Notices by J.H.Noyes (noyes@mastodon.online)

@ATLeagle @randahl

Grandfather. Keen political instincts. I remember him saying that the GOP wanted Trump to run for governor in the early 90s, but that Trump didn't want to do it.

@randahl

My grandfather was Mario Cuomo's COS for a while, other roles too. He told me that this was going to happen when I went to visit with him in 2001, a couple of months before 9-11. According to him:

NY GOP was in bed with Russia in the 80s
The GOP was going to go over to Putin.
Trump was going to be president w/strong backing from the evangelicals.

I excused myself to the bathroom because I thought his mind was slipping. It sounded so insane.

@subjacentish

I'm just going to say that the worst thing about Covid is parainfectious destruction of the endothelium, brain, and lymphoid spaces. If someone is not afraid of that it is only because they think the rules don't apply to them.

@solarbird This is obvious. They want to build a technocratic hegemony that allows a minority of flunkies to live high on the hog while a nation of carceral slaves does all the work. Think the industrial revolution, only with slaves instead of free urchins.

@hannu_ikonen Literally the worst president of the modern era. He is to American Democracy that which Ephialtes of Trachis was to the Battle of Thermopylae.

@AnarchoNinaWrites
Only campaign I've ever seen without a platform.

@hannu_ikonen

I dunno. She's confusing bad faith for a communication error. The WHO was aware of aerosol spread from the very beginning. They embraced denialism for political reasons.

Pollen is a bioaerosol. Grains of pollen have been observed floating more than ten miles from the source.

@Remittancegirl The stock market measures a parasitic burden:

This describes the total physiological strain and resource consumption that parasites impose on a host organism. In biological and ecological contexts, the parasitic load reflects the cumulative impact of parasites on the host's energy, nutritional resources, and overall health. The higher the parasitic load, the more significant the potential negative consequences for the host's fitness, metabolism, and survival.

@AnarchoNinaWrites @mishi @hannu_ikonen

Someone's smart. Don't form coalitions with proven losers. Especially not those that spent the last 2.5 years telling you to eat shit.

@AnarchoNinaWrites

I wonder what the exchange rate on those neocon soak sessions was... hardly seems worth it to give up a few hundred thousand votes in Pennsylvania for a dozen votes in Wyoming.

@hannu_ikonen @AnarchoNinaWrites @AnthonyJK

I think they used AI to select demographics to burn. AI was probably behind all the neocon hugging that occurred.

@hannu_ikonen @AnthonyJK @AnarchoNinaWrites

Should have gone with the astronaut.

@AnarchoNinaWrites @hannu_ikonen @AnthonyJK

Democrats didn't try to win this election, nor did they seem to particularly too concerned about losing. Darndest thing I've seen in a while.

@AnarchoNinaAnalyzes

Netanyahu let Sinwar out of prison in 2011. How strange that Sinwar attacked Israel the day before Bidi's career ending corruption trial was to begin.

If you ask me, Sinwar's death should serve as a warning to all aspiring Arab elites that see an alliance with Israel as a path to power. Blackmailed parties often come to see their blackmailers as allies when rewards are involved. And when their new allies betray them, the best they can do is lob a stick before they die.

@KamalaHarrisWin

"Silent Majority" has been GOP codespeak for election interference for decades.

Democrats getting up in arms about Covid tests to Putin while remaining mum on munitions to Netanyahu is so on brand.

@AnarchoNinaWrites
BBC is openly referring to Israel's aim in Lebanon as 'cleansing' now. I don't think this is being done in protest. They just can't see the wrongness in it.
@hannu_ikonen

@gimulnautti @AlgoCompSynth @BrianJopek @smkellat

That's not an entirely accurate characterization of American populism. The politics of the Far Right arent inherently populist at all. Modern faux-populists like the Proud Boys and other supremacist groups is underwritten by the forces true populists would oppose: corporations and oligarchs. Calling the PBs populist is a lot like calling socialists communists even though socialism and communism have little true overlap.

https://digital.lib.niu.edu/illinois/gildedage/populism

@AnarchoNinaWrites

Here's the skinny on Governor Tear Gas:

https://www.fox9.com/news/walz-tear-gas-in-brooklyn-center-meant-to-avoid-another-police-station-burning

99% of the time ostensibly liberal protestors do serious damage to infrastructure it turns out that they're right wing agitators. Walz knows this, he knew it then. Gassed Left Wing protestors anyway.

https://thehill.com/homenews/news/522509-feds-say-far-right-group-coordinated-attack-on-minneapolis-police-precinct/

The GOP's plan for America's lower classes is simple:

Criminalize homelessness, use fund capital to raise the temperature of the housing market to create swarms of new homeless, incarcerate those freshies and use them to create an agriculture and infrastructure facing slave caste. Those unfit for work will be sent to plague camps where communicable disease runs rampant and the case fatality rate is high.

This is Biden's legacy—his policies legitimized killing the useless with disease.