He follows the arc of Blue, in which he just grows up and gets a fucking job. Meanwhile Red is like a hermit I dunno.

It’s hard to say if it’s even effective but my bets are on that it being the opposite. How you say? Well for one we’re trusting their own 0 homicides figures to make assumptions about effectiveness. And second, it’s well known that Bukele’s government has been discretely liberating big MS-13 capos who quickly hide on other latinamerican countries which has all the markings of a pact between gang leaders and the government. In essence, government heads have become the defacto capos and are doing gang shit, the police is now part of the maras muscle and the arbitrary arrests prove it. The rest of the prison stuff is just for show. Even if this was not true, jails are known hotpots of potential criminality. It’s where new gangs like CJNG were formed, so it’s just delaying an inevitable problem. From wherever you look, it’s a temporary band-aid.

I think it’s very positive and hopeful when even the most avid champions of capitalism consider that the best it can muster maybe is making conditions barely survivable

When people discuss Framework laptops or whatever, this is what comes to mind. They’re priced at a pretty inaccessible price point already and people tell me that Framework laptops being reliably sold at that price point is a success for upgradeability and right to fix laws because it shows there’s demand for it, but it really isn’t. What succeeded here was Framework establishing a “tinkerer” niche, one that grants you upgradeability and freedom to install whatever software you see fit without jumping through weird hoops at a premium. Cisco did this with WRT54G and WRT54G-L routers, the second had a steep price difference even though the hardware was essentially the same, just because it allowed you to flash in OpenWRT without using exploits. It’s the same for enthusiast phones, most if not all of them allow you to flash in your own bootloader without exploiting, but most enthusiast phones are sold at flagship prices. It’s just capitalism that’s so incredibly good at spotting its own rot and commoditizing the solution.

This is a black mold futures post

She certainly sounds proud of it!