Peter Jeffe

Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 22:21 UTC

Consider this your reminder to watch Scavengers Reign on Netflix and juice the fuck outta its numbers and convince whoever needs convincing that there’s a place for amazing, adult-audience animation in the world. Thank u.

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Peter Jeffe @pjeffe.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 16:34 UTC

It's precisely because I'm technical that I get frustrated with poor UX, lazy onboarding, etc. I know it's a choice, whereas non-technical people are inclined to assume that it's just the way things are.

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Peter Jeffe @pjeffe.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 15:51 UTC

I get the point, and I do think there's room for appealing to people who are put off by radicalism, while also energizing the people who inherently reject the status quo because they can see how rotten it is. Both groups exist, and you can gently nudge the former while firing up the latter.

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Peter Jeffe @pjeffe.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 15:47 UTC

I take it as a given that most people aren't going to support significant change, since many people are doing fine as it is, and, even if they aren't, change is scary. So there has to be room for various approaches to appeal to different groups, all pushing in the same general direction.

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Peter Jeffe @pjeffe.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 15:42 UTC

Right, but a large cohort of Americans won't explicitly support anything significantly left of center anyway. You need to work the margins. I think it's very similar to how the normalization of Zionism in the Jewish diaspora is currently being eroded, after decades of unquestioning support.

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Peter Jeffe @pjeffe.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 15:37 UTC

No, just no.

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Peter Jeffe @pjeffe.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 15:28 UTC

Plus, don't underestimate the appeal of these actions to the more libertarian folks who actually value freedom, and who are often better allies than easily offended centrists. Like the classic Bill Hicks routine:

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Peter Jeffe @pjeffe.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 15:25 UTC

Yes, as a blanket statement it's overly broad. But if people are so easily swayed by symbolic protest I can't see them as being in it for the long haul.

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Peter Jeffe @pjeffe.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 15:24 UTC

It's about undercutting the normalization of uncritical patriotism. It's been going on for decades, and it does have a positive effect, just not on the people that you are talking about. To me it's the same as Dems always triangulating to the "center", I don't see it as a winning strategy.

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Peter Jeffe @pjeffe.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 15:15 UTC

Actions like this oppose the normalization of uncritical support of the government. Burning a flag gives permission to others to raise their voices in whatever ways they choose. And: people who get offended at symbolic actions will never be reliable allies in any case.

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Peter Jeffe @pjeffe.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 15:04 UTC

What if the very thing you are fighting against is the nationalistic fervor that has led to so much suffering in the world?

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Peter Jeffe @pjeffe.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 14:35 UTC

As the world's most destructive invasive species it is wrong for us to make other animals pay for our destruction of their habitat and our warming of the planet. All we do is take other lives, whether by chainsaw or rifle.

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Peter Jeffe @pjeffe.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 13:58 UTC

The poor islands of the southern Grenadines were devastated by Beryl. SVG PM Gonsalves: “For the major emitters of greenhouse gases, those who contribute most to global warning, you are getting a lot of talking, but you are not seeing a lot of action...”

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Peter Jeffe @pjeffe.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 01:13 UTC

I think a lot of people would have been happy if he just stopped helping Israel conduct its campaign of terror, instead of sending ever more bombs and questioning how many dead children actually lay under the rubble. That would have been nice.

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Peter Jeffe @pjeffe.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 00:12 UTC

Imagine peole in 2024 saying this shit.

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Peter Jeffe @pjeffe.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 22:48 UTC

I mean, the fact is that there are actually pathetically few solicitations for help by Gazans, which indicates just how desperate the situation is.

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Peter Jeffe @pjeffe.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 22:39 UTC

"Nearly nine months into a war that Israel did not plan for, its army is short of spare parts, munitions, motivation and even troops, the officials said." But but but I thought Biden has no influence over Israel because they make their own munitions and can create foreign exchange out of thin air.

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