Yeah that'll happen. I still get my heart thumping sometimes looking at some girl that just looks vaguely similar to some person that I knew
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I'm not trying to tell you right or wrong about your opinion, just to me, totally independent of her political views her face has the look of insanity and death about it. IDK, maybe I am letting the story color my view but that is my assessment
She looks like something that shambles out to protect the temple when one of the adventurers makes a loud noise and awakens it. Like her mouth can unhinge and open wide without limit like a snake, and her shriveled fingers do cold damage when they touch you, all while her eyes have that exact same unchanging lack of emotion like in the photo.
I was all set to say well, I don't think it's necessarily wrong, if the FBI and the prison officials are keeping two criminals in the prison; that is their job even if it clearly seemed that they were having a little fun with this one. But... that was before I looked up what they were in for:
Betzner, serving a 15-year sentence on a cocaine conviction, and Briceno, serving 18 months for importing and possessing marijuana, added attempted escape and conspiracy charges to their arrest records.
If convicted on all charges, Briceno and Betzner each face a maximum additional penalty of 10 years in prison and a $15,000 fine.
15 years for cocaine
That's most of your adult life
And now it's up to 25
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Be careful obviously
I was curious about where exactly Navarro is doing his time. I learned he's in Mt. Pleasant Correctional Facility in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa. I wasn't able to find out too much about whether it's a good prison or bad prison or whatever. From the satellite photo, it doesn't look all that terrible, although I'm sure it's not fun.
While searching for that though, I did find out some things about FCI Miami where I think he originally reported and FDC Miami. Respectively:
In 1986, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) thwarted a daring escape planned by two inmates at MCC Miami. Gary Wayne Betzner and Terry Jackson Briceno planned to be in the recreation area of their housing unit when a helicopter would fly overhead, drop a rope ladder, and help them escape. Instead, once the helicopter flew over them they spotted three FBI agents in the helicopter and several others on the grounds.
Why you gotta mess with the prisoners like that (although that honestly is pretty funny)
In June 2010, the facility's security procedures prevented attorney Brittney Horstman from meeting a client when her underwire bra set off a metal detector. After returning from a bathroom without the item, she was turned away because of the detention center's dress code.
What the fuck
And then collect the bedding (an indescribably foul mixture of sodden straw, chicken shit, and feathers) and feed it to your cows.
"It is okay! The fire is only in the building next door along with the 10-15 others it spread to. Once we've detected it in our building, the risk won't be low anymore, of course."
(Edit: Actually, once it's spreading inside our building the risk won't be low -- we've already detected it in our building a couple of times, but it didn't spread so it's fine.)
Okay, I read a little.
They say the same thing in the USA, where some 85 percent of the population are apparently 'apolitical' since they don't bother registering a vote.
Nor that it's the point, but Kelman was born in 1946, when it was about 65 percent that didn't vote, and it's been going down since then throughout his lifetime. In the modern day (i.e. long after this was written), about 60% of people vote.
If there was any possibility that the apparatus could effect a change in the system then they would dismantle it immediately.
They are dismantling it in many places in the US, I think specifically because there's starting to be a possibility again that it can effect a real change in the system.
Countries that have no elections, or only rigged elections, are regarded as failures.
You don't have to get into any kind of back-and-forth with me about this if you don't want to, but I am curious -- do you honestly believe that countries that don't use voting are not markedly less successful at giving the freedoms to their citizens that the writers here clearly believe are important?
That's one of my key points about the overthrow of "the system" in general -- a lot of times, the structures of power that replace voting if voting gets done away with are much, much worse. The type of injustice that exists in the modern American system is significant but what are you wanting to replace it with that you're asserting would have more justice? I mean, maybe. I would want to hear the details. But I think asserting that there's no reason why people would not want to be in a place that operates without voting is weird.
elections in practice have served well to maintain dominant power structures such as private property, the military, male domination, and economic inequality. None of these has been seriously threatened through voting
This part, I agree with. Just voting for the candidates presented and nothing else is guaranteed to perpetuate systems of inequality. Fully agree there for exactly the reasons that Ehrlich states. I think where we differ is:
- ... and so we have to work for change outside the electoral system (absolutely true IMO)
- ... and so it doesn't matter if we vote or not, no matter how stark the difference between any two particular candidates (absolutely false IMO)
- ... and so voting is irrelevant and the whole thing is a fake which we don't need (fuckin what, have you ever studied a society with big concentrations of power that doesn't use voting, and what a fuckin nightmare it turns into?)
That is my take on it. IDK, I skipped around to read up on more but my reaction was much the same to any selected sections I found. I think the problems they're describing are very real and difficult bordering on intractable. I think the solutions they're prescribing for them are likely to make the exact same problems very much badly worse.
virility
Do you mean transmissibility? I get what you mean, but I've never heard this word used this way. (Virulence is, more or less, the non-fatal version of mortality -- how much damage the disease does -- so not that.)
Be that as it may, once the disease is established in a new species it tends to get less harmful because of exactly what you're talking about -- but plenty of diseases through history have been in the short run both fast-spreading and deadly, especially right after they jump into a new population. Which is exactly what H5N1 is doing right now (on all three counts).
I never thought that in my life me and James Carville would see exactly eye-to-eye on things, but there you go. IDK if talking this way is tactically productive, but he's not wrong. They should have this guy intervene in every newscast about how Trump's ahead 3:1 among first-time Wisconsin voters with odd numbered license plates or whatever, to yell "Fuck you!" at the anchors with little bits of spittle flecked around his mouth.