Sometimes I think dissenters are being “herded” to certain US states (Florida, Texas, ...) or nations (as in your case) by the noxious litmus test of mandates. It doesn’t have to be intentional to have a great effect, concentrating dissent in fewer places and diluting it in more jurisdictions. The nonlinearity due to summing opinion at…
Sometimes I think dissenters are being “herded” to certain US states (Florida, Texas, ...) or nations (as in your case) by the noxious litmus test of mandates. It doesn’t have to be intentional to have a great effect, concentrating dissent in fewer places and diluting it in more jurisdictions. The nonlinearity due to summing opinion at the level of political units potentially reduces the power of dissent, a sort of reverse gerrymandering.
I’m not sure I’ve heard of this, but I’m guessing it figures in someone’s malign calculations.
You may be right. Another potential intentionality is to deliberately bankrupt us with this kind of shit so that we have no choice but digital slavery and medical tyranny.
Ah, but the human spirit cannot be owned. In the past we were tied down but you have voted with your feet as you decided your personal freedom was at risk. Truth arrives is my singular hope.
There is this thing about the Great America Divorce that seems more and more possible. certainly fits the long held goal of many in their quest to divide and conquer. Quite remarkable to see the census show losses in certain places almost certainly due to corrupt government. One wonders whether the great Silicon Valley will continue because so many workers simply have left CA because they could be remoted. Funny how as you grow up you discover a family can be mighty important.
‘Kettling’ of crowds by police is a civilian version of a military tactic. It removes protestors from wider areas, contains and controls them, and reduces the surface area of the group to interface with police or others.
The analogy with policy-induced migration, I reckon, holds up so well that I agree with you, it is the same thing. And we’re still talking about a military tactic in civilian form.
By this way of thinking, Monica, you are a refugee of war, not just of conscience and preference. Many more of us may be before long. I don’t suppose it gives comfort, but it does give perspective.
Sometimes I think dissenters are being “herded” to certain US states (Florida, Texas, ...) or nations (as in your case) by the noxious litmus test of mandates. It doesn’t have to be intentional to have a great effect, concentrating dissent in fewer places and diluting it in more jurisdictions. The nonlinearity due to summing opinion at the level of political units potentially reduces the power of dissent, a sort of reverse gerrymandering.
I’m not sure I’ve heard of this, but I’m guessing it figures in someone’s malign calculations.
You may be right. Another potential intentionality is to deliberately bankrupt us with this kind of shit so that we have no choice but digital slavery and medical tyranny.
Ah, but the human spirit cannot be owned. In the past we were tied down but you have voted with your feet as you decided your personal freedom was at risk. Truth arrives is my singular hope.
There is this thing about the Great America Divorce that seems more and more possible. certainly fits the long held goal of many in their quest to divide and conquer. Quite remarkable to see the census show losses in certain places almost certainly due to corrupt government. One wonders whether the great Silicon Valley will continue because so many workers simply have left CA because they could be remoted. Funny how as you grow up you discover a family can be mighty important.
It’s called ‘kettling’.
‘Kettling’ of crowds by police is a civilian version of a military tactic. It removes protestors from wider areas, contains and controls them, and reduces the surface area of the group to interface with police or others.
The analogy with policy-induced migration, I reckon, holds up so well that I agree with you, it is the same thing. And we’re still talking about a military tactic in civilian form.
By this way of thinking, Monica, you are a refugee of war, not just of conscience and preference. Many more of us may be before long. I don’t suppose it gives comfort, but it does give perspective.
"you are a refugee of war"
Well-stated. Never thought of it in those exact terms, but that is 100% what it is, yes.