https://hillmole.com/ Life is But a Dream en Copyright 2024 Sat, 11 Jun 2022 10:38:36 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Simple NLP: the more the news says "bad people mass shooting with high-capacity rifles" the more people hear "I need to buy a gun but not a pistol or shotgun or hunting rifle, I need to buy a high-capacity firearm with high capacity magazines in order to defend against a dangerous world requiring sustained firepower and possibly multiple assailants." To quote Frank Luntz, "it's not what you say, it's what people hear." https://hillmole.com/archives/2022/06/fighting_firear.html https://hillmole.com/archives/2022/06/fighting_firear.html Sat, 11 Jun 2022 10:38:36 -0500 Authoritarianism is the only way anyone can keep the pendulum from swinging. A painful majority of Americans don't currently agree with the current arch of history. That shows in laws, the court, elections. Do you want to blow America up to prevent that? I think you surely do? When folks say "democracy is fragile" I believe that means "our plans are fragile" rather than American republican representative democracy (where the chips fall where they may) is fragile. That democracy isn't fragile. But that durable democracy does include presidents like Trump and justices like Kavanaugh, which is #notmyamerica which means that sort of democracy is as fragile as hell unless America implements authoritarianism. Then, America's democracy will be fucked but the liberal vision for America will be as sound as a pound. Amen. https://hillmole.com/archives/2022/06/americas_fragil.html https://hillmole.com/archives/2022/06/americas_fragil.html Thu, 09 Jun 2022 08:18:08 -0500 My question is is why does the January 6 narrative insist backwards and forwards that 5 people were killed on the Capitol? One casual scratch at that and it's only Ashli Babbitt. What's the compulsion? To prove that people will believe anything they're told? And people do believe it, too. Even with a Washington Post article saying otherwise. I'm amazed by the human mind and the human mob mentality, even though it's always on display. https://hillmole.com/archives/2022/06/ashli_babbitt.html https://hillmole.com/archives/2022/06/ashli_babbitt.html Thu, 09 Jun 2022 06:40:01 -0500 I honestly think that most Republican activism against Democrats is just to get back at them for constantly going for their guns and ammo. Totally retribution. https://hillmole.com/archives/2022/06/total_retributi.html https://hillmole.com/archives/2022/06/total_retributi.html Thu, 02 Jun 2022 10:54:23 -0500 80% of Americans would rather be Brazil than Australia; also, none of those countries have any real "natural rights granted by God not to be infringed," only rights granted to them by their governments only when convenient. Fair weather friends. 400 million guns, most of those ARs. This is a dangerous game since only 20% of all Americans say they trust the government as of 2020. Which means 8 out of 10 do not. Hillbilly Americans are not an outlier no matter what the New Yorker experiences from within their bubble. https://hillmole.com/archives/2022/06/twenty_percent.html https://hillmole.com/archives/2022/06/twenty_percent.html Thu, 02 Jun 2022 07:25:28 -0500 An increase in gun crime always drives gun sales and applications for carry permits in America rather than driving gun restrictions or gun bans. Unintended consequences gone wild. First aware of this in the wake of the shooting of Gabby Giffords in 2011. I was driving cross country and checked all the gun stores and everyone was out of Glock 19s, the weapon the shooter used. Plus, law suits end up in courts that result in gun prohibitions being loosened. Every time. https://hillmole.com/archives/2022/05/gun_crimes_alwa.html https://hillmole.com/archives/2022/05/gun_crimes_alwa.html Sun, 29 May 2022 13:16:35 -0500 The new organization is not called "anti-disinformation" or "counter-disinformation," it's just called the Disinformation Governance Board. Does that mean disinformation producer or disinformation reducer? https://hillmole.com/archives/2022/05/disinformation.html https://hillmole.com/archives/2022/05/disinformation.html Wed, 11 May 2022 20:27:17 -0500 I was recently reading about the Spanish Civil War and the sexy, heroic, fraternal, liberals were decimated by the fascist nationalists but they always thought they were the most righteous and most deserving to win and on the right side of history until they were completely crushed into cinder. 100% of the people I know who have chest seals in their go bags are on the right. Just saying. https://hillmole.com/archives/2022/05/chest_seals_in.html https://hillmole.com/archives/2022/05/chest_seals_in.html Tue, 10 May 2022 12:55:18 -0500 In America, "sacrifice for the collective" hasn't been an American virtue since the 30s—not even during war, including WW2. We were extremely isolationist and extremely reticent, and waiting until the 11:59th (23:59th) hour. More of a "greed is good" ethos. https://hillmole.com/archives/2022/05/sacrifice_for_t.html https://hillmole.com/archives/2022/05/sacrifice_for_t.html Mon, 09 May 2022 11:00:49 -0500 I finally get why leftists are so frustrated with fighting conservatives in the elections: the left believes they live in a populist democracy and the right realizes it lives in a constitutional republic. Popular votes mean almost nothing in the American system of government. https://hillmole.com/archives/2022/05/populist_democr.html https://hillmole.com/archives/2022/05/populist_democr.html Sat, 07 May 2022 14:09:12 -0500 Are the Russian people brainwashed? Are the European people brainwashed? Are we, the American people, brainwashed? All the above? https://hillmole.com/archives/2022/05/ukraine_brainwa.html https://hillmole.com/archives/2022/05/ukraine_brainwa.html Thu, 05 May 2022 15:26:42 -0500 I figured it out: decriminalize crime! That's what folks want. Or, redefine what crime is and what criminal is. if you can strike down crimes and make formerly illegal things legal–or, not illegal–then there will, indeed, be fewer criminals and fewer people in jail. I'm into it. Let's try this and see what happens. I'm a glass-half-full, prison-half-empty kind of guy. https://hillmole.com/archives/2022/05/decriminalize_c.html https://hillmole.com/archives/2022/05/decriminalize_c.html Thu, 05 May 2022 10:31:06 -0500 Free speech is not necessarily equitable speech. What people want seems to be equatable speech. Who gets to choose? Nina? Until I meet an actual Philosopher King or King Solomon, then equity is just thumbs on scales. It's basically Cyrano. It's basically bias dressed up as equity. The power is in who gets to choose who's voice is worthy of amplifying and who's voice is worth suppressing. That's what equity is. That's equality for authoritarians. Egalitarianism for folks who are afraid of losing control of their own power, or perceived power. The old tail wagging to dog schtick. https://hillmole.com/archives/2022/05/free_speech_isn.html https://hillmole.com/archives/2022/05/free_speech_isn.html Tue, 03 May 2022 19:24:35 -0500 : if you really need to rely this much on suppression, moderation, censorship, and dismissing everything as misinformation, disinformation, and conspiracy theory, then it's because you've completely lost the trust and control of your people, your culture, your narrative, and your leadership. https://hillmole.com/archives/2022/05/dear_powersthat.html https://hillmole.com/archives/2022/05/dear_powersthat.html Sun, 01 May 2022 12:03:18 -0500 The technologies to kill efficiently has come a long way since 1945. Nukes exist. Biologicals can be targeted to DNA. Satellites exist. Subs are better. There are jets now. Helicopters now. Drones now. Smart bombs. Not even the AR or AK existed in 1945. So much potential death! https://hillmole.com/archives/2022/03/killings_come_a.html https://hillmole.com/archives/2022/03/killings_come_a.html Sun, 20 Mar 2022 09:52:57 -0500