what kind of literary genre is this?

well, it's in the tradition of the kind of commentary marx frequently did, but this is really an entirely new genrre, that's a reflection of the shift in technology - something i'm happy to embrace.

this is a new means of expression, and it has it's pros (the freeform nature, the cross-references to outside media) and cons (it's fragmented, by design).

but, this is how we write, now - and i'm more interested in making the most of it than flailing against it.

i've been distracted.

there's a minor update here that adds some posts about free speech (and trudeau's disinterest in it) to the jan, 2020 section, an important consideration in the developing narrative:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pQ2-8EV5YwNAeI_d5HRA480_K-bkpSRa/view?usp=sharing

now, what's going on at the moment is a little different; it's just empty, pointless, meaningless theatre that is explicitly designed to waste time in congress, and there should be a giant backlash on the left that this is what they're wasting time on, in the middle of a pandemic and the onset of an economic depression. worse, while it seems to be that republicans seem to agree with the censure right now, it's opening a can of worms.

is this going to become normal?

and, what should my concern be, here? should i be concerned about blowback on future democrats?

or should i embrace the potential collapse of the washington consensus and the return to partisan politics? we could only hope, right? we could only dream that such naivete may assert itself in reality...

it is true that, in canada, the prime minister is elected by the house of commons, and not by the people. so, the governing party has the ability to replace the prime minister with a member of it's own party....or a member of the opposite party, i guess, although that's a blurry part in the law for obvious reasons - it's absurd.

the impeachment hearings are not comparable to that, but are rather comparable to the situation where the opposition introduces a non-confidence motion. and, in canada, that triggers an election, it doesn't lead to a bureaucratic shift in power.

so, i'm backposting and that might be blurry, but the key is the context. and, i'll double down - i think impeachment is an undemocratic process that should be abolished.

the correct answers are:

true or false: communists support abolishing the state.

which two of the following ideologies believe in the centrality of the state within society:

a) communism & conservatism

b) collectivism & conservatism

c) liberalism & conservatism

d) liberalism & communism

which two of the following ideologies believe in the abolition of the state, in the long run:

a) communism & conservatism

b) collectivism & conservatism

c) liberalism & conservatism

d) liberalism & communism

in windsor, winter has been reduced to a week in mid-february, this year. this is the one and only week of winter that it seems we're going to get.

that's pretty mild - even if that week is very cold. 

and, it's a last gasp, too, of a dying polar wind.

what happened is that the cycle bottomed out...

so, yeah - it's the coldest it's been in about 10-11 years. right?

it will start getting warmer, now. which means watch out...

yes, we got a blast of cold air. the fact that it took this long, and is this intense, is consistent with it being the end of it for the next ten years or so.

as we enter the next solar cycle, which may be our last chance to reverse climate change, the science underlying the relation between the sun and the greenhouse effect is going to exit the bounds we currently understand. we should start seeing tipping points assert themselves, and feedback cycles kick in. 

we have to act very fast, or it's over.

and, it's probably too late.

my relationship to that community is that i have some fans in it, but i am not one of them.

and, that should be obvious.

i have found myself as a topic of discussion on fourchan by googling myself, which we all do. that community knows who i am, and seems to enjoy my writings.

but, i am not a member of that community myself, and have never posted in or frequented that space. 

we can try this as well:

which two of the following ideologies believe in the centrality of the state within society:

a) communism & conservatism

b) collectivism & conservatism

c) liberalism & conservatism

d) liberalism & communism

which two of the following ideologies believe in the abolition of the state, in the long run:

a) communism & conservatism

b) collectivism & conservatism

c) liberalism & conservatism

d) liberalism & communism

let's try this again.

true or false: communists support abolishing the state.

don't waste my fucking time with your nonsense.

suffering is passe.

pain is boring.

so, i don't really care what you've read about pain - that's a waste of time, or worse, and if i was in a room with that kind of discourse going on, i'd get up and seek something more relevant and interesting to discuss, instead.

i would have nothing in common with those people, and i wouldn't want to hang out with them.

i ask you, instead - what have you read about paine? i would rather discuss that, instead.