[FRIAM] on government

[Marcus Daniels]

I'm in the process of building a machine room for work stuff.    Several neighbors hate it, but what they hate is a legal building envelope.  If I had to persuade them to like it, I couldn't have it.   Although the city takes their pound of flesh (building permits, inspection fees, taxes), they have rules.  I would much rather endure city governance, than my neighbors'.  One of these neighbors is an anti-vaxxer and complains about conspiracies of Fauci, etc.  (Another reason to be glad there are building standoffs is for when he gets sick.  Get off my lawn!)

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Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2024 7:11 AM
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How Telegram's Founder Pavel Durov Became a Culture War Martyr https://www.404media.co/how-telegrams-founder-pavel-durov-became-a-culture-war-martyr/

Mark Zuckerberg says White House ‘pressured’ Facebook to censor Covid-19 content https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/aug/27/mark-zuckerberg-says-white-house-pressured-facebook-to-censor-covid-19-content

What does it mean to "govern"? I frequently hear things like "Democrats actually govern" in contrast to culture warring, grifting, personal branding, etc. I mean, I welcomed Biden's very boring tenure. I'm hoping Kamala is elected and that she'll be as boring as Biden. If I don't hear from someone, it prolly means they're working ... doing their job. No news is good news. But even if Durov's arrest is solely about his complicity by association with the app and his lack of governance of that as a platform, I still kindasorta think the French prosecutor (prosecutors?) is doing a good job of governing in assigning him that agency, his share of the blame.

Sure, JD Vance is in Thiel's pocket. But most of our neoliberal Democrats are also in the pockets of large corporations or rich vampires. Can it be any other way? Can an American politician *actually* govern? Or is it all smoke and mirrors?

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