“invited” is questionable, I know my governor was pressured and put under duress in order to accept Trump’s national guard deployment during George Floyd.

But what about a clearer example: President Eisenhower deployed National Guard troops to Arkansas to enforce the desegregation of schools. The national guard was explicitly not invited by the Governor of Arkansas. Was this a civil war?

The front lines of the Ukraine war are well defined. You can see them on a map.

So it was a civil war when National Guard troops were deployed in an attempt to quell the George Floyd uprising?

In the 60s we had everything you just said: extreme state sanctioned violence, mass shootings, national guard being sent in, judges houses being burned, many political assassinations…

And they all happened in much larger numbers. There were so many bombings and bomb threats, and tons of plane hijackings, and the overall crime rate was so much higher, and there was so much racial violence, and and…

So do you think the US went through a civil war in the 60s?

I agree that things are looking bad, and getting worse, and this may end up in some sort of a civil war. But it seems you and I have a much different definition of “civil war”.

Well I agree that is a bad move; it’s authoritarian, violent, expensive, unnecessary, and most likely unconstitutional.

But does sending National Guard troops to another state constitute a civil war?

You’re right, saying things like “front lines” is an oversimplification. I have listened to a lot of Robert Evans, and I agree that if a civil war happens it will Balkanize America.

With that being said, you agree none of this is happening yet? Surely we are backsliding into fascism and violence, but you would agree we are not in a civil war, because we do not yet have multiple different factions, upstart states, militias and insurgencies?

So what are the 21st century metrics for a war?

If this is a civil war, then what are the two sides? Where are the front lines?

Terrorist scum.

I’m looking forward to the Hopecore video featuring Idan Alexander’s grave and his weeping mother.

Michelle Obama only polls well because of name recognition, she’s essentially a non-political figure.

What’s her position on the genocide in Gaza? What’s her take on universal healthcare? What’s her plan for Ukraine? Would she fight for gun control? Etc etc…

Right now, people can imprint their personal beliefs onto Michelle. If she would run, she would have to clarify all of her political positions, and then her poll numbers would naturally drop.

Ezra Klein, a man who’s entire career is based upon normalizing the decline of liberalism, a champion of normalizing the genocide in Gaza, is now going to lecture us all about normalizing fascism.

Because Israel is doing a genocide, and they are doing everything they can to obfuscate that fact, including accusing some low level EU bureaucrat of terrorism.

As 40,000 genocidal invaders prepare for their latest round of slaughter and destruction, I have only one wish for them.

Death, death to the IDF.

If there were any justice in this world Matt Miller would be tried for aiding and abetting a genocide, convicted by a jury of his peers, and hung from the neck until dead.

Lol well I guess it’s easy to get confused. I was submitting job applications to write computer applications.

I was submitting app apps.

Over the years I have tried a handful of subfields.

I always felt particularly adept at assembly language programming, so I had a couple projects doing that, and applied to every relevent job I could find.

As a math nerd I enjoyed data science and machine learning, I had quite a few projects like a neutral network from scratch in Matlab, and many data analysis and computer vision projects in R. I was always aware this field is very competitive and my chances were low here.

I had a friend get a job in the biomedical field, so I tried to follow that, I have Python projects doing basic gene sequencing and analysis, even a really cool project that replicated evolution.

Another friend landed a government job, so I followed his advice and got some security certs.

I also had smaller projects and attempts at databases, finance programming, and video games.

There was even a class action suit against UW for their negligence during covid. I guess the case is already settled, so I’m looking forward to my meager restitution check.

And I actually feel lucky that most of my serious classes were complete before Covid lockdown, bc the quality of education during covid was absolutely pathetic.

I’m not sure I was misled, what you said was explicitly taught to us at University. I think my degree is the #1 thing on my resume, but of course I also had projects, a few certificates, and multiple attempts at more specific fields.

Back when I was applying, my GitHub activity was pretty solid green.

You’re right that my time was wasted, and knowing the outcome, I wish I could go back and do more project work before trying to enter the job market.

But I don’t think that is a financial possibility for most Americans. Going to school drained my savings, when I graduated I had almost nothing except for school debt, medical debt, and high rent. Saying “I’m gonna take off and work for free for a year” never really seemed like a possibility.

And as for my apps, the 3000 were not shotgun, they were all personalized, custom cover letters, keywords, etc. It only averaged out to 3/day. I did not track the apps where I used AI to submit them- the AI ones were definitely shotgun.