"I'll fight with my life to prevent conflict" -- Said everyone starting every war, ever. Mainly I just think we need to tone down the aggression. Capitalism, democracy, society, it works. Things are better than they've ever been in the history of the world, and they are getting better. Not perfectly, not equally, but gradually and steadily over the long arc of history. I feel like we just need to appreciate what we've got and do the hard, thankless work of making it better and more inclusive -- and stop exaggerating the scale of the problems we face. We don't need revolution, we need evolution. It's slow, boring, and wonky. It requires patience and cooperation. And it requires respecting the institutions we've carefully built over centuries, and investing in making them better.

-david

On Thu, Jul 1, 2021 at 12:17 AM Karl <gmkarl@gmail.com> wrote:

On Wed, Jun 30, 2021, 7:45 PM David Barrett <dbarrett@expensify.com> wrote:
On Tue, Jun 29, 2021 at 11:48 AM Karl <gmkarl@gmail.com> wrote:
> > his nazi 'laws' have any legitimacy at all?
>
> I'll try to answer a guess as to what you mean if you can stop giving me a
> worse game to play. Everything has some degree of legitimacy.

That's wrong. Criminals like barrett have no legitimacy. And neither has your

Comments like this reinforce the need to respect and defend the actual institutions we have, as imperfect as they are. He's accused me, without evidence -- or even any statement of what supposed law I broke -- of being a criminal. We all need to push back on this kind of anti-democratic, anti-justice language whenever we see it. It's fine to disagree; it's fine to call the cops on me for whatever you think it is I've done. But to basically assert judgement without any investigation or process is to demonstrate a complete disinterest in justice itself. There's too much of that going on; silent people need to push back on this corrosive tactic.

-david

I'll fight with my life to prevent conflict and end blaming of others, if I can figure out how. Where are you at?