I don't think I've heard of Fleet but I'm definitely interested! Do you know if there's any info on what the pricing will be like when it's out of preview? I'm not against paying for my editor, but I also don't love the idea of a subscription and having to sign in and stuff.
That's the problem with this idea of network states. There are some interesting, maybe even plausible, aspects to it. But the current advocates want it for all the worst reasons & I, personally, want nothing to do with their perverted vision.
Dystopian as hell. Crossing into "thought crime" territory. We all have the potential for great evil, where do you draw the line at pre-prosecuting people because they might commit some crime or another in the nebulous future?
This is so incredibly naive I have a hard time believing you're serious. I guess you're right, it wouldn't be immigrants committing crimes. It'd just be regular, everyday Americans, who also commit a shit ton of crimes & violence.
I'm going to just toss the entirety of your comment out to focus on the last line. Yes I can. We all lived through the same 4 years, saw and felt the disaster the first time, and now we're fucking doing it again. If your only policy issue is that you don't think women & gay people deserve rights & you want to be able to use slurs with impunity, you don't have policy positions.
Nobody should be falling into the trap of trying to approach these people as rational actors with a coherent idea of what they want or how the country should be run. They've proven to us, twice in the last decade, that they don't have anything resembling a serious idea.
I'm sure this comment will get flagged & I'll probably get a note about remaining civil, but fuck this whole comment. You may feel fine hand waving, equivocating, & telling yourself this is "business as usual." Sit this one out. Your head isn't in the game and the stakes are different this time.
Spare us the theatrics. Every four years wherein the opposition is in office is a perceived "disaster" for the other side.
Here's a question for you and the Nation: did the other side also see the first four years as a disaster? Can you accurately describe why?
You complain about a lack of "rational actors", and yet your complaints aren't couched in rational language.
Your comment resembles a teenage outburst more than anything else.
Can the Nation advance via teenage-style emotional breakdowns, or will the teenagers have to "sit this one out" so that the noise can be turned down enough to progress to a better stage?
What I see is someone who isn't confident enough in the persuasion of their views to do anything but engage in an embarrassing tantrum and hyperbole that isn't designed to solve a single problem.
You say that "my head isn't in the game", and yet you proudly refuse to play on the board.
It's literally impossible to perceive your strategy. It isn't persuasion let alone compromise.
I don't believe you or share your optimism, but I also don't want to get into an argument about it. I think it's too late to ponder if this is overall good or bad... We'll all find out either way soon enough.
