i have been reading Tom Ricks’ “Fighting the Good War” which is a military analysis of the civil rights movement, and one thing that comes abundantly across is that movement leaders and ordinary people made it a practice to refuse to fall into despair and cynicism.
January 16, 2026 at 1:55 PM
i have been reading Tom Ricks’ “Fighting the Good War” which is a military analysis of the civil rights movement, and one thing that comes abundantly across is that movement leaders and ordinary people made it a practice to refuse to fall into despair and cynicism.
What would that practically mean for elections? Soldiers at every polling location? I get that it’d just be concentrated in blue cities and suburban strongholds, but with a D+10 environment, would it even matter?
I’m definitely worried about the next congress being seated though.
January 16, 2026 at 12:53 AM
What would that practically mean for elections? Soldiers at every polling location? I get that it’d just be concentrated in blue cities and suburban strongholds, but with a D+10 environment, would it even matter?
I’m definitely worried about the next congress being seated though.
Our program at least had an "Ethics in Engineering" seminar where we, ironically, learned about the importance of standing up and speaking out if our future employers were asking us to do something unethical or immoral. It never taught us how to identify that line, though.
January 15, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Our program at least had an "Ethics in Engineering" seminar where we, ironically, learned about the importance of standing up and speaking out if our future employers were asking us to do something unethical or immoral. It never taught us how to identify that line, though.