Notices by Nazo (nazokiyoubinbou@mastodon.social)

@slowcoding @dalias This is what I call a "reverse appeal to authority" fallacy. There's probably a better term for it, but anyway, it's the fallacy of claiming that only if someone is an expert in a thing they can truly understand the thing.

For example, I'm not an expert on the exact mechanisms of calculating every detail about gravity, but I can still tell you that jumping off a cliff is bad and why.

@slowcoding @dalias First of all, see the term "helicopter parent." I'm not sure if you've heard it or not: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helicopter_parent#Effects

Children *need* some level of independence. You rob them of something very important. It also tends to drive them to find ways around your surveillance and to act out. I think we've all experienced that sensation as a kid, but helicopter parenting results in the kid feeling it *all* the time. The rebellion is actually more of a self-defense if anything...

@slowcoding @dalias Speaking of which, that's another thing people forget as they use "have you been a parent" to decide if people know anything about kids or not: the actual question you should be asking is "have you been a kid before?" You might be surprised how many would say yes. We've experienced being a kid and we know what it felt like, just it's easy to forget...

@ramsey @maya_b @inthehands Oh every accusation from the right is a confession. That Trump was in on all that from the start was obvious even back then. The tricky part is just getting his base to see such a thing.

Like you say, the "vibe" is the issue. He somehow repeated the right words over and over and had them thinking only Democrats could be involved. Something about the break between then and now shifted stuff I guess? Or maybe not. I'll believe it when I see the base actually turn

@ramsey @maya_b @inthehands I would really like to see more of an inside view. I can say some of the diehard loyalists (like my frigging parents — they aren't openly MAGA but might as well be called closet MAGA) don't seem to have processed this yet.

@heidilifeldman Isn't there sort of already something to this effect? Eg that they *must* properly identify themselves by federal law or something? (Obviously excluding undercover, but ICE is not an undercover agency in the first place...)

@jeridansky There is no way that ICE can be salvaged. Its very FOUNDATION is built on terrible things being made legal and "ok." I don't even see why DHS exists. Everything it *purports* to do, other organizations already do (and better.)

But Schumer is such a conservative that he'll never understand this I suspect. (Sometimes I really wonder why he didn't switch parties — at least back before Republicans became the official nazi part of America anyway.)

@inthehands It scares me that someday they'll be given full gestapo powers — but that's exactly why we need to wreck them now while all it takes is people being loud to do it.

@selzero I can absolutely verify this 100%. I want to eat healthier, but the healthiest stuff costs almost twice as much (in some cases actually more even.)

The more unhealthy it is, the cheaper.

And cons like "organic" aren't helping since they make even the cheaper stuff cost more. (Yes there is usually a cheaper "non-organic" option, but stores have limited shelf space and like to stop carrying the other options in favor of what sells more rather than what's best for their customers.)

@mkristensson @ai6yr I imagine with the Republican shutdown, it's completely up in the air when/if anyone gets paid/funded anymore.

@paninid @Em0nM4stodon I never thought about it in terms of religious connotations, but I think this does make a bit of a valid point. Many people in this country are raised from early on to think they have no privacy from at least one being. Maybe this goes a long way to explaining why so many seem to just shrug off giving up privacy rights among other humans.

EDIT: The more I think about it, the more I think they're taught to accept said being as to be trusted. So they accept corporations

@nixCraft If true this is more scary than even intended because I'm about 90% sure that the bubble is very close to bursting now...

@benroyce It truly amazes me how many people did a whole "Democrats aren't good enough, so I'll just let the Republicans win" thing.

Every single issue that Democrats are less than ideal on or even taking the wrong side on, Republicans make 1000x worse. Every. Single. Issue.

FFS, even Gaza, the one thing people used most against Democrats has Trump now basically doing everything he can to directly support the genocide... Democrats were hedgey, but Trump is 100% backing it.

@dnkboston @benroyce "Biden's inaction"
I especially love this part.

Harris was not Biden...

I do believe Biden would eventually have come around though. Oh he was absolutely in the wrong about Gaza, but I honestly believe that by this time this year he would have already come around if he had remained president. I *KNOW* Harris would have listened to reason. I'm certain. I can't prove it, but she was much too intelligent to stay on the wrong side.

But we all know where Trump stands...

@kingrat I think you're confused. You tagged me. I merely responded.

@kingrat In general perhaps, but this is something where it is *VERY IMPORTANT.*

Sometimes the difference between a kidnapping and an arrest may seem like a thin line. Not in this though. They are flagrantly acting outside the law, violating the Constitution itself and actually just straight up kidnapping whoever they feel like then getting away with it. We're talking internationally recognized crimes against humanity here.

(Not to mention the concentration camps and human trafficking...)

@jeridansky @kingrat @ai6yr Let's not even use the word "arrested." They do not have a warrant and do not get court orders. These are illegal kidnappings.

@BruceMirken I wish it was possible to actually do this. Somehow hold the people who spread disease or misinformation that causes others to spread it responsible for their actions.

These people have killed so many, indirectly or directly and they just don't care. Why should they? Our society refuses to hold them the least bit responsible for their horrific actions.

@GreenSkyOverMe I hope this is America in the near future.

Because we don't have long left at all. That fire is burning *FAST* around us.

I guess to some extent it's the world as a whole really, but man are we in the US staring right at flames two inches from our noses right now.

@Lydie Funny how "being a decent person" has become "political far left extremist."