Fisherman75

This becomes what russian hegemonic law looks like in the US. The DOJ does whatever the Kremlin wants or needs on this, a sharp departure from other administrations or even other jurisdictions such as blue states. We become a patchwork of neomedieval geoplitical clashes constantly caught in between the jurisprudential spheres of entirely conflicting global and financial agendas. Individual politicians and public servants serving throughout the government become agents of different global factions and different hegemonies and the people are continually subjected not just to unstable and unreliable patterns of legal text and texts indicating some kind of public policy but to endlessly shifting pretext of every type to the jurisprudence and statecraft themselves. The federal government has been collapsing for a while but this just makes it faster than it has been.

This is gonna turn into the byzantine empire if we keep up with all these endless complications.

All these diseases coming out, I freaking swear...I just want to lock my door and shut out the world he's ruining.

Gosh that all sounds ghastly. So big city liberals pay bookoo bucks in property taxes, show up to PTA meetings, school district meetings, talk about what they pay, kids get better educated, become liberals mostly, grow up, repeat; meanwhile, rural kids get little more than dirt to learn with, worse education, pity allowance from big city liberals working their magic in congress, getting them some money from the department of education, at least something more, but it's not enough, so they grow up poorly educated, become wide open to the sophistry and propaganda of the far right, and now they get picked clean off the countryside, ushered into a voting booth, they vote for a fascist who now moves to eliminate the department of education thus further threatening the quality of their education and what little extra money they get. Am I getting that right? I'm green party so I just find this all very disorienting.

My understanding is that it's the taxes from the surrounding neighborhoods where homes are located that fundamentally pay for schools.

I once thought it was that simple so I understand where people on here are coming from on all this. But after ten years in the San Joaquin valley, ag central, I can tell you, having grown up in Seattle and thus seeing the contrast, there is a distinct power in fundamental formal education and when that is lacking it doesn't matter what happens to them, the powers-that-be always know how gullible they are and will mold them like playdoh. I think the schools need to be funded by the central government not local governments. Big city liberals should have to put up frankly with their local neighborhood schools being taken down a few notches through evenly spreading education funds across jurisdictions if they don't want schools way out in the boondocks to be as vapid as one finds them. If you won't pay for their education my attitude is don't complain about their politics and try your best not to complain about their intelligence. I find that hard myself - I get frustrated all the time with the people in this small town, but I still try to remind myself what I've learned about education itself and I try to have compassion. Maybe that's what ten years out in the boondocks teaches a Seattleite.

Well I think they really only did two things : A) appeal to far right people with their roots waaaay out in the boondocks mostly northward rather than southwestward using stuff like dog whistles, and B) use doublespeak to simultaneously appeal to, draw in, and superficially radicalize the more centre right types just enough to get their vote over the top, to have a substantial base, and to be able to call it 'a mandate'. I mean they really went out into the deep country for campaigning.

Trump makes a variety of compliment sandwiches. It's hard to tell after a while just what kind of sandwich it is.

Sounds like that movie the Obamas made 'Leave the World Behind'. Guys... I think this is it. The trump administration has gone idiocratic accelerationist. Brace. Prepare. If you don't like words like "prepper" then use the environmentalist term "adapt in place". Know your community. Community is what will save us. Make a new human connection in person. At least one. When you achieve that go beyond it. Become a pillar of your community, a fixture, and do it as quickly as possible. Be a benefit.

Well the republicans are in some kind of hyperfascist accelerationist mode so I'm not sure exactly how much time we have to give them.

I don't understand what they hate about the (now) old world order, what they were and I think still calling "the new world order". I understand what I hate about it, I just don't understand what they hate about it. THEY are the new world order now, they and their dictator friends abroad. Whenever there is a new world order forms (yes, deictically it's relative to the formation of world orders in their historical contingency) it seems like it is announced often with that exact term "new world order". It would be incredibly ironic if he were to use those words today. But it's as if he could. I would so rather be under George H.W. Bush's adminstration though, if I were to pick my poison. But I think right now the hegemony belongs to the PRC, from a descriptivist standpoint (not prescriptivist) - he's a PRC pawn.

They're doing some weird things right now I think. I was posting a big paragraph about peak oil on slrpnk.net a couple hours ago and that's when slrpnk went down. Maybe I'm just paranoid.