Eli Sennesh

i do think anglosphere politics may in fact be cooked

like, we cannot have a well-functioning (let alone strong) state if every political faction pursues a race to the bottom in tax policy for nearly everyone.

I'm legitimately shocked regarding Kirk and now suspect him of potentially being a Russian agent.

What’s @normeisen.bsky.social s plan for fixing the Court?

Because litigating while Trump ignores the law and a corrupt Court does all in its power to drag feet leads to losses. USAGM has been destroyed; a key part of American power abroad was killed before litigation could work.

Simple: campism.

1) It doesn't work, and
2) If it does work, it's not applicable, and
3) If it does work and is applicable, it's degrading to the human spirit.

This is at least the third attack on democratic official residences by right wing actors in under a year no?

there were the murders of the minnesotta state reps
the burning of the PA governor residence
and now this?

www.reuters.com/world/europe...

tapping the "people underestimate how many of our society's elites are motivated not by self-interest, but by sadism" sign

Here is the spreadsheet DOGE had ChatGPT produce, to determine which grants were too DEI www.historians.org/wp-content/u...

i agree but the revelation of how many x dot com accounts are foreigners aping US conservatives makes me pause when I see screenshots

I'm gonna get this tattooed onto my flesh

Does the Nazi at least have good constituent services?

So the idea is that you need to vote for the guy with the Nazi tattoo who went on the Nazi podcast with his friend the Nazi in Maine, to stick it to the imaginary "Israel First" Jewish Senator from New York, another state entirely?

the IRA is an unfortunate example of the failure of the non-bigoted theory of popularism

it was a good law that poured piles of money into infrastructure (in rural areas!) and they got zero credit for it from the people who complain about those sorts of things, because the complaining is the point

I would love to see an enumeration of what actually got built. There was way too little PR about the consequences of this bill.

Nah we gotta reserve that phrase for "I support multipolarity and anti-imperialism to get my opportunity to kill my specific enemies and boy am I gonna kill em hard."

I am very disappointed in a bunch of people who seem to sincerely think multipolarity is the answer to Trump.

Enjoy more war I guess.

PIGOUVIAN DATA TAXES

Yeah under that framing, it sounds perfectly sensible that you can't feed someone's civil suit through ChatGPT and then call yourself a lawyer.

But soft tankies are probably the largest organized faction outside the Blob on foreign policy issues, not least because they receive material support from rival states to lobby for their interests.

My unpopular opinion is that the election wasn't the point. The point was failing (kinda deliberately?) to prosecute and punish the coup guy and his crew for their treason, showing that going fascist has no cost.Trump treated as a legitimate contender, not a natsec issue, was the core failure.

That's why we call it *political* economy!

All of what are perceived as America's policy preferences or cleavages are, in fact, primarily aesthetic rather than material.

the problem, fundamentally, is that rural voters don't want the economy to be "good" in the typical sense of being efficient or productive, they want it to be "good" in a moral sense where it rewards the people and industries they like

THIS TIMES ONE MILLION

Trump take gas

Agree, and not to exonerate her but also:

4. The media was kinda in the tank for Trump. At the editor/management/pundit level, I think a lot of rank and file reporters would have liked to hit harder instead of both sides-ing. Probably.

AFAICT their foreign policy is "abolish Amerikkka."