Notices by JNL of the night (jnl@hcommons.social)

It's cute that we thought that the end of Monopoly ever *wouldn't* be militarized

It's interesting to note, in fact, from this vantage point, that the 1A incursions that were made under the previous administration (during the George Floyd protests in particular, where we saw physical attacks on journalists, and arrests of the press, with a martial impunity not previously documented in this country) were never walked back during the Biden administration.

In fact, we lost even more rights ground, not to the administration itself, but to an aggressive and capital-captured right-wing judiciary.

You have MANY fewer freedoms and are MUCH closer to the margin of harm for resisting than was the case in 2016 or even 2020. Covid probably obscured the very real losses of the later era- guess what, suckers: the freedom you lost had nothing to do with public health precautions. In fact, aggressively rolling back those precautions and ensuring they will never be deployed again is, counterintuitively, part of further erosion of meaningful liberties- it's an assault on bodies.

It might be useful for you to understand that only for some things is this present moment 'in advance.' Your 1A liberties, for example, have been gone and demonstrably prosecutable for the past 18 months, depending on what side of various issues you're on. (You can literally kill people as part of your political speech on other sides of the same issues that you will be jailed and charged with a felony for holding a sign or a camera at on the left.) This is why some of us, including those who really LIKE liberal democracy and wanted to see it preserved, not collapsed, have been screaming and pointing and trying to get y'all to move collectively.

It didn't happen. And this, right now, is the not-yet for some things, but it's frankly the not-anymore for a great many others.

I am saying this because you need to wise up.

In summary, no one gets to ask you to be cannon fodder, and those who were silent during the last 8 years and who have undertaken no meaningful resistance themselves should probably not be the ones to chart your course. Resistance is needed, and you will assuredly do some. But this is not the beginning of a new game. It's end stage Monopoly, but militarized.

Holy crap.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/sep/12/entire-earth-vibrated-climate-triggered-mega-tsunami