There was a lot of arson at BLM protests, and plenty of people beaten in the street, some of whom were in no way asking for it. The majority of the violence probably was the cops though.
USAmericans casually play basketball still. Basically a few kids shooting hoops at every little court you pass, and lightly organized (just show up at a time) adult games are common too.
i have more to write on this, but it is also auto-biographical.
the fact is it was thanks to sleuthing over the Sonny Boy settei materials (https://github.com/sonnyboysettei/official), ultimately making the connection to Pale Fire, which led me to look for the Japanese version of Pale Fire, which explains so much about Sonny Boy. especially the concept of "rendaku" (muddied voice, or mediated "rendered (renda) reality") where, interestingly, waxwing is "renjaku", which led me to the solipsist Jungian interpretation of Mizuho's Grandma Nozomi with dementia (see the Go-Old glasses image of Nozomi) cradling her most treasured images of herself, as Aunt Maud
it has to do with Thrice of Evangelion, of Hideaki Anno and staff saying "Goodbye, All of Evangelion", and Shingo Natsume directing the music video for the song that says "DON'T SAY GOODBYE" Thrice, except at the end where the line was repeated another time. this is rather mindblowing to me personally. and i also found freaky references to my published works, even my "name" on the Sonny Boy credits, that while i rationally establish as pure "Stand Alone Complex" coincidence (unrelated individuals that never interacted with each other ending up the same due to syncing with the "Culture Industry"/consuming the same media)
i'll notify you if you're interested/also a fan of Sonny Boy/Pale Fire.
it makes sense, because Sonny Boy is also the "masc" version of Revolutionary Girl Utena, who borrowed many images from Pale Fire, especially of a bird crashing into the reflected sky of a windowpane, and you can see this as a main motif in Sonny Boy of birds. i'm not sure if i'm the first to make the connection with Pale Fire, but it is something that i arrived on my own, as someone who has a personal history with Pale Fire (quoting "smudge of ashen fluff" in my ... juvenile last words some time ago) and as someone who was influenced by Evangelion to the same apocalyptic degree as Shingo Natsume. one can say it was Sonny Boy is an arrant thief whose Pale Fire he stole from the sun of Utena, who stole from Pale Fire. but Sonny Boy has 4-fold (well imagine a a picture folded in half, twice, which divides the picture into quadrants) the cinematic grammar complexity of Kubrick's 2001, which i held viewings and discussions with students and faculty who wrote a book about it.
There were a couple of other LLM-isms that think mainly served to pad the length for no reason. I found the article interesting. Just not real concise.
I also believe some in the administration want chaos. But also consider that Iran is legitimately hard to negotiate with and the negotiators have no experience with highly technical negotiations around nuclear enrichment. Like, I don’t think Trump wants chaos, actually.
> But also consider that Iran is legitimately hard to negotiate with
It is really strange how when you offer to negotiate with the leaders of a country as a pretext to assassinate them... twice... it becomes difficult to negotiate with those who replace them.
the entire war was looking really pointless and trump was left looking like a chump. none of the negotiations would let him walk away with anything looking like a win. a resumption of hostilities at least paints the illusion of progress towards..something
I agree Iran must be hard to negotiate with but they haven’t even tried.
Obama’s nuclear deal took years of work and involved multiple countries. When Vance didn’t get his way in a single meeting he quit?
Also maybe Trump doesn’t want chaos but I doubt he runs the show so much at this point.
I wonder how much what Trump wants matters any more w.r.t. Iran. Trump kicked a hornets' nest. Now it's the hornets' turn to decide when (or if) they'll let him walk away.
I mean, what's Trump going to do? Murder Iranian leaders harder?
I’ve got a place by me that does 2 eggs, 2 pancakes (or French toast), 2 sausages and toast for $4 before 8 AM.
And I don’t go there. The spots that get twice (or more) as much for that meal really are quite a bit better. And their coffee is truly foul. Classic diner coffee is fine, but if I’ve had better coffee on an airplane I’m not prone to going back.
