I think the network gets paid just from your cable/satellite subscription fees. A better approach would be to cancel whatever TV service you have. If there's anything worth watching on the network (eg. Tucker) you'll likely be able to watch it online.
We should be supporting the continued closure of public schools and universities. Public schools and universities are the two things most destructive to conservative values, and the sooner we get parents comfortable with the idea of teaching their own children (for earlier grades) and with self-directed learning (for older grades and young adults) the sooner we can start to turn things around.
I think one day people will look upon how we reacted to WuFlu in a similar way to how we look at how the Dutch reacted to tulip bulbs in the 1600s: as something that no one understands unless they were there, and even if you were there it might not have made a lick of sense.
Chomsky conveniently fails to mention the academy as one of the ways the elites manufacture consent. Who's more elite than the people who educate all the elites?
True dissidents in America don't have cushy jobs as Professors at prestigious institutions. True dissidents in America are lucky if they can get a bank account, let alone a job.
At this point we are culturally distinct forums. KiA2 has a decidedly more right-wing slant, a far stronger commitment to free speech, and more broadly covers culture war topics. KiA has more rules and a tighter focus on "ethics in gaming journalism".
You might as well tell America and Britain to "resolve this crap": at some point the differences became irreconcilable, and both parties are happier doing their own thing.
Last time I went to the grocery store they were selling the fabric masks. The labeling on the package described them as "fashion masks", which means that whatever regulations there was on labeling and "truth in advertising" didn't allow them to say they were good for anything other than "fashion"
That told me all I needed to know about these laws.
He said "anarcho-tyranny", not "anarchy". You are correct they are different:
What we have in this country today, then, is both anarchy (the failure of the state to enforce the laws) and, at the same time, tyranny—the enforcement of laws by the state for oppressive purposes; the criminalization of the law-abiding and innocent through exorbitant taxation, bureaucratic regulation, the invasion of privacy, and the engineering of social institutions, such as the family and local schools; the imposition of thought control through “sensitivity training” and multiculturalist curricula, “hate crime” laws, gun-control laws that punish or disarm otherwise law-abiding citizens but have no impact on violent criminals who get guns illegally, and a vast labyrinth of other measures. In a word, anarcho-tyranny.
Note that article is from 2005 and references writing from 1992. We have been on a slow burn for decades.
I went to a sporting goods store over the weekend. Almost no one working the firearms counter was wearing a face covering, nor did they have the plastic shields. And they were probably the busiest part of the store. Meanwhile the main cashiers were all wearing masks and had the plastic shields on the counters. Got a chuckle out of that one.
Half the people I see wearing them don't even cover their nose with it. It's "health theater".
I've seen a few houses with a bunch of lawn chairs around a fire pit in their yard that quite obviously isn't just a "family gathering". I do the same thing as when I see people at the local skate park: absolutely nothing.
I continue to hold out hope for some speakeasy brewery to open up where I am, but I think my best bet if I want to have a beer at a brewery is to head over to Montana when they start to re-open next week.
It reflects the level of coordination, organization, and funding of each side, more like it.
There were photos just prior to Trump selecting Kavanaugh as his Supreme Court Justice pick of protesters having pre-printed signs for everyone on his short-list "just in case". Who pays for them to be printed and and distributes them, I wonder?
Quest is offering the antibody tests to the public, if you have no other option.
I'm considering ordering one for my own curiosity.
Assume no one will stand up to tyranny and the police will gladly enforce mass gun confiscation, and plan your life accordingly if you haven't already done so.
If all the people you think should boog just ignored the order and opened up businesses, there's no way the state could enforce the order; and there'd be no rivers of blood.
If people aren't even willing to do that, why do you think they'd boog?
It's close enough to me I'll probably duck over there to stimulate their economy.
The rest of the country constantly rallies around them when disaster hits, but those feelings are not reciprocated when disasters strike other areas.
Facebook group (yeah I know but create a throwaway account). Listing here for most states.
Yeah he's been on the warpath the past couple pressers.
Nope. That Trump also doesn't is one of the reasons I tend to give him the benefit of the doubt on things I'm not sure about.
This site may be helpful for finding groups in your state to help exert pressure on your governor. Personally I don't trust it enough to give it money or for sending messages to my governor/legislature, but I did trust it enough to help me find the "REOPEN" facebook group for my state.
That's all well and good if you and 1 million of your closest friends feel the same way, but if they don't you're just pissing into a hurricane
Whenever I go out I come up with a plan that involves me going to some "essential" store, so if I'm pulled over I always have a justification for why I'm out. And I never bring my phone, because I don't need my technology to snitch on me.
The most frustrating thing about all this is how rigidly the governments acted in maintaining enforcement of all the laws. Like drinking in public: if there's a bar near a park or a large public parking lot, why couldn't they just allow people to order a drink and drink it in the park in a lawn chair? Or in the parking lot? Keeps everyone spread out, but also lets people continue going to the bar. But no, can't do that: illegal. Some restaurants wanted to sell their unprepared food before it spoiled to at least recoup some of the cost of the food they couldn't prepare/sell. But no, can't do that: not a grocery store.
The government loves its "We're all in this together" rhetoric and expects everyone to sacrifice but makes no concessions or compromises of its own.
The "managerial Conservatives" who simply want a the US to have a CEO instead of a President and want government administered by a bunch of giant corporations are just as insufferable as the leftists who want a massive government. Both want to eliminate individual and family level autonomy. The only difference is the "conservatives" want you dependent on a public multinational corporation and the "liberals" want you dependent on the government.