I had to read that three times to even figure out what word was missing, so maybe neither? Just being more efficient with your posts.
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I had to read that three times to even figure out what word was missing, so maybe neither? Just being more efficient with your posts.
Agriculture is pretty new, fire is an old invention. If it antedates anatomically modern humans then it’s *old*
Much less founded rumors about HRC’s health probably cost her 2016!
And therefore spiritually part of Greater NYC.
I’m genuinely curious how prevalent copaganda is across cultures- has everyone in the G7 been inundated with decades worth of propaganda that rule of law and the presumption of innocence are just scams by Bad Guys to get away with their evil deeds?
someone told me a key millenial:zoomer split is "do you take your cell phone into the shower or not?" ... y'all are doing WHAT with your phones???
A lot of them like the idea of homeless encampments and fare evaders getting thrown into the back of an unmarked van, of course the media are going to cover this in the most sympathetic light possible for the WH.
Saturday night lore drop
It’s not his fault, but Cade Klubnik is a Todd Bonzales-ass name.
No, no. We don’t like Clemson, sorry if I didn’t make that clear, we’ll usually root against them. However, Brian Kelly needs to lose so many games he gets fired, so we are rooting for the orange tigers this time.
CHOO CHOO friends.
(Floating in lotus position, third eye flickering open) “Georgia is a Texas school”
Ooof.
No one with the handle Senior Power Point Engineer would ever just say stuff to get a rise out of people.
I think so too. It’s an off off year election, the electorate is going to be very skewed towards high engagement voters.
I really liked this part: “In posing a threat to Republicans’ grip on federal power, Prop 50 could have a real impact on the lives of immigrants, trans people, and the working class as a whole. We cannot cede this part of the fight against fascism and leave the center to lead it alone.”
In the credit where credit is due file, the CA DSA endorsement of the counter-gerrymandering amendment is very good. Straightforward “we need to work to reduce the power of the fascists” argument, and also calling for further electoral reforms. www.californiadsa.org/resolutions/...
Also, slavery was abolished in Cuba before Batista was even born? Also also, for the USSR one, it really, really depends on when in Soviet history you are talking about, because there were quite a few years where being a peasant under the tsar was better.
Optimist.
Mass “willing into existence” event, maybe?
Holy shit. The 5 year delta is not surprising, but it is shocking.
You know how red ships go faster because the orks collectively believe they do? Maybe the psychic gestalt that is this website has that power if we all believe that Comrade Cholesterol Embolus is doing something very funny.
That was *really* not my experience. Lots of “if you can’t stand behind our troops, stand in front of them” bumper stickers, fifth column rhetoric, etc. Ann Coulter was huge. It’s worse now certainly, but the idea that libs weren’t demonized and regarded as evil is not accurate imo.
The paper takes (in very dry language) an even more negative view of (male) domestic violence- that some men just like and get positive utility out of engaging in IPV just like they would from watching a football game or eating a good steak.
It’s insightful in certain ways, but the fundamental premise that red team doesn’t see blue team as a hated outgroup is something that he could really only say while thoroughly ensconced in the blue tribe.
It’s correct from a color pie perspective, but green goblin not being green is going to throw off some people.
2010 is ancient, but I found this study pretty compelling: “suggest that in addition to addressing concerns of equity and efficiency, pay parity can also improve the health of American women via reductions in violence” www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
Bsky doing curiosity gap like 2013 buzzfeed.
The problem is that in terms of outcome “literally the status quo” and “massive shift in gun control laws” can be described by, if one wants to avoid any sort of technical language, the same words.
Look, between that and Camp of the Saints, I know which dystopian sci fi I’m choosing.
Bad for the country as in good for the country or bad for the country as in bad for the country?
TayLo’s horseshoe trajectory has been in process for a while, kind of like a freight train in the distance, some people pick up the rumbles and put 2+2 together, some hear a whistle and don’t recognize the sound, etc, but it’s getting harder and harder to ignore.
Folks who are still insisting on materialist politics kinda give a luminiferous aether post Michelson–Morley experiment vibe. Either you ignore the elephant in the room, or you come up with increasingly elaborate epicycles.
Wait, the images you post are only based on ~3k original images thrown into the blender?
Libertarians for whom “don’t tread” was the important part, vs the ones who cared about “on me”
Theater Kid (mostly laudatory)
Isn’t that just RooshV?
I hope he’s doing ok, offline is probably better for him though.
Lots of people do t accept that the line is something they choose to draw, rather than a fundamental fact of society, of course.
If you give him a “deal” to restrict mail in voting miller or whoever will make sure that rural areas are excluded from the ban, no chance that any voting roadblocks Dems agree to are implemented neutrally.
If it weren’t for the fact that such nonsense has been produced beforehand, too, I’d assume it was published *because* it’s under threat.
Argumentative crank, PhD.
Oh, yeah. Science is fucked, if we only lose a decade we will get off easy.
Well, that didn’t work for them in 2024, so can’t blame them for trying something that wasn’t a miserable failure, electorally speaking.
Possibly Cassie Prichard? She seems pretty moderate about it.
Good: finally paying influencers. Better: dark money, and not just the DNC, doing it. Best:TayLo isn’t getting in on the grift.
Don’t love how reactionaries may have figured out the 21st century liberal democracy glitch where you cause the economy to stagnate, thus making the electorate more zero sum, thus making the reactionaries more electorally successful.
But also imploding, just more slowly.
Ok, but this means they aren’t lending out more than their deposits though, which is why it’s wrong.
Bank is able to to create several hundreds of dollars worth of assets with corresponding liabilities so the total about of money before subtracting corresponding liabilities in the system increases, but the bank is not lending out more than, or even just all of, it’s deposits.
They can’t loan more than the total deposits, what the money multiplier means is I deposit $100, Bank lends out $90 to you, you deposit the $90 you borrowed, bank lends out $81 of that to Bob, Bob deposits the $81 he borrowed, bank lend out $72 of that to Alice, etc. off an initial $100 deposit the
I wonder how much of the overcharging dynamic is straight incompetence and how much is political pressure to be maximalist and a fear that if you don’t overcharge you will be seen as insufficiently zealous.
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Would need to dig in to cross tabs, but he had a reputation as being a serious, albeit very conservative, governor. Catnip to moderate libs who want to think they are open minded and bipartisan.
A guy who famously spared children, even when recognizing that they would almost certainly grow up to be his mortal enemy, is probably not the example to cite here, tbh.
Would have turned into a three hour episode just to scratch the surface.
Oh, yeah, I remember being a little surprised the episode didn’t cover that.
But exactly that type of Nazi was a good call, don’t sell yourself short.
Sometimes it means Joe Biden, sometimes it means Margaret Thatcher, and sometimes it means infatuation with the just world fallacy.
Well, this aged like a fine wine.
It seems like true crime should be a perfect reactionary factory, but the demos most associated with it have swerved left, which I would not have guessed at first glance.
It makes sense that the Fed is pushing back, given that the animating mythos is about pushing back against execute overreach and ignoring politics. What doesn’t make sense is that so many other institutions aren’t.
Very curious what Nick Timiraos will have to report about this particular development.
We really need to reclaim decadence as a descriptor for people who are so bored they yearn for fields of slaughter to spice things up.
It’s all very odd. I remember the Iraq War, so I realize that the people can want bad things and I understand that I, as a citizen of a republic, have an obligation to not just outsource my judgement to the mob.
None, afaik, they just married the students after they graduated.
One really striking thing about Scott’s justification for engaging with fashy freaks is that he claims he doesn’t gain from engaging with stuff he already agrees with, yet he decided to give NRxers the benefit of charitable readings, but never tried to glean value from, say, feminist writings.
More like a 2 s.d. freak, more likely. 90th percentile has to be low.
Clicked on one FB ad for a pocket knife and suddenly the algorithm is convinced I wanted a newsfeed full of stories about how Riley Gaines is America’s Greatest Victim, interspersed with the occasional Holocaust denial meme.
Radio waves.
On second thought, it would probably ruin the vibes.
Good idea, I’m mutuals with a couple of the guys on the podcast, I’ll suggest it to em.
Things Dems could have done: Sucked up to RFK Jr. enough to keep him onsides. Appointed someone other than Garland AG. Had Biden resign presidency well before he dropped out of the campaign.
Like getting regularly kicked in the head by a horse.
Dear lord, I’m a nobody with 1k followers and I regularly get more engagement than that.
Apropos of nothing, I love your slice of life posts.
Her response is incredible because it holds within it proof of how harmful Twitter is- both treating Twitter as representative of the internet as a whole, and by thinking that the harm of Twitter is “just” getting abuse from Nazis, and not starting to see them as part of your ingroup.
I.e. nationalism is the most successful example of a progressive (derogatory) social engineering project in history. It’s not organic, it’s the result of nerds with maps deciding the real world should be remade to match their imaginary lines.
I do occasionally feel like I’m so reactionary that I loop around to being woke, tbh.
I think one of the single best things Newsom could do for his presidential ambitions would be to start unloading on Cuomo as a Trump collaborator- draw a contrast between fighters and folders, reiterate vote Blue no matter who, etc. Doubt he will because, ya know, he kinda hates the left.
RETVRN to the Holy Roman Empire. The German peoples cannot be trusted with self-governance.
I’m a white guy and I can point to any number of important/meaningful/neat things my ancestors did, and if I said that the fucking Cracker Barrel logo, and not the story of how my ancestors fled Prussia seeking religious freedom, was my heritage my great great grandfather’s ghost would haunt me.
There is literally nothing any Marxist SJW blue haired barista/ethnic studies professor can say about their culture heritage that is half as insulting as insisting that it’s under attack when a mid chain restaurant redoes its logo.
So open minded her brain fell out.
He’s deriving it from first principles, clearly.
Must have just been a programming glitch that during the RNC they had special patriotic animations set up for the coverage of it.
It not the whole “choosing to give a white nationalist who personally intervened to make sure a purveyor of CSAM remained on Twitter control over what you read” thing?
Is she liking literally every comment? Because that’s the least disturbing option.
“it's our leaders' jobs to treat voters as adults” Eh, median voters are fucking pigs unworthy of self-governance. You either lie to them by feeding them slop, or you lie to them by pretending that they are competent adults.
Eh, that blames a chemical rather than a socially constructed phenomenon.
I have a half-baked belief that the left isn’t jargony enough. “Toxic masculinity” is a pair of words that people can kind of reduce meaning from without assistance. RWers talk about Holocaust denial via abstruse code that takes 10 mins to explain to a normie.
Thankfully!
If they do half a point in September either they are capitulating to Trump, or they know something we don’t and think the risk of not aggressively loosening is more dangerous than jump starting inflation and looking like they’ve capitulated to Trump.
I.e. in a vacuum it’s probably a minor error because the Fed has the ability to backtrack and slam on the brakes if needed. In the current situation though any hint that the Fed is bending to political demands undermines long-term credibility, so Fed should prolly be extra hawkish.
Imo the extent that it’s a likely to be a significant policy error is a question of how much the Fed should incorporate political actor’s reaction functions in their decision making.
This country should allow a fuckton of immigrants.
A little more upbeat: youtu.be/zOL81oOjGUI?...
I know, I was making a joke because OP has read more about Rome than I can imagine.
Unrelatedly, in the introduction to the Etruscans episode, you had a line about how a bronze smith’s creation would be remembered long after the prince he made it for, and the city the prince ruled, had passed into history, and it really struck me.
Spoken like someone who’s never read anything about the fall of the Roman Empire.