Or chumming, as in throwing bloody fish in the water to attract sharks. I read BLM protests on first scan as a reference to the Bundy stand-off, per Wikipedia:
The 2014 *Bundy standoff* was an armed confrontation between supporters of > cattle rancher Cliven Bundy <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliven_Bundy> and > law enforcement following a 21-year legal dispute in which the United > States Bureau of Land Management > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bureau_of_Land_Management> (BLM) obtained > court orders directing Bundy to pay over $1 million in withheld grazing > fees <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grazing_fees#United_States> for > Bundy's use of federally owned land adjacent to Bundy's ranch in > southeastern Nevada <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevada>. Just another note on the hazards of acronyms. Especially with erratic memories involved. -- rec -- On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 3:28 PM Steve Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > > Not speaking for Nick, *I* think politics (vs statesmanship) are at the > very *least* _rhetorical_. I believe rhetoric often includes direct > deceit. A great deal of politics in the US today (maybe forever) is > acutely deceitful, even when it isn't attack-oriented. One party is > significantly more bold than the other in that regard. DaveW may invert > the sense of that judgement, but probably agrees that deceptive rhetoric is > a mainstay in politics. > > I think the "Civil War" metaphor isn't just deceitful, it is intentionally > provocative and deeply disingenuous. My personal opinion is that the angry > Right Mob and the Puppeteers yanking their strings wants a *literal* Civil > War so that they can exercise their superior firepower and brutality to > obtain/retain singular minority rule over a growing majority coalition of > minorities. I think the rhetoric of the last year from that quarter > trying to imply that the LEFT was on the verge of starting a hot Civil War > if they "didn't get their way" was more projection, and intended to create > a certain amount of cover and/or precedent for the type of coup attempt we > saw on December 37th and the acute threats of violence from the right that > has been bubbling for a very long time. > > Perhaps "Cold Civil War" is more apt and less suggestive of > endorsing/tolerating violence as a means. > > Even the most violent of BLM and related protests did not aspire to > overthrow government or reverse an election. While their attempts to hold > law enforcement accountable in response to specific recent incidents (it is > not a small list) and systemic abuses might have risen above a threshold of > violence that many of us might approve, the movement was NOT about > disenfranchising anyone except the very public servants who are supposed to > work for us ("Protect and Serve"). > > All that said, I'm not unsympathetic with the resentments "the common man" > has against their elected Representatives in our Republic, but any rhetoric > that suggests that the Left is worse than the Right is acutely > disingenuous. > > Regarding the term "spin"... I *do* think it is apt in the sense of > "making your head spin" but I think the metaphor of "churn" is yet more apt > in the sense that a great deal of the point seems to be to generate lots of > obfuscation by conflation. Muddying the waters... > > - Steve > > > That's because you think politics is essentially deceitful? > > -- rec -- > > > On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 1:59 PM <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I always thought the metaphor was to a web of deceit. >> >> n >> >> >> >> Nick Thompson >> >> [email protected] >> >> https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ >> >> >> >> *From:* Friam <[email protected]> *On Behalf Of *Roger Critchlow >> *Sent:* Wednesday, March 10, 2021 12:53 PM >> *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group < >> [email protected]> >> *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] civil war(s) >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> On Tue, Mar 9, 2021 at 3:34 PM Prof David West <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> schisms might be a better metaphor than civil war. >> >> you are correct that there is, and always has been, "churn" among >> factions within both parties and any significance given to a particular >> instance of that churn e.g GOPS taking committee assignments away from a >> flake or the Nevada state party instance — originate in the mind of the one >> pointing at the event rather than intrinsic to the event itself. 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