One of the great indictments of our current mode of capitalism is that people like Lutnick were so wealthy and successful for so long.
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One of the great indictments of our current mode of capitalism is that people like Lutnick were so wealthy and successful for so long.
I don’t agree with Stancil on everything but it’s hard not to agree with his vibenomics theory when I have not heard a single person bitch about the economy since Trump’s election despite this
A fun day to remember that a not-insignificant portion of global prosperity is currently built on Americans feeling confident enough in their job security and employment prospects to keep buying stuff at wildly higher rates than their counterparts in other countries.
Feel like shit, just miss him so bad
Isn't this downwind of the fact that the only sector adding employing is nursing/healthcare, which skews women?
The movies don't really get into it, but it's worth remembering that Denethor went crazy because he spent too much time doomscrolling on the Palantír and it cooked his brain
Denethor's death is a great example of the importance of playing to the strengths of a medium. his death in the Houses of the Dead, in the novel, is heart-rending and plays out as a tight drama in his mausoleum. in the film they quite rightly said "you know what would be a fucking sick-ass visual?"
Is this one of those, "you'll know I've been taken hostage if I post this" type things? I mean, JD Vance!
That precedent will be gone as soon as the Labour party are out of power.
My prediction:
Demanding we resent them on a personal level strikes me as the politics of a feeble person who is unconfident about their ability to actually disempower them.
One thing I find utterly bizarre about the people insisting on reminding celebrity stans that they're also rich and therefore Evil is that this is a genuinely weird personalisation of politics. I'm here to tax the rich until they are no longer rich, not to turn them into symbolic objects of hate.
When it tries, it generates the classic paranoid, conspiratorial apologia of the Lost Cause. "Did you know that the Civil War wasn't REALLY about slavery? Did you know that WWII wasn't REALLY about Hitler?" This is absurd, and disgusting; and it is discreditable.
i can simultaneously disagree with some exercises of police power and agree with others because, believe it or not, i think some things are bad and some things are good
The takeaway: 👉 Accommodating the radical right on immigration doesn’t win back voters. 👉 It alienates the progressive base. 👉 And it raises the salience of the very issue the radical right owns. In short: it’s electoral self-harm.
My reaction to Norway/Oslo was pretty similar to yours, but after three years living here it's grown on me. It's like a lot of towns in the UK if everyone were 50% richer.
At some point there needs to be a shift from complaining to action. Like, Schumer and Jeffries aren’t going to spin up a media network. This is just the media ecosystem we have now — so now what?
Can you just sneak into a university library and use their computers?
By the way, this is an actual stepping down for footballing reasons and not health issues, right?
You're not alone in that - a referendum on Maastricht or Lisbon would have caused a total mess, but would have lanced the boil and clarified Britain's relationship with Europe. Instead it got delayed and delayed and then turned into an all-or-nothing vote
They taste like crab, but talk like people.
Isn't this series part funded by Russia Today?
It's a selection effect caused by people writing about the issues about which they're most opinionated; the problem could be easily solved by randomly assigning topics to philosophers instead of allowing them to choose
Always been true. It's why having a strong, constitutional parties on right and left, committed to free and fair elections, exchanges of power, limits on the executive, rule of law is a really important part of democratic stability, because otherwise you're only one price shock away from the abyss.
How obscure is this supposed to be?
How obscure is this supposed to be? Is it something I could look at the number, knowing the answer, and think "that makes sense" or like the last four numbers of some economic index?
One of the fundamental differences between the US right and US progressives is that the US right understand getting the attention of voters is what politics is. Enacting policy is *governing*. Getting attention to get power to enact policy is *politics.* Not all of it, but a huge chunk of it.
The problem with a lot of UK politics analysis at this point is though that it is also suffused with a kind of Spenglerian "Lust am Untergang" which creates a fatalistic filter through which even more positive developments are interpreted
I agree, but when you're a post-doc moving to your n'th country after having thrown yourself into learning the language of the previous n - 1, then when moving found that, really, you're going to lose them through atrophy, it can be quite difficult.
The fundamental ethos of liberalism is not to act without judgement. The fundamental ethos of liberalism is that our judgements shouldn't constrain the life and freedom of others.
Except unlike the lottery ticket, this is 100% guaranteed to yes for sure definitely happen eventually. We just gotta be patient.
Oh my god
Sorry, but wtaf? This does absolutely nothing but ensure that even more people, including children, have to use irregular crossings, and blocks people who even this government have recognised are refugees from being with their families. This is utterly sickening from Labour. 1/
I so urge you to read this deeply heartwarming story of a 9 year-old Bosnian boy's experience in Britain. BEAUTIFUL. He's now a lecturer at Newcastle University. Hope I screen shotted it all in ( second try! 🤞🙏 ).
Not at all unthinkable that US becomes hostile to Europe over medium to long term, if the geopolitics aligns that way. They are setting up elite cultural conditions for it now.
The US pretty much asked this of Ukraine against Russia, also with not great results.
I think it's because that's the sauce that goes on top, but still...
When I lived in Poland, I learned of a dish called "schab po żydowsku" which is essentially "pork loin in a Jewish style".
Anyone that's ever had to go through the immigration system of a country that has been trying to restrict immigration for a while can see the result of this political ratcheting of "just one more measure" making it totally labyrinthine and horrible.
Frustrating how "it's hard to change people's views" has metastasised into "there's no point ever making an argument".
My expectations of United have fallen so far that I genuinely had expected this to be a real contest against a promoted team at home.
👇 This one reason why I think trad approaches to school curriculums will continue to be the best approach. How you use knowledge will always change, but the importance of having it, not so much.
Your Fabrizio comparison is stunningly spot on:
I think the issue is that people confuse social conservatism with political conservatism. They overlap but are not really necessary To me the core of any liberal con isn't their views on gays or abortion but an intrinsic skepticism or outright fear of the masses
Today I learned, through an unfortunate chain of events, that it’s possible to start a car with the keys on the roof, have the keys stay on the roof for five miles, ask “what’s that clunk” as they fall off, continue for a further 20 miles, then find you can’t lock your car and it won’t restart.
When I moved to Poland I learnt to say "Skłodowska" very quickly, but it took me much longer to say "Maria" instead of "Marija" as if she were Spanish or Italian.
Brexit was similar. The prediction that Britain would immediately crash into recession was wrong (though the £ did fall). Brexiteers crowed enormously. Nine years later though, Britain's economy has fallen sharply behind its peers
Also, if you're afraid to attack your political opponents because you think you're so unpopular that it will make them and their ideas more popular, you may as well pack up and go home. Politics isn't just about judging which ideas are popular. It's shaping the debate and making your ideas popular.
It's hard to explain how delusional it is to believe that there is some magic level of anti-migrant policy that this government can hit that will somehow neutralise this issue.
Honestly, part of my fury over MAGA is it feels like a broken promise. As imperfect as things were in the 90s, I was told that we had all agreed on at least the *goal* of a society where race and sex didn't limit you, in which the law was blind...and actually a bunch of those adults were lying.
It's pretty weak, empirically speaking, to say that Democrats will win elections once they stop saying The Terms without bothering to check whether they currently use The Terms
⚖️ The big story here is, of course, sexual misconduct, but "an unpaid intern working on war crimes" will never not be a ridiculous thing.
Someone in my mentions arguing that this won't make any different. Politically, perhaps not. But it's a pretty bleak worldview to think that the only reason to ever say "that evil thing is evil".
Good morning. Say hello to the companies scrambling for lucrative work flying immigrants around and out of the US (but too chicken to keep their branding on the planes) ig.ft.com/us-deportati...
I love these wee Osborne wheezes that keep on chugging many years later...
This has been a rough decade to be a supporter of parliamentary democracy, liberalism, membership of the EU and Manchester United.
The reasoning:
London is so over.
Perceptions have real effects www.kcl.ac.uk/policy-insti...
A week or two before the season started I was reminded that he was still in the job and burst out laughing and then very much looking forwards to the season starting.
Thank you for the context.
I know that in yearly terms any deflation is usually a very bad sign for the health of an economy, but how much is it so for monthly numbers?
But then, those are now basically impossible to see on my feed, so I have to go to each of their pages individually and see some that I've missed... so maybe even there you're right.
There are some people who post on Instagram that I have their work on my office wall (not door).
There's no better poster child for the mess the UK is now in than the fact that the Financial Times - home to the "how to spend it" supplement on luxury geegaws - is now one of the most left-wing media channels in the country simply because it's still interested in reality.
So this?
Almost everyone on Tinder is boring. I don’t mean that in a smug married “all the best ones are taken”, I mean “you, me, all of us become basically fungible on the apps”.
Say what you want about Cromwell, but he made the trains run on time
A lot of UK analysts and commentators underestimate how serious so many Far Right activists are in embracing the belief that their ideal utopia can only be achieved through an act of violent social "cleansing". These people want war.
nominative determinism hall of fame
No fewer than four of the belligerent states in World War I had ceased to exist by 1922, either replaced by a whole new constitution and government or smashed into a dozen little pieces.
Sort of off topic, but Orforglipron is one of the worst medicine names I've ever heard.
Can I ask a favour and ask you to include in any piece you write that there are only three companies that own all the supermarkets and they're all vertically integrated preventing any competition? The only way the Norwegians will change this is if people look down on them about it from abroad.
Actually, if you're going to go up Holmenkollen on the T-bane, you should do that today.
It'll start raining here from tomorrow, so maybe it'll feel more like the UK.
monday mood
If PiS wanted to write the legislation, maybe they should have won the elections for the legislature?
btw.: if we want to wage a maneuver warfare against a peer or near-peer opponent, IMO we also need many more engineering units (for both offensive and defensive work) than we currently have - and this area is IMO not getting enough attention.
I have never met a person who instantly specifically *charmed* me who didn’t turn out to be an actual psychopath
THIS! Every. Damn. Time!!! 👇
I had totally forgotten about that in their terrible run 😅 (Although it was at the start of City's terrible streak if I remember correctly, so maybe that did indicate that the title was more open than it seemed 🤔)
To me, a result like this, really does say to me that the title is wide open. Liverpool, Arsenal, Ctiy, everyone has flaws, and it makes it really rather exciting. Honestly, even Spurs could win the title on this sort of showing.
To me, a result like this, really does say to me that the title is wide open. Liverpool, Arsenal, Ctiy, everyone has flaws, and it makes it really rather exciting #epl-live
I try to watch him as little as possible, but when those images of his bizarre ramblings next to Infantino came out I was pretty shocked by how unwell he looked.
Earlier in the game I thought, "the joy of the early season, not knowing if Chelsea are very good or West Ham are very bad", but I stopped wondering a few minutes ago.
It was funny reading East of Eden and getting the perception of how the military was basically held in contempt by large sections of society.
1. He looks like he’s days away from It Happening. 2. Just do not have the mental capacity to cope with this shit while the World Cuo trophy is right there and the other fucking guy is standing next to him.
Joe Biden cancels 45 gorillan dollars of student loans: "Where's my $600 asshole. I want my stimmy. Life is hell." Donald Trump raises PS5 prices with tariffs and lines up fighter jets for a private parade: "Hell yeah this is what I voted for! 3rd term!"
I imagine Britain will get some of this information through other channels but it goes to show that US intelligence sharing is only when the Americans feel it's in their interests - interests which may or may not match our own
I think with retreat from casual self-publishing on websites to social media, and general losing technical acumen of running them, rando websites which were previously understood to all equally be someone's personal shitpost have taken on the air of authority to people.
2) Russia and its proxies in the West will insist that any peace deal must include Ukraine’s comprehensive disarmament in the missile domain (without of course having the same expectation for Russia). 4/4
The benefit of free speech is that it allows someone to say, e.g. 'Don't listen to your GP if they prescribe you Lariam. Insist on a different anti-malarial drug', but that same freedom inevitably allows 'vaccines don't work' to spread. The two opinions do not behave differently in 'sunlight'.
In addition to the below, the whole 'repressing ideas just makes them stronger', okay, please discuss in the context of 'Russian support for Vladimir Putin', 'pro-democracy campaigners in China'. Censorship is startlingly effective. 'Sunlight' does not kill ideas!
so, to understand this story there are a few things you need to know - my cat, Gus, believes he is a trained support animal - he is not (he has relatives who are, but he is not) - he believes he is a seizure-detecting dog - he is not a dog - I do not get seizures
When a company wants to fake the undoing of some harm it is causing, it will choose technologies that are - Somewhat plausible-sounding to the average journalist - Not commercially available and not likely to ever be - Impossible to work at large scale but easy to demonstrate at tiny scale
I say this extremely seriously: one of the main skills children have to learn to be adults is to do things they *don't* find interesting. This is both because many necessary things in life are boring and because sometimes interesting things take time and effort first.
The only way I can see it working is if you include lots from other people's POVs. The books are mainly from Harry's, but the TV series doesn't have to be. From his POV the adults are basically useless, but maybe they were actually doing something in the background? Just me clutching at straws.
It sometimes feels like a horoscope, but isn't female coded, so it's more tech-bro acceptable to buy into.