to expand upon what i was saying earlier...

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/theresa-may-jeremy-corbyn-general-election-result-brexit-economic-crash-recession-praying-they-lose-a7773166.html

again: while i may be slightly skeptical about the scientific validity of these yougov polls, i think this probably a correct prediction.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/general-election-poll-latest-tories-majority-miss-seats-yougov-survey-labour-theresa-may-a7773106.html

this is one of those media spots that i keep an eye out for.

so, she's got people in her own party calling for her resignation and the media asking corbyn if she is "in any way" responsible for the attacks.

the insinuation is clear. and, i'll give some credit to the elite in the uk for drawing a line on this, as it is....what exists between these lines is a series of war crimes. this cannot be condemned strongly enough.

can the voters read between these lines? but, it might not matter.

it may take two elections to get finished, but there's a shift in power underway in the uk.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/jeremy-corbyn-theresa-may-resign-prime-minister-police-cuts-london-terror-attack-election-2017-a7773286.html

a vlog update...

it's taken me off time over the last two months, believe it or not, to catch up to the end of april for the vlogs, but the process was complicated by the need to compile evidence for the court date, as well as my broken laptop, and i consequently can't come down too hard on the process. but, this machine does not have enough ram to render and have a browser open at the same time, so i'm going to have to shut down for the next render process, which should take me up until the middle of may.

i should be able to finally take a final look at the broken laptop while that is working, and determine if i think i can salvage it or not.

when i come out of this process, i should finally be caught up, and able to put the vlogging aside until the camera fills back up. another day or two...

again: there is an authoritarian coalition between progressives and conservatives developing, and anti-authoritarian liberals need to find a way to stand outside of it, while rejecting the duality presented by libertarians, who are not allies.

this is going to be a very difficult decade for liberals, as we watch the progressive movement be absorbed by the conservative movement (the primary vehicle for this will probably be the democratic party). what emerges from this process will be a natural expression of the authoritarian tendencies within progressivism, but will not be acceptable to liberals. what emerges will consequently be a permanent schism between progressives and liberals on authoritarian lines, which means issues where progressives and liberals diverge along the authoritarian axis - things like speech and approaches to crime prevention and law enforcement.

when the government goes after you for "body shaming", that is a legitimate speech issue and you should expect to win a constitutional rights challenge, so long as you are not breaking some other law in the process.

put another way: laws against "body shaming" are certainly unconstitutional and will be struck down at the earliest opportunity. but, that doesn't mean that it's ok to do things like film people in dressing rooms, or otherwise infringe on an individual's personality rights.

btw, i think this link details the correct explanation of the headaches i was having at the end of february, and why the aspirin solved the problem when nothing else did:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3469735

at the crux of it may be an inability to experience empathy for strangers.

so, i'll watch a documentary because i'm learning something, which makes me feel like i'm not wasting my time. but, if you sit me down and try and force me to watch a "movie", my most likely reaction is going to be something along the lines of "why am i supposed to give a fuck about these imbeciles?". there's almost no tactic to get me to care - and, if you can be robotically logical like i am for a moment, it's not hard to see the basic correctness of this position. is it not even kind of pathetic to engage yourself in the lives of strangers on film? what reason do you provide for this behaviour?

really grasping my rejection of the medium means realizing that i'm truly some kind of cyborg, but i'm more likely to argue in favour of being a cyborg than recoil at the accusation.

another way to look at is that i don't like following the lead of others. that's what you're doing when you put on a film: you're letting somebody else take control of your mind for a little while. not only does that not sound like a good time, to me, but it sounds utterly repugnant to me. i seek to be in control of my thoughts at all times. so, you'd rather see me doing something intellectual like typing or something physical like recording, or perhaps dancing, as it keeps me in control of myself. to lose control is to in some way subvert your individuality, and there's no scenario where i'd want to do that.

i can't even remember the last film i saw. i mean like fiction kind of film. i watch plenty of documentaries, still.

it would have been 2002-2003ish.

i'm not exaggerating.

i can't even argue that the quality of film has declined, because i don't actually know whether it has or not. it probably has, but i can't make the argument. i'm that disinterested, really. and, that's really not even what the aversion is about. the blunt truth is that i simply have absolutely no interest in sitting in front of a screen and watching a narrative for two hours. it's the activity that bores me. i'd rather be engaging with something than tuning out. 

sorry.

so, putin's actual argument is that he didn't try and get trump elected because he knew that trump would have been the same as clinton, anyways, because the parties are basically the same. it's the two-headed monster bipartisan washington consensus - a ruling elite dominated by lobbyists that have widely convergent interests and don't care about what voters want. trump, clinton - what's the difference?

and, the argument is that the russians don't understand american politics?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8AeBAV4EIY