Jesus christ dude. A few years ago we were marching hopelessly towards extinction, and then a handful of psychopaths decided we should be sprinting. One day a more intelligent lifeform will read our story as a classic tragedy.

Angie Craig voted to increase ICE funding AFTER they murdered two Minnesotans. What a ghoul.

There’s an excellent documentary from last year called Predators. The director is a survivor of CSA, and he was very pointed in confronting Hansen about the show creating more problems than it solved.

The show didn’t need to exist in the first place. If the police wanted to run a sting and arrest people, they could do it without a primetime show. They had young adult actors playing the “bait” kids, and the actors were traumatized from witnessing people’s lives being ruined. Many of the “predators” were borderline vulnerable adults, and the producers relished in filming people having nervous breakdowns, realizing their lives were ruined. Many of the “predators” admitted they had a problem and asked the producers for help finding treatment, but there was no support. IIRC the vast majority of cases resulted in no jail time, and sometimes no punishment at all.

The show was cancelled when they surrounded a guy’s house and he shot himself. Since the cancellation, Chris Hansen has created several iterations on increasingly obscure channels, and the show sparked tons of vigilante copycats who just create nightmares for local police.

After one of the murders in Minneapolis, Jacob Frey was asked if MPD could arrest ICE goons. His response: “Legally speaking, yes. Practically speaking… it gets a little hairy when they outnumber us and have bigger guns. We don’t want to create warfare in the streets.” God I fucking hate that man.

I agree with every single thing you said.

Sorry, I didn’t mean to imply that we continue allowing the states to deliberate. I’m implying that “federal intervention” with the current administration would look something like auctioning off the Colorado River.

I’m so tired of this cynical take. Black people have never had a fucking break from being systemically and systematically disenfranchised. Voting is non-negotiable for me, but I can also understand the apathy when there are two candidates and neither of them seem interested in improving your life.

federal intervention is expected

Oh good. That should help things.

That’s the one episode I haven’t been able to listen to. The video was so traumatic as a young kid. Haunting.

Ooh, Casefile did a great podcast ep on this. Episode 306. (If you’re not familiar, Casefile is the gold standard for true crime. It’s not exploitative or voyeuristic. Just stories of notable crimes and their investigations, with plenty of awful police work and miscarriages of justice.)

I think he’s a repulsive person, but in my opinion he’s been electric in several roles, like Requiem and Panic Room.

Prisoners is one of my favorite movies of any genre.

Sixty. Thousand. People. Fucking unspeakable.

Right. From one angle, it seems that Good’s and Pretti’s murders got more attention because they’re white. From another angle, they got attention because they were white AND attempting to disrupt the ICE occupation* in the way that keyboard warriors always suggest. It’s not conjecture to say that if we resist, we may be murdered.

*attempting to disrupt by filming the Nazis and standing in their way. I don’t mean to suggest they posed any threat or even physical resistance. They did not.

The system sure moves fast as long as it’s not about the Epstein list.

All of these things are true:

1. This murder of Salgado is equally evil, and equally important, as the murders of Good and Pretti. His death deserves the same amount of outrage and community response.

2. My nervous system still feels fried from being constantly activated for several months at the beginning of the year.

3. I see the incongruence and it’s very disturbing to me.

Wow, that’s quite a statement. There’s definitely a higher-than-average group of meat heads and assholes (both the fighters and the fans) but they’re also athletes like any other. Many of them have trained their entire lives to compete. McGregor is the most visible, and unfortunately he’s an absolute piece of shit, but it’s ignorant to project that onto every martial artist.

My wife has big boobs. Sometimes she shows them off on purpose, but even when she doesn’t, they’re big and round and nice to look at. She says if people are going to look, at least be inconspicuous about it and not stare.

That said, I know other women who have felt cursed by their big boobs because everywhere they go, they’re ogled without their consent. Which is also fair. Just because some women are okay with it, doesn’t mean I’m entitled to check everyone out.

What an interesting way to quantify human life.

Doug Rushkoff’s Survival of the Richest paints a really fascinating picture of the tech billionaire mindset. Rushkoff has been writing about tech for like 50 years so he’s able to explain the evolution from creative tech anarchist to fascist sociopath. “They seem to think they can design a car fast enough to outrun its own exhaust.”