MyMindIsLikeAnOcean

Where’s Terry Gilliam?

Just insane.

I always refer back to Peter Griffin.https://youtu.be/r5TGIRkL9JE

Yeh. The strategy seems to be to wait for their “turn” and make it look like the care while they watch everything they claim to stand for be destroyed.

There’s that mediocre restaurant chain “Boston Pizza”…but I think that’s only here in Canada.

You haven’t really engaged with anything I said. You’re just repeating more inform from the article and what is generally known.

It is a fact that, rather than simply bringing existing ID into “compliance” (some are, and some aren’t - and for a reason you haven’t sufficiently explained these non compliant states appear to be Democratic) there is an entire new system being superimposed that, which you like it or not, was sold to the states as a revenue source. Additionally, the feds are collecting massive amounts of data that was formerly considered private.

Sorry, I’m referring to the “better is better” argument many so-called liberals make: where we’re presented with a false choice and make apologies for one of the bad choices. Democrats v Republicans is an example. In this case it’s Destructive capitalism v Nuclear Capitalism. I just can’t say nice things about Costco because they’re part of the continuum of late stage capitalism that lead to what we’re seeing today.

Things like Hexagons and the golden spiral occurring in nature are interesting - but very well-travelled.

Yeap.

But Franco was still Franco…with his own purges, massacres, and various other fascisms.

Right?

When “malignant” progressives like Kyle Kulinski are still fucking addicted to Twitter - they ultimately do more harm than good.

The notion that Costco is providing a benefit to families is grotesque. They were just in on the ground floor of destroying our socio-economic fabric. A world full of Costcos is just a different capitalist hellscape.

I’m basically done with the “better is better” argument…it’s a false dichotomy. It’s why I compare Costco to Franco: at least Franco didn’t do a holocaust.

Our “liberal” government is indistinguishable from 80s/90s conservatives.

It’s gross that I have a single good thought about an abomination like Costco. It’s like cheering for Franco to overthrow Hitler.

Humiliate…in who’s eyes? MAGA?

Comedic actors being desperate to take a dramatic turn often leads to this kind of slop, especially in the case of Will Farrell. There’s a whole era of films he did that’s bizarre and “cringey”, including that insane Woody Allen film. He said the lifetime movie was a satire…but there’s a certain amount of hubris involved in believing he could pull it off.

I didn’t know where you were going to go with this…and I’m confused by the rest your post.

…I was going to say everything in the Tom Clancy universe was slop.

You’re just repeating information from the article.

It’s definitely a cash grab, and also a privacy invasion. It’s a cash grab because it would be much cheaper & easier to standardize state ID requirements and use the existing infrastructure, rather than issue an entirely new ID through an entirely new database controlled by the feds. The states certainly view this as a revenue source…and the feds view it as an “information” source.

It should be noted that, to my knowledge, all the “non-compliant” states (where you can’t use state ID in place of Real ID) are States that are controlled by Democrats, so there’s an additional layer of shenanigans that appears partisan.

My guess is the intent was always revenue…not security. Security was just the pretext for new revenue, because margins are thin and there’s a certain proportion of people who will pay to prioritize privacy.

It would only make sense if it was a one time fee, and you got your ID as a result.

We also know it’s not about security, or you couldn’t fly without one.

We know it’s a cash grab because they’re counting on a “built-in” amount of flyers who won’t have or will refuse to get ID with privacy issues. If, by some anomaly, more or all flyers acquire the ID, then we’d see maintenance fees added and the fee itself increased to maintain revenue certainty - but who are we kidding, those things will eventually happen anyways.

Yeap.

Until very recently I was prone to the “better is better, and at least we’re not open fascists” argument. But I’ve come to understand that incremental fascism is just the mechanism used on so-called “liberals”.

Don’t give up…that’s the point of the NYT article. It’s manipulation.

Every step each of us in the “west” takes to help has an outsized positive effect.