Raven Onthill

Ideally we maneuver the Administration into a position where de-escalation is their best option.

It has a complicated history. Listen to Mark Bray on this. If you want to know more, read his book.

We need a path to de-escalation.

Don't pick up the bricks.

He's actually right about the origin of the name, as a current Communist recently reminded me, but today's antifa bears about as much relation to the KPD as the today's Democrats bear to the Dixiecrats.

Today's antifa bears about as much relation to the KPD as today's Democrats bear to the Dixiecrats.

So if Trump owns Pravda, does Musk own Izvestia?

Let's RIF Vought.

The 1964 Civil Rights Act had something to do with it, too, and it was passed by elected officials. Liberals in Congress laid the groundwork and of course there was FDR and Truman.

Elections alone did not do it, but elections were important.

Yes well those of us who would got fired first and no one said shit so

The ones who elected President Johnson and the 88th United States Congress, in conjunction with the Civil Rights movement.

Now that antifa has teamed up with antiphon, antihistamine and antidisestablishmentarianism, I anticipate we will be the antithesis of and antidote to MAGA'a antimonic, antisocial antipathy for facts and reality.

I think it shouldn't be as rare as it was; the supermajority requirement for impeachment has turned out to be an impediment to removing unqualified people from the bench. Supermajority requirements have I think in general turned out to be problematic in US governance.

The population of India is nearly twice that of Europe. Of course there are a lot of languages! India isn't a nation-state the way France or Germany sort-of are; it's a gigantic federation.

"Nothing about us without us."

Reform the Supreme Court. The Court as it stands has been a roadblock for two centuries; the Warren Court was a happy exception.

🎶 You can't take the sky from me…

I can't emphasize how important it is for people to understand that unless something FAR BIGGER than an election win happens, this is a pipe dream.

It would take quite a bit to get past qualified immunity.

…any two-party system, duh. I think there's an equilibrium dynamics that operates even in multi-party systems. A party will not stay permanently weak; it either requires enough new members so that it gets occasional wins or it fades out entirely.

Impeachment was not supposed to be as hard as it became; as the two-party system emerged—it wasn't anticipated by the founders—impeachment became near-impossible because it's near impossible to assemble a 2/3 supermajority in the US two-party system, probably anything party system.

Over 40% of corn grown in Indiana is used to make ethanol that cars burn. One acre of corn yields about 16,500 vehicle-miles per year of ethanol, which sounds high until you realize that one acre of solar yields about 2,700,000 vehicle-miles per year: 16,000% more driving for a given plot of land.

"The Judges, both of the supreme and inferior Courts, shall hold their Offices during good Behaviour."

It was never intended to be life tenure. The combination of the constitutional supermajority requirement for removal and the two party system broke that constitutional mechanism.

by two world wars. After the second world war, a truce was made, but it has been broken by various elite factions in the United States, not only the some of the very wealthy, but also white supremacists and power-hungry religious leaders.

The struggle continues.

a turn to sometimes-violent radicalism; it became reasonable for Marxists to point to "bourgeois democracy" and hold that the only solution to the abuses of the US system was violent revolution. And so revolution and counter-revolution dominated the first half of 20th-century US politics, punctuated

This is why for so many years US reformers became radicals; whatever one passed through electoral process could be overturned by stacked law courts. The Taney Court issued Dred Scot, the Waite Court neutered the Reconstruction Amendments, the Fuller Court issued Lochner.

What followed on was

there's a years ago tweet that basically said that anyone writing TV or movies by definition managed to land their extremely-hard-to-get dream job and it colors how they think about work and jobs and wish fulfillment in the stuff they write, and i think about it a lot

It is a good sign for us that the effective-for-our-side framing "Trump's Argentina Bailout" is how it's being referred to in NYT headlines. If that's the language being used we've already won the argument on the issue. Trump's Argentina Bailout

"The rich person speaks and all are silent; they extol to the clouds what he says." — Ecclesiastes

This is not a new problem.

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Ai slop videos presented as true I guess has to become a moderation category. Bah!