Since fascism is fundamentally an aesthetic movement this could be as simple as Trump not liking Modi's wardrobe of kurtas
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Since fascism is fundamentally an aesthetic movement this could be as simple as Trump not liking Modi's wardrobe of kurtas
/7 SCOTUS, the Federalist Society, the entire academic and intellectual infrastructure that brought us here: they're nothing but pretentious Trumpers. At least the guy in the MAGA hat and "fuck your feelings" t-shirt is honest about who he is. These people are not.
What if consumer tech is hitting a wall because older consumers are change-averse and younger consumers don't want to burn their limited funds on more screens?
This sounds catchy but I don't know that I'd hold VC foolishness as related to Moore's Law rubbing against the physical limits of reality (physics, int'l supply chains). Augmented reality tried to be the next big thing, hasn't quite died. Drone warfare has been evolving very quickly. ๐
Indeed. An underappreciated part of democracy is that a voter who makes the right votes for the wrong reasons is just as useful as one who's completely clear-headed and morally coherent. We don't have to save souls, just the country
Idk median voter seems pretty cringe
need the 7th Party System to lock these fuckers out of power for a generation
jamelle is very clearly correct in general but was also apparently too early and/or the wrong person for the party establishment to actually listen to i have no fucking idea what to do with this fact
How lucky we are they consider Sun Tzu woke and gay
I love a good double entendre in the morning
How lucky we are they consider Sun Tzu woke and gay
Make sure not to do it in the reverse order else you might suffocate yourself ๐ฌ
Who would've guessed the second American civil war would be so patentably stupid
No see the "them" they gonna "fight for" are the noncompetes. (Look who just got very creative with their pronoun usageโฆ)
Millenarianism aside, why do you imagine they like Israelis so much
The other day my college bestie reminded me of her love of Israelis as a personality type so I was very prepared for this
This feels like as crisp an encapsulation of "Israeli as sociocultural phenomenon" vs "Israeli as geopolitical phenomenon" as one could hope for
More sad than funny that his grift operation over the last year has been so brazen that junk like this is arguably beneath him but he's so dottered he'll never understand this himself
Presumably you've seen the guy Politely, one imagines any attention might seem like good attention to him
Also notable that Newsom explicitly teed up Louisiana's crime rate to dunk on Mike Johnson
It's never just rich bastards it's "their" rich bastards
Bae watched PragerU vid on Christopher Columbus to learn how bad it is. Columbus mispronounces Genoa ๐คจ, distinguishes Caribs from Taino โ , dodges he miscalculated size of earth ๐, pushes moral relativism but hides that even the Spanish crown grew tired of his brutality and moral failings ๐ซ
being rude is the only sensible use for a post on X lol
I don't like the prospects either but it remains the case that the current constitution functions on the assumption that institutional prerogatives should outweigh partisan ones, and so long as that is obviously not how our politicians work, we'll be in some form of shithole or another.
Weakening the presidency means creating a role that takes over some of its current authority. Lots of semi-presidential constitutional models out there with various pros and cons. The French one seems fun.
Yeah I seem to remember Sulla trying to pull that ladder up from future tyrants โ didn't work so great
Roman aristocracy also dropped fertility rates, and they didn't even have dual-income capitalism as an excuse share.google/Us6wo80lSLb6...
Obviously some unions are much more integrated than others (IIRC West Coast longshoremen are better than their East Coast counterparts). I think "Obama was supposed to make racism go away" is a common enough white cope but really these guys want to vote for the dad who refuses to ask for directions.
I was regardless looking for a second career after circumstances aged me out of software engineering ๐ฎ๐ฝโโ๏ธ
It's 1914 all over again
Dirty Irish bread
The primary election reforms of the early 1970s were honestly the worst possible thing one could have done to an ostensibly conservative political party.
wisconsin was not a democracy by any measure during the 2010s.
ACAB vibes haven't quite left the writers room Gotta humanize them as deeply flawed. Even classic L&O hinged on Lenny Briscoe being a.recobering alcoholic and a failed husband/father
Like show me the newspaper that in 1872 was saying there was a bubble in railroads
If journalists were investors, they would be much richer than journalists
"no" in the sense of we shouldn't or in the sense it's not technically feasible or in the sense capital won't permit it
Please unpack this
I'm very happy about this. I also sort of wish that all of the people 5 years ago telling me over and over that China was going to bake the world with all of the new coal plants they were going to build would apologize for being wrong
How much grain would have erased the Pacte de Famine rumors? These last few years have gotten me really keen on the idea that things must be prosperous enough for folks to have the spare capacity to humor luxury beliefs, akin to how the first days of antidepressants can raise the risk of self-harm.
My husband turns 50 in two weeks and can do half a dozen pistol squats off his "weak" leg and I kinda want to kill him
Smells like hung bottom erasure
We are so far gone if he can just direct the rulings of the Supreme Court like this.
For a minute it seemed like she was hoping Hegseth would flame out ๐ฅ๐ฅ and she could magically get that job
Even if the statute of limitations hadn't passed 7 years ago, as attorney general she would have to file charges against herself
CDC Director Arrives At Office To Find Dead Deer With โFiredโ Carved Into It
How many people don't yet believe that And how many of them, if sufficiently explained, would care
These people will deficit-spend into an inflationary spiral to pay for ICE, at which point ICE will be paid for from the savings of any schmuck not clever enough to catch the leading edges of his next few pump-and-dump stock schemes. Be serious.
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Might I offer an analogy youtube.com/clip/UgkxQey...
I'm sorry to say that I've spoken off the record to enough university-affiliated people over the years to know that a lot of what gets said publicly is, at best, a brittle representation of true belief. Lots of people aren't like that, so it confuses them to see people who are like that say things.
Okay, but personally I would be much more comfortable with your follow up if you could also explain your discomfort with the their sample reweighing methods, instead of suggesting that no such reweighing even happened.
Unless you have some definition of "high speed road" I'm not familiar with, seems you're mistaken? "The existing RO operations mostly occurred on surface streets, so this study only examines miles and crashes that occurred on surface streets."
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It's wild that the fatal weakness of the American political immune system is open shamelessness.
Or is his phone just happy to see him
Doom scrolling just got doomier
A pox on anyone who thought it was "simply campaign-season bluster." Given what RFK's been up to at HHS, a literal pox might be what they get.
I was just talking with a tail-millennial friend how exhausted we are with the smartphone as the everything-device. Partitioning is good. I use Bsky from my phone when I want fresh useful info, but when I want to be shocked and argue I'll open an x dot com burner account from my laptop
Thanks to using Twitter this week I learned that my take on the Cracker Barrel logo "news" is that I definitely hate everyone with a strong POV about it, no matter what that POV is
I was just talking with a tail-millennial friend how exhausted we are with the smartphone as the everything-device. Partitioning is good. I use Bsky from my phone when I want fresh useful info, but when I want to be shocked and argue I'll open an x dot com burner account from my laptop
Had an interesting interaction with someone used to working with the Texas GOP of ten years ago who kept trying to rationalize how he could work with the Trump government and I slowly realized it was exactly an Iain Banks Outside Context Problem
Wouldn't "The Golden Calf" be a better name for his pod
Growing up in Pittsburgh in the 1980s, I will forever think of Uecker as "the dad from Mister Belvedere" โ his career in baseball is like quaint trivia in my head. Even I admit it's silly
Did the pizza come from Comet Ping Pong www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-p...
No human endeavor is perfect. We compare things to what alternatives mortals can cook up.
Even with the capitalization I'd prepared my self to read a story about a competitor to salt and pepper share.google/eCV872yrQvCK...
Pragmatically speaking I don't think the country can tolerate deleting both Washington *and* Jefferson, and between the two I'd rather focus on keeping Jefferson in the mud because his brains and his hypocrisy make his crimes so much worse to me
The maddest someone has ever gotten at me was when I talked about the child sized manacles Jefferson had at Monticello for 9 year old children. They could not cope with the idea that a child the same age as their child had been enslaved. And it made them angry that I made them know facts
I told my husband back in January. The one potential saving Grace of these 4 years would be Trump's penchant to destroy things that should be destroyed โ in addition to all the stuff that definitely doesn't deserve destruction. I do hope soybean monocultures are on the first list and not the second
No disagreement there. It's all in keeping with a guy who's made a career using stupidity-laced bravado to bulldoze people and institutions that believe in math. We shall continue to reap the whirlwind until morale improves. ๐ซ
A notable difference between the 1930s and now is that *so much* marginal income to farm owners comes from export markets, bc Americans cannot come close to using what these growers are growing. The nationalist types might love to see these farms fail for having loved foreign sales.
In 2008 the banks were economically too big to fail In 2009 GE was logistically too big to fail In 2018 the farms were politically too big to fail It's 2025. As much as I'm going to hate it if/when it happens this time, I recognize it's the old normal.
crazy, what is it about lisa cook that might have led the white house to baselessly accuse her of mortgage fraud in order to force her out of her job?
"Do exaggerations count as lies amidst the dog of war" seems like an interesting philosophical question share.google/HCLy0der5gH8...
Silent majority quieter than ever
"reactionary" in the sense they're reacting to whoever's lining Bari Weiss' pockets? She and I overlapped for a year in high school. It drives me insane she's the reigning most-famous-alum. Let's please not shit on this too soon
Congrats you found the bankshot angle to blame "Democrats" for this somehow The nation is saved
It's hard to tell which is the better public
Yeah I grew up helping my grandma grow tomatoes. (The dog confused them for tennis balls before they ripened.) But everything here in the 21st century seems to be some sort of branding exercise first and foremost
The 5 minutes I just spent learning half the country thinks "homesteading" focuses on rural land ownership and the other half a mindset of caloric autonomy Historians are gonna have a mess on their hands sorting through this
ยผ of the regime is content making content for Fox News ยผ of it believes Fox News to be reality and not propaganda of their own making ยผ looks at trolling behavior on X and extrapolates it into meat space Thankfully few are smart enough to care about a theory of long term political change.
ยผ of the regime is content making content for Fox News ยผ of it believes Fox News to be reality and not propaganda of their own making ยผ looks at trolling behavior on X and extrapolates it into meat space Thankfully few are smart enough to care about a theory of long term political change.
the way I thought this post about Big Brother was about American democracy
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auspicious
Husband be like, "they didn't have Baked Alaska!?"
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How many tons of CO2 were released during the construction and operation of the data center needed to create that fake pic of an otter you use to scold strangers about CO2 emissions
Where have I posted EV content Why did you capitalize the F in Folks Did you ask chatGPT to invent my posts too
You must also think the TV show Law and Order is a documentary series because it's "ripped from the headlines"
Subway is probably overjoyed that 'Subway guy' now means Sean Charles Dunn and not a certain ill-fated spokesperson of theirs.
"back to real world" says someone who poasts Gen AI content for purpose of emotional manipulation
This is not a massive decision or any kind of change. Costco has never carried mifepristone in its pharmacies. An anti-abortion group is taking credit for something that didn't happen, possibly to generate disingenuous left-wing ire against one of the few corporations that hasn't gone MAGA.
I kinda agree โ which of them would this rewarding.
Wild the extent to which he's missed that the prevailing regime is "shut up, nerd" โ despite the fact that the tip of the spear takes her prestige entirely from professional wrestling
The bits of Theseus
Everything about this is hilarious, but Kagame sending an underling instead of signing his own name is my favorite part
The upcoming insanity of the administration simultaneously propping up employment but numbers while also screaming out for interest rate cuts