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Monday, November 01, 2021 MorningMonday again.

Sunday, October 31, 2021 Sunday NightRock on.
Sunday EveningEnjoy
BiasGotta fix some typos.
Some within the FBI and Justice Department privately conceded the bureau had failed to grasp the scale of the threat. Officials simply didnt believe that the kind of people showing up to a Trump rally would break the law, let alone act out violently.

There was a bias, said one person familiar with the FBIs work before and after Jan. 6. The bias was the belief that middle-aged, largely law-abiding people dont burn, loot or throw things at police officers. We underestimated the desperation, anger and conspiratorial nature of the crowd.

fixing...
Some within the FBI and Justice Department privately conceded the bureau had failed to grasp the scale of the threat. Officials simply didnt believe that the white people showing up to a Trump rally would break the law, let alone act out violently.

There was a bias, said one person familiar with the FBIs work before and after Jan. 6. The bias was the belief that middle-aged, largely white people dont burn, loot or throw things at police officers. We underestimated the desperation, anger and conspiratorial nature of the crowd.

They had no real knowledge of their records or, of course, their propensity to do anything. White folks from Ohio diners could never be bad!
Sunday AfternoonStill sunny?
The Excluded PerspectivesNewspaper outlets have spent months privileging the perspective of the extremely small minority of employees who quit rather than get vaccinated after the imposition of mandates, and now the small minority of parents who don't want to get their kids vaccinated.The most charitable view (but still not an exonerating view) of this emphasis is that the imagined reader of all of these publications is someone who OF COURSE is vaccinated and who OF COURSE wants to vaccinate their kids, so these pieces are "explaining" these weirdos, though not presenting them as weirdos, to that reader.

It's the same justification for endless profiles of Trump voters, or endless pieces putting conservative perspectives at the front of center. Puff pieces about anti-abortion activists, neo-nazis, people opposed to the public existence of trans people, basic racists dressed up with the latest intellectual veneer, etc... *Our readers* who share none of these views must *understand* these people.

Of course often missing are the actual perspectives, voiced by, say, trans women, or reproductive rights supporters, people who dislike Nazis, etc. The idea is these perspectives are banal and understood, mainstream, widely shared by readers, and don't need to be restated.

But this isn't true at all. These perspectives are actually rarely communicated, and certainly rarely communicated without a "Both Sides" politics coverage of them, at least in news pieces.


TrollsThe "be nice and make sure to listen to your racist relatives at Thanksgiving" genre seems to have faded, somewhat, though I assume there will be an entry in the New York Times soon. Dowd will take it up if no one else does.

This dumb discussion is premised on the notion that liberals need your fucking advice on how to deal with racist people in our lives because we are in a 'bubble' or some shit, as opposed being smacked in the face by racism every day, including from our supposedly liberal media. But it's also dumb because the archetypal "racist uncle" is always portrayed as a kindly, well-meaning person with some out of date views (though he has some good points!), and a bit of tolerance and understanding and a hug will lead to common ground.

Thats not how it works, ever. People who show up to Thanksgiving (or whenever) to do performative racism are trolls, not simple folk of the fields, Ohio Diner Men. They are not "undeducated members of the white working class." They are, like Trump's base, wealthy guys with golf club memberships. They're not just racists, they enjoy being assholes to provoke.

This is not important in and of itself, but it's representative of how politics is treated in The Discourse. Only liberals have agency. It's their job to be nice to the Real Americans, to compromise with "the moderates," to tolerate bad faith actors, to understand racism and never, ever let its targets and victims speak.
Sunday MorningMust be sunny!
Saturday, October 30, 2021 Saturday NightRock on.
Happy Hour Get happy.
Still The Worst People In The WorldAlso gives you an idea what they spent their careers doing.

Oct 29 (Reuters) - A group of mostly Republican critics of former U.S. President Donald Trump claimed responsibility on Friday for a demonstration in the Virginia governor's campaign that recalled an infamous 2017 rally in the state.

The Lincoln Project said it was behind the use of tiki torches outside a Republican candidate's bus that mimicked the rally by white supremacists in Charlottesville. The earlier event turned deadly when a car driven into a crowd by a self-described neo-Nazi killed a counter-protester.

Dumb for Republicans to be outraged by this, but also dumb to show up in Charlottesville as tiki torch re-enactors.
BuffoonsThey don't care what I think (nobody cares what I think), but anybody who has spent time seriously entertaining the LIBERAL THREAT TO FREE SPEECH based on the actions of (occasionally) misguided students (though even then most of these stories are usually bullshit) is on my "never listen to except for a laugh" list.But, really, just a bunch of racists who love racism and want to do racism without criticism and who care nothing else for "free speech." Even making this point is tiresome at this point because it's been obvious for decades.
Lunch ThreadAnyone for ortolan?
WindowlessMy basic comment is there's a huge difference between "a very tiny window which provides very little natural light" which one might find in a less than ideal basement apartment and "absolutely no windows whatsoever."

Many students will happily sacrifice a lot of personal space for privacy, and the US norm of "shared dorm rooms" is actually quite weird, but having absolutely no external signal for the time of day is a recipe for fucked up sleep patterns and depression.
Probably A ChallengeHow will we force big emitters to meet their promises.

In an Oval Office meeting last month, President Biden questioned his top aides on whether the worlds top polluters would actually follow through on their commitments to cut back on greenhouse gas emissions.
As THE NUMBER TWO CO2 EMITTER, leading by example isn't sufficient but it's certainly necessary. Or threatening to drone countries that break their promises, I guess.

This path leads to "well China isn't doing their part so fuck it."
Saturday MorningSat yourself down.
Friday, October 29, 2021 Friday NightRock on.
Friday EveningWhatever happes on Tuesday in Virginia, it'll be proof that Biden has moved too far to The Left.
Happy Hour ThreadRaise a glass to our two greatest senators!
I Was With You All Along

The two of them are playing games, and of course some other Democrats are hiding behind them.
Meta
The Facebook guy seems almost too young (of too young a cohort) to be That Guy, but the dream of a certain generation of nerds, raised on Snow Crash and The Holodeck and then dosed with dork nostalgia from Ready Player One, is a virtual world that is better than this one. One where they are cooler than they are in this one. One where they always get the girl they want. Quark's holodecks, not the Enterprise's.

Also the virtual reality is less likely to work as desired than Elon Musk's self-driving cars.


Lunch Thread

Humble pie.


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