Somewhere along the line collective benefits were dropped from "progress". Bit like a unification of Disney land and military school. All we know is that we are going.
it definitely seems like technical progress! it reminds me of reading about xkeyscore, except that Fb is doing both intelligence and interventions on the same platform.
I'd love to learn about CORGI and HELLCAT and those other nifty tools they're using.
As someone who thinks what happened at the capitol was really scary and very serious the insurrection language is still a joke.
Cambridge defines insurrection as:
> an organized attempt by a group of people to defeat their government and take control of their country, usually by violence:
This was more like an organized attempt to get drunk on Budweiser and listen to Kenney Chesney and take "cool" pictures in the capital building for social media likes. It was closer to rushing area 51 than a real rebellion. They deserve to go to jail for sure if they trespassed in the capitol building or did anything else violent but to make it out to be some kind of orchestrated power grab is ridiculous.
Meanwhile the Capitol is still surrounded by steel mesh fencing with some 2,250 armed National Guard troops on duty many months after the "most popular president of all time" was ushered in.
I’m sure that a small group had planned something very serious. I don’t know how many of the 2000 people were a part of that, and how many were, as you say, “trespassing.”
I found it very serious too. I have a serious medical condition. It’s very important that I be able to get to hospital quickly. I’m terrified of being in a place like the capitol, and being stuck there without access to an ambulance.
My point - and this is not a popular one - is that any gathering that has the potential to delay emergency services is a serious matter. Anyone who causes it should be held accountable for the deaths that result.
If Jan. 6 was an insurrection, then so was Oct. 5, 2018 when Dems occupied the same building during the confirmation hearings on Kavanaugh, where 163 protesters were arrested:
"Thirteen people were removed from the Senate galleries and arrested, according to Capitol Police." and "The crowd grew and a large group of protesters marched up the Rotunda steps on the East Front of the Capitol. There, 150 protesters were arrested and charged with “crowding, obstructing, or incommoding,” according to a statement from the U.S. Capitol Police."
Funny how Pelosi didn't mention the 2018 riot during her second bungled Trump impeachment, nor that her office didn't approve spending for adequate Capitol security for Jan. 6, 2020. So many coincidences.
Obviously most of the group did not have any real plans. But some did. There were explosives planted, maps of underground escape routes, zip ties for taking prisoners, chat messages planning and coordinating, and I suspect much more that is not released yet due to the ongoing investigations.
Looks like a dead ringer for the definition to me. It doesn't have to be -well- planned or likely to succeed.
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[ 1.6 ms ] story [ 63.2 ms ] threadOf course it's progress. It's just a matter of asking what we are progressing towards.
I'd love to learn about CORGI and HELLCAT and those other nifty tools they're using.
Cambridge defines insurrection as:
> an organized attempt by a group of people to defeat their government and take control of their country, usually by violence:
This was more like an organized attempt to get drunk on Budweiser and listen to Kenney Chesney and take "cool" pictures in the capital building for social media likes. It was closer to rushing area 51 than a real rebellion. They deserve to go to jail for sure if they trespassed in the capitol building or did anything else violent but to make it out to be some kind of orchestrated power grab is ridiculous.
Meanwhile the Capitol is still surrounded by steel mesh fencing with some 2,250 armed National Guard troops on duty many months after the "most popular president of all time" was ushered in.
I found it very serious too. I have a serious medical condition. It’s very important that I be able to get to hospital quickly. I’m terrified of being in a place like the capitol, and being stuck there without access to an ambulance.
My point - and this is not a popular one - is that any gathering that has the potential to delay emergency services is a serious matter. Anyone who causes it should be held accountable for the deaths that result.
https://twitter.com/tylertalley22/status/1384972821714161667
https://kfor.com/news/local/protesters-gather-at-oklahoma-ca...
I don’t know whether or to what degree the OK protestors blocked movement of people.
If they did, then yes.
"Thirteen people were removed from the Senate galleries and arrested, according to Capitol Police." and "The crowd grew and a large group of protesters marched up the Rotunda steps on the East Front of the Capitol. There, 150 protesters were arrested and charged with “crowding, obstructing, or incommoding,” according to a statement from the U.S. Capitol Police."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/demonstrators-at-us-cap...
Funny how Pelosi didn't mention the 2018 riot during her second bungled Trump impeachment, nor that her office didn't approve spending for adequate Capitol security for Jan. 6, 2020. So many coincidences.
Looks like a dead ringer for the definition to me. It doesn't have to be -well- planned or likely to succeed.