ever further around the neck of your liberties. for your own alleged good.

it's a one way ratchet to turn citizens into serfs and to entrench power in the hands of a ruling aristocracy, the state bureaucracy/enforcement that supports it, and the crony capitalists that it defends and enriches from haliburton to google.

this alignment of interests focuses on acquiring and keeping power and status. it's inherently inimical to we the people. the sort of power they seek to wield is zero sum. it can only be taken from us.

nothing works better for them than to have antifa fighting proud boys. these are the useful idiots that keep the tension high and the sense of fear palpable. both are tiny, non-representative groups magnified into images of monsters with which to menace a society until it begs to trade freedom for safety and 30,000 soldiers in the capital seems "normal" or even "desirable."

this is only real if you let them convince you it is. decline the invitation.

the society you save may be your own.

https://gab.com/boriquagato/posts/105588839662510958

https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-new-domestic-war-on-terror-is