Uriel238 [all pronouns]

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  • There’s a reason it’s not the Trump Administration but the Trump Regime. He’s using federal resources not to execute the law and perpetuate national services, but to serve his own interests. Trump is not enacting the duties of the office, but instead is looking to profit personally from his powers.

    The White House has literally gone rogue, and is not at all engaging the responsibilities of government.

    Think of him and his staff as organized embezzlers.


  • Curiously I’m having to deal with this very conflict. I want to join the resistance, but I’m (literally) allergic to sunlight (which precludes street demonstrations) and I’m a goblin when it comes to in-person social development, such as organizing.

    The mutual aid groups in Sacramento are scarce, so it’s difficult to ask them.

    Do I make useful memes and infographics? Not sure.

    Curiously, the nearest ICE hq is in San Francisco, and there are resistence movements there interfering with ICE action.


  • There are literal eldritch horrors we do not comprehend. It is why the sun has all the material features of god, yet we see it as a (very large, implacable, thankfully consistent) object, and we don’t think about how we must refrain from looking at the sun directly, only that it burns our eyes.

    Bertrand Russell’s attempt at reducing all of mathematics to a perfect system of logic (until this was proven by Gödel to be impossible) broke him, much the way professors at Miskatonic would go mad trying to model the universe by pondering quaint and curious volumes of forgotten lore.

    Myself, I was already pretty mad (diagnosed) when I saw lines being crossed in the US that pointed towards a fascist autocratic future and a purge campaign, and so I took to studying moral philosophy and the Holocaust, specifically the human mechanisms that justified the engagement of and participation in evil. Consequently, I broke my brain even further. Nature, human or otherwise, can be unflinching and ruthless in its efforts to exploit or consume us, which is why we need reciprocal ethics in the first place.

    I do not imagine the universe is incomprehensible, only that we are small and still pretty simple, imagining the moon closer and bigger since we see models drawn to disproportionate scale. And so the layperson doesn’t understand how difficult it is to launch a probe from one speck so that it drifts for months or years, to fall into an orbit around another speck. It’s difficult to imagibe that the stars in a single galaxy, each teeming with satellite objects, are uncountable like the grains of sand on a beach. We know it’s a number, but still have to estimate its value with a wide error margin.

    It’s not forbidden knowlege. The parabolic manifold in which the pillars of R’lyeh stand can be computed, but our hominid brains have to bend a lot, or chain together analogies and metaphors to understand them.

    It’s like a dog chasing a hyperball, possibly to its peril.





  • IMSI spoofing is a product of wireless telephony being an ancient (way-pre-internet) technology, and we’re long in an era where law enforcement (or in this case law-enforcement coded) investigators don’t have to obey laws, such as assuring due process, and unreasonable searches disqualifying evidence. Instead they’re hunting political enemies, and every prisoner of the United States is now a political prisoner.

    It also means we don’t have to obey the law, and can start using all-frequency jammers in and around protests and ICE actions to level the playing field. (It will also interfere with regular infrastructure, but it’s not like ICE or the current regime gives half a fuck about that.

    All-frequency jammers are older tech and easier to build than IMSI spoofers, and are highly illegal since so much of our commerce and communications depend on radio. But the current [FCC] has also been captured and is failing to do its job.

    Any Amateur Radio enthusiast will know how to make a jammer. And current battery technology would assure you could make a handful that are portable and powerful enough to shut down blocks and blocks of municipal communication. This is playing pretty hardball, but then ICE isn’t playing by the rules.




  • There are pretty sex offenders and ugly ones in every generation. Since US society used sexuality as a device of control the way dangerous cults do, we produce a lot kids who think human beings only have sex through coercion or opportunistic vulnerability (e.g. drunk girls at parties.)

    So it makes for a lot of potential sex offenders.

    Maybe some day we’ll toss abstinence only sex ed into a blast furnace and start teaching kids about consent.

    But then we’ll realize that click-wrapped TOS on our devices and hardware are bad-faith contracts we’re coerced to agree to. And that just wouldn’t do for our shadowy capitalist masters.


  • Three of them are boomers who argued that spousal rape is not a crime (a controvery in the 1970s, when NAMBLA was active and child marriage wasn’t given a second thought) and the other one is trying super hard to be literal Himmler (though he’s earning enough Heydrich points to break the machine).

    Observe that this very same demographic is still trying to hold onto power as they lose their faculties.


  • I think that’s why Epstein suffered an unfortunate prison accident. Some very vippy VIPs are in the list.

    I didn’t think Epstein kept a list, rather I figured a multinational cadre of investigations bureaus uncovered paper trails linking VIPs by the dozens and Epstein (and his parties of trafficked children) and that is the alleged list.

    Since the US DoJ and DHS are captured, it’s up to the rest of the international community to see justice done. And since King Fucking Charles has had proximity with Epstein, its awkward for the industrialized world.

    Dirt on Charles would be enough to launch an army of ninjas and fixers, alone. And since his connection with Epstein has been white washed, that gives cover to anyone else also connected to Epstein that would be awkward to the First World (the industrialislzed western bloc).


  • For decades now, I’m been warning about the era of this regime, and got a lot of oh yeah? Where are the death camps?

    Dachau was operative in 1933. The Wannsee Conference was in 1942, after which the Auschwitz model was replicated at other camps, and the final solution to the Jewish question was applied to the general contained population, rather than just disabled, mentally ill and gays.

    So in the timeline of the German Reich, the death camps appeared rather late, and I tend to err on the side of understatement, even though officer involved killings, and punitive fatalities in US prisons have been routine for decades at a rate of ~1000/year






  • In psychology, it’s called attitude polarization, where we ignore data that conflicts with an ideology while accepting data that confirms it. It’s a known common human bias.

    Scientists train themselves to accept new data as challenging old presumptions (that maybe the old model is false, or simplistic and some unconsidered noise is affecting observed data)… at least when they’re doing real science. Failure to do so, and to cling to older models, is how old dudes get tagged as hidebound reactionaries. And even Einstein couldn’t square his feelings regarding Heisenberg probability models of quantum dynamics.