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@Leucrotta Yeah, it's kinda weird sometimes, having gone directly from Team Crow in Seattle to Team Cat in NOLA...

Really *can't* serve two masters, I guess.

@spacewastrel@yiff.life That's entirely valid. FWIW, I consider this argument to be entirely being had affectionately, for sport. <3

@spacewastrel@yiff.life I'm deliberately being a pain in the ass for fun, but mammals and fish have entirely different digestive systems so I can see that actualy being incredibly useful knowledge for getting the fuck out of the thing that ate you. O:)

Also, there's a big difference between "person actively being swallowed" and "hearing about people getting swallowed 2,000 miles away." The latter allows for a... certain reflection that the former does not. ;p I think that if being devoured by whales were to become a social problem, yeah, eventually it would become time to sit down and discuss how we're going to formulate a plan to deal with it... and I can't see how not knowing what the hell taxonomic order you're dealing with wouldn't be KINDA IMPORTANT. :p

@spacewastrel@yiff.life I mean, if you were being attacked by a bear, would I still be a pedant if I asked you if it were a brown, black, or grizzly -- given each has totally different recommended survival strategies?

Dammit, now I wish I could draw. I have an idea for an editorial cartoon. ;p

@spacewastrel@yiff.life "Insurrection" is still VERY much on the table. I'd give it about an 80-90% accuracy if I were forced to put a number on it. I'm about around 60-70 on sedition, maybe 40-50 on treason because that has VERY SPECIFIC LEGAL DEFINITIONS in the US for very good reasons.

Admittedly, my objection to "coup" was kinda pedantic -- but I do think it's a really important distinction to make, between "violent, seditious, illegal uprising" and "actual credible attempt to hijack the functions of state and replace the legitimate elected goverment with a ruling junta."

@001zlnv well shit

can we play for matchsticks?

I was bluffing anyhow, I have zero clue how much Earth Monies are actually worth. How much is a lot? n.n;;;

@001zlnv Just keep in mind my continued willingness to bet large sums of money on the outcome of all this. XD XD XD

@001zlnv You're Not Wrong, but personally, watching the GOP collapse -- and even the freakin' National Association of Manufacturers roasting Trump and calling for 25A over this -- I would put a LOT of money on this movement not having any real success until 2024.

No bets on 2024 and DEFINITELY not on 2028. I know my history. :O :O :O

Still. I do have to disagree very strongly on "minimal losses/consequences." The consequence for the rioters seems to have been trivial. But as noted... the consequence for Trump has been UTTERLY RUINOUS. His OWN CABINET is discussing the 25A. People are trying to dive off his sinking ship in droves. If this could have gone worse for Trump without him literally sticking a fork in his own eye, I don't see how. :)

Heh. I was just informed that MIKHAIL GORBACHEV has labeled last night's Capitol violence as a coup. Nobody addressed translation issues, but for now I'm gonna take a dive and score a zero on this one.

Related thought: I don't think there's anything wrong with demanding proof out of people, not even a bit aggressively. The real test of character is whether you can ever actually ACKNOWLEGE IT, CONCEDE, AND CHANGE YOUR BELIEFS ACCORDINGLY.

Of course, this is exactly what I am trying to do right now, so this is an INCREDIBLY self-serving observation.

@001zlnv Dammit. Why do you gotta play on my weaknesses like that? :)

Because you do have a good point -- every linguistic on earth would support you, 'cause Usage Is God and there really is no other arbiter.

My motive really isn't linguistic purity or pedantry, though -- it's the urge to criticism what I see as the _motive_ for calling it a coup. It really feels like these folks are doubling down because they want to preserve their dramatic narrative that this was somehow a tragic and scary defeat for *us* -- not them, even though they blatantly failed and blatantly overreached.

Net time from Twitter logon to quitrage at a fellow leftist, for feverishly lecturing us on how this was a credible and cunningly planned actual credible real genuine actual actual very coup, and how dare we question him or be anything but terrified about our very fierce and disciplined enemies:

1.5 minutes.

See. To me, "coup" strongly implies an organized force with an organized goal and a chance in a million of success in taking and holding political power for any length of time. Not "running in and busting the place up and demanding to see America's manager." But you know, I like it when words mean things and stuff.

(I might be exaggerating my infuriator's point by... um... about a factor of 30-40. O:) But I'm in quite a mood this morning.)

Huh. I did not expect my morning activities to include "finally understanding the Riemann Hypothesis." Thanks, Quanta Magazine!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlm1aajH6gY

@JulieSqveakaroo I'm getting flashback to my office job at a conservative construction company in Medford, MA and... ouch, it'd be a nightmare to be stuck with those people during this. (It was bad enough enduring all their Islamophobic e-mail spam during the Gulf War >___< ) I am so sorry you're stuck in the middle of it. *hug*

@Sig You're 100% right, I blame mental fatigue. :) Though we do have every ability to pack the court now, I honestly do not trust Biden one bit to have the guts. *sigh*

@Oneironott Cripes I miss being a fake plastic vixen sometimes. ^_____^

@Orb2069 I mean, the historical record 100% backs you on this one given some of the shit they were pulling in the 1960s, or the 1985 MOVE bombing...

@Orb2069 I'm probably badly biased, admittedly, by the fact my timeline tends to lean WAY more radical than stuffy old 20th-century neo-Marxist me...

@Orb2069 It would definitely fit in with the Trump cult's remarkable past accuracy at shooting themselves in the foot.