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“‘My country, right or wrong,’ is a thing that no patriot would think of saying. It is like saying, ‘My mother, drunk or sober.’” — GK Chesterton

Thinking again about the Smithsonian oral history interview with Allan Rohan Crite where he talks about American culture and how trying to narrow it to Anglo-Saxon doesn’t work even if you are talking about the colonial period.

some past “multicultural economic zones” you may recall include the Roman Empire, the Holy Roman Empire, the Ottoman Empire, and the British Empire.

while all of these had significant problems “no one will die to defend them” was memorably not among them

they do but ‘Pepper’ is a new one for me

U.S. Deports Nine Migrants in Secret, Ignoring Legal Protections

“In a secret deportation arrangement, the Trump administration flew nine people, nearly all of whom had been granted U.S. court protections from being sent back to their home countries, to the African nation of Cameroon in January…
The United States has not made any public deal with Cameroon.”

the impression I am getting about Fennell's 'Wuthering Heights' is that it is the sort of adaptation of 'Wuthering Heights' that Jodorowsky's 'Dune' would have been of its source material

I expected no less

Chappell Roan dolled up in a costume that makes her look like a Bene Gesserit Reverend Mother

big pop culture news: Chappell Roan has undergone the spice agony, transmuted the Water of Life, and attained Reverend Mother status

a great many right-wing ideologues, as high as a kite on the aestheticized politics of homogeneity, are bizarrely convinced that there have never been order-destroying conflicts of vast scale and scope within broad, highly abstract social categorizations like “White,” “Western,” and “Christian”

This is your regular reminder that the idea that Christianity is a thing uniform beliefs that everyone within “Western Civilization” believed and agreed on is a fiction that just ignores centuries of Christians killing each other and fighting literal wars over their different beliefs.

Louise in a fashion photo by Eugene Robert Richee, 1928.

America’s elites are self-loathing and insecure cosmopolitans who love to see their views reflected in someone who codes as more “authentic” then them, many such cases.

The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering

The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory

Propaganda during WWI and WWII in fact

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mostly I am tired of people with 3 passports and 6 multinational conglomerates lecturing me on the virtues of ethnic nationalism

Ambivalence is good actually

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Boundaries of American Identity: Evolving Understandings of “Us” This review examines empirical research about American national identity. It focuses on the social and political causes and consequences of (a) how people define what being American means and (b) thei...

I feel like this is a good time to re-up my review of public opinion about American identity

www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

woke 2 will regard this kind of thing as ‘wrecking’

my folk theory is that Hegseth is hated at this level because he so thoroughly matches the central-casting prototype of the casually-bigoted date-rapist jock asshole so many of us went to high school with

Hegseth is the most unknown of these folks, 1/3 dk who he is, and still the most disliked cabinet member. That’s impressive.

🧵; *completely* identifying the US with its authoritarian and racist cultural strains ignores the cultural forces that push in other directions — it sounds edgy in some spaces but it really just does pro-bono ideological work for fascists

Demon core experiment

roses are red
cherenkov is blue
just use a screwdriver
what's the worst it could do

anything on the first Clash record

“nothing is real until it hurts me” slogan replaces “don’t tread on me” slogan on a Gadseden flag

how we got here

Valentine's Day is the day I remember that novelist Mary Shelley kept her dead poet husband's heart in a drawer wrapped in silk with a page from one of his poems. ❤️

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