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DuendeonSpooko @duendeonfuego.bsky.social · 8m

Or you can try:

"How are we the richest country in the world, but there's never money to help people? Why can every other country afford this and we cannot? What do you thinks going to happen to the US if we DON'T invest in our people and everyone else does?

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DuendeonSpooko @duendeonfuego.bsky.social · 9m

You can also try:

"How can we compete when we saddle our academics with enormous student loan debt and the rest of the world provides this for free? How can we compete when one medical issue can bankrupt a family when the rest of the world, again, provides this for free?"

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DuendeonSpooko @duendeonfuego.bsky.social · 6m

hell yeah dude

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DuendeonSpooko @duendeonfuego.bsky.social · 3h

New tactic to get through to MAGA:

"You want to know the reason we're falling behind China? We spend all our time fighting each other while they're building free energy and factories and investing in their infrastructure and people."

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DuendeonSpooko @duendeonfuego.bsky.social · 8m

Or you can try:

"How are we the richest country in the world, but there's never money to help people? Why can every other country afford this and we cannot? What do you thinks going to happen to the US if we DON'T invest in our people and everyone else does?

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DuendeonSpooko @duendeonfuego.bsky.social · 9m

You can also try:

"How can we compete when we saddle our academics with enormous student loan debt and the rest of the world provides this for free? How can we compete when one medical issue can bankrupt a family when the rest of the world, again, provides this for free?"

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DuendeonSpooko @duendeonfuego.bsky.social · 14m

this has been pretty effective in my own conversations

DuendeonSpooko @duendeonfuego.bsky.social · 3h

New tactic to get through to MAGA:

"You want to know the reason we're falling behind China? We spend all our time fighting each other while they're building free energy and factories and investing in their infrastructure and people."

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DuendeonSpooko @duendeonfuego.bsky.social · 47m

Yeah I've tried explain why I thought this, but the bottom line is that I should have looked it up a long time ago. Anyway, I'll leave the post up so other people can learn from my mistakes.

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DuendeonSpooko @duendeonfuego.bsky.social · 3h

New tactic to get through to MAGA:

"You want to know the reason we're falling behind China? We spend all our time fighting each other while they're building free energy and factories and investing in their infrastructure and people."

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DuendeonSpooko @duendeonfuego.bsky.social · 1d

the primary purpose of AI is organizing vast amounts of data (ie, your data) and creating an instantaneous point of contact so that billionaires and authoritarians can generate files on people in seconds

the secondary purpose is "helping you with your emails"

DuendeonSpooko @duendeonfuego.bsky.social · 1d

Hello AI is a data collection and mass surveillance apparatus masquerading as a public utility. It's not there to help you.

You are the product. Your data is being collected.

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DuendeonSpooko @duendeonfuego.bsky.social · 15h

Update:

I am apparently a dumbass (this is fine)

Police history is equal parts hilarious and awful

They have spontaneously arisen at various points in history to primarily enforce the laws that rich people hold most dear which tends to be... property. The slavery point is apt.

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DuendeonSpooko @duendeonfuego.bsky.social · 15h

From what I've been reading, it appears to have been a lot of "get the big guy to get other people to do what we want" and "get that gang and make them legal and then use that gang to get people to do what we want."

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DuendeonSpooko @duendeonfuego.bsky.social · 15h

been reading about the history of American Policing since getting dunked on for this and it's equal parts hilarious and awful

also yeah maybe nothing's really changed

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DuendeonSpooko @duendeonfuego.bsky.social · 15h

Yep, agreed with you there. Just thought it might be interesting to look into his "lesser" work given the rate at which he is invoked in the present moment.

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DuendeonSpooko @duendeonfuego.bsky.social · 15h

This is absolutely what I've read in the last hour yes. Also, it sure looks like a lot of police forces were codified in the 1850's which means... that a lot of them in the South WERE established precisely for the claimed reasons.

The North appears to have been different, but yeah.

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DuendeonSpooko @duendeonfuego.bsky.social · 15h

Welp, time to pick it up.

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DuendeonSpooko @duendeonfuego.bsky.social · 15h

Oooof. Didn't he also publish a diary on this?

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DuendeonSpooko @duendeonfuego.bsky.social · 15h

Yeah this is well stated. It also happened to be in a conversation at a party and said in a way that was kind of outrageous, but that just sounds like me making excuses when it was mostly just ignorance on my part. Looking into it now... the history of policing is much darker than expected.

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DuendeonSpooko @duendeonfuego.bsky.social · 15h

For sure! And reading a lot on it now. The history of policing is wild.

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DuendeonSpooko @duendeonfuego.bsky.social · 15h

been reading about the history of American Policing since getting dunked on for this and it's equal parts hilarious and awful

also yeah maybe nothing's really changed

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DuendeonSpooko @duendeonfuego.bsky.social · 15h

Update:

I am apparently a dumbass (this is fine)

Police history is equal parts hilarious and awful

They have spontaneously arisen at various points in history to primarily enforce the laws that rich people hold most dear which tends to be... property. The slavery point is apt.

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DuendeonSpooko @duendeonfuego.bsky.social · 15h

Yeah been reading a history of the police since getting dunked on a bit for this post and it's far wilder than expected

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DuendeonSpooko @duendeonfuego.bsky.social · 16h

Yeah time to read a little more American history

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DuendeonSpooko @duendeonfuego.bsky.social · 16h

And to be clear, I was mostly questioning the claim that police didn't exist before this and were only codified to serve this purpose, which... may still have been the case in certain jurisdictions.

Clearly I didn't have a great education in history.

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DuendeonSpooko @duendeonfuego.bsky.social · 16h

you know what that's fair