Fractures Emerge Between GOP’s Pro-Pedophilia, Extremely Pro-Pedophilia Wings

Although this is a dramatization, it does go well with what happens when we are not aware of what is happening around us.

Know the signs meaning!

It. Just. Takes. One.

Be sure you can be that one.

Save a life you will.

Ellie sleeping on the couch

Hi

Can you please help me keep living indoors

I am just over a week away from being u-n-h-o-u-s-e-d

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Why is it that I am always falling asleep at a time when I could be visiting my friends?

Healthy accountability is triggered by evidence, points upward at power, and happens in public. Disordered accountability protects insiders and aims its punishment outward. What the document does is argue for the second while calling it the first.

The 'adversaries won't wait' statement doesn't reject deliberation outright, it just makes serious deliberation always feel premature. You can debate this or that war, but the underlying question, whether to build the systems at all, is treated as settled, & that's deliberation as performance.

A diagram showing the VDA framework and the Arc of Democracy. At the top, three icons label the essential elements of democracy: Verification (tick), Deliberation (speech bubble), and Accountability (magnifying glass). Arrows descend from each through three horizontal bands representing the arc: Substantial (truth tested, voices included, power constrained), Performative (forms remain but substance is weak, rituals without consequence), and Simulated (appearance maintained but functions inverted: propaganda as verification, polarisation as deliberation, scapegoating as accountability). A vertical arrow on the left marks the arc's direction: improvements, decline, collapse. A column on the right maps counterpublics onto the same three states: functional counterpublics act in a substantial way, hollow counterpublics in a performative way, disordered counterpublics in a simulated way. The bands shift from grey through pink to red as democracy moves toward simulation.

I've set out the framework I'm using here in an earlier thread, on VDA, the Arc of Democracy, and the moral-epistemic stacks idea, what follows applies that framework to the Palantir document directly. skywriter.blue/@eliothiggin...

Opening text of a thread by Palantir from X Because we get asked a lot. The Technological Republic, in brief. 1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation. 2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible. 3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public. 4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software.

Palantir put out a 22-point summary of their CEO's book The Technological Republic. It's pitched as a defence of the West, but if you read it through the VDA framework, verification, deliberation, accountability, what it's actually doing looks rather different.
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What does change look like if we always build the same things that create the same problems? What if society as we know it is insane and always will be?

How is it that we keep doing the same things over & over. Leaders never seem to learn.

I'm watching "What Am I Doing In New Jersey" by George Carlin. It was filmed in 1988, before I was born.

He talks about corruption in the Reagan administration.

I swear, we are reliving a worse repeat cycle of the 80s.

Imagine if they simply identified and helped the many super smart and genius kids who have already been born.

Like funding public education and higher ed.

Yet these people refuse to learn. It's recklessness. I'm done.

Newsflash: caring is what kept generations of humans alive for thousands of years. A form of care is teaching.

They will do literally anything but work on themselves and taking actions of accountability. Thinking before acting is something they may talk about but rarely follow through with. How does it effect other people? This is a question they refuse to ask because they think caring is a weakness.

TV and vhs tapes

This is what going on the internet used to feel like

Women Learn. It is why we leave you behind.

The only inconvenience is when the man learns that he cannot treat her like this forever, because she has removed herself.

They want to convince her, through sexual violence, that there is nothing she can offer, and that all of life is only empty, and only empty for her. They try to convince her that she must spend her days servicing someone she can live only vicariously through, that she must kill the being within.

It's how mundane the small things build into the bigger things. A woman has a right to protect herself, because the world doesn't just want to take what she has to offer, but to take her identity and crush it.

This is clearly not balanced. Women or other survivors healing themselves and resurrecting broken boundaries and getting sick from all the stress, while the men seek more, so they do more harm, no matter how trivial or small.

Meanwhile, I and other women like me have gone to great depths to heal as much as I humanly can because I experienced coercive control, all types of abuse by different people, but one person in particular sticks out.

Beyond being self-centered, they are killing (their) humanity by denying and dehumanizing the women around them, supporting them, partnered to them.

What I learned is that they will pathologically exploit whatever they can to get what they want as long as they do it within the framework of the system that protects them. They can "fly under the radar".

It's like 62,000,000 people came together to sign away their names (fake/real) and data signing a Declaration of Intent to Violate Women, even if that is only one woman of many.

In therapy, they try to deprogram you and get you to focus on yourself, and therapists will dismiss the gravity of what your abuser has done and how society lets them get away with it.

In terms of reality-checking, the number seems accurate and consistent with my life experience.

Safety is truly an illusion if you're privileged to know the kind of violence that runs beneath the surface.

I'm not surprised by the number, more surprised that I was right about most men being a different person to their partner than what they show to the world. In therapy, they tried to get us to check ourselves.

My, my. The re-triggering of my very handy CPTSD from the report of the 62,000,000 accounts on a rape grooming site. Tactics: isolate, intoxicate, intimidate. Too familiar.